Brook High School - Talisman Yearbook (Brook, IN)

Text from Pages 1 - 70 of the 1956 volume:

THE 1956 TALISMAN PUBLISHED BY BROOK HIGH SCHOOL BROOK, INDIANA DEDICATION We, the Senior Class of Brook High School, dedicate the 1956 Talisman to our parents whose help and understanding have guided us through these twelve school years. y •• • V 'f-- - %£.i££r -V: —•'- - - ••' • rsos£ -£ .r S . .-r V-TT-V- ¥? luy. wl; : . r . I : 4r! ■ ■ w jC, - . -£ £5 £8 m2® • •• - ft V -'• . -r . . • . r - TV • - ■ • - - :- • ■- - . '“-r- ■ tt- vrV r •- S� E5 vV- S£ • - - ✓-A iZ-JK V-v, ' SctPWM ¥tf- .r r � £ ‘N -V, a? - XS4£ 4S r£$ 4 'vA xfi Richard Hershman Harley Clark SCHOOL BOARD c'cUBro”n SUPERINTENDENT Leslie Akers Everett Lyons EDWARD E. LOVELESS Mr. Don Shondell Mrs. Rowena Adamson Mrs. Lucille Foster Mr. Philip Miller GRADE FACULTY FIRST ROW: Mrs. Leona Kanne, Miss Amy Cooper, Mrs. Kay Tanksley. SECOND ROW: Mrs. Nellie Carter, Mr. Ben Slenker, Mrs. Edna Iliff. SECRETARY Miss Violet Crudden BUS DRIVERS Budge Davis, Bill Sunderland, Harvey Thompson, Chet Sunderland, Charles Lash. COOKS Mrs. Ellen Davis, Mrs. Thelma Ashbaugh, Mrs. Virginia Curtis. S emorA JACK R. FENWICK Mixed Cho. 4 yrs.; FFA 4 yrs.; 4-H 8 yrs.; Golf Team; Aceonian Stf. 2 yrs. f Bus. Mgr.; Algebra Contest; Basketball 4 yrs.; Softball 2 yrs.; Pres. Senior Class; Vice-Pres. Junior Class; Judging Team 4 yrs.; Vocal Ensemble 2 yrs.; Junior Senior Plays; Talisman Stf. I yr., Bus. Mgr. WAYNE BERNARD DOWNS Basketball I yr., Mgr. I yr.; Vice-Pres. Soph. -Senior Class; FFA 3 yrs., Reporter 2 yrs.; Crops Judging 3 yrs.; Chorus 1 yr. Band 4 yrs., Pres. I yr.; Chorus 4 yrs. ; Talisman 3 yrs., Bus. Mgr. I yr.; Aceonian 3 yrs., Feature Ed. I yr.; Latin Club I yr.; 4-H 3 yrs.; Sunshine 4 yrs.; Vice-Pres. 1 yr.; Junior Leader 1 yr.; Rural Youth; Junior Senior Plays; Vocal Ensemble; Sec'y. -Treas. 2 yrs.; D. A.R. Aw. REX EDWIN WHALEY 4-H 8 yrs.; FFA 3 yrs.; Chorus 2 yrs. ; Pres. Soph., Jr. 2 yrs.; Student Council 2 yrs.; Basketball 4 yrs. Track I yr.; Aceonian Stf. 2 yrs. Sports Ed. I yr.; Algebra Contest; Jr. -Sr. Play; Judging Team. ELINOR JUNE McCARTY Chorus 4 yrs.; Glee Club 2 yrs. Aceonian 2 yrs.; 4-H 3 yrs.; La- tin Club 1 yr. ; French Club 1 yr. Sunshine 4 yrs. ; Treasurer 1 yr.; Junior and Senior Play. NORMAN D. WRIGHT FFA 3 yrs.; Sentiel 1 yr.; Live- stock Judging 3 yrs.; Dairy Judg- ing 1 yr. ; Chorus 1 yr. ALVIN J. WHALEY 4-H 2 yrs. ; FFA 4 yrs.; Mixed Chorus 3 yrs.; Basketball 1 yr.; Boys Chorus 1 yr.; Rural Youth 1 yr.; Junior and Senior Plays. NORMAN CURTIS SANDRA KAY CLARK Chorus 4 yrs.; Ensemble 2 yrs.; Sunshine 4 yrs.; Annual Staff 1 yr. Class Editor 1 yr. Aceonian 4 yrs.; Yell Leader 1 yr.; French Club 1 2 yr.; 4-H 2 yrs.; Junior and Senior play. JAMES E. PLOTT Basketball 2 yrs. ; FFA 1 yr. MARGIE EVELYN MALOTT Mixed Chorus 2 yrs. ; Girls Glee Club 3 1 2 yrs.; 4-H 4 yrs. ; French Club 1 yr.; Library Staff 2 yrs.; Sunshine 4 yrs.; Corres. Secretary Senior yr. ; Aceonian 2 yrs.; Copy Editor Senior yr.; Ta- lisman 2 yrs. ALICE MARIE DEARDURFF Band 4 yrs.; Sunshine 4 yrs. ; Cho- rus 4 yrs.; Glee Club 1 yr.; Latin Club 2 yrs.; Aceonian 3 yrs.; Ta- lisman 3 yrs.; Senior Editor 1 yr.; District Latin Contest 2 yrs.; State Latin Contest 1 yr. JOHN EDWARD CONN Band 3 yrs. ; Chorus 2 yrs. ; FFA 3 yrs. ; Basketball 2 yrs.; Aceonian 2 yrs.; Annual 2 yrs. BETTY JEAN RIEGLE Sunshine 4 yrs. ; Band 3 yrs.; Mixed Chorus 2 yrs. ; Girls Glee Club 1 yr. ; Aceonian 1 yr.; Ta- lisman Staff 1 yr. ; Girls 4-H 2 yrs. CAROL SNYDER Band 7 