Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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1' Christmas baskets to the underprivileged. Ast the United States struggled valiantly, at first on the offensive and then on the de- fensive in the Pacific, Ye Pilgrim, under the capable direction of Barbara Ward, fostered freedom of speech as it emerged, issue after issue, with editorials Written by students ex- pressing their opinions on school subjects. While the United Nations desperately struggled for their very existence in Africa, many of the seniors felt that preparedness must be our by word. Eldon Mogle, lunior Mart and Norman Taylor found that, as far as they were concerned, entrance into col- lege at the mid-semester would enable them to better equip themselves to be fighting men. No one, least of all Herr Schiklegruber, can long daunt the natural inclination for fun that is prevalent in Lincoln High School. The band, clad in their timely red and blue uniforms and guided by Bill Kaufman blared out one marching song after another as they faithfully took their battle stations at every athletic event of the season. Lowell Kline presided in a manner of suit- Hcxzel Iones William Kaufman Don Kehoe Beryl Kitch Lowell Kline lean-me Knepper Ruth K1-uyer Mildred Leazenby Herbert Lee Ianice Lee Leo McChesney Palmer Mart, Ir. Louise Muttern loseph Miles Evelyn Miller Ida Miller Eldon Mogle Dorothy Myers 'euue-i-,- ,,1:-ends -, , .. L95 5- -0' IP, .gr QVQ af '. 13 t 44.

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, . Martha Duddleson Beverly Ellis ' Anna Fox Stuart Frushour Hazel Furry Mary Ann Glaub Cleo Green Phyllis Grossman David Hall Charles Hammes Don Holdread Ronald Holloway Leo Houin Mary Hughes Robert Hutchings Harold Inks Bemadine Irey Barbara Irwin tobecome a little more thoughtful, a little more sober. People waited, tense, steeled for anything, to learn the fate of the valiant Marines in the Solomons. At basketball games when the band struck up a muffled roll of drums and Iody Ambler carried th-e flag onto the floor with the strains of the Star Spangled Banner floating around it, no one spoke, not one head turned: every mind, every heart of the crowded fans in Centennial Audi- torium Was with the boys Over Therel Christmas, 1942! City streets were shorn of their bright lights. The crowds that did their shopping were harrassed, tense, chari- table. Russia turned the tables! Mile after mile they drove back the frenzied Nazis. Boys from P. H. S. helped to deliver mail to allay the shortage of postmen. Gifts in khaki and navy blue dominated the shop Windows. Bev Ellis and Bob Neidigh, presidents of Sunshine Society and Hi-Y, decided that these organizations, for the first time in years, Wouldn't need to deliver L . , - f'

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able aecorurn at the hilarious Mayflower Follies and Fumbles , the skit that intro- duced the beginning of the yearbook sales. Hi-Y members fed raw oysters to their pledges and intra-class basketball contests were held in the G. A. A. At last, as May brought baccalaureate and commencement, with mingled emotions of joy and sorrow the class of 43 ceased being a high school class, immune from the world turmoil, and emerged as individual young Americans, each an important unit in a great Democracy. How l Robert Neidiqh Frances Newman Iohn O'Dell How 2 Irene Overstreet Eugene Pesch lane Eileen Quinn How 3 Lester Head Ieanette Reaker Carolyn Rullman Bow 4 Verna Schlosser Dwight Stockman Norman Taylor How 5 Roma Taylor Vada Trowbridge Robert Trump Row 6 Martha Iane Van Vactor Barbara Ward Robert Wenino Row 7 Kathryn White Ioyce Yount 'gut' 5. Q' 1 +356- 3 . A Q-nz L j -as- l -vo l A' Q . it .1 ,CF- f 13,1 ' ' 95 , img, -. , I .. .1 ut .t -Ve -3, rw-, ,X ,- ,f W. azfflifk -If-i 'flli'f ,', 1 1- ' 'El vin . ,gifgpe Sszrffce- 1, t.-I m 1? Hi . t t H , 5-U f .. ,EE X H fx 5 N 2 K. : r Q Q-me 9 wwf: 4. W 'ln r it 5.4 ' go, .2 N N gyzoqln Y 1 , f - f ,f-ix.-K, - 1147:-iq e - -