Montpelier High School - Spartan Yearbook (Montpelier, IN)

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dred Clark and Bob Rayburn. Of course, some of these couples are broken, but others are still good friends ............ In our last year we chose the following for our officers: Bob Park, president, Bill Hawk, vice- presidentg Betty Ellis, treasurer, Gathel Walker, secretary, and Janice Shroyer and Sam Wunder- baum, class advisers. Our class sponsors were Miss Albertson and Mr. Morgan. There were forty-two very anxious seniors who started their last year of school. Betty Ellis left us at the be- ginning of the year, but she decided that she would rather finish her education at Montpelier than any place else. First of all we started the annual drive, divid- ing the senior class into two sides, with Bob Park, captain of the blues, and Bill Hawk, of the golds. We exceeded our quota of subscriptions in record time, with the golds winning the contest ..... . . On January 9 the losing side, the Blues, enter- tained the winners at a banquet given in the Home Economics room and spent a most enjoyable eve- nmg............. After the subscription drive was completed the annual staff was chosen and we began work on the Indianian Although this was a very difficult task, each student did his part to make this book a success. Under the supervision of Miss Albertson, we worked faithfully until it was completed. On January 31 we gave a very interesting convocation, The Minstrel Show. On April 25 we presented our class play, Spring Fever, a three-act farce comedy by Glen Hughes. The cast was as follows: Howard, Dee Townsg Ed, Bob Park, Vic, Bill Davis, Anne, Elaine Landis, Lou, Betty Ellis, Vivian, Janice Shroyerg Mrs. Spangler, Helen Riggs, Mr. Purcell, Bill Hawk, Mrs. Pur- cell, Mildred Johnsong Aunt Maude, Jeanne Hol- croftg Professor Bean, Warren Emshwillerg Presi- dent Dixon, Bill Cheney. On May 16 we were entertained by the Jun- ior Class at the Junior-Senior reception. Bacca- laureate services were held on May 18. The Com- mencement was held on May 22. The class wore blue caps and gowns and the class flower, a white rose. The class colors were royal blue and white, and the motto was Not the Sunset but the Dawn. The commencement address was deliv- ered by The Rev. Harley L. Overdeer. For our closing activity we were entertained by the Alum- ni Association on May 23. As our Dear Old School Days draw to a close, our slates are filled with school day memor- ies, so we lay them aside to fill a new slate of life. azyclreams Once upon a time in a fourth hour study hall, as Mildred Johnson sat doing complicated sums on her slate, she dozed off for the first time in all her school years. As the trance of sleep held her in its sway, the slate opened as a door into the future. Full of childish curiosity she stepped through. The world of 1960 lay before her in grand array. Traveling down the highway of tomorrow, she saw Harold Brock as he headed for the Brown Derby in his canary yellow Rolls Royce to hear John Clark and his orchestra, now ap- pearing at the Derby for a five year engagement. Here she saw Warren Emshwiller, the champ bean shooter sitting hopefully on the sidelines. Also she saw Mary Murl Pugh doing the hot spots of Chinatown. As Mildred crossed the Pacafic leaving the U.S.A. behind, she stopped in Hawaii, where Bill Davis, Rear-Admiral of the Navy, was showing Bill Jr. how to sail his boat in the swimming pool of his father's big country estate, while Mrs. ..141

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Tear ld School cz s We've grown, in 'four short years, from pig- tailed little girls and small, tousled boys, into sen- iors, the graduating class of 1941. As We near the end of our Dear Old Golden Rule Days - days of classes, homework, trips to the oiice, Jr.