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

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so far life for me at manual has been just like living between two pages of a story book or being set down right in the middle of coney island, while i wasn ' t ditching ogres and giants in the form of homework, it was like being on a roller-coaster or merry-go-round of fun and parties galore. i missed the ui ride that the g.l.m. and masoma tea and parent-night open house were on. seems i just didn ' t qualify, but boy, did things pop around christmas! it was just as if some fairy waved her wand to make the curtain go up so i could see the live christmas tree, santa claus, dancing penguins and brownies. i was personally introduced to dancer and prancer, too. that was up at the circle, where their stable was at christmas. some of the art pupils did the lettering for the decorations. they wouldn ' t let me on the chariot ride during the saturnalia, so i helped referee at the sports carnival, i got a little mixed up refereeing both a ping pong tournament and a girls ' basketball game. personally, i didn ' t see the alumni birthday party, but from the pictures i saw of it, they must have had a gay old time, i know that the students had fun at manual ' s 52nd birthday party, though, ' cause i was kept plenty busy running from the dance in the boys ' gym to the auditorium, where they showed moving pictures, and to the girls ' gym, where they played games. and then stepping out from the middle of the story book were george and martha Washington, when the girls glee club gave the cherry tree hop — well, i didn ' t miss that, i love cherry chocolates, barbara Jacobs and dean royalty were elected george and martha, and jo ann hupke. rose ann rider, Joyce pedersen, John cole, james reimer and richard painter, the other candidates, led the grand march with them. talking about queens, i got so nervous while counting ballots for the track queens! (now if i de- cide to take up pole vaulting, dee smith, marilyn morical. barbara Jacobs and Joyce pedersen will reign, sigh!) as my life memoirs go to press, everybody is wondering who the may queen will be this year, she won ' t be chosen in time for this book, but when i was going through some old pictures in the booster office, i found a picture of last year ' s queen, gee, i wish i could crown her majesty. the next dance i went to i dressed up in a sombrero instead of a powdered wig. it was given by the Spanish club and gosh! were those hot tamales hot! all year ' round the rides would slow down for a minute and give me a chance to get ' ' undizzied, but then they ' d start again and off i ' d go. just a big merry-go-round, i tell you.