Princeton High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Princeton, IN)

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Sdzaol Gdemlaa Martha Redman - Bill Ammerman - Betty Behymer SEPTEMBER: On the scorching day of September 5, the quietness of P.H.S. halls was no more, for we, the thundering herd had returned. ln- stead of going swimming or to The Great and Onlyu Gibson County Fair we went to class and received our programs and text- books and started the usual grind. There were a few new faces among our faculty, namely: Klrs. Blaella Kloore of Owensville teaching Girls' Physical Educationg Mr. Ben lValker of Amo, Indiana, teaching Boys' Physical Education and Football and Basket- ball coach: Klrs. Fannie Klorrow of Prince- ton, teaching Social Studies and Business Arithmetic, llrs. Jean Geyer of Princeton, teaching Home Economicsg C. L. Dyer of Princeton, as Vocational Agricultural teach- er. lVe opened our football season by playing Central of Evansville on September 20. Our first home game, which we lost, was with Vincennes. OCTOBER: There were more events in October. We won our football game with Huntingburg on October 5. lVe lost at Boonville and Clinton on October 12 and 19 respectively. Since the six weeks had ended we found out how much we did or didn't know when the teachers handed us our grade cards. Each of us resolved to study more but how could that be because on the 25 and 26 we had vacation while our pedagogues attended State Teachers Association at Evansville or ln- dianapolis and did we celebrate because we won our game at Bicknell on the 2-l-. NOVEMBER: Our attention was focused on the foot- ball queen, llargilee lXIcRoberts, who was crowned by football captain, .lack Board, on November 2. Reitz carried away part of the honors by winning the game. Our vaca- tions in November started when we were dismissed on llflonday, November 5, during the afternoon because the P.T.A. was spon- soring night school so that our parents could visit school and see us in our regular sched- ule. Other vacations were Armistice Day and Thanksgiving. Our football season end- ed when lllt. Carmel defeated us on No- vember ll. Home Economics Club spon- sored first dance of the season on November l6. Basketball season was off with a big bang by defeating Bit. Vernon on their home floor on November 21. The flu bug got so many of the basketball players of Gibson County that we had to call off both Ft. Branch and Petersburg games. lfVe ended November by the Tigers bowing to Boon- ville. Mrs. Virginia Garrett left our fac- ulty as commercial teacher when her hus- band, Bob, returned from three years in the Pacific. DECEMBER: The flu bug raged on-school was official- ly closed December 3 for a week. On De- cember IO the epidemic having lifted, we returned to our studies. YVC lost two games, one to Huntingburg and one to Bosse and won one at Hazleton. School closed for Christmas vacation with the Christmas dance sponsored by the Junior class. A new face appeared on our faculty, that of lllrs. Ruth Lemming, who will teach Commerce the remainder of the semester. The P.T.A. has decided to sponsor dances after each home game for the high school students and those of visiting team. JANUARY: Horrors! New Year's is over and Janu- ary 2 finds us back to clas:es. Finals were january 8 and 9 and we received good or bad news on Friday, January 11. January 14- new semester starts with two discharged

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In London, jack Robb has taken up the pro- fession of boxing and has become a world's cham- pion. When fighting the British champion, he hit the poor fellow so hard that it resounded through- out the United Kingdom. During the last round a telegram came from the mayor of Ireland asking if the Germans were bombarding London again. Oh!!! what a fight!! jack is now known over the world as Slugger. During the twenty years Bob Rose hasn't changed much. He has just lost a bet and had to climb the Washington Monument to throw a silver dollar into the lake. David Robertson, present editor of the New York Times, is being sued by Charles Townsend, sena- tor from Washington, for misquoting his last speech in Congress. Bob VVallace is the attorney for the plaintiff. judge Margaret McDermott is presiding over the new domestic relations court this year. jim Carpentier has just been made first pianist for the New York Symphony Orchestra. Before go- ing to New York, he and his wife, the former Diane Colvin, will leave their home in Boston to pick up their two children who are vacationing in Atlantic City with their aunt. Kenneth Schafer, joe Wolfe, George Hedge, Tom Steiner, Dewey Gourley, and Elbert Hem- bree are traveling with an American professional football team which will play here tomorrow. Mrs. joe Sam Hall, Barbara Caniff, has joined her husband, whose orchestra is playing at the Blackhawk Hotel in Chicago. She is to be the new xylophone player of the band. joe is trying to sign up the famous dance team, tHerbJ Graetz and QBettyej Morrison. Martha Redman is now the famous window de- signer at the new and enlarged Miller's Jewelry Store. People come from all over the state to get ideas which have originated from Martha's head. She has had offers from many great jewelers but prefers to continue to work in Princeton. Phyllis Everlv has received a five hundred dol- lar first prize for designing the outstanding dinner gown in 1966. It will be worn by Arline Whitten in a revue at the Margilee McRoberts' Designing School in St. Louis, Mo. Another model in the revue is Frederica WVoods. Margilee is planning the cloth- ing to be worn in the Ice Revue, supervised by Marivon Pavev, at Lake Placid next September. Mary Esther Kelley has improved upon the typewriter controlled by music and by doing this has made herself the richest of our class. Eleanor Fulling is head of the Civics Depart- ment in the new Princeton High School. The cus- todians for the new building are women-two former students at P. H. S.-Ruth Keaton and Betty Jo Herrin and do they make the dust fly! Evelyn Cargal is now the owner of the L'Snazzy Ice Cream Bar across from the new modern high school and gym. Her able assistant and dishwasher is George Keneipp. The Princeton Tigers have just won the state championship under the direction of their able coach, Don Hemmer. At the local gym, Naomi Ellington's girls' cham- pion basketball team defeated the Evansville Gals, led by Margaret Scott. The other star members of Naomi's team are Vivian Greek and Margery Lee Kimbrough. The beauticians of In- diana have just had their convention at French Lick and elected Maxine Heiserman as their presi- dent for the new year. Annabel Hyslop is operator of the Hubba- Hubba' Beauty Shop. Her assistants are Ada Ruth lngler and Anna Mae -laquemai. Mildred Richards, the Metropolitan opera lyric soprano, left LaGuardia Field, New York, yester- day on a rocket plane bound for London. From there she will visit the principal cities of Europe on a concert tour. Her accompanist is Peggy Galambos. Passing through our town is Nancy johnson, the renowned evangelist. Also on the train passing through their old home town on inspection tour of the State Guard Units in Indiana are Col. James Minnis and Lt. Col. Charles Bruce. George Henry has become a successful traveling salesman and carries a good line of poker chips, jewelry, nylon hose, and toothpaste. The Pearle Slunder Candies are now being sold by Mary jane VVilliams at her new candy store. The T.S.T. entertainers, composed of Minnie Tvree, Barbara Soules, and Mildred Tewell, are appearing with Thr gllargarft Rnd .-Ill Girl Or- rfzntra in the Rose Gardens in Evansville owned by jean Partenheimer. Frances VVhitman, certified public accountant, is in Princeton auditing books in the court house. The high school seniors are having their pic- tures taken at the Betty VVillis Photo Studio this week. The sound of the town clock striking three brought the crystal gazer back to the present. Phyllis escorted him to the door and we all thanked him for his help. As the door closed, Eloise asked jim for the notes he had taken. Notes, he said, What notes? I thought you were taking it down, Phyllis. I was so interested, I forgot. Don't tell me we have this to do over! just then Jim's mother came in from the dining room and handed Eloise a notebook. It's all there, she said. I saw that you were all so inter- ested you forgot to take it down. All three breathed a sigh of relief.

