Mooresville High School - Wagon Trails Yearbook (Mooresville, IN)

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Cfadd ,Mainz-3 In the fall of '44 when the school bell rang, eighty-six boys and girls took their dinner pails, kissed their mothers goodbye, and entered Mooresville High School as the class of '48. Fifty-four of these green freshmen were from Moores- ville, and the remaining thirty were from Walnut Grove. Thus we began our high school careers. At our first class meeting we elected class officers-Rona1d Tressler, Don- ald Shrake, Josephine Olleman, Phyllis Copeland, and Charles Quillen. Class sponsors were Miss Tanner and Mr. Gross. About two weeks after entering school the seniors devised a torturous plan of initiating us unsuspecting freshmen. All of us had to say a little speech to ev- ery honorable senior we met. How cute the girls must have looked with their pigtails tied with green ribbons, page faced Cmake-up was strictly forbiddenl, and carrying a doll wherever they went. The boys were every bit as cute as the girls with their clothes turned wrong-side-out, their faces besmirched with make- up, and their hair tied in ribbons that matched their equally green personalities. In the afternoon the seniors presented a program for the benefit of us freshmen at which disciplinary action was taken against those of us who had not paid the appropriate respect to our superiors . Even though we were just beginning our high school life, we did not take a back seat. Our class was represented in athletic, musical, and social activities. Entering our sophomore year with a class of sixty-three was a bit different. We had only a few new faces with which to become acquainted. Miss Moore and Mr. Bisesi were class sponsorsg and class officers were John Stokesberry, Joan Graham, George Carlisle, Marilyn Miller, Max Isaacs, and Ruth Brown. Our class gave a Valentine party for the entire high school, and each class entered a candidate for Valentine Queen . Our class felt highly elated when Fleta Modlin won the crown. Those of our class participating in athletics were Quillen, Carlisle, Pearcy, Wright, Poe, Percifield, Van Hoy, Stokesberry, Shrake, Dobbins, Ferguson, Fis- cus, and Lively. Since we were to have more responsibilities and new experiences in '46, we, a class of sixty boys and girls eager to gain knowledge, entered our junior year with an air of importance. We were busy selling pop corn, ice cream and cokes at noon hours and ball games to provide funds for our class events. Class officers were John Stokesberry, George Carlisle, Marcia Carpenter, Mabel Marcum, Charles Quillen, and Maxine Park, and class sponsors were Miss Ragsdale and Mr. Finke. In the latter part of October we presented Spooky Tavern . The cast in- cluded Marcia Carpenter, Marilyn Miller, Betty Simpson, Josephine Olleman, Margaret Shields, David Lively, George Carlisle, Wayne Merriman, Howard Pearcy, John Stokesberry, and Charles Quillen. Barbara Head was student- directorg Miss Ragsdale, director: and Miss Nay, assistant-director. Juniors engaged in sports were Quillen, Shrake, Carlisle, Lively, Pearcy, Poe, Stevens, Percifield, Ferguson, Dobbins, and Fiscus. The climax of our junior year was the junior-senior prom and banquet in honor of the seniors. As the theme for the occasion we chose a night club, and dec- orations carried out this motif. The evening was highlighted by the crowning of our prom queen, Jane Henderson. Then came our senior year,,the year that all underclassmen look to with eag- lffonlinrzril on page .cefventy-fourl PAGE TWENTY

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