Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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rae, IN ULL COUR Bilancio, Gouker—the juniors were—well, how could the school get along without us ? We realized that we were a good class, which we had always secretly known, and we knew we had talent, not just talent, but good talent, so we got a brainy idea. We would put on a variety show, which would display our talent. We devoted considerable time to it and suc- cessfully presented “The Junior Follies of 1945” on March 8. Another big event of the year was our class play “Junior Miss”, a three-act comedy given on April 13. That our class had good talent was proved in this pro- duction given on April 13. Then came May the month for the Junior-Senior prom, “Celestial Ball”. This was the other big event of the year. We worked, we planned, we devoted a lot of time to the prom and on May 26 all our weeks of discuss- ing what to wear, who was dating whom, where we'd go afterward came to a climax. Even though we felt that we were grown up, the Seniors called us “mean little brats”. So we in turn tagged our junior class party “The Brat’s Brawl”. We had a gay, silly time. We'll never forget Cullen as “the woman who pays’ in the Truth And Consequences skit. But we burned that mid-night oil on Spanish, on those (smelly) source themes, on outlines, notebooks, physics, tests, reports. Somehow most of us got through but there were many casualties. As we watched the senior day exercises for the 45 class, we looked up to the seniors with admiration, dream- ing of the day when we would be doing the same thing, walking down the aisle, two by two. Now we were the seniors, the upper classmen. It had taken us twelve years of giving and taking, losing and learning, to achieve our goal. Our numbers had gradu- ally diminished; some have moved away or taken jobs SS tea to G and quite a number of our boys have left to enter some branch of the service. Some have quit school for jobs. But we were still a strong well organized class in Sep- tember. As we enrolled, the girls went to 220 and the boys to 320. That in itself was a thrill: to be in Senior homeroom. As underclassmen, we were organized together but now were divided into January and June groups. At the first meeting of the January seniors, officers were elected. Bob Brown was chosen once more as presi- dent; Sam Miller, vice-president; Verlane Reber, treasurer; Joyce King, secretary; Betty Neff and Charles Pease, social chairmen. This class, eighty in number— finshed their activities with a party senior day. Some of them left for college or a job and some of them entered the service, but many of them stayed for the second semester with the rest of us in the June class. This June class was headed by the following officers: president, Tony Lambo; vice-president, Bob Primavera: treasurer, Margaret Doll; secretary, Gloria Bilancio; social chairmen, Jim Swarts and Pat Cullen. As we got back into the general swing of school, some of us were members of the National Honor Society, some were in Student Council and some were members of the Eve ke R..C.-Gouncik Our senior class play, “Headed For Eden”, was pre- sented November 9. The usual Prom, Banquet, Baccalaureate, and Alumni reception closed our senior festivities. And so, on June 6, we will line up for the last time. “Last name, first”. Moving slowly along, two by two, to get our diplomas, we recall these last three years. Certain scenes and people and events stand out . . . and as we think of these things, we feel a little sadness knowing that a good time has come to an end and that the class of 46, although scattered, will always be part of the school as the school will be part of us. Those senior officers and sponsors: Mrs. Fox, Tony Lambo, Margaret Doll, Bob Primavera, Betty Neff, Sam Miller, Joyce King, Chuck Pease, Gloria Bilancio, Mr. Jordan, Pat Cullen, and Verlaine Reber. Nineteen

