Chester High School - Ravelings Yearbook (North Manchester, IN)

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CALENDAR JANUARY: MARCH: Four-team tourney-We get in the finals anyway. Back to school. Laketon is beaten. County Tourney drawing - Roann is the unlucky team. Roann best. -First Senior lunch. -We take Beaver Dam easy. Juniors give their program. -Should we mention the Central game? FEBRUARY: -Rest of Seniors get pictures taken. -Sophomores give their program. -We beat Urbana. -Roanoke is too tough! -Bad luck on Friday 13 holds trueg Ro- ann best again. -Girl Reserve Formal party at Sheller Hotel. -Seniors go to Wabash with the inten- tion of seeing a trial. One-Act Play Festival begins. -Sectional drawing. Central again! -Picture taking day. -Central makes it 4 wins in one season. 3- Class tourney begins-Juniors beat Seniors 3 points. 4-Little Freshmen take Sophomores. 5- Freshmen almost have it-just 2 points behind. 13-Big Day at last! Senior trip to Ken- tucky. 15-Return home tired and sleepy. 17-All-Scars beat Juniors in basketball game at noon. 18-Girl Reserve, Mom, Pop and Me ban- quet. 20-Band Concert this morning. 21-Band Solo Contest at Waterloo. 27-Junior Class Play - The Eyes of Tlalocf' APRIL 10-Three-Way track meet here. 11-Hi-Y Best Girl banquet. 14-Senior supper. 23-Caps and gowns arrive. 24-School is out-Hooray! 26-Baccalaureate services. 29 -Commencement exercises.

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CALENDAR AUGUST: NOVEMBER: 29-W e come to school to get our book lists. SEPTEMBER: -We begin our first real week of school. -Our permanent seats assigned in the study hall. -Girl Reserve tea for new members. -Classes elect officers. -Girl Reserve initiation! Was it tough? -Style show by new members of Girl Reserve. Hi-Y party for new members. Bill Lee is lan appendicitis victim. Judge Bale speaks. -Annual Staff elected. -Monthly tests getting a good start. Central defeats Chester in baseball. -Hi-Y initiation. OCTOBER: -World Series Ball Games are the main event. -Bill Lee returns. -First P. T. A. -Basketball practice in full swing. -Sophomore class party. -Senior class party. A hayride to Lagro -and a flat tire. -All school skating party at college gym. 25-A vacation! State Teachers Associa- tion. -Health class goes to Fort Wayne. -Hallowe'en. 1 4 6 7 11 14 15 19 20 21 24 28 -First basketball game. Bad luck-we lose the game and Bob Kreider gets his arm broken. -Joanne Reiff leaves school to enter mat- rimony. -Bob Kreider returns. -Chester defeats Lafontaine. -Armistice Day program. -Chester defeats Linlawn. -Girl Reserve Sadie Hawkins party. -Chester is defeated by Clear Creek. -Thanksgiving vacation. -Chester is defeated by Sidney. -Seniors get their pictures taken. -We lose! Central wins. DECEMBER: 3 5 6 10 12 15 22 23 -Juniors order class rings. -We defeat Laketon. -Chester defeats Bippus. -Senior Class Play- June Maclf' -Chippewa is our next victim. -Surprise party on Norma Bechtold. -Final exams begin. -Christmas vacation! We take Andrews by surprise!

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Qllass Mill nf '42 PREAMBLE We, the Senior Class of Chester High School, in order to form more perfect classes in the future, give advice, and bestow upon the future classes the things that have made us outstanding as Seniors, do or- dain the following will. Since our school days are near an end, we request that our desires be con- scientiously fulfilled. ARTICLE I To our beloved faculty, we will our everlasting knowledge, which we do not want, and our alertness on any question, which we do not care to take with us. To the juniors, we leave our road maps and travel folders left over from our trip to Kentucky. QMoney, too, if there is any.J To the sophomores, We will our hope that they will some day be as talented a class as the one departing. To our dear little fresh- men we leave our ability at least to look intelligent when the occasion demands. ARTICLE II I, Norma Bechtold, will my sweet voice to Maxine Hoover. I. Mary Bowen, will my extra inches in height to Carl Peden. I, Ross Briner, will my ability to play basketball to Charles Schnepp. I, Floyd Burnett, will my loud laugh to Charlene Auker, to complement her giggle. I, Wilma Clark, will my ability to be seen and not heard to Lois Ann Walters. I, Gladys Cripe, will my black hair to Josephine Howard. We, Betty and Reva Drudge, will part of our height to Frank Johnson. I, Joan Frantz, will my position as drum majorette to Harriet Christman. I, Velma Frantz, will my book on How to Hold a Man to Peggy Judy. I, Dick Freeman, will my he-man figure to Eugene Shaffer. We, Dorcas Frederick and Deloris Kester, will our positions as office girls to anyone who can do as good a job as we have. I, Paul Frey, will my knowledge of being a good farmer to Lewis Johnson. I, Max Garrison, leave my seat in the assembly where I read Western Storiesi' to Allan Shultz. I, Jim Gidley, will my blonde hair to Dean Grossnickle. I, Elizabeth Gradeless, will my jolly disposition to Coleen Heeter. I, Eunice Hanley, will my spare time at intermissions to Isaac Studebaker. I, Mabel Hippensteel, will my attrac- tion to South Whitley to LoVonne Colbert, who is attracted to Wabash. I, Bob Kreider, will my well- groomed appearance to Delbert Young. I, Eileen Lambert, will my technique on skates to Richard Michael. I, Bill Lee, will my appendix to any one who cares to have it. I, Donald Lenwell, will two all- day suckers and a bag of peanuts to Mary Ellen Mow. I, Marietta Metzger, will my ability to make speeches to Betty Lou Nichols. I, Rex Merritt, will my loud voice to Dean Biehl for future yelling at ball games. I, Donald Miller, leave my dimples to Bruce Partridge. I, Wayne Miller, will my speed in track to Merle Frieden for more speed in basketball in the year '42-'43, I, Jean Orr, will the weight I lost last summer to Mary Margaret Brandenburg. I, Avonne Reed, will my yell-leading position to my sister, Marceleen. I, Roberta Reed, will my little features to Dora Deckena. I, Leanna Rhoades, will my ability to keep a steady boy friend to Rose Marie Dillman. I Kenton Royer will my technique in get- ting a preacher's daughter to anyone who thinks he can. I, Betty Scheerer, will my place in the front row of Glee Club to Hilda Humke. I, Audra Schilling, will my girlish ways to Opal Pence. I, Mary Louise Schroll, will my ability to get a way to the bill games to Joann Knapp. I, Paul Sell, will my naturally curly hair to Jackie Grindle so he Wonit need to wave his. I, Verlon Sites, will my quiet man- ners to Gene Felabom. I, Edith Smith, will my dark hair and eyes to Donnabelle Brandenburg. I, Verl Steller, will my position as Mayor of Servia to Dick Heeter as Mayor of Liberty Mills. I, Jay Taylor, will my ever-enlarging vocabulary to Leroy Ulshafer. I, Virginia Ulrey, will my perfect coiffure to Violet Walgamuth. I, Arden Urschel, will my ability to laugh last to Max Lefforge. I, Eldon Wine, will my back seats in classes to Arthur Airgood. This being the extent of our last will and testament, we, the Class of '42, hereby affix our hand and the seal of this year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Two. QChester Sealj Signed: VERLON SITES WALTER R. METZGER AUDRA SCPIILLING Trustee