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vets returning to our faculty: namely, Leon Fougnies, Commerce and Earl Downey, Boys' Physical Education. On January IS and 19 the Tigers bowed to Vincennes and Boonville. On January 21 we were startled as we approached P.H.S. All the trees, shrubs, and the building were covered with ice and snow. Honestly! P.H.S. looked like another world. But lol when we entered it was the same place. On Friday afternoon January 25 we had the privilege of hearing William S. Willette discuss A Bazaar in India. The first social occasion of the new year was a dance sponsored by the Student Council on January 25. January closed with three basketball games. On 24 lllemorial of Evansville beat us 28 to 20. Tigers defeated lllt. Caramel in an overtime game on Janu- ary 26. Senior class decided to raise some more money by sponsoring the show She Went To The Races on January 30 and 31. We closed the month of January by playing Petersburg on the 29. FEBRUARY: The birthday of notables arrived. lt may be a short month but it is an important one. In the first game of the month we played Bicknell there and won. On the 2nd the Tigers journeyed down to Ft. Branch to be defeated. On the Sth we lost another game to Tell City. We won our last regular scheduled game from Oakland City. Section- al tourney got underway February 21, 22 and 23. Tigers met their Waterloo in the first game Friday afternoon. Before a packed gym the Tigers were defeated by Ft. Branch Twigs in a sensational overtime game. For the first time in the history of sectional 'tourney llflackey Aces carried away the laurels. The first free band concert was held on Thursday night, February 28. The band is practicing diligently for the State Solo and Ensemble Contest. llliss Saupert's Civics classes attended the Civics Clinic at Bosse High School, Evansville, on the 26th. Charles Townsend won the local Rotarian discussion on Compulsory lVIilitary Train- ing. He will compete in the district contest in March. MARCH: It blew in with a mighty gale. On lllarch 7 the Business and Professional Women's Club had a Tea for the Girl Reserves. The Home Economics Club gave their annual basketball banquet on llflarch l-l. Cn the I5 the Girl Reserves held their annual dance in the gym. Charles Townsend placed sec- ond in the district Rotarian discussion. Rlarch 23 the band, choir, and sextette jour- neyed to Terre Haute to participate in the State Solo and Ensemble Contest. The new members were chosen for the National Hon- or Society and the impressive initiation was held in the gym. A great tragedy befell Princeton High School on March 17 when three of our stu- dents, lllary Ellen Lasley, senior, Mary VVilderman, sophomore, and Patty Hillman, junior, were killed in an automobile accident. A pall fell over the school as the students were stunned by the terrible news. The school has suffered an irreparable loss. These girls will always remain in our memory and affection. On Wednesday, lllarch 20 at 3:20 p.m., Rev. llIcClure of the First lllethodist Church conducted an impressive hfemorial Service for these three girls. APRIL: The Student Council had their dance on the Sth. At last we have a vacation, the first one since Christmas. There is no school from April I9 to 23. The first time since the war began, the P.H.S. marching band enters the State Contest. It was held at Tell City. MAY: Our four years in Princeton High School are fast coming to a close. This is the month of activities. Common question is with whom are you going to the Reception? - or did you get that cute formal? The Juniors gave us a grand reception and We had our annual Senior dinner at the Coun- try Club. The last week has arrived with no school for us but We are busy with Bacca- laureate and Commencement. On llfay 24 we leave the portals of old P.H.S. forever. Each of us will long remember his many good times as a member of the class of 1946 and wonder what the future holds for him.