yrs.; Chorus 3 yrs.; 4-H 9 yrs. ; Vice-President 1 yr; Sec- retary 1 yr. ; Sunshine 4 yrs. ; Ed. Aceonian 1 yr. ; Aceonian Staff 4 yr. ; Art Editor Talisman 2 yrs.; Talisman 4 yrs.; Junior Play; Sen- ior Play; Latin Club; Secretary- Treasurer Junior Class; Library 4 yrs. JAMES E. BREWER 4-H 8 yrs.; FFA 3 yrs.; Boys Chorus 1 yr.; Mixed Chorus 3 yrs. ; 4-H Junior Leader 2 yrs.; Junior Play; Senior Play; Rural Youth 2 yrs. RONALD DAIN BARTLETT Band 4 yrs. ; Mixed Chorus 2 yrs.; Ensemble 2 yrs.; Track and Field 1 yr.; Basketball 1 yr. ; Talisman 4 yrs.; Snapshot Editor 1 yr.; Editor- in-Chief, Aceonian 4 yrs. ; Latin Club 1 yr. ; Junior Play; Senior Play; 4-H 8 yrs. ; Junior Leader 4 yrs.; Rural Youth 2 yrs. MYRNA ANN LYONS 4-H 9 yrs. ; President 1 yr.; Cho- rus 4 yrs.; Sunshine 4 yrs. ; Talis- man 4 yrs. ; Aceonian 4 yrs.; La- tin Club 1 yr. ; Junior Play; Senior Play; Freshman Class President; Student Council 1 yr.; Girls State; Librarian 1 yr.; Junior Leader 4 yrs. ; French Club 1 2 yr. ALICE MCCARTY 4-H 7 yrs.; Junior Leader 3 yrs.; Sunshine 4 yrs. ; President 1 yr.; Annual 3 yr.; Senior Editor 1 yr. ; Aceonian 3 yrs. ; Glee Club 2 yrs. Chorus 2 yrs. JOHN DARREL HAMMAN Basketball 4 yrs. ; FFA 3 yrs. JAMES W. BRUNTON Basketball 3 yrs. ; 4-H 9 yrs.; FFA 4 yrs.; Junior Leader 2 yrs CLASS WILL I, Carol Snyder, will my shyness to Tom Nelson and my ability to quit band and still get along with Mr. Egli to Mr. Loveless. I, Sue Jackson, will my ability to get along with teachers to Jerry Wilson and my seat in driver-s training to Roy Herath. I, John Conn, will my ability to get out of school to sell adds for the Aceonian to Don Antcliff. I, Jim Plott, will my curly hair to Everett Honn and Harvey Dodd and my dancing ability to Joyce Hamman. I, Norman Wright, will my ability to skip school to Jerry Wilson and my curly hair to Mr. Tanksley. I, Alice Deardurff, will my ability to get along with teachers to Greta Whaley, and my smile to Sandra Sainte. I, Myma Lyons, will my shortness to Ruth Ann Jackson, and my ability to be heard to Carol Wright. I. Alvin Whaley, will my ability to go out with girls to Dan Canady and my height to Dick Antcliff. I, Jim Brewer, will my love and bashfullness towards girls to Harvey Dodd. I, Alice McCarty, will my ability to get the car whenever I want it to Marcia Sell and my natural blonde hair to Laura Hamacher. I, Betty Riegle, will my ability to go out any night of the week to Paul Riegle and my ability to skip Study Hall to Greta Whaley. I, Wayne Downs, will my driving ability to Jefry Wilson, and my slim figure to Dan Canady. I, John Hammon, will my ability to always keep quiet to Larry lyons and my amazing speed to Dick Flash Hancock. I, Elinor McCarty, will my quietness and my love for the Rensselaer girls to Laura Hamacher. I, Margie Malott. will my natural red hair to Judy Johnston. I, Norman Curtis, will my ability to get along in shop class to Ted Hamacher. I, Ronnie Bartlett, will my friendship with the Rensselaer girls to Larry Lyons and my yell leading ability to Dottie Davis. I, Sandra Clark, will my yell-leading position to any girl or boy who has the courage to try out for it. I. Rex Whaley, will my basketball ability to Bernie Hiestand, and my famous saying to Don Antcliff, Go west, young man. go west. I, Jack Fenwick, will my flat top to Mr. Loveless, and my ability to keep within the speed limit to the Junior boys. I, Jim Brunton, will my ability to drive at noon to John Lyons, and to get arrested by Sergeant Loveless to Dick