Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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as seniors prepared for graduation Jack Cragen, junior class president, re¬ ceives the key, symbolic of the senior class, scholastic endeavor, and school leadership, from Bob Johnson, senior class president, at class day last year. Phil Dunn reluctantly submits to a bit of mortar board adjustment by Miss Rose as the class practices for graduation exercises. Patty Quakenbush, Marjorie Cragen and Carmella Cascian stand by. PROM TIME 1950 “Stairway to the Stars” was the theme of last year’s prom. The seniors will long remember cutting, pasting, and hanging stars, clambering over the rickety stepladder, and smashing fingernails, but it was worth it all. Our star-studded refreshment committee consisted of John Dixon, Carol Austin, Wanda Miller, Shirley Walters, De- lores Maxwell, Peggy Hacker and Jon Lee. There was the mad scramble to be in the prom picture and then dis¬ covering that you were just a little too far to the left.

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One of the perplexing problems facing seniors this year was whether to go to college and, if so, where. In an attempt to solve this conundrum, Marvin Williams and Patsy Ayres direct ques¬ tions to counselors from Butler and Ball State during the College Day program. One of the feature athletic events of the year was the G.A.A. basketball game. Mary Jo Ander¬ son and Peggy Carr are caught by the camera. Cream pies figured prominently in the between- halves cheer leader stunt pulled off by Walter Bates, Bob Payne, Bill Neal, and Jim West, under the direction of Martin Boggs. Muscular Max Cain submits to cap and gown chest measurement by senior adviser John Bremer, while Mary Ellen Hammans gets the cranial circumference of Patsy Ayres. Betty Kent is recorder for this annual chore in Period 2 government class. TIME sped by A group of itinerant gypsies transformed the auditorium stage into an old camping ground for the operetta “Chonita,” presented by the Mixed Chorus. Springtime arrives and with it spring fever. Richard Bray and John Thomas move at an even more indolent pace than usual, while Janet Gibson, Carolyn Swisher and Jane Brock, despite protective garb, enjoy spring zephyrs. Crownded conditions were evident throughout the year, but never more manifest than during the passing periods. Once into the human tide, one could neither turn, nor stop, nor speed ahead.

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(TIME in the classroom paid off in new skills Classtime in M.H.S. involves more than the old-fashioned reading and recitation procedure. It may include such diverse activities as frying potato chips and measuring the height of the smokestack. During the year we attended classes that ranged from courses in mixing cakes to mixing concrete. Mary Jean Warren, Wanda Mason and Mavis Harrison prepare culinary delights in Foods class. Clothing is the other major activity in the home economics department. Here, left to right, Barbara Glasscock, Marlene Fulford, Nancy Suddith, and Esther Wise are cutting and sewing their dress fabrics. Homework is no problem for the mem¬ bers of the driver education classes. Mr. Bisesi, showing off the new dual-control Ford supplied by Hendrickson and Com¬ pany, finds the pupils eagerly attentive. Oral communication is an important part of the curriculum of the English depart¬ ment. Mr. Caress and class lend their ears to a budding Demosthenes, Art Ayers. A major building improvement during the summer was the new chemistry lab. Modern in every detail, it enables students to perform experiments with greater ac¬ curacy, but does not eliminate sulfuric acid spatterings upon the experimenter’s cloth¬ ing. The new lab also includes equipment from the old electric shop for a new science course in applied electricity. Prepping for their high school career, junior high students struggle with courses designed to take the fun out of living. Dis¬ playing rare concentration for the photog¬ rapher, they discover difficulties connected with long division. 8