Elberfeld High School - Elite Yearbook (Elberfeld, IN)

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Class Prophecy It had been a very busy day at school and I was exhausted. The whole senior class as well as myself can hardly find' time anymore to even catch our breath. These last few weeks of school activities really keep us on our tocs. There is the annual to get ready for printing, pictures to be taken, a senior play to be given, a Junior-Senior banquet to attend, planning the baccalaureate and commencement exercises, and numerous other things that come to seniors at graduation time. I came home from school with the intention of getting my lessons for the next day, but sitting by the warm fire in a comfortable chair it was easy to fall fast asleep. I found myself dreaming about my own class, the seniors of 1950, only I visualized what they would be doing in the year of 1960. This is the dream I had and I would like to tell all of you readers about it. First, I was in New York City at Carnegie Hall. There was beautiful piano music being played. I wonder who the pretty young lady is that is playing such wonderful music? Now she is taking her bow and I find myself going backstage to congratulate her. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it was one of my classmates Pat Thompson. Her husband, Kermit Miles, was there giving her a beautiful spray of roses. It was wonderful to see that Pat was making a success of being a wife as well as a great concert pianist. Then I dreamed I was speeding down the highway in one of those new 1960 Rocket cars. There seems to be something wrong with the motor so I'll just stop at this big garage up ahead. Now that mechanic sure looks very familiar. No wonder he does, that's Royce Speicher another of my classmates. I remember reading a few years back where he was one of the star basketball players on the Evansville College team and was taking a course in mechanics. As I chat with Royce he tells me after graduating from college, he was lucky enough to get to buy his own garage and start right into business. It was sure nice to see Royce was getting to fulfill his desire of being a mechanic, and a good one too, he has my car fixed already. Then I was on my way again and because it was such a hot day I kept getting thirstier by the mile. I finally decided to stop at a big farnr house just up ahead and ask for a cold drink of water. The sign in front tells me it's a turkey farm and such a nice big one. As I see the young lady coming out of the house to greet me I notice how familiar her walk is. When she gets closer I see it's Patsy Vaught, of all people. I knew she was married to Vernon Tevault, but I had no idea: they owned a turkey farm. As she gives me a glass of water she tells me she likes the farm very much and she gives me a good sales talk on buying a turkey. I cart see she is very happy and I'm glad to see her eyes light up when she talks about Vernon and the turkeys. As I whizzed on down the highway again, I turned on the radio to listen to some music and I heard one of the most mellow and smoothest voices I had ever heard. When the announcer gave the name Charles fEddy Arnoldl Poiles the bobby sockers Idol of the air waves, I knew right away it was another of my classmates Charlie Poiles. Just listen to the bobby sockers swoon. He sure deserves' all the clapping and praise, for he sure can do things with his voice. ,

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Biographies Cont'd. Irma Gene Oeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Oeth, was born February 29, 1932, at Evansville, Indiana. Her parents then moved to a farm 1 mile south of Elber- feld. At the age of 6, Irma began her school career at Elberfeld where she completed all 12 years of her schooling. Irma Gene has been a member of the orchestra for 6 years, and of the Girls Glee Club for 4 years. She took part in the operettas, Red Candles , Beauty Contest and minstrel Georgia Jubilee . She was Mrs. Carr in the Junior play, Dear Papa , and Jane Jasper in the Senior play Sunbonnet Jane of Sycamore Lane . Irma has also been a member of the Sunshine Society for 4 years. During her Senior year she was Secretary, and typist for the Voice , She was awarded the Kiwanis Scholarship Award in her Freshman and Junior years. 'll lil if if il If ll Janice Irene Duffy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Duffy, was born at Buckskin, Indiana on January 16, 1933. She began her school career at the age of five, and completed three and a half years of grade school at Buckskin. She enrolled at Elberfeld in the latter part of her fourth year and has completed her last eight years of education here at Elberfeld. Janice has been a member of the Sunshine Society for four years. In her Senior year she held the office of Treasurer. She was also Secretary of her class in her Junior year and Treasurer of her class in her Senior year. She has been a member of the Glee Club for four years and she was in the Girls Sextette her Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior years. Janice took part in the Operetta Beauty Contest and the Georgia Jubilee minstrel . She played the part of Carol Ruth Carr in the Junior class play Dear Papa and she had one of the leading roles as Miranda Jasper in the Senior play Sunbonnet Jane of Sycamore Lane . Janice has been Cheer Leader for three years, one year in grade school, and two in high school and she was also typist for the Voice . lk lk Ik IF Sk Bk lk Robert D. Voyles, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Voyles, was born on January 21, 1933 in Cairo, Illinois. He started to school at the age of five at the St. Paul School in Cairo.. His second year of school was spent in a small country school 13 miles south of Cairo. He later moved back to Cairo and went to Salford School for two years. After the end of his fourth year of school he moved to Mt. Vernon, Indiana for one year of school. After two and a half years of school in Evansville he moved 6 miles east of Elberfeld to finish the last semester of the Eighth grade and all of his high school there. In his high school years at Elberfeld he participated in two class plays, Dear Papa and Sunbonnet Jane of Sycamore Lane . Bob played basketball for two years on the second team and he was also printer for the Voice .

