Ossian High School - Oracle Yearbook (Ossian, IN)

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Helen Gallmeyer and Arthur Glass joined us to make a total of thirty-one fourth graders. Miss Elaine Miller guided us through this year. Oscar Geisel, our fifth grade teacher, kept us on the right path to knowl- edge during 1940-4l. To our disappointment we lost eight friends during this year but we welcomed Robert Good, Richard Meilicke, Marcele Eoulks, Ruth Havens, and lesse Lewis. During our sixth year we lost loann Archbold, Donald Holycross, Delores Patterson, Elva Reinking, Ioyce Kincaid, and Robert Good, but David Wood, Robert Easley, and Pauline Lewis joined us to make our group a total of twenty-five. Lloyd Way was our instructor. Being the Iunior High and called underclassmen, noisy little seventh graders, etc., didn't stop us from enjoying ourselves. Of course, we were too young to realize the full meaning of December 7, l94l. During this year Ioyce Kincaid, Phyllis and Patricia Scott, Delores Patterson, and loan Archbold came back to us and Pat Shierling, Mary lo Bales, Doris Miller, Ruth Manns, Roger Stoneburner, Neil Stahl, Ierorne Lindemann, Marvin Miller, and lean Prough enrolled as new members. Iames Murray was our sponsor. As September, l942, rolled around to start another school term, the eighth grade of Ossian found itself composed of 32 pupils. During the summer We lost lean Prough, Pauline Lewis, Marvin Miller, Phyllis and Patricia Scott, but Lester Wilson, Lester Bauermeister, Dale Werling, Norman Ostermeyer, Walter Kiefer, Russell Thurber, Dorothy Werling, and Helen Gallmeyer en- rolled to swell our class. At last! The year we were looking forward to had comel Our first year in high schooll We were now freshmen! This year was a general get-acquaint ed year because it was the largest enrollment of all our l2 years. During the summer we lost Lester Wilson and Mary Io Bales. The last week in August when we started, nineteen new boys and girls anxious to know what Ossian was like, came as Greenhorns to the high school. They were Richard Clark, Mary Furthmiller, Leora Herbst, Norma lohnson, from Yoder, Ellis Mcljadden from Poe, Anna Heinrich, Dorothy Miller, loann Springer, Marcella Springer, and Robert Springer from St. Marks Lutheran, Eldora Bauerrneister, Ervin Graft, Edgar Rekeweg, and Wilmer Werling from Bethlehem Lutherang Mar- jorie Scherry and Magdalene Hilgemann from Magley. After Christmfas vaca- tion Dorothy Christman and Paul Sheets came from Elmhurst, and Mary Esther Hostetter came from Otwell. Edgar Rekeweg withdrew from school due to illness. Mrs. Doris Coblen.z, our class sponsor, also our biology teacher, shared our joys and sorrows with us, and helped us prepare for the coming years. Officers for this year were jerry Lindemann, president, Lester Bauermeister, vice-president, Ervin Graft, secretary, and Ellis McFadden, treasurer. ln our second year of high school, our enrollment was still 49. Our leader- ship was given to Miss Smith and Mr. Gerwig. We chose for entertainment a Concluded on Page 53 19

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r. Class Poem Here is the end of another year. From the class of '47 you now shall hear. We've only tried to do our best, So don't be critical in your test. First a salute to our sponsors grand., Who all through this year have maae a great stand. To Miss Hoopengardner and Mr. Gerwig. - A Go our heartiest thanks, for the small ana :ne big, And to Mr. Benson who through thick and thin, Spent a lot of his time to help us win. And to all the taculty upstairs and down, Who helped us here and all around. For Miss Logan we give a cheer. Without her there'd be no Oracle here. Miss West did a lot, here and there. Better help couldn't be found anywhere. Mrs. Archbold's daughter Ioan, ls a likely wile for any man. For all twelve years she's been with us, And never makes a bit of fuss. Richard Bard was in both our plays, l-le's editor of Bear Facts, too, And we hear from lots oi girls, That he also can pitch the wooll Eldora Bauermeister is musically inclined, She's artistic, domestic, and very refined. She can bake a cake or turn a hem. As a wife she'll be a gem. King of Sports is our guy Cy, Who keeps himself in the public eye. He gives the girls many a thrill. We all like Les and we always will. Norma Baumgardner has big brown eyes. You can tell by her grades she's very wise. Her hair is naturally curly and brown, A nicer girl just can't be found Phyllis Carnes is next on our list, If she should leave, she'd certainly be missed. This glamorous gal was in both our plays, And yell leader during her senior days. A cute little gal is Irma Lou, She is a friend to all of you. This year she was our own cheer leader, We can't do without her, because we need her. Shirley Dalton works in a store, This attractive girl has friends galore. She had a whiny part in the senior play, But usually she's bright and gay. Next we come to Georgie Farr. He drives around in a Chevie car. His mouth's the biggest in the class, But .with us :oniors he will pass. Well, well, here's Floellen Fryback, For playing the piano she has a knack. She says shes a friend so the boy next aoor, But we wonder it it Coxzldnt be something more Helen Gallrneyer lives :em Poe. lflhen you tall: to her she giggles and says Oh . lunior irorn Hoagland is he: man, Hes tall and handsome ana 'req tan. Anna Heinrich whom you all know, Can really bake and cook and sew. Shes very quiet and also shy. But we know Anna will always get by. Leora Belle is a very nice girl, And around ner tace, her hair does curl. She is very contented as you all know, And sets everyones heart aglow. We've heard Maggie Hilgernan is not hard to please, That she and Cal have that awful disease. lt Consists oi four letters but means a lot. The disease is Love , believe it or not. Our girl coming up is quite artistic. Shes short, she-'s gay, and a cute little trick. nf' --i 'i . a.tv rioover will walk througn -iie, Looking, waiting, for a man without a wife. lxlary Esther from here in town, Seems to be one of our class clowns. Wnen she goes by, you should see her smile, She has a grin that will beam for a mile. Gaylord lackson is short and sort ot slim. Worrying about chemistry make him thin. When he gets married and has eight or nine, Everyone will say he's doing iine. Robert Kiefer who has no girl, Sits around with his head in a whirl. And now when he wants to spoon, He sits by himself out under the moon. loyce Kincaid says, How do I look? She has a fit it there's a crook That shouldnt be there, when lohnny's around To make a show in this big town. Larry Kreigh likes the girls, And more than that he prefers the curls. BV and by he'll get his dame, Bat ':1e're -not going to tell leer name. , One ol our basketball players is lerry, At Pat's house he likes to larry. I-le doesn't have his ring anymore, He put it on Pat's finger by the door. Another from Tocsin? My, oh, myl That town surely can't be dry, With such a qirl as one like this. Ruth is just like her big sis. 4 Concluded on Page 22 21