Nappanee High School - Napanet Yearbook (Nappanee, IN)

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THE DIPLOMA HOUR The Class of 1941 numbers 62. There are thirty boys and thirty-two girls. During the past eighteen years including the present class. 432 boys and 452 girls have graduated from N. H. S. The valedictorian has been a girl thirteen times. The salutatorian has been a girl eleven times. This year both valedictorian and salutatorian are boys. Three cheers for the boys! Birthdays are not evenly distributed throughout the year. There are ten in both July and August; seven in June, six in February, five in both March and April, only tv fo in May and three in January, October. November and December. There are twins on June 23, July 2 and August 9 and triplets on July 20. One graduate celebrates February 12. another Feb- ruary 14. and a third April 1. Seven of these students were born between August 20 and 31. Both the oldest and youngest are girls. Norma Sechrist is the baby of the class with Esther Sechrist only thirty-two days older. The average age of the boys is 18 years. months and 29.95 days. The average age of the girls is 17 years. 10 months and 25.87 days. The boys of the present class are younger than thirteen of the past seventeen classes. The girls of the present class are younger than eleven and older than five of the past seventeen classes. The attendance of this class is not quite so good as that of last year ' s class, although the record of the girls is not a poor one. The average attendance of the girls is 97.861%; that of the boys 96.908%. The girls missed an average of 3.414 days each year; the boys missed an average of 4.983 days each year. A total of 1015 days had been missed up to April 10. 437 days by the girls and 578 days by the boys. Those who have missed five days or less during the four years are as follows: Richard Avenmarg. Esther Huffman, Ethel Gould, and Amos Sheets have perfect attendance. Jean Schell missed 11 3 days; Lois Wagner and Ger- trude Yoder each missed 2 days; Charlotte Lamb 2 1 2 days and Arlene Bigler 3 1 6 days. Of the 62 graduates, one entered Nappanee High School in 1928, twenty-nine in 1929, ten from second to eighth grade, and twenty-one entered as freshmen or later. Of these twenty- one, seventeen entered from the rural schools of the surrounding townships. Seventy-eight chil- dren were enrolled in Nappanee first grade during the school year 1929-30. Of these seventy- eight, thirty are on the plantform tonight, twenty-six have moved away, thirteen have dropped out of school, one unfortunately met death by accident and eight are still in school. Sixteen of these graduates are transfer students and forty-five live in Nappanee. . A. Abell.

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SENIOR PROPHECY (Continued) contract with United Artists to play ' Mazie parts. The pilot is HO ' ARD KURTZ, with MERVIN MILLER as co-pilot. Both should be good aviators; they drove cars as if they were flying low. In that smoldering ember I see the San Francisco harbor and the fleet ' s in! All the girls are down to meet the sailors. There is OLIVE HUFF, who is a telephone operator, VERDA HEPLER. who is a night club en- tertainer. JEAN SCHELL. a stenographer. CHARLOTTE SLABAUGH, a tap dancer, and ESTHER HUFFMAN, who is doing a grass skirt dance at the Hawaiian club owned by RICHARD AVENMARG. Richard leads his Hawaiian music too, but not in a grass skirt. ell. here come the sailors; I recognize TOM HOUSOUR. and OLIVER STUTZMAN. Fll bet they both have girls in every port. At least Housour had one in every grade in high school. Glancing over to another ash I see a hos- pital, and I recognize a nurse coming towards me, it is ELOISE STAHLEY. She tells me she is working for a Quack whose name is LAMAR CLOUSE. The dietitian in the hos- pital is LOIS X ' AGNER. and it seems she eats her own cooking and is one of the hos- pitals chief patients, too. Changing my glance to another smoldering ember, I see a newspaper stand and on the front page is a big picture of All-American HAROLD COPSEY. It seems he pulled a blunder and ran 85 yards the wrong way. That is Slug, all right, of the class of 41. Turning the pages to the society section I see that the debutante. REATHA DUMPH. has ac- cepted an advertising job for Welsh ' s Grape- juice. She is to be an example of Welsh ' s re- ducing power. Glancing over to a flickering flame I see a black limousine cruising down a busy street. the chauffeur is GORDON McCORMICK. I should have known from the way he handled the car. The passengers in the car are two prominent men — JAMES OSBORNE, a noted architect whose hobby is designing those half moons we see on W. P. A. projects, the other is LaMAR ' EAVER, the drug-store magnate. LaMar has succeeded in his work and now owns three-fourths of the Rexall stores in the U. S. Glancing over to another smoldering ember I see a music conservatory, and standing there with her glasses down on the end of her nose is CHARLOTTE LAMB. She is super- visor of the institution. Glancing over a heap of ashes. I see an of- fice building and inside taking dictation on her boss ' s knee is ISABELLE RENSBERGER. She got her shorthand experience in high school, but I don ' t know about the knee-sit- ting. Turning my gaze to a smoldering ember I see the New York Harbor and there standing on the dock waiting for the ship to India is LaFERNE HOCHSTETLER. She is going to India to marry Mahatma Gandhi. ' ell, even if she isn ' t getting much of a man. she can spend his money and enjoy it. Beside her is JEAN HARTER, a model at Saks, Fifth Avenue, who is smartly dressed in a red and white ensemble. Imagine, t he old school colors of Goshen. I hear someone behind me loudly exclaim, and as I turn to see what is so breath-taking I seem to come out of my dream as quickly as the giant skyrocket flashes in the sky. It has been a real sensation to visualize my classmates, and I return my thoughts and mind to the rest of the celebration. Phyllis Kurtz.

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JUNIORS Bach Row: Stanley Farrington, Lowell Gardner, Mary Pumph, Miss Blank, Bennie Sue Blackburn, Chester Frenger, Pat Boyle, Richard Counts. Front Row: Charles Gaut, Julia George, Elsie Bougher, Horis Foudy, Mary Ann Fox, Burdena Hoffer, Norma Deisch, Paul Clouse. Back Row: Earl Holderman, Raymond Kern, Cassel Hoke, Hobert Johnston, David Johnson, Max Gwin, Robert Geyer. Front Row: Bill Henley, Carol Hahn, Maxine Jensen, Ruby Hollaway, Georgia Hoffer, Maxine Hershberger, Norma Kring, Willard Hoover.