Jackson Township High School - Jacksonian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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-- - ' :annum null After many hours of hot debate on how we should travel, we, the Senior Class of l95L, finally departed from the large school of Jackson Township on our long awaited senior trip C You guessed it, we walked! Q Each of us carried our own supnlies, natlrnlly we gave the food to Miss Steele to carry because she was the strongest ' , I - The first day found us somewhere in the hills of Arkansas This was our first stop and therefore everyone was anxious to eat and sleep a few winks Dry 1, sticks were needed to build a fire, so Leslie volunteered to get some Not long had he been gone when a lwud, hysterical scream pierced the still air, and Leslie came bouniing out of the woods like a startled deer. Madly chasing him was a long-haired abject wearing a leopard outfit. It stopped upon seeing us and another scream issued from its throat. when we regained our senses fend Leslies the object I turned out to be none other than an old friend of ours, Arlene Carpenter. She 1 told us that in those parts she was known as Whature Girl.N She had come down here 1 to Arkansas to get away from civilization and her fellow classmates. They had y teased her about her adoration of Leslie, and she cwuldnft stand it any longer. f To satisfy her we left behind our Fold' classmate, Leslie, and ran away before she 4337 could say more. She seemed happy at last. Q ' , . X nl .x,. 5 Class Prophecy 1 . . 5 i ll .A Q . 3 , J . when we reached the'Gulf Coast our nemt objective was to swim the gulf to Cuba. We piled our belongings on our heads so as not to get them wet, and started swimming. No sooner had we gotten into the water, than a bright yellow head ap- , peered ahead of us. We swam out to it CMiss Steele dog-paddledj and to our sur- X prise and amazement it was the beautiful blondshead of Eloise Olson. She told us that her one and only love had been pearl-diving, and since she took physics in the biology room, her love for turtles, frogs, and other animals overcame her, so in order to be near these creatures she decided to pearl dive. She told us that if her luck was good, each one of us would receive a pearl in her will. With that lovely thought in our water soaked heads, we swam away. Upon our arrival in Cuba we no sooner set foot on dry land than we heard e band which we thought was heralding our arrival. We followed the sound until we Q-U came to the ssurce. There sitting on an enormous throne, bedecked with trickets f of all sorts, was another classmate-Angie Wheeler. When she slwwnsshe motioned for us ts go into a large glass building which stood out from the rest. There we waited until the ceremony was concluded and then Angie entered. Uoon a closer look at her we became flabfergasted. She looked like a wrestler straight from Whainbow Arena.N When we finally got her to sit in a chair that was too small, she told us hww she came to be here. When she rraduated from Jackson, her family took a trip to Key West to see the President who was vacationing there. While H there, a hurricane came up and in the struggle to find shelter she had drifted out to sea on a large wave. Once in the water she had become bloated and her body had stayed that way ever since. Natives in Cuba found her on the beach on th day following the storm. Thinking she was a great spirit they had made her queen. Q We cwnrradulated her and told her we must be on our way, so she gave us one of her l nriv'te sea plrnes, kissed ever onf on the right ear, and waved a fond farewell. Mx Once in the air we headei east toward Africa. Luckily Joe hai remembered to bring his ukelele along, so we all sat around in a circle and began to sing. Our singing and Joe's playing seemed a bit too much for the plane, because as f we flew over the center of Africa the motor kicked out and we headed for the Xl Wt .N p'1 ,N Q ' MV ,..- it ' ,.-, :',..K E ,,, ,,,. , l an u, If - -.- ll

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ass Wi e He, the seniors of 1953 of the Township of Jackson, County of Porter, and State ,Miz of Indiana, after leaving our port of call to embark on the voyage of life and H' K being of sound mind and me ory, do make, publish, and declare this to be our last i will and testament, hereby revoking and annuling any and all wills made by us here- ofore. i w . as ' i I, Angie Wheeler, will to Arthur Netzel nur studious ways , and my glasses i'i'vl- to Mary Arndt. I , x r fi if I, Arlene Carpenter, will mv ability to get along with Miss Steele to r I Qgg, 'X Leonard Venckus, and my store bought teeth to Ron Wayco. I, Bob Jackson, will my ability to go steady to Shirley Barnes, and my quiet reserved manner at all times especially in class to Leslie , : Krause. I, Darlene Berkoski, will my athletic ability to Cecilia Matthys, A v m 57, v turtles and frogs to Leslie Krause. wp, . I, Marilyn Ziebell, will my cheerleading ability to Mary Lou Brodie, f and my ability to come to school every day to Jim Long. f I, Jamie Simms, will my studious ways to Mary Lou Brodie, and my , height and cheerleading ability to Jim Long. Z .N AL I, Shirley Johnson, will m ability to skip school to Richard Krause, f nl, gf and my height to Joe Fraley. I gf, A, I I5Vernon Walsworth will my Al suped-up drug-out hot-rod jalopy to If . Joe Fraley, and all my inflatable muscles to Arthur Netzel. We the senior girls leave to the junior girls our refined and dignified manner to accomplish things, and our ability to over-rule the boys at- times. , .1 R '99 A Q , se, Skim: . dl-.if .ah We the senior boys leave to the junior boys our bashful ways and M ability to get along with all the teachers. 