Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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FRESHMEX First Row: Junior Kaehr, Barbara Kohls, Lillian Koeneman, Selma Koeneman, Ava Nelle Kraft, David Langs¬ ton, Jerry Leitz, Beatrice Light. Second Row: Manfred Melchi, Paul Moore, Bob Mutsch- ler, Marjorie McAlhaney, Kenneth McConnell, Alice Owens, Phyllis Owens, Junior Pickford. Third Row: Frances Pollock, Floyd Reed, Dean Reber, Francile Reidenbach, Robert Reppert, Alvin Rickord, Betty Roop, Betty Roop. Fourth Row: Laverne Roth, Patricia Schnepp, Kath¬ leen Shackley, Jack Shady, Alice Sheets, Jean Slusher, John Spahr, Donald Springer, Lillian Stolp. Fifth Row: Lillian Terrell, Melvin Thieme, Regina Thieme, Edward Walters, June Ward, Betty Weber, Mar¬ jorie Weldy, Bob Welker, Norma Werling. Will Not Be Initiated This Year” Spahr. The freshman class was also proud to boast of having three boys qualify for the section¬ al. There were eight boys out for football: Brice Breiner, Jack Garner, Paris Hakes, Keith Ham¬ mond, Paul Hawkins, Jerry Leitz, Alvin Rickord, and John Spahr. The freshmen, too, held their own in base¬ ball with three boys going out to gain berths on the big nine. They were Floyd Reed, Jim Coch¬ ran, and Jim Eichhorn. The game of tennis found but one lone fresh¬ man to add to its roster, Kenneth McConnell. In order to prove that the woman’s place is not limited to the home, the freshmen girls form¬ ed their own basketball team to battle it out with other classes. The members were Doris Adler, Mary Bollinger, Irene Brooks, Barbara Kohls, Jean Gass, Dorothy Hammond, Marjorie McAl¬ haney, Phyllis Owens, and Francile Reidenbach. The freshman class provided a number of mu¬ sicians. The following played in the school band directed by Mr. Sellemeyer: Irene Brooks, Belva Burke, Patsy Edwards, Anola Friedt, Helen Hazel¬ wood, Ava Nelle Kraft, Barbara Kohls, Beatrice Light, Marjorie McAlhaney, David Langston, and Manfred Melchi. As the activities and accomplishments of the freshman class are reviewed, there is no doubt but that these students will really do things in their three remaining years at D. H. S. They have made a fine showing this year. May they continue to keep up the good work and may suc¬ cess crown their efforts. Twenty-Nine

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FRESHMEN First Row: Doris Adler, Donald Affolder, George Al¬ ton, Evelyn Andrews, Leroy Bailey, Gene Basset, Mary Bollinger, Brice Breiner. Second Row: Pauline Brintzenhofe, Irene Brooks, Na¬ omi Brown, Jim Brunnegraff, Leona Bultemeier, Belva Burke, Jean Carter, James ' Cochran. Third Row: Bud Crider, James Diffendorfer, Florine Drake, Lois Eady, Juanita E7dgell, Pat Edwards, James Eichhorn, Bernadetta Eley. Fourth Row: Billy Joe Pea.sel, Gene Foreman, Howard Foreman, Anola Friedt, Betty Gallogly, Jack Garner, Vern- ell Habegger, Beverly Hakes, Paris Hakes. Fifth Row: Richard Hakey, Dorotny Ramniond, Ed¬ ward Hammond, Keith Hammond, Paul Hawkins, Helen Hazelwood, Betty Hill, Ivan Howard, Vada Howe. “Freshmen May Rest Assured They On September 3, 1940, eighty-two freshmen entered the halls of the Junior-Senior High School to carry on with their burdens as an important class. These freshmen, excited and proud to know that they were now members of the high school, met one afternoon under the guidance of Mr. Brown and organized. As sponsor they elected Mr. Adams, who, they thought, could best cope with problems and ideals like their own. The offi¬ cers elected w ere as follows: Bob Mutschler, presi¬ dent; Jerry Leitz, vice-president; Irene Brooks, secretary; Doris Adler, treasurer. The freshmen worked very diligently to dis¬ play their talents and abilities. In the first place they had a few master-minds who upheld the class in scholastic ability by having their names appear on the honor roll at least once during the year. They were Pauline Brintzenhofe, Irene Brooks, Naomi Brown, Juanita Edgell, Patsy Ed¬ wards, Dorothy Hammond, Betty Hill, Lillian Koeneman, Barbara Kohls, Manfred Melchi, Ken¬ neth McConnell, Alice Owens, Phyllis Owens, Bet¬ ty Roop, John Spahr, and Edward Walters. Aside from their scholastic standing, the freshmen lads and lassies also took up sports pret¬ ty seriously; it gave them an opportunity to dis¬ play their abilities. Under the careful guidance of Mr. Ives, the following freshmen boys proved their worth as basketball players: LeRoy Bailey, Brice Breiner, Jack Garner, Paris Hakes, Keith Hammond, Paul Hawkins, Jerry Leitz, Alvin Rickord, and John T w e nty -E igh t

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EIGHTH GRADE First Row: Clarice Anspaugh, Bob August, Norma Baker, Helen Barber, Bill Bromer, Kathryn Baxter, Marg¬ aret Baker, Leo Borne, Barney Brooks, Dorothy Brown. Second Row: Marilyn Carroll, Tom Colter, Richard Cramer, Anna Lou Chilcote, Robert Christen, Louanna Clark, Norb Cable, Ilene Davis, Mable Death, Glenn Don¬ nell. Third Row: Don Eichar, Roberta Ei her, Jean Elzey, Margaret Fruchte, Juanita Fruchte, Helen Frank. Christie Franz, Arthur Franz, Lenore Fuelling, Troy Lee Fennig. Fourth Row: Rosamond Graham, Henry Gander, Keith Gilpin, Richard Gehrig, Leona Holle, Bill Howell, Freeh Hower, Luella Hower, Joan Harnma, Richard Harrod. Fifth Row: Billy Hawkins, Joan Hitchcock, Betty Hahnert, Maxine Hodle, Virginia Hutker, Mary Johnson, Vernon Johnson, Jimmy King, Mary Jo Krick, Doyle Krick, Roger Knapp. “Eighth Graders Bring Your Gym And now we come to the eighth grade, the senior class of Junior High, with an enrollment of one hundred and two. Since they had been in Junior High one year, they had lost many of their childish ways and were preparing to advance into high school in another year. No longer did they run when a upperclassman came down the hall but instead had acquired an air of self-confidence and dignity—or at least as much of that kind of thing as was possible for an eighth-grader to acquire. Mr. Smith was chosen to watch over them through the year. The four officers elected were Morris McClure, president; Robert August, vice- president; Tom Colter, secretary; Jane Maddox, treasurer. At the very first of school they were display¬ ing their scholastic ability. Those intellectually inclined were Jean Strahm, Edna Mae Schultz, Dorothy Brown, Rosamond Graham, Leona Holle, Marjory Linn, Vera Steury, Bi ll Bromer, Tom Col- Thirty