Elston High School - Elstonian Yearbook (Michigan City, IN)

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Senior Class History Ahoy matesl Yes, we've reached our goal at last-mighty Seniors. But the course was rough at times. Remember how little and unimportant we felt when we first boarded our ship in I937? Miss Emily Davidson and Mr. Andy Gill led us bewildered sailors and helped our first officers, Ruth Nuoffer. president, Roger I-lathoot, vice-presidentg and Gloria Fausch, secretary- treasurer, become acquainted with our quarters, What a relief it was to become Sophomores-we really amounted to something then. Norman Ziegler led us that year with the help of Howard Brooker as vice-president and Fred Pearce as secretary-treasurer. Miss David- son and Mr. Gill again acted as our sponsors. Remember at the Freshman welcome party when all the Freshmen had to kneel and repeat after Norman a vow to respect our wishes and then whaml they were initiated? Then all of a sudden two years of our voyage had passed and we were juniors. We elected new sponsors--Miss Deane McAfee and Mr. James Grif- fin. Our able officers for that year were Jim Dry, presidentg Ruth Nuoffer, vice- presidentg and Gordon Davis, secretary-treasurer. What a whirlwind year! We realized that we had very good salesmen in our midst when we counted our profits from selling candy at the football and basketball games. Again we proved our ability when selling tickets for the Junior Play. Using Mr. Miller's grand idea of canvassing the city, we had a record-breaking audience-and were we proud! Besides good salesmen, we had good drama- tists-twenty-nine in all for the cast of H320 College Avenue. Mr. Allen Buchanan, who sailed with us for only that year, coached the mystery play and was responsible for its success. All the money we scratched together was used to give the Seniors the time of their lives and one of their happiest memories from school. lnternational friendship was our theme for the prom. Remember the flags of all nations which were used for the backdrop of our play? and our play which included a Spanish dance, Zwei l-lerzen, Skaters Waltz, French song and many others? And we can't forget to mention that we ate by the large lighted globes on each table flrranklin Street's old lightsl. Ah Memories--one after another pop upl Now we're Seniors. Norman Ziegler, presidentg Ruth Nuoffer, vice- presidentg and Dan Pliske, secretary-treasurer were elected to guide our last year's course. Miss Jeanette Murphy and Mr. Delbert Miller proved their able leadership and understanding of us. Miss Murphy was also adviser for this year's Elstonian. Many a night the same gang gathered together and scratched their heads for ideas, counted, and recounted subscriptions, mounted pictures, argued about this or that cover, etc. And never forget the courageous cast that presented You Can't Take lt With You. Miss Ollie Gardner was the successful coach. A combination of screwy characters, including a mad Russian, a xylophone player, a toe dancer, the aristocratic Kirbys, etc. kept the audience in stitches. Yes, now our voyage has ended and we have to leave our ship and mates. No longer will we be known as Seniors, but we are now the Class of '4l. kQx2x2xQx2xQx2x.2xQxQx2sQx.2xQx 17

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Dovie Burklow Jean Burnett Norman Bush Charles Carow Robert Cassidy Earl Cassler Rose Chalk Howard Clough Bonnie Jean Cooley Kathleen Couden Gladys Crawford Tommy Criswell Clarence Crozier Gene Daron Gordon Davis Carlyn Denson Walter Deutscher Jerry Devor William Drehmel, Jr. James Dry Norman Eckert Geraldine Eddy Ruth Edinger George Elias Max Engle Gloria Fausch Mary Feldmeier Rhoda Feltis Marjorie Fischer Jeanette Fladigor