Van Wert High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Van Wert, OH)

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THE EXCALIBUR Q7 olalwmore Cfadri .Mafory In the fall of 1939, our Freshman class trouped down the halls of Van Wert High, amazing the upper classes with our superior number. Unknowing as we were to the methods of the school, we wandered about hopelessly for several days. To the amusement of the older pupils, we lived up to our reputation as Green Freshmen by poking our inquisitive noses into the wrong classes at wrong periods. Our class finally began to take form, however, when we elected our class officers. After a vigorous campaign Charles Zinsmaster became our president, Elizabeth Imler, our vice president, Bernard Haines, our secretary, and Jean Corathers, our treasurer. Headed by this fine group, we began to make progess in acting more grown-up and poised. Many of our boys went out for sports during the year. On the football squad were Don Sells, John Stuckey, Jim Stoops, Chester Hunter. Lee Dicken, Jack Shoemaker, Bill Collins, Bill Tousey, Allen Spring, Art Green, Charles Zinsmaster, Howard Cobb, Dan Morris, and Jack Weigle. Don Sells earned his letter, thus becoming the only Fresh- man member of the V club. First Row: Gordon Palmer, Ned Walters, Jack Shoemaker, John Curtis, Clark Reeder, Virgil Salsbury, Kenneth Holland, Arthur Green, Raymond Fleece, Robert Eberle, Cloyd Waltz, Richard Longsworth, Robert Kreischer. A Second Row: Alice Stewart, Phyllis Evans, Nancy Ross, Geraldine Kinder, Betty Hartmicr, Lois Sink, Violet Thomas, Margaret Ferrell, Marcille Hogue, Margaret Ellen Greenewald, Phyllis Keil, Barbara Allen, Marcia Balyeat, Frances W'inhovcr, Mary Brake. Third Row: Lois Zinsmaster, Beth Ann Feigert, Gernadean Johnston, Permilla Wherry, Donna Marie Johnston, Patty Dull, Betty Tangeman, Josephine Forreste, Patricia Grahni, Joan Gabriel, Boneta Anderson, Helen Siders, Helen Fox, Helen Smith.

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Q6 THE EXCALIBUR First Row: Junior Brake, Francis Cole, James Monroe, Thad Hall, Roger Steele, Forrest Brittsan james Lamy, Bill Tindall, Dick Morgan. Y Second Row: Dean Miller, jack Beavo, Perry Wise, Nathan Bailey, Norma Sunderland, Dorothy Forwaltcr, Frank Corathers, John Shoop, Russell Miller, Bill Wermer, Ted Paullus. Third Row: Ruth Dustman, Joan Putman, Jacqueline Hartley, Virginia Grahm, Avis Reichard, Constance Soldner, Nancy Reynolds, joan Eggcrss, Betty Bell, Betty Beuchner, Romaine Baylcs. V Ss V -N X, ' af lg wx? aflhn, Our class was very ably represented on the football squad this year by Jim Monroe, Thad Hall, John Coon, Nathan Bailey, Eddie Vikupitz. Bill Tindall, Eugene Wandell, Eugene Redrup, jim Perry, Dick Morris, Harvey Agler, Charles Albright, Forest Brittsan. Our class also contributed a good share of the basketball team. Those who were successful were Bob Mosier, Jim Monroe, Dick Morgan, XValt Fouty, Bill Tindall, Nathan Bailey, Harvey Adams, and Harvey Agler. The five Juniors elected to the National Honor Society were Frank Corathers, Joan Eggerss, jim Lamy, Betty Murray and Constance Soldner. NVc review with pride our record in school and we look forward in anticipation of even better things. Our ambition is to make our class one of the best so that as we look back on our high school days We can do so in pride and satisfaction for a thing well done. Jim Lamy, '41.

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Q8 THE EXCALIBUR First Row: Harold Kieth, Carl Anderson, Richard Grandstaff, Jack NX'eigle, john Stevens, Chester Hunter, Harley XValls, Bob Prichard, XVilliam Anderson, Milo Wyandt, Malcolm Brown, Raymond Wil- liams, Delbert Willianison. Second Row: Junior Baker, Richard Rosencr, Bill Towsey, Nora Presler, Mary Hiles, Betty Ladd, Leah Salsbury, Betty Mullen, Alcie Waldron, Ruth Baer, Phyliss Stripe, Betty Ditto, Myrtle Collins, Ruth Leiter. Third Row: Audrey Dickson, Dorothy Davis, Virginia Crowe, Gloria Elder, Irene Bell, Mildred Bell, Marilyn Shoop, Betty Hisey, Joanne Beemcr, jo Ann Mason, Marjorie NVilkie, Harriet Strothcr, Elizabeth Imler. ,Lf ,lf , g T sy Among the cheerleaders was our own Bobbie Lou Allen. In the middle of the year more of our boys went out for basketball. Although some of them had to play on intramural teams instead of the squad, they are to be congratulated for their spirit. Those who remained on the squad were Paul Bodkins, Richard Grand- staff, John Stuckey, jim Stoops, and Bob Ziegler. Representing us in Student Council were Paul Bodkins, Howard Cobb, Edith Raabc, and jack Weigle. Both boys and girls fared rather badly in intramurals as far as wins and losses. Their spirit, however, was undying and they hoped for better in the future. A large percentage of the Freshman Class went out for chorus and band. Several of them appeared in the operetta, An Old Kentucky Garden and still others went out for musical contests. Altogether, although we made many mistakes, we had a great deal of fun our Freshman year and have no regrets.