Linden High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Linden, IN)

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FROM ’39 TO 51 About two hours after school started on September 29, Miss Inez Stephenson decided she would never feel the same again. It was very evident that the class she was to teach that year was a Junior Bomb-shell consisting of; Richard Hampton, Robert Harpel, Claudette Hillenburg, Donald Horn, Geraldine Mahan, George Pickett, Lester Rafferty, June Royer, Leah Ryker, Max Stull, Nancy Switzer, Rosemary Swisher, Roy Tyrell, Jane Vannice, and Gloria White. At the beginning of 1940 when we entered the second grade it seemed as if all the teachers felt sorry for Miss Coffman. Little did we realize it was all because of the class she had to teach. Nineteen Forty was a very bad year to try to teach Arithmetic. At least Eva McKinsey Hudson found it so. In ’42 Mrs. Barrnett Smith developed a split person- ality from trying to handle two classes at once. Ours being the most trying, I’ll bet. The 5th and 6th grades in school were spent with Mrs. Burns. I think she passed all of us so she wouldn’t have to put up with us any longer. However those years were not un- eventful because both Marjorie Bales and Marjorie Pearson entered our little class to stay. Our seventh year was brightened by the arrival of two more permanent students, Margaret Fifer and Robert Horney. Pat Kell arrived in the 8th grade, and Ed Brewer in the 9th. Our Sophomore year was fairly uneventful,but our Junior year was full of surprises. ’What with selling candy, putt- ing on a play, and managing the reception, we grew up a little, I guess. When Ruth Burton embarked with us upon our senior year she soon discovered that she was handling a senior bomb- shell. The seniors too were near to bursting. We can now say with all due experience that putting out an annual is the worst job in school. The play went nicely and gradua- tion was sure to be a success, so we settled down to a nice 2 hour vacation and rest. Although there is only three of the original class left, June Royer, Geraldine Mahan, and Gloria White, we are sure there could never be another class like our present one. Now that we are gone, we are sure that the school will recover in a few years from the Class of »51!

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