Michigantown High School - Challenger Yearbook (Michigantown, IN)

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Rising Sunday morning, we went to the reunion. There we saw Janice Huffer, who married .Tack Coapstick. Janice was a secretary for a lawyer while Jack was in the service. They now live in a beautiful home in Indianapolis. They have two children, a boy and a girl. Walking toward the rest of the crowd, we saw Sam Fields and Ronald Merrill. Sam is married and has his own 400 acre farm. Ronald is a bachelor and a foreman for a construction company in Indianapolis. They told us Luther Benge graduated from Purdue and is an Engineer in the Air Corps. He met a girl at Purdue and later married her. They live in Texas. The former Margaret Kingery was unable to attend because one of her little boys was taken to the hospitalg however, she graduated from Indiana University and is teaching commercial subjects at one of the county schools. . As the day was drawing to an end, we three shook hands with our fellow classmates and started back to Wisconsin. NAME Luther Benge Carolyn Cohee Phyllis Conrad Sarah Crist Tom Daniels Glenn Dunn Lucille Eaton Sam Fields David George John Higbee Janice I-luffer Sara Huffer Phyllis Jackson Margaret Kingery Ronald Merrill David Metzger Junior Nance Mark Newell Joan Ostler Norman Perrel Marilyn Sharp Fern Shearer Bob Smith Barbara Sutton Janet Weaver Wilma Whiteman Violet Zartman sn 7 Bits About em SLANG Beats me For cat's sake Oh gosh Oh dear No Huh Shoot Yea I don't know I don 't remembe r ' ' Doggone it Well, maybe I'l1 never tell Good grief Well, gee whiz Shoot a mile Bugs What Oh sugar I see I'1l be you Good heavens I don't know Heck Oh darn ' 'That's for sure Oh heck LOCATE At home With Sara Sue Some place With the girls Home Town With Paul Playing basketball In a car With the boys With Jack With Carolyn With Pinkie With the kids Home Home Country Shop Anyplace Town With Wayne With Max Home Boss's knee With Bob At home Up town AMBITION Air Force Secretary or teacher Concert Pianist House wife Navy Farmer Housewife To be a boy scout To be rich Success Housewife and secretary Nurse Secretary Housewife Engineer Navy Farmer Millionare Secretary Mechanic Teacher fmusic 8: art, Housewife H Navy Secretary Housewife and secretary Nurse Housewife

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Lucille told us about some more of the classmates. She told us Tom Daniels was married to a Frankfort girl and had enlisted in the Navy for twelve years. They live in Florida, where he is stationed and have no children. Joan Ostler was a stenographer for a lawyer ir. Kokomo: after working for him one year, they were married and have three children-two girls and one boy. Barbara Sutton after going to business college is now working in the office of the Delco Ramey Corporation at Kokomo. After lunch we continued to Frankfort: needing gas, we stopped at a service station and lunchroom owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Grinstead. Mrs. Grinstead, of course, was the former Phyllis Jackson. Phyllis operates the restaurant and they have two children, a boy and a girl. We passed the George Motor Sales, where the proprietor is David George-another former classmate. We stopped and he told us he had been married three times. His first wife diedg he divorced the second and is stillmarried to the third. I-le has one blond curly headed boy. Going back to Michigantown, we passed the home of Wayne Patchett. We stopped and talked to Marilyn. After she had graduated from Indiana University, she married Wayne and is now teaching in a public school besides giving private music lessons on the piano and the organ. They have a family of two. She told us that Phyllis Conrad has her own radio show and makes personal appearances on television. She married a young singer and lives in New York. They have two children, a boy and a girl. She also informed us that Violet Zartman was a registered nurse. After being graduated from Home Hospital at Lafayette, she married a boy from Frankfort. They now live in Clregon and have twin girls. Back in Michigantown we saw the former Sarah Crist, who is now the postmaster there. She is married and has three children, two girls and one boy. She informed us that the former Janet Weaver had married Robert Crenshaw. They moved to Chicago, where Robert is an interior decorator for Marshall Fields. They have one girl. Since'Sara's mother and father had moved to Canada and Fern's had moved to California, we spent the night with Wi1ma's parents.

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Class Will I, Phyllis Jackson, will my ability to stay out late at night and come to school the next morning to Carol Nunnally, and my typing book to anyone who is stupid enough to take second year typing. I, Sarah Crist, will my ability to quit shorthand to anyone smart enough to quit in time. l, Phyllis Conrad, will my shortness to Jack Cole. l, Joan Ostler, will my ability to stay home nights to Laura Jean Perrel. I, Marilyn Sharp, will my typing speed to the girls of the Junior Class, and my music and art ability to Sarah Newell. I, Luther Benge, will my ability to think to Bill Reed. I, Sara Huffer, will my ability to make the teacher aggravated by talking to Ramona Newton, and my height to Shirley Avery. l, Janice Huffer, will my ability to go to the typing contest to Mike Wayt, and my short hair to Carol Nunnally. l, Janet Weaver, will my ability to go steady with one boy to Virginia Canter, and my temper to Jane Ann Ransopher. I, John Higbee, will my ability to drive slowly to Jack Cole. l, Wilma Jean Whiteman, will my ability to be the only girl in advanced math class to Donna Faye Perrel. l, Sam Fields, will my ability to have the best behavior in government class to Phil Reed. I, Margaret Kingery, will my ability to take five solids during my Senior year to anyone who thinks he can struggle through, and my ability to wreck a car to Joe Mason, Jr. I, Carolyn Cohee, will my ability to have the car when I want it to Phil Reed, and my bobbi-pins to Donna Faye. Perrel. I, Fern Shearer, will my temper to Mary Lee Hutchins, and my government book to any Senior next year who is fool enough to buy one. I, Barbara Sutton, will my ability to be the principa1's daughter to anyone who can stand the strain, and my ability to play first clarinet to anyone who can do the job.