Converse Jackson High School - Borderlite Yearbook (Converse, IN)

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Senzor Prophecy In the year 2000 the Honorable Bobb1e Dee Fmsher Pres1dent of the Class of 1950 Converse 1-hgh School Converse Ind1ana former Governor of Ind1ana former Senator of Ind1ana and V1ce Presrdent of the Umted States rs about to board h1s pr1vate rocket plane Puddles outsmde h1s suburban home 1n Wash1ngton D C It 15 the beg1nn1ng of h1s pres1dent1al campamgn As he boards h1s rocket he 1S made comfortable by h1s rocket hostess Arlene Kelsey She 1S rather old to be a hostess but due to d1ff1 ultles mvolvmg men she de 1ded the best way to forget these was to b up 1n the a1r The f1rst state B D F1sher v1s1ted m Wh1Ch he knew anyone personally was New York He had qu1te a long talk w1th a former classmate Mr Claude Dav1son attorney at law He told how ha py he and h1s w1fe Pat have been They have four h1ldren of the1r own and mne grandch1ldren The next place h1s rocket landed was 1n Oh1o Smce the ed1tor of the Cmcmnatx T1mes was Gene Roberts a former lassmate he pa1d h1m a V1S1t Gene was very happy 1n h1s work and sa1d he marr1ed one of the g1rls he had known 1n Ham1lton Oh1o The future Pres1dent couldn t fly over M1ch1gan w1thout stoppmg H15 rocket Just happened to run out of gas m Lans1ng so he decrded to stay there overn1ght As he was go1ng to a hotel he notlced a s1gn Hyman and I-'yman Th1s reg1stered 1n h1s m1nd as someth1ng he had heard before so he opened the door to the off1ce He saw and old lassmate Waneta Mendell She and Larry her husband are 1n partner sh1p She 15 an 1nter1or decorator and the 1nter1or of her home was full w1th sxx chlldren runmng m and out He made mt a po1nt to stop 1n h1s favor1te state Ind1ana The f1rst person he wanted to see was h1s old sweetheart V1rg1n1a Bly He was trred woomg the pretty women 1r the East so to settle th1s he marrred V1rg1n1a They had a fash1onable June wedd1ng V1rg1n1a looked beautzful m a wh1te satm wedd1ng dress w1th an exght foot ve1l After the reCept1on the happy couple left on thelr tr1p to Par1S France They were very much surpr1sed when they saw 1n Parxs an old and Close fr1end from Converse Jrm Barton In h1s art1st s clothes he appeared rather old for h1s age He took them to the art buxldmgs of Par1s to see h1s many pa1nt1ngs The most famous was entrtled Dear Papa After spendmg a month 1n Par1s they boarded Puddles to come back to Ind1ana As they were on the1r way they heard a noxse down on the ground and saw Elmer Johnson dr1v1ng 1n the motorcycle races They had a talk w1th h1m and were very glad they d1d because he told them he had made h1s m1ll1on at racmg and was gomg to ret1re and l1ve a l1fe of luxury They boarded Puddles agam and were 1n the a1r ten mmutes when they landed 1n Callforma Robert Murr ay heard they were 1and1ng here so he met them He told them that after graduat1on he had come to Cahforma and 11ked It so well he set up an orchard and had hved here s1nce He was st1ll as good lookmg as he ever had been Wh1Ch made V1rg1n1a w1sh that she had looked around a 11tt1e more before she marr1ed They bade Bob good bye and flew over a neat look1ng farm w1th a brmght red barn The name on lt was Bowland Farms They landed and were rn North Dakota Phyllxs Thompson Bowland met them w1th a basket of eggs and three ch1ldren She d1dn t look the same as she was only 5 3 tall V1rg1ma and Bob stayed that mght at Bowland s and were off the next mornmg to Texas As they flew along they not1Ced a man w1th a gun and a woman d1gg1ng up a garden They could guess th1s was none other than Mr and Mrs .Tumor Slaughter .Tumor looked very young and why not? Marxe m1lked the cows fed the horses and watered the pmgs wh11e .Tumor hunted Coyotes and entertamed Of course any Presldent would want to v1s1t a school so Bob and V1rg1n1a d1d so They Chose 21 Negro publ1C school rn Georgla and were surpr1sed to see a thm wh1te woman teachmg the f1fth grade Th1s was a surpr1se s1nce the teacher was another classmate Earlene Renbarger She saxd she taught mn the South because she thought she would enjoy teachmg the Southern Belles more than teaCh1ng the ch11dren of her former classmates As they were nearmg l111no1s they saw a neat flllmg stat1on and thought maybe a Coke would 17 o 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' - 11 91 - - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 3' 1 1 11 V' S 1 1 1 , , . , - - . . . A . . . P 1 1 S' 1 . , A . 