Colfax High School - Tiger Yearbook (Colfax, IA)

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LORNA TIFFANY Girls' Quartet 3 Girls' Trio 2 Girls' Glee Club 1231+ (Pres. 1+) Mixed Chorus 1231+ Band 123i+ Drama Club 231+ (Trees. 1+) F.H.A. 31+ (Treas. 3» V. Pres. 1+) Cadet Teachers 23k (pres. 2, Sec. 3) Orange and Black 121 QSdltor l|) Annual Staff 1; French Club U (Pres, lj.) Jr. class Play SHARON TOMLONOVIC Girls' Glee Club 123 Mixed Chorus 123 Pep Club 12 Cadet Teachers 23l+ F.H.A. 3U Supt. Office Girl 23 Tlronlans I Annual Staff Editor 1+ Basketball 3 Jr. Class Play Drama Club 31+ Library Club 1 GLENDA LUTZ In Colfax: Tlronlans 1+ In Des Moines: G.A.A. Club 31+ Vice President G.A.A. Club 3 President of G.A.A. Club 1+ Spanish Club L|. Secretary of Sophomore homeroom 2 EBEN VAN DUS3ELD0RP HIGHWAY-GRADING-SURFACING BENNIE WITH if S Boys' Glee Club 1 Mixed Chorus 12 Drama Club 23l+ Cadet Teachers 1+ Treasurer of French Club 1+ French Club lj. C. Club 231+ Jr. Class Plav 3 Annual Staff h Cheerleader 23 President Pep Club 23 Office Boy (Superintendent) 3

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On September 2,19 1, the following thirty-five pupils entered kindergarten Theresa Brown, Patty Case,Donald Dick, Bessie Doughty, Dreda Edwards. David Far- rell, John Forsyth,Dennis Frey, Joyce Graham, Audrey Henderson,Ronald Henderson, Lucille Hogendorn,Carolyn Huntrod, Bert Lawton, Connie Main, John Marcsisak. Marilyn Marshall, Rosemary McCuen, Larry Mindham, Kay Muck, Bob Naisbitt, Bill Paynter, LeRoy Pickles, Norman Price, Marilyn Runyan, Dara Lee Shadley, Robert Shepley, Sally Jean Shepley, Peter Smith, Janet Springer,Dick Stevenson, Shirley Taylor, Lorna Tiffany, Robert Wall, and Benny Withers. During the year Roger Brown, Lee Buckley, Erma Clark, Merlen Farver, and Dennis May Joined us. The most memorable occasion that year was our train ride. In first grade our class was divided with Margaret Welch and Mary Williams as our teachers. The new pupils that year were Donald Duckett, Billy Hansen, Doris Harger, Philip Hill, Beryl Kendall, Eugene Lane, JoAnn Leach,Nancy Nickol- son, Robert Reynolds, Harry Stevenson, and John Williams. The important occasion that year was our doll show. Also, a playhouse was built for us then. In second grade we were again divided into two classes with Bernice Belts and LaDonna Johnson as our teachers. That year Colin Dodd, Marlene Everett, Curtis Flcra, Phyllis Freestone, Jimmy Hollander, Norman Jones, Rhalee Lester, Donald Lundeen, Jack Main, Wilmer Patterson, Janet Springer, and Dick Wood, Joined us. The main event that year was the May Fete about Mother Goose Charac- ters. Also we built ourselves a postoffice and a grocery store. Margaret Lane and LaDonna Johnson were our teachers in third grade. Caro- lyn Mulleneaux. Mary Ellen Mulleneaux, Harry Stevenson.and Anna May Rose came to be our classmates. During that year we visited the telephone office. Our fourth grade teachers were Minnie Sheibly and Lorraine Lohr. That year Betty Alexander, Jimmy Clark, Tommy Irwin, Patty Morton, Kay Norton,Evelyn Walk- er, and LaRita White Joined us. We had a reading contest and a flag drill that year. Mrs. Lohr left us during the middle of the year and Mrs. Harry Haven be- came our new teacher. In fifth grade our teachers were Neva Trumbo and Betty Phelan. The new pupils were Jay Blackmer, Dave Dutton, Nancy Dutton, David Farrell, Bobby Kemp, Billy McGee, Marilyn Quinn, and Eleanor Schoonover. Miss Phelan left and Gene- vieve Peterson became our new teacher. The best remembered event that year was the picnic at Mrs. Peterson's acreage. In sixth grade everyone was all in one room with Chrystelle Loving as our teacher. Omer Lamb, Shirley Last, Henry Spaulding, Larry Ward, and Kaye Wiggins came to be our classmates. That year we had the operetta Faraway Friends with our grade representing the countries Ireland, Italy, and Sweden. Betty Phelan was again our teacher in seventh grade. Barbara Backer, Tom Pelper, Sylvia Richardson, Anna Mae Rose, Beverly Sibert.and A1 Stallth Joined us. The important feature that year was the Colfax Junior High Invitational Basket- ball Tournaments. The girls won the championship but the boys lost to Mltch- elville in the finals. We were again divided in eighth grade, with Mrs. Bryson and Morris Mosher as our teachers. The new pupils that year were Lyle Hoy,Bill Klein, Martha Pat- terson, Larry Ward, and Ronald Weltz. Mrs. Bryson later left us and Robert Leach became our teacher. In our tournaments that year our girls lost to Mitchelville while the boys became the champions. Also we were invited to the Elkhart Tourn- aments. The boys won second place but the girls lost in their second game. Much fun and work was put into planning our eighth grade graduation. Our motto was The Elevator to Success is Not Running; Take the Stairs while our colors were white and green and the flower was the red rose. On August 28, 1950, we made 0”r big step into High School. We were initiated the following Friday and that night the all-High Mixer, with Freshmen as guests of honor, was held. Shirley Clubb and Frank Eshelman were our sponsors. Later Mr. Eshelman left and John Haines became our new sponsor. Fred Balmer, Sharron Bandy, FIRST NATIONAL BANK