Nappanee High School - Napanet Yearbook (Nappanee, IN)

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fbzlplama allow: The graduating Class of 1940 numbers 65. There are thirty-four boys and thirty-one girls. N. H. S. has graduated one larger class than this. During the past seventeen years, including the present class, -1-02 boys and 4-20 girls have graduated from N. H. S. The vale- dictorian has been a girl thirteen times. The Salutatorian has been a girl eleven times. Evidently girls are brighter or else they work harder. Birthdays are rather evenly distributed throughout the yearg however, the month of August tops the list with eight while Sep- tember is at the bottom with only two. Twins and important birthdays are fewer than in most classes. ,lack Byers and Charles Pletcher lnot Nyel celebrate the same birthday, Wil- liam Gonser and Lillian Sechrist, the sameg Carlyle Moore and Wesley Priser, the same. George Behrer celebrates Washington's birth- day, while Ross Cwin claims Columbus Day and Lois Muntz April lst. Four of these stu- dents were born between August 11 and 15, 1922. The oldest member of the class is a boy. The babies of the class are Anna Ruth Mullett and Marilyn Pippenger. Marilyn, the youngest, is 16 years, 10 months and 13 days old today. The average age of the boys is 18 years, 2 months and 12.68 days. The average age of the girls is 18 years, 0 months and 15.58 days. The average age of the boys is 9 days more than the boys of last year. The average age of the girls is 17.86 days more than the girls of last year. The boys of the present class are younger than seven of the past sixteen classes and older than eight. The girls of the present TWENTY-SIX class are younger than six and older than ten of the past sixteen classes. The attendance of the class has been good. The girls attendance record is the best since 1931. The average attendance for the class during four years is 97.80595 The girls missed an average of 3.048 days each yearg the boys missed an average of 4-.553 days each year. A total of 997.33 days has been missed up to April 19-619.33 by the boys and 378.83 by the girls. Those who have missed five days or less during the four years are as follows: Francis Herr, Joy Hoifer, and Betty Phend perfect attendance, Fredonna Rice l day absence, Robert Cleveland 1 213 days: Mary Field 1 516 daysg Charles Nye Pletcher and Betty Callander 2 116 daysg Norman Metzler 2 113 daysg Velma Dumph and Dor- othy Holderman 2 112 days, Helen King 2 516 daysg Delbert Mellinger and Mary Nola Roose 3 daysg Velma Davis 3 113 daysg Charles Pletcher 4 daysg and Harriet Fogel 4 113 days. Of the 65 graduates, five entered Nappanee High School prior to 1928, thirty-six in 1928, nine from 'the second to the eighth year, and fifteen entered high school either as freshmen or later. Of these fifteen, ten entered from the rural schools of the surrounding town- ships. Seventy-six children were enrolled in Nappanee first grade during the year 1928- 29. Of these seventy-six, thirty-six are on the platform tonight, twenty-nine have moved away, eight have dropped out of school and three are still in school. Thirteen of these graduates are classed as rural and fifty-two live in Nappanee. -I. A. Abell.

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I 7fae 67444 Wa!! --Ganiawd Mary Nola Roose, will my deepest sympa- thies to the students in charge of honor rooms next year. Lillian Sechrist, will my passion for writ- ing poetry to Verda Longfield. to be usel in any way she chooses. Marialyce Seelig, will my abundant interest in Wakarusa to Shirley Walters and Betty Tobias, to be divided equally. Corabelle Shaum, will my post office ad- dress to the few who don't have it in their possession already. t Verna Slabaugh, will my ability to ask questions and argue to Max Weaver, in case he needs it. David Stalnaker, will my flare for feminine flames to that fickle fellow, Don Frenger. TWENTY-FIVE Lamar Stouder, will my lengthy stride to Bob Stump. Mary Teeter. will my faculty slave-driver employer fBeefJ to Wilma Hamman, hop- ing she can pacify him better than I did. Robert Weygand, will my fl hopej dis- carded sling to whoever needs it first, on the condition that he return it should I need it again. Frank Yarian, will my over-sized basket- ball shoes to Johnny Mellinger WITNESS!-:sz f. A. Abell Galen Roose Mary Nola Roose

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uniafui . CLASS HISTORY 6'All aboardnl l l Wl'ickets shouts the conductor, HHow many tickets for 'Special 41' to-day? 668W We're'oFf! With sixty-eight on board we start our journey again. For our crew we elected the following: Robert Stump, Richard Pippen, and Carolyn Centzhorn. Our Student Council passengers were: Ethel Mae Could, John Rich- mond, Wilfred Wise, Jeanne Alice Mishler, and James Slagle. The latter left us at Montpelier, Ohio, for it was his destination. After another stop, which was for a weiner roast the whistle was blown to remind us of the trip ahead. We are looking forward to the Junior-Senior Reception because it will be our last stop, until we arrive at our destination, May 23, 1941. -Carolyn Centzhorn. OFFICERS PRESIDENT ..... ,........ R obert Stump VICE-PRESIDENT... ...... Richard Pippen SECRETARY ............ Carolyn Centzhorn TWENTY-SEVEN I