Amana High School - Bugle Yearbook (Amana, IA)

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fxvelvt' , HAIL, SOPHOMORES1 Meet the record-breaking class, not in size, 'mt in school spirit. The six girls in the lass are: Leona Clemens, Jeanette Franke, arolyn Hahn, Elsie Zimmerman, Anna Marie Qhuhmacher, and Dorothy Eichackerg and the nys, numbering eight, are Ivan Reihmann, .ernon Hoppe, William Roemig, Vernon Reih- ian, Willard Lippmann, Willard Hegewald, .harles Roemig, and Henry Moser. All six girls are in both vocal and intru- iental music. Henry Moser and Willard Lipp- :ann are both in intsrumental music and also lay baseball. The other baseball players are :an Reihmann, Willard Hegewald, Vernon Leihmann, and Vernon Hoppe. The sophomores are very well represented .1 the Y-Teen club, for all the girls are mem- ers. Of these, Jeanette Franke is treasurer, 'Iarolyn Hahn is secretary, and Elsie Zimmer- .ian is social chairman. The class officers are all boys, namely: van Reihmann is president, Willard Lippmann 's vice-president, and Henry Moser is secretary- feasurer. The president is also the sophomore xiember on the student council. Miss Leich- enring is class sponsor. All the class takes three required subjects: yping, English, and world history, under Miss eichsenring, Miss Moershel, and Mr. Selzer, respectively. Some of the students take band .s a fourth subject, while others take either lerman or geometry, under Mr. Selzer and Mr. Neveln, respectively. Ivan Reihmann and Elsie Zimmerman were candidates for king and queen at the Y-Teen program in April. Elsie is also queen of the Xmana school band. l' HE SCHOOLHOUSE ON SATURDAY AND ON MONDAY When on a Saturday you drive past the schoolhouse it looks very lonely and deserted. The windows are all closed and locked for the week-end. The flag has been put away and is io longer waving gently in front of the build- ng. The paper has all been cleaned up, only .o find more again on Monday. This is not the same if you drive past on a Monday. You will find the windows all open- -:d and even some heads looking out. On the ,grass you again find paper and the boys pract- icing up on baseball for the next game. The old worn-out flag is again flying in the breeze. Xt noon you will find the radio going hot with fthythm Rambles, so that you can hear it half .1 block away. There has been a slight change of atmosphere around the building for every- where you can see students playing ball or tak- ing their daily trip to the Middle Amana Store. If it's nice weather you will find the students eating outside, grouped off, telling the latest happenings. With all of this I am sure you find a change between the schoolhouse on Sat- urday and on Monday. -Leona Clemens MY STATE OF MIND IN THE MORNING AND AT NIGHT Every bright spring morning I jump out of bed with zip and zest determined to do a good day's work. I am ready and willing to tackle any difficult or unpleasant problem that should stand in my way. I have a keen feeling of expectation, as if this day were quite different than yesterday or the day befo-re. I seem to expect something very unusual or exciting to happen. I can't wait to get to school and delve into my school books, sure that today my grades will be better than they were. But when I get into bed the story is quite different. I'm usually quite tired. I can't seem to make up my mind whether I should read or go' to sleep right away. If the day has'nt gone too well I feel discouraged. I blame myself for not acting differently and think I should have handled things better. Oh, well, I think, to- morrow's another day. -Jeanette Franke THE SDPHEIMEIREE SPRING FEVER The birds are singing, The bees are buzzing, And I just sit here, Doing nozzing. -Charles Roemig BARGAIN SHOPPING Peo-ple think that if they go and buy a lot of things at a bargain, they have saved money. This is not true. Bargain shopping is an ex- pensive thing. The people think that the prices are low and yet they are not. They might be on some items but on the rest they are the same as if you would buy them at any other time. At the bargain sales the things you buy are not of the best quality. The store might have so much on hand or have things that are out of style that they want to get rid of the things as fast as they can. This is when they have these bargain sales. ' Clothing stores usually have the most bar- gain sales. When you buy clothing at a bar- gain it looks as if the clothing is of good ma- terial, but, after you have worn them several times the material seems to be losing the color and high priced look. You didn't save very much by buying that, someone will say. You know you didn't after you look at it very close- ly You lose the money and the store makes it at the