Tefft High School - Spot Lite Yearbook (Tefft, IN)

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CLASS HISTORY Our class history began when eighteen of us started in the first grade together in 1947 with Mrs. Margaret Hershman as our teacher. In the first grade were Louise Kay Allen, Ronald Beiswanger, Donna Cawby, Joanne Deardorff, Kenton Eberhart, Robert Florence, Charles A. Howard, Barbara Jagoda, Anita Jamieson, Janice Krug, John Katona, Kenneth Morris, John McCullough, Sandra Sanders, Lowell Stalbaum, Earlene Wingard, Robert Calhoun, and Jacqueline McPherson. In the second grade Richard Contant, Larry Suit, Lois Sheffer, and David Womack joined us. During the year Lowell Stalbaum was promoted to the third grade. Lois Sheffer and Donna Cawby left us. Carol J. Salyer, Patsy Mulloy and Michael Bowler took their places. In the fourth grade we moved into a new room. Jack Bush, Robert Spradley, Eugene Raska, and Donna Cawby joined us, but we lost Robert Calhoun. In the fifth grade we did quite a bit of switching around. We lost Jack Bush, Richard Contant, Earlene Wingard, Patsy Mulloy, Robert Spradley, and Eugene Raska but we gained in their places Carol Michaels, Bernice Blankenbaker, and Alex Shepherd. Our class roll numbered eleven then with Mr. Wesley Meyer as our teacher. In the sixth grade Jack Bush and Earlene Wingard came back. Clara Caudill, Bufford Bailey, and Delmar Fitzgerald were the new ones. Everett Forner, James Wright, and Robert Spradley joined us in the seventh grade. Also Franklin Patrick joined us from Kentucky. In the eighth grade Patricia Thomas and Ray Wireman joined our forces. First year of High School, what a year! Clara Caudill left us but Barbara Allen, Gladys Dobson, Patricia Elston, and Cora Bell Hittle joined us. During the freshman year Barbara Allen left us. In our sophomore year Earlene Wingard and Larry Sul: left us and Julie Pefley and Mike Prascak took their places. In the eleventh grade Janice Krug and Julie Pefley were missing. Ronnie Beiswanger joined the Navy and Ray Wireman joined the Army. At the end of the first semester of our senior year Everett Forner joined the Navy. With this as our past history, the following will graduate in May, 1959: Bufford Bailey, John Katona, Gladys Dobson, Joanne Deardorff, Mike Prascak, Patricia Elston, Barbara Jagoda, Cora Bell Hittle, Frank Patrick, Patricia Thomas and Anita Jamieson.

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Patricia Ann Thomas Band 1, 2, 3 Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4 Hi-Lite 3 Spot-Lite 4 Junior Play 3 Senior Play 4 Yell Leader 3,4 Michael Stephen Prascak No Picture Barbara Rose Jagoda Chorus 1, 2, 3,4 Hi-Lite 2,3,4 Spot-Lite 4 Junior Play 2, 3 Senior Play 4 John Charles Katona Track 1, 2, 3 Basketball 1,2, 3,4 Baseball 1, 2, 3,4 Cross Country 4 Junior Play 3 Senior Play 4 Chorus 1,3,4 Hi-Lite 3,4 Spot-Lite 4 Vice President 3 Student Council 2 J. W. Von Kannon Sponsor

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CLASS WILL We the Class of 1959, being of strong bodies, weak minds and full of vigor and talent, do hereby declare this our last will and testament. I, Anita Jamieson, do hereby leave my ability to type 70 words a minute to my sister Irene, and my long hair to Harriet Osinski. I, Joanne Deardorff, will my quiet reserve manners to Alice Owens. I, Gladys Dobson, leave my ability to control my temper to Anna Faye Wireman. I, Barbara Jagoda, will my ability to start on the paper a week before and get it out on time to Nancy Ahlemeier. I, Patty Thomas, will my ability to be yell leader two years in a row to Gloria McCrum. I, Patty Elston, will my ability to keep slim and still eat to David Hensel. I, Frank Patrick, will my athletic ability to Leonard Chapman. I, Cora Bell Hittle, leave my ability to keep my hair short to Gloria Hanewich and Sharon Miller. I, Bufford Bailey, leave my dear old locker in the assembly (if it lasts another year) to Larry Hunter. I, John Katona, leave my ability to flirt with all the girls and not date them but, still have them crazy about me to Harvey Risner. I, Michael Prascak, leave my ability to teach the fifth and sixth grades to Raymond Risner. I, Everett Forner, leave my artistic ability to anyone who thinks that they need it. We, the senior class in a conceited state of mind WILL our charming personalities, our exceptionally good looks, our numerous talents, along with our ability to rule the roost to the juniors. We WILL to the freshmen our ability to get out of class at anytime for any purpose. We leave to the sophomore class of 1961 our ability to make money and our ability to spend it just as fast. To the entire school which we shall leave forevermore, we WILL peace and quiet, which we know they shall have without us.