Medaryville High School - Madeiravine Yearbook (Medaryville, IN)

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PROPHECY OF '57 - ' 8 SE IOR ' It was just a dream, the kind that wakes you up just at the most important part with a clear, warm feeling hovering ll around you. I was sitting in some sort of tent with a fortune teller directly across from me. Directly before me lay a clear crys- tl ball which seemed to have moving figures in it. Staring very hard I recognized a face among a group of people. fraid that the picture would vanish, I bent closer and gazed. It was BEVERLY PASSMORE, hurrying along Broadway Avenue in New York City. By now she is a graduate nurse id, as usual, she is late for her hospital duties. I watched her continue on her way until she disappeared behind the Lg doors of the University Hospital of New York. As I continued to gaze into the crystal ball, I saw JANE BUDD sail by in a large, red limousine. Her name is now I'uesday Morning. On the stage she is a well-known opera singer. Sitting across from her is somebody who looks a ttle familiar. Of course, it is CECELIA MIKS who accompanies her at the piano. Miss Miks is known all over the orld and has won many medals and honors. The scene suddenly changed, and it seemed that I was in a foreign land. The vision cleared and the place seemed I be a battle front. Many men were hurt, lying on the ground awaiting medical care. The medics were taking them 'f the field. Wait! I see someone I know. Yes, I do know who it is. It's KENNETH AHLER. He is a Staff Sergeant I charge of Field Medical Affairs. He has lost considerable weight, due to the worry of flying bullets. Kenny was :nding over a stretcher on which lay AARON BAILEY. He is now a Five Star General and was he ever putting up a fuss, 'ut me down: it's only a scratch! Then he fainted. The crystal ball suddenly clouded up, and as quickly as it clouded it cleared again. The next thing I knew I was tting in a basketball gym. The crowd was shouting More, More as TOM McCALLUM waltzed down the floor with ,e ball. He plays professional basketball for the Globe Trotters. Goose hasn't changed a bitg he is sti,ll up to his ,d tricks. The referee looked as if he should be known. Sure enough, it was VERNON BARNETT. He was shaking his nger so hard at Goose that I thought surely he would lose it. He had just stopped Tom from playing one of his old icks and was giving him just one more chance to straighten up. The game ended with the Globe Trotters winning'b'y large margin. The next scene that appeared was really a fright. Principal JUDY JOHNSTON of MEDARYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL as really teaching up a storm. She was teaching night classes and she was trying to pound some history into MELVIN ORSKI'S thick head. He is the Mayor of Medaryville and he doesn 't even know history yet. How he got to be Mayor ll never know. Really he doesn't know himself. My dream continued on, and the next thing I saw was a plane landing in Chicago Midway Airport. The first per- n to step out was ANITA WAPPEL, who is an Air Line Stewardess. She is known all over the world for her flirting ith the passengers. Just now one of her admirers passed her. No, it can't be! Well, my goodness, it is JERRY IHNSTON who used to be one of the most bashful boys in school. It seems that he is the head of an important trade hool in India, and it took pilot DENNIS EBERI-IART to break it up so that the other passengers could pass on. He still is beautiful, red, curly hair that you can see a mile away. Looking deeper into the ball, I saw BETTY HEATH who operates a Beautician School and always ,has little Boeche's n her road. She has been trying all day to teach NILA HITZ how not to bleach hair green. It seems that Nila made a iistake and bleached Mrs. Wendt's fformerly JUDY SELMERJ hair a hideous, bright green instead of its pretty brown. Appearing next looks like a big farm in Texas. Well, it sure is and the owner is standing out in the middle of the asture. Well, bless my soul, it's LONNIE STEELE who owns those famous Angus Cattle you read so much about. Com- rg out to join him is FLOYD HILTON, who is an important cattle buyer. I hope you sell him some, Lonnie, because ie crystal ball is clouding again. The next vision I saw was somebody bending over a nice looking car. I can't quite make out who the gas station wner is, but he looks like somebody I know. My, it's JACK SANDERS and it seems that he owns all the filling stations 1 Rhode Island. The driver of the car happens to be KAREN GETZ who still can't drive without scaring you to death. he is the head of a children's orphanage nearby and has been doing a fine iob.