1 , . 1 ' 1 v 1 1 . , . . , . . 1 1 1 , . - 11 11 - - - - 1 4 1 1 0 L 1 1 I l ' 1 1 1 1 1 I A 1 , 1 1 - . , , 1 1 1 . . . , . 1 0 1 1 . . . . . . ,, 1 11 1 . . . H 1, . 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 11 11 A ' - - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 A , 11 If - ' 1 1 - - - 1 1 ll 1 . . . 1 , 5 I , 1 1 1 1 , ' 1 1 1 1 1 0 Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

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Class H zstory lt was a blue Monday for mama bat what a day for us For at least a year we had been antumpatmg that fxrst day of school We came fr om all sectmons of Converse There was Vlrgxma Bly Janet Cochran Jack Garber Elmer Johnson Jun1or Slaughter Mary Stambaugh Phyllls Thompson and the cute l1ttle boy w1th dark haxr Tom Smlth Phyllls Thompson knew her ABC s It was Janet Cochran and Jun1or Slaughter however who kept the room 1n a Constant txtter Does anyone remember the t1me Phyllls had to stand 1n the hall because she pulled a certa1n l1ttle gxrl s pxgtaxls That would be the day we had a v1s1tor Harold Berglan I suppose we were as thr1lled over our flrst report cards as any chlld 15 We thought our teacher was just out of thxs world We even managed to be promoted to the second grade Mrs Carvey was stlll our teacher for ln those days the faculty was somewhat l1m1ted and each grade teacher taught two grades About Chrmstmas of our th1rd year Phyll1s moved to Pomt Isabel Blonde blue eyed Gladys Brookshmre moved to Converse from Mar1on and entered our class that fall A year after she left Phyllls came back We remamed the same group through the fxfth grade Durmg the wmter that we were 1n the slxth grade Mar1lyn Brewer came from Logansport and a week later Jean McCollom came from Gary Indmana For Mar1lyn and Jun1or xt was love at f1rst s1ght That romance lasted for three years Remember the t1me Mar1lyn dropped her hankle to see Kmghthood Was St1ll In Flower? Mark Knox was her farthful 'P swam Do you remember those eraser games when all of the g1rls Chose JUHIOTQ Mar1lyn and Janet were our yell leaders ln walked could It be tW1hS9 Yes It was tw1ns Wanda Lou and Waneta Mendell arr1ved from Morgantown We 1n1t1ated them 1nto our class by choos1ng them as our yell leaders Do you re member those Jun1or Hrgh ball games? In 1945 Converse became a Consol1dated School That year Wayne Sherxck Bobb1e F1sher and Bob Murray entered our class from Amboy At the begmmng of our Freshman year Donna Pr1tchett Earlene Renbarger and Phylhs Wh1tlock became members of our class Arlene Kelsey came from North Grove Claude Dav1son moved to Converse from Sharpsv1lle Arlene became one of the yell leaders for the h1gh school team As a class we remamed the same durmg our Sophomore year Arlene Janet and Mar1lyn were elected yell leaders Dur1ng our Jun1or year J1m Barton became one of us Phylhs Thompson was elected the Bordermen Relay Queen Mary Stambaugh was one of her attendants Arlene Janet and Mar1lyn were elected yell leaders agam We presented the comedy h1t Peck s Bad Boy It was only natural that the leadxng roles be played by Bobb1e F1sher and J1mm1e Barton Wanda Lou Mendell was elected Presldent of the class Wayne Sherxck V1ce Pr esxdent Jean McCollom Secretary and Bobb1e F1sher Treasurer Our Semor year Bobb1e F1sher was elected Pres1dent Jun1or Slaughter V1ce Presldent Jean McCollom Secretary and Jmm Barton Treasurer We presented the play Dear Papa Our d1rector was Mr Glenn Smxth We ed1ted the school paper The Porcuplne and the annual The Borderhte It was durlng the Semor year that Janet Cochran became Mrs Dale Artherhaults There have been other members ln our class but they have dropped out from t1me to t1me for warxous reasons 16 I Y 1 0 - . D I A C Y I . Y I 0 . ' ' ll ' 'il -- r - .H A q. J ' . In the seventh grade, Gene Roberts entered our class, fromRoseburgh, Indiana. Then one day l . 0 I V l I 9 0 Y . , 0 Q t 0 D l A n . , ' l . . ' - I : - 1 ' C l 1 , S , . ' fu iv. I ' ' I I l D