bargain sales. The people that go to bargain sales spent a lot of money for nothing. They buy what they want and then let the sales- persons talk them into buying more. By the time they're through they have have no money le t. Women are usually the ones that buy the most when they go bargain shopping. When they get home they wonder what happened to all the money they had when they left in the morning. The husband usually raises the roof then. -William Roemig BARGAIN SHOPPING Bargain shopping happens to be my favor- ite pastime, but only when there is a sale, of course. My only reason for bargain shopping is be- cause I am almost always on the edge of being broke Buying bargains really helps the pocket book. I certainly am a voice of exper- sales are the only times I do go- shopping. ience, so any one can take my word for it. I get along very well in a rush at a sale. I just sort of push through the crowd. It's very easy, once you've done it a few times! I enjoy it, or rather I have to enjoy it, for at sales are the only times I do goo shopping. There is only one exception to that. I don't buy my presents at sales. Don't worry, for if you ever get a present from me, it will be gen- uine and not one for twenty-nine cents. One of the best examples of articles bought at sales are my purses. They are quite numer- ous at home, but I use only one at a time. I buy one every two months, approximately. I have never gotten one for a gift, so I keep buying new ones out of my small account. Usually in one store or another there is a counter with purses on sale. I have one favor- ite store where there is always a counter right where one enters the door. Such a counter is very handy for me and it certainly saves me a lot of pushing. Inquire personally for the name of the store. I also love to buy shoes, but in buying cheaper shoes it is hard to get good ones. My feet never complain, so I still buy as many cheap pairs as I can afford. It is much more interesting to wear different shoes all the time, don't you think? Fo-r some free lessons in bargain shopping, see me personally. -Carolyn Hahn HHS SHE ALWAYS LEAVES HOME Get off my hed! Oh, how often have I, to say nothing of my cat, heard those words spoken by my mother. My cat! What a character! I can remember when she first came to spend her independent life with us. Through a misunderstanding, when I opened the box, there wasn't a cat, there were cats-- two of them. But, being anxious to have a pet, or rather pets, I finally convinced my patient mo- ther that two cats would be easier to raise and it would be better for all concerned. Oh, she was a sweet little thing. My, just like a ball of fur, people used to say. To us she was more of a ball of fire. She dashed from chair to chair. She raced through the rooms, and upset everything she could get at. She discovered things in three days that I didn't know existed in our house in all the fifteen years I've lived there. But I guess she spent her young cathood like any ordinary, healthy, lively cat would. If you've noticed that I'm referring to her and not to- them, it's because the other cat disappeared and we don't know what happened to her. Now that leaves only one. She doesn't have a name. Everybody calls her what he wants-- and that varies. Even if she did have one, it wouldn't make any dif- ference. She's never home anyhow. During the summer she came home about once a week. Where she was the rest of the time We don't know, except that nearly everybody in town has fed her at some time or another. Once she came home with a bloodshot eye and we thought she would be blind. Next week she came back, her eye completely healed, but this time she was sick. She was so weak we had to carry warm milk to her. She could- n't even crawl to the kitchen. After about a week she seemed to be improving and we let her out one day. She didn't come back for a few days so we thought she had.died--but alas' a day later she was romping with the neighb- or's cat. , It's not that we don't like this cat. We re very fond of her. As a matter of fact, I've never been quite so fond of a cat before. She's very loving and she's home more when it's cold. I don't know what will happen when summer comes around again. She's a natural born adventurer and obviously you can't take her love for adventure away from her. U If you ever see a large black cat with white markings walk around town, she's not a stray-- that's just my cat. -Elsie Zimmerman CHRISTMAS PARAGRAPI-IS At home we prepare for Christmas in many different ways. A few weeks before Christmas every person in the family has his own secrets. Each person does his own shopping so the others will not know what he or she is buying for them. A week or two before Christmas the Christmas tree