Huntingburg High School - Optimist Yearbook (Huntingburg, IN)

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THEOPTIIVIIST 1929 sponsibilities were greater. A few members held positions on the Optimist Staff, and on the basketball teams. Several Juniors took part in the operetta, The Maid and the Middy, that was given in the fall. September again! This time we acquired the honorary title of Digniiied Seniors! It was the best year of our school life. There were forty-six members of the class of '29 who were graduated, namely, Pat Arensman, Russell Armstrong, John H. Clapp, Donald Frick, Edgar Gress, Everett Harris, Marvin Brown, Arthur Aufderhar, Carl Holst, Ray Horney, Raymond Katter, Edwin Katterhenry, Orlan Lett, Dwight Maxey, Albert Messmer, Edward Metzger, Hilbert Milton, Roy Mundy, Gordon Parks, Willis Randolph, Erwin Schaffer, Wilfred Sermersheim, Arlie Spur- lock, Herbert Strolin, Ervin Spurlock, Mary Alice Bartlow, Lelah Black, Cornelia Bretz, Cleo Brooner, Marjora Dufendach, Edna DeBruler, Alma Faris, Alma Hartke, Marguerite Heim, Grethel Kahle, Bernardine Kloster- man, Wilma Martin, Mildred Milton. Alma Mundy, Cornelia Myers, Georgia Mae Oskins, Amelia Reckelhoff, Syvilla Renner, Edith Wade, Lorna Whit- ten, and Claretta Beckman. This class has the honor of being the largest class that was ever graduated from old H. H. S. During this year Pat Arensnian rejoined our class, Mary Alice Bartlow came from Vincennes, and Russell Armstrong came from Evansville, to be a H. H. S. graduate. Louise Gercken withdrew. The officers of the class were: Donald Frick, Presidentg Russell Arm- strong, Vice-Presidentg and Claretta Beckman, Secretary-Treasurer5 Mr. McCoy, class advisor. Our class rings and pins were decided upon and ordered immediately after the opening of school. The sweater which designated the rank of Senior is scarlet with a gray monogram in form of a shield, containing a scarlet lion fthe school embleml. The Senior class was well represented in the many activities of the school. Six members of the girls' basketball squad were Seniors, namely, Amelia Reckelhoff, Bernardine Klosterman, Wilma Martin, Georgia Mae Oskins, Lelah Black and Marjora Dufendach. Six members of the boys' basketball squad belonged to the Senior class: Roy Mundy, Dwight Maxey, Hilbert Milton, Wilfred Sermersheim, Ervin Spurlock, and Marvin Brown. The Optimist Staff was composed mainly of Seniors, Gordon Parks being editor. Many of the members belonged to the musical organizations of the school, such as, the Glee Clubs, Orchestra and Band. Three members of the Drum Corps were Seniors: Claretta Beckman, Cleo Brooner, and Cornelia Myers. Lelah Black and Roy Mundy received the medals given by the Kiwanis Club for being the best sports during the basketball season. Mary Alice Bartlow won the County Oratorical Contest. Roy Mundy, John H. Clapp and Edgar Metzger were members of the track team. Several members participated in the typing contest that was held at French Lick. The class play entitled, Educating Estheri' was given May 2, 1929, under the direction of Miss Douglas. The most important social event of the year was the Junior-Senior Reception, May 16. Finis. Page Nine

