Pleasant Lake High School - Bittersweet Yearbook (Pleasant Lake, IN)

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BITTER-SWEET lhe rhylhm ol one, lwo, lhree kick! One lwo lhree, kick! and iherels La Cukoo Toshus wilh his black Qoalee! Whoever O would have lhoughl lhal my old school male, Mack Van Auken F would look like lhail --Mary Louise Lemmon l - O - 9 S E N l O R C L A S S W l L L 4 l We, lhe senior class ol l94l bein ol sound mind and Q sound body, hearing ol grumblings and disconlenledness coming lo Pleasanl Lake High School due io our gradualion and sudden deparlure, do upon lhis lirsl day ol january l94l sei oul our hand upon lhis paper and swear lo lhe elernal God above lhal lhis, our lasl will and leslamenl, is made eniirely oi our own free will wilh no lhoughl ol our lulure needs. l, Paul Beally, will my necking abilily lo Donald Trilch lor l sincerely Think lhal he can use il. l, Slanley Carper, will my high grades lo Bob Fuller so lhal he may be able lo play baskelball insiead oi warming up lhe bench. l, Dean Colbarl, will my manly physique lo james Wood so lhal he mighl calch a girl. Bul l shall keep my love lorM. G. lor myself. I, Dawson Gorrell, will my abilily lo gel inlo irouble lo jean Anderson. 'Uilh lhis greal abilily she will be able lo keep lhe leachers awake. l will my fondness lor lhe McAlpins lo Chesier Bolinger. l, Mabel Grillilh, will my abilily lo make bullerscolch pies lo jane Ann Libey and l am sure if she uses il she will be able lo gei her man. I, LaVonne Lash, will my Irish beauly io Ella Ford lor il is said lhai men prefer blondes. l, Mary Louise Lemmon, will all my reserve love of Donald Brown of Grland lo Rulh Waslen. l, Mary Lepley, will my abilily io keep quiel lo Naomi Tinslman since Naomi isdlways gelling info lrouble. I, Roberla Lockharl, will my excess ial lo Lois T. lor il has always seemed lo me lhal she needed il. I, Paul McAlpin will my curly locks lo Qoberl Ferris 3 and sincerely hope lhal he insnares Shirley Gramling. I, Wayne McAlpin, will my shyness lo Poberl Fullerbecause il has been agreed ihai he needs some. Bealrice Meek, will my red locks lo Z. A. Warring and l hope,lhal he lakes good care ol lhem. l, james Mieras, will my excess heighi lo Lyle Morlorlf , SCHOOL

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BITTER-SWEET Meek direcling a redheaded ballel on Broadwayl' Wardly said O lhal, Alfy is seen al lhe ballel every nighl. Wardlv nexl F direcled lhe beam lo a small fown in Pennsylvania where 6 large building came info sighl. The sign read nBeallV and l Gorrell Bowling Equlpmenl.N lusl recenllv l had heard lhdl 9 lhese lwo Hold balchesv had a bus line which delivered peo- 4 ple safely and soundly lo lheir doorsfeps on New Yearls Eve. I By lhis lame :was dialing ilmyselfg :flipped illo Angola and lhere in her back yard was Margarel Thompson feeding her SO cals. l couldn'l figure il oul, lhen across lhe way I say lhe WKillen Kilchenn where Phyllis Zimmer is lhe diellcian and she buys Margarells cals for her lamous NCalburgers.U Turning lhe dial slowly, wesl ol Pleasanl Lake l saw lhe beauliful McAlpin mansion, The brolhers, being inseparable, buill a duplex house. Paul is slill unmarried, bul Roberla Lockharl and her pel kangaroo are keeping house lor him. On lhe olher side, Waynels eccenlric wilello us, Rulh Tinslmanl is caring lor her ailing dog. Somehow il gol hold ol some of Rulhiels rock biscuils wilh which she was experimenling , and look a lerrible siege ol indigeslion. A bil norlh of here l saw lhe Colbarls silling around lheir lireplace--Dean, Mabel and lheir handsome blonde son. Dean had jusl paid anolher line lor junior andlor speeding! A chip oll lhe old block. Weslward ho! Firsl slop--Chicago, There in lhe Arl lnslilufe is a piece ol sculploring done in black marble ol one ol Americais leading cllizens--james Mieras, lhe lamous ral exlerminalor. l dialed il all around and l couldnll find Beverly Grogg, bul nol so long ago Beverlyls name was in a lisl in lhe newspapers as being one of lhe oufslandingwomen ol lhe year. She invenled a device which will brush and do up your hair in len minules. This will add len years lo mosl womenls lives. Lyle seemed lo have had a hand in lhis invenlion. Whizzi and down we go lo Alabama. Maching lhrough lhe slreels was Slanlv Carper wilh a harmonica in his moulh and a dozen or so ol children lrailing behind him. The molhers of lhe communily hire him lo amuse lheir urchins wilh his fa- mous inslrumenl while fhey go lo lheir bridge Clubs. Swilching lhe inslrumenl loward Texas I saw a ranch which inleresled me. Turning il slowly, l saw a woman on a liny burro roping sleers--il was Audrey Trilch2 lim so glad lhal she has lullilled her life-long ambilion. San Fransisco--high, high info a while building which says Hlnlernnlional Tea Companyn is a beaulilul grey headed woman wilh rows and rows ol cups ol lea selling before her. The woman? Why ills Lavonne Lash and she is lhe Hlea laslern for lhe greal company. ' - A large drugslore appeared on lhe screen, lhen wilhin, back of a long counler a girl was running lrom one end lo lb? Olher. ll WGS Marv Lepley a reknown soda jerker.She losses sall from one shaker and lhen runs and calches il al lhe ofher end of lhe counler in anolher shaker. l flashed lhe inslrumenl lo a lillle bungalow in Sanla Fe where a shingle hangs which reads! nLaCukoo Toghug School of lhe Congo.H lnside are len lucious looking lassies kicking lo SCHOOL