is bought and all the family helps to decorate the tree. Mother and Grand- mother make plans on what they Want to ser- ve on Christmas day. The Christmas packages are wrapped in complete privacy so no one will know what he or she is getting for Christmas. -Charles Roemig How often I have wished that my birthday came in the summer rather than so close to Christmas. It has always seemed to me that if their persons never get as many presents birthday is so close to Christmas as they would otherwise. It isn't just because of the presents but if a person has it so close to Christmas they usually can't celebrate because most of the peo- ple are too busy with the Christmas season So I have always felt that the people who have their birthday so near to Christmas are a little bit more left out than those who' have their birthday in the summer. -Anne Marie Schuhmacher

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ISHS IUNIORS ACTIVE IN SCHOOL ACTIVITIES The junior class has representatives in al- most every school activity. Included in the school band are three boys, Ronald Hertel, a trombonistg Theo Setzer, a cornetstg and Glenn Wendler, a tuba p'a,'er. These same three boys also represent the junior class on the baseball squad, occupying positions behind the plate, at first, and at second base respectively. - Lillian Roemig served the latter part of the school year as co-editor of I-Ii-Lites, of which Glenn Wendler and Carl Albert are circulation managers. Juniors serving as reporters are Rosemarie Lipman, Ramona Marz, Mary jane Seifert, and Madeline Oehl. All junior girls are members of Y-Teens, with three of these girls serving on the cabinet. They are as follows: Mary jane Seifert, presi- dent, Lillian Sontag, worship chairman, and Madeline Oehl, vice-president and program chairman. At the beginning of the school year the juniors elected tle following class officers: president, Ronald Hertelg Vice-president, Glenn Wendlerg and secretary-treasuier, Fred Baumgartner. Miss Rouner is the class spon- sor. The juniors contributed their share to the Y-Teen program on April 16. Elected by pop- ular vote of the class were Mary Jane Seifert and Theo Setzer, who attended the king and queen at the program. The remainder of the class was busy at that t'me campaigning for its representatives via words and posters. Public- ity chairman was Carl Albert. SPRING BLOSSOMS In the spring everyone's fancy turns to thoughts of gardening, plants, and flowers. For centuries people have thrilled at the ap- pearance of little green shoots of crocus as the first sign of spring. Poems have been written about them, in fact, any little green slzoot, as long as it is green and comes wit.i the robin, turns people to poets. However, the little green shoot must turn into a rather unpoetic stalk or plant, and the novelty wears off. But in no-t too long a time this plant will wear a new garment of blossoms, and this novelty is not so easily worn off. Until the plant does blossom, the buds are all but measured to see if they are making any progress. I doubt whether in our garden a little crocus or tulip has been allowed to make an appearance and open into blossom unnotic- ed and in complete privacy. At the appear- ance of the first flower, everyone is assembled to watch breathlessly as it opens. Even the cat comes to cast a critical glance at the new- comer, but is soon prohibited from the area for fear she might decide to play with the flower's colorful, nodding head. In not too long a time, the garden is aglow with different colors from the pansy bed, the tulip rows, the jonquils and daffodils, and the snowdrop. And, of course, all around the lzouse the forsythia, the bridal veil, and the li- lac bushes are in full bloom. However, in spite of, or perhaps because of, all the pampering the flowers in our garden get, they don't indicate quite as surely the coming of spring as the wild flowers in the woods. We have a patch of wild violets in our garden which wouldn't think of opening before the woods have broken out in blossom also. They usually begin to bloom when the anemones, the bluebells, and the violets in the woo-ds begin to bloom. You can also find patches of lily-of-the-valley and cowslips and single jack-in-the-pulpit. The country roads rapidly turn white a bit later in spring with the flowering dogwood. Soon fields of butter- cups will be seen also as the sun shines on the bobbing, glistening cups. Yes, spring touches the land with a color- ful wand, producing some of the prettiest and certainly the mose welcome blossoms of the year. -Rosemarie Lipman TH E .J U N I El R S SPRINGSCAPE Season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow, the vernal season, usually including March, April, and May in the middle