Akron High School - Golden Haze Yearbook (Akron, IN)

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The simplicity of reflections focused on traditional sand cortluroy from the pool of our high school tlayscc- What activities, studies, and interest did each senior have? Band, chorus, basketball, subjects from English to Trigonometry, class plays, canteen, popular songs and singers-hall are found painted on our SENIOR CORDS.

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The , Semors THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED MHere l am home from College, declares attractive Laurie Huntington, Karna Hoffman, o sophomore motoring psy- chotogy, expecting to find a normal, well-adjusted family! And what do l see instead? A bunch of - of psychological KNOTST Actually, of course, things aren't quite that bad, Sid Hunt- ington, lack Boyer, her fatiher, isn't gtite his normally joculoi self because Ted Wood, Kent Gron nger, f'Deadwood , his hated rival in the used-car buslness, is about to snatch up a much coveted dealership, and Sid is touchy and petulant because he fears his much needed lcan from the bank won't ao through. Martha, lenny Barnes, Lcurie's mother and Sid's ordinarily poised, gracious, and warm-hearted wife, is over- anxious, overworked, and much too rervous about the tea to which she has invited Walola Breckenridge, Shelby Smoker, wife of the bank president, as well as Amelia Dennis, Gail Cox, a catty kibitzer, Caroline Blake sly, Marla Hammond, a foolish matron, also Grace Schoenbeck, Gloria McCloug'han, wife of the department store owne', and Therese Browr., Frances Lewis, Wolola's maiden sister, Wally Huntingtor, Bob Burkett, Laurie's ycunger brother, though usually fun- lowfng and easy-going, is in the family dogihouse because he insists on going steady with cute loan Wood, Beverly Powell, De-adwoods Daughter So - l.aurie, confident that her college courses in psy- chology, fully qualify her to straigthten out her tamily's tangled lives, goes zealously to work Almost before you car. say Pavlov's dog, she has convinced them they must find their Nenergy peaks. The house becomes a jumble of note- books and strange looking blocks, and everybody is getting word association tests blood-to-the-brain tests, irxtctloance tests, and plenty of endurance tests, even Horatio P. Honey- well, Max Helvcy, the bird watcher, looked for his energy peak l..CILtT1CftS interference completely finishes off Wallv's ro- :nance with foanie. The maid CGusl Gustavesky, Mcrlee Smoker, convinced by test that shes a genius, is off to col- lege! And then, at the all-important tea and wlhile Martha is out of the room, Laurie administers the Zombrouski lnk Blot Test and lays devastingly bare the inner personal- ities of her mothers astonished guests. lnfuriated, they stalk from the house while Miartha looks on helplessly and Laurie does a ''wash-them-out-of-my-hair'' dance to ,purge her emotions! That night, after Laurie has gone on o date with handsome but moody Mark Bradford, Bill Burke t, the family decides to do a little purging on their own. Vtfally stumbles inadvert- ently upon -W and reads aloud to his' stunned parents -- l,aurie's professional notes in which she has relentlessly lfpsychologizedw them all in terms of 'fassetsu and liabil- ities This is much too much' They conspire to teach her ri lesson, and when Laurie returns with Mark at one-thirty itz the morning, they put on o show that Laurie w1ll rfoubtlessz remember for a long time io come. Carrying to ribtickling extremes the ctharacteristicrz Laurie has attributed to them and broadly satirizina her theories, they climax the demonstration with an unforgettable Purge Polka. Mark leaves hurriedly, and Laurie, humiliated beyond en- durance, soon follows. The distressed faimily, tearing they have overdone matters, spend a wor'ied dozen hours await- ing her return. Meanwhile, Wally, tal-ing a leaf from Laur1e's notebook, decides to take Fortunes bull by the horns and boldly invites UDeadwood and his lagressive wife, Lillian, Pat Kuhn, to the Huntington housei Before that fateful meeting is finished, both Sid and 'led apply some psychology -- as well cs some other things -- to each other! Happily as well os prospects ot a new partner The return-ing Laurie, cognizant now that a little psychology is a dangerous thing, finds forgivnefs and love from family - and Mark? Walty and foannie fave rediscovered each other through mutual crisis, and almost everyone has fearned something riew and helpful about himself By Gloria McCloughan