South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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MYRTLE GRIMSHAW: Hiram College, AB., Western Reserve, M.A.g English. Came in 1956. KAREN KEEPER! Indiana University, BA., English. Came in 1956. VIRGINIA KINSEY: University of Cincinnati, B.S., Wil- mington Universityg art. Came in 1956. RAYMOND QUANCE: Purdue University, B.S.g industrial Top: An artistic atmosphere inspires Mrs. Kinsey's art students in their work. Middle: Buzz . . Buzz . . . is a familiar sound in Miss Re- horst's home economics class as the sewing machines whirl around. Bottom: Miss Ayers gets quite a charge out of the next question she's about to spring on her innocent commercial geography pupils. arts. Came in 1956. DONNA JEAN ROEBEL: Michigan State University, B.A., English. Came in 1956. BRUCE TONE: Indiana University, A.B.g English and journalism. Came in 1956. MARGARET MACKAY: Came in 1956. Wellesley College, B.A., Latin. I .... ..,.,. , V Zq.. ..-:-1 A ........ .,..., . --- - I :.. :--. .., Aysss t :,, '::-:z-vL E55 gg 3? Miss GERTRUDE OPPELT South Side High School has lost a careful student, a skilled teacher, a firm friend, and a pleasant companion. Miss Oppeltis contribution to scholarship and orderliness has left many lives enriched and happier, said Mr. R. Nelson Snider, principal. Wfe, as the student body of South Side, in the death of Miss Gertrude Oppelt, have lost a line friend and an excellent teacher. Her ability to make her subject live in the minds of her students exemplified her as a teacher dedicated to her task of educating. 22

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Top Row DON XWEAVER: Tri-State College, BS., Indiana University, B.S. and M.A.g physics and mathematics. Came in 1953. DAVID CRAMER: Indiana Central College, B.S., Indiana University, M.A., mathematics. Came in 1954. WILLODEEN PRICE: Indiana University, AB., Columbia University, M.A.g head of Library. Came in 1954. AUDREY KAASA: University of W'isconsin, B.S., home eco- nomics. Came in 1955. ROBERT GERNAND: Michigan State College, B.S., mathe- matics. Came in 1954. Leave of absence 1955. WILLIAM GEYER: Butler University, B.S., social studies. Came in 195 5, Bottom Row THOMAS POLITE: Ohio Northern University, BS., indus- trial arts. Came in 1955. JOHN ARNOLD: Defiance College, A.B.g Ohio State Univer- sity, A.M.g social studies. Came in 1956. VIRGINIA AYERS: Indiana University, B.A., business. Came in 1956. MII.TON BAAS: Hanover College, A.B.g mathematics. Came in 1956. ANNE BAIRD: Indiana University, B.S.g speech and English. Came in 1956. RICHARD BUssARD: Purdue University, B.S., physics. Came in 1956. 21 Top: The boys in drawing class are finding that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Bozzomz Those anions and cations are anyones guess, ac cording to Chemistry 2 students.

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The services of the custodians, cafeteria workers, and pressroom workers are most important to the running of our school. Long hours after we have gone home in the evening, they remain to prepare South Side for another day. Top left: The pressroom workers: Maurice Forkert, Elmer Harkenrider, Gerald Romary, Verne Ireland, and Robert Hershberger. Lower left: The night custodian john Kowal, and the firemen, Kenneth Buckmaster and Clarence Hartman. Top right: The custodians: Dessie Spears, Dick Arney, engineer, Russell Seltenright, head custodian, Esther Bowers, Archie James, Earl Downey, Gene Royer, Dwight Williams, and James Eloph. Lower right: The cafeteria workers: Leota Trautman, Edna Hunter, Marguerite Hoffman, Rose Sellers, Mabel Billiard, and Alice Koehler. 23