Brook High School - Talisman Yearbook (Brook, IN)

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Top Row: Mary Riegle, Rob- ert Tanksley, Don Ekstrom, Robert Murfitt, Charles Caul, Joan Cooper. Esther Stand- i8h. Second Row: Mr. Burchby, Mai'y Jo Solan, Mona Good- win, Janice Whaley, Dick Harper, Joan Honn, Robert Wilson, Marilyn Hood, Miss Hendrickson. Phyllis Honn not pictured. Top Row: Lois Dangerfield, Robert Antcliff, Tom Wilson, Bob Harris, Don Weishaar, Dale Evans, Ray Hiestand. Second Row: Charles Wha- ley, Margaret Davis, Harvey Arbuckle, Connie Schuster, Allen Taylor, Nancy Wagner. Third Row: Phyllis Whaley, Wilma Wright, Mr. Axe, Ed- win Wilson, Phyllis Cline. Nancy Hershman and Marie Tiede not pictured. Top Row: Wanda Whaley, Thelma Hcastcr, Delores Beaty, Donna Lapp, Rex Laf- 'foon, Kay Cooper, Cubby Lyons, Judy Patterson. Second Row: Mary Fleming, Bertha Ashbangh, Karen Martin, Shirley Howell, Fred Ford, Dave Curts, Nellie Rie- glc, Roy Murfitt. Third Row: Ann Fitzgerald, Patsy Holder, Marilyn Wil- son, Phyllis Curtis, Sue Rick- er, Pat Hancock, Lucille De- no, Jim Pence. Fourth Row: Ruth Wilson, Bob Ormi8ton, Judy Young, Mrs Johnson, Richard Dow- y, Jr net Laffoon, Juanita Carroll. Barbara Bassett not pictured.

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Juniors Here is the ambitious Junior Class. The officers are as follows: President, Charles Caul; Vice-Pre:ident, Joan Honn; Secretary, Joan Cooper; Treasurer, Robert Murfitt. The activities for this class included the play, The Skeleton Walks,” presented last fall, sale of magazine subscriptions, two bake sales, selling at five of the home basket- ball games, a watch raffle at the Morocco- Brook game. These people made quite a rep- utation for themselves as salesmen. Two of the boys, Don Ekstrom and Dick Harper, were on the varsity team and one, Charles Caul on the B” team. Mary Jo Nolan was elected yell leader again this year. Five in the class played in the band and eight sang in the chorus, while four carried five solid subjects. Only a few of the students in high school did this. All in all they were quite ambitious. And what was their goal? Well, this year the prom and banquet with better things to come next year. Sophomores In their activities this year the Sopho- mores sponsored an all school Christmas party besides having several class parties. The sophomores have been very active in school life this year—basketball and softball teams, library staff, newspaper and annual staffs, clubs, and both honor lists have num- bered sophomores as members. After quite a battle about the color of their class sweaters, they decided upon royal blue with red letters trimmed in white. Due to a very unfortunate accident Bar- bara Martin was unable to finish the school year. Marie Tiede, however, came to Brook from Rensselaer so the enrollment number remained the same. Freshmen The first year of high school for the freshmen started off with a bang! Class parties were held. These consisted of a Christmas party, combination wiener roast and skating party, picnics, and other enjoy- able get-togethers. Along with these came cake walks, par- ticipation in the Red Cross Drive and the Halloween Festival. The freshmen arc proud of the fact that they can get along so well together although they have the largest class in the high school, thirty-one in all. This number includes a new student, Barbara Bassett, who came from Goodland. Many of the freshmen are outstanding in different abilities—playing instruments, yell leading, sports, and other activities. Besides, freshmen make up a considerable part of the honor roll being numbered among the dis- ' tinguished as well as the honorable mention students.

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JUNIOR HIGH Eighth Grade The members of the eighth grade class feel they have advanced greatly this year. They completed a literature book, an Eng- lish workbook, a speech unit, composition unit and gave a play named The Grand Cham’s Diamond,” for American Education Week. They have completed their History Book and Indiana History. They have eight active band members. Seven eighth graders participated in Solo Contest. They were awarded medals. Four of these students entered State Solo Contest. They had some parties. One was a skat- ing party at Wheatfield. They are getting to be good skaters. They also had a Christ- mas party at which they danced, played games, had a pot luck supper, and went over to Mr. Baker’s house to open their gifts un- der the Christmas tree. Some of the eighth graders gave a discus- sion on TV, radio, movies, and comic books for the P. T. A. meeting. The boys in this class play in the junior high basketball games. The Brook 7th and 8th grade team was in the finals of the grade tourney with Kentland. Seventh Grade The Seventh Grade came upstairs with a bang.” They were the noisiest class in school, but by the second semester they were pretty well settled down. When they came upstairs, there were twenty in the class, but Darryl Siebold and Ila Phelps moved leaving only 18. Then Shirley Rounds moved in making the total 19. The officers of the class are: President, Norman Standish; Vice President, Margie Malott; Secretary and Treasurer, Carol Sny- der; Reporter, Sandra Standish. They had two parties—one a wiener roast, the other a skating party. They were both a success. Two people from our class went to contest; they were Carol Snyder and Richa Lynn Wollin. Carol was in Clarinet quartet No. 2 and also had a solo. She got 2nd placing in both. She and Richa Lynn were both in a mixed quartet in which they got 1st placing. All agree that they have enjoyed their first year upstairs.