Bippus High School - Bipponet Yearbook (Bippus, IN)

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Our eleventh grade was a lot of fun but we could hardly wait until we were Seniors. Shirley Kaufman quit school this year. We also had another scrap drive this year, which was a lot of fun. We combined forces with the Seniors to have a class play. We had lots of fun and action in Quiz Me Again. Also this year we took our Junior and Senior trip. It was from May sixth to eleventh. There were twenty-one that went. We were sponsored by the principal and his wife, Mr. and ' Mrs. Tilson King, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Ward, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sell, Well, here we are Seniors at last. We have had a lot of fun and disappointments during these twelve years, Our Senior play for this year was Atta Boy, Walt. Ronnie and Kent played the parts of two mischievous boys. Our class party this year included a bowling party with supper at Mr, and Mrs. Jack Sell's house and a trip to the coliseum that turned out to be a flop. Now as we are about to graduate we remember the good and not so good times, old friends, and teachers with fond memories of our school days. We will go our separate ways, some to work, some to college, some to marriage, and others to the armed forces. We hope to have a reunion sometime to remember our days at BIPPUS HIGH SCHOOL. We Seniors want to thank Mrs. Jack Sell for sticking by us all four years in High School. SENIOR BABY PICTURES - '5'sS' MAX TORPY v is - L -s,...4- JANET URSCHEL ,B A '-wrt S liebe i s-A E Q 'W RONNIE BURTON 9' 'S A -it-ez, ' I, ,A w est if RUTH PRILAMAN as of is STAN SANDS X 5 ' KAYE MICHEL 'E-.A LANCE STEFFEN JOAN ZIN SMEIST ER KENT BICKEL Q 'Y

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY In the fall of 1945, fourteen pupils started out for what they thought would be twelve won- derful years, but later found out different. Everyone was decked out in their best clothes but later changed to blue jeans and T-shirts for the boys and cotton dresses for the girls. The boys and girls were Vern Baker, Kent Bickel, Stanley Sands, Richard Garrison, Arden Geist, Karen Metzer, Ruth Prilaman, Stanley Bippus, William Shafer, Max Torpy, Joan Zins- meister, Francis Sims, William Bell, Kaye Michel, and our teacher, Miss Ina Phlieger. At re- cess, some of the boys would play house with the girls, We girls would fight about which one of us would be the mother, At the end of our first grade, we all said good-by to our teacher, and looked forward to the second grade, When we started our second grade, seventeen pupils came and we had Miss Phlieger again this year for our teacher. This year the girls weren't so bashful and started romances with the boys. If we wanted to talk to them we got up and went over and sat down with them and started a conversation, Also this year Lance Steffen got a little mad at Arden Geist and doubled up his fist and hit him. Later in the school year things began to change and we had to get busy and learn the alphabet and write our numbers. This we thought was too much work, but we accom- plished it. When we were promoted to the third grade we had a new teacher. We found out she was very nice and gave us grades we didn't deserve. This year we had fifteen pupils. Mrs. Swihart grew to know us better and let two or three girls or boys go home with her. What fun we had at her home. Each day at school in Arithmetic we would go to the board and have races to see which one could work the problems first. Finally the end of the year came and we found out we all passed to the fourth grade. In the fourth grade we had fourteen pupils, and again had Mrs, Swihart for our teacher. This year not very many things happened. We did our studies as we were told and were promoted to the next grade, At the beginning of the fifth grade we had fifteen pupils, Our teacher was Mr, Whitacre this year. We girls were trying to be a teacher's pet. Each day we would fight over which one was going to walk beside him to the playground, This was also the year we lost Ruth Prilaman because she had bone infection. This was the year Ronnie Burton came from Clear Creek, Being a new boy, he was really popular, Many of us wondered whether we would make it this year because our studies were getting harder, but we pulled through with flying colors. We had a ping-pong table this year and we thought we were pretty good at it. At the end of each week the monitors we elected would wash the blackboards, We also played games in the mornings before classes started, such as carrying an eraser on our heads, singing songs, and things that we really had fun doing, In the sixth grade fifteen pupils started out but then Ruth Prilaman came back and we had sixteen, We still had a long way to go yet to graduation so we're not stopping here, All of the pupils tried to get on the honor role, but some didn't make it. This year we thought we were really big because we were the top grade downstairs. We con- tinually showed off, but the next year we had all that taken out of us, because we were back on the bottom again. By the time we reached the seventh grade we tried getting used to High School life, but we still had quite a distance to go until we were in the four high grades, In the eighth grade we had a class party here at the schoolhouse, Our sponsor was Mr. Har- wood, We played games and had a bicycle contest to see which one could ride the slowest, The winner was Lance Steffen. We rode our bicycles again for a paper throwing contest. Stanley Bip- pus won that one, Also this year the seventh and eighth grades voted for their cheerleaders, They were Joan Zinsmeister and Kaye Michel. By the time we reached the ninth grade we felt we were a little closer to graduation. This year we had twelve students, The middle of the year Stanley Bippus moved with his family to Huntington so that left us with eleven students. At the beginning of the tenth grade we were pretty daring and we knew the teachers and about how much we could do before we were sent to the office. This year we ordered our class rings and could hardly wait until we could wear them, We also had a scrap drive this year. r

