Perry High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Perry, OH)

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HELEN MADSEN MARTHA KISH HELPFUL . . . HAPPY . . . HEARTY Rosy cheeks . . . jolly blue eyea . . . and a happy-go-lucki-ness about her that is contagious . . . thinks nothing is funnier than a joke on one of her class mates . . . unless it's a joke on herself ... at which she laughs uproariously . . . buxom, bantering . . . cooperative to the nth degree . . . friendly, easy to get along with . . . ond keeps us oil from taking ourselves too seriously. ERNEST WILKINS INQUISITIVE . . . INIMITABLE . . .INDISPENSABLE Good old Perc . . . jovial, beaming, oozing happiness . . . always around when he's most needed . . . and works like a demon, too . . . sits engrossed, with knitted brow, over his books . . . with time out for an occasional chuckle and a bright blue twinkle over his specs . . . cheery, industrious, obliging . . . what would we do without him? . . . good old Perc. PATRICIA TURNER IMPULSIVE . . . IDEALISTIC . . . INDEFATIGABLE Toll . . . dark . . . vivid . . with moods as varied os the weather's . . . dignified and retiring at one moment . . carefree and impertinent at another . . . meets life with easy good humor . . . which doesn't quite conceal the idealistic, dreamer's side of her nature . . . throws herself whole-heartedly into th$ work she cheerfully volunteers to do . . . understanding, affable . . . and nice to know . . . different, dusky, dark-eyed Pat. GLADYS PE ATT IE VITAL . . . VERSATILE . . . VIVACIOUS The flash of white teeth revealed by a gay smile . . . the sparkle of dark, intelligent eyes . . . the glow of a healthy complexion . . . ond lots of wim and wigor'' . . . that's Pete . . . Makes you happy just to have her and her husky laughter around . . . yet she's business-like in her school work . . . capable and efficient . . . utterly frank, but never tactless . . . and the kind of a girl everyone wants os a friend. CUTE . . . CHIRPY . . . CAPRICIOUS Little and lithe and lively . . . with a pretty mop of always perfectly done blonde hair . . . o little bit saucy ... a little bit shy . . . and altogether unpredictable . . . likes to dance and giggle ... but dislikes boys who tease . . fixes the brutes with a withering (?) glare and proceeds to tell 'em off . . . pert, piquant ... but generous and sympathetic . . . challenges all who get in her way . . . and wouldn't hurt a flea . . . good kid. FANNIE LOU THOMAS MERRY . . . MUSICAL . . . MISCHIEVOUS Prim little braids of bright brown hair over big, dark eyes that don't miss a thing . . . likes to act and often does, whether on the stage or off . . . ever on the alert for something funny . . . and laughs hilariously whenever she gets a chance . . . impish, tomboy grin . . . passionately fond of music . . . robust, laughing voice . . . full of enthusiasm for everything that stands for excitement and fun. JOHN OLIVER ACTIVE . . . ARGUMENTATIVE . . . AMBITIOUS A very collegiate air about him . . . favors striped shirts with casually pushed up sleeves . . . sauntering gait . . . makes on energetic, rip-snorting good class president . . and lends an air of dignity to class meetings . . . but the humorous glint is seldom missing from his blue eyes . . brainy, with a fondness for book-larnin' . . . yet the boy gets around . . . likes football, dancing, and arguments with Belding . . . one of those all-'round fellows you read about . . . good guy. FAY BELDING CHUMMY . . . CHEERFUL . . . CHARITABLE Pep . . . pep . . . and more pep . . . always among the jitterbugs present at a jam session . . . gets a kick out of life ... on polsywalsy terms with practically everyone in the school . . . and greets all olike with the same gay salute . . . Hi! . . . never yet missed a lough . . . ever sympathetic . . . and ready with a verbal slap on the back when it's most needed. S E N I R S Helen Madsen Martha Kish Ernest Wilkins Patricia Turner Fannie Lou Thomas John Oliver Gladys Poottie Fay Belding twelve

