Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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Christmas Programs Climax First Semester whistles, shouts, and gala music as a pep rally was staged to give the team that extra oomph. But, alas, the season wound up in the hole, and a mud-hole at that. On one Friday night between the football and basketball seasons, the Lettermen staged their annual Harvest Dance to brighten the weekend. Plaid shirts and blue jeans and a ticket admitted us to the new gym, which sel¬ dom has heard such stomping and frolicking. November also found the juniors deeply engrossed in their class play, “The Girl Friend,” and the star-studded cast put on three successful performances. Don’t let anyone say that December isn’t the busiest month of the year. With the hint A surprise visitor and that one Santa Claus, no less, as the Mixed Chorus sang the Waring arrange- mentof “The Night Before Christmas” in the annual Christmas program. Jerry certainly was a convincing pleader in the Junior Class play. Maybe it’s from years of practice; of the joyful holiday season in the air, all except the juniors could forget their cares. To the juniors December brought the threat of a refresher math test. But it also brought another outstanding paid program, a movie from the Field Museum of Chicago, showing the behind-the-scene workings of the museum and narrated directly by a museum worker. Christmas always brings a store of good treats: The Future Homemakers’ Tea for the faculty, the Hi-Y Christmas dance to the music of Jim Nash, and Santa Claus and the traditional choral program to send us off to our vacations. The Sunshine Society with a car load of gifts helped to lighten the season for the twelve people in the County Home. anyway it made “The Girl Friend” a hit at the matinee and evening performances. Santa made a special trip this year to the County Home with all of these gifts from the Sunshine girls. Twelve people were thrilled by the presents, and the girls who gave them were just as happy. Page Seventeen

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p Time out for doughnuts and coke at the autumn’s first social event, the Lettermen’s Club Harvest Dance. Building Shakes as Fall Activities Start All summer it lay dormant, a large unoccupied building on the southern edge of Martinsville. As August scurried on towards September, the building began to lift its face and brace itself for the thundering herd of one thousand students that poured into its refurbished halls on September 6. With cries of “Who’s stand¬ ing at my favorite radiator?” and “What home room did you get stuck in?” the 1951-52 school year was ushered in. During the very first full week or classes, new club prexies began to gather up their wandering flocks of old members, and first meetings soon filled any gaps in offices. Then membership prospects became known but couldn’t be accepted without initia¬ tion, of course; so lipstick and Halloween heads laughed and were laughed at, as the social season was launched. No wonder first-of- school days are so confusing! The sports season shot off to a rousing start with the opening gun of our first football game against Greensburg on the very first Friday night, September 7. But the odds were against us from the very beginning, and our cheers came to naught. As the un¬ lucky season progressed, a pep rally was planned to renew hope and spirit, and one particular October night resounded with sirens, Page Sixteen

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Full Schedule of Events Brightens Winter Routine Back from vacation, students put on their study caps and began to fret about semester exams. With the new semester under way, the biology classes showed off their first semes¬ ter’s labors in a night showing for the public. The freshmen celebrated the new semester with a mixer for the entire class. The month of February is always dreary, but Valentine’s Day came to bring hearts and flowers to the girls. Sectional time inevitably rolls around, and we journeyed to Blooming¬ ton, only to lose to Ellettsville in the finale. March brought College Day and representatives to give guidance to prospective college students. As the month pro¬ gressed so did several basketball teams, too, right up to the exciting finish. March saw both the Future Farmers and the Hi-Y making whoopee. The seniors were, too, at class play rehearsals, as they trudged on to solve the mysteries of “Drums of Death.” Easter vacation came and went in all too great a hurry, and the girls hardly got a chance to show off their new bon- LEFT: The biology open house turned out to be a huge success, and parents discovered that their children were learning things that they had never heard of. TOP: Crack reporter, Don Whaley, yells the lat¬ est news hot off the tape as his assistant, sizzling Maurine Sweet, takes tips on the phone at the speech class convocation. BOTTOM: “Do-si-do” and “’round we go”— following the biology open house the freshmen had a mixer in the girls’ gym with an all-freshmen string band beating out the rhythm for the Virginia Reel. J i -Y i i Page Eighteen