New Lisbon High School - Nu Lisannial Yearbook (New Lisbon, IN)

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enior Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If. If? If he hollers let him go Eeeny, Meeny. Miny, Moe. Oh, dear. These dreadful headaches. This job of being president sure makes a wreck out of your nervous system. When I got up this morning I scratched my pancakes and poured molasses down my back. tQuoted from Babe LJ I know what I need. A vacation. Think I'll go back to my old home town New Lisbon and see how the city is making out. Guess I'll travel by rocket. The airplane service is so slow and old-fashioned any- more. Why they can't get over 500 out of them old antiques. Well, here I am. Gosh, this place sure has changed. It's grown so much it's taken Indianapolis in as a suburb. Hmm. A beauty shop. Better stop and have my hair curled. Well I'll be, Enid McKillip. She seems to run the place. We talk over old times for a while. Boy was she ever surprised when I told her I wanted my hair curled. Well. that's done. Guess I'll see how it looks. Ye gads. It's red. I find out too late she has a mania for dying people's hair red. Blonde red. blue red, black red. red. but mostly too red. Hmm. Nice looking night club over there. Guess I'll go over and toy with the I-Ioy Paloy. Hob with the Knob. fDon't ask me what it means. I don't know either.l Well, can you imagine that. a woman runs the place. Thelma Brenner, of all the people. From what I hear she's the main reason New Lisbon grew so fast. I hear she has a fad for birds. Itty Biddy Yeller birds called Baby. Itsy Coo, Mama's iddle heart-throb, Slugger. Superman and other such repulsive names. If they happen to be parrots they bite your fingers, then say. Well I'll be durned. Hamburger. fOr some other such profane phrase.l Say, what's all the racket about. Hershel Ankrom and his wife. They say he's raising hogs. He raises hogs for every purpose. Even Pork. They're highly recom- mended by those who have bought them for such. Hog's the best kind of pork there is. He's got so much money he takes a butler around with him every where he goes to hold his Coat. feed him, etc. What the heck, he's leav- ing his wife with the butler and going over to see the floor show. Such howling and whistling. Sounds like a freight train going through. And to think that I thought the butler was for taking care of HIM. Might have known it though. Same old Hershel. This is strictly off the record but I hear that he carries a razor blade around with him to slide down, if he happens to get bored. Well I'll be go set on a tack. lim Hall. Has he ever changed. Girls on both arms and money hanging out his pockets. It seems he discovered gold and swipe a tcensoredl but he catches me. I quickly apologize but he still seems rather angry. lust as I'm about to faint with fright, he puts his gun back, POI? QC? gives me a dirty look and goes on. He surely didn't recognize me with my red hair. Looks like a good theater over there. Might as well see who's playing. Ha. Old Baldy Carroll in person, This oughta be good. Iust as I thought. It's really Doris. Rumors say she makes a fortune selling buttons off vests. Nertz. No seats. Guess she had them taken out so as to have more room for rolling them in the aisles. Oops there goes a button! There goes another. Stop it. You're driving me crazy. KNO Comments please.l Let me out of here. Somebody lend me a tooth- pick while I pick the corn out of my teeth: Say look at that big apartment store. Think I'll window shop awhile. My goodness. Nothing but broomsticks. Well I'll be Audrey Semler's the owner. It seems she's gone into the witching business rather deep. Her broomsticks are quite up to date too. They've got chrome plated aluminum handles, Fluid Drive, Hydraulic brakes, a special air horn for certain types of haunting and are jet propelled with four wheel drive. They can also be used for sweep- ing the floor clear of bones, sweeping blood clown the drains and other such domestic uses, if necessary. They also have a special apparatus tor collecting the cold sweat off people's brows and turning it into iced tea. CNothing Wasted is there?l Don't forget a plasma chaser. Tums are good for sour stomach I hear. I wonder what that is across the street. Faucett's kinder- garten. For GIRLS only. Better go over and check up. Yep, that's Don all right. I see he still picks them young. I suppose it was to be expected though. Instead of teach- ing them the three R's he teaches them the three N's. None of your business. Now wouldn't you like to know. I hear Ramona Miller is a private secretary for a big busi- ness man, so I decide to go up and see her. Iknow exactly where she'lI be so I go straight to the boss's office and walk in. Sure enough. there she's sitting on his desk. She's really a good secretary too. She takes dictation. shorthandation, osculation, etc. The next thing I know a couple of lugs throw me out on the street and I'm on my merry way again, and who should I meet but Wanda Thomas and her pet Cocker Spaniel. She's a famous model now. Works for the Itsy Bitsy Xibbled Dog Poison Com- pany. It's really pitiful the number of men who die around here because they got hold of the wrong box of breakfast food. CI think it's all a put up job.l I then drop'into the office of Mary Barlow who has become quite a business woman due to her inventing a machine to make mice out of men. This is very effective if you're too lazy to cook break- fast, or want to eat out. Well I feel a lot better now so I guess I better get back to my President's job. Those Morons just can't seem to be able to get along without me. IN. CJ Oops. Forgot Mr. Ankrom I hear he's developed a way to keep kids from skipping school. act like little gentlemen and he's got a lifetime job at Iimtown. tKeep it under your hat, but I think the above mentioned is nothing but an Atomic powered. LABOR Automatic paddling machine.