Hancock. We, Carol Snyder and Sue Jackson, will our ability to go steady with boys from Rensselaer without fighting to any Junior girl who thinks she can. CLASS HISTORY The records of the class are missing from the first to the fourth grade but this is as we remember it. Starting in the first grade were Carol Snyder, Bobby Lee, Robby Lee, Sandra Standish, Margaret Standish, Myrna Lyons, Larry Hafper, Dennis Dowty, Joyce Nichols, Bernard Honn, and Richa Lynn Wollin. In the first grade Mrs. Tanksley was our teacher. In the second grade Joyce Nichols, Dennis Dowty, Robby Lee, and Bobby Lee dropped out and Norman Curtis, Suzanne Shaffer, Herman Allis, John Holder. Ronnie Clark, John Hammon, Phyllis Strain, and Janice Flynn entered. Mrs. Pombert was our teacher. In the third grade Mrs. Le Grande was our teacher. Suzanne Shaffer and Herman Allis dropped out and Maxine Fowler entered. Ronnie Clark dropped out and Jim Plott, Alice McCarty, and Darryl Seibold entered in the fourth grade. Mrs. Le Grande was still our teacher. In the fifth grade Larry Harper, Maxine Fowler, and Phyllis Strain dropped out and Ila Phelps and Ronnie Strain entered. Mrs. Carter was our teacher. Mrs. Carter was also our teacher in the sixth grade. Ila Phelps and Janice Flynn dropped out and Jim Brunton, Esther Honn, Estel Honn, Norman Standish, and Margie Molott entered. In the seventh grade we were finally up stairs. Darryl Seibold, Richa Lynn Wollin, and Ronnie Strain dropped out and Shirley Rounds entered. John Holder, Sandra Standish, and Shirley Rounds dropped out and Sandra Clark, Betty Riegle, Kenny Wesly, Milly Wesly, Jim Huff, and Arema Henderson entered in the eighth grade. In the ninth grade Norman Standish, Margaret Standish, Arema Henderson, Jim Huff, Kenny Wesly. and Milly Wesly dropped out and Alvin Whaley, John Conn, Wayne Downs, Alice Deaduff, Jim Brewer, Rex Whaley, Geraldine Tichacek, Norman Wright. Elinor McCarty, Sue Jackson, Ron- nie Bartlett, and Jack Fenwick entered. During our tenth year Geralding Ticheack and Bernard Honn dropped out and no one entered. Our Junior Year was the year to start making money and we did this by selling magazines, putting on our play Act your Age , and one of the most joyous proms ever. No one entered and no one dropped out. All present and accounted for there are twenty-one members in the Senior Class. We are looking forward to the coming years and yet dreading to hear the familar chords of Pomp and Circumstance. LOOKING IN THE CRYSTAL BALL... Ronnie Bartlett is now head engineer with the Locked Aircraft Company and is supervising the design and construction of the SUPER-RB-I, an airship which completely runs from perpetual motion. Jim Brewer now owns 5000 acres of grazing land in Montana with 7000 head of prime steers just eating and getting fat. He has 7 Cadillac El Dorados; one for each day of the week. Jim Brunton now owns a big farm on the Sun and drives a big Ford. He has already retired at the age of 23. Sandra Clark has now settled down on the Murfitt farm with husband, Roy. Her part-time job as beautician will help out with their four future children. John Conn is now on a 1500 acre grain farm and doing quite well for himself. Norman Curtis now owns a chain of paint factories. His favorite pastime is riding from one factory to the other in his new Cadillac surrounded by several beautiful blondes. Alice Deardurff is now elementary teacher in New York City and is doing very well teach- ing first graders there. Wayne Downs is now running a Super