Vernon High School - Vernonite Yearbook (Vernon, IN)

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CLASS HISTORY In Steptember 1953 we 53 shy students entered the doors of Vernon Hrgh School Th1rty three of us were from Vernon Townsh1p th1rteen from Sandcreek Townsh1p and seven from Btgger Townsh1p We were to start our hrgh school educatlon as green freshmen We chose Dorsey Davrs Prestdent Sue Armstrong V1ce Pres1dent Mary Ellen Schaeffer Secretary and Dons Dav1s Treasurer Our sponsor was Mrs Hyder Our candldates for carmvalK1ng and Queen were Dorsey Dav1s and Mary Ellen Schaeffer We had a wemer roast tlus year on the school grounds followed by a hayr1de thzs was our freshmen class party In September 1954 52 of us returned to V H S as Srlly sophomores Thls year our offtcers were Dorsey Davls Presldent Dor1s Davls V1ce Pres1dent Sue Armstrong Secretary and Jean Collett Treasurer Our sponsor was Mtss Lewls In September 1955 43 of us returned to Vernon H1gh School to start our Juruor year Tlus was a year f1lled w1th act1v1t1es that we shall never forget To begm w1th we chose Ronme Boyd Presrdent Dorsey Dav1s, Vtce Prestdent Sharon Lamb Secretary and Jean Collett Treasurer Our sponsor was M1ss Sample, To make money we sold concess1ons at the home ball games and presented our jumor play wluch was trtled Uncle Rube s Homestead The Jumor prom Moon hght and Roses' was very successful and we certamly enJoyed the pleasure and work of thrs un forgettable event. Larry Patr1ck and Judy Barlow re1gned over the prom as Kmg and Queen The Queen's court cons1sted of Janet G1lmore Sue Armstrong and Claudme Mclnure The Kmg s attendants were Joe Cook Leon Fa1r and Ronme Boyd In September 1956 42 d1gn.1f1ed seruors returned to Vernon I-hgh School for the1r fmal year of h1gh school educauon In this most lmportant year we elected John Challle Presrdent Carol Mclntlre V1ce Pres1dent Rebecca Brown Secretary andJ 1m F1sher Treasurer Rebecca Brown and J 1m F1sher graduated at the end of the f1rst semester then the class elected Frances Poer Secretary and Larry Scroggtns Treasurer for the rest of the year Mr Wells and Mrs D1ttman were our sponsors Th1s year we had our senlor play ntled Love IS Eternal Some of the members of the class pubhshed our school paper The Vernon Banner We also prepared and sold our annual Vernomtes of 56 57 Glenn McGu1re was our class valedrctonan, John Challle was salutatorlan and Sue Arm strong was class h1stor1an CLASS COLORS Lave.ndar and S11ver CLASS FLOWER. Tllllp CLASS MOTTO' Do Best and Try for Better 18 v - ' v . . I 9 v ' I u 1 u . . . . . . . , . -4 - 9, - y . . . . : 9 I 9 ' v 1 a , . U 1 . . U s ' P 1 1 9 - ' ' - - u 9 n ' ' u - . . , . . . - . . . . . . , n I ' 1 1 - I . . . . . . I l 1 I ' 1 1 s 1 - , . . . ' ' ' an - nr . . ' ll Q' f . an ' I n n . .

