Brook High School - Talisman Yearbook (Brook, IN)

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Class History ’54 The first, second, and third grade records have been destroyed. The fourth grade enrollment was as follows; Malcome Anderson, Jack Barnes, Juanita Carroll, Darwin Clark, David Curts, Patsy Dye, Bernard Flynn, Patsy Holder, Ruth Wilson, Naomi Howell, Shirley Howell, Janet Laffoon, Roger Lyons, Karen Martin, Leroy Murfitt, Judy Patterson, and Larry Schaeffer. In the fifth grade four entered. Delores Beaty, Phyllis Curtis, Emory Honn, Calvin Whaley. Jack Barnes withdrew. The highlight of the year was winning Stunt Night with the play Street Scene . Four also entered the sixth grade. Marilyn Wilson, Jim Pence, Rex Laffoon, and Beverly Fowler. Malcome Anderson, Larry Schaeffer, and Darwin Clark withdrew. Only one new member entered our class in the seventh grade, Mary Fleming. The eighth grade stayed the same with seventeen members. Our activities consisted mostly of parties. We sure had a lot of fun!! In our Freshman year fourteen new members entered. Fred Ford, Dick Dowty, Thelma Heaster, Donna Lopp, Kay Cooper, Bertha Ashbaugh, Nellie Riegle, Ann Fitzgerald, Sue Ricker, Pat Hancock, Lucille Deno, Bob Ormiston, Barbara Bassett, and Wanda Whaley. Emory Honn withdrew. One of the events of our Freshman year was initiation. How could we forget it!! We had only one new member enter in our Sophomore year, Pat Boelke. Besides the many parties, we also received our 54 class sweaters. Our Junior year was very exciting and different from our previous years in school. We received our class rings and of course some lost their rings and others gained a ring. Our Junior Play Peck’s Bad Boy was a smash hit. We entertained the Seniors of 53 with a delicious banquet served at the U.B. Church. Our prom theme was By The Light Of The Silvery Moon . It was one of the roost beautiful proms ever given at Brook high school. Thelma Heaster, Mary Fleming, Phyllis Curtis, Sue Ricker, and Barbara Bassett withdrew. In our Senior year we had a class of twenty-two members. They were as follows: Fred Ford, Judy Patterson, Lucille Deno, Delores Beaty, Pat Boelke, Dick Dowty, Jim Pence, Bob Ormiston, Cub Lyons, Dave Curts, Kay Cooper, Ruth Wilson, Nellie Riegle, Shirley Howell, Leroy Murfitt, Bertha Ashbaugh, Karen Martin, Donna Lopp, Ann Fitzgerald, Pat Hancock, Janet Laffoon. Juanita Carroll withdrew. In our Senior year we worked very hard earning money for our Senior trip, which was to New York. We have really had a wonderful time through high school and we hope other classes have as much fun as we have had. Z 0

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Senior Will con't. Bob Ormiston wills his ability to torment people to Sue Adamson and the fun he has had in good old B.H.S. to anyone that has the desire for such. Pat Hancock wills her ability to get along with John Axe to Sue Tanksley and her ability to get the car, when she wants it, to the envious under-age students of B.H.S. Kay Cooper wills her love for slumber parties to the Junior gang and her music ability to anyone that likes music. Janet Laffoon wills her position as cheerleader to anyone who wants to tackle the job and love for fun to Pickles. We, the Seniors, will our natural colored hair to the Junior girls and boys. We, the Senior girls, will a larger pair of shorts to Judy Johnson. We, the Seniors, will our privilege of wearing yellow cords to the lowly Freshmen and only Freshmen. We, the Seniors, will our government books to the Juniors. They’re new because we've never used them.' We, the Senior boys, will our ability to keep training rules to the Junior basketball players. We, the Senior boys, will our Ping-Pong talent to the underclassmen. They sure need it.’ We, the Seniors, will our Senior sponsor, Rowena Adamson, to the Juniors for future use. Lucky.'! We, the Seniors, do wish all the future students of good old B.H.S. all the fun and mischievousness we have had in our high school years.

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Prophecy The other day as I was cruising around the U.S. in my Super Jet, I had an occasion to meet one of my old schoolmates of the Class of 54 . After talking for a while I found out Roger (Cub) Lyons was now a big time dentist. He has his own office which consists of one solid acre of modern buildings. His office is located in a suberb of New York. While in New York, I dropped over to see Fred Ford, who has been President of G.M. for five years. He started working for G.M. as a niechanical engineer. He is a bachelor living in a penthouse with four Cadillacs. He spends his leisure hours with Judy Patterson, to whom he is engaged. Fred gave me the address to Judy’s Dress Shoppe, so I went over to see her. Judy had started as a Conover Model, and then started her own modeling agency, which grew into a Dress Shoppe, where she also sells quite a few minks. Judy told me about Ruth Wilson, who is also working at G.M., on a re- search project. She and her husband, Bob, are perfecting a rocket ship. When it is completed, they will go to Mars together. Since I was so close, I went over to see Wanda Whaley, who to my surprise is still unmarried and has a secretarial job in Maryland. Doing quite well, too! ! We heard of a new town that has come into existence, and were quite surprised to learn our one and only Bertha Ashbaugh is now a Kindergarten teacher in Doodeyville, U.S.A. In her spare time, she is very busy with her five boys, Walt, Bob, Ernie, Cook, and Lester. Next, I went down to Mobile. Alabama to see Jim Pence. He now runs a fleet of 1964 Chevies and as you would expect, they are all Hot Rods. His business is known as Pence's Putt Putts. Jim told us of another classmate down in that vicinity—Pat Hancock. She is a fifth grade teacher in New Orleans, and in her spare time, she runs a shipping business. She is quite happy with this because she has so many porters. We had heard so much about Kay Cooper, we went up to Louisville, Kentucky to see her. She is running her own band, and they are called Cooper's Super Doopers. They are doing quite well, and Kay has become very well-known (among the hill-billies.) When we went back to Brook, we found several improvements around B.H.S. Dave Curts is the head coach at Brook since Mr. Miller retired. He beat Kentland every year since '53-'54, and won every Sectional Tourney, so he decided to give someone else a chance to get in on the loot. Janet Laffoon is now the Superintendent at Brook. She replaced Mr. Loveless because she has more patience with school skippers than he did. Leroy Murfitt owns most of the land northeast of Brook and has recently foreclosed on Harry Lawrence. He is happily married ana lives in the newest style house. It is Ranch type, but it is a completely glass house—made for better viewing. Since we were so close, we went up to see Ann Fitzgerald. She is an English teacher at Notre Dame, and after classes, she is a housemother in a football fraternity. Karen Martin took Chicago by storm. Since graduating from law school, she is the biggest attorney since Clarence Darrow. Her firm is known as Martin Martin, and Martin. Donna Lopp is living in Colorado with her husband, Donnie, we found out from Karen. After putting him through college, they moved out there where he does agricultural research. Donna told me about Shirley Howell Harrington. She is a Texan now, and has acquired a Southern drawl and so have her three children. Her husband ’’Doyle is in the Service out there. 21