Greensburg High School - Tower Tree Yearbook (Greensburg, IN)

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TIHIIE TUWER TREE The Class Prophecy Uh huh' What a headache I had So I chased myself down to the doctor to get a prll My head was worse when I got home Then and there I decrded to take three tablets rnstead of one For why wouldnt three prlls get your headache rn one thrrd the trme rt takes for one? I grew drowsy lyawn' yawnll and drowsrer Why drd I take all that medr crne and tsnorell And then thrngs began to clear up Why I was rn a strange land' As I went amblrng down the road I saw a brllboard wrth somethrng about the 1960 model mosqurto catcher recently perfected by Harold Sparks on rt Was lt 19609 Where was I9 When drd Sparks start catchrng the poor lrttle defenseless mosqu1to'P Ponderrng these thrngs I suddenly met a man wrth a long and flowmg beard upon whose brow I detected a famrlrar scholarly appearance I finally drscov ered rt was Alfred Scrrpture who rn formed me that he was a gurde of the erty loomrng up rn the drstance I hrre town sard I On the way to the crty he confirmed my fears that rt was 1960 Soon we ame to a prosperous farmhouse I was rn formed that John May was tryrng to make some of hrs debatable theorres whrch he used to argue about work on hrs farm And Betty Transou drsgursed as a French mard was managrng the ranch house and budget Alongsrde the farm was a large penal lrke rnstrtutron Whats that'J I quer re Why that s Jrm Flemrng s grrls school Mr Flemrng rs the superrntendent and a strrct one too What a shock' What a shock' And then Clrpety clrp' Clrpety clrp' Stanton Shrrk came tearrng by astrrd a noble charger Who da thought Stan ton would turn out to be a Jockey'f On the left srde of the road I beheld another large burldrng Thats Betty Stevenson s home for old cats rnformed my gurde At that I passed out out of that nerghborhood As We neared the crty we came to r rillrng statron for arrp'anes Knowmg that Fred Corbett loved to drg around rn th rnsrdes of thrngs I was not surp rsed to find hrm a mechanrc Alonzo Harde beck was operatrng an arr hose He must st1ll lrke to blow about thrnes And Cath er ne Lanham who lrved rn a nearby cot tage served doughnuts whrch she her self had made to hllrng statron cus tomers Havrng obtarned our frll of the dough nuts rn a lrttle brt w hurrred on past a large factory wh ch made synthetrc han It seems Wrllram McLaughl1n found that thrs harr could b made from orn srlks so Thelma Salter was profitrng on th rdea by operatrng the factory Harold Conoway rs the foreman and he makes everyone hop rncludrng Kathryn Seher er who rs chref wrg tryer on sard the gurde Not desrrrng wrgs at that moment we walked on and soon met James Morgan who trred to persuade me to buy some l mon extract and rf not that at least some shampoo soap I flatly turned hrm down and asked hrm what he thought salesman for the S I S Company owned and operated by Shrrver Ingels and Smms whrch manufactures eyerythrnv from flea soap to rockrng horses Argel runs the suds drvrsron Lourse the horse department and John has charge of the manufacture of curlrng rrons sard Mr Morgan Do you know where any others of our class are? I querred Well Herbert Sehrllrn op rates a laundry rrght next door to our factory Harry Whrte has an Osteopaths offr e near here and Beaulah Mae Howe rarses sprnach rn her greenhouses As I started on I was startled by hear mg an all too frmrlrar Iz Zrt S09 Traerng rt down I found Mary Evelyn Mohr at the bottom of rt of course She and Dot Brodre were at the moment en gaged rn bleachrn the strrpes out of a trger They told me that they had already done such marvelous thrngs as developrng rattle snakes wrthout any rattles and a turkey egg wrthout spots Pearl Burks was therr stenographer who Contmurd on Prrr J 11954 4' - . . 'r ' 1 ' - nw I 1 I 1 l L. ' ,. - 3 ' ' - ' . r' Q H . A - . . . SA. - , . . .i ' - . V - or - ' ' - -- . A ' . . - . S u. A . ' P . . ' e s C v . xv' . w A . G . . . ' ' C v A' ' . ' Z ' . - rv ' l - ' I I r. I ' r ' D YOU Of? th? Spot to guide me through that he was. He said that he was a traveling ' . I C . . ' . DI ' . . , Q I . ' ,Y ' L A '. LL 4 c nk 1 ' . av ' . 1 . - Km . 1 A ' g Su ' ' ' ' ll Y Y! - . Q . ' l d. I I ' ' 'C ll Y ' ' -7 .' ! , ' ' ' . ' ' Q - Y! ,' YY ' . ' ' , ' . h 1. ' l - . A ' ' . .r , sv ra ' - ' ' - ' 'v ' , ' . , ' .' . ' 0 . ' . ' D . - c ' - .l sr v , ' ' ' c , U , ' . f ' L ' . 1 E , 4 ,, jr 3