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Class Prophecy, Cont'd. Next I dreamed I was in the windy city of Chicago, in a building with rooms and rooms of people dancing and such big, smooth, shining floors to dance on too. I wonder who the smooth and graceful dancer is in this room giving instructions? She is so graceful that the complicated dance looks almost simple to do. Now that couldn't be Janie Vaught could it? Why yes it is. Janie tells me she is the head dancing instructor here at this Arthur Murray school for dancing. I must say all of Janie's dancing she done back home sure is coming in handy. She says her work is just what she likes io do best and she's working toward owning her own school. Then as I dreamed on I heard noise and a lot of commotion going on across the street. Listen fire trucks! There must be a fire going on in that big building. As I hurry over, there is already a large crowd of people and policemen and reporters everywhere. Speaking of reporters, look at that news reporter up there in front right by the firemen. She should be careful that's some fire. My goodness thats Marilene Thene and she's writing a mile a minute. When the fire had calmed down I went over to say a few words to her and Marilene tells me she liked the newspaper work so well when she was just delivering papers back home, that she decided to choose the news- paper business as a career. Now she is the star reporter for the Chicago Tribune . She must be a very good reporter as brave and daring as she is. I find myself walking on down these windy Chicago streets and on the corner I see a large self-service grocery store. As I look in the big window of the store, I see an attractive business woman with flaming red hair telling a salesman where to get off at. You can tell she is very angry and her temper fits that red hair just perfect. When I walk in she is sending the salesman on his way and I see it is none other than Doris Arendell, another senior from my class. Doris tells me, as we chat together, that she had worked her self up from way back when she first started working at Roy Nichol- son's store back home. She is now manager of this big store and you can tell she has a good business head on her as you look around and see every thing running so smoothly. How I wish I had her red hair, that alone would give you courage to keep things going. Then as I fell deeper into dreamland I found myself standing before good old E. H. S. When I walked in I could hear they were having music on the stage and as I entered onto the stage I heard a sweet, clear, soprano voice singing above the group of singers. The voice did sound familiar and it was much to my surprise when I saw the voice belonged to Irma Gene Oeth, now a music teacher at Elberfeld High School. When she passed the class I went over and congratulated her on her beautiful singing. She then told me she was not only a music teacher, but also the wife of Walter Karch and they were living in a big brick home on Oakhill Road. She seemed to be very happy and her wonderful ability for music sure wasn't being wasted. Dreaming on, I found myself out on the familiar streets of town and decided togo down main street and see if there were any changes. I hadn't walked more than a block when a big Cadillac with, a pretty young lady driving it stopped and asked me to ride down town. Of all people, Pearl Sellers, probably by now her name is Pearl Strott. Sure enough Pearl tells me she is married to Paul and that she owns and operates one of the largest Beauty Shops in Southern Indiana. She is still the same talkative Pearl, but it's good to see she's still her same sweet self. You can see she's very happy especially when she talks of Paul and their son Larry Paul.