Nappanee High School - Napanet Yearbook (Nappanee, IN)

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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.

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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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JUNIORS Back Row: Willard Losee, Howard Meek, Josephine Mullett, Jean Oyler, Vivian Postma, James Martin, Raymond Miller. Front Row: May Muntz, Wilma Nettrour, Joan Mellinger, Betty Miller, Annamae Reed, Eleanor Phend, Eileen Madlem. Back Row: Ora Stout, Carlyle Tobias, Walter Reed, Willis Roose, Bill Webster, Donald Stoops. Front Row: Francis Welty, Jeanette Slabaugh, Norma Sechrist, Charlotte Shaum, Marilyn Richmond, Marilyn Stahly, Lisle Roose.