Laketon High School - Laketonian Yearbook (Laketon, IN)

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CLASS OF 1956 We, the seniors of 1956, have many wonderful memories from our school days at L.H.S. From the day we entered Laketon as scared youngsters, to the day we will be leaving, there has been something exciting, yet wonderful added to our lives. We started out in the first grade in 1944 with thirty-one enrolled. Our school life was quite a change, but we learned many new things and made many new friends. After eight years of hard work, we became freshmen. We were really getting up there, but still we thought very highly of the seniors and we had hope that someday we might be like them. Our class officers that year were: President, Evelyn Pearson; Vice President, Everett Wrightman; Secretary and Treasurer, Larry Bru- baker. In our sophomore year, our class officers were: President, Nancy French; Vice President, Everett Wrightsman; Secretary and Treasurer, Pat Metzger. Before we hardly knew it, we were juniors. We really worked hard to make money. We presented our first play, entitled, When I was Green. We also spon- sored the Junior and Senior Reception which was an all night event held in the school gymnasium. Our class officers were: President, Steve Vrooman; Vice President, Larry Brubaker; Secretary, Evelyn Pearson; and Treasurer, Pat Metzger. At last we were seniors. We again elected our class officers which were as follows: President, Steve Vrooman; Vice President, Ronald Dickerhoff; Secretary, Pat Metzger; Treasurer, Evelyn Pearson; and Reporter, Nancy French. Cur sponsors were Mr. Mertz, Mr. Spandau, and Mr. Sullivan. We presented our class play, Seventeen is Awfully Young on October 21. We worked very hard getting ready for our senior trip. These who have attended Laketon all twelve years are Pat Amiss, Larry Bru- baker, Ronald Dickerhoff, Ruth Ebbinghous, Marleah Frantz, Nancy French, Ted Hudson, Donald Long, Janice McCullough, Charlotte Ohmart, Evelyn Pearson, and Joyce Smith. We are looking forward to our graduation, but we realize, too, how much we are going to miss the smiles of our classmates and teachers. It is certain that our good days at Laketon shall never be forgotten.

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Nancy French President 2; Sunshine 1, 2, 3, 4; Vice President 3; President 4; Girls' Glee 1, 2, 3; Choir 2. 3, 4; Band 1, 2; Booster Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Pia De Oras 1, 2; Sextette 1, 2, 3; Junior Play; Senior Play; Tiger News Staff; Laketonian Staff. Donald Long FFA 2, 3, 4; Land Judging 2, 3, 4; Crop Judging 3, 4; Junior Play; Senior Play. - AND FINALLY GRADUATION - Peter Meyer Shirley Lyons Marleah Frantz Merl Wilson Exchange Student from Ibben- bueren, Germany. Pla-DeOras 4; Basketball 4; Choir 4; Boost- er Club 4; Track 4; Band 4. Sunshine 1, 2, 3, 4; Girls' Glee 1, 2, 3; Choir 3, 4; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Booster Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Librarian 2, 3; Office Staff 4; Junior Play; Senior Play; Tiger News Staff. Sunshine 1; Girls' Glee 1; Boost- er Club 1; Librarian 2, 3, 4; Tiger News Staff. Basketball 1, 2, 3; Softball In- land Judging 1. Joyce Smith Sunshine 1, 2, 3, 4; Girls' Glee 1, 2, 3; Choir 2, 3, 4; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Booster Club 1, 2, 3, 4; 4-H 1, 2, 3, 4; Junior Lead er 3, 4; Sextette 1, 2, 3; Tiger News Staff.

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We the Senior Class of 1956 of Laketon High School, do acknowledge this to be our last will and testa- ment: I, Larry Brubaker, will my ability to use my head, instead of the adding machine, to the girls in Book keeping, and my ability to have headers on my car and stay out of trouble to Maurice Lipply. I, Merl Wilson, will my good behavior to Jack Gray and my quietness to Roger Montel. I, Ruth Ebbinghous, will to anyone who wants it, my ability to get a diamond between my junior and sen- ior year and my ability to have dates as a freshman to my sister, Helen. I, John White, will my chair in the band to Philip Clingenpeel and my ability to be a good student man- ager to Tom Floor. I, Shirley Lyons, will my natural curly hair to Mr. Sandau and my chair in band to anyone who can play off beat. I, Welby Simpson, will my reckless driving to Jack Gray, and my basketball ability to Tom Pence. I, Marleah Frantz, will my ability to chew gum in Government to any junior who needs ft and my ability to stay slim to Becky Frantz. I, Everett Wrightsman, will my ability to run the half-mile to Philip Clingenpeel and my ability to eat to Mrs. Bowers. I, Joyce Smith, will my four years of band to Con- nie Smith and my ability to drive safely to Don Mylin. I, Steve Vrooman, will to Don Mylin, my ability to go steady with the same girl through high school and my ability to throw peanuts in Study Hall to Ned Schuler who usually was my target. I, Pat Metzger, will my ability not to go steady in high school to Sherry Harmeson, and my fingernails to Judy Butler. I, Peter Meyer, will my ability to play the piano to my brother Tom and my ability to date girls to Roger Montel. I, Janice McCullough, will my ability to have been a high school cheerleader to Sheriann Gearte and my ability of being engaged during my senior year to Jane Burch. I, Bill Kline, will my Ford to anyone who can keep the wheels from falling off, and my ability to be quiet to Roger Montel. I, Nancy French, will to Mildred Entsminger my abil- ity to eat so heartily and my ability to go steady with a boy 1200 miles away to anyone who has the pa- tience to stick to it. I, Ted Hudson, will my ability to play baseball to my brother Dean and my ability to run the Mimeo- graph to Jack Gray. I, Evelyn Pearson, will my ability to teach the sec- ond grade their arithmetic to Jane Ann Burch, and to Judy Butler my office as treasurer and counting all of that senior money. I, Pat Amiss, will my cheerleading ability to Sherian Gearte and my ability to leave boys alone to Sandy Hopkins. I, Ronald Dickerhoff, will my ability to play in the band to Wilbur Wolf and my ability to play basketball to Phil Clingenpeel. I, Charlotte Ohmart, will my job in the office to any junior so that the seniors will have some place to congregate and my dark brown eyes to Mildred Ents- minger. I, JoAnn Siegfred, will my height to Marilyn Vroo- man and my ability to let someone else like gum as much as I do to the Coach. I, Martha Kline will my ability to stay home at night to Jan Ohmart and my height to Marilyn Vrooman. I, Donald Long, will my curly hair to Roger Montel and my ability to get along with the teachers to Jim Shock. We hereby nominate and appoint Mr. A. Spandau, Mr. W. Sullivan, and Mr. R. L. Mertz to be our exe- cutors, without bond, on this our Last Will and Testa- ment; and we hereby rebuke all former wills and testa- mentory instruments. In Witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our name and affixed our seal this tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-six. Witnesses: Perry Como George Gobel Howdy Doody