Sonic 16 cylinder Studpacker in races all over the country and has had to buy a milk plant to supply his ten children with milk. Jack Fenwick is running a 1500 acre ranch on the moon but flies back to earth in his space- ship to visit Hollywood every once in awhile. John Hammon now runs a chain of 18 big garages, a big 10,000 acre ranch in Wyoming, along with 60 valuable acres of woods and forests up in Northern Minnesota; he seems to be doing well. lY WE SEE THINGS TO COME on Skeet and all the little Skeeters. Myrna Lyons is now teaching Home Economics while trying to manager her small (3) Hancock family. Margie Malott seems to be doing quite well at Delta Airlines where she is a stewardess; she has a nice young pilot on the string. Alice McCarty is now working in Macy's Department Store in New York City. Elinor McCarty has her head in the clouds now. She is employed by one of the leading airlines as a stewardess. She has her eye on one of the pilots she knows. Jim Plott just bought 3000 acres of land in the heart of Canada besides striking gold in the Yukon territory. Betty Riegle is now running a big restaurant in Rantool, Illinois for the Air Force boys. Carol Snyder is now running a modeling school in Rensselaer and is teaching the little Rulers how to walk the line. Alvin Whaley is now retired at the age of 21. He has a nice new Buick Skylark and the largest house-trailer in the U. S. He is just cruising around to see what female prospects look good. Rex Whaley, who is still unmarried, is managing a 580 acre farm west of Brook; his favorite pastime is driving around at night in his big convertible with it full of beautiful girls seeing all the night spots. Norman Wright now owns a 2000 acre dairy farm in Wisconson. He, Carol and their three boys are milking 900 cows and in their spare time run their own cheese plant. JUNIOR CLASS 1957 Sue Adamson Fred Alliss Don Antcliff Ruth Ann Antcliff Martha Beaty Sally Clark Judy Connell George Curtis Joyce Dangerfield Joyce Denton Donna Downs Marilyn Fowler Laura Lou Hamacher Dick Hancock Roy Herath Janet Honn Damon Hoover Merrill Lopp Jon Lyons Larry Lyons 2 Paul Riegle Bill Shepard Marcia Sell Sandra Sainte Wilbur Taylor Greta Whaley Jerry Wilson Judy Woods Ruth Wright SOPHOMORE CLASS 1958 Dick Antcliff Tom Antcliff Jim Bannon Harold Beasley Don Benner Tom Brown Linda Burton Phil Burton Dan Canady Neil Carroll Joe Conn Betty Dangerfield Dottie Davis Doyle Elijah Larry Fowler Joyce Hammon Don Hayworth Jane Hiestand Beatrice Jakel Judy Johnston Bob Lyons Connie Martin Ton Nelson Don Parrish Donna Putt David Schuette Allen Strole Betty Jo Wallace Warren Whaley Wendell Whaley Carl Vaughan Dayne Young FRESHMAN CLASS 1959 Lois Allis Dave Anderson Tom Anderson George Antcliff Bill Balensiefer Sally Bannon Judy Benner John Connell Jacqueline Curtis Jack Danruther Chuck Davis Harvey Dodd Jack Downs Gerald Ervin Bernard Freeland Ted Hamacher Douglas Hiestand Everett Honn Judy Kanne Ellen Martin Dave Miller Doris Murphy Judy Reiners Beverly Schuette Joy Sell Ruth Anna Smith Janet Taylor Allen Toben Jo Ellen Woods EIGHT GRADE--FIRST ROW: L. Honn, B. Burton, H. Willems, T. Dyer, M. James, D. Doyle, C. Beasley, G. Burley. SECOND ROW: B. Antcliff, F. Ervin, C. Honn, C. Lawrence, K. Nelson, J. Cooper, L. Adamson, L. R. Bannon, Sponsor. THIRD ROW: J. Wilson, S. Clark, J. Thompson, N. Carroll, P. Dean, D. Odle, M. Ashbrook, M. Gerbracht. SEVENTH GRADE--FIRST ROW: M. Brown, D. Albright, S. Saints, B. Putt, S. Akers, J. Curtis, S. Whaley, R. Snodgrass. SECOND