Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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FRESHMEN First Row: Amelia Lekas. Donald Liechty, Lowell Lincoln, MarjorieLinn. Tom Lutz, Jane Maddox. Bill Marbaugh, Bonnie Melchi, Colleen Miller. Second Row: Ruth Joan Miller, Lois Mitchell, Mary Moore, Paul Morgan, Morris McClure, Kathleen McConnell, Cletus McManama, Ruth Myers, Helen Owens. Third Row: Charles Peterson, Mary Pollock, Betty Jean Roop, Donnabelle Roop, Joyce Roop, Junior Ross, Ralph Ross, Clarice Sauer, Mable Schaffer. Fourth Row: Marcia Schnepp, Juanita Schnepp. Melvin Scheuler, Edna Mae Schultz, Charleen Shackley, Dick Sheets, Mary Smith, Louis Smith, Ollle Smith. Fifth Row: Roger Staley, Russell Stanley, Lenora Stauffer, Viola Steele. Vera Steury, Jean Strahm. Ronald Stucky, Lester Thieme, Earl Venis. Sixth Row: Phyllis Venis. Gerald Vian, Don Williams, Lucille Wolfe, Irvin Worthman, Ruth Yost, Frank Young. Marbaugh, Roy Blakey, Bill Bromer, and Barney Brooks. In basketball there were Bill Bromer, Donn Eichorn, Tom Colter, Barney Brooks, and Roger Staley. The girls were also interested in sports and those who went out for basketball were Ruth Yost, BYE BABY! Clarice Sauer, Patricia Kitson, Kathleen McCon- nell, Bonnie Melchi, Eloise Jackson, Betty Hahnert, Helen Frank, Juanita Fruchte, Roberta Eicher, Mable Death, and Norma Baker. The other activities the freshmen took part in were the high school band. Home Ec. Club, Pep Champs, and Howling Hosts, Twenty-seven

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SMi. FRESHMEN First Row: Clarice Anspaugh, Everett Arthur, Bob August, Margaret Baker, Norma Baker, Helen Barber, Kathryn Baxter, Gloa Bleeke, Roy Bleeke. Second Row: Leo Borne. Bill Bromer, Barney Brooks. Norbert Cable. Marilyn Carroll, Anna Lou Chilcote, Robert Christen, Delores Clark, Lou Anna Clark. Third Row: Tom Colter. Richard Cramer, Hettie Davenport, Bill Downs, Mable Death, Don Eicher, Roberta Eicher, Troy Fennig, Wayne Fisher. Fourth Row: Helen Frank. Arthur Franz, Christie Franz. Juanita Fruchte, Margaret Fruchte, Lenore Fuelling. Richard Gehrig, Keith Gilpin. Rosamond Graham. Fifth Row: Betty Hahnert. Joan Hamma, Billy Hawkins, Joan Hitchcock, Maxine Hodle, Leona Holle, Bill Hov ell, Freck Hower, Virginia Hutker. Sixth Row: Eloise Jackson. Vernon Johnson, Jimmy King. Patricia Kitson. Roger Knapp. Anita Koenemann, Mary Jo Kx-ick, David Lang- ston. On September 3, 1941, one hundred and four freshmen entered the portals of Decatur Junior- Senior High School. They started the year off by electing Mr. Adams as their sponsor; and from the student body, they elected Tom Lutes as president; Ruth Yost, vice president; Joan Hamma, secretary; Leona Holle, treasurer. TwenXy-zxx ROCK A ' Freshman honor roll members were Deloris Clark, Jean Strahm, Charleen Schackley, Kathleen McConnell, Joan Hamma, Tom Colter, Bill Bromer, Ronald Stucky, Everett Arthur, Patricia Kitson, Marjory Linn, Vera Steury, Jane Maddox, Rosa- mond Graham, Edna Mae Schultz, and Leona Holle. The football players were Don Williams, Bill

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EIGlprH GRADE First Row: Irene Andress, Geraldine Andrews, Gertrude Banning. B3tty Baiimgartner, Mary Alice Bieneke, Joan Bodle, Bill Bollinger, Don- ald Brunnegraff. Second Row: Paul Bucher, Wanda Busse, Mary Jo Butler, Artina Cable, Charles Chilcote, Lois Chronister, Roy Cook, Richard Cottrell. Third Row: Joan Cowans, Grace Daniels, Betty Dixon, Bill Dixon, Norma Lou Eady, Bill Eichorn, Walter Fairchild, Hubert Feasel. Fourth Row: Catherine Fisher, Anna Catherine Friedley, Evelyn Frohnapfel, Patricia Garner, Donna Gilpen, Janet Goldner, Anna Jane Gunder. Richard Gunder, Wayne Habegger. Fifth Row: Maxine Haley, Merlin Harmon, Richard Harrod. Clifford Hart, Norma Hazelwood, Ted Hill, Jerry Ketchum, Ruth Kiefer, Rich- ard Knapp, DEAR JR. HI, The eighth graders, seniors of the Junior High, had an enrollment of eighty-five. They no longer felt as though they were being looked down upon, but instead they had an air of self-confidence and dignity. They were eager to learn and to do the best they could for their school. They chose Mr. Smith as their sponsor for the year. The elected officers were Ann Maddox, president; Bill Porter, vice president; Joan Cowan, secretary; and Norma Lou Eady, treasurer. The eighth graders displayed their scholastic ability by having a large number of the class on the honor roll throughout the year. Those intel- lectually inclined were Marjorie Moser, Leigh Twenty-eight Nelson, Richard Saylors, Mary Lou Robinson, Joan Cowan, Evelyn Frohnapfel, Mary Elizabeth Macy, Jerry Ketchum, Mary Beinecke, William Porter, Norma Lou Eady, Betty Roeder, Marilyn Schultz, Mary Jo Butler, Waynard Habegger, and Catherine Friedly. The class was sports-minded as well as intel- lectual. The boys who were especially good made the Junior High basketball team. The team, un- der the coaching of Mr. Everhart, made it tough for the schools they opposed. The number of games played were not as many as in previous years, but the boys showed form good enough to beat Berne two out of three, St, Joe two straight,