Pierceton High School - Echoes Yearbook (Pierceton, IN)

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CLASS HISTORY The years of 1933 and'34 were the best years of the class of '52 because these were the years that most of them came into the world, On September 21, 1940, thirty-nine children entered the first grade. Only six of these thirty-nine finished at Pierceton High School. They are, Roberta Danner, Carol Lee Orr, Helen Mort, Bob Kilgore, Cloyse Rider, and Jim Gebert. In the second grade Ruth Flinton and Dean Harris joined us to fin- ish the remaining eleven years. For some unexplained reason, by the time we had reached the fourth grade our enrollment had dropped to twenty-six. But the coming of Elson Wilson gave us a little boost and the addition of Deane Musselman and Ronald Meredith during the fifth grade once more had our enrollment on the up-grade. Fifth and sixth grades provided our first taste of physical education which has proven a favorite subject of many members of the class. The seventh grade marked the halfway mark of our long journey through school. Here we picked up some more members who chose to finish at P.H.S. They were Robert Steckbeck, Bob Berfield, Herman Conley, Kenneth Mort and Bill Caudill, while in the eighth grade Carolyn Foster chose to join us from Warsaw, The freshman year was a great one, because we were now con- sidered in l-Iigh School. There were a few things whichwe didn't like too much, such as initiation, but like all true freshmen we lived through it. That year we received some recruits from Mon- roe. They were as follows: Wayne Slaymaker, Doris Oliver, Ed- ward Gregory, Dewayne Ulrey, Dick Birtwhistle, and Joy Werten- berger, Z1