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are the most important class, of course, hecte we hate begun fo take on responsibilities, a?! fo help with the activities of the edhe Just as we are leaving, we begin fo appre- Bryant gets some friendly advice from sponsor Jordan. ciale a HA. S. a) Cie of 46 hon hacks aan “Last name, first” ... that’s the way we came into this school, and that’s the way we line up for our sheep- skins, as we leave the class of 1946. Twelve long years ago, taking a nap meant resting on our little kindergarden rugs instead of snatching a snooze in study hall and classes. Since those carefree days we have come a long, long way; we have changed schools, changed in habits and ideas, changed in physical sizes and appearance, we have lost old friends and made new ones. Yet when the class of ’46 graduates, many of us will have gone to school together for twelve or thirteen years. The last three of these years we have spent together as an organized class in the halls of this big, rambling, active place—the Elkhart High School. “The public schools are getting awfully public,” teachers said in the fall of 43, when some 600 of us came in wandering and wondering; however, we eventually convinced them that we were not so bad and they decided to let us stay. So we organized with the help of our good friend Mrs. Fox, who has stuck faithfully by us ever since and Mr. G. Woodruff. We elected Bob Brown as president, and getting into a rut which for once was a good one, kept him there until he finished his duties on January 25, 1946. Gordan Anderson, an all-around guy, was our vice-president; Pat Cullen, secretary; Margaret Doll, treasurer; and Harriet Holdeman and Bob Holder- man, social chairmen, We felt that school would be a pretty dull place just studying, so we held our first party “The Flannel Fling” Eighteen in the school cafeteria. Natch, we wore the latest style: plaid shirts. All in all, we were gradually getting to feel that we were part of the school, yelling at games, loafing in halls, taking part in things. We struggled through our Sophomore year with such things as geometry, biology, Latin. “Well, we made it”, we said to ourselves as the school year ended. During the summer we held a picnic at McNaughton Park. In spite of the fact that many of the class did not come, we had a good time. Swarts and Primavera still boast about the baseball game. Then came the month of September and school. We were juniors; in grade school we had dreamed of being important high school kids and now we felt sure we were; we really belonged. We joined everything, we helped run everything. Didn’t that swell class jewelry prove that we were it? As Juniors we kept the same sponsors and chose the following students to take the lead in our activities: President, Bob Brown; vice-president, Kenneth Ingram; secretary, Byron Haines; treasurer, Margaret Doll; social chairmen, Pat Cullen and Bob Holderman. By the time we were organized we were feeling our oats; we were the best class E. H. S. had ever seen, we admitted freely. Look us over; in athletics there were Brown, Bugh, Hoffman, Primavera, Swarts; in music, Bliss, Ingram, Anderson, Higgason; in dramatics and radio, Simmons, Estes, Holderman; publications, Troyer, Thompson, Cullen, Cadman, Black; Club activities, Doll,

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[Se LOPS BEVINGTON, MARILYN General Pennant Weekly. BORTNER, DONNA General Discobolus, Girl Reserves. BOWERS, MERLE JR. General BROWN, ROBERT WOODS College Preparatory Class President °43, 744, °45, Student Council, Track, Pennant Weekly (Sports Ed.), National Honor Society. CRIPE, JEANNE Vocational Stenographical Triple L, Girl Reserves. ELKINS, BETTY ANN College Preparatory Student Council. ENGELHARDT, IRENE Vocational Clerical Girl Reserves, Triple L, Discobolus. ERICKSON, BARBARA Vocational ESTES, LILLIAN Wig and Cue, Discobolus, Girl Reserves. FLUKE, EDSON Vocational Machine Shop FORD, BARBARA JANE College Preparatory Triple L, Girl Reserves, National Honor Society, Jr. Academy of Science, Dramatics Club, Student Council. GORNEY, BETTY College Preparatory Student Council. GEERTS, MERLE General Interclass Basketball. HARTMAN, MYRTLE Business Girl Reserves, Pennant Weekly. HORN, MARILYN Vocational Stenographic HUFF, PAULINE General IVINS, PATRICIA ANN Home Economics JENNINGS, LILLIAN College Preparatory Student Council. KINDIG, LOIS ELLEN Home Economics Choir. KING, JOYCE J. College Preparatory Girl Reserves, Triple L, Senior Class (Sect.), Student Council, A Capella Choir. KLINGLER, RICHARD Industrial Football. LANG, JACK W. Vocational Machine Shop MERRICK, FIRMER Industrial Interclass Basketball, Football. MIDDLETON, VERNON Industrial A Capella Choir, Ushers Club. Twenty