New Palestine High School - Avalon Yearbook (New Palestine, IN)

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. at A - ' ' 4 4 ..,.,-l,,-.,- 1 Betty Lou's home was the scene of our class party. Olive, Peg, and Betty Lou quarreled. Virginia regularly left her Latin translation at home. Bee bees were thrown in history class. 1936-37 Eleventh Year: Teachers: Mr. Herman Hallett, Mr. Theron Ogle, Mr. Carl Wilson, Miss Martha M. Willis Miss Ellice Presnall, Miss Alberta Denk, W. P. A. sets in. We received a lot of toys in our Christmas exchange. We sold candy. Wilbur stayed in at noon for 17 consecutive days. Mr. Wilson had one of his speediest typing classes. Jim argued politics-and Won. Max won the Ping Pong Tourney. Olive modeled her rust knit dress in the study hall. 1937-3 s Twelfth Year: R Tc'ac'bers: Mr. Herman Hallett, Mr. Theron Ogle, Mr. Charles Everson, Miss Ruby Shanks, Mrs. Ruth Heavin, Miss Alberta Denk, Miss Martha M. Willis. W. P. A. made us all lazy. Mr. Ogle admitted he was superstitious. We were usually well represented in the cooler at the noon hour. Wilbur, John, Ward and Dale spent the afternoon with Miss Shanks. Lizzie went over with a bang. The senior class enjoyed participating in the school's first radio program-a dramatiza- tion of Dickens' immortal Christmas Carol. Those taking part were: Reader, Betty Lou Jacobi, Scrooge, Don Lantzg Bob Cratchet, Bob Waltzg Spirit, Jim Walker, Mrs. Cratchet, Melba Conesg Gentleman, Ward Snodgrass. Seniors who assisted in the music were Wil- liam Lantz, john Branam, and George Faut. Reward of our labors! The Avalon, the most notable accomplishment of our senior year, to which every member of the class contributed, returns from the press.. Graduation night found us nineteen in number, fourteen of whom had been together during the entire twelve years of our happy stay at New Palestine. Remembrance is the sweetest flower Of all the world's perfuming. Memory guards it sun or shower. Friendship keeps it blooming.

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William made a D on an Arithmetic paper. Don had a rip-roaring three weeks romance with Betty Lou. Wilbur visited the ofhce regularly. Our Class won the Baseball League. Jimmy apologized beautifully to Miss Presnall. Mabel decided it was not expedient to thr-ow orange peelings out the window. 1933-34 Eighth Grade: Teachers: Mr. Alpha Smith, Mr. Fred Keesling, Mr. Robert Snodgrass, Mr. Charles Ever- son, Miss Ellice Presnall, Miss Betty Ruth Martindale. Don shaved. The stay in at noon minutesl' hit the eighth grade pretty hard. Hair ribbons, rouge, no eyebrows, and innumerable curls were hot stufff' Wilbur had an eraser fight. Miss Presnall slapped us for flipping our rulers. Wilbur's head was too hard for Miss Martindale's baton. 1934-35 Ninth Grade: Thirty-three had weathered the storms so far and with the highest hopes looked with a Freshman's assurance toward Senior Row and graduation. Teachers: Mr. Alpha Smith, Mr. Fred Keesling, Mr. Charles Everson, Miss Thelma Flack, Miss Ellice Presnall, Miss Harriet Krause. Initiation! Dale fainted in the electric chair. William sang on bended knee to Mabel, All I Do the Whole Day Through ls Dream of You. Don had to stay in for playing hookey. Peggy was excused from Biology class for the rest of the month. Jim was chosen Yell Leader. 1935-36 Tenth Grade: a Teachers: Mr. Herman Hallett, Mr. Theron Ogle, Mr. Otis Kelley, Miss Thelma Flack, Miss Ellice Presnall, Miss Alberta Denk. Latin! Mock wedding. The class room seemed an ideal place to play ball-when the teacher was out. We watched the mice play around the waste basket.

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II ' ll altuzq, thc. Knunf. A farce comedy in three acts by Vivian Mayo Presented by the Seniors of 1938 John Allison and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Laura Howard, are always at odds. In fact, they have a tacit agreement to disagree. Mrs. Howard and her son, Jimmie, who just drifts along and doesn't worry about anything, came to the Allison home to spend a week end and have remained ten years, the former running the house and everybody in it. Through a friend, she has succeeded in getting Count Rinaldo, whom she has never seen, to accept an invitation to attend a party in his honor. And great preparations are made, much to Allison's annoyance. He becomes enraged when he learns that Mrs. Allison, at Mrs. Howard's suggestion, has engaged a part time butler to impress the guests. The Count telegraphs he is unable to be present, whereupon Mrs. Allison, who enjoys poor health, promptly faints, takes to her bed and sends for the doctor. The latter is out of town, so his assistant comes. Meanwhile, Jimmie, who has aspirations to become a crooner, wants the piano tuned. Allison forbids it, but Mrs. Howard overrides his authority and secretly sends for the piano-tuner. He is mistaken for the doctor and the latter for him, which provides an up- roarious situation. Among the guests are Mrs. Augusta Dumont, the wife of a self-made millionaire, and her daughter, Phyllis. Mrs. Dumont is the gushing, overdressed, nouveau rich type, with an obsession she is a great singer. She constantly vocalizes, to the distress of her hearers. The Allisons' daughter, Joy, hoping to assuage her mother's keen disappointment over the Count's non-appearance, connives with her father to have Eddie Lester, the piano- tuner, impersonate the Count. Eddie is willing to oblige, so the plan is carried out, as no one knows of the Count's telegram but Mr. and Mrs. Allison and Joy. Meanwhile, the Count has sent a second telegram, which is not received, and he arrives and is mistaken for the butler by Mrs. Howard, who is furious at his tardiness, and be- rates him without giving him a chance to explain who he is. Thinking it will be a lark, he assents to all Mrs. Howard says, and tells her his name is Wilkins and immediately as- sumes the butler's duties. Eddie and Phyllis fall in love and elope, aided by Allison, who readily assists them as a sweet revenge on Mrs. Dumont. Then when Wilkins tells him that he is in love and thinking of marrying, Allison urges him to get married at once, hoping to embarrass Mrs. Howard before her guests by leaving her without her butler. Wilkins takes him at his word, then Allison learns it is his daughter whom Wilkins has married. CAST OF CHARACTERS John Allison ........ .....,..,...,,... R obert Waltz Count Nicholas Rinaldo ..,.,... ........,. D on Lantz Emily Allison ...,....... ......,.. M abel Lichtenberg Doctor Langford ....,....,....... ...,..... J ohn Branam Joy Allison, ....,...,....,.... ..,.,..., B etty Lou Jacobi Thomas Dumont .,.......,.... .....,.... W ilbur Lantz Mrs. Laura Howard ....,. ,....,....,. M elba Cones Augusta Dumont ....... ......,.,.., P eggy Snyder Jimmy Howard ...,.,...... ,,..... M ax Hendryx Phyllis Dumont .-..,,.... ........,... E lizabeth Curry Eddie Lester .....,................,........,.,..... James Walker Jennie ......,..............,.......,......,. Mary Louise Raesner Assisting in stage management, make-up, publicity, ticket sales, and special features were Donzel Bundy, George Faut, William Lantz, Jr., Virginia Means, Olive Montgomery, Dale Snodgrass, and Ward Snodgrass. All the world's a stage and the men and women merely players. -Shakespeare.