Kouts High School - Kostang Yearbook (Kouts, IN)

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Class 'tfistorj Dear Diary: This is our first year of school, 1945. There are fifty-five of us all eager to start our school life, with Mrs. Benson. Little do we know that when we become seniors Ron Atherton, Darlene Birky, Carol Danford, Sandra Daumer, Ruth DeWitt, Jerry Good, Nancy Good, Barbara Haman, Sherry Heinold, Janet Jarnecke, Lois Kerlinska, Laura Krug, Charley Martin, Lolly Maul, Richard Nuest, Carolyn Reinhertz, Lois Rodrick, Sandra Schnekenburger, Ted Schroeder, Mike Shutske, Beverly Sutter, Jeannette Werner, and Charlotte Young will still be with us. Today, the first day. Diary, the funniest thing happened—Lois Kerlinska got a black eye. Dear Diary: The year 1946, is our second year of school. We find that we have lost seven and gained two, Janice Birky and Loretta Wienke. This year we are under the guidance of Mrs. Friedland. who broke her ping-pong paddle on Mike's head yesterday, in order to make him behave. Then she made Jerry sit in the corner again. Dear Diary: Today we again returned to school for our third year. After Mrs. Filer took roll call we found we had lost eight and gained four, one of which was Ray Jahnz. Last week Charlotte ran into the wall and chipped her tooth, but all is well now for Darlene came to her aid and scotch-taped it back again. Dear Diary: Excuse me for not writing sooner, but we have just entered our fourth vear of school with a new teacher Mrs. Reed. We have two new students and we lost three, giving us a total of forty-one. Every day when Mrs. Reed starts to read to us Sandra Schnekenburger gets bored and starts to cut up pa- per. Well, today she had to stand in the hall for it. Tomorrow we are going to hav“ another meeting of our Jolly Forty Club We really have the jolliest mem- bers. Beverly Sutter and Carol Danford can vouch for that. Dear Diary: This year we really received a shock; we have a man teacher, Mr. Mundy. We also have gained four and lost four, so we still have a total of forty one. Really. Mr. Mundy is a swell teacher. He didn’t say a word today when we were playing Fun House ; that is until Janet Jarnecke led him into the room and put a blindfold on him. As he was led around the room Nancy Good beat him on the head w;th books, then as he sat listening to Jeannette tell his for'une, Darlene crawlec' under the table and tied his shoe strings together. I’ll bet a'l our grades went down a couple of letters. Dear Diary: This year we gained three and lost six, and we again have a mao teacher. Mr. Galasso. He is much stricter than the one before. He even made Ru‘h DeWitt stand in the hall a couple of days ago, and it was her birthday! When her mother cam» to •-ehooi with ice cream to treat the class she found her daughfei standing in the hall. Poor Mr. Galasso was so embarassed. Dear Diary: Today we entered Jun»or High. For our class sponsor we have Mr. Jensen. Everything is completely different. There are so many teachers and c’assreoms. Ted and Ray are always getting lost in the halls. They’re late to al- most every class. Dear D!ary: This is another big year for us. Even though we lost two, there are still thirty-one of us left to receive our eighth-grade diplomas. For sponsors we have Mrs. Kennedy and Mr. Hospers. Dear Diary: We are now in high school and we have gained another student, Nancy Taylo. We had a wonderful invitational party with our sponsor. Mr. Broad. We also got to take a Biologv tr.p to Chicago this year. This year was the first time an official freshman initiation was to take place, so naturally we were the gu'nea pigs. Dear Diary: We are now sophomores and under the guidance of our sponsor, Mrs. Hayden. We are allowed to check coats at the basketball games. As sopho- mores it means G.A.A. initiation for the girls. We are the first class to purchase our class sweaters while sophomores. Our total is still thirty-two. Dear Diary: We have just finished our junior year with our sponsor, Mr. Johnson. With his guidance we published the school paper called the Kouts- cript”. Under the direction of Miss Dittmer we presented our junior play, “Come Over to Our House . We also sold ice cream bars at the basketball games. This year we were the first class to purchase and receive our class rings in the same year. We chose the American Beauty Style. Dear Diary: Of all our years of schooling, this year has been the best. We have accomplished so many things with the help of our sponsor. Miss Dittmer. She directed our senior play. The Form Divine.” During this year we sold cokes at the basketball games and purchased our senior pictures. Our senior trip took us to Washington. D C. and New York City. This Kostang represents much of our time, and work for this year. Now we. the twenty-seven seniors, are looking forward to May 24 when we will be presented our high school diplomas.