Kouts High School - Kostang Yearbook (Kouts, IN)

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History Twelve years ago, on a bright day in September, thirty-six boys and girls filed into Room I to begin learning the basic fundamentals in their melody of education under the careful guidance of Lola Benson. Fifteen of the enthusiastic choir are still with the group: Jerry Cannon, June Koehler, Don Kneifel, Mary Ann Knoll, Richard Tabler, Elvin Nuest, Sally Nuest, Harold Olson, Donna Pfeiffer, Janice Pfledderer, Don Smith, Marilyn Sutter, Sue Mansfield, Johann Wandry, and Leslie Young. Before traveling on to the second verse, seven members left, only to be replaced by eight new ones, three of whom were to graduate with the choir in 1956. They are Gwen Heinold, Marshall Heinold, and Kay Johnson. This part of their melody was directed by Marie Maupin, Jeanette Loring, and Mabelle Hofferth. A very sour chord was struck when thirty-two out of the thirty-five members went home with failing papers, all on the same day. This was soon corrected, however, as they traveled on their way to the third verse, leaving only three members behind and gaining seven, including Sandra Eirky, Allen Hamann, and Francis Susdorf. Wasn’t this the year when Kay Johnson found, under the direction of Hazel Filer, that making faces at teachers wasn’t accepted. Miss Ova Chelf assisted the choir in their fourth verse when ,two voices joined in the singing, one being Janice Pfledderer, who rejoined after a three years’ absence. Remember the argument Sally and Marilyn had, each claiming they knew Janice best? This was also the time when the choir had to sit on the floor in front of the fifth graders because they had not yet learned not to shout in the corridors. It wasn’t long, however, until they were fifth graders themselves and found they were under the leadership of Mesdames Kathryn French and Faustine Nocco. Larry Birky and two other voices united with the choir at this time. Can any one remember walking up and down the halls drying out their clothes after sliding on a damp slide at recess? Three voices were added as they continued their mleody in the sixth grade with Marion Vanderhart. Between the sixth and seventh verses, a sad tempo fell upon their melody, by the deaths of David Rosenbaum, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Rosenbaum, and Larry Railing, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Railing. As they started the second half of the melody, their choir found it was singing the tune of hourly bells and buzzers, but they soon got used to the new rhythm. There were many directors in this part of the melody. After the resignation of several members and the addition of June Koehler, the choir sang the latest notes of the song with twenty-two joyful voices.