5 We the senior class leave to the junior class our marred desks, chewed pencils, and beat up lockers. we also leave to the class of Sh, an l amount of 104 as a contribution to the funds for their trip to Burdickl? We the senior class leave to the sophomore class our ability to have ' fun, no matter the time or place. I We the senior class leave to the freshmen class our ability to get My along with all the teachers, get lessons done and get to class on V time, IN WITNESS THEREOF, we have hereunto subscribed our name and affixed our finger prints, the 22nd day of May, in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty-Three. . ' NM' Xl V bn' , 'Q '-.. , 1 I-'K , .Q 1 -, 1 'VA' - '.. ' Dyke's Funeral Home Phone lOlO Valparaiso 214' H ur b b 'Hy e -: w.xf,,. ,. , '1I :..s.,. ' g,,, -- 10 .v I, Eloise Olson, will my underweight to Mary Arndt, and my love for ,iff

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, ,,..L-3. impenetrable jungle below would we crash and all be killed? This thought raced through our brains as we plunged toward the earth ' Our landing was not as bad as we anticipated, thanks to che expert manuvering on the part of the pilot As we staggered from the wrecked plane the eerie sound of jungle drums came to us As we stood shaking from our previous experience a flash of steel caught our eve and we found ourselves sur ounded by dark, hungry- looking natives It seemed as though we had jumped from the frving nan into the ' fire. They motioned for us to start walking and seeing as they had long spears in our backs, we obeyed. -nun no-an -v I ,f , X . 1 ' I -. ' as L n I O .. I U - t 1 Q ' t I . . As we neared a clearing we could hear excited voices and the barking of dips, ,l What kind of a welcome would we get? we entered the clearing and at once we were ' ushered into the chief's hut. Once inside we couldn't believe the sight before I our eyes. There, before us, sitting on bleached skulls and in outfits made of leaves, were two white people, nine other than Vernon Walsworth and Marilyn Ziebell. They were delighted to see us and told us how they came to be here. Upon graduation they LZ: were married in secret and ran away to Africa where they had settled down to raise ' a family. When our eyes became accustomed to the dim light we could distinguish the family, Marilyn introduced them to us. Their names were: Prudence, Javelle, Bingo, Merceies, Anesthesia, Popacatapwtal, Glimpy, Jennifer, and Rudolph. Vernon was quite entertaining and had a special dance in our honor and also a feast for us. Octopus meat. After the celenration he gave us a safari and after we thanked them and wished them luck in future years, we took off fast as a herd of turtles. f I Aftermany hours of rough riding in our safari we found ourselves in Egypt. I Shirley became very excited at our being in Egypt because of a pen-pal she was ff writing to who lived here. Im ediately she began to run up and down the pyramids jf looking for her Egyptian. We finally convincei her that he would not be out here in ff the desert, and left for the city of Cairo. . ff fl Everywhere along the streets we saw shops of all kinds. As we passed one I shop Miss Steele decided that she would like to see the inside, so we all enteredlfr the small bird shop. From every corner came the twittering of birds. Emerging 'W - from the back room came a short man with a black beard and mustache. One look at In Miss Steele and the man ran up to her, embraced her, and started rattling awav in M Egyptian. Later inspection proved it to be a graduate of our school, Sir Robert W Jackson, Esq. He led us into his living quarters and we sat down to have Bob erplain to us why he was in Egypt. After he graduated he was drafted into the army and shipped to Africa. There he contacted malaria and could not be shipped , home, so he started a business of his own. He was teaching parrots to talk, and ti other wild birds to whistle. He also said that his birds co'ld crack their . knuckles better than any other birds in the world. No more of this, we thought, and with fond adieu we left Sir Jackson and sailed off into the blue arms of the Mediterranean Sea. X I N l 3 The next day we found ourselves far off course and somewhere in the Atlantic My Ocean. Not equipped with sufficient food to maintain life for a long time we were I greatly excited when a ship was sighted off starboard. As the ship neared, Ron X' informed us that it was a whaling vessel and would probably be foreign. khan the - greetings had been exchanged, and it was understood that we were lost, the Whaler -L1 K - ' xxli . dt 5- I , Q'- .I J. wr, IZ