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Burma-SWEET U and my baskeibaix playing abilifv fo James Wood- O F I, james Morse, will my love for a cerfain sophomore girl fo fhe sophomore class. if is my lasf requesf fhaf ihey fake l good care of ii. 9 4 l, Roberf Penick, will my abilify fo skip school fo jean I Anderson. My nickname nAlfyn I kindly give fhis fo Max Fer- ris who is in badly need of one. I, Margaref Thompson, will my boldness io Mary While and sincerely hopes fhaf she uses if successfully. l, Rufh Tinslman, will my dbiliiy fo GVQUQ Wiih mY feachers io Beffy Thrush since she is so meek. And my abilify fo be everywhere af once fo Jessie Thompson so lhaf he may be af school and home af fhe same fime. I, Mack Van Auken, will my blond fresses fo Wilbur Wilson and my deep dimples io HPussyn Beard. I, Phylliz Zimmer, will my fallness fo Max Deefz so fhai he may appear more manly. In parfing words we, ihe senior class of l94l, willand bequeafh fo fhe leaching body of Pleasanf Lake High school a long lasfing and spirifual memory of fhe class of l94l. May fhey remember ihai we, of l94l, were only skelefons aparf,buf fogefher we were an army core always on fhe move. The Senior Class - 0 - S E N l O R C L A S S H I S T O R Y ln fhe fall of l929, forfy-fwo unsfeady buf ofherwise willing pairs of feei led lheir owners fo lhe door of Plea- sani Lakeis firsi grade room. Oui of fhaf beginning forfy fwo we have buf len leff io graduafe in lhis, fhe class of Y4lg namely, Mabel Griffifh, Mary Louise Lemmon, Phyllis Zimmer, Roberi Penick, Mack VanAuken, james Morse, Roberfa Lockharf, Mary Lepley, Beafrice Meek, and Rufh Tinsfman. Greai momenfs began fo happen early in our school career, affer compleiing our firsi semesfer of fhefirsf grade we were moved fo fhe newly complefed parf of fhebuild- ing. Our firsf eighf years were fasf and furious, wiih members being added and subfracied from our class roll, unfil fhe Sepfember of IQ37 found us enrolled as Freshmen, wilh our class roll numbering fwenfy-five. Added io our lisf were four new members, LaVonne Lash, Paul Sloal, Roberi Whife, and Sylvia Caskeyg buf by fhe end of fhe year fhe laffer fwo had wifhdrawn fo affend ofher schools. laleen Boyce also wifhdrew her name and in fhe summer of l939 she married Elsworlh Shadow of Hudson. Were we green??? The affirmafive can be answered of any class such as ours and we were ceriainly no excepfion, Our sponsor fhis year was Mrs. Husfed who now fcaches af Sip Joel SCHOOL