Reitz Memorial High School - Memorial Review Yearbook (Evansville, IN)

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FRONT ROW: Joan Kunkel, treasurer, Joan Becker, vice-president, Mary Rogene Fischer, president, lris Ann Bates, secretary. BACK ROW: Eugene Johnson, treasurer, Charles Stumpf, treasurer, Victor Fiex, vice-president, Sylvester Fox, president, Jet? Hays, secre tory. One bright September morn one hundred and forty of us bewildered lads, hailing from all sec- tions of Evansville, assembled and listened to the welcoming words of our first period instructors. We impressionable youngsters were gradually ori- entated into a new world, a more rigid life. The rough spots wore off by rubbing shoulders. Our faculty numbered fifteen priests and brothers who moulded the plastic youth into firm foundations of Christian morality, citizenship, and scholarship. Then our schedule became a more formal fact. The rigors of Latin were made simple for us by Brother Venard, we found x with the aid of Brother Albertus and our English was corrected by Brother Maurus. These classes were sufficient mental calisthenics for our group. Coaches Don Ping and Art Cosgrove listed our physical prowess. With the passing months, an understanding, a spirit of union grew among faculty and the stu- dent body. The cafeteria became a scene of dis- cussion and dances, the spacious backyard, a gridiron where our athletes punished the pig- skin and themselves, the gym, the locale of our assembly and of hard fought intramural basket- ball, the auditorium, the general meeting place for social and cultural affairs. ' U l THE BOYS On September 7, 1943, an army of frightened Freshman girls thronged the immortal halls of Reitz Memorial High School. Our first sensation or rather humiliation was our initiation. Most of us will probably agree that it was the most hectic week we ever spent. The Sisters were no doubt as glad as we were when initiation was over, for they didn't exactly relish teaching girls with immense green bows in their hair and huge billboards hanging around their necks. On a warm October day, the entire class filed into Room 210 to elect class officers. Oh, what a thrill! Twenty Freshman girls and boys decorated the cafeteria in preparation for the Valentine Dance. The paper dolls were the distinctive item of dec- oration. The Glee Club gave a recital on March 16. The program proved to be a picturesque display with the Seniors and Juniors in formals and the Sopho- mores and Freshmen as patriotic snow girls. The Freshman girls came closer to our Blessed Mother when they became members of the So- dality in a beautiful ceremony in May. We may be sure that now our Blessed Mother will take special care of us throughout our high school days and throughout our entire life. ' I ' THE GIRLS

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50 Avmvte Cf 0174 ROW l: Thomas Steinbock, James Kores- sel, John Hughes, Phillip Austin, Bruce Merrett, Herman Campbell, Irvin Jost, Leonard Lutterbach, John McNeely. ROW 2: Robert Sitzman, Urban Herman, Joseph O'Daniel, Robert Lichtenteld, Par- vin Millay, Walter Angermeier, Jerome Greulich, Louis Hollingsworth. ROW 3: Paul Loehrlein, William Lemmer, Urban Kercher, Eugene Bell, Charles Gerst, William Brantley, Clarence Bleich- roth, Charles Hayden, ROW 4: Eugene Brickner, Joseph Miles, Clem Jarboe, Robert Ossenberg, Charles Schmidt, James Manion, Thomas Reitz, Ed Davis, Edward Thole. ROW 5: Charles Hutt, Firmus Dick, Thom- as Ossenberg, Robert VanWinkle, Guy Gorman, Charles Sartore, Larry Sartore, Edward Bayer, James Downey. ROW 1: William Schulte, David Hannig- ford, Eugene Bachman, J. B. Tisserand, Robert Hardesty, Leroy Wannemuehler, Donald Clemens, Charles Moers. ROW 2: Jerome Weinzapfel, Donald Ten- barge, Robert Joest, William Mullen, Robert Loehrlein, Henry Mitchell, Leo Guntel, Melvin Kneer, John Buckmon. ROW 3: Richard Reising, Richard O'Brien, John Witting, Alfred Wirthwein, Robert Lex, Tom Pirnat, Richard Alexander, Ar- nold Jacobs. ROW 4: Joseph Loesch, Daniel McCarthy, Charles Greit, James Kercher, William Sahm, Jerome Ubelhor, William Matting- ly, John Koewler. ROW 5: William Kleindorfer, Donald Ul- rich, Chet McGill, Charles Gnaegy, James Reeves, James Russelburg, Wilfred Too- ley. ' ROW 1: Anthony Schenk, William Brune, Noel Brasel, Carl Schoenbachler, Rich- ard Schnautz, Eugene Blackman, William O'Sullivan, Ralph Nebbia. ROW 2: Ray Donnelly, Richard Joest, Larry Holder, William Walter, Paul Ca- dle, Harold Purdy, Robert Ruder, George Schaefer. ROW 3: Louis Cambron, Donald McClain, Gerald Fuchs, Jerry Hubert, Mike Hobart, Arthur Goedde, Howard Beaven, Bernard Stratman, Paul Minnette. ROW 4: Lee Bartley, William Wolf, Lowe rence Barnes, Eugene Dorsey, Richard Ahlering, John Triplett, Joseph Scheller. ROW 5: Eugene Suess, Freddie Barron, Paul Horn, Robert Schneider, Paul Weav- er, Robert Kunkel, Malcolm Glaser, Ben Collison.

