Mount Vernon High School - Hoop Pole Yearbook (Mount Vernon, IN)

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POSES- PLAIN FANCY BY THE HOOP-POLE STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF P. Gentil, J. Andersen, M. Leffel, D. Wallis, P. Nix BUSINESS STAFF ROW ONE: J. Andersen, L. McCutchan, K. Culley, J. Mathes, D. Anderson, Chairman; J. McCullough, R. Meredith, J. Redman, M. Leffel. ROW TWO: G. Proctor, R. Juncker, D. Stiles, G. Seibert, J. Keitel, S. Lindley. 18 TYPING STAFF J. Spillman C. Thomas B. Rowe K. Culley J. Mathes

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THEN, WE WERE JUNIORS, AND WE: opened the doors of our school to Kiyoshi Sawamura, a foreign exchange student from Japan saw history in the making via television when Colonel John Glenn orbited the earth sported our new class jackets down MVHS halls (wasn't everyone green with envy?) witnessed the comeback of the Mt. Vernon High News grumbled and mumbled about the new Progress Report Cards peddled magazines and pushed our sales up-up-UP to a record breaking total of $4362. 28 gobbled turkey as our reward at our Victory Banquet celebrated the first birthday of our new school received our gorgeous class rings ! finally ! cruised down the river aboard the Chaperon for our first Prom (It was almost sub-zero weather and most of us felt like sardines. Nevertheless, we enjoyed it.) participated in two new sports, wrestling and cross-country (we were quite good at them, too !). Remember? It was that wonderful school year 1961-62. IT WAS THE FOURTH AND FINAL YEAR WHEN WE: returned as 119 Seniors to conclude our high school career elected a football queen watched the birdie as our pictures were snapped rooted at ball games as the Booster Club was organized once again added to the Christmas spirit as well as to our treasury by our record- breaking Christmas card sales were subject to a few more bomb scares shivered in the coldest winter of ten years and missed two days of school because of snow were measured for our caps and gowns elected a basketball queen awaited the arrival of Babcock and Wilcox Company performed in the Senior Play danced and romanced at the Prom--an experiment of the first open prom bought and sent Senior announcements journeyed on the traditional Senior Trip played hookey for a whole week attended our Baccalaureate ceremony marched in the long gray line on the date of Commencement--May 24, 1963. Remember? It was our Senior year 1962-63. We did all these things--and more. We are like other high school students, yet we are different. We are the Class of 19631 17

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THE NINETEEN SIXTY-THREE HOOP-POLE THE NINETEEN SIXTY-THREE HOOP-POLE THE NINETEEN SIXTY-THREE HOOP-POLE THE NINETEEN SIXTY-THREE HOOP-POLE THE NINETEEN SIXTY-THREE HOOP-POLE THE NINETEEN SIXTY-THREE HOOP-POLE THE NINETEEN SIXTY-THREE HOOP-POLE THE NINET 19 MEMORABLE MOMENTS-