Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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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

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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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I Spring Brings Prom and Commencement as School Year Ends nets till the Ideal Lady Tea, when the Sunshine girls revealed themselves to the ladies who have been receiving anonymous gifts from them all year. Spring was here at last, bringing Prom-time. The juniors worked long and hard to choose just the right decorations, music, refreshments, and mood. They succeeded in high style, and the Prom was added to the list of things to remem¬ ber in 1952. The musical strains from the May Festival soon replaced the Prom tunes on everyone’s lips, and then it was time for the seniors to don their traditional gray robes, and they dis¬ appeared from the MHS halls to the strains of “Auf Wieder- sehen.” Then it was time for semester exams, Baccalaureate and, finally, Commencement. The last judgment day came immediately, and report cards — and then at last! Vacation’s here again! Goodbye, all. See you next fall! TOP: Mrs. Davis poses with her sophomore serv¬ ing committee at the 1951 Prom: J. K. Daily, Linda Davis, Nick James, Marilyn Telfer, Birch Smith, Carol Adams, Dee Terrell and Donna Cramer. Wayne Abbott, as junior class president last spring, did the honors as emcee on Underclass Honor Day. Here he presents Mr. Kurtz, who will announce an award. Page Nineteen BOTTOM: Oh, the prom! The social event of the year, and the first of a joyous series of senior activi¬ ties. Prom Queen Carolyn Godsey and her court made a beautiful memory for everyone. You’d think Louise Schnaiter and Bill Vanda- grifft had just received their diplomas, but it was really a musical “M” awarded at the Honor Day exercises last spring.