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THE TOWER TREE The Class Wrll Pour score and seven years ago there appeared rn th1s Hrgh School an ar ray of new faces Now that the trme has come for these faces to pass from thrs age old establrshment as the Senror class of 1934 and wrshrng to leave behrnd them the memory of therr achrevernents the mem bers of thrs class do hereby endow therr specral talents and hablts to grace the persons of the underclassmen Raymond Deal leaves hrs unusual abrl rty as a physrcrst to Walter Pleak Thelma Salter wrlls a frckle nature to Margaret Samuels Harold Sparks leaves hrs well groomed appearance to Grlbert Rucker MaeBeth Neel leaves her experrence as a globe trotter to Vrrgmra Shrrver Robert Johnston w1lls hrs overzealous efforts rn school to one not so zealous as Mary Evelyn Mohr bestows upon Doro thy Scherdler an annoyrng whrstle but hopes she w1l1 use rt w1th the proper drs cretron James Flemrng wrshes to bequeath hrs extreme trmrdness rn the presence of la dres to Harry Leadbetter Kathryn Scherer leaves her abrlrty at trpprng the scales to Helen McK1m John Gayer wrlls hrs penmanshrp to Grlman Stark Pearl Burks wrlls her unrque way of dressrng her harr to Monna Jean Guess Alfred Scrrpture w1lls to Homer Turner hrs lrghtnrng calculatrons Mrrram Jones leaves to Vrrgmra Gray son a deep masculrne vorce Stanton Shrrk wrshes to bestow upon Grlman Stewart hrs athletrc powers Lou1se Srmms w1lls to Mavern Sparks a parr of dreamy blue eyes Garner Thorne w1lls an uncanny a1r wrth a round paper obJect called a paper wad to Robert Hobgood Lourse Selke leaves her blonde harr to Velda Dodge Nolan Redrngton wrlls hrs far away look to Cressy Powell Katherrne Douglas leaves to Dorrs Kalb her secret affectron for Clark Gable John May bestows upon Harold Olrger hrs powers as an elocutronrst Catherrne Lanham w1lls to Ardonna Dunn one school grrl complexron Lowell Lawson wrlls to Loyd Ryan hrs natronal guard unrform and varnly hopes that rt wrll Ht Alrce Gartrn leaves to Dorothy Pleak her senror drgnrty Rrchard Hall leaves hrs record of un broken attendances to Robert Shaw Alma Robbrns wrlls her talkatrveness to Betty Wrllrams Jack Watson leaves a manly beard to Robert 1Peweem Sturgrs Beaulah Mae Howe leaves her borster ous manners to Mary Ardery Frank Krtchrn wrlls hrs secret of pros p rous farmrng to Dale Espy Elrzabeth Lacey bestows her noncha lant attrtude upon Susanne Fogg Wrllram McLaughl1n wlllrngly wrlls hrs wrll a wrll that rs an rron wrll to some other wrllowv wrllful Wrll Sylvra McCoy leaves her knowledge of poultry rarsrng to Leahdell Lambertson James Morgan w1lls hrs love of the Englrsh Classrcs to Walter Cooke Helen Beall leaves her lack of rnterest rn school work to Dorothy Klausrng Herbert Askren bestows upon Gerald Hyatt hrs antr saloon league sentrments Carolrne Vas Brnder desrres that her love of romance be grven to Dorothy Srs son Bernard Harmon leaves hrs rntellectual superrorrty to hrs brother Vrctor Fred Corbett presents hrs knowledge of the mechanrsm of a Model T Ford to an unlucky G H S student whose fate rt rs to possess one namely Bert Brshop lmay the Lord be wrth hrmr E516 Anness leaves her mastery of the rntrrcacres of Latrn to Catherrne Walters Kenneth Dunn wrlls to John Kerllor a placrd countenance Dorothy Brodre leaves her enjoyment of an argument wrth the Englrsh Profes sor to Ruth Carney Roland Whrte leaves a paternal aifec tlon for hrs corn lnot meanrng a bunron but an agrrcultural productr to John Stewart Argel Shrrver wrlls her subdued vorce to Jane Sparks Harold Conaway leaves an ever con sumrng weakness for the rnferror sex to Albert Lee Webster Mary Borcourt w1lls her anrmatron to Frances Clemons Robert Mrller' leaves to Robert Bach elor an overwhelmrng love of Geometry Florence Stephenson leaves an ever Y 7lll71llLlIl1l lags 71 J 11954 . '1 1 W u Q A 1 ' f . 1 v ' ' Q ' y - I . O Q . Q . c . , ' Ar 17 t b 1. 4' Y 1 he. l . . , . . , D ' I Cu ' 1 7 ' 1 1 , L , -

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Herbert Askren Effie Anness Helen Beal Virginia Burk Harold Carney Deloris Bausback Katherine Douglas Raymond Deal Kenneth Dunn Goldie Fleenor James Fleming John Wm. Gayer Mary Boicourt Dorothy Brodie Pearl Burks Harold Conoway Fred Corbett Zena Craig John Eineman Harold Elliot Avonelle Ficklin Alice Gartin Beaulah Mae Howe Richard Hall 5.