Demotte High School - Keen Keener Yearbook (Demotte, IN)

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CLASS WILL We the Seniors of 1947, being of sound minds and memory and realizing that we have but a short time to remain in this school, wish to bequeath to our heirs, the faculty and underclass- men, that which is stated herein: EDWARD ZACEK wills his ability to be a Junior, and still grad- uate with the Seniors to Harold Nuss. DON STREVELER wills his studious ambitions to John Hanen- berg. May they help you in your senior year. MARGARET SCHOONVELD wills her ability to be editor of the annual to Irene Muraida. Come on Irene, make it a good annual. KATE ANDERSON wills her corny jokes and humorous sayings to Gene Curry. Make good use of them Gene. DORIS KALUF wills her common ways to John Pruis. Don ' t take us too serious, John. KENNY DE VRIES wills his ability to get any girl he wants to Junior Tysen. WILMA WALSTRA wills her reducing giggle to Beatrice Punter. Please don ' t use it in class, Beats! MARGARET CURTIN wills her thoughtfulness to Joan DeBruin. LOIS HOFFMAN wills her little Model A Ford to Jim Rowen. May it keep you puttin right along, Jim! ! DICK KELLY wills his good manners to Art Lageveen. Juniors, you ' ll really have a nice fellow. JOHN BLACK wills his quietness to Norman Chappell. Gee! Miss Kolling ought to like that. ELLA FAE BARKER wills her shortness to Bob Cheever.. Come on Bob, start shrinking CURT HEIMLICH wills his two cute dimples to John Kaluf. Oh what a pretty smile you will have now. HENRY DE KOCK and LYNN BRICKER will their ability to get along with the teachers to Edward Wilke. Make better use of it than Hank and Lynn did, Ed. MARY CURTIN wills her position as cheer leader to Pauline Kingma. Come on Pauline, let ' s do as well as she has done.

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CLASS POEM I know you ' ll want to hear about the graduates ol this year, So I ' ll tell of each of my classmates, that are so very dear. One by one you ' ll read all about the class of ' 47 Which, I ' m sure you ' ll agree, was a gift sent from heaven. First is Ella Fae, who everyone knows She is happy wherever she goes. So cute and tiny, so seldom blue. I know you will miss her as we will, too. Curt is a bey everyone adores, In every sport he really scores. It looks easy to see him run the mile. But best of all is his very cute smile. Next comes our blonde who is not lazy, And bookkeeping just about drove her crazy. This may not be who you think, But she is the girl, I call Katrink. Margaret is our little lass, Who, I believe, is the brains of the class. President of Booster ' s Club, always busy as a bee. That she ' s well liked, I ' m sure we agree. Our classmate Lynn is quite small, -And I must admit, orneryist of us all. Even tho ' he makes the teachers ' heads swim, I know we couldn ' t get along without him. Kenny, our left-handed basketball star, Has a physique that beats Charles Atlas by far. His clothes are nice, his smile so bright, If you ' ve seen him, I know you ' ll agree I ' m right. Not one of the girls. I ' m sure is guilty, Of coming to class all droopy-eyed and wilty. Hank is one of whom I ' m sure, A good nights sleep is an only cure. One way to tell Wilma ' s within a mile, Is by her giggle heard up and down each aisle, But there ' s nothing like being happy once in a while And she ' s one seldom seen without a smile. In our beloved Chemistry class. Sits this sweet Senior lass. For burning her fingers won fame, She is my sister, Mary by name. Lois is the tallest of our blondes, Of whom everyone, including the boys, is fond. She can really make her little Ford work, ' Cause when she ' s behind the wheel, it does perk??? A boy like Don S. is hard to find, He makes good use of his mind. We should all have looked his way, And used him as an example every day. Doris M. another Senior fair, Has natural curly brown hair. Altho ' her bookkeeping she doesn ' t like to do. She never lets it make her blue. Doris K. has a cute laugh and cheerful ways. And was oh! so good, in both class plays. Star of the girl ' s basketball team, She always has plenty of pep and steam. Our boy from Uncle Sam is quite fair, He has pretty wavy blonde hair. His friendliness would be awfully hard to beat; Without Louie the clas couldn ' t have been complete. Our Gwenie has a very cute face, And if you ' ve noticed every hair is in place. I ' m sure you ' ll agree she is quite nice. Wherever she goes people are sure to look twice. This is the ve se, the hardest one — ' Cause writing about myself is no fun. What I ' ll do in the future will be a surprise to me. But I ' ll never be a poet, as you can plainly see. Edna, who is next, has very long hair, She came two years ago from Mt. Ayr. When doing something, she does it with her heart, And you can be sure she ' ll always do her part. Our last girl, we call Maureen, Without Edna she is never seen. She has curly dark hair, and pretty blue eyes, Which many of us do so idolize. Don C., our president, helped us all year thru, He was a very good basketball player, too. Altho’ he isnt ' very big in size, He ' s handsome and has beautiful blue eyes. This year we received a member from Chicago, His name is Ed, as everyone knows. We were happy to have him thru our Senior days, And loved his peaceful, happy ways. John B., without much trouble, could be a quiz kid — For he really has some brains in his lid. He isn ' t exactly the studious kind; For John hes brighter things than books on his mind. When there is something funny to be said, You can be sure Lee will hit it on the head. Altho’ the teachers didn ' t laugh at the things he would do, I really believe they tho ' t he was funny, too. To be a draftsman is Richard ' s ambition. I know he won ' t quit until he ' s completed his mission. And as to him and each ether we say adieu, We wish him luck in whatever he might do. One of our boys, who is quite tail, Did the most heroic deed of all. His two foul shots won a game, Herbie is this good kid ' s name. Our sponsor, Mr. Stivers, helped us in everyway. To him we ' ll be grateful ' til our dying day. He was with us in everything we did, anywhere we would go. What has kept him from getting gray, we’ll never know. Our high school days are now through; The tho ' t makes us very blue. To good old D.H.S. we say our last goodbye, And step into a new world with a tearful sigh.

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Class W i 1 1 GWEN BELSTRA and DORIS MAK will the fun they have always had together to Mary Ann Hamstra. JOHN WALSTRA wills his bookkeeping book — with which he has studied so hard — to Joe Roorda. Let ' s see if you can do as well, Joe. LELAND SCHWANKE wills his ability to keep a straight face when telling a joke to Walter Roorda. HERBERT RUISARD wills his way with the girls to George King- ma. Now George will be able to get many more girls. DON CHAPPELL wills his position of being the President of a Senior class to Eugene Fritts. Let ' s see if you can keep the girls quiet in your class meetings, Eugene. EDNA COX and MAURINE CRAIN will their ability to get to class on time to Alberta Klemp. O. K. Bert, let ' s not gab! ! ! We, the Seniors, do hereby wish the whole Junior class the best of luck in their last year of school. Also, we will our quiet ways to the Sophomore class. We feel that you can make use of them more than we have! To the Freshmen we will a bigger and better initiation than we Seniors had. To the teachers we, the Seniors, do so graciously will: MR. STANGLE — A government class that will read their les- sons before class. MR. STIVERS — Our Sponsor — A class that can be quiet in a class meeting! MR. STUCKER — A basketball team!! MR. WILLIAMS — A quiet study hall and I mean quiet!! MR. HISSION — A Chemistry class that doesn ' t break all of his equipment. MISS KOLLING — An art class that can draw! MISS BEANBLOSSOM— A Booster ' s Club in which all the girls will take part! MISS GUNDY — A bookkeeping class with at least a few brains!