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

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FOUR YEARS IN REVIEW Now that we, the class of ’42, have reached that time when we are the all-important seniors, we look back at our years of lesser importance and recall the days when we were “scared freshies.” It was then that Carmen Lehman as our president led us through our first trying year, aided by Bill Emick as our vice president, Ardus Gene Sprunger as secretary, and Howard Baumgartner as treasurer. That year we held a party in the old schoolhouse, on March 10, and what a time we had The decorations were carried out in St. Patricks Day motif. At the beginning of our second year we felt quite grown up, for we had the freshies to look down upon. We strode through the halls of B. H. S. with ease and assurance, never going to the wrong classrooms or falling down the stairs. Ronald Lehman was our president that year, with Ardus Gene Sprunger, vice president; Betty Mae Habegger, secretary; and Howard Baumgartner, treasurer. We were juniors—upperclassmen, at last! We were coming into our own! Our class play, “Welcome Home, Jimmy,” given October 22, was a real success, as was evidenced by the hearty applause of those who attended. We entertained the seniors at the junior-senior reception which was the climax of our social life that year. Then the class of ’41 left us and we reigned supreme as the seniors of '42 with Margaret Allspaw as president, Lois Lehman as vice president, Phyllis Sprunger as secretary, and Carmen Lehman as treasurer. The year was filled with many memories for us all: having our senior pictures taken, our trip to Indianapolis, attending musical contests, editing this annual, and the many other things that go with graduation. Our senior class play, “June Mad,” presented on April 17, gave us a chance to forget our dignity once more and re-act our days of youth. Although we are glad that we have progressed this far in the world, we are sorry to break the associations that have been so dear to us. Fourteen

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RAYMOND MAZELIN -It’s tough I am, I is. I are. If you get in my wag. You won't go far. Alpha; Class Play 3. 4: Basketball 4; Baseball 1. 2. 3. BETTIE MYERS “A blond, fair to look upon. W h o doesn’t have much to say. But if y o u notice closely. She’s busy t h e livelong day. Alpha; Glee Club 1. 2. HAROLD NUSSBAUM All the same. I’ll be a man someday. Arena: Glee Club 1. 2. 3. 4; A Cappclla 1. 2. 3. 4; Band 3. 4: Class Play 3. 4; Operetta 1. 3. 4. NORBERT NYFFELER Some people say that the clown is the whole circus.’’ Arena: Glee Club 1. 2. 3. 4: A Cappella 3. 4; Band 1. 2, 3. 4; Orchestra 1. 2. 3. 4; Operetta 3. 4: Brass Sextette 3. 4; Class Play 3, 4; Trombone Quartette 3; Annual StafT. JEANETTE REUSSER With a snap in her manner. And fire in her eye: She’s just the kind of a hustler. That makes her duties fly Arena; Arena Treas. 4: Class Play 4; Annual StafT. NED RIESEN Strange, to the world he wore a bashful look. Alpha; Glee Club 1, 2. Sittin' high . . . The editor before her troubles began. BRUCE SPRUNGER Full of pep. mischievous and lots of fun. Aren't we having fun -Senior 'Kids . . . The Senior couple. Just Elsie . . . Once when I was studying. ARDUS GENE SPRUNGER Her friends who knew her well. The sweetness of her heart could tell. Arena; Arena Sec. 3; Arena Pres. 4; Glee Club 1, 2; A Cappella 3, 4; Band 1. 2. 3. 4; Class Vice Pres. 2. 3; Class Sec. 1; Operetta 3, 4; Annual StafT; Valedictorian. GRACE SPRUNGER More than others does she laugh. Of our giggling she does half. Alpha; Glee Club 1, 2. 3. 4; A Cappella 3, 4; Band 3. 4; Operetta 3, 4. We three . . . The jackets are nice. Peek-a-boo. Alpha; Glee Club 1, 2. 3; Orchestra 3. 4; Band 1, 2, 3, 4. JACQUELINE SPRUNGER Easy manner and gracious. Alpha; Glee Club 1. 2; A Cappella 3, 4; Band 2, 3, 4; Orchestra 1. 2. 3; Operetta 3, 4; Class Play 4. LA VERDA SPRUNGER Energetic—All round good sport. Alpha; Glee Club 1. 2; A Cap pella 3. 4; Class Play 3; Oper etta 3, 4. PHYLLIS SPRUNGER Good nattired and a conscientious worker. Arena; Arena Sec. 4; Class Sec. 4; Glee Club 1, 2. 3; A Cappella 4; Orchestra 1, 2. 3, 4; Operetta 3, 4. ELSIE JANE STAUFFER A jolly lass chuck full of fun. She is always nice to everyone. Arena; Arena Pianist 4; Arena Ass’t. Pianist 3; Glee Club 1, 2; A Cappella 3. 4; Solo Contest 2. 3, 4; Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Operetta 3, 4; Annual StafT. WANETA STAUFFER Happy-go-lucky, fair and free. Nothing there is that bothers me. Arena: Glee Club 1. 2; A Cappella 3. 4; Operetta 3, 4. HELEN WITT VVER A quiet nature has she. But mischief lurks be-beneath. Alpha; Glee Club 1, 2. 3; A Cappclla 3. 4; Operetta 3, 4. Thirteen

