Jefferson Township High School - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Mexico, IN)

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Next, came the traditional Halloween Carnival. We changed the J. T. H. S. gym floor to a Carnivalcade of bingo, basketball throw, dart throw, fish pond, baseball throw, and refreshment stands. The most exciting event of the evening came when Delores Donaldson, Freshman, was crowned Carnival Queen. Attendants were: Lois Jane Dunnuck, Senior: Doris Fouts, Junior: and Dana Rozell, Sophomore. No sooner had we cleaned the gym floor of the carnival remains than it became time for our Senior play. We chose Ma's New Husband. After two postponements, we finally presented the play on December 12 and 13. Although this play was of an entirely different type than our Junior play, we feel sure that the audience enjoyed the extreme humor of it as much as they did the more dramatic incidents in our Junior play. On December 19, we had a Christmas party at the home of Bernita Adkins. After stuffing ourselves with candy and nuts, singing carols,' and exchanging gifts, we traveled to Mi11er's pond for an ice skating and wiener roast party. For the final money-making project, we sponsored a fish supper, served by the Famous Akron Jonah Club, on March 9. On May 2, the glorious day arrived. We were graduatesi The speaker was Dr. Tennyson Guyer. For our class colors, we chose rose and silver: class flower, old rose, class motto: Life ls Now Our School. The following week we left for a six-day trip to Washington, D. C.---our last Senior event and the one week we had slaved for during those four school years. Now, you ask, is this the end of our story? Why, of course, noti True, it is the end here at old J. T. H. S., but hardly the end of our history. Here's hoping we go out into this old world and each and everyone of us, as individuals, sets a more glorious record in the history of our world than we have here on the pages of our Senior Annualiii

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Senior Class History In September, 1947, twenty bashful boys and girls filed into the right side of the J. T. H. S. assembly. They were: Bernita Adkins, Donna Arnold, Bob Arwood, Merna Ault, Jim Bacon, Jerry Bernard, Harold Cassidy, Lois Dunnuck, Kenneth Haines, Mary Kline, Marabel Kraning, Carolyn Krisher, Fred McGuire, David Miller Donna Otiker, Betty Postill, Marjorie Snyder, Max Sullivan, Erma Swayer, and Cud Willis. We survived the usual initiation, became adjusted to having no recesses, learned to march from one classroom to another, and managed to adjust ourselves very well. The boys soon found places for themselves on the softball, basketball, and track squads. Several of us joined the glee club and the newly organized high school band. We lost only one member of our class that year--Cud Willis. During our Sophomore year, we lost Kenny Haines, but gained Don Runkle. We initiated the Freshmen, had an ice skating party at Miller's pond, and a theater party which ended up at the home of Merna Ault for recreation and refreshments. The last party didn't have a happy ending, as four of the boys piled-up Don Runkle's car while crusing around the country side. It seems Whiney Arwood forgot to pull the emergency brake. At the beginning of our Junior year, we found we were minus Carolyn Krisher, but we gained Don Heckathorn and Norma Shambarger. During the course of the year, Don Heckathorn and Bob Arwood quit school and Harold Cassidy moved to Akron. It was in this year that we proved to be salesmen, actors and actresses, and entertainers. The salesmanship part came in at the home ball games. We sold re- freshments so we could earn money for our Senior trip. To prove our acting ability, we presented The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come, the third week in March. This play was claimed by the critics as the best play ever presented at J. T. H. S. Of course, the critics were mostly our parents, who may have been prejudiced, but who are we to say it wasn't the best? '? ? ? ? ? ? For the final event of our Junior year, we escorted the Seniors to the beautiful Maxinkuckee lnn, on the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee at Culver, Indiana, for the Junior-Senior reception. To supplement our theme, Cinderella, we were served a steak supper amid miniture Cinderella figurines, golden slipper nut cups, mice place cards, and memo books made in the silhouette of Miss Cinderella, herself. After the banquet, we saw Walt Disney's movie production of Cinderella. We lost only one classmate during our Senior year--Fred McGuire, who pre- ferred the companionship of Wilma Draper to ours. The first event of our Senior year was a combination wiener roast Halloween party held at Norma Shambarger's home.

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The Senior Class Will We, the Senior Class of 1951, being of sound mind and body, do make and ordain this to be our last will and testament in connection with the Jefferson Township High School of Mexico, Indiana. We declare that all of the following articles are our most precious and desirable possessions: We, the Senior Class, will all our seats on the south side of the assembly, which are looked forward to so very much by the oncoming class, to the Junior Class, who, we hope, will be able to fill them as well as we have in the past year. We, the Senior Class, will our ability to act in both farce comedy and dramatic comedy plays to the Sophomore Class. We, the Senior Class, will to the Freshman Class all our luck in advancing I through high school fthey ll need itl. We will and bequeath our abilities, properties and characteristics as follows: To Mr. Miller, we will the right to give what fatherly advice he has left to the next Senior Class. To Mr, Shambarger, we will the right to allow the next bookkeeping class to run down all stairs in order to be first in line for dinner. To Mr. Gaiser, we will the boys of all incoming classes to be trained to play basketball. To Mr. Powell, we will all the drawers in a filing cabinet in which he may hide erasers from the next Senior boys. To Miss Curnutt, we will the ability to drive her big Nash as fast as she can without getting a ticket for speeding. To Miss Fisher, we will the right to watch the person who occupies Bernita Adkins' seat in the front of the assembly. To The Juniors: I, Bernita Adkins, will and bequeath my height to Mary McCutcheon. I, Donna Arnold, will and bequeath my extreme quietness to Mary Katherine Draper. I, Merna Ault, will and bequeath my ability to skate to Maxine Kraning. I, Jim Bacon, will and bequeath my liking of Freshman girls to Ronnie Krieg. I, .Terry Bernard, will and bequeath my beautiful blond hair to Freda Miller. I, Lois Jane Dunnuck, will and bequeath my ability to write long letters every day to Phyllis Butler. l, Mary Kline, will and bequeath my short legs to Bob Romine.