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

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1. Civics class. 2. Teacher's pet peeve.” 3. Senior businessmen. 4. Beauty, brains, and brawn. 5. Cosy.” 6. Ever meet??? 7. Strc-e-ctch!! 8. Ruthic.” 9. Our bashful boys.” Twenty-one

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Charm”! I wonder who their new singer that they announced last week is? ”... we bring you Waneta Nussbaum, our new singing sensation.” Waneta Nussbaum! Why she's one of our old classmates, too. Isn't that beautiful singing? It surely is. Well, that program is over. Let’s listen to the news. . . . And now for a summary of the day's news. Admiral of the Navy Kent Sprunger has just made the announcement that he definitely will not run for President. Valier Amstutz, famous professor and atomic power expert, has discovered a new element, which he has named 'stutzonium.’ Construction of the bridge across the English Channel is nearly completed, American chief engineer Frederick Stauffer announced today. He and his English wife will be the first to drive across when the bridge is officially opened. A passenger train on the Atchison. Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad was derailed at Denver. The engineer, Walter Graber, was the only crewman who escaped unhurt. Now lor the sports news. i he Chicago Bears won against the Pistons, chiefly through the efforts of their star forward. Larry Liech-ty, who scored thirty two points. His average is now thirty points a game.” Fine, thanks. By the way, I just got a letter from Leroy Sprunger, with some news about our class. I'll read some of it. . . . Gerald Lehman is a big wheat rancher in Nebraska. Conrad Nagel is president of Nagel's, Inc., the largest greenhouse business in the U. S. Charles McCrory married his high school sweetheart and is playing baseball with the New York Yankees. Arthur Muselman is the Democratic party boss m Indiana. Willard Lehman is a civil engineer in Columbus, Ohio. Roger Bixler is a pharmacist in the Navy. . . .” I'll skip some here. It's just news about his town, family, and friends. His family, by the way, has four members besides himself— he has two girls and a boy. Here at the end he says, 'Come and see me sometime when my quartet sings in Pittsburgh.’ ” Well, I believe that completes the list of Berne High School graduates of 1948. There are thirty-two of them, and as far as I can see, all of them have made successes in life. Now we must be going along. We’ll sec you sometime—maybe at a class reunion. Ruth Allspaw Sally Bagley History of a Joke Age: One day—Freshman thinks it up and roars with laughter. Age: Two days—Freshman tells it to a senior who think it’s corny. Age: Three days—Senior turns it in to school paper as his original. Age: Two weeks—School paper prints it and doesn't mention Senior. Age: One month—Berne Witness prints it. Age: Three months—Twenty radio comedians use joke on program. Age: One year—Hollywood puts it into a movie. Age: Two years—Reader's Digest prints joke, credits it to the Saturday Evening Post. Age: Five years—Lum and Abner tell it. Age: Fifteen years—Biblical Recorders use it. Age: Twenty-five years—B. H. S. teachers use it in their classes to tell their students. Freshman: Huh? Sophomore: What? Junior: I beg your pardon. Senior: I did not comprehend the nature of your inquiry. Twenty

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the class of the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight, being about to depart from this harbor of good times and little hard work, and being in full possession of the knowledge that we acquired in four long years; do hereby take the privilege to publicly declare this our last will and testament in the following manner; To the faculty of dear B. H. S. we will our highly achieved ambitions which we never made use of. To the Juniors, we bequeath the affection the teachers have for us, and our dignity as Seniors. To the Sophomores, we bequeath our supernatural ability with books; also our secret signs and signals so they can communicate more easily. To the Freshmen, we will our brilliance, and also our getting by with, peanuts, candy, chewing gum, and cracker jack, in Mr. Spurgeon's classes. I, Ruth Allspaw, will my long wavy hair to Janice Amstutz. I, Valier Amstutz, will my meek and quite nature to John Eichenbergcr. I, Sally Bagley, will my ability to skip school to anyone who can get by with it. I, Lanetta Bertsch, will my quietness to my sister, Dorothy. I. Roger Bixler, will my slow and careful driving to David Nussbaum. I, Willodean Bollenbacher, will my ability of getting rides to and from school to my sister. I, Duane Ellcnbergcr, will my reputation as a heart smasher to Duane Lehman. I. Wallace Flueckiger, will my ability for saying brilliant (?) remarks to Palmer Hearc. I, Pauline Gerber, will my art of giggling to Elsie Jane Lehman. I, Elaine Gilliom, will my ability of having dates so frequently to Shirley Hirschy. I, Walter Graber, will my infant whiskers to Charles Nagel. I. Loren Heare, will my ability to sing western songs to Merlin Lehman. I, Robert Huffman, v ill my ability as an artist to Thomas Ricsen. I. Jane Kehrn, will my ability of getting a diamond to Delora Graber. I, Gerald Lehman, will my blushing ability when teacher calls on me to Jimmy Gerber. I, Willard Lehman, do gladly bequeath, my trusty old flivver (with me in it) to Ruth Inniger. I, Larry L.iechty, will my ability to play basketball to Dick Allspaw. I, Charles McCrory, will my name and life to Cynthia Kirchhofer. I, Arthur Muselman, will nothing to no one, hoping it will get no one nowhere. I, Conrad Nagci, will my ability of co-operating so nicely (?) with Miss Blue, to Paul Weller. I, Waneta Nussbaum, will my ability to daydreaming in English class about that certain some one to Donna Mac Sprunger. I, Robert Schindler, will my ability to get along with the teachers to Judson Lehman. I, Betty Schug, will my quite nature to Phyllis Kneuss. I. David Schwartz, will my ability to date a certain Junior girl to anyone who can get her. I. James Shoemaker, will my playboy and childish ideas to anyone who cares for them. I, Marilyn Smith, will my ability to cheer-lead to Carolyn Smith. I, Beverly Sprunger, will my ability of getting to walk out of classes because of hiccoughs to anyone one who will have them! I, Kent Sprunger, the despair of order loving teachers (and lovesick youths) do give and bequeath one box of Monkey Grip to Dorothy Bertsch, to be applied whenever the inclination to talk during school hours becomes too great for human effort to restrain it. I. Leroy Sprunger, will my farming nature to Fredrick Sprunger. I, Fredrick Stauffer, will my music talent to Junior Hawkins. I, Cosetta Steiner, will my tallness to Ronald Krehbiel. I. Robert Wittwer, will my interests in Decatur to Rirchard Hirschy. We do hereby constitute and appoint Jack Lehman, president of the Junior Class, so hereby agree the above to be our last will and testament and do set our seal of eternal memories on this 18th day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight. (Signed) Cosetta Steiner Beverly Sprunger Twenty-two