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Alfred Fobes Rosemary Black Lcora Martin Robert Orosz Albert Rhodes Elizabeth Fallot Pauline Hilborn Edmon Taft ALFRED FOBES SAGE . . . SMILING . . . SCHOLARLY Good-looking, dark haired . . . ostoundingly philosophical . . . especially about women! . . . uses mile-long words in such an unassuming way, we don't feel nearly os ignorant as we should . . . chuckles quietly or simply roars over things appealing to his keenly appreciative sense of humor . . . slick dresser . . . interesting, agreeable, mild . . . likeable lad, Al. LEORA MARTIN FAIR . . . FRIENDLY . . .FLIRTATIOUS Foir-hoired . . . blue-eyed . . . with a pretty pink and white complexion . . . ever ready to go places and have fun . . . rushes here and there, thither ond yon . . . taking attendance, checking out library books, planning programs, decorating for parties . . . would do anything and everything for a friend . . . can't drag her away from a jam session . . . never sits at home when she can go somewhere . . . never walks when she con truck. ALBERT RHODES DAUNTLESS . . . DEVIL-MAY-CARE . . . DEBONAIRE Blonde and blue-eyed . . . with casually perfect posture ... a smoothie of a dancer, he can jitter with the best of them . . . likes to stir things up and make merry during school hours . . . but has many moments of surprising seriousness . . . does pretty much as he pleases . . . but grins, and makes everyone like it . . . wears his clothes with an air . . . practical and persevering . . . he'll get along. PAULINE HILBORN BRIGHT . . . BUOYANT . . . BUSY Small . . . refreshingly natural and bouncingly healthy . . . rosy cheeks accentuated by dusky, shining hair . . . infectious, rippling laugh . . . cheerful plunger-inner to whatever task is assigned her . . . neat as the proverbial pm . . . we like her dimples ond scurrying walk ... a laughing but serious-minded, black-haired pixie. ROSEMARY BLACK STUDIOUS . . . SERENE . . . SOFT-SPOKEN Golden, naturally curly hair, simply worn . . . soft, refined voice that is oh-so-soothing . . . dashes off bits of Beethoven and stuff on the auditorium grand in a way tha soothes even our uncultured ears . . . friendly, democratic . . . carries off every occasion in the approved Emily Post manner . . . appreciative (bless 'er) of even our feeblest jokes . . . darned comfortable sort of person to have around. ROBERT OROSZ BURLY . . . BRAINY . . . BANTERING Neat and nice looking . . . with dark eyes and black, crinkly hair . . . will argue with anyone anytime . . . and enjoys himself enormously while thus employed . . . but he's not really a belligerent . . . just likes to growl . . . and his slow, sleepy smile appears often, in spite of himself . . . shrewd and sagacious . . . with a sense of humor that really is . . . too bad he's a woman-hater! ELIZABETH FALLAT DIGNIFIED . . . DISCREET . . . DROLL Tests . . . quizzes . . . examinations . . . Fallot takes them all in her stride ... an excellent student . . . and a modest one . . . impossible to ruffle her calm dignity . . . pleasant, prudent . . . with a talent for slow, whimsical, deceptively demure humor . . . which looses itself at the most surprising moments . . . knows how to get along with everyone . . . and does. EDMON TAFT INDUSTRIOUS . . . INFALLIBLE . . . IMPENETRABLE Tall and taciturn . . . amiable and ambitious . . . one of those rare individuals you can always count on ... no matter how great or small your need . . . another of those silent workers in the senior class . . . does little eloquent orating in meetings . . . but there are always those things which can be accomplished only by the sweat of someone's brow . . . and it's often Ed's brow that does the sweating . . . wc need more like him. eleven

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Don Chapman Millie Lou Cone Joe Brown Lowell Morrow Betty Blackmorc Frances Sargent Frank Grech DON CHAPMAN HUSKY . . . HEEDLESS . . . HUMOROUS Another tall, well-built lad . . . who has no time for small talk . . . and seldom speaks without really saying something . . . candid and casual . . . but don't let his air of indifference fool you ... he doesn't miss a trick ... as his quiet, but often pungent, quips will testify . . . leisurely and level-headed . . . yet, in on unossuming way, very much the hale-fellow-well-met ... of course we like him. MILLIE LOU CONE IMAGINATIVE . . . INGENIOUS . . . INDIVIDUAL Slim . . . sophisticated . . . ond stuff! . . . possesses a super-obundant knowledge of English literature which astounds us greatly at times . . . writer of really fine serious poetry . . . but she is more famous (?) for her silly ditties, non-sensicol quips, ond that ever-present Cone logic . . . likes a gay old time . . . and sees that she gets it ... a friend to everyone . . . has an air of nonchalance about her which puzzles us . . . Definitely, she is a woman of mystery. JOE BROWN LAUGHING . . . LIVELY . . . LIKEABLE Smiling and spontaneous . . . with a light in his eyes that usually means he's up to something . . . impossible to hold him down . . . favorite indoor sport: searching note books for love letters . . . contents of which he gleefully brood- casts to the world . . . teases the girls . . . but they don't really care . . . for he's alert and amusing and utterly likeable. FRANCES SARGENT TALENTED . . . TOMBOYISH . . . TALKATIVE Short, chubby, and full of chuckles . . . more serious about life than is at first apparent . . . likes to talk, and watch her eyes snap when she does! . . . interested in her studies . . . fun to have around . . . but it's her dexterity with the violin that inspires our awe . . . and the enchanted melodies her genius weaves! LOWELL MORROW DECOROUS . . . DRAMATIC . . . DILIGENT Tall . . . 'n handsome . . . with o deep, dramatic voice that never fails to hold its audience . . . takes his studies seriously . . . ond those stupendous grades prove it . - - smooth of manner, but not a typical smoothie . . . dignified for his public, but ready to whoop things up with the crowd . . . active in all organizations . . . and a credit to Perry High. BETTY BLACKMORE DIRECT . . . DISCERNING . . . DISTINCTIVE Soft, indefinitely-colored hair . . . wide awake brown eyes studious, but does all right in the social line . . . sensibly down-to-earth in a way that should make most of us mooning adolescents hide our heads in shame . . . sincere, friendly, cheerful . . . enthusiastic, energetic ... a go-getter . . . not an ounce of pretense in her . . . which makes everyone count on her for honest, genuine friendship. FRANK GRECH SELF-CONTAINED . . . STUDIOUS . . . SHY Tall, blonde gentleman from way down South . . . isouth of Perry) . . . occasionally takes his nose out of a book long enough to favor us with a slow, shy smile . . . mystery man of the senior class . . . what's he like? . . . what does he think? . . . what's he doing next Saturday night? ... we can only wonder. Not Pictured CAROL LORIMER ELFISH . . . EAGER . . . ENGAGING Small . . . sprightly . . . with fly-away hair ... a puckish smile . . . and a hint of the South in her voice . . . bobs up and down the halls looking for excitement . . . and is thoroughly disgusted if it's not to be found . . . keen on dancing and just about everything else . . . makes friends easily . . . through her eternal cheerfulness . . . ond that familiar greeting . . . Hi-yo', Chum! thirteen