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CLASS WILL We, the Senior Class of Berne High School of the year One Thousand. Nine Hundred and Fcrty-two, being of healthy and sane minds and with a fairly high degree of memory, before departing into the great unknown world, make public this last will and testament. To our teachers, we will all the knowledge we could not take along. Tc the Juniors, we will all the privileges we as Seniors have had. To the Scphomores, we will our ability to get by with the teachers (?). To the Freshmen, we will all our dignity. I, Margaret Allspaw, will some of my Decatur beaux to anyone who needs them. I, Howard Baumgartner, will my ability to get in good with the teachers to Roy Gilliom. I, Kathleen Beer, will my happy-go-lucky nature to Shirley Schug. I. Bill Emick. will my ever changing voice to Bill Sprunger. I. Pauline Girod. will my short, slender figure to Ruby Reynolds. I, James Goodin, will my “come-hither” look to Danny Eichenberger. I, Betty Mae Habegger, will my poetic ability to anyone who wants it. I, Earl Habegger. will my ability to play basketball to Benjamin L ehman. I, Vernelle Habegger. leave my blond hair to Berneta Lehman. I, Virginia Heller, will my hope chest to anyone who is fortunate enough to get one in her senior year. I, Howard Kennel, will my ability to drive recklessly without hitting anything to Lester Habegger. I, Adrian Lehman, leave nothing to no one and hope it will get no one nowhere. I, Carmen Lehman, will my ability to chew gum and get by with it to Betty Moser. I, Lois Lehman, will my executive manner to Rachel Eicher. I, Vera Lehman, will my middle name Alma to anyone who will take it. I, Ronald Lehman, leave the girls cf B. H. S. who were alwavs at my heels to Willis Fox. I, Berneta Liechty, will my ability to talk to Mary Moser. I. Ardvthe Luginbill, will my ability to always know the answer to Freddie Lehman. I, Gerda Mazelin, will my shyness to Pollyann Timmons. I, Raymond Mazelin, will my “Tom Harmon” physique to Leland Sprunger. I. Bettie Marie Myers, will my commercial ability to Roselyn Reynolds. I, Harold Nussbaum. will my ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time to Richard Lehman. I, Norbert Nyffeler, will my ability to think of bright (?) ideas to Gordon Hirschv. I. Jeanette Reusser. will my quiet nature to June Stauffer. I. Ned Riesen, leave high school as a graduate—something I never thought I'd do. I, Aldus Gene Sprunger. will my beautiful waves to the first person who asks for them. I, Bruce Sprunger, will my gum to anyone who can scrape it off the seats. I. Grace Sprunger. do bequeath my ait of giggling to Nadine Lehman. I. Jacqueline Sprunger, will my poise to anyone who is willing to work for it. I. LaVerda Sprunger, will my ability to set hair to the one who needs it most. I, Phyllis Sprunger, will my ability to blush to James Bixler. I. Elsie Jane Stauffer, will my nimble fingers to Kathryn Wulliman. I, Waneta Stauffer, will my mad rhythm to Berdaline Gerig. I. Helen Wittwer. leave my misfortune of getting called down every day in bookkeeping to Joan Lehman. We herebv constitute and appoint CLIFF HABEGGER as executors and administra- VAUGHN SCHINDLER tors of this, our last will and testament. In Witness Whereof. We. the class of nineteen hundred and forty-two, testators, have to this will, set our hand and seal, this thirteenth day cf April, A. D., 1942. SENIOR CLASS. Fifteen