Fort Branch High School - Key Yearbook (Fort Branch, IN)

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We took off with soaring hopes for a super year. Four members bailed out: Alice Ann Purcell, Hugh Mounts, Lillian Hickrod and Cecil Hurt. The crew was increased by twonew fliers, Janie Meredith and Bob Yeager. Our Junior year flew past with the following crew: PILOT-SANDRA DOUGLAS, CO-PILOT-RUTHANN FAIRCHILD 5 BOMBARDIERF-BOB YEAGER5 1 RADIO-MAN-BOB JACKSON. - Our instructors for '45'46 were Mrs. Brown and Mr. Weaver. Abe Dilbeck and Mary Allene Mason were our Oompah candidates while we chose Faye Hasselbrinck and Sandra Douglas for our B.B. Atten- dants. This year we received our class rings which we considered the prettiest ever worn around F.B.H.S. We also received our green and white sweaters in time for the Invitational Tourney. My, were we Proud! ! This year we celebrated with a Christmas party a11d named our team i11 the class tourney, Bubo's Bobcats. Having had great success with our Class Play, we splurged by having a super reception. We cruised through our Senior year with full steam ahead. Those who fell overboard were Anna Lou Kelly and Janie Meredith. lVe welcomed Jack Pike back from the Navy. The officers of our ship were: CAPTAIN-J ACK PIKE 5 CO-CAPTAIN -BOB HACKER, N AVI GATOR-BOB J ACKSON 5 TORPEDO-MAN-DAVIG HILL 3 RADIO-MAN-BOB PHILLIPS. Our supervisors were Mrs. Brown and Mr. Baker. Our Oompah candi- dates were Janie Meredith and Bob Jackson. Faye Hasselbrinck was the basketball queen with Sandra Douglas and Loretta Weber as at- tendants Our final year was started off with a chili supper and a hayride. Br - - This year fairly tlew--Class Play, Annual, etc., and we found we were really busy. Our team this year was called The Green Hornets and the other teams really felt our sting. We hate to say goodbye to the old school but each is anxious to see what awaits us after gradua- tion. So, so long.

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Qlass story On one bright and sunny morning, a mighty force of forty-six timidly marched into the upper assembly to begin their high school career. After becoming a little more acquainted with the ways and customs of the school, we elected the following' officers to steer our auto: DRIVERF-BOB PHI LLI PS5 ASS'T DRIVER-BOB HAt'Kl'IHg SIGN READER-Mt PNA Pt It lllltl. The backseat drivers were Miss Niekamp and Mr. llenuner. To repre- sent us at the Uompah we selected Sandra Douglas and Jack Pike. The BB. Attendants were Mona Poole and Sandra Douglas. Our social life in our green years was eontined to a scavenger hunt which included the whole town. Boy! were we tired! ! ! lVe returned the next year minus eleven ot' our erewinates. 'llhey were Wendell Bray, Buddy Burke, Kenneth llinds, Ruth llarmon, liohhy Joe Douglas, t'arol Jean Dyson, Doris Allen May, llenrietta t'ohh, Wayne Sturgeon, Junior lioyles and tllen t'henoweth. ltalph Gentry and Anna lieu Kelly joined us. lint this did not discourage us as we kept el111g'gi11g':1long'. Hur crew which tried to regulate our steam were: l1INtllNl'll+IR-HUB l'llll,l.lI'Sg FIRIGMAN-B014 IlAt'Kl'IIig SIGNALMAN-SANDRA lltilttl-IAS, SWl'I't!llltlAN--l5tlNNlI+I IIUNKIGI.. Our hrakenlen who tried to control us were Miss Skelton and Mr. Lockwood. Hur tloinpah candidates were Mona Poole and Boh Phillips who were crowned king' and queen. tlur B.B. Attendants were Jessie ltohinson and Alice Ann Purcell. ' Hur Sophomore year was higllligrlited with a kid party. Such original costumes that were displayed!! With our Sophomore year ending' so gaily, we anxiously looked forward to our Junior year.

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? , fass Cgvroplzccy 0 '47 As I walked up the steps to the old Alma Mater who should open the door but JOHN ROBERT HACKER. Immediately I wondered if Bob had succeeded Mr. Baker as the principal of the great high school, but after conversing with him for a few minutes he enlightened me on the subject. It seems that Bob 's main occupation is farming while he devotes a little time to an Owensville girl. Yes, kids, he finally decided to settle down and save wear and tear on the Plymouth. As we continued to saunter down the hall, I bumped into another classmate, RALPH FRANKLIN GENTRY, JR. Bud told me that he was preparing to run for president in a few years, but in the meantime was hunting for a brunette who was not a Hboogey-woogey-ite. Leaving Buddy, we went down the still dark and dismal stairs into the old gym. Upon entering this beautifully decorated gym, my heart turned ha flip-flop. There was something so familiar about it and that song that the orchestra is beating out-where had I heard it before? ? Suddenly it dawned on me that these are the same decorations we had used for the J unior-Senior Reception in 1946, and the Victory March was the theme song of our orchestra. What a perfect setting for our 10th class reunion. I was startled to hear a voice behind me. When I turned around, I thought I recognized the face, but still no one in the class had been so handsome. Suddenly I realized that it was BOB JACKSON. Bob told me that he was now an actor in Hollywood, under the name of Robert Powers. He also told me that another classmate had gone west too. MARY ALLENE MASON is playing opposite Roy Rogers in her be- loved cowboy movies. Suddenly something hit me on the head. When I glanced up at the ceiling, I saw that it was just BENN Y McINTYRE trying to fasten the crepe paper back. Later I learned that Benny had succeeded Mr. Mc- Intire as janitor of the one and only school. Just then the orchestra struck up another number. It sure was grand to see so many of our old classmates all together. There was RUTH- ANN FAIRCHILD at the piano. Although the outstanding music teacher of the state, she chose to return to F.B.H.S. to teach. And there 's the former SANDRA LOU DOUGLAS. Having had me as her first partner, she is now playing the bells with her husband, Yehudi, the famous violinist. They have a small son named Doug so maybe she isn't playing second fiddle to the fiddle. The music is interrupted by JACK PIKE. Jack has made the Navy