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Qnior Cfazia .Mdforg We started our long journey with Mr, Ank- rom in Sept. 1942 with seventeen members in our merry group. Having survived the initia- tion and returned giving the Hallowe'en party. Then we worked our way through that year with flying colors. We commenced the Sophomore year with eighteen members, having gained one mem- ber CMartha Danielsl but we lost her at the end of the year. We gave a recreation pro- gram in the gym on Nov. 30. We started Sept. 1944 with sixteen Iolly Iuniors. We had lost two of our members tEd Pleasantl and CDonna Owens? by moving away. We entertained the school with an assembly program and recreation in the gym. On De- cember 8 we gave our Iunior play No Foolin'. Helen McNabb moved to Kentucky on Ianuary 25, 1945. We then had fifteen members in our class. .7L.e .Sznior Dear Heirs: We of the Senior Class, being of sound mind and body twe hopel tno commentsl, wish to an- nounce to our duly named heirs and interested persons the blessings we, the Seniors, wish to bestow upon them. I, Hershel D. Ankrom, Ir., wish to will to Iason Ziglar one slightly used Harem. I, Doris Carroll, will my boistorous ways to Dorothy Bertsch. I, Wanda Thomas, will my well developed teyesl to anybody who will keep them in good SHAPE! I, Thelma Brenner, will my babyishness and spoiled disposition to Phyllis Smith. I, Ramona Miller, will to Thelma Beeson my ability to wrap men around my finger. I, Enid McKillip, will my red hair to anybody who has a temper to match it. I, Iames Hall, will my dominant disposition We lost lim Crone, Dick House, and Paul Stover to the services during the summer so when we got together in September 1945 there were only eleven of us. It almost ended with ten of us when Audrey Semler was in an auto- mobile accident the first week of school. She finally got back to school after Christmas and will graduate with us. Forgetting the chance of any more fatalities along the way we shall proudly lift our col- lective noses from the grindstone and after April 19 we shall be among the Alumni. We gave the Senior class play in the early part of March. The play was Ginger Snaps Back. Our flower is the White Lily, colors are Du- bonnet and Gold and our motto is Climb though the Rocks be Rugged. C7056 'MA over girls to Bobby Werking. tP.S. Take it easy.l I, Don Faucett, will my size and basketball ability to Buddy Werking. to boost the Iimtown cause next season. I, Audrey Semler tin good faithl, will my ability to go swimming on initiation with all my clothes on to anybody crazy enough to take it. I, Lloyd Werking, will all my spare blondes to Charlie Luellen. CUnwillinglyl tP.S. Take good care of them.l Ole pal, Ole chum. I, Mary Barlow, will my ability to lose men to anybody who wants to get rid of one. Wery effective so we hear.l We have willed the above named persons these things with all good faith in the hope that they will prove beneficial and give you a longer, happier, and easier life. Signed, All the Seniors 11

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el'l'l0l y Cine Maybe you will remember these things that happe school here. REMEMBER WHEN: Hershel D. and Mary were that way about each other? We won at least one basketball game? Doris Breneman wrote Mississippi Mud? ned in your years of Thompson's speech on why Boys should stay single? The Senior girls went swimming? Hershel D's ability to tell tall stories at noon? It was safe to go behind the stage scenery? Ramona liked to play under the bleachers? Audrey had her fortune told? Thelma B. and Doris C. had a good time on the way home from Indianapolis? lim Crone went to school here? Seniors forgot to take refreshments on Initiation? Iim Hall liked to ride on tractors? Ramona liked to slide down Audrey's bathtub? Albrecht had a broken heart? Thelma sat on Mr. Ankrom's lap? Don Faucett didn't rob the cradle? Mrs. Stewart smoked cigars? Ierk became everyone's chaperone? A day Mary wasn't moody? Lloyd liked Iune Houser from Mooreland? Paul S. sang I Have No Use For The Women? Some people had to go home early because of a nervo Doris L. thought a certain boy from Connserville was it? Wanda T. was learninq to drive? Doris C. fell down at the Hal1owe'en party? Dick House wanted to borrow SSO? Enid had a good time at Glenn Millers Park? Freshmen three S slogan -- Simple, Stupid and Slow? The basketball boys didn't smoke? Thelma B. wrote notes to Iohnny C.? Mr. Ankrom's gradebook disappeared? Doris C. and Annabelle G. got lost at the Crow's nest? Freshman put cider in Miss Lamberson's gas tank? Mary Lou K. fell down in the Assembly? Audrey saw who Got Gertie's Garter? Mary came to school three days out of five? 15 us breakdown? u