Princeton High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Princeton, IN)

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ea Wdatafzq MARY FRANCES HILL AND Ross MARY SPEAR FRISKY FRESHMEN September, 1940! My, but time passes quickly! This is the day when our class, just frisky freshmen, enters Princeton High School. Mr. Pittman and Miss Taylor are our class sponsors. We break a precedent by choosing class officers - Oral Morton, president, and George Kirk, secretary-treasurer - and by sponsoring a movie which gives us a nestegg for that Junior-Senior Prom. There is quite a change in the faculty this year. Our principal, Miss Tichenor, becomes ill, and Mr. Pruett becomes the acting principal. Our football coach, Mr. Weist, leaves for the army in January, 1941. His duties are taken over by Max Smith. Miss Nancy Gabbert is the new typing teacher. In the District Band Contest held at Rockport on April 5, our band is judged best in playing and marching in Class MB bands and is then eligible to take part in the state contest on April 26 at Tell City. The band receives high honors in both marching and playing. Wlalter Cox, Mary Jo Seamon, and ,lim Cox go to the Nation- al Solo and Ensemble Contest at Flint, Michigan. Dwight Smith and George Kirk are members of the chorus in the opera, '4Faust.7' Mary Frances Hill represents Princeton High School in the local and county Latin contests, February 8 and February 22. SILLY SOPHOMORES As we return to school in September, 1941, we find several new teachers on the faculty - Orville Puckett, Principal, Leon Fougnies, English, Mary Ritter and Ruth Gausman, Home Economics, and Ray Hurst, Agriculture. Doris Leach is elected attendant to the football queen. Our Student Council members are Max- ine Bates, Betty Bell, Byron Franklin, Doris Gwaltney, George Kirk, Bill Lathom, Rose Mary Spear, ,lack VVilliamson, and Several boys participate in various ath- letic activities this year - Harold Gour- ley, George Kirk, ,lim Cox, Jack Padgett, Joe Hall, Jack Masterson, ,lim St. Clair, Harold Whitman, Eugene Smith, Whalen King, Walter Cox, and Bob Phillips. The District Band and Orchestra Con- test is held at Boonville on April 11. The state contest is on April 25 at Crawfords- ville. The band receives a high rating in both contests. Several members of our class are in the Bonnie Zimmerman. cast of the opera, uThe Student Beggarf' JAUNTY JUNIORS We return this year with the usual task Oral Morton, Bob Wliiteliead, .lim Cox, of all juniors facing us - the raising of funds for our Junior-Senior Prom. The sugar rationing gives our sweet tooth sev- eral chances to relax. We elect Bettye Brines, president, ,loe Hall, vice-president, and Rose Mary Spear, secretary-treasurer. There are several juniors on the varsity football team - Harold Gourley, Bob Phillips, John Whitten, and Whalen King. Doris Gwaltney and Bose Mary Spear are chosen as the junior attendants to the football queen. During this year Claude Luttrell and Floyd Gentry leave for the navy. Joe Hall, ,lack Padgett, ,lack Masterson, Harold Gourley, Byrd McKinney, and Jim Cox play varsity basketball. Bob Phillips and Elmer Halbert are the student man- agers. Members of the Student Council are 24 Clark Rafferty, Joe Hall, Betty Bell, Mary Frances Hill, Lucille Hollen, and Doris Gwaltney. On April 30 the formal Honor Society Induction is held in the gymnasium. The following juniors are chosen for the So- ciety: Oral Morton, Frankie Belcher, Mary Frances Hill, Charles Collins, and Doris Gwaltney. The new faculty members are Cecile PCITY- English and Dramaticsg Ann Heiser, School Nurse, and Carl Fisher, Machine Shop. Then May 14 - our .lunior-Senior Re- ception! This is the event we havg lgoked fOI'W21rfl to all year - in fact for three Years- We Change the gym into a beauti- ful flowered ballroom with yards and yards of pastel streamers woven into intri- cate patterns. It is hard work but Worth every bit of it. Charlie Kroener's Orches-

