South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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UB avg Kathryn Kixmiller and Carolyn McNabb, two charming freshmen, journalistically inclined Bud Puff, the freshman class hest dancer Bob Gunzerihauser, another Times room patron . ..Rose Stemen, one of the freshman class' most energetic Arleen Snider, pretty as a picture, , Jim Wforman was nominated the pitter-patterer of the freshmen. The freshman fashioriplate is Barbara Roth Three pretty maidens-Erma Jackson, Nlary Carlo, Margaret Meyer , . ,Nominated the most popular among the freshmen was Marjorie lNflcNabh Fresh- men chose Ralph Shimer the heftiest athlete and most handsome Elfervescent Erma Jackson and merry Mary Dunbar An angle shot of our two story skyscraper. it-f ,s M , 49 Q ' 3 kwa, s h X

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THE TOTEM 1939 Clifford Clauser, Don Knorr, Marvin Reynolds, Rich- ard Hirschy, John Bruschein, Warren Cook, John Wise, Richard Nlarkowitz, Keith Coverdale, Dallas Zeeber, Billy Martin, and Bill Kesterson. When these freshmen entered South Side High School, they, like all other freshmen the world over, were confused and green. South Side, more than many other schools perhaps, is a confusing place. In the first place there are many persons in the school, some 2079 students last year. In the second place, the building itself is perhaps complicated and difficult to find onels way in it with all of its labyrinth of rooms and passages. In the third place, there is always a great and varied amount of activity going on, bewildering to any newcomer. The students and faculty do their best to help the freshmen to do .away with some of his confusion, but it is a hard job, and it is difficult for any freshman to be completely at ease in South Side. Then there are always those practical jokers who take pleasure in even further confusing and torment- ing the green freshmen. In a word, the sophomores. Perhaps it would be interesting to follow Johnnie Freshman through his first day at school. He comes to school with fears of persecution instilled in him while still in grade school. So with trepidation and great misgiving he approaches the school for his first inspection. lVlisery likes company, so Johnny at- taches himself to others in the plot. Perhaps he has played on him one of the many jokes reserver for use against greenhorns. Maybe he is directed toward the grill work in the front hall, which is actually the opening of a Ventilating shaft, and is told that it is an elevator which will -connect him to the second floor. Well, he thinks, this is a line school-elevators and everything. At grade school one had to walk from one floor to another, but now one merely has to push a button and be whisked quickly to his destination. Although he doesn't find any button, he decides to wait for the elevator. So he waits and waits, good- ness knows how long. Then some kindly disposed upperclassman or Uwisev fellow freshman explains the joke to him, and then his benefactor probably proceeds to play one of his own on him, such as sending him to get a library card fthere are nonej . Among the freshmanls other trials and tribulations is the difficulty of finding the correct room in the building. During the first few days, he often gets lost and finally arrives at his destination after the class has begun. The freshman's early troubles may be discouraging, but, as time passes, his confusion ripens into understanding, his former tormentors be- come his friends, and his first few days become a pleasant and amusing memory. These freshmen, along with all the ugreeniesu, comprise the most promising freshman groups ever to enter South Side. This class has taken hold in the extra activities and are in very good standing in class work. First Row: -lean Peterson, Wilma Pierce, Elaine Polman, Julia Preece, Edith Ream, Janet Redding, Francine Remmel, Holly Reppert, Nlary Anne Rosencrance, Patricia Sanford, Kenneth Schell. Second Row: Mary Sites, Homer Smeltzer, Beverly Smith, Joan Smith, Lucy Smith, Patricia Smith, Carolyn Snoke, Catherine Somers, Rosemary Spore, Clifford Sprunger, Loren Sprunger. Third Row: Helen Squires, Phyllis Stein, Ruth Ann Stiegler, Jack Stine, Betty Stumph, Clive Swanson, Richard Teel, Eleanor Traycoff, Janis Tremper, Carol Trenary, Dick Trott. Fourth Row: Theda Tyndall, Patty Underhill, June Van Pelt, Edward Wade, Joan Wagner, Martha Wake, Lawrance Xvarren, Bob Wfelty, John Wells, Jeannette Whetsel, Norma Whetsel. 23-' -- as X, HJ. Llw H H .1 if H t ts.

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W' 6 I if ,QQ ft, . 2 I is Beverly Ann Griffith cloes much of the mimeograpbing work in the Service Club Charlie Nelson, our veteran pressman who prints the weekly nation's best school newspaper Win- field Buchan, one of the student licensed operators of the motion picture machines Richard Buchholz, one of the Service Club members who makes a name for himself in the chemistry lab . Two members of tlie Times staff--Bob Gunzenbauser and Laura Lee Montgomery . Attractive Eileen Hoffman, one of Mr. Flint's office workers. l v E