Rensselaer High School - Chaos Yearbook (Rensselaer, IN)

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Left to right: Cambensv. Miss Nagel, Mr. Harrison, Feldhaus, Palmer. Class of 1948 President William Feldhaus Vice-President Lynn Cambensy Treasurer Gordon Palmer Sponsors — Miss Nagel and Mr. Harrison Class Motto: “He Who Succeeds, Succeeds Through Himself” Class Colors — Green and White Juniors have put forth an effort Under the guidance of sponsors ar.d officers I ke Never before seen in Rensselaer High School In making the class play and prom a success. Our boys, Wood and Cook, made the varsity basketball Receiving high credit in the winnings of the team. Class president, Feldhaus, Led the second team yells at the games. An active class won honors in Scholarship, athletics, and activities, naming it a Super Junior class of nineteen forty-eight. Jane Paulus. 215

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TOW AND SONS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Chrysler Building NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. PHONE: CA-1947 Dear Glenn: It may see strange to receive this letter from one of your old classmates but as I glanced at the calendar this morning I noted that it was 10 years ago tonight that we received our diplomas from the Rensselaer High School. Several weeks ago I flew back to the old hometown to settle a case. I have gathered this data and will send it on to you hoping you will take some time out from your Stunt Driving Acts to write this up in a volume of the Class of ’47! Captain J. C. GWIN flew me from New York to Rensselaer and who should I find as stewardess but BETTE FERG- USON. As I stepped off the plane I found WAYNE EPLER head grease monkey at the airport. Waiting for the taxi, I noticed my old pal KEN SHOUP working busily constructing a concrete block hangar. As we stood talking, CHUCK MERIC A drove up in his beer truck and the three of us began talking about all the old times. This is the information they gave me of our old pals. Miss PATRICIA HENRY, Editor of the Rensselaer Republican, rushed over to me and inquired as to the length of my stay in Rensselaer. MERE BRANSON, CHARLES CLAUSSEN, and RALPH KRUGER are the Jasper County Corn Kings. MARVIN GWIN and BILL HUDSON are now heavy weight lifters in a Barnum and Bailey show. BRADLEY HOSHAW is an astronomy professor out at St. Joe. THYRA NUSS has her little beauty shop located next to PHYLLIS SAYLER ' S dancing school. NORMAN WOOTEN and his electric guitar, is currently seen in the Bamboo Room in Chicago, along with JACK BROWN, a drummer. ELLA ANDERSON, now the manager of the North Side grocery, has the able help of EVA DOWTY. WALLACE MACKEY (BEEZY) is a window washer in Indianapolis. HERB COOK tests bubble gum for the Wrigley Company KEN DAY is still delivering ice. MARY LOU WORLAND has just returned from Brazil. She has seen just how much coffee there is there. LUCILLE RITTER, I learned, is head dietician at Lafayette Home Hospital. JOHN TEACH, WALTER TAN- NER, both on the trumpet, JOHN BARNES, the trombone player, and JOHN WAYMIRE, behind the drums, make up part of the swing band playing at the Indiana Roof. CLIFF BEAVER and PAULA have a monopoly on the fire dept. GEORGE SMITH is the leading barber in Rensselaer and JOYCE STROLE is his manicurist. JOHN GEREN and GERALD KANNE tied last week in a corn shucking contest which was held at the GERALD MEYERS RANCH BARBARA JOR- DAN is now a happy little housewife. LORETTA JACKSON is Home Ec. teacher in R. H. S. FLOYD HOYES is reading meters for the city. HAMLIN SMITH has graduated from Annapolis and is now Lt. Smith. WILMA ARMSTRONG is a registered nurse working at the Jasper County Hospital. MARGIE HANCOCK has just celebrated her tenth wedding anniversary