ROW: D. Nelson, B. Denton, T. Kindell, B. Johnson, B. Miller, M. Ferguson, J. Antcliff, J. Johnston, J. Burley, C. Thompson, M. Gravesen. FIRST ROW: C. Bartlett, J. De Lay, D. Lawrence, W. Dean, G. Ervin, D. Weishaar, C. Whaley, B. Adams, G. Whaley. SECOND ROW: B. Lane, E. Dalton, G. Batten, D. Corbett, D. Morton, P. Lane, L. Legg, G. Stath, R. Conn. % AFTERNOON KINDERGARTEN FIRST ROW: C. Bartlett, G. Spangler, J. Brown, J. Schuster. SECOND ROW: R. Portwood, C. Snodgrass, L. Miller, T. Carroll, T. Clark, J. Honn, J. Hershman, E. Miller. THIRD ROW: J. Hermansen, D. Lyons, J. Berry, H. James, S. Montgomery, N. Schuette. MORNING KINDERGARTEN 6th GRADE FIRST ROW; B. Honn, J. Cunningham, J. Morton, D. Long, J. Schuster, K. Loveless, C. Decker. SECOND ROW: S. Rath bun, J. Shepard, D. Reiners, C. Ervin, C. Dangerfield, R. Miller, M. Schmitz. THIRD ROW: J. Burton, J. Gerbracht, R. Stutesman, R. Honn, L. Riegle, D. Baker. 5th GRADE FIRST ROW: D. Fergunson, S. Whaley, S. Jackson, L. Hendryx, B. Boelke, S. Montgomery, P. Brown, P. Gravesen, M. Miller, N. Bannon. SECOND ROW: J. Woods, S. Peters, R. Williams, A. Dalton, K. Ervin, C. Freeland, L. Wright, P. Connell, D. Hermanson. THIRD ROW: M. Snodgrass, L. Riegle, L. Fowler, D. Wilson, D. Elijah, J. Brown, R. Antcliff, G. Curtis. FOURTH GRADE--FIRST ROW: N. Clark. J. Ervin, C. Long, J. Brown, M. Sinks, L. Wright, W. Kindig, J. Schmitz. SECOND ROW: V. Ames, J. Canady, P. Schuster, L. Bitler, J. Schuette, L. Whaley. THIRD ROW: C. Gravesen, D. Hollingsworth, R. Penny, T. Hiestand, D. Albright. J. Downs, R. Schuette. THIRD GRADE--FIRST ROW: L. Downs, J. Hermansen, J. Irvine, M. Hamman, K. Decker, L. Dean, L. Champion, R. Gravesen. SECOND ROW: P. Hiestand, N. Whaley, M. Kindell, S. Putt, J. Stutesman, B. Long, D. Danruther, R. Legg. THIRD ROW: R. Johnston, S. Loveless, S. Hershman, J. Nugent, M. Cor- bett, A. Dean, E. Antcliff, D. Legg, D. Sanders, Teacher, Amy Cooper. SECOND GRADE--FIRST ROW: K. Odle, J. Burley. M. Curtis. N. Lyons, M. Weishaar, M. Loveless, C. Antcliff, D. Baker, P. Carroll, C. Rathbun, C. Morton. SECOND ROW: Mrs. Kanne, H. Dodd, M. Clark, L. Conn, R. Miller. I. Spangler, D. Schuster, M. Bitler, N. McCoy, R. Brown, J. Gerbracht. THIRD ROW: S. Lane, L. Pickett, C. Adams, E. Leitzow, G. Davis, G. Griffin, C. Kindig, J. Grave- sen, S. Waling, L. Laffoon, J. Lawrence. FIRST GRADE--FIRST ROW: D. Hollingsworht, B. Whaley, J. Akers, K. Gravesen, V. Whaley, N. Ervin, C. Hiestand, B. Weishaar. SECOND ROW: Mrs. Tanksley, K. Kleinkort, B. Herriman, B. Spangler, J. Whaley, L. Kindig, R. Pickett, R. Dart. THIRD ROW: G. Sanders, C. Danruther, R. Lyons, W. Conn, R. Schmitz, J. Miller, J. Bower, R. Hancock. FIRST ROW: Jack Fenwick, Greta Whaley, Sue Jackson, Carol Snyder, Marilyn Fowler, Miss Morey, Ronnie Bartlett, Myrna Lyons, Jim Bannon and Dan Canady. SECOND ROW: Don Antcliff, Jon lyons, Larry Lyons, Alice Deardurff, Alice McCarty, Sandra Clark, George Curtis and Sue Adamson. YEARBOOK STAFF EDITOR--Ronnie Bartlett ASSISTANT EDITOR--Marilyn Fowler FACULTY ADVISOR--Miss Morey NEWSPAPER STAFF EDITOR Carol Snyder SEATED: Judy Woods, Marilyn Fowler, Carol FACULTY ADVISOR Miss Morey Snyder, Miss Morey, Greta Whaley, Sue Jack- son, Margie Malott. STANDING: Rex Whaley, Larry Lyons, Jack Fenwick. BAND FIRST ROW: B. Wallace, S. Jackson, C. Martin, D. Davis, S. Bannon, J. Connell. SECOND ROW: M. Beaty, J. Kanne, A. Deardurff, R. Antcliff, J. Thompson. N. Carroll, M. James, T. Clark, M. Sell, £. Martin, G. Whaley, J. Woods, J. Woods, S. Sainte, B. Schuette, J. Bannon. THIRD