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

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I found out that the bookkeeper, miss charlotte hafer, was in charge of all the money— hm-m-m. i got my diool hooks and everything from miss hillie speights, who ' s in charge of the salesroom, mr. roy harmon, the head stodian, was always teasing me about being so chubby, but it ' s mrs. flinn ' s fault, i just cant stay away from the lunchroom, i also met mr. d. w. jackson in the shop department and miss julia niebergall, who plays the piano in the girls ' gym. more people! sc in

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i was in. i had met the teachers and office staff in full, that was easy, hut the next day i had to worry about the students — after all, i wasn ' t very big. ' J lk ' m 5 worr ) was ' ' nothing, though, the seniors — bless their hearts — took me right into their midst, tbere i was — fresh out of kin- prexy hurold kissel -. . , , , , c , . , . , , . . . dergarten — a senior with gobs and gobs ot big doni s and activities. they made me their mascot, and i had my own ribbon and blue and white arm band that was designed by dolores lepper. our first really big event was on fell. 25 when we had ivy day. that was the first day we seniors wore our arm bands, everybody was dressed up fit to kill, i helped tbe class president, harold kissel, plant the ivy and set the stoiie marker of 47 in place, and after the auditorium, being a pretty awful dancer, i stood on the balcony in the girls ' gym and watched. i didn ' t like just watching, so i served punch the night they had their next dance, that was the dance that started out to be a christmas party but ended up as a goodby party for the January graduates, ill never forget about the lights going off . . . oh, but i still stick to my story that it was reddy kilowatt ' s fault. besides all the seniors ' special doings, they had enough tests to make anybody dizzy, that was the big advantage of being their mascot, i didn ' t have to sign my whole life away on card after card or worry about psychology tests, i. q. tests, state college tests, pepsi- cola tests — whew! and all the time i was in c ahoots with the senior of- ficers, well, i helped vote for all of them, on election days i scooted around to all four of the senior roll rooms and voted, after all, mr. barnhart gave me a rov- ing room assignment, s-o-o — each officer can thank me for a vote. gee, i just wish i could stick around for that b. n. o. in. c, (that ' s big night on manual ' s campus. ) all the seniors will be marching down the aisle at cadle taber- nacle in their very best bib 11 ' tucker, and afterward they ' ll have their prom, maybe one of them will re- member me and send an invite to my new address on pleasant run. i guess ill have to leave before that, i ' m not doing such a good job of finding pogue. oh, my poor great- great-great grandfather! my classmates did the best they could to help me, though, see? there ' s a whole 231 of them, gee, i ' ll miss those kids.