Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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Twelve CLASS OFFICERS J. WHEELER J. TURNER R. KAMMERT L. BIXENMAN President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer SENIOR CLASS HISTORY In the year 1933, eighty-five fresh¬ men started the four year climb up the ' Mountain of Learning. Our motto was “Not to the top, but still climbing”. MiSs Holland, Mr. Church and Miss Wright were the guides for this trip. We were going to plant a blue and silver flag at our goal and present the victor with our class flower, the tea rose. The leaders on the first-year climb were Georgia Carroll, Eugene Cook, Homer Randolph, Phyllis Burroughs, and Dick Calvin. Other “climbers” were also prominent on that trip: Mary Lou Harper and Milton Carlson were elected freshman king and queen; and Mary Scull, Georgia Carroll, and Barbara Heide were cast in the operetta, “Sun- bonnet Sue”. Our only activity that year took place when we stopped at a wayside inn and sponsored a dance. The only thing to sadden the first part of our climb was the death of Robert Hoffman. George Vinnedge, Elizabeth Rettig, Jack Turner, Dick Calvin, and Mary Lou Harper led the second lap of the climb with the same guides as before. We stopped twice on this climb. The first time was for a George Washington dance; and the second was at the end of the climb: a weiner roast at the hut known as the Fair Grounds. The more prominent members this year were: Georgia Carroll and Floyd Seramur as sophomore king and queen; Milton Carlson and Floyd Seramur, who won laurels in basketball; Bill Howe and Allen Danks, who represented our class in the operetta, “The Singer of Naples”. Remember Allan Danks’ marcel for the operetta ? The third lap of the four-year climb was by far the hardest because there were such large rocks of finance to overcome. Those who led the climb this trip were Elizabeth Rettig, Doris Rose, Marilyn Shisler, and Gordon An¬ derson, the class officers. Georgia Car- roll was president of the Student Coun¬ cil. Milton Carlson and Barbara Heide were the junior king and queen. Mar¬ jorie Frame and Georgia Carroll were charter members of the Crown Point National Forensic League as a result of their excellent debating. We stopped at another wayside inn to rest after over¬ coming one rock of finance by sponsor¬ ing a play. John Baldwin, Phyllis Bur¬ roughs, Mary Scull, Allen Danks, Mary Lou Harper, Elvera Cox, James Pary- zek, Norman Kaper, Elizabeth Rettig,