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

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bers of the cast all showed native ability and good dir- ecting. They were Martha Jones, Helen Kruse, Jane Woten, Donna Miller, Em- ma Lee Martin, Virginia Al- len, Carol Spaulding, James Showalter, Donald Under- wood, Ronald Oswalt, Glenn Woten, David Gluth, Richard Hudson, and Charles Poling. A twenty-one year tradi- tion was broken when the Van Wert High School bas- ketball team became league champions for the second consecutive year. We were justifiably proud of the five juniors who contributed to this record: James Showal- ter, Richard Mosier, Richard Baltzell, Rodger Palmer, and Fred Wells. Both junior boys and girls took top places in the intra- murals. Many of our class contrib- uted their time and talents to the band and chorus. Richard Hudson was drum majorg Donald Underwood was a soloist for the band concert. Janice Purdy was a member of the girls, sex- tette and also an accompan- ist. In spite of the grimness of global war, we have had good times and will cherish many happy memories from these past three years. We know how much Van Wert has done for us and how much she means to us. At long last we realize we are becoming the men and wom- en we hope to be. -Robin Mosher Lininger Longsworth Manship Martin Martin Maxwell Medaugh Merris Miller Miller Mocabee Moore Moore Morgan Mosher Mosier Myers Myers N eif ord O'brien Oswalt Palmer Parsons Parsons Pearson Phillipy Poling Poling Pontius Purdy Putman Ralston Rhoads Riley Robey Saulisberry Scarpelli Schaadt Shaw Showalter Smith Snavely Spaulding Springer Stripe Stuckey Thomas Tindall Tobias Uncapher Underwood Unterbrink Wagonrod Wells Wherry Wild Wilkinson Williams Woten Woten

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Ackom Allen Allen Atchinson Bailey Baker Baltzell Balyeat Barnett Bartlett Basil Bates Bauer Baxter Beck Becker Bennett Bernheisel Bodenbender Bollinger Bricker Buecker Carpenter Clifton Conley Conley Cryer Curtis Darling Davies Davis Denig Dixon Doner Egan Eisenhauer Flannagan Flickinger Foreman Gaddis Gluth Grandstaff Gribler Grubb Hammond Harman Hofmann Holland Hudson Jones Kampf Kesler Kiehl Kintz Klausing Klewer Kreider Kruse Learned Lininger Iunior Class History Beautiful Ohio staged an autumn pageant in techni- color for the juniors starting their third year in Van Wert High School. Realizing the responsibili- ties and increased extra- curricular, civic, and war activities ahead, elections were the first thing on the agenda. The class of 1946 elected James Showalter as class president for the third time, Barbara Bernheisel, vice-presidentg Jane Woten, secretary, and Donald Un- derwood, treasurer. Student council represen- tatives were James Showalt- er, Mildred Becker, and Richard Mosier ifor the third timel, Phyllis Schaadt, David Gluth, Robert Lininger, and Kenneth Bartlett. The ten juniors who went out for football in 1944, con- tinuing the class' excellent football record, were James Showalter, Ronald Oswalt, Robert Balyeat, Robert Lin- inger, Roger Lininger, Rod- ger Palmer, Kenneth Bart- lett, Gene Kesley, Forrest Thomas, and Charles Sauls- bery. Our class ring committee, composed of James Showal- ter and Janice Purdy, gave us excellent selections from which to choose. The junior class play. a comedy, Foot Loose, was greeted by howls of glee from the younger members of the audience and much appreciated by all. The mem-

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Adams Agler Agler Allen Baer Baer Baker Baker Barrientos Bates Bayles Bigham Billieu Blue Bobbit Brake Brehm Brewer Bricker Brinker Brooks Brumback Byers Carlo Case Chivington Coan Comer Conley Cooper Corathers Curtis Darling Davis Davis Deal Dixon Donnelly Downing Feigert Finch Finkhousen Fleece Frick Friedly Gallant Garver Gilbert Glosett Green Hall Halliwell Harris Harvey Henney Herring Hertel Hofmann Hofmann Hudson Hunt Hunt Jerome Johns Jones Kaiser Keihl Sophomore Class History We were not an excep- tional class when We entered Van Wert High School. Yes, we were Weak in the knees and green After getting a few blue slips and various excuses from the office, we settled down to routine work. The fairer sex took the lead in our class offices: President, Virginia Phillipyg Vice - President, C h a rl e s Finchg Secretary, Marcia Wyandt, Treasurer, David Hunt. Our representatives to Student Council were Vir- ginia Seavy, Betsy Feigert, Charles Raabe, and Kent Spieth. Many boys participated in sports. On the football squad were Joe Keil, Robert Jones, Don Stover, Charles Raabe, Ronnie Fetter, Ed Dixon, and John Haller. Dudley Stetler, Jim Loetz, Roger Allen, and Joe Keil were on the Reserve basketball team. Numerous girls were ac- tive in G.R. and G.A.A. Col- len Curtis was our freshman representative to the G.A.A. Cabinet. After managing to survive the difficulties, we received