Pierceton High School - Echoes Yearbook (Pierceton, IN)

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We received Dace Smidchens at the start of the second semester for the last to enter the Class of 52. At the writing of this document, much of our history remains in the future. Our biggest moment to come is our senior trip, Early in May we will board a bus bound for Washington D. C. and New York City. To this we can look forward with delight and antic- ipation. We have all worked hard for this trip and we are all set to enjoy every thrilling moment of it. Then, of course, there will follow Class Night, Baccalaureate and, last of all, Commence- ment - that long anticipated moment when we shall receive our diplomas. The colors chosen to represent us areg American Beauty Red and Gray. Our class flower is the American Beauty Rose. Our class motto is, Don't itch for success, but scratch for it. 214-

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all agreed that we were all quite capable salesmen and women, For our spring party, we went to Pokagon State Park and every one had a wonderful time along with a few million mosquito bites. That year we made our first public entry into the field of dra- matics and presented the comedy, The More the Merrier. At the end of our junior year, we all dressed! like we had never dressed before, in formals and suits, and escorted the Class of 51 down the aisle in commencement exercises. Never had these beautiful ceremonies ofCommencement and Baccalaureate meant so much to us, but on those memorable nights it was different. It would only be another year, and another class would pay us the same courtesy, After the shortest summer we had ever known, we were suddenly seniors! A year to be held highest of them all. Miss Yontz and Mr.Stouffer were our sponsors that year, We elected the following officers that year: president, Bob Steckbeck, vice president, Ed Gregory, recording secretary, Dean Harris, financial secretary, Deane Musselman. On checking the records we find only the afore mentioned people had traveled all that long journey in Pierceton High School together. The other twenty were picked up along the way. We soon discovered that seniors play an important role in P. H. S. The school paper was started with 12 senior staff mem- bers, and the Student Council started functioning under the leader- ship of Bob Steckbeck. The seniors had the privilege of initiating the freshmen at the first all-school party. In basketball we had eight men on the first ten. After a successful season we felt quite proud of them.For the third successive year the cheerleaders were chosen from our class. They were Kenneth Mort, Wayne Bryant, and Carol Lee Orr, We presented the comedy The Great Big Doorstep which we all feltwas a very successful senior play. This made us all very proud of our class. On the coldest night of the fall season we held our first class party. On a wagon bed padded with a little hay and many watermelons, we entrusted our lives to the expert, Herm Conley. the H. Farmall tractor operator, and jaunted to Colomer Dam Park, As guest of the Rural Youth Or- ganization, we cut some really fancy capers on a couple occasions. Z3

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