Ervin High School - Echo Yearbook (Ervin, IN)

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December 11--County band met at Clay. December 12-Ervin had a basketball game with W. Middleton. December 16-Teachers' Party. December 18-Junior High game with W. Middleton. December 19-Basketball game with Clay CHD. December 23-High school had a Christmas dinner. December 24-Started Christmas vacation. December 25-Christmas Day. January 3-Burlington Tourney. January 7-Basketball game with N. London. January 9-Basketball game with Jackson. January 12--P. T. A. Meeting. January 13-Junior High had a game with Clay CHD. January 15-Junior High had a game with W. Middleton. January 22-County tourney. January 24-2nd day for County Tourney. January 26-Picture show. January 28-Ervin had a basketball game with W. Middleton. January 29-Junior High game with Howard. January 30-Ervin had a game with Burlington. February 2-Made entries for I. H. S. A. A. February 4-Ervin had a basketball game with Y. America. February 6-Ervin had a game with Clay CHD. February 9-P. T. A. Meeting. February 10-Junior High game with Russiaville. February 18-Ervin lost a hard-fought overtime with Russiaville. February 19-Junior High had basketball game with Howard. February 20-Ervin had basketball game with Howard. February 26-Ervin opened the Sectional Tourney with a 48-47 victory over Union. March 2-Ervin Junior High had a game with Russiaville. March 3-Senior Skating Party. March 4-Junior High had a game with Y. America. March 8-Basketball Banquet. March 9-Junior High Tourney. March 11-Junior High Tourney. March 12-Junior Box Supper. March 15-Picture show. March 16-County Basketball Banquet. March 22-Picture show. March 26--Sixth grading period ends. April 1-Senior Class Play. April 2--Senior Class Play. April 5-Picture show. April 10-State Sunshine Convention. April April April April April April April May May May 12-P. T. A. Meeting. 16-Junior and Senior Reception. 19--Picture show. 20-Picture show. 21-Sunshine Skating Party. 24-29-Senior and Junior trip. 29-Style Show. 2-Baccalaureate. 5--Commencement. 6-School ends.

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CALENDAR August 29-Once again we started to school at Ervin. September September September September September September September September September September September September September September October October October October October October October October October October October October October October October 1-Today is Labor Day. No school today. 3-School day at the State Fair. 4-Class officers elected. 5-We played our first baseball game with Greentown. Greentown won 5-4. 9-We played a baseball game with Russiaville: We won. 12-Ervin Eagles and Ervin Clowns had a ball game. Ervin Clowns won. 16-We played a baseball game with Clay CHD. We won. First Boys' Glee Club class met today. 19-We played a baseball game with Clay QMJ. We won. 22-Ervin Freshmen had a party at the school house. First fire drill was held today. 23-Played a baseball game with Howard. We won. 24-Juniors had a class meeting today. 25-Seniors met and discussed about going to Indianapolis. 26-Ervin played a baseball game with W. Middleton. We won. School paper came out today. 29-The Sophomores had a party at Charles Bailey's Woods. September 30-Ervin played a baseball game with N. London. We won. 1-Seniors went to Indianapolis to get pictures taken. 2-Seniors discussed about having a party. 3-Sunshine Initiation at Poplar Grove Church. 6 8 -Seniors had a class meeting today. -General Business and Bookkeeping classes went to Kokomo. 10-Teachers' party. 13-First Sunshine Skating Party. 14-First P. T. A. Meeting. 15-Juniors had play practice. 16-Seventh Grade had a party. 17-Seniors had a party at Mr. Bray's. 21 -Junior Class Play. Name of play was Aunt Samanthy Rules the Roost. 23-Teachers' Institute. 28 29 November November November November November November November November November December December December December December December -Hallowee'n carnival at School House. -Clean-up day after the carnival. 1-Ervin's first basketball game with N. London. 4-Basketball game with Jackson. 7-Basketball game with Cutler. -Seniors and Juniors went to Football game at Butler. -Second P. T. A. Meeting. -Ervin lost to Union in a basketball game. -Dixie Four Quartet. -Thanksgiving vacation begins. 3-Farm Bureau Meeting. 4-Junior High had a ball game and was defeated. 5-Ervin lost a basketball game to Carrollton. 8-Third P. T. A. Meeting. . 9-Junior High had a ball game with Clay KHJ. 8 10 14 20-Basketball game with Howard. 25 26 10-Photographer came and took pictures for the Annual.

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TRACK CHAMPS 1948 Monday, April 19, 1948, the Howard County annual Track Meet was held at Kautz Field, Kokomo, Indiana. Ervin Eagles put a prompt end to Greentown's three year reign as Howard County Track and Field Champions, by a satisfactory margin of 9V3 points. Ervin having 52 points leading Greentown with 425, Howard third with 35, Union fourth with 31, Russiaville fell in with 21, West Middleton 19, Jackson 1425, Clay 11, New London failed to score. Arley Tow scored 12 points for the Eagles by winning the 100 and 440 yd. dash, and a member of the mile relay team which came in second place. Howard Featherstone was next in points scored with first in the High and Low Hurdles, making a total of 10 points. Gene Moore came in with 7 points, scoring, third in Broad Jump, fourth in the half mile run, second in the Mile Relay team. William Smith cleared the High Jump Standards for the Eagles at five feet five and three-fourths inches and a member of the half mile relay team to bring in 65 points. Lyndal Wilson hurled the shot across the field to bring in a third place for Ervin. Jack Arthur also threw the shot for a 4th place. Paul Cross was a member for the Ervin Mile relay team which brought them across the finish mark for a second place. Robert Lawson, John Allen, Bill Myers, Bill Smith ran the half mile relay for Ervin scoring 114 points each. t Arley Tow was chosen Track Captain by popular vote of the track eam. Arley received the honor of presenting the County Track Trophy to the faculty and students of Ervin. Mr. Bray was chosen to step forward to receive the trophy.