ROW: J. Hiestnad, G. Curtis, S. Sainte, J. Lyons, L. Hamacher, J. Cooper. J. Sell, G. Burley, D. Putt, K. Nelson, S. Clark, S. Clark, B. Jakel, J. Connell. N. Carroll, J. Conn, R. Bartlett, J. Thompson, J. Hess, D. Schuette, L. Fowler, J. Conn, L. Adamson, D. Parrish. FOURTH ROW: L. Antcliff, C. Martin, J. Danruther, B. Riegle, B. Hiestand, D. Canady, A. Toben, T. Hamacher. FIFTH ROW: Mr. Egli, M. Fowler. HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS -FIRST ROW: R. Antcliff, G. Whaley, M. Sell. B. Wallace. E. Martin, M. Beaty. S. Sainte, J. Woods, M. Whaley, J. Taylor, S. Bannon, D. Davis. D. Putt, B. Jakel, J. Hiestand. R. Smith. SECOND ROW: Mr. Egli. E. McCarty. M. Malott, S. Clark, B. Schuette, J. Reiners, S. Jackson, J. Kanne, A. Deardurff. B. Riegle, L. Hamacher, S. Clark, J. Connell, A. McCarty, M. Fowler, J. Woods, J. Benner. C. Martin, J. Sell. THIRD ROW: L. Fowler, H. Beasley, D. Parrish, R. Bartlett, D. Hayworth, J. Fenwick, J. Lyons, J. Brewer, D. Canady, J. Conn. C. Davis. R. Whaley, W. Whaley, A. Whaley. T. Antcliff, J. Bannon. J. Conn. FOURTH ROW: T. Anderson, A. Toben, T. Hamacher, J. Connell. E. Honn, W. Whaley. D. Anderson, D. Schuette, G. Curtis, B. Hiestand, N. Carroll. ENSEMBLE--FIRST ROW: Mr. Egli, J. Hiestand, M. Fowler, J. Connell, D. Davis, S. Jackson, L. Hamacher, M. Beaty, S. Clark. C. Martin. SECOND ROW: J. Bannon. W. Whaley, R. Whaley. J. Conn. J. Lyons, J. Fenwick, R. Bartlett, D. Parrish, L. Fowler. JUNIOR HIGH BAND FIRST ROW: J. Kanne, J. Thompson, K. Nelson, S. Clark, C. Decker, S. Bannon. SECOND ROW: M. James, N. Carroll, J. Sell, J. Cooper. G. Burley, C, Schuette, J. Schuster, J. Burton, M. Schmitz, D. Robinson, E. Martin, D. Odle, J. Woods, B. Schuette. THIRD ROW; T. Clark, B. Lane, L. Antcliff, J. Danruther, C. Martin, D. Hayworth, A. Toben, T. Hamacher, J. Connell, J. Thompson, J. Hess, L. Adamson. FOURTH ROW: Mr. Egli. FIRST ROW: J. Burley, J. Hermansen, D. Patterson, C. Martin, J. Hess, J. Thompson, G. Burley, C. Beasley, C. Thompson, D. Nelson, J. Johnston, L. Antcliff, P. Egli. SECOND ROW: M. Graveson, R. Johnson, P. Robinson, L. Laffoon, D. Doyle, L. Honn, M. James, T. Dyer, H. Willem, W. Burton, W. Antcliff, T. Clark, T. Pickett. JUNIOR CHORUS FIRST ROW: S. Adamson, Accompanist; M. Ferguson, M. Gerbracht, M. Brown, S. Akers, C. Honn, J. Thompson, D. Ogle, S. Whaley, J. Antcliff, B. Miller, J. Wilson. SECOND ROW: Mrs. Foster, M. Ashbrook, D. Albright, F. Ervin, L. Adamson, J. Cooper, C. Lawrence, K. Nelson, B. Putt, S. Sainte, L. Loveless, S. Clark, R. Snodgrass. STUDENT COUNCIL Rex Whaley at the desk. FIRST ROW: J. Thompson, E. E. Loveless, D. Shondell, J. Woods. SECOND ROW: D. Patterson, J. Danruther, W. Whaley, L. R. Bannon. JUNIOR 4-H BOYS FIRST ROW: D. Elijah, C. Fowler, R. Antcliff, J. Woods, J. Brown, S. Peters, D. Wilson, C. Ervin. SECOND ROW: C. Lash, L. Antcliff, C. Schuette, C. Martin, R. Honn, J. Thompson, C. Thompson, S. Rathbun. THIRD ROW: J. Hermanson, B. Johnson, D. Reiners, T. Kindell, J. Hess. F. F. A.