latitudes north of the equator --Webster's New International Unabridged Dictionary. There's no time like Spring, When life's alive in everything --Christina Roestti These are definitions of spring which I found in different references. However, if I were asked to give my own definition, the fol- lowing answer would be forthcoming: Spring is the time of year perhaps the most beautiful time of year, when a person as all other liv- ing things wants most to be alive. Probably the reason why that is so is be- cause of the extraordinarily pleasant surround- ings during that particular time of year. Standing on a hill approximately one and one half miles from town in mid-afternoon illus- trates best my definition of spring and the cur- ious title, Springscape. As I stand tliere I can feel the soft, warm breeze blowing almost as if it were alive with thoughts and warmth. It is a breeze different from the cold stinging winter winds, different from hot, humid, and heavy summer bi'eezes, and different from chilly, brisk breezes exper- ienced every autumn. One feels a sensation of something new and unheard of moving in. From these thoughts I awaken to the chirping of a spring bird. Every year this same soft melodious welcome so-und comes to my ear, only to be surpassed in beauty the following year at the same time. Looking straight ahead into the village, I see more signs of life. People are hustling about, planting gardens, cleaning house, and in general just enjoying the spring weather. Directly left of me I see a fertile field, col- ored a delicate shade o-f green, which seems to be creeping and crawling with a new life. A warm spring sun smiles down from ii sky alive and dancing with sunrays. Every year we experiencethe same cxultant feeling, our eyes have the opportunity of gazing upon nature's most beautiful pictures, and yet each year's Sprinscape somehow seems more lovely than ever before. -Madeline Oehl THINGS I I-IAVE IOST Now where's my scarf? I know I left it right here yesterday, but now it has disappear- ed. Not only does it happen to scarves but to other small articles as well. Sometimes I think they have legs and walk off into some corner, where after several months they are finally found by some member of tl-e family. If everyone has as much trouble with miss- ing articles as I do, I wonder if it takes him or her as long a time to get ready as it does me. At seven-thirty I start getting ready for school and then what tumult. Where did the lipstick go? Finally after a thorough search of each drawer and then each purse, it turns out to be in the last purse I turn upside down. Now I can continue to get ready. The sound of the horn of the bus is already ringing in my ears. Surprisingly I am off to school with all my belongings. I am sure my mother heaves a deep sigh of relief after that. I would hate to count all the handkerchiefs I have already lost. I never can remember where I put them, and then all of a sudden they have disappeared. It's too bad that the single mittens I have at home don't match so that I would have a pair. Maybe, getting io- gether with somebody would relieve ber of the problem of single mittens as well as me. I think a good idea for persons who can never find missing articles would be to keep a record of each of his belongings and where they are locatedg but then we would probably lose the book or paper that it is written on and thus be in the same predicament. -Lillian Roemig Eleven THE FUN OF BEING SICK My, but that was a funny sensation! ,Wak- ing up with one side of my face heavier and larger than the other had never happened to me before and, of course, my mother's first exclam- ation when she walked into the room was Mumps! She knew as well as I, probably, what this would mean, to have me sick in bed for several days-- perhaps even a week. Glorious day! when you can order your sis- ter around without any back talk because you are too sick to do anything. Please, go fetch me a drink of water or Why not get me something to do? were favorite phrases dur- ing the next week and two days. Breakfast as well as dinner, supper, and half-a-dozen snacks were served to me in bed. And usually they had to consist of ice cream because I can't swallow anything else, which was another good exclamation to send someone running for ice cream or fruit juice, however my wishes would have it. One disadvantage was that I was quaran- tined from my best friends and that was a heart-breaker until I found I could move my bed to the window and call down to them if they were within calling distance. Luckily it was summer, or I would have caught Pneumon- ia as well as mumps by hanging out the win- dow all day. It was during this same week-and-two-day stretch that I found what a wonderful