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CLASS PROPHECY In the year of 1982 my cous1n and Ihad Just made our f1rst rrullxon and had dec1ded to take a world tour III order to celebrate As we started we never dreamed that we would soon see any of our classmates from the class of 57 As we got mto our tax1 to go to the axrport we nouced to our surprtse that thedr1ver was Larry Scroggms He told us that he had 12 ch1ldren and he had become a ftrm behever of the old saymg Cheaper By The Dozen Only the sad thmg was that soon he would have 13 I guess you could call thts a baker s dozen Soon we were at the axrport the captatn was Slafldlllg on the runway by the plane welcommg all the passengers aboard We knew that we were gotng to enJoy tlus tr1p when we recogruzed that face belonged to J 1m Ftsher one of our dearest fr1ends He had succeeded 1n fuushmg h1s term in the A1r Force and was a record breaklng f1rst class p11ot Hrs Co p1lot was none other than the Les R1chardson We would never have recogn1zed Leslie because he was a plump man of 250 pounds A neatly dressed stewardess was standmg tn the doorway of the plane. We were surpnsed to see ll was Jean Collett She sald she had led an excmng l1fe Twelve hours later we were III Hawan and we were taken to the famous Heart Break Hotel owned by the world known Dw1ght Caldon Murphy He was Jtlted and that 15 why he gave h1s hotel such a sad name. Hrs star boarder as we later found out was poor heart broken Joyce Tabor To take our bags to the room was Martha He11man she was marned to a mov1e actor and happy After we had rested we went for a sw1m on the beautlful Wallqkl Beach We saw M1ss Amenca who was also on a world tour She had recently won the tttle. It was wonderful to know that one of our Classmates had reached thls goal, for tt was Janet G1lrnore All of a sudden we heard the call for dxnner There should have been a warrung for stampede because we got m the m1dd1e of one cons1stmg of small ch11dren rtmning over toward the1r mother DOHC other Ihafl Dor1s Davis Claudme was pracucmg a new stroke, the dog paddle and she had ventured out too far Soon she was callmg for help She was soon saved by a handsome 11fesaver J1mrny Cornett He was S1111 s1ngle and he had dec1ded to make a career of hfesavmg. nat1ves who were under the gmdance of the noted m1ss1onary Rebecca Brown Inher career she had succeeded 1n C1V1llZ1Ilg 3 8755 nat1ves a very good Job That afternoon we went s1ght seetng m the swamps and I, Carol Mclntire, got my foot caught m a v1ne and fell 1nto a badly 1nfested Crocodlle stream. It looked as though there was no hope when out from the bushes came the great Croc ftghter Fred Yates He fought three w1th one hand and rescued me w1th the other After that event we heard a loud g1gg11ng noxse, whlch we mvesugated and found out that ll was the great laughmg hyena tamer Lou Randall. He always had been good for a laugh Next we dec1ded to go to Ind1a On our way to the market square we heard the allurmg sound of a flute When we got closer to the market we could see that It was a snake charmer We re cogmzed her by her charmmg brown eyes whlch were rolllng w1th the nme of the muslc It was Sue Armstrong We had heard about the famous elephants of Indra We dtdn t expect to see Paulme D1xon work1ng w1th them That part of the c1ty was falrly torn up because Paulme had a bad hablt of turnmg mrce loose 1l'l order to see the elephants stand on the bulldmgs We nouced m the horwon a band of men chasrng another band of men. The band that was bemg chased through theSafar1 Desert was headed by two men named Charles and Kmny Sanders who are brothers They had robbed the dlamond mme of Dorsey Davxs Th1s chase had been gomg on for 10 years Wlll II ever end? Donald Stark was the noted leader of the Forelgn Legxon m Indla It was a great army The week after that we were on our way to Egypt and as we flew over the Nxle we saw some thmg desperately trytng to reach land and after mqturmg we folmd that ll was another classmate of 57 Bobby Wolfmger the Channel sw1mmer who had sa1d I can do tt but dxdn t When we landed we were greeted by another mllhonaxre Leon Fa1r He had won hls m1l11on by play1ng penuckle We spent the rught tn Egypt and feasted on a splended meal whlch was prepared by the grand chef Joe Cook That IS one meal we w1ll never forget I9 . . . at n - - ' ' , . ' O I . . , . . .., ' , 4 , . Q . ' . . . . , . . . . . ' . I . . . , . a I l The next morning we were on our way again to Africa. We were welcomed by a bunch of . .. . , Q . ' . . . . , . . , I . Q D 4 1 u ll if ' ' ' li ' IO ' I . .