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DENNIS EBERHART Junior and Senior Plays: Chaos Staff 11,123 Chorus 9,10,ll,lZ: Student Manager l0,1l,lZ: FFA 9.10, l1,lZ: FFA Treasurer 11: FFA Secretary 12. SARA DUNN Junior and Senior Plays: Band 9,10,11,1Z: SSS 9,10,11,1Z: GAA 9,105 Pep Club 9,125 Girls' Basketball Tourney 9,10,l1, 12. ANITA WAPPEL Junior and Senior Plays: Mad- eiravine Staff: Chaos Staff 11, 12: Band 9, l0,l1, IZ: Majorette 9, 10, 11, 12: Chorus 9, 10, ll, 12: SSS 9, 10, ll, 12: GAA 9,103 Stu- dent Council President IZ: Girls' Basketball Tourney 9,10,11,12. JAMES SHIELDS Class President ll: Student Coun cil IZ: Junior Play: Madeiravine Staff: Chaos Staff ll: Band 9, 10, ll, 12: Band Reporter ll: Chorus IZ: Basketball 9, 10, ll, 12: Base- ball 9,10, 11,125 Track 10, l1,lZ: Homecoming King 12. JOHN R. SANDERS Junior Play: Chorus 9: Basket- ball 9, 10, ll, IZ: Baseball ll: Track 10, 11,123 Cross Country 9. BEVERLY SMITH Entered 10: Junior Play: Chaos Staff 12: Band ll, 12: SSS 10, 11: Pep Club 12: 4-H1 year.

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PROPHECY fContinuedl The face of IIM SHIELDS comes into focus. Is he ever having a ball! He is the driving instructor for a girls' school and seems to like his teaching job. Says he wouldn't trade places with anybody. Oops, he had his pupil speeding and ht has a cop chasing them! He pulled over and who should the cop be but BOB ULICNY. He gave Jim a ticket and asked the student for a date. l now see a big desk and behind it are sitting SARA DUNN and BEVERLY SMITH. They have a gossip column for the California Times and are rushing to get the news out. It seems that the famous actress ARLOS SELMER has made another successful play called, My Aching Feet. The next scene took place in a church located in Washington. The preacher in the pulpit is really working up a storm. He wants all the church goers to donate money for his pig farm. The preacher is none other than Reverend HERMAN PARISH. The ball cleared again as I gazed more closely and I saw LESLIE LEWARK who runs the machine that supervised the thickness of spaghetti. It's a nice job after you get the knack of it. Boss, Boss, came ringing to my ears, and, looking up, I saw several of my employees staring in wonder at me. Aren 't you ever going to have that conference with us? I had been sleeping, yes, and dreaming too, but it was worth it. Even if I was the owner of Softer Cushioned Mattress Company. CL SS HI TORY In September. 1946, thirty-four small frys marched up the step to the Medaryville Grade School to start their first year. Miss Owens, from Francesville was our first grade teacher. ln September, 1947, we started our second year of grade school with Mrs. Guild as our teacher. We lost eight students leaving a total of twenty-two students present. We started our third grade with Miss White in September, 1948, with twenty-two students present. Mrs. Manning saw us through our fourth year of school which began in the fall of September, 1949, with twenty- six students present. During our fifth year of school we gained four new students making a total of thirty students present. Mrs. Ash fron Winamac guided us through the year of 1950. We started our sixth year of grade school with twenty-nine students present. Leading us through our last year of grade school was Mr. Sodervick from Winamac. In September. 1952, there were, after six years of grade school, twenty-nine students that entered the seventh grade. Mrs, Rowe became our sponsor and guided us through our first year of junior high. We began our last year of junior high with seventeen students present. Miss Grace Selmer was our sponsor. In September. 1954, there were. after eight years of grade school twenty-four boys and sixteen girls that entered the Freshman year. Mr. Milligan became our sponsor and guided us through our first year of high school. The Green Horns were as follows: Anita Wappel. Arlos Selmer, Virginia Eakes, Sara Dunn, Nila Hitz, Marie Owens, Ernest Wood- ard, Herman Parish, Jim Wilson, Leslie Lewark, Jerry Wilson, Kenneth Oliver, James Allen, Bob Stoll, Bob Lewark, Kenneth Ahler. Joe Lapacek, Aaron Bailey, Charles Shelton, Melvin Gorski, Betty Heath, Jane Budd, Judy Johnston, Judy Selmer, Kay Brick, Karen Getz, Sylvia Archer, Dennis Eberhart, Vernon Barnett, Jack Sanders, Lonnie Steele.