Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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Row one: Dale Maxwell, John Knoy, Mary Jane Bowdon, Pat Thomas. Row two: Pat McClay, Evelyn and Floyd Smith, Virginia Burns, Jeanne Pitkin. Row three: Barbara Bain, Margaret Loftin, Martha Lou Adams, Inez Parker. Row four: Harriett Duckworth, Bill Hastings, Laverne Dalton, Phyllis Carpenter. 21

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LAW MAKERS Barbara (Bain) Daily . . laying down the law to her school children . . she ' s a teacher. Roy (Handy Andy) Winkler . . judge of circuit court . . handling offenders of the curfew law, too. Charles Counts . . new Martinsville chief of police. Tom Allen . . practicing law in Martinsville. Robert Smith . . he just hung up his shingle for law, too. MEDICINE MIXERS AND QUACKS Martha Lou Adams . . superintendent of Metho¬ dist Hospital. Charles (Jr.) Hancock . . filling prescriptions for Dr. Gordon Gray . . that ' s Johnny Cook behind the soda fountain. Margaret (Marge) Loftin . . passing around the pills to the patients in a Chicago hospital. Rosemary Bowman and Camilla Bain . . taking the temperature of their patients. ODDS ’N ' ENDS Imogene Beecham . . now Mrs. Oren Bolin. Alice Jeanne Smith . . married to a wealthy N. Y. banker after making good in the interior decorat¬ ing world. Frances Jean Wilhite . . wife of a wealthy Morgan County farmer, Jack Kivett. Betty Moon . . married to an army man. Phyllis Lockhart . . living in California with her hus¬ band and children. Irene Lambert . . she ' s married, too, and her hus¬ band runs a department store in Martinsville. Joan Wampler . . still undecided as to whether the Navy or the Marines is best. Imogene Williams . . coaching an all-star girls ' bas¬ ketball team in Chicago. Luveda Lane . . she ' s running a candy kitchen from M. H. S. Harold Anderson . . one of the best machinists in the United States. POLITICAL BIG WIGS Tom (Harley) Costin . . new representative in Con¬ gress. Archie Hillman .. doing his job as mayor of Martins¬ ville . . red hair and all! RESTLESS Billy Rhorer . . recuperating after a long illness be¬ fore taking up the position as foreman on Dale Maxwell ' s cattle ranch in Oklahoma. Bernice (Birdie) Moore . . giving up her role as car¬ reer woman for a white cottage and a husband. Evelyn Smith . . head floor walker at Marshall Field. Pat McClay . . closing her beauty shop to marry Bill. SIGHT-SEERS Margaret Ann (Muggs) Scherer . . touring the U. S. as featured soloist with a swing band . . it ' s rumored that she’s engaged to a member of the band. Wallace O ' Dell . . beginning his second trip around the world . . he married a wealthy widow! Floyd Smith . . now on a lecture tour of South America . . relating his experiences in the war. Jeanne Pitkin . . spending her honeymoon at Niagara Falls. Ruth Neal . . she ' s going as a companion to Mary Grace Baker on a trip to Europe. THE UNEMPLOYED LaVerne Dalton . . why work? Hobart Fulford . . he made his million and is now retired. Marjorie Cramer . . giving up nursing to be married. Herman McKee . . he got tired and needed a rest. VICTORIOUS Virginia (Gin) Finney . . she finally found a man she wanted. Sam Denney . . won the South Central Conference with his excellent coaching ability. WXYZ Ralph Robinson . . professional basket-ball player. Irmalee Baker . . married to a Morgan County farmer. Albert Baughn . . one of the best draftsmen in the business. Vernon Bowman . . abandoned civilization for the life of a forester. Agnes Collins . . well-known in Brooklyn (not New York) society. Raymond Collins . . manager of the Circle Motor Inn . . Jr. Kirk is his assistant manager. 20