pastime feathers plucked from your pillow can be. Mom didn't think so when she waded through a sea of white feathers which accidentally got out of blowing distance and drifted to the floor beside the bed. I would never have thought of getting out of bed to pick them up and use them over! I had orders to stay in bed and stay I did, at least as long as it was convenient to do so. An exception to the rule was made when I spied a box of pictures on the other side of the room. It was the only one I had not rummaged through and dumped on the floor so-- why not? By the way, the pictures could do somersaults when they were dropped from the second story window--also accidentally, of course! Relatives and friends came, and I felt like a side show freakg but since admission to my room was more food, I dfdn't mind too much. Fun to be sick? My :family doesn't think so-, but as long as it is nothing worse than mumps, it is more fun than a picnic! -Rosemarie Lipman SPRING robins are singing a sweet love song, days are passing so swiftly alon,.:g Again all the world is bright with joy, And The The glad are the hearts of each girl and boy. The And The sun is shining more brightly each day, all little children can be seen at playg grass is more green than ever before, Spring is here and summer is nearing the door. -Lillian Roemig SCHOOL IN SPRING When spring has co-me, And buds and plants appear, You and your chum Would like to go outside, I fear' But there is school! 1 When birds do sing, And happiness is everywhere, When breezes whisper spring, You do not have a single care-- Except for school! When lilacs bloom, And When You Except music fills the air, no one's in the room, realize that everything is fair-- for school! -Mary jane Seifert

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l 50-lh YEAH, FRESHMEN! Make way, everyone, for some information on the greenest class in high school, the class that sticks together and really shows school spirit. Certainly- it's the freshmen! The seven girls in the class are Alice Geyer, Harriet Ackerman, Harriet Hegewald, Elsie Moser, Kathleen Moessner, Violet Rettig, and Lola Zabo-krtsky, and the boys are Melvin Graesser, Alvin Mouchka, George Berger, Roy Moser, Billy Shoup, Billy Metz, Richard Eich- acker, Henry Trumpold, Leroy Trumpold, Nor- man Geiger, and Fredrick Renner. ,V The officers of the class are president, Fredrick Renner, vice president, George Berger, and secretary-treasurer, Harriet Ackerman. The freshmen girls have a 100 per cent membership in the Y-Teen, for which Harriet Ackerman is newsreporter. Boys out for base- ball are Billy Metz, Melvin Graesser, Leroy Trumpo-ld, Henry Trumpold, Alvin Mouchka, and Richard Eichacker. The latter is a regular on the team. This is the only class in high school which can boast of having all of its girls enrolled in vocal music. Four girls and one boy, Elsie Moser, Violet Rettig, Kathleen Moessner, Lola Zabokrtsky, and Billy Sho-up, are also taking instrumental music. The freshmen are taking the following sub- jects: English, algebra, science, and business training. They are taught by Miss Moershel, Mr. Neveln, Miss Rouner, and Miss Leichsen- ring, respectively. The freshmen class has the highest attend- ance record of any class in high school this year. Out of the eighteen pupils, five have never missed a day of school during thirty- three weeks of school. They are Harriet Hege- Wald, Elsie Moser, Roy Moser, Alvin Mouch- ka, and Richard Eichacker. Class sponsor during the first semester was Mrs. Beck and during the seco-nd semester, Miss Moershel. Both of these teachers have helped the students a lot in starting successfully their life in high school. SCIENCE PROIECTS This year in the study of science, the class undertook some interesting projects. The students performed experiments on how to find specific gravity and density. Since tfzere is a limited amount of equipment, the students worked in groups. Later in the year the class also- did some interesting experiments with the pendulum. In the first semester the class made astron- omy books. These books contained informa- tion about the universe. The early people and especially the sheperds made up stories about various star groups. The class went into a de- tailed study of these myths, theories, and be- liefs and wrote them up in book form. This made up part of the notebooks. The other part was compo-sed of a large, exactly scaled map of the sun and its surrounding planets, and detailed information on all of the planets. Not only was it interesting to gather all of the information for these books but worth- while and educational, too-, and when they were finished every student had a right to be proud of his notebook and the knowledge gained HALLOWEEN The frost