--FIRST ROW: W. Taylor, J. Danruther, A. Whaley, A. Toben, H. Beasley, D. Elijah, M. Lopp, J. Fenwick, D. Miller, G. Antcliff, T. Anderson, C. Davis, D. Young. SECOND ROW: Mr. C. Lash, W. Whaley, D. Hayworth, G. Ervin, D. Schuette, J. Conn, T. Antcliff, D. Hancock. B. Lyons, A. Strole, H. Dodd, W. Riegle, L. Fowler. THIRD ROW: E. Honn, J. Downs, D. Antcliff, R. Herath, R. Whaley, J. Lyons, L. Lyons, T. Nelson, W. Whaley, D. Anderson, N. Wright. SUNSHINE--FIRST ROW: Mrs. Adamson, M. Whaley, J. Reiners, J. Kanne, J. Woods, R. Smith, E. Martin, M. Sell, D. Murphy. SECOND ROW: S. Bannon, B. Schuette, J. Hiestand, J. Hammon, L. Burton, G. Whaley, M. Beaty, M. Fowler, J. Connell. THIRD ROW: B. Dangerfield, J. Johnston, S. Adamson, L. Hamacher, S. Sainte, M. Sell, J. Denton, R. Antcliff, J. Woods, S. Clark. FOURTH ROW: A. Deardurff, E. McCarty, S. Clark, M. Malott, A. McCarty, S. Jackson, B. Riegle, M. Lyons, C. Snyder. 4-H GIRLS FIRST ROW: J. Taylor, J. Woods, S. Sainte, S. Jackson, C. Snyder, J. Hammon, B. Dangerfield, M. Fowler, D. Downs, M. Sell, J. Thompson, M. Whaley, D. Murphy. SECOND ROW: J. Benner, J. Cooper, S. Bannon, J. Connell, J. Reiners, B. Wallace, B. Schuette, K. Nelson, N. Carroll, F. Ervin, P. Dean, Mrs. Adamson. THIRD ROW: R. Smith, B. Jakel, C. Martin, J. Hiestand, R. Antcliff, J. Woods, D. Putt, D. Davis, M. Beaty, S. Clark, L. Adamson, J. Wilson, J. Johnston, G. Whaley, J. Sell, E. Martin. 4-H BOYS FIRST ROW: D. Young, L. Fowler, C. Beasley, B. Freeland, A. Toben, B. Antcliff, J. Connell, D. Miller, T. Hamacher, G. Antcliff, T. Anderson, H. Beasley, D. Elijah. SECOND ROW: Mr. Lash, M. James, T. Dyer, G. Ervin, B. Balensiefer, J. Downs, J. Conn, J. Fenwick, T. Antcliff, D. Hancock, L. Lyons, N. Wright, R. Bartlett, B. Lyons, A. Strole. THIRD ROW: J. Danruther, D. Doyle, D. Hayworth, D. Schuette, D. Antcliff, W. Whaley, J. Conn, J. Brewer, W. Whaley, R. Herath, J. Lyons, D. Anderson, C. Davis, W. Riegle. vrrrr LIBRARY STAFF: Mr. Norman Tanksley. Marilyn Whaley, Beverly Schuette, Carol Snyder, Janer Honn Judy Connell. STANDING: Margie Malott, Donna Putt. JUNIOR 4-H--FIRST ROW: N. Bannon, B. Jackson, C. Freeland, S. Whaley, M. Miller, K. Loveless, J. Cunningham, J. Morton, K. Ervin. SECOND ROW: S. Whaley, S. Akers, B. Putt, M. Ferguson, J. Antcliff, L. Loveless, J. Schuster, C. Decker, S. Montgomer. THIRD ROW: R. Antcliff, S. Clark, M. Lyons, M. Fowler, J. Connell, S. Sainte, M. Beaty, J. Woods, S. Adamson. SPaldiNG COLLEGE If FKIAl SIZE I VB KT 334 SOFTBALL TEAM FIRST ROW; J. Conn, D. Antcliff, D. Antcliff, D. Parrish, J. Fenwick, T. Antcliff, R. Bartlett, J. Lyons. SECOND ROW: Mr. Shondell, T. Hamacher, L. Lyons, W. Whaley, D. Hancock, T. Nelson, C. Davis, B. Lyons, L. Fowler, D. Miller. The team had a rather unsuccessful season. Since the records have been lost we are unable to give the scores. Next year baseball will be substituted for softball. The participating teams will be: West Half - Fowler. Wolcott, Brook, and the East Half - Royal Center, Brookston, and Camden. VARSITY BASKETBALL FIRST ROW: D. Parrish, D. Antcliff, L. Lyons, R. Whaley, D. Hancock, T. Antcliff, B. Lyons, N. Carroll. Manager. SECOND ROW: P. Miller, Coach; W. Whaley, J. Lyons. M. Lopp, T. Nelson. J. Fenwick, J. Hamraan, ]. Brunton, J. Bannon, Manager. TEAM RECORD WE THEY WE THEY 44 Freeland Park 38 49 Kentland 62 52 Brookston 63 37 Fowler 56 47 Wolcott 78 53 Demotte 76 71 Morocco 69 56 Oxford 74 74 Monon 86 53 Francesville 59 63 Williamsport 68 5i Griffith 73 23 Good land 55 55 Royal Center 76 54 Waynetown 60 62 Wheatfield 57 42 Rensselaer 44 4-Way 61 64 Remington 7i 55 Remington 61 Earl Park 59 Sectional: 59 Wheatfield 65 nis oxi c their second to UlC last gal 9 Brook came out victorious over! Vt v° one got in on the scoring. Lyol came out high man with 20 point) Lineup and summary: ' Brook (671 B F v Ford, f ................... 4 1 Antcliff, f ............... 1 1 { Curts, f ....................... 4 2 I y, Arbuckle, f ............... 