- Sr., club, convocations, pep sessions, balcony meet- ings, chapel, and most of all, the nal exams, we stop long enough to write on o slates and copy books a story too long to be told in this single volume. At the beginning of our Dear Old Golden Rule Days , we chose as our officers: Bob Park, president, Bill Hawk, vice-president, Janice Shroy- er, secretary-treasurer, and Norma Shadle and Dick Henderson, class advisers. We had as our sponsors Miss Morehouse and Mr. Craig. On the opening day of school we had an enrollment of sixty-one, but five students withdrew during the year: Bernice Boltz, Robert Carey, Edna Carr, Lois Evans and Ethel Irelan. Inez Beeks and Mar- garet Fisher entered after school had begun. Jack Lineberry also entered but withdrew after only a few weeks' stay. On November 24 we gave a two-act playlet entitled The Mysterious Thanks- giving Guest. . . Remember some of the puppy love we had way back in those good old days? Then, Jeanne Hol- croft, now our editor-in-chief, and Bob Park, now our class president, were to be seen courting in the vestibule at noon, and Janice Shroyer and Bill Hawk were often seen strolling together at noon. That year Mildred Johnson thought she just could- n't live unless she had Sam Wunderbaum by her side, however she soon changed her mind, or some- body changed it for her. How well do we remember when our readin', writin', and 'rithmetic were taught to the tune of a hickory stick. We began our sophomore year with Gathel Walker, president, Betty Ellis, vice - president, Bill Chaney, secretary - treasurer, and Evelyn Richwine and Jim Whitecotton, class advisers. Our sponsors were Miss Morton and Mr. Cantwell. Fifty-six students entered the class at the beginning of the year and four withdrew: Jeanne Griffith, Hershel Kershner, Leo Schmidt, and John Norton. As our convocation that year we presented Whose Money? Each sophomore girl very anxiously awaited to see if she would be one of the lucky few that would get her first taste of the annual Jr.-Sr. banquet that year by being chosen to serve. Of all the things that happened in our junior year! We chose as our leaders: Dave Bowman, president, Jim Whitecotton, vice-president, Ga- thel Walker, secretary-treasurer, and Velma Free- man and Dick Henderson, class advisers. Our sponsors were Miss Nelson and Mr. Wilson. At the beginning of the year there were fifty-nine juniors. Then John Giles and George McCleary entered during the first semester, but Raymond Chenoweth, Milan Sills, John Giles, Alice Ham- mond, George McCleary, and Edith Goodnight Erithdrew during the year, leaving us only fifty- ve ............. . . One of the big events was the selecting of our class rings on October 31. Oh, dear! we thought we just couldnlt wait until they came. When they arrived, every junior went about say- ing, See my ring. I think they're the most beau- tiful class ring I have seen for many a year. It seems rather odd that several boys didn't buy a ring, or at least they weren't wearing one. I guess that is one way of showing a girl your affection. . . . On December 1 we presented as our class play Relatives by Affection, a Chinese drama, the characters of which were as follows: Dee Towns, Betty Ellis, Elaine Landis, Gathel Walker, George McCleary, Denton Reff, Bill Chaney, Velma Free- man, Bill Davis, Janice Shroyer, Jeanne Holcroft, Valda Dennings, Warren Emshwiller, Margaret Fisher and Helen Louise Riggs. On April 17, we gave as our convocation Who Says Can't?,' My! my! what a bustle on May 17, when the juniors with eager anticipation decorated the Church of Christ for the annual Junior-Senior banquet! With an abundance of lilacs, tulips, red buds, and branches from trees, both with and without blossoms, the church was transformed into a Moonlit Garden. The flowers and branches were artistically arranged at either end of the room and around the orchestra platform. At one end of the room a wooden bridge was improvised, over which the guests were forced to walk. Large bowls of tulips and lilacs decorated the candle- lighted tables. Vari-colored balloons, overhead, added to the effectiveness of the setting. A three- piece orchestra played delightful music through- out the banquet. Some of the good friends, or couples, at the banquet were: Helen Davis and Dave Bowman, Velma Freeman and Jim Whitecotton, and Mil- -13.-