is on the pumpkin, The witch is on her broom, The seniors put the freshmen In the pepper room. from it. The witches and the goblins Are up to some mischief, But still the poor freshmen Are filled with the greatest grief. Well, let them tease us as they want, We'll get our chance, you see. We are the freshmen this year, But after this, they're only three. -Alice Geyer W J 1 .L F AREWELL, BETTY The freshman class was sorry to lose one of its members, Betty jane Petersen, early in the second semester. She moved to Eau Clair, Michigan where her father is now employed. She was with this class for the last two years, and this year was a member of the Y-Teens and participated in music. CHRISTMAS MORN , When I woke up it was Christmas morn. And also the day that je-sus was born. Then I got up and peeped in the living room door, There were all kinds of pretty presents on the floor. I had the urge to sneak in and see Which of those presents were for me. I opened the door and stared in amaze At a huge Christmas tree all ablaze. I looked all around but I could not see One present that was addressed to me. I bet Santa pulled a joke on me, He'll put mine tonight under the tree. r-Elsie Moser THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE junior is sitting on the floor playing with his brand new train, Grandpa is taking a short walk trying out his gold-tipped cane, Baby brother is having fun drumming with his new toy drum, Sister Sue is on the phone, telling jane to hurry and come, Mom is wearing her new house coat, And Daddy over his tie does gloat, And Brother John has quietly retired To Jim's house to have his skates admired. Oh, it's always like this at our house, The morning after the night before, Mother doesn't mind what we do So we throw things all over the floor, And shout with joy as loud as we can To cheer that wonderful Santa Claus man. -Harriet Ackerman ililllI'lt'6ll THE FRESHMAN INITIATION This wonderful night fwonderful--we were wondering if it would endj started off in a place called'the pepper room. A pepper room is a place where everyone sits around at card tables playing Peppers. fThat's a card game.J Next were some recitations, and of course the people who were reciting stood on the stage. This was partly to recite and partly to see that none of the freshmen sneaked out. Then came the initations. Initiation means run for your life or all is lost, translated from Latin. We all had fun doing tt-ese, part- icularly Roy, who loves to chum around with ghosts. Dick was one person with a shocking personality, at least, that night he had one any- way. George had a lot of fun, blueberry pie tastes pretty good, doesn't it, George? Billy Metz and I, revising the old saying, You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, proved that you can make a good tire out of a sieve. Norman and Alice learned to dance. Norman's a regular second Fred Astaire. Melvin's'a good treasure hunter, Ali Baba didn't do half as well when he opened the magic door. Melvin does'nt believe in magic doors, he goes right out in the o-pen to get his treasure. I vaguely remember a play, the term play meaning in this case, do we have to tickle you to make you laugh? Then refreshments were served. They were intended to give you just enough strength to stagger home so that the bodies of the freshmen wouldn't be lying in all parts of the West Amana clubhouse. As part o-f the freshman initiation, we had to clean the place up. This was not a hard job at all. We merely tilted the floors and everything rolled down to the basement. Then we went down to the basement, lifted up the furnace, stuck Billy Metz under to hold up the furnace, and swept all the dirt under the fur- nace. just as we were about to lock up and go home, we remembered that Metz was still under the furnace. Billy wasn't at all tired from .holding up the furnace. He had found and eaten some odds and ends of food left over .from the night before, and these had given him amazing energy. -Fredrick Renner HALLOWEEN Hooray, hooray for Halloween, When all the witches are to be seen, When most of the colors are black and gold, When people are happy, young and old. Freshmen receive their initiation, They wish that they were on a vacation. When all the witches can be seen, Hooray, hooray,then it's Halloween. -George CHRISTMAS DAY Christmas day is here again, The day that Christ was born In a stable in Bethlehem On bright and sunny morn. -Kathleen Moessncr HALLOWEEN Today is Halloween and also initiation day, This day the freshmen think will not pay. The seniors are our hosts, They make us dress like ghosts. -Lola Zabokrtsky Berger HALLOWEEN Hooray for Halloween! The witches can be seen. The ghosts will be here, too. To see what you will do. -Harriet Acherman