Dillsboro High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Dillsboro, IN)

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1 Me L74 Hl3'f0 y As I look back to the days twelve years ago, I cannot help but think of those 23 trembling little souls who left the shelter of their homes and were led into the bustling world of schoollife. Thus we started our first grade. We were Audrey Mae Dunning, Mary Jean Hartman, Ada Louise Mathias, Elizabeth Ann McNeely, Martha Meyer, Donna Naegele, Kathryn Jean Schwanholt, LaVerne Thayer, Scharline Utter, Margarette Ryle, Wanda Williocte, Kay Ellen Long, Melvin Lee Cleeter, John Daniels, Frederick Daugherty, Paul Vernon Davies, Theodore Graver, Joe Hehe, Evert Kells, Edward Payton, James Richardson, Patricia Zeh, Patricia Huffman. The next years were eventful ones for us. Any by the time we had completed the eighth grade we were sure there was no more to learn. We simply knew it all. Our teachers spent the next year or so trying to prove differently. That freshman year there were 27 of us, Paul Beckwith, Evert Chase, Melvin Cleeter, Albert Dennis, Gail Lee Ellison, Lonnie Housmeyer, Garnette Huber, Patty Huffman, Janet Johnson, Vera Ketenbrink, Virgil Laaker, Kay Ellen Long, Ada Mathias, Donald Mathias, Ann McNeely, Martha Meyer, Donna Naegele, Edward Payton, Martha Randall, Muriel Rothe, Jean Sehwanholt, Bonnie Scudder, Marlene Turner, Scharline Utter, Opal Vinup and Dewayne Selemeyer. The next year our schoolwork got a little harder, but we were beginning to feel like veterans in our high school life. That year we lost Dewayne Selemeyer, Paul Beckwith, Marlene Turner, and Bonnie Scudder. We gained Ted Hardin and Arthur Field. Our junior year we lost all of our Bear Branch classmates, Lonnie Housmeyer, Vera Ketenbrink, Muriel Rothe, Opal Vinup, Evert Chase, Arthur Field, and Gladys Dennis. We also lost Albert Dennis, Gail Ellison, Ted Harding that left just 15 of us. This was the year of our class play Saved by the Belle.' We also gave e prom for the seniors and our theme was Blue Moon. And now we leave dear old D. H. S. There are just l3 of the original 23. We now have our heads crammed full of knowledge and we feel ready to take our stand on life. SENIOR ACTIVITIES CALENDAR September B School Began September 28 Senior and faculty pictures October 2-3 Aurora Fair Stand November 6-7 'Operetta December 1 Group pictures January lh Young Q Carl annual pictures January lS-16 County Tourney February 6 Music Contest at Hanover February 20 Music Contest at Indianapolis February 25-26-27 Sectional Tourney April 9 Band Concert May 7-8 Senior Class Play May llp Junior Bc Senior Prom May 19-20 Final exams May 22 Baccalaureate May 2 Commencement May 31 June S Senior Class Trip Ni

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Sen br P opfzecy I am employed by the U. S. Peanut Company as atraveling salesman. This job takes me all over the world and I remember most all my school mates from good old Dillsboro High School. When we left that dear place of learning there were thirteen of us. Some people thought we would all have bad luck with the number Wl3n but I have found that we all have made a success of life. I remember the first persons I met after school. It was in business conference with the Art Editor of Ford Motor Company, who was Donald Mathias and his private secretary, Jean Schwanholt, whom I didn't know at first because she is now Jean Gullian. On one of my trips to Europe I was in Paris and saw the Eiffel Tower. I looked up and saw a man on a girder near the top. I inquired and found that Virgil Laaker had been employed to clean it. He had invented some new chemical that would clean that type of metal. I can understand that because he was tops in our chemistry classes. I was on my way west to see about buying a ranch for our firm and I had to pass through Dillsboro so I stopped at the Health Resort and went in. Melvin Cleeter met me at the door, for now he owned the Health Resort and had become a millionaire from the profits. We went into the dining room and there was Donna Naegele, who was the hostess. I notice that she had a wedding ring on, but 1 didn't get to find out who the lucky man was, After chating with them a few hours I continued my journey west. As I traveled through the city of St. Louis I saw that George Smith and Garnette Huber were Starrlhg at one oi the night clubs. I didn't know whether they were married, but anyway they were still together. I arrived late in the city where I was to buy the ranch and the Real Estate dealer asked me to his home for supper. I was very suprised when Scharline Utter came out of the kitchen. She was married nowandlnd five children. We enjoyed a delicious supperand talking over old school days. I went on to San Fransico on business where I visited an army hospital. I enjoyed this, too, because the superintendent of nurses was Martha Randall. While I was in California I went to see a hot rod race. The winning car owned by Kay Long. I spent the next day visiting with her in her large ranch house. She said she had made her money on the stock market and racing was just a hobby. She told me that Ann McNeely was giving a piano concert that night, so we rode to see her in Kay s 1927 Jaguar. Ann asked us to join her for a midnight snack at her spacious chicken farm. This was very amusing to me because Ann didn't like chickens when she was in high school. By dawn I was traveling through Texas. Ann told me thatAda Mathias was living there She lived in a beautiful home on an oil ranch. She and her husband took me to see a rodeo while I was there. Shehadtw: darling children and owned several oil flelds and was very happy. While passing through Cincinnati I nad to wait six hours for my train. I went shopping and happened to meet Janet Johnson. She was on her way to work. She had just graduated from modeling school. She told me that Martha Meyer was the instructor there. The six hours soon pass- ed and I continued on my way home thinking over the lives of my school mates.