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CLASS PROPHEC Y It was the month of May, the year of 2010. I was a reporter for the movie, The Story of a City, Bippus, my home town, was now the fifth largest city in the United States and I was employed by the movie company, ZAX, which was making a movie about this small village, which increased its population by thousands during the last fifty- three years. I was assigned to interview the Class of 1957 of Bippus High School, which now enrolled four thousand students in the high school alone. First on my list was Kent Bickel, I didn't have to travel far to interview him be- cause he had a 500 acre dairy farm right on the edge of Bippus and owned the Bickel Dairy, His farm was the biggest and best of its kind in northern Indiana. As I drove my atomic car up the long lane leading to his beautiful home, I saw his grandchildren play- ing in front of the huge, white house in which Grandpa Bickel, his wife fa Bippus girl, by the wayj, two sons, and their families lived, I found that he had not changed from the time I knew him in school, except for growing bald and adding some weight. I asked him if he could tell me where any of his old classmates were living and had he kept in contact with many of them during the last fifty-three years, He gave me all the addresses that he knew, and I went on my way, Next on my list was Janet Hrschel. Her address was 2081 Green Street, Fort Wayne. As I drove up in front of the large, neat home, I wondered if Janet had married her school- time sweetheart, Joe Leonhardt, I knocked on the door and a sweet old lady answered. I soon recognized her as my old friend, Janet, She told me that--yes--she and Joe had married and he was still teaching History at South Side High School, She offered me some cookies she had just baked for her grandchildren who dropped in at her house every after- noon after school. I casually mentioned to her that wasn't Joe just a little old to be teach- ing school, and she said that he liked to teach so well that he hated to retire, She told me that sometime that summer Joe and she were going to Florida. She said that Joe still loved to fish and that while they were in Florida he was going to teach her to fish. I chuckled to myself because I remembered Janet getting so mad while she was still in high school because Joe wouldn't take her fishing with him. Before I left, Janet asked me ifI remembered the former Kaye Michel and I said that I did and that I would like to inter- view her, too, before I left Fort Wayne, Janet and Kaye were good friends and neighbors and she told me that Kaye lived just down the block from her, so I decided to make that my next stop. When I arrived at Kaye's house and talked to her, she said that she, too, had married her school sweetheart, Larry Hoch. She was just packing their suitcases for their long awaited trip to Europe. She said her sons had been running Larry's TV Shop since Larry had retired eight years ago, Since he had retired, she and he had taken life easy, I didn't want to interrupt Kaye any longer, so I climbed into my atomic car and headed for good old Bippus. After resting, I went to the airport to catch an atomic jet to Texas to interview Joan Zinsmeister, a well-known retired TV announcer, After I boarded the plane, I found my traveling companion for the trip to Texas was none other than my old school chum, Smokey Sands. He was very thrilled, he told me, because he himself had been a pilot for twenty years and he said that this was the first time he had traveled in one of these modern jets. He had come to Indiana to see his one and only grandson, who was a movie star at ZAX. He and his wife had settled in California after his early retirement, 11 think Stan invented early, early retirements,j