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Senior Class History The final curtain is slowly descending on the drama presented by the class of 1950 of Rowe High School. This drama covers a period of twelve school years and the opening scenes are Rowe, Amboy, and Farnham schools. The cast includes Jim Bunnell, Barbara Bedette, Bill Turner, Hugh Hubbard, Ellen Eccleston, Leota Kennedy, Dolores Woodworth, Jean Downing and Birdena Gilbraith at Howe: Joy Wheeler and Ed Fiala at Farnham; and Charleen Quinn, Carol Best. Jean and Joan Miller, Barbara Williams, Hallie Truax, Bob Kahler, Fred Frank. Betty Lou Perry, Chuck Waddle and Connie Lovell at Amboy; and many others who have long since moved away. We began our first year with much zeal and interest; in fact, Bob Kahler and Fred Frank were a little over-zealous in their fight on the first day of school. Our two Romeos, Jim and Chuck, also went into action. Remember the time Jim kissed Barbara Bedette and then ran all the way home? Bashful, Jim? The biggest event at Amboy was the huge, colossal, stupendous circus. Barbara Williams was an inch-worm; Bob Kahler, a man without legs; Carol Best, a monkey; Charleen Quinn, a tight-ropc walker; Betty Lou Perry, a rabbit; Connie Lovell, a mother duck and Hal-lic Truax, a cat. Meanwhile, Mrs. Wellman struggled to develop our musical talents in the rhythm band. Remember the struggle we had in the third grade with our multiplication tables? And the weeks and weeks we spent learning to tell time? And the picnic at Miss Stevens’ cottage at the lake? Tom Beers became the hero of the day by finding the treasure at the end of the treasure hunt. Kids from Amboy will recall the time Jean Miller, while practicing her part as a chicken in a play, fell off the stage and collected a goose-egg on her head. We thought we would never survive the fifth grade after our teacher, Miss Simons, left us to work for the government. We even survived the choral reading imposed on us by Miss Stevens, our new teacher from Kentucky. Remember the story about the doll family she read to us? The highlight of our seventh grade was the snowstorm that allowed us to stay out of school for nearly two months. During the time we spent in school, besides our studies, we joined with the eighth grade to hold several dances in the gym, wrote essays on the perils of alcohol, and sold war stamps. Members of our class and the eighth grade took turns selling the stamps at noon. Of course, after we had counted the money we hurried right back to our classes. As eighth graders we became slightly acquainted with our future classmates as we gathered together to take the Eighth Grade Scholarship Tests and at the Rowc- Amboy basketball games. Remember the snowball fights we used to have----the girls against the boys? The boys usually won! And remember the day Honey and Birdena were sent out of the room to “finish their conversation.”? An annual winter scene at Amboy was the fort constructed by the girls. Any girl who didn’t have a boyfriend was not allowed inside it. As spring came along, winter sports gave ’way to baseball. At Amboy the ball seemed to go over the fence mere often than necessary and, of course, the boys would come back with their pockets bulging with more than baseballs. (There was an orchard next door.) At Rowe the baseball games always ended in arguments. “You were out.” “No, I wasn’t.” “Oh, yes, you were.” “No, you dropped the ball.” Remember how different Ellen and Barbara looked after they had their long braids cut? Remember the cheering-sections we used to have at the home games? Practically the whole eighth grade was represented. With all these happy memories, the curtain came down on the first act, the story of our grade school days.
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As the second act started we found ourselves deposited in the freshman home room. We were faced by the greatest ordeal of our lives—the initiation “dished out” by those vicious seniors. On the great night, awaiting our fate, we were huddled, fifty-one of us, in the music room. We looked very cute, but felt extremely foolish with our animal masks and our clothes worn backward. None of us will ever fotget the day Chuck (Curly) Waddle arrived at school with curly hair. The next day he had a butch. As full-fledged Rowe High students we elected Jim Bunnell, President; Joe Stimac, Vice-President; Jean Miller, Secretary; and Charleen Quinn, Treasurer. Under the leadership of these students and Mr. Hirshey we completed our freshman year and sponsored the “Freshman Frolic.” Our sophomore year, under the guidance of Mr. Saari, was a very busy year. We sponsored two roller-skating parties, several bake sales, sold candy at basketball games and shared the responsibility of a Freshman-Sophomore dance. Our “guiding lights” were Joy Wheeler, President; Joe Stimac, Vice-President; Don Williams, Secretary; and Birdena Gilbraith, Treasurer. Oh! That last mile up the stairs and we were juniors. Under the guidance of Mrs. Lynch we sold stationery; sponsored a dance; enjoyed a trip to Cleveland, where we visited the Museum of Natural History and the radio station, attended the Cleveland Indians baseball game and enjoyed a play. We also produced the play “Seventeen Is Terrific,” and entertained the seniors “down Mexico way” at the Junior-Senior Prom. The cast of the junior play included Joy Wheeler, Joan Eddy, George Richards, Joan Miller, Shirley Cole, Tom Beers, Carol Best, Hugh Hubbard, Barbara Williams. Jim Bunnell. Jean Downing, and Hallie Truax. Don Williams, President; Jim Bunnell, Vice-President; Ellen Eccleston, Secretary; and Birdena Gilbraith, Treasurer were elected to serve the class. Joy Wheeler and Jim Bunnell were elected by the faculty to the National Honor Society. Glory be! We were seniors! The first thing on our agenda was the freshman initiation. We were really slave drivers when the freshmen had to clean up the school. The varsity basketball team was built around Jim Bunnell and George Richards, who saw four years of action, and Don Williams, who saw three years of action. Tom Beers and Hallie Truax were on the reserve basketball team for two years. Joy Wheeler led cheers for four years while Charleen Quinn led cheers in her Junior year and Joan Miller and Arlene Hanger were on the reserve squad during their senior year. Ellen Eccleston. Barbara Williams, Fred Frank, and Don Williams joined Joy and Jim on the National Honor Society. Our officers were carried over from last year. We began working on the Senior Play “The Campbells Are Ccming”. The cast included Carol Best, Shirley Cole, Ellen Eccleston, Joy Wheeler, Barbara Williams, Jim Bunnell, Tom Bennett. Hugh Hubbard, Hallie Truax, and Don Williams. After the play and our trip to Niagara Falls and Crystal Beach, Canada, events seemed to rush us. We managed to prepare for class night, the prom, Baccalaureate and Commencement in the little time we had left after trading name cards and pictures. The curtain is finally down and now we are about to begin the sequel of our play. We bid a fond farewell to the halls of Rowe High, its students and the faculty, and step out into the world to find whatever fate has in store for us. We will indeed miss the familiar scenes which have grown so dear to us throughout the years, and we shall forever treasure the memories of our school days which have passed all too soon. We shall carry with us throughout our lives the high ideals and good principles instilled in us at Rowe, and each and every one of us will continually strive to make Rowe proud of us.
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