Deshler High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Deshler, OH)

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CLASS HISTORY1 We, the graduating class of 1950, are going Out of School Life Into Life1s School. V e have had at least twelve years of school life J but none of us know how many years of life's school lie ahead of us. The following is a brief summary of our last four years in school life. 'Way back in 19i(.6, we entered our freshman year of high school. After we had gained eight new students, v e numbered thirty-eight strong. The new students were as follows: Harold Gobrogge, Helen Imbrock, Paul Inselman, Ruth Mohring, Kay Mont- haven, Irene Schwiebert, Pat Straley, and Marvin Sundernan. Mr, Parrott was our advisor during this trying year, and we elected the following officers to help defend us. President-------Mary Ann Blankemeyer Vice President--Lois Spangler Secretary-------Marilyn King Treasurer-------Walter Gordon News Reporter---John Mitchell Finally, one bright October day, the main event of our school year happened--that's right, it was initiation day. It might have been a masquerade party, for the way v e were dressed--girls had half of their hair in pigtails (each tied with a different color of ribbon), and the other half in curlers. V e couldn't wear any make up, and in place of our usual dresses; v e wore one of our mother's old dresses and carried a bushel basket v ith our books in them. The boys also wore one of their mother's dresses, and they had their hair up in pin curls. We finally advanced to the next step toward graduation, and that was the sophomore year. We now had thirty-five in our grade. The decrease was due to Clara Bates, Roderick Fosnow, Lee Neiling, and John Sandmann's withdrawing, and Lawrence Cavenaugh, Dolores Fletcher, and Dale Newell's moving to another tov n. Mr. Wyse was chosen for our advisor this year. To help us through this difficult year we chose these officers: President--------John Mitchell Vice President--Lois Franz Secretary--------Bil] Koppenhofer Treasurer-------Walter Gordon News Reporter----Paul Inselman It was our turn to get revenge when v e initiated the fresh- men. V e made them dress quite conically, and then treated them to an old fashioned hay ride and v einer roast. Then it was 19li-8, and we were juniors,' V e now had thirty- five students in our grade. V e gained Ldith Fisher, and Marvin Sunderman withdrew. I!iss Rosemary Kahle was chosen as our ad- visor to guide us through one of our busiest years, and to help her v e elected the following officer's: Page 19

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Auditions 2,3,4; State Band Auditions 2,3; Loyal D Staff 3,U; 4-H Club 1,2,3,4; Home Ec. Club 2,3; Girls' State 3; Elimination Tests 2,3,4; Office Practice 4; Class Play 4; A GOOD REPUTATION IS MORE VALUABLE THAN MONEY IRENE SCHWIEBERT ENIE Glee Club 2; Mixed Chorus 2: Home Ec, Club 2,3; Loyal D Staff 4; Elimination Tests 1,2,3,4; Office Practice 4; QUIET, UNASSUMING, AND HELPFUL ROBERT COWELL SHAUCK SONNY Basketball 1,2,3,4-5 Baseball 2,3,4; Class Play 3,4; Senior Scholarship Test 4; Band 1,2; Mixed Chorus 1,4; Glee Club 1,4; County Glee 4; LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON ROBERT JOSEPH SMITH BOB F. F. A. 2,3,4; Office Practice 4; Elimination Tests 1,2; EVERY MAN IS LIKE THE COMPANY HE KEEPS LOIS RUTH SPANGLER HOLLY Glee Club 1,2,3; Mixed Chorus 1,2,3,4; County Glee 2,3; County Mixed Chorus 4; 4-H Club 1,2,3; Class Officer 1; Loyal D Staff 4; Operetta 3; Elimination Tests 1,2,3,4; District and State Test 2; Bowling Green A.uditions 1,2,3,4; District Band Auditions 1,2,3,4; Class Play 3,4; Concert Band 2,3,4; Marching Band 1,2,3,4; County Band 3,4; State Band Auditions 2,3: Office Practice 4; Home Ec. Club 2,3; Senior Scholarship Test 4; I HAVE OFTEN REGRETTED MY SPEECH, NEVER MY SILENCE PATRICIA LOU STRALEY PAT Marching Band 1,2,3,4; Concert Band 2,3,4; Glee Club 1,2; Mixed Chorus 1,2,4; Girls' Sextet 1; Home Ec. Club 2,3; County Band 3,4; Girl Scouts 2,3; Elimination Tests 1,2,3,4; District and State Elimination Tests 1,2,3,4; Bluffton Vocal Auditions 1; Senior Scholarship Test 4; District Band Auditions 2,3,4; State Band Auditions 2,3; Loyal D Staff 3; Class Play 4; IT IS GOOD TO BE MERRY AND WISE ELLA JEAN HATTIE YOUNG 4-H Club 1,2,3,4; Junior Band 1,2; Home Ec. Club 2,3; Loyal D Staff 3; Elimination Tests 1,2; QUIET AND GOOD NATURED Page l8

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President-------Walter Gordon Vice President—Paul Burner Secretary-------John Mitchell Treasurer-------Bill Koppenhofer News Reporter-—Donald Newton One of the first things that we did was to choose our class rings from Ilerff-Jones Co. The next project for this year was to choose a class play This was hard because it was the first tine we had ever nresented a play, but we finally chose hill- billy Courtship, a 3 act farce, and presented it October 22 in the school gym. The most important event in any junior's life is the Junior-Senior Banquet, and this was what we were preparing for next. Our class decided to have as our theme something a little bit different from the other years,and so we chose Ching Ming as the tl:eme. We decorated the gym in Chinese style with a rickshaw, pagoda, and a Chinese garden and for lights we used Japanese paper lanterns. After much hard work, our dreams really came true on May when we had the banquet. Here we are seniors,now, and the most brilliant class in school. Our small senior class numbers thirty. A few changes occurred during the summer such as Pat Brown moved, Bob Sliauck entered, and Sarah Fisher haa become ill, and she could not re- enter. We had all been so well behaved the past eleven years that v e decided to really break loose and have fun this last year, and Miss Rosemary Kahle is the one who really suffers be- cause she is our advisor. To help Miss Kahle try to keep our class in order v e elected the following officers: President-------Walter Cordon Vice President—Marilyn King Secretary-------John Mitchell Treasurer-------Bill Koppenhofer News Reporter—-Paul Burner The first problem of our senior year was getting an annual staff elected, and with that completed v e ail had to really start seme hard work to make it the best annual that was ever produced. We then had to decido our class colors, flower, and motto. After much arguing we finally agreed to have blue and white as our class colors, and for graduation the girls and boys would both wear blue gowns with white collnrs, and blue caps with white tassels. We chose a yellow rose as our class flower, and for our motto v e selected Out of School Life Into Life' s School. Before v e realized it, the “time nad come To choose cur Senior Class play. You'll Die Laughing, a 3 act mystery farc was chosen, and it was presented April lq in the school auditor- ium. We then went to Washington D. C. for our class trip and re- turned home just in time for the Junior-Senior Banquet. As we go Out of School Life v e can only wish for every stu- dent cf Be shier as much fun and as many wonderful contacts as v e have had. Joan Osenbaugh Paul Inselman Page 20