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1929 THEOPTIMIST HISTORY OF CLASS OF '29 In January 1925. twenty-one seekers of knowledge enrolled as Fresh- men in the Huntingburg High School: namely, Cleo Brooner, Elsie Farrow, Louise Gercken. Violet Hemmer, Mildred Milton. Cornelia Myers, Louanna Niehaus, Margaret Rothert. Edith Wade, Esther Weisman. Lorna Whitten. Helen Wibbler. Marjora Dufendach, Russell Armstrong, Everett Harris, Harold Landgrebe. Dwight Maxey, Hilbert Milton. Willis Randolph, Arlie Spurlock. Herbert Strolin. Miss Ruth Simpson was class advisor. The outstanding social event of this semester was a Backward Party sponsored by the Seniors as a welcome to the Freshmen. At the beginning of the following semester. September 1925, forty- three other students joined the rank of Freshmen. They were: Pat Arens- man. Arthur Aufderhar. Marvin Brown. John H. Clapp. Lloyd Claxon, Donald Frick. Edgar Gress. Carl Holst. Ray Horney, Raymond Katter, Edwin Katterhenry. Irvin Krueger, Orlan Lett, Joseph Lindauer. Albert Messmer. Edward Metzger, Roy Mundy. Gordon Parks. Erwin Schaffer, Armin Schneiders. Wilfred Sermersheim. Ervin Spurlock, Rudolph Stein, Albert Stewart. Claretta Beckman, Lelah Black. Aline Bolte, Cornelia Bretz. Jeanette Brinkmeyer, Clarence Crandall. Alma Faris, Alma Hartke. Irene Heidorn. Marguerite Heim. Grethel Kahle, Bernadine Klos- terman. Luella Iiordes, Mildred Langebrake. Wilma Martin, Alma Mundy, Amelia Reckelhoff. and Hilda Reckelhoif. That school year passed swiftly by. The completion of the gymnasium was an important event. Bernardine Klosterman and Lelah Black were placed on the basketball squad this year. By the next September these Freshmen had reached the second step of the ladder of knowledge. that of the giddy Sophomore. This year we found several of the class missing: namely. Violet Hemmer. Esther lVeis- man. Florence Crandall. Irene Heidorn, Helen Wibbler. Elsie Farrow, Irvin Krueger. Joseph Lindauer. Armin Schneiders. Rudolph Stein. and Pat Arensman. The depleted ranks were filed however. by the following mem- bers: Okra Breidenbaugh, Kenneth Prior. Aloysious Mundy, Faud Sumner, Edna DeBruler of Ireland, and Edna Miley of Otwell. The class. this year. chose Mr. McCoy class advisor. The .important event of this year was the operetta. The Love Pirates of Hawaii, directed by Mr. N. R. Walker. It was at this time that the musical talent of some of the Sophomores was demonstrated. During our Junior year our enrollment decreased: Jeanette Brink- meyer, Hilda Reckelhoff, and Faud Sumner quit school. Mildred Lange- brake moved to Dayton, Ohio. Aline Bolte attended the Conservatory of Music at Oldenburg, Indiana. Edna Miley returned to Otwell. Albert Stewart moved to Loogootee, Indiana. and Russell Armstrong enrolled at Bosse High at Evansville. Louanna Niehaus, Margaret Rothert, and Okra Breidenbaugh joined the class of '28, so there were forty-four to shoulder the increasing responsibilities. Shortly after the beginning of the semester, the two sections united in order to prepare for the Junior-Senior Reception. This red letter day in our history tell on May 10, 1928. The following officers were elected: Everett Harris, Presidentg Cleo Brooner, Secretary-Treasurerg Mr. Win- lfenhofer. class advisor. Everyone felt more important now that he was a Junior and his re- l':i:fA Eight

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C xv if ii 1929 THEOPTIMIST ' CLASS PROPHECY I had just pounded out on my typewriter an account of how Lieut. John Hughes Clappe, a plucky young aviator, hero of a thousand thrilling escapades in the air, had just finished a non-stop airplane flight from New York City, around the globe and back to New York City. By some 'clever news reporting and with Lieut. Clappe's personal assistance, our paper had scored a scoop over the other newspapers of the city and we were rush- ing thru the press a twelve page extra , telling all about the sensational llight around the globe. As I handed my part of the amount to the city editor, he remarked that it was somewhat of a coincidence that Lieut. Clappe and the designer of his plane. E. J. Gress, should come from the same little Indiana town, and that I. also from the same town and close personal friend of both these heroes. should be the first to write an account of their achievement. I hastened to say that I did not regard the incident as unusual at all: that after being a member of the class of '29 in Huntingburg High School one could hardly help being great. To emphasize my point, I told him of some of the others, old friends of mine and members of the class, who were doing great things for the whole world. That must have been a wonderful group of students, he acknowl- edged. Suppose you get us a write-up about the class for a human interest story in next Sundays Herald. while they are still talking about this flight of Lieut. Clappe's. That's some assignment, I said to myself but I agreed to do my best to locate the members of the old class and to find out what they were doing. For assistance I called on my friend, Erwin Schafer, also a member of the class of '29, who has recently been installed head of Radio Corpora- tion of America. He and I took dinner together for the sake of old times. and I had no difficulty in getting the cooperation of his huge chain of broadcasting stations in finding my old friends. That very night we sent out a message every half hour to the mem- bers of the class of '29, asking them to telegraph the New York Herald at once and at our expense. telling us where they lived and what they were do- ing. By midnight, we had received messages from every member of the class or. in a few instances. from their friends or relatives. The next morning, I obtained the use of one of the fastest planes and one of the most skilled pilots in the employ of Gress Airlines, Incorporatedu and spent the remainder of the week in interviewing some of the most promi- nent members of the class. Our first trip was to Chicago, where I met Arlie Spurlock, producer of the hit of the musical comedy season, starring Claretta Beckman, Don Frick. and Cornelia Myers. I talked to these four for several minutes and found that the boys had stayed single, though both girls were happily married. However, they would not reveal the names of their husbands be- cause of business reasons. Before leaving Chicago, I ran across Willis Randolph and Herbert Strolin, headliners on the vaudeville stage. who were taking the town by storm with their singing, dancing, and clever im- personation of Mutt and Jeff famous comic strip artists. Finally I bade good-bye to these old friends and hired a taxi to take me out to the very exclusive Harris Sanitarium, owned and operated by Dr. C. J. Harris. Dr. Harris was in consultation over a very important case at the time of my visit and I did not get to see him. However, I was permitted to visit the bedside of tne now famous Hon. Russell Arm- strong, noted lawyer and reformer, who had been shot down in an attempt to clean up the Chicago underworld. His nurse, Edith Wade was slowly Page Ten