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CLASS WILLS I, Adams, Martha Lou, will my height to Barbara Stewart. I, Allen, Thomas, will nothing to nobody. I, Anderson, Harold, will my desire for baseball to anyone who likes baseball. I, Bailey, Doris, will my freckles to Dorothy Trout¬ man. I, Bain, Barbara, will my place in Physics to any girl who likes the boys as well as I do. I, Bain, Camilla Ann, will my A ' s in Shorthand to Jerry Goss on the condition that she can write 120 words a miunte at the end of her senior year. I, Baker, Irmalee, will my place in Mechanical Draw¬ ing to my sister, Martha Lou. I, Baker, Mary Grace, will my desire to graduate to my brother, Dale. I, Baker, Merrill, will my art troubles to John Dailey. I, Bange, Maxine, will my nickname of Mac to all the sailors. I, Barrick, Russell, will my power to stay away from beautiful girls to John Woods. I, Baston, Don, will my big body and broad mind to Byron Coffin. I, Baughn, Albert, will my one interest in the fresh¬ man class to no one. I, Beecham, Imogene, do hereby will my sweet disposition to Patty Mix. I, Bolton, Betty, will my seat in Shorthand to my sister, Rose. I, Bowman, Rosemary, will my eraser to Miss Rose for erasing my name in the auditorium so many times. I, Bowman, Vernon, will my interest in school to my younger sister. I, Boyer, Frances Lou, until I have my diploma will not make my will. I, Barnard, Bob, will my pretty blonde hair to Mr. Hochstetler. I, Bowden, Mary Jane, will to anyone who needs it, my ability to get to class just as the tardy bell rings. I, Bryant, Eileen, wi ll to anyone who likes to take dictation my seat in shorthand. I, Bryant, Elaine, will my ability to get shorthand to Pat Vandergrift. I, Burns, Harold, will my good driving to Harold Groseclose. I, Bums, Virginia, will my seat in science class to anyone having enough courage to try it three years. I, Byrum, Bill, will my willingness to come to school with a smile knowing I won ' t be here much longer to Junior Payton. I, Carpenter, Phyllis, will my ability to blush easily to anyone who needs it. , Collins, Agnes, will my place in Bookkeeping to an unfortunate Commercial student, And I do mean unfortunate . , Collins, Raymond, will my Shop ability to When G. Hochstetler. , Cook, Johnny, will my position in the machine shop class to anyone who likes the teacher. , Cooley, Phyllis, will my seat in Government to those unfortunate Juniors. , Costin, Tom, will my seat in the Band to anyone that thinks he can keep up with Mr. Long as I did. , Counts, Charles, will my pleasant hours in Gov¬ ernment to Donald Rike. , Cramer, Marjorie, will my first chair in the viola section in Orchestra to Betty Baker. , Dalton, Laverne, will my part of the math in Metal Shop to Mr. Hochstetler because he likes it so well. , Denny, Sam, will myself to the United States Army on May 22, 1943. , Dillender, Pat, will a Pony to the armed forces. , Duckworth, Harriet, will my poise and dignity, and a few pounds to my sister, Claire Jean. , Edwards, Gilbert, will my place in Government to some dumb guy who wants it. , Elliott, Ruth J. t will my place as messenger boy to Miss Stevens and Mr. Dorsett to anyone else who likes to interrupt classes. , Evens, Louise, will not my interest in the 83rd Division, Camp Atterbury, to anyone. , Finney, Virginia, will my seat in the Ritz to my sister, Ruth. , Fluke, Russell, will my mathematical ability to Buddy Gates. , Fulford, Hobert, will my interest in the Junior High to nobody. , Gillaspy, Anna Jean, will my ride on the school bus to my sisters, llene, and Irene. , Gooch, LeRoy, will my Mechanical Drawing table to my brother. , Goss, Betty, will the fun I ' ve had in Physics and Chemistry to Miss Ossenberg. , Gray, Gordon, will my interest in a certain bru¬ nette in Brooklyn to no one. , Halfaker, Norma Jean, will my nickname Happy to anyone who can be as happy as I always am. , Hancock, Charles J., will my worries in Physics to the students of ' 44. , Hastings, Bill, will my place in the swing band to any jive-bomber. , Hillman, Archie, will my quiet disposition to the Junior boys. , Hodges, Bob, will my place in Swing Band to any¬ one with a hot Sax. 22