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

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I, EVELYN PFISTER, will my ability to get good grades to my sisters, LUCILLE and ROZELLA. I, BOB REINHARD, will my motorcycle to JOHN HARVEY AUGSBURGER. I, BILL REYNOLDS, will my ability to be an efficient student manager to PETE GILLIOM. l, OTTO SCHUG, will my ability to speak fluently to LUELLA SCHWARTZ. I, LESTER SMITH, will my beat-up pick-up truck to BOB DILLE. I, BEN SPRUNGER, will my love for Southern Belles to anyone who has the op- portunity of going down South. I, OMER SPRUNGER, will my wornout baseball shoes to the second shelf of the trophy case. I, ANNE STAHLY, will my love for Eagles to NANCY SMITH. I, RAMONA STAUFFER, will my popularity to SANDRA GILLIOM. I, ZENITH STRAHM, will my quiet nature to MYRNA HABEGGER. I, BILL STUCKY, will my big, beautiful car to BILL RUMPLE. I, KAYE SUDDUTH, will my ability to write love letters in Senior English Class without getting caught to all the Junior girls. I, RUBY VELEZ, will my accordion to my sister, PHYLLIS. I, CAMERON WEBB, will my statistical ability to MILES ELEY. Being a legal and accredited member of the A.B.A., I do hereby state the above to be of sound mind and body and declare this document to be legal in the due process of law. E. L. Habegger, LL.D. THE CLASS PROPHECY A DRAMA IN ONE ACT By E. L. Habegger, Playwright Time: I965 Setting: Here and there and everywhere. CMusic low-House lights dim-Curtain rise-Production beginj RON: Roger and over. Hi! I'm RONALD MYERS flying around in my space ship. CS.E. Jetj What was that? I think I'll radio that plane and find out who is it. CTalks on radioj Why it's JOHN HEARE! He's a let test pilot. Say, John, do you know where any of our old classmates are? JOHN: OTTO SCHUG is a lawyer in Oklahoma City. RON: I think l'll cruise over and see him. By, John. CTime lapsej RON: Hi, Ott. How are you doing? OTTO: I'm feeling rather ill. I iust underwent major surgery a few weeks ago and guess who my good-looking nurse was? KAYE SUDDETH. She told me that KAREN LUGINBILL, MARILYN LEHMAN, NEVA HIRSCHY, and MARIE LEHMAN are also in the nursing profession. ' RON: Say, who owns that new gun shop across the street? OTTO: Our old friend, RAWLEY JONES, II. And did you know that ALAN EICH- ENBERGER is a chemistry professor at the University of Texas. RON: No, but the other day on television I saw HARRY and LARR GERBER play- ing their accordions and RUBY VELEZ was the guest singing star. OTTO: That sounds great. RAMONA STAUFFER has her own program on our local TV station. RON: Oh, really? I think l'lI blast off for California. CSound of rushing airj Well, here I am. There's the large Sacramento speech defect clinic. That must be where HELEN BAUMGARTNER is teaching. Over on the other side of the

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT Appeared before me this first day of May, I955, the 54th graduating class of Berne-French High School. They have acknowledged before me, this to be their last will and testament. To the faculty-the wisdom to continue. To the juniors-honor. To the sophomores-integrity. To the freshmen-courage. I, KEITH AMSTUTZ, will my interest in Geneva to LEON GOULD. I, ROBERT AMSTUTZ, will my ability to distract the female clerks when at work to POWELL SPRUNGER. I, LOIS BAUER, will my ability to get an enormous class ring to CONNIE VON GUNTEN. I, EILEEN BAUMGARTNER, will my tiny waistline to any girl who needs it. I, HELEN BAUMGARTNER, will my position as a study hall teacher to anyone who thinks they would be able to bear it. I, SALLY BEER, will my red hair to BETTE SMITH so she won't have to rinse hers. I, DUANE BLUHM, will my cheerleading ability to TOM KIRCHHOFER. I, DAVID CANEN, will my ability to talk in fourth period study hall without getting caught to JOHN NUSSBAUM. I, ALAN EICHENBERGER, will my love for chemistry to RUTH ANN ZIMMERMAN. I, CHARLES FIECHTER, will my initiative and leadership ability to STANLEY LEHMAN. I, DONNA HABEGGER, will my jolly ways to ROSE MARY MOSER. I, ELAINE HABEGGER, will my nicknames-Squeaky, Crushy, Habby, Louie-tr Grace Habegger. We, HARRY and LARRY GERBER, will all the troubles we've had as twins to BERN- ARD and BERDELL LEHMAN. I, LA VERNE HARTMAN, will my quiet ways to PETE SCHUG. I, JOHN HEARE, will my excess weight CPD to ERNIE LEHMAN. I, THEDA HELLER, will my extensive typing ability to PETER BRAUER. I, COLLEEN HENDRICKS, will myself and all my love to WES HERMAN. I, LINDA HEYERLY, will my old green fIizzer to NANCY JO LIECHTY. I, NEVA HIRSCHY, will my ambition to be a nurse to GEORGIA HAECKER. I, SHARLENE HUFFMAN, will my blond hair to whoever asks for it first. I, NORMA INNIGER, will my half of the locker to no one, absolutely no one! I, RAWLEY JONES, will my love for girls to DEAN HENDRICKS. I, JOHN KIRCHHOFER, will my dainty little feet to BUTCH ALLSPAW. I, CAROL LANTZ, will my empty stationery box to PAT FLUECKIGER. I, CHARLES LEHMAN, will my chair in the brass quartette to MELVILLE SPRUNGER. I, KAREN LEHMAN, will my ability to win prizes showing Guernsey cows to PATSY BAUSERMAN. I, MARIE LEHMAN, will my love for horses to SHERRILL FELBER. I, MARILYN LEHMAN, will my ability to get along with the town officials to KEITH WELCH. I, CONNIE LIECHTY, will my ability to get the can and blitz around to ANITA NUSSBAUM. I, KAREN LEHMAN, will my ability to win prizes showing Guernsey cows to PATSY to GUY GIVENS. I, CAROL MCCRORY, will my natural curly hair to JUDY YAGER. I, RONALD MYERS, will my boistrous laugh to anyone who wishes to annoy the teachers. I, JOAN NEUEN, after having spent four years in B.F.H.S. have nothing left to will. I, PAT NYFFLER, will my ability to attract customers to the City Lunch to PAT PATTERSON. .

