Berne French Township High School - Our Yesterdays Yearbook (Berne, IN)

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i The Band Plays On---------- First Row—Freeman Burkhalter (Director), Marie Schwartz, Grace Sprunger, Jeanette Sprunger, Gyneth Schindler, Charlotte Moser, Edmund Baumgartner, James Goodin, Sylvan Zuercher, Deryll Sprunger, Opal Sprunger, Pauline Girod, Marjorie Habegger Secoiid Row—Jeanette Amstutz, Virginia Heller, Hazel Nyffeler. Bruce Sprunger, Dwight Amstutz, Harold Nussbaum, John Sprunger, Richard Tallman, Ardus Gene Sprunger, Jacqueline Sprunger, Joan Lehman, Lois Lehman, Wayne Sprunger, Elizabeth Hirschy Third Row—Carmen Lehman, Harriet Sprunger, Berdaline Gerig, Patricia Sprunger, Howard Neuenschwander, Howard Baumgartner, Truman Gottschalk. Joyce Smith, Vivian Gottschalk, Stanley Girod, Jerry Stucky, Vera Nussbaum Fourth Row—Daniel Eichenberger, Gerald Gerig, Glenn Habegger, Calvin Schmid, James Bixler, Edward Eichenberger, Jr., Norbert Nyffeler, Harold Sprunger, Lucille Sprunger 16

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Welcome Home, Jimmy Mrs. Brooks, almost blind, who rents the Coolridge farm - LaVerda Sprunger Lucille Brooks, her daughter - - Ardythe Luginbill Peggy Sommers, a sixteen-year-old neighbor of Mrs. Brooks - Berneta Liechty Danny Banks, another neighbor, seventeen years old - Harold Nussbaum Val Gardner, a young lawyer - Howard Baumgartner Chesterfield McSwope, a friend of Val’s with nothing to do in particular. Norbert Nyffeler Allie Thomas, the pretty school teacher, making her home with Mrs. Brooks, Pauline Girod George Pierce, a country lawyer and president of the school board. Raymond Mazei.in Melinda Preston, an old maid with a string of campaigns but no conquests to her name - Lois Lehman Director ----- Junf Fogelsonger This is a story of a brilliant young lawyer, Valentine Gardner. He and his bosom friend. Chesterfield McSwope, came to the Coolridge farm to tell Mrs. Brooks that her son Jimmy is in jail, but, because Mrs. Brooks is nearly blind and hasn’t seen her son for 15 years, she mistakes Val for her son. Val, seeing how happy he has made her, decides to stay and pose as her son. Melinda Preston, an old maid with a string of campaigns but no conquests to her credit, nearly breaks Val’s plans. Meanwhile Val gets Jimmy out of jail and falls in love with Allie Thomas, a pretty school teacher, who makes her home with Mrs. Brooks, and Chess does the same with Mrs. Brooks’ daughter, Lucille. Allie promises Val to marry him with the Coolridge farm included. This three-act comedy was given on October 22, 1940, and was thoroughly enjoyed by the public. Junior Class Play 15

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First Violins—Gyneth Schindler, Lucille Sprunger, Vera Balsiger, Virginia Nussbaum, Ardythe Luginbill, Vera Soldner, Elsie Jane Stauffer, Pauline Girod, Margaret All-spaw, Virginia Heller, Phyllis Sprunger, Charlotte Moser, Marceiine Brandt Second Violins—Billie Sprunger, Richard Davidson, Chelsie Miller, Stuait Lehman, Sara-belle Beer. Rosanna Sprunger, Geraldine Gcrig, Eloise Soldner. Doris Nussbaum, Ida Irene Zuercher. Colvin McWhirter, Margaret Webb Violas—Jacqueline Sprunger. Betty Alice Mettler. Ruth Muselman, Kathleen Inniger Cellos—Esther Habegger. Christeen Winteregg, Kathleen Beer, Eleanor Kennel String Bass—Emma Lou Riesen. Iona Beer Flutes—Marie Schwartz, Marjorie Habegger Oboe—Opal Sprunger Clarinets—Deryll Sprunger, Sylvan Zuercher. Jeanette Sprunger, Giace Sprunger Bassoon—Daniel Eichenberger French Horns—Bette Graber, Vera Nussbaum Cornets—Howard Baumgartner, Howard Neuenschwander. Harriet Sprunger Trombones—Norbert Nyffeler. Glenn Habegger, Harold Sprunger Drums—Donald Lehman, Edmund Baumgartner, James Goodin Piano—Berdaline Gerig ------The Orchestra Plays Too 17