Peru High School - Narcissus Yearbook (Peru, IN)

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Sleepy eyes often betray a player of the newest card game - Canasta. NXQ N 4,9 ' -535 s - I N ,, ui- N f , w - 'ig N 5 L- .. .v E dy 'fx -ik, 2 -Y! 'V Peruvicms gasp at every rain and apprehensively View the river at the C. 5. O. yards. X,-'vxfiyx Our new concessions stand at Bengal field gives improved service to our fans.

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Mp 0. lIlIlEl'g Not to be outdone by the younger generation, the Elk Scholarship winners of the past few years ride Grandmothers Club enters the float contest. together in the parade. Nineteen-fifty was the year when leftover mustaches and dis- carded sunbonnets proclaimed that Peru had duly celebrated her one-hundredth birthday. Bulging scrapbooks and private jokes were the most prominent reminders of the occasion. We displayed our famous personalities and all our heirlooms, along with making celebrated personages of our temporary royalty, the Cen- tennial queen and the girls who made up her court. Betty Ann Thoennes perches pre- cariously on the Psi Iota Xi prize winning float. Elks 'F Bums is

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Stage hands Dick McNary, Bob Appleton, Gene Ralstin, and Leroy Arnold present mock speeches around the new ros- trum-a gilt from the class ol '49. Nineteen-fifty VOTE FOR JARRETT! 'N-v Puzzled looks are Mary To Oates' only response to the campaign pleas ot Elaine Scott and Barb Lenoir in regard to student body president. Television and parties go to gether when Ruth Howell Iohn McCleary, Dot McNary and Larry Landis gather at Iohns house. was the year when Iohn L. Lewis chose to call his paralyzing strike upon the nation and received blasts of criticism from all over our country. During that same time, the eyes of the World were upon the mercy killing trial of Dr. Hermann Sanders and his subsequent acquittal. Television and important elections never tailed to bring excitement to fact-seeking students in Peru High School. Nancy and Nora Whitlock find today's news slightly heartening. .11. N .she STMKE