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refreshen them so they could arrmve 1n Indrana by d1nner They landed besrde the statlon and an attendant came to welcome them Imagme the1r delxght when they saw Mrs Gale Jaynes or the former Donna Pr1tchett and f1ve younger Jaynes s After a late breakfast they journeyed on to Ch1cago Wh1le stoppmng at Marshall Frelds they bumped 1nto Mary Stambaugh Malott She mvltgc them to the1r mght club the 50 Club whenever they were rn Chxcago agam They bade her good bye and w1th th1s were on the1r way to Ind1ana V1rg1n1a was homes1ck for the Hooszer state Whll, flyrng over Clay Townsh1p they saw Tom Sm1th h1s w1fe and four ch1ldren They hardly knew what to say when Tom talked for one solxd hour wrthout stoppmng They hopped 1nto Puddles and contmued on untml they saw two very lmpress1ve lookmg farm houses Leanmg over the fence that d1v1ded the farms were Mrs Donald Hunt or Phylhs Whxtlock and Mrs Clarence Br1 ker or Wanda Lou Mendell They were havmg qu1te a conversatxon but both were w1l11ng to stop the gOSS1p so they ould tell Bobble and Vrrgxma the news Phyllxs sa1d they ra1sed e1ght ch1ldren and now are practrcally ra1s1ng f1ve grand hrldren Wanda Lou was rather trred lookmg and somewhat heav1er but they knew why when she sa1d she had ramsed a basketball team and three yell leaders Mrs Brrcker and Mrs Hunt 1nv1ted them rn to v1s1t but they d1dn t have enough t1me as they wanted to stop a few m1nutes and v1s1t wxth Manlyn Brewer They were greatly suprpxsed to see that three of her ch1ldren were st1ll at home Mar1lyn and Mug had to wa1t a few years to marry as Mar1lyn had to pat h up her former romances After thrs they Jomed hands 1n marrrage and she rs very happy as the w1fe of the D1str1ct Street Cleaner of Amboy As they left Mar1lyn s she told them that Jean McCollom l1ved out of Amboy and that they were on the1r way to ra1s1ng a large famxly wrth twelve as a start The1r house was a l1ttle run down but w1th twelve ch11dren one can t expect much more Belreve xt or not Jean Couldn t thmk of very much to talk about V1rg1n1a was rn a hurry to get back to Converse so they left the Lawson s and landed 1n Converse at the home of Mr and Mrs Leon Olmger Mrs Ol1nger or Gladys Brookshrre came to greet them at the door Therr home was very n1ce and they seemed happy just the two of them Gladys sa1d she and Leon were max-r1ed the day after she came home from the Semor tr1p Bobb1e and V11 P1 1a wanted to do someth1ng else so they went to see Wayne Sherxck play on the Anderson Packer s Team He was h1gh poxnt man w1th seventy e1ght pomts and h1s team won by the score of 78 73 He sa1d a basketball would always mean more to h1m than a woman From Anderson they went to Kokomo to see 1f Janet Cochran Artherhults l1ked marrred hfe as well as she d1d when she was a Semor She seemed very happy and sa1d she wlshed Bob and Vxrglma could have been there the year before to help Dale and her celebrate the1r Golden Weddmg Anmversary Mr and Mrs Frsher headed for the1r Washmgton home In a half hour the1r dest1nat1on was reached As they were gettxng off the rocket a b1g fat man bumped mto them They started to saw somethrng to h1m but by the t1me they even got the1r mouths open thxs man was holdmg up h1s papers to show t-hem he was from the FBI One can t 1mag1ne how they looked when they saw JaCk Garber He sa1d he was lookmg for a group of teachers from C H S that made h1m get h1s lesson ba k 1n 1950 The1r trxp ended very happlly As V1rg1n1a and Bob started to eat the1r supper they found the steak already salted from the1r tears but then thrs was s1lly to cry after all the fun they had had the trouble they had gotten mto teachers they had teased lessons they hadn t gotten and othe thmgs they drd that no one heard anythmg about at C H S As they retlred that evenxng all they could thmk about was that wonderful Class of 1950 and all the Joys they had shared there 1n the old hall of C H S 18 should' stop and see them. They were surprised to see Jean and all of the little Lawsons. They