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Cle,iAma,, QM, ROW 1: Betty Minnette, Jacqueline Weyer, Mary Wittgen, Nelda Van Meter, Helen Mullally, Betty Hogan, Mary Hohl, Helen Russelberg. ROW 2: Mary Louise Greb, Doris Hummel, Norma Hudson, Shirley Kalkbrenner, Mary Moschner, Mary Boehringer, Joan Becker. ROW 3: Gloria Yeker, Marianne Schenk, Beverly Groben, lris Ann Bates, Dorothy Schenk, Jeannine Enders. ROW 4: Jane Thole, Mary Klingler, Viola Schwei- karth, Dolores Becker, Jeanne Brand, Bernice Bayer, Joan Kunkel. ROW 5: Eileen O'ReiIly, Joan Specht, Rose Greg- ory, Poula Fehn, Mary Ann Backes, Aline Deibler, Mary Ann Diehl, ROW 6: Jo Ann Pauli, Elizabeth Gregory, Dorothy Mahrenholz, Virginia Bretz, Alice Bayer. ROW 1: Dorothy Helmich, Dolores Harl, Joan Halli- nan, Juanita Gossman, Patricia Steinkamp, Barbara Cox, Evelyn Uebinger. ROW 2: Dolores Berkel, Betty Woelhor, Charlotte Baumgart, Eleanor Allen, Monica Reynolds, Regina Muensterman, Natalie Jaest. ROW 3: Kathleen Scales, Ruth Askins, Patricia Montgomery, Margaret Winiger, Regina Hirsch, Gay Lannan, Suzanne Ragsdale. ROW 4: Dolores Gossman, Kathleen Hayden, Mary Sachs, Doris Miller, Loretta Vaal, Marcia West, Mary Catherine Good. ROW 5: Doris Jean Norman, Mary Martha Kremer, Catherine Hollingsworth, Martha Goebel, Pat Mann, Betty Goelzhauser. ROW 1: Pat Crouch, Peggy Brennan, Charlotte Harl, Doris Deken, Evelyn Mercker, Carol Dippel, Rita Halbig. ROW 2: Ann Zurstadt, Norma Rose Brown, Barbara Fegan, Jeraldine Adams, Theresa Wittmer, Cecelia O'Bryan, Helen Kaelin, Betty Zeller. ROW 3: Doris Huther, Doris Tenbarge, Betsy Steclz- Ier, Selma Yabroudy, Mary Rogene Fischer, Kather- ine Schreve, Mary Elizabeth Ottman. ROW 4: Kathleen Clemens, Rose Mueller, Alice Raben, Virginia Schnarr, Betty Chaftin, Rose Ellen Ensner. ROW 5: Eleanor Jent, Ann Prell, Betty Reinhart, Betty Gilles, Dolores Richter, Joanne Engelbert, Judy Bays, Patricia Mangold, Angelete Flittner. Not present when picture was taken: Wilma Hall, Rose Mary Kuntz.