with her army lieutenant— ' WANETA CHILDERS has her own shoe store and is celebrating her fifth wedding with her army cap- LOIS FLORENCE is a famous Powers model in New York City. DOLORES NAGEL S school spirit will never die- she is teaching Latin in R. H. S. DARYL LINTNER and ELLIS WILLIAMS are the football coaches at R. H S (They have had a very successful season, too!) JEAN MARTIN is selling Auto and Hospitalization Insurance LUCILLA GEORGE is playing her French horn in the All Girl Orchestra. RALPH YEOMAN recently published his best book of the year “THE ETIQUETTE OF LICKING A POSTAGE STAMP.” MILTON PARKINSON has just received a $10 000 check from Ford’s Auto Company for rights to copy the style of his car, the 1957 Ford. NADINE KEYS has her own quiz program over station R. H. S. BOB BARBER is the linotype operator at the Republican office. BETTY WALTERS is now the office girl for the high school and has been for three years. PAUL TEACH is con- structing basements for new homes in Rensselaer. BOB BALDWIN is the manager of the County Farm ROSE MARIE CASTO is head waitress at PAT SMITH ' S Coffee Shop. DENNIS BROOKS has the lead in the remade old movie— “The Jolson Story.” BETHEL STILLMAN is head bookkeeper at The Miller Jones Shoes store. MILDRED RAMEY recently patented a new invention for delivering evening papers by a helicopter. I found that the fountain at Long ' s Drug Store has been lowered so the customers can see NANCY YORK, as she still works there as the Assistant Manager. LOUISE SPRIGGS is the manager of Hopkins and Hanley. JOAN NESIUS and PAT MOOR are now the main actresses in all of St. Joseph’s plays and 1 might say they are doing quite well. DALE STREITMATTER is the fastest one-handed typer in the world. Mrs. Malcohm Cook, nee WANDA LIST, spends most of her time at home taking care of one little girl. T wo of our classmates have taken up their fathers’ profession — JIM BURNS has a job of painting, and DWAYNE GOSNELL makes weekly truck trips to Florida. LEO MOOSEMILLER has recently won a special merit button for selling the most shoe laces at Penney’s. Last but not least, I saw JIM DOWNS who won the Indianapolis Speedway last year. LOUIS MEYERS who was a more or less the bashful type, now has his own program on the radio — TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES. Well, Glenn, this is the story of our class, the Class of ’47. If in your spare time you could record this information in alphabetical form and keep it in a volume dedicated to the memory of our class, I would be greatly indebted to you. I sincerely hope that my classmates and you still hold dear the memories of our High School days in R. H. S. I do. I wish you and the entire class the best there is in life. Please write me occasionally so that I may keen ud to date the whereabouts of THE CLASS OF ' 47. y p P Sincerely, RALPH TOW. P. S. Just received a wire from Mr. and Mrs. BYROM MALONE TWINS— Mrs. is doing fine. 27

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JUNIOR CLASS Top row, left to right: Gifford, L. Erb, Faris, Davisson, Hughes, R. Dewey, Cambensy, Haygood. Second row: Bach- Cook - Hordeman, English, Herr. F. Huff, Feldhaus. Third row: Eldridge, M. Erb, Day, M. Campbell B Hall Frisk, England, M. Baldwin. Fourth row: Ray Donnelly, B. Anderson, Hill, Blacklidge, R. Donnelly. Atkin- son, Hancock. Amsler. Fifth row: M. Daugherty. G. Anderson. Elswick, M. Harmon, E. Erb, Clemans. Sixth row Maienbrook. Warren, G. Shide. D. Lee, Katzbach, McColly, Toben. Seventh row: J. Paulus. J, Tiede Reed M San- “ er . ;. Simonin. Eighth row: Rayner, Wren, Salyers, B. Wood. Palmer. Kresel, J. Phillips.’ Ninth row: D Smith, McElfresh, Siebert, J . Levandowski, Laird, Knoerzer. Tenth row: P. Topp, Knouff, Schafer, I. Jordan, Overton.