Kouts High School - Kostang Yearbook (Kouts, IN)

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CLARA PETERICH Aggie’' GAA 3. 4 Chorus 1, 4 Class Plays 1, 2, 3, 4 Annual Staff 4 DALE REINHARDT Windy” Baseball 4 Student Manager 4 Stage Manager 3 Senior Play Annual Staff 4 JOHN STARKS Baseball 1. 2. 3. 4 Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4 Track 1, 2, 3 Athletic Club 3 Class Vice-Pres. 1, 3 Student Council 2, 3, (Vice-Pres. 4) Band 1, 2, 3, 4, (Vice-Pres. 4), (Sec.-Treas. 3) Chorus 1 Music Club 3, (Vice-Pres. 3) Class Plays 1, 3, 4 Koutscript Reporter 3 Annual Staff 4 CECILIA SHUTSKE GAA 3, 4 Student Council 3, 4 (Sec.-Treas. 3, 4) Band 1, 2, 3, 4, (Student Director 4) Solo Contest 1, 3, 4 Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4 Harmony Nine 4 Student Director of Grade Operetta 3 Class Plays 1, 2. 3, 4 D. A. R. Award 4 Ass’t Editor of Koutscript 2 Editor of Koutscript 3 Ass’t Editor of Annual 4 BETTY TAYLOR GAA 3, 4, (Vice-Pres. 4) Chorus 1, 3, 4 Class Plays 1, 2, 3, 4 Koutscript Reporter 3 Annual Staff 4 Senior Class Song (Tune: Missouri Waltz) There were fourteen Seniors In the Class of ’48. Each would study very hard And sometimes very late. The girls numbered seven, The boys were the same. And everyone knows that The boys played the game. Many were the happy days We spent within Kouts School, Many were the dreary days We broke the teachers’ rules. But all that we cherish We leave to the rest In good old K. H. S.

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Senior Statistics ETHEL BIRKY GAA 3, 4, (Treas. 4) Class Sec.-Treas. 3 Chorus 1, 4, (Treas. 4) Freshman Play Business Manager 3, 4 Koutscript Reporter 3 Annual Stafl 4 CHARLES CANNON “Chuck” Baseball 3 Basketball 3, 4 Trjipk Athletic Club 3 Class Vice-Pres. 4 Junior Play Senior Play Koutscript Reporter 3 Annual Staff 4 ORIA CURTIS “Hill Billy” Baseball 4 Basketball 4 Athletic Club 3 Junior Play Senior Play Koutscript Reporter 3 Annual Staff 4 EDITH DOWNS “Edie” GAA 3, 4 Chorus 1, 4 Class Plays 1, 2 Student Director 4 Ass’t Business Manager 3 Koutscript Reporter 3 Annual Staff 4 EARL HEFNER ‘Elmo-’ Baseball 2. 3. 4 Basketball 2, 3, 4 Athletic Club 3 Class Pres. 1, 2 Student Council 3, 4 (Pres. 4) Band 1, 2, 3, 4, (Vice-Pres. 3) (Sec.-Treas. 4) Chorus 1 Class Plays 1, 2, 3, 4 Koutscript Reporter 3 Annual Staff 4 ROBERT KRAKER “Swede” Baseball 4 Basketball 3, 4 Track 3 Athletic Club 3 Chorus 1 Senior Play Stage Manager 3 Koutscript Reporter 3 Annual Staff 4 FRANCES LAUER “Fannie” GAA 3, 4, (Pres. 4) Class Sec.-Treas. 4 Chorus 1, 4, (Pres. 4) Class Plays 1, 2, 4 Student Director 3 Koutscript Reporter 3 Annual Editor 4 MYRNA McMURTRY GAA 3, 4. (Sec. 4) Class Pres. 3 Student Council 1, 4 Band 1, 2, 3. 4 Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4 Harmony Nine 4 Solo Contest 4 Student Director of Grade Operetta 3 Class Plays 1, 2, 3, 4 Koutscript Staff 2 Koutscript Editor 3 Ass’t Editor of Handbook 4 Annual Staff 4 RAYMOND PFLEDDERER “Ray” Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4 Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4 Track 1, 2, 3 Athletic Club 3 Class Pres. 4 Class Sec.-Treas. 1 Student Council 3 Band 1, 2, 3, 4, (Pres. 3, 4) Chorus 1 Class Plays 1, 3, 4 Ass’t Editor Koutscript 3 Annual Staff 4

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Class History Twenty-two meek, bewildered, little brats found their way to the first grade on September, 1936. There were ten boys: Myron Birky, Walter Blevins, Earl Hefner, Bob Kraker, Duane Mollenhour, Dick Noggle, Vin- cent Redelman, George Rosenbaum, John Starks, and Jack Tabler. The girls were Betty Burns, Mona Chael, Janie Herring, Marilyn Martin, Verda Martin, Mvrna McMurtry, Betty Nuest, Clara Peterich, and Cecilia Shutske. When we trudged back in 1937, there was a brand new school building waiting for us. Six of our first grade buddies were missing but we man- aged to get 34 in our class. New members included Helen Atkinson, Ruth Ketterman, Frances Lauer, Lola Martin, Betty Taylor, Edmond Coyer, Morris Emerson, Paul Leffew, Fred Minton, Harold Ruggles, Pearl Manns, Kenneth Pratt, Raymond Pfledderer. Hayner Goodpaster, James Mochler, Zathoe Monroe, Robert Odle, and Irvin Zirkle. In the third grade we dwindled down to a measly twenty-six even though Bob Martin did join us. We did a little better in the fourth grade since we had lost only two boys from the third grade. We added Howard Moreland, Mary Taylor, Norma Cole, Charles Cannon, and Betty Beck to our midst. We started going down in number in the fifth grade and never fully recovered. New faces that year included Donald Lippelt, Herbert Studer, Dick Brietzke, and Marvin Miller. In the sixth grade we greeted Bonnie Cambe, Marion Peoples, and Elmo Shaw. Since we had lost four, we were still going down. We finally made it to junior high school and just had to celebrate by having one extra. Marilyn Martin came back as Mary and with her came Bob Elliott, Verda Martin, Phillip Morris, Dale Reinhardt, and Marilyn Moody. As eighth graders we thought we were pretty big stuff but we went down to 25. Charles Cannon came back—this time to stay a while. We just couldn’t slip any further as freshmen. George Deardurff and Edith Downs joined our beaming, intelligent class. Mary Taylor and Hayner Goodpaster decided they couldn’t stand us any longer. They left when we were sophomores. Oria Curtis came from the south to join us. One we missed was Marilyn Moody who died shortly before school started. By the aid of Miss Baughman we presented the play “Brides To Burn.’’ When we came back this year, we were minus six more. Mona Chael and Jeannine Claypool quit during the first semester. In October. Miss Dittmer helped us make “January Thaw’’ an overwhelming success.