Andrew Jackson High School - Jacksonian Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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, OUR HISTORY Not one nor two, but thirteen momentous years ago the Class of '48 for fragments thereofj innocently paraded into the mammoth grade school where they were to spend the next seven years of their lives. While kinder- garten was breathtakingly awe inspiring then, it seems insignificant now with its little rest periods and song fests and normal training. fBy the way, that was the last year normal training was sponsored here: the class was just too much for the young teachers to handle.j Time whizzed by and so did we...speedy, then as now. In the first grade we were greeted by Miss Hanson, who, in an effort to control our vigorous vitality, disciplined us severely by placing us in a little red chair in the corner of the room. The most horrible punishment devised by Miss Walters in grade two was making us sit alone in the circle of chairs in the front of the room. Here we mastered the counting to 100 for which we received a gold star on a very distinguished appearing chart. Under Miss Eide's supervision in the third grade many revealed their musical talents in the tonette class. The cardboard box movie project- or with the film strip of Hiawatha held a great fascination for many of us. With zealous spirits we studied the customs of the Indians, Es- kimos and Arabs with the making of a part of the native dress of each to wear on visitor's day. Upon reaching the fourth grade most of us had learned all the tricks of playing our favorite recess game of Pump, Pump, Pull-Away. It was also about this time that some of the males organized a basketball team with the using of a certain brick in the wall of the school for the basket. In the fifth grade things really started rolling, in a social sense, that is, for we were moved around to the back door, and former romances, split by east and west entrances, were again progressing at the east door. Here we must mention how Bonnie Boell always managed to march in at the end of the line, right in front of all the fellas! The hill gang enlarged our number, and we always rather linked Lois Sharp and Lowell Salyards together. On to the sixth grade we trod, singing our theme-song, Oral Marleen loves George Beteen! A few diplomats in the front seats, middle rows, devised a unique method of comparing answers to true-false tests: true was a wink of the eye, false , a tap of the pencil. Many, many jealous- ies were developed concerning who would slide down the hill with whom at recess. When we reached the ultimate goal, the seventh grade, the strain of mischief in our blood really began to show. The periodical thirst at the end of each subject, followed by a trip to the fountain by a number of girls was strange. Was it because their beaus passed through the hall at those times? We were given our first state board, which was in geography that yean Shivering in our dainty little shoes, we peered around the corner to the eighth grade room only to view long rows of tomb-like desks and the keeper of the flock, Miss Jones, sitting distinguished and stern at her desk at the back of the room. This was a year of creation...of posters, of drama- tized book reports Qremember when Chris urged Carl off the stage with the words, not in the book we assure you, G:t the lead out! j, of airplanes Qhere we see a few girls choosing the companionship of the boys and their model airplanes in the art room to that of the gals and their knitting in the class roomy, and of speeches, primarily recitation of our parts of speech outlines in front of the whole class.

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AUDREY WOLFF Bend 1 Girls' Glee Club 1,2 G.A.A. 1.2.3 Cheerleader 1 Latin Club 2,3 DALE YARNS F.F.A. 1,2 Football l,2,3 Annual Staff 2,3 Clans President 2 Student Council 2 junior Class Play MARION WORSHEK Band l,2,3 Pep Band l,2,3 G.A.A. 3 Orchestra l,2,3 Latin Club 2,3 Saxophone Quartet SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Secretary-Treasurer Delores Fransen, President 'Ihomas DeMers, V1ce President Ruby Inu Iverson. .. I9 ..

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The primal day of school in our fresh an year was indeed a memorable one for the students from the rural and parochial school joined us. The most noticeable change in the routine was the use of individual lockers and passing to different rooms for classes. New couples were formed with probably the most astonishing ones being that of Killer and Janice and Carol Mae and jim Herder. The girls began to be more particular in their choice of school clothes, wearing their white band shirts with the tails dragging. Ardis and her friend stunned the populace with the wearing of argyle kneesocks with reindeer sweaters. It is believed that the presence of limburger cheese which Peter Overaas brought to his gal broke up their friendship for a while. Dramatic incident of the year was The Red Carnation , a playlet given by john S., Tom D. and Ruby Lou I. at the class party. Senior High, we bid you, welcome us! Looking back on it now, we certainly were green, but at the time who was more omnipotent than we? At an early date we were put through the paces of initiation. jackson placed second in the district basketball,tournament held here. The girls physical education demonstration was strikingly original! May 3 and 4 brought the music festival at Worthington. With the arrival of Miss Willey the famed triple trio was changed to a Madrigal composed of 13 girls. Magnolia Blooms'I representing our school as a one-act play at Windom, rated superior with three of the cast being members of our class. Our year as sophomores was climaxed by the class party in form of a lively county fair. The first highlight of our junior year was the presentation of Annie Laurie on November 13. We sent representatives to the district and regional speech contests. We all may well remember Coach Knoll's history classes where we so often encountered those small quizzes . The dis- trict music festival was held here with three other towns participating. Nell, the farmer's daughter, visited us at the annual band concert. We began early preparations for entertaining the seniors at the spring ban- quet with the setting of Little America. A few were privileged to attend All-State Band and Chorus. The chorus presented an effective vesper program on April 13. Before the Junior-Senior Prom many were busy filling out their dance progr ms. And on to the top. 'So many world stirring events occurred that it would be impossible to include them all. Our football team received the honor- able title of South-West Co-Champs. The grand piano in our school finally became a reality. The Honor Society was selected and installed. Again we made use of our dramatic abilities with the presentation of Our Hearts Were Young and Gay . The incidents of Skip Day will linger long in our minds. The Junior-Senior banquet at which we were guests of the juniors and also the Prom at which time they were our guests proved suc- cessful. At last we attended Baccalaureate exercises as Seniors. The goal of our high school life was reached when we received our long awaited diplomas at graduation exercises. We all wish to express our heartfelt appreciation to the entire faculty for the part they played in sharing our joys and sorrows and so willingly helping us to become better students and citizens of the future. Good-bye, jackson High! 1.21,