Rockport High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Rockport, IN)

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25 CLASS HISTCDRY Freshman Year--We began our Freshman year September of 1954. Boys and girls from St. Bernard, Rockport, South Central, Silverdale, and Grandview were united in one class, to make a total of 73 students which consisted of 30 boys and 43 girls. At our first class meeting we chose Mike Matthews as President, for Vice-President we chose Tommy Strassell, and Jackie Cadick was chosen as Secretary. We were very busy getting acquainted with new faces and new schedules. There were many activities for us to join. Dur- ing our second semester we lost two boys, Doyne Jones and Joe Niles. We gained one girl, Sandra Bates. By May we found we enjoyed being in High School, but we were all ready for a vacation. Sophomore Year--In the fall of 1955 we came back to start to work again. For class officers we chose Jimmy Wright as President, Jackie Cadick for Vice-President, Margie Matthews for Secretary- Treasurer. We only had one new member, Shelby Pierce from Chrisney. We lost seven members. Elouise Morton Smith, Judy La Mar Siegler, Janet Welch Rudisill, withdrew from school to get married. Nancy Bassett and Barbara Brown moved to Evansville and attended Reitz High School. .Timmy Smith moved to Tell City. During our second semester we ordered our class jackets. We chose black with a white stripe down the sleeve, Rockport 58 in white on the black and a white R on the left front. Our Sophomore year was soon over and we were once again ready for a vacation. Junior Year--This year we came back to school as Jolly Juniors. For officers this year we elected J' im Wright as President, Garlene Richard as Vice-President, Gayle Rininger, Secretary-Treasurer. Our class was saddened by the death of Bobby Bell, who was fatally injured in an automobile accident soon after school was out last May. Ruthie Clark entered here from Chrisney. Maxine Horn entered from French- burg, Ky., Carol Daming, Dalton Monks, and Donnie Crane entered from Richland. Betty Calhoun, Joan Dawson, Bertha Hoosier, Shelby Pierce, Pauline Reel, and Mary Jo Samuels withdrew. Our class jackets arrived and we were very proud of them. We also ordered and received our class rings. We presented our Junior play - Quit your Kidding, which was a great success. A very important event was our Junior-Senior Prom. Our theme was Anchors Aweigh. The decorations were beautiful. After the Prom we enjoyed a movie at the Rio Theatre. Later we were entertained at the Flamingo Ball Room by the Spooks. To close our Prom we had breakfast at Kentucky Wesleyan College Cafeteria. As we left this year for our summer vacation, we began to realize that next year we would enter the doors of R. H, S. to finish our last year of High School. Senior Year--September of 1957 started the last year of school for forty-eight boys and girls. Our class officers this year were President, Mike Bunnerg Vice-President, Jim Wright, and Secretary-Treas- urer, Gayle Rininger. During November we had our Senior pictures taken. Susie Magill Kimmel, and Barbara Parsley Kamof, and Marva Stateler Roth withdrew this year. We ordered our invitations in February. They arrived in April. Our next attraction was the Senior Play Two is a Crowd. We had a nice prom. We practiced for graduation exercises. We leave Rockport High May 23, 1958. Some of us will be married, some will go on to college, some will enter the service, and some will go into other fields. But wherever we go andlwhatever we do we will always remember our good times and our bad times, our happiest moments and our sorrowful ones, that we spent together at Rockport High School.

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TIME HAS RUN OUT A few short years ago, it seemed that you had much time to spend in school -- twelve years. Now that era of time has run out. Those golden hours and moments have slipped away. Only through memories can you recapture one iota. The sun has set on your high school daysg for you the bell has tolled for the last time. Time has moved on as it always has and it always will. Perhaps the words of the Persian poet, Omar Khayyam, might well express this situation and all situations good or bad in consequence: The moving finger writes, and, having writ, moves on, nor all your Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it. You now face the dawn of a new era. How you use that time will largely depend upon you. GLENN E. KEEFE, PRINCIPAL BOARD of EDUCATIO Just now there are for you two priceless, golden days. One of them is full, round, and complete, a treasure of which you may be proud. The other is more tangible and indefinite in its possibilities. Both of these we place in your hands today with reverence. May nothing ever mar for you their sacred beauty. The first is yesterday. In it htere are many fine and lasting associations which you have had, those with classmates, which are among the happiest of your lives: those with your instructors, which are mutually pleasant and inspiring, those with the heritage of the ages, which have brought you into intimate acquaintance with the world's literature, music, art, science, and history and with the men who have made these things great. A very tender thread of memory will bind you always to this day -- yesterday. It was -- is yours. The other day is tomorrow. For each one it means some measure of success. To some it means further training of your mind in some higher institution. To others it means equal or even greater suc- cess here and now in service to our community. But in any case remember that it is not given to you com- plete, you must make of it what you will. It holds large promise, and so with highest hopes we present this day to you. Tomorrow is -- will be yours. MARION W. COPLEN, SUPERINTENDENT