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Davis, the former Elaine Landis, painted the scene in her famous Landis style. While this was being enacted below, Dee Towns flew overhead in his private plane, making a quick getaway in a smoke screen from a swarm of admiring Hartford City girls. After the traveler landed in Shanghai, China, she saw James Marion, the most sophisticated floorwalker in Woolworth's Five and Ten, show- ing the Chinese ladies where to find the kitchen- ware department. In China she also encountered Margaret Fisher on her way to join her fiancee, Fred Culberson, who was in Calcutta taking snake-charming lessons from Alberta Sutton, ali- as Madame Lazonga. Going north through Si- beria, she saw Orville Cline, jr. milk his two hun- dred and ten dairy cows with the assistance of his new invention, The Super Milker. She reluc- tantly passed up this interesting sight to go to Persia, where she encountered her old friend, Mrs. Dan Markley, the former Evelyn Richwine, mak- ing an extended visit with her aunt, Mrs. Hutchi- son, formerly Inez Beeks. From there she went to Istanbul, where she found Von Elbert and Roy Rains, Jr., the playboys of the world, trying to escape the clutches of two beautiful mademoiselles who had followed them from Paris. Then her dream carried her to darkest Africa, where to her surprise she beheld Bill Hawk still trying to invent machines to keep him from working. Too, she found Norma Shadle teaching the natives to do the rhumba and the Big Apple. After taking a few lessons, Mildred left Africa for Europe. She entered Europe with a little shiver of fear, for in Berlin Dick Henderson and his world fam- ous hockey team, The New York Rangers, were playing Hitler's Blackshirts in a contest for the world championship. After spurring her former classmate on, she went to Oxford University, where she found in the library, the best seller of a few years back, Hold Your Man , by Helen Louise Riggs, the famous authority on love and the weaker sex. Crossing the Atlantic she found herself in New York City, where Betty Sills was doing stage work, while the Carls, former boy friends, fought it out for her affections, backstage. Down in Boston, Senator David Bowman was telling Dave Jr. that he couldn't be president because he was a republican. Going on to Washington, she saw Esther Gerard, who was dividing her time between being the wife of William Lewis Chaney, the fam- ous banker who balanced the country's budget, and knitting sweaters for Merle Morton, who had joined the Foreign Legion to forget .... Leaving Washington, she traveled to Georgia, where she found Mrs. Robert Pence, formerly Mildred Clark, pulling a plough, while her husband drove the tractor. At Camp Shelby, in Mississippi, Sam Wunderbaum was filling army tanks with Ethyl, five gals. for one dollar. He was making money on the deal, too. On down in Mexico City, she found Miss Valda Dennings tossing a flower pot from her balcony at her caballero who was sing- ing It All Comes Back to Me Now. In Del Rio, Texas, Denton fBing Crosbyj Reff was serenading the cowgirls. Up in Kansas City, Kansas City Kittyn alias Betty Ellis, the famous beauty cul- turist was giving Helen Davis, the women's champ wrestler, an automatic steam bath to get her in condition for her next wrestling match with Velma Freeman, The Hoosier Hotshot , in private life known as Mrs. James Whitecotton, wife of the Indianapolis Speedway King. In Chi- cago was to be seen Wilma Cunnington, the head of the commercial designers for Marshall Field and Company, conducting a class on Designing the Appropriate Gown for the Pocketbook of Your Customerf, In Cincinnati she heard Rob- ert R. Park give a very interesting address on The Ability of a Man to Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, his favorite hobby. Back in Indiana she beheld Robert Rayburn still trying to put an automobile up a telephone pole without denting the fender. He had ruined only 325 autos so far. In the great metropolis of Millgrove, she watched Jeanne Holcroft and Janice Shroyer still trying to compete with Montpelier girls. The boys just can't decide which are the best. She found Gathel Walker and Violet Stafford nursing in the Hickville Hospital and trying to decide whether to continue nursing or to become home- makers. In Montpelier High School she found Mr. Morgan and Miss Albertson, rapidly growing gray, putting out bigger and better Senior classes every year. Across from the school she beheld an old maid rocking and knitting as she waited calmly for a knight to come riding on a white horse, while her parrot screamed at her black cat. The person was, why, it was herself, but before she could find out what she was knitting and whether the man came or not, Miss Nelson tapped her on the shoulder and said, Mildred, I must in- form you that you have received ten demerits for sleeping in study hall, and you have also flunked Math!,' What a rude awakening from such a beautiful dream, Time alone will tell whether it will all come true. -15-