Kouts High School - Kostang Yearbook (Kouts, IN)

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CLASS HISTORY In the year 1937, 4J young: pupils entered a brand new school house for their first year of school. Nine of those pupils, Jean Arnold, Evelyn Kraker, Beverly Perry, Donna Reinhertz, Jack Lowe, Vic Martin, Jim Schumacher, Vince Sommers, and Jack Tablet are still with us. During: our second year of school Donald Polizzotto joined our class and in our third year our redhead, Bernice Railing, joined us. None of the pupils now in our class joined us in the fourth grade; Les Sutter and Betty Bodamer joined us in the fifth grade and Martha Claypool came to Kouts when we were in the sixth grade. Our memories of those first six years in school are now rather vague but we do remember well the flutes we received in the fifth grade, the two plays the grade school put on, one of which was “The Early Bird Catches the Worm,” and the many hours we spent skipping rope, playing jacks, and riding on the swings and the merry-go-round. In 1943 we entered Junior High. We were really proud when they presented us with lockers and we were allowed to wander from room to room and from teacher to teacher. That was the year our class first entered the glory of participating in basketball. In the eighth grade we also had a team that climaxed the season by winning the seventh and eighth grade tourney. At the end of that year the members of our class received their diplomas and were ready to enter high school. We spent our first year of high school trying to keep pace with the other high school kids; this kept us busy but we did find time to present the play “The Apple of His Eye” and “A Ghostly Eve- ning.” Mary Laubner joined us in our second year of high school and we were glad to receive her. We showed our appreciation by electing her basketball queen. In that same year Leslie Sutter brought honor to our class by winning the gold basketball for being the most out- standing player in the 1947 county tourney.

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CLASS OBITUARY It is with profound regret that we announce the death of the well-known and highly respected Senior class of the Kouts High School. After its remarkable achievement recently with the exami- nations, which it passed with flying colors, the class was noticed to be growing perceptibly more and more changed. Upon skilled diagnosis, the trouble proved to be enlargement of the intellect which, after a lingering attack lasting four years, caused the demise of the class on May 27, 1949. The Senior class was one respected and loved by all who knew it and will be greatly missed in the social, athletic, and educational circles of the school and neighborhood. Its qualities of industry, idealism, and charm endeared it to all who had the pleasure of its acquaintance, and it will be sincerely mourned by faculty, class- mates, and friends. Its place in the social life of the school was by no means small and in the field of athletics its was widely known. In its mental achievements, however, it attained its greatest distinction and gained high honors. The passing of the Senior class leaves a void in the intellectual circles of the school that will long be marked. Attendance to the funeral services will be by invitation only, and the obsequies will be held in the Kouts High School Auditorium on May 27, 1949.

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CLASS HISTORY Glenn Smith heard of our class and left Hebron to join us in our Junior year. We have an idea, however, that he may have come because of a certain Miss, then in the sophomore class. We presented a very successful class play called “Sing for Your Supper.’ That year, one of our classmates, Joyce Xeuffer, showed her ability by winning the G. A. A. Cup. We also had a lot of fun putting 01 a Junior-Senior Prom. We presented another play in our Senior year entitled “Tiger House.” It was the first mystery presented in several years and was quite a successful production. Evelyn Kraker received the D. A. R. Award, awarded to the most outstanding girl in the senior class. Mona Chael came back to school that year to bring our class roll up to twenty-two. Our classmate, Beverly Perry, was still famous for attending her twelve years of school without missing one day. This is our class history for you to read. We have achieved much in our years of school and we are proud of our class. We are now, however, beginning to realize how much remains to be achieved. We leave Kouts High School with our class motto in our minds and in our hearts—“We entered to learn—we go forth to achieve.”