1 0 I i Weishaar, c . 4 1 I i Ekstrom, c ... 0 1 0 Lyons, 3 4 R o Caul. B oHarp fi Tlendei BBf JAP ' 0 Oxi or riffithsl ooley. 1 V t y | acbinl ,1 Brooil | ugeni-i Bhah-yl B 1 ■ 1 Rim . i-i Kv hairy. 1 rLeitzow. l rDowty, g' li TLlund, g Atkinson Remington (23) rj Bahler ............ May ............ Alter ............ Longest ....... ’ d vtvi .. (A GOLD reverert c°urajye, vOSf __- OCV' never martem- k g otal ........... “Freeland Park (25) O. Klnfch ....... B. Relfel ......... Rodgers ........... Koselke ..........’ Lyons ........ Blake uvngham I to s Inunt B i 4 l ■ 1 1 it 4 2 ll 1 0 2 1 4 1 1 0 1 11 8 4 1 0 1 3 till 4 1 4l4| 1 1 4 n 1 0 0 3h lJ i __ __ rer 1 ha 13 25 was fast team showed up d The game in the he first quarter look- Ihe Aces. Wd threeg be ig too. the score was 9-3 in Rifles. But the Aces he e id of 'he quarter end oi an l«-15 score quarter was Aces and � nd neck, the score be- the end of the period, marter was different as but the fight in the Tuesday, |IE ON' KI1)S, lets vell: we have dargstor Antrim ill - same. Tlie score rd quarter was %1 quarter, - substi- ’ score I, season against � 13““ game 01 the Mull ................. 1 X l mighty good |2-1 by the Aces Thh, ' Was won Smith soon. They: first win. This «vt 7? Was Brooks Byers s, and vei-v I aI record of l u-i Ulem a season- I Boohd ‘----------------------------- The Aces sholj nd 3 fosses.1 RJdenl ell men t over the Dr'£j?UCh ™pf ove- Will 'hssj s sr-1 “a Luck, 2b ...... 3 omejf Medley, ss .. 2 ! I Tobias, cf .. 3 0 May, if .............. 3 0 11! f Sutton, n.............. 0 'Culp, n, ............... 3 b 0 0 6 Aetf 4 3U o 2 2 1 i 09 ••• 2 0 4 2 ots •' ............. 3 0 6 0 ifgh •-'.......... 0 0 0 1 es ................... 3 2 8 1 ajis 1 l 3 1 ‘ ‘....... 2 0 4 0 jioeti • ....... 9 6 24 2 JVtoh 1 1 3 8'10 1 5 13 ---------------‘ Sis ifatsitV totals ........ , 9 points, ni Aces was Cui nts. Tobias the Rifle’s hig; nts also, ouled out on ei' 14 personals I 9. John Hayn the B'' team; :ompete due in his f ingel Rifles put the Aces, bchiril owed that they Brook hit 53% ws and Remingto: Seep up the oh •ST £S5%£ .. ttJloro tayett® « v YT - 6--'ffeS .v ein •••“ 0 10 W- .Vottet .... 1 1 3 f - rnctord - � = DaVe � PicVt T-pere po ’yted ftete ford . iohh T iere petiw v i cS- B. TEAM--FIRST ROW: G. Antcliff, J. Danruther, T. Hamacher, L. Lyons, B. Lyons, D. Miller, D. Antcliff. SECOND ROW: Mr. Shondell, J. Conn, C. Davis, W. Whaley, D. Anderson, P. Burton. C. TEAM--FIRST ROW: H. Beasley, D. young, B. Freeland. G. Ervin, D. Schuette, J. Connell, T. Anderson. SECOND ROW: Mr. Miller, D. Elijah, A. Strole, D. Hayworth, L. Fowler, A. Toben. FRESHMAN TEAM AND CHEERLEADERS—FIRST ROW: J. Reiners, S. Bannon, J. Woods. B. Schuette. SECOND ROW: D. Anderson. J. Downs, W. Riegle, C. Davis. THIRD ROW: Mr. Miller. J. Dan- ruther, D. Miller. T. Hamacher, G. Antcliff. JUNIOR HIGH TEAM--FIRST ROW: R. Johnson, C. Beasley. J. Johnston, W. Denton, C. Thompson L. Antcliff, T. Kindell. SECOND ROW: Mr. Shondell, J. Hess, W. Antcliff, T. Dyer, L. Honn, J. Thompson. GOLF TEAM--FIRST ROW: George Antcliff, Ted Hamacher, Mr. Loveless, Dave Miller, Dick Antcliff. SECOND ROW: Don Antcliff. Tom Antcliff, Jack Fenwick, Jon Lyons, Chuck Davis, Don Parrish, Larry Lyons. 5th and 6th GRADE BASKETBALL TEAM and CHEERLEADERS--FIRST ROW: J. Antcliff, T. Clark, S. Clark. SECOND ROW: C. Martin, D. Patterson, J. Hermanson, J. Burley, D. Nelson. THIRD ROW: Mr. Don Shondell, C. Burley, M. James, W. 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