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tra furnishes the music and our own Ink Spots - Joe Hall, John Wlhitten, and Byrd hIcKinney a delightfully entertain us with their version of 4'Don't Get Around Much Anymorew and other tantalizing tunes. All in all everyone has a wonderful time this night! So ends another pleasurable year. SOPHISTICATED SENIORS The summer passes very quickly and we enter P.H.S. for the home stretch. There are quite a few boys who leave our class this year to join the Armed Forces of this country. Bob Phillips, Bill Lathom, Jack Williamson, Bobby Joe Wvhitehead, Joe Hall, Xvalter Cox, Bob Drissel, and Arthur Lemmons become sail- ors in Uncle Sanfs Navy. Then Whalen King, Bob Pegram, and Karl King join the Army. Jim Bob Johnson, Bill David- son, and Harold Fisher join the ranks of the hard-fighting United States Marines. There are several new members on the faculty: Thelma Hodges, Latin, Dorothy Cato, Physical Fitness, Velma Thomas, Typing, Mrs. Carpenter, History and Civ- icsg Mrs. Maxam, English and Dramatics, E. J. Lautner, Agriculture, Eloise Adams, History, Ralph Kendall, Biology, Harold Godwin, Physical Fitness and Basketball Coach, and Raymond Dill, Principal. Our football coach, Max Smith, leaves us to take a position at Bosse, and his duties are taken over by Mr. Earl Downey. Soon after the successful opening of the basketball season, Mr. Downey is called into the United States Army. Harold God- win then becomes our basketball coach. Miss Janet Morris, who has been a mem- ber of the faculty since 1941, decides to leave her Social Studies classes to enter the VVAVES. Russell Smith, a popular member of our class, dies after several months, illness. Our sympathy is extended to his bereaved parents. Joe Hall is elected president of our class, Lucille Hollen, vice-president, Bet- tye Brines, secretary, and Oral Morton, treasurer. Rose Mary Spear is chosen by the stu- dent body to be our football queen, with Roumilda Allerellie and Martha Kemp as senior attendants. The Senior football players are Captain Harold Gourley, Bob Whitehead, John Whitten, Walter Cox, Jim Johnson, Whalen King, Bob Phillips, Bob Pegram, Eugene Smith, Fred Davison, and Jim Bishop. Bettye Brines and Buddy Mulhall are elected yell leaders for our senior year. Those seniors playing basketball for P.H.S. for the last time are Captain Joe Hall, George Kirk, Harold Gourley, Jack Nlasterson, Jack Padgett, and Jim Cox. Our team wins the sectional this year at Owensville. From there it goes to Evans- ville to fall in defeat in the opening game to Boonville. Senior members on the Student Council are Mary Armstrong, Jim Cox, Harold Gourley, Lucille Hollen, Helen Humph- reys, Wanda Jones Mahan, Oral Morton, and Bonnie Zimmerman. The Seniors elected to membership in the National Honor Society this year are Mary Armstrong, Walter Cox, Rose Mary Spear, Mary Jo Seamon, Byron Franklin, Betty Bell, Lucille Hollen, Dorothy Mae Young, and Betty Jo Smith. Seniors on the baseball team are Oral Morton and Jim Cox. As our annual goes to press on April 12, we are looking forward to the Junior- Senior Prom to be held on May 19 in the gymnasium. Yve hope to enjoy it very much since its preparation will not be our responsibility this year. Then there will be the Senior Dinner, which will be held on May 23, at the Country Club. The present war situation will be a great hindrance in preparing for the affair, but we can depend on Miss Taylor, Mr. Pittman, and the industrious members of our class to make the dinner a great success. Baccalaureate services will be held Sun- day, May 21. At the Commencement exercises to be held on May 24, we, the seniors of Prince- ton High School will receive our diplomas. May we, the Class of 1944, as we look back over our high-school careers and remember the kindness and guidance that our teachers have given us, express to them our gratitude and appreciation with the utmost sincerity. AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT The division pages in this 6'Retrospect,' are those that were used in the 194-0 edition. James Watkins, a member of that class who designed them, is now a Prisoner of War in Germany. The Class of 1944 wishes him a safe return.