Royal Center High School - Periscope Yearbook (Royal Center, IN)

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(Sfaro Q(i m if! © ■H And 00 finally the curtain roae on the first act of the drama entitled The Class of '1 9. Joyfully the actors took their positions and the play began. Act I In nineteen thirty-seven, twenty three frightened starlets entered the first grade under the direction of Miss Florence Spohn. Those entering the first grades Mary Adams, Margaret Conn, Betty Denny, Stanley DeWitt, James Farmer, Wanda Finger, Chester Kistler, Janis Fry, Russell Fry, Wanda Holcomb, Jim Howard, Iris Klapp, Bill Layer, Donna Lewis, Doris Martin, Dorothy Miller, Paul Miller, Helen Plotner, Marcus Silrerlake, Phyllis Sparks, Geneva Sterner, Dorothea Strauch, and Jim Wiseley. Betty Hefner entered the first grade from Hanging Greve Grade School. Act II The years pass and as we become more popular our class starts to grow. In the third grade we got two new starlets, Gracie Jones from Tennessee, and Estell Kesling from Onward. Hie fourth grade---what a happy group—we have three new starletsi Raymond DeWitt, Don Grafton, and Millard Harvey from Lake Cicott. Then came the fifth grade—«we were quite talented now. We gave a radio program in our room that was a big success. Dari Gerlach from Star City, Irene Swayzee, and Mildred Anders were our new talented stars. The sixth grade camei We were under the direction of Mr. Frank Smith. We had two new classmates, Marjorie Jones from Arizona, and William Hatch from Logansport. Then disaster struck our class for the first time. The death of our new classmate, Marjorie Jones, was a great shock to us. Act III We were now ready for Junior Stardom, under the direction of Mrs. Rogers and Mr. Harvey. We had a joyous year and with the first year of our Junior Stardom almost complete, schools were consolidated. Our class was surely in- creasing now with eight new classmates, Chester Baker, Lester Baker, Frank Blount, Betty Collins, Joyce Downey, Patricia Nordyke, Iris Nice, Ronald Roth, and John Nacke. Janis Fry from Logansport was back with us after several years of absence. We were now ready for our final training when disaster struck our class for the second time, with the death of our beloved classmate, Dorothy Miller. Act IV We entered the Freshmen class. There were fifty-two of us. We will ad- mit we were green but not out of the ordinary. Estell Kesling was elected our president. We had eight new students from Jefferson Township; Madeline Grace, Jean Kistler, Kenneth Miller, Phyllis Nethercutt, Eilene Swartzel, Deloris Taylor, Clyde Tribbett, and Elizabeth Vansicklej also Dorothy Young from Monti- cello, Orvanda DeWitt from Noble Township, and Gracie Jones from Star City. We sold magazine subscriptions to make money for our class treasury. Our directors were Mrs. Rider and Mr. Harvey. Disaster struck our class for the third time with the death of our classmate, Dick Rogers.