Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

Page 32 text:

Sophomores Sophomore Double Trouble Relieved of their freshie status as they joined the ranks of upperclassmen, this year ' s sophomores will long remember 1946 and the happy days their second year of high school brought. Losing a little of their awe of teachers and learning to accept homework as a necessary evil, they began to realize how much school life meant to them as they played a greater part in school activities. This year ' s record proves the promise they showed as freshmen and points to a long list of noteworthy achievements before they leave Manual ' s halls. Already catching the eyes of athletic enthusiasts, Ronald Ryan, Ralph Volpp, Ralph Millspaugh, Rich- ard Johnson, Dennis Bailey, Eugene Lucas, Merlin Brown and Don Whitlock received Frenzel ribbons for outstanding gymnastic ability. However, all brawn and no brain is not applicable to the Class of ' 48, as a quick glance at Top Ten records will show. John Leisure, Robert Stuckey, Margie Board, Jack Edwards, Nila Jo Hawkins, Barbara Snodgrass, Phyllis Miedema, Roy Turley, Charles Kriech and Joseph Mascari were recipients of Top Ten certificates at the end of the fall semester. Not lacking in artistic talent, members of the sophomore class will remember Wilma Harding, who was awarded a Saturday scholarship to John Herron Art School, and Janet Weaver, who received the Civic Theater Workshop membership for outstanding dramatic ability. High on the list of music enthusiasts, femme Stradivaris in the personages of Viola Reifeis, Elfriede Bickel, Carolyn Kenyon and Betty Stefan appeared as a string quartet at the awarding of lyres during a music department auditorium. Not to be omitted is Hugh Wheatley, who merits the title of collector-extraordinary for his stamp hobby, nor the sophomore creators of reflection double trouble — the Harvey twins, Henry and James, and the McGuffeys, Polly and Jo Ann. Florann Greeson, junior student council president, and Waneta Staten and Johnny Lee, top scorers in a geometry contest, also gave second year students their claim to fame.

Page 34 text:

J uniors ' Tone and ' Tine, Junior Team Memories of that decisive time when dreams begin to take form and the future seems so close and full of promise will envelop juniors as they pause to reflect upon friendly associations and accomplishments of their third year at Manual. They ' ll think of the pangs of regret and confusion, the contradictory, mixed-up feelings of their junior year as they realized that the last lap of school was at hand and from those few months, the bare, white years of the future would be molded. They ' ll remember the thrill of expectancy and confidence which overruled their un- derlying fears as they viewed the obstacles overcome. And even after many school day memories become too dim to be focused, visions of those who helped make the Class of ' 47 outstanding will be clear. There ' ll be Bud Reinacker, who took time off from his yell leader captaincy to feature in a drums solo, Calfskin Calisthenics, for the annual band concert; Rose Ann Rider, who charmed the whole school with her piano arrangements, and Joan Prather, who received a Saturday scholarship to John Herron Art School. Juniors will remember, too, the prowess of their four members of the varsity basketball team; Wallace Leverenz, who participated in the Martin-Menges tennis tournament, and Ted Pollard, who received a Frenzel medal for outstanding ability in physical education. And when in pensive mood they ' ll bring to mind journalism students busily engaged in clipping newspaper articles, or world history sessions around the globe in the library, where another diligen t pupil draws out a book on her outside reading list from an assistant at the desk — also a classmate. Out on the lawn visions of the Camera Club piggyback- totem pole will appear and the pill pushers of a sub-deb club, always ready to peddle their wares to test-weary students, will make a bright spot in the picture. And at the day ' s end — long rows of girls in locker rooms putting on their lips . . . pulling out their locks . . . taking the shine off their noses . . . Then, lights out! Screams, blood-curdling, rend the darkness. The bony tentacles of the science department ' s Susie The Skeleton lock themselves into the shoulders of a Junior Miss — Another Manual Male Animal has produced the daily locker-room meller-drammer! Finally, with quiet and sanity restored, the girls pick up their books and join the boys at the bicycle or locker room doors to wend their way homeward.