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city I see the Egly Tabernacle where NORMA and AL are serving. While I'm in California, l'll lust breeze over to Hollywood. CSound of spaceship. Pause. Spaceship landsj RON: Look at those new Oldsmobiles. I wonder who owns that lot? Cwalks over to lotj BILL REYNOLDS, are you the owner of this corporation? BILL: Of course I am. CAROL MCCRORY is my efficient secretary. Just now she's out to lunch with ANNE STAHLY, who is the secretary for an M.G.M. director. RON: Did anyone return to our home town? BILL: Yes. CAMERON WEBB teaches commercial subiects in the Berne-French High School. RON: I think l'll blitz over to Berne and see for myself. CRoar, large cloud of dustj RON: It's good to be back in our ol' city. That enormous building must be our new school. Hello, CHARLES FIECHTER. What are you doing here? CHARLES: I teach Ag here in school. I was iust going to take my wife to LOIS and PAT'S Beauty Shoppe. RON: Oh. Did any other classmates stay here? CHARLES: PHYLLIS and COLLEEN live here in town and are busy keeping house and family. BOB AMSTUTZ is the manager of the new, big l.G.A. store. It was constructed by BOB RElNHARD'S construction crew. RON: They sure did a swell iob. Are DUANE BLUHM and LESTER SMITH farming? CHARLES: Yes, they are. BILL STUCKY is the owner of a nationwide chain of department stores. RON: I guess l'll fliz up to Chicago. Perhaps l'll meet some one there. CFlashj RON: So this is the big city. EILEEN BAUMGARENER, what goes here? EILEEN: Hi, Ron. LINDA HEYERLY, ZENITH STRAHM, and I are in charge of an orphanage here in Chicago. DONNA MAE HABEGGER works in the Moody Bookstore. Yesterday I received a letter from ELAINE HABEGGER. She teaches fourth grade at Harrisburg, Pa. RON: l'll go over and visit. CZip.D RON: Hello, Elaine. How's the schoolmarm? ELAINE: Just fine. SALLY BEER and CONNIE LIECHTY are teaching here too. They have the first and second grade. Last week our fifth and sixth grades won the basketball tourney. JOHN KIRCHOFER is their coach. RON: NWell, well. Where's OMER SPRUNGER by now? ELAINE: I read in the paper that he ioined the Jimmy Lynch Thrill Drivers. Oh yes, LA VERNE HARTMAN is the Conservation agent for the big state forest in the upper part of the state. I believe KEITH AMSTUTZ is a TV technician in New York City. RON: Oh, he is? l'll dash that a-way and check up on him. CVa-Va-Va-Voom and off he goes.j RON: Howdy, Keith? How's the T.V.T.? KEITH: Just all right, I'd say. We've got some real nice gals working for us. RON: Who? KEITH: SHARLENE HUFFMAN, KAREN LEHMAN, and THEDA HELLER are secre- taries here on fifth floor. Yesterday DAVID CANEN gave his first weekly com- edy show. It was terrific! CHARLES LEHMAN was the guest trumpeteer. RON: Wow! Where is EVELYN PFISTER by now? KEITH: She's a receptionist for a doctor in Hollywood, Fla. Last she flew up to visit JOAN NEUEN, who is a psychologist here in New York. Evelyn said that CAROL LANTZ was the plane stewardess. I wonder how she got interested in flying. Hal And talking about planes, BEN SPRUNGER is a top-notch jet pilot in the Air Force: he's thinking about making flying his career. RON: So there we are. CMusic loud-House lights on-Curtain down-Performance ended.j