Pine Township High School - Eagle Yearbook (Otterbein, IN)

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CLASS HI TORY On August 30, 1943, nine children began their most important days of their lives. They were Cliff Childers, Betty Jean Correll, Paul Dicken, Patsy Grogan, Carl Hall, Junior Worley, Charles Zink, Patricia Williams, and Mary Ann Sturgeon. On August 28, 1944, our class discovered that Mary Ann Sturgeon, Carl Hall, Patsy Grogan, and Paul Dicken had moved away from good ole Pine. Junior Worley decided to stay in the first grade another year, so we lost him too. There were six of us in the second grade that year. They were Cliff Childers, Tom Durflinger, Pat Williams, Charles Zink, Betty Jean Correll, and a new comer, Jerry Nicholson. When we started back to school September 3, 1945, we learned that Jerry Nicholson had left us during the summer vacation, and that left us with only five members in our class. Before that year was over, Naomi Meridith joined us and our attendance increased to six. They were Cliff Childers, Betty Jean Correll, Tom Durflinger, Pat Williams, Charles Zink, and Naomi Meridith. As we started the fourth grade in 1946, we learned that we had three new members in our class. They were Junior Bible, Patricia Holder, and Pat Zollman. Those three made the attendance of our class the total of eight mischievious kids. They were Cliff Childers, Betty Jean Correll, Tom Durflinger, Pat Williams, Chuck Zink, Junior Bible, Patricia Holder, 'and Pat Zollman. Betty Jean Correll decided to leave school before the year was over so we finished with seven. The year of 1947 we started back to dear old Pine, with one new member, Bob Williams. Richard Poindexter joined us before the school year was over, that made nine members. They were Junior Bible, Cliff Childers, Tommy Durflinger, Patricia Holder, Patricia Williams, Bob Williams, Chuck Zink, Patricia Zollman, and Richard Poindexter. Patricia Holder had to leave us, so that left us with eight at the end of the year. As we started back to school in the sixth grade on September 3, 1948, we discovered two new members. They were Ann Tyrrell and Ralph Burke. Our two new members raised our attendance to an even ten. Richard Poin- dexter moved to Wolcott, dropping our class membership to nine members, The beginning of our seventh grade was the same as the beginning of the sixth grade. Ralph Burke and Junior Bible left out class in March. They dropped our attendance to seven. Wayne Scott and Ella Mae Wilson joined our class in the eighth grade making our attendance nine again. Pat Zollman, Ann Tyrrell, and Ella Mae Wilson left during the summer so the ninth grade started and closed with 7 members. They were Cliff Childers, Tom Durflinger, Bob Williams, Wayne Scott, Pat Williams, Chuck Zink, and Janet Wright. We had six members in our class when we started our tenth grade. They were Cliff Childers, Tom Durflinger, Bob Williams, Wayne Scott, Pat Williams, and Chuck Zink, Wayne Scott left our school in the tenth grade, but Ralph Burke joined us in our Junior year still leaving the class with six members. The Class of 55 is Ralph Burke, Cliff Childers, Tom Durflinger, Bob Williams, Pat williams, and Chuck Zink. Cliff Childers

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CLASS POE Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the graduating class of this very year. Six in number, six in mind, All of them sweet and all of them kind. Ralph Burke is mighty keen, And with the girls he's often seen. But give him room, he's big and tall, A splendid player in basketball. Clifford Childers, our red-headed lad, Fusses and fumes and often gets mad. He 's full of spark and full of sass, But we are glad he's in our class. Tommy Durflinger, is mighty smart: He 's a boy with a golden heartg He laughs and clowns and gives his best: When mischief's afoot, he's with the rest Patricia Williams, our only lassg She's rated near the top of the class. No truer gal you'll ever find: To all her friends, she's sweet and kind. Bob Williams, a Comic, an Actor, a poet Friendly, impish, and wouldn't you know it He will work, help win, and take it in stride A fellow classmate we mention with pride Charles Zink is straight and tall. No better man in basketball: He works and studies very hard. Around the classroom he's a card. These words of wisdom are very wiseg They have a meaning in disguise. Heed them well, these words of wit, They name six kids who wouldn't quit. By Bob wnuams

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CLASS PROPHECY The sun was just peeping in the window when my clock radio turned itself on. Having nothing special to do, I lay there listening to the music and wishing that my wife would get up and serve me breakfast in bed. But knowing she wouldn't, I decided to get up and do my chores. Going into the living room, I noticed a Twenty-first Century rocket-powered car coming down the drive. It seemed rather unusual for someone to be visiting at this hour. But having learned to accept the unusual, I flipped the switch for the automatic coffee maker. Hurrying into the control room, I began punching buttons for thc various chores. I watched the television screen a moment to see if everything went all right and then shut it off. I had just finished the chores when the doorbell rang. Opening the door I got a big surprise because the person standing there was none other than Clifford Childers. He had changed a lot, not that he was any taller, but he had filled out into quite a handsome young man. I invited him to come in and have breakfast with me. He said that he would like to, but he had his wife with him, and he would be imposing. Nonsense , I said, Bring your wife in. Suddenly an idea struck me. Why not have the old Class of 1955 come over for breakfast I ran into the living room and called Tom Durflinger. He answered the phone and said he and his wife would be right over. I told him to stop on his way and get Chuck Zink and his wife. Next, I called Ralph Burke and told him to bring his wife and come out for breakfast. I gave my Uncle Irvin a ring to see if Pat had arrived home from her vacation. He said that she and her husband had arrived late the night before. I told him to send them over. Gathered around the table, we wondered what Cliff had been doing these past years. Chuck, Tom, and I after graduating from College had incorporated and bought all the farm land in Benton County. Approximately 8, 000 acres apiece, and we were doing quite well with the land too. Although a few of the older farmers wanted to farm the old Twentieth Century way, we finally convinced them that we were the smartest. Ralph had gone to barber school and now had control of the barber shops in Indiana. Pat had gone to comptometry school: but because she was dissatisfied with the teaching method, she married a rich industrialist and opened a school of her own. All we knew about Cliff was that he lived in Detroit, Michigan. Because our curiosity was getting the better of us, we asked him what his business was in Detroit. I-le told us that after graduation, bookkeeping still interested him, and he applied for a position as bookkeeper at General Motors. Now after many years he was head bookkeepet for the entire organization of General Motors. Breakfast was over all too soon, and each of us had our own jobs to do. We, the Class of '55 resolved to meet as often as we could around a breakfast table that holds the memory of our class's first reunion. Robert Williams