Wapakoneta High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Wapakoneta, OH)

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Our Iunior year was really something to remember. We were finally fit to be called upper- classmen! The first big thing that happened to us was the day we got our class rings. They were really something to be proud of! A cute class play was produced, entitled, 'Tm A Family Crisis. Our band was doing just great at the half-time of the football games, and also for the concerts and contests. Tl1e football team made five victories that year which was a big im- provement over previous years. Mary lane Parlette was chosen as the junior attendant for the homecoming court. The main thing that stands out most of all in our memories in our junior year was the Prom. It was really beautifull The theme of it was, An Evening In Parisf, and everybody worked hard to make it the big success that it was! l At last ..... at long last we entered dear old Blume for our last year in the fall of 1954. Everyone tried hard to do everything right so their last year would be a perfect one. However, many mistakes were still made, but then it woudn't be life if we didn't make mistakes and we must remember that high-school is just one of the many passing phases we will go through in life. Tom Kuck led our class as president along with Willie Vetter assisting him as vice-president and Sharon Thrush and Harry Burkard as secretary and service director respectively. Eileen Katter reigned as our homecoming queen over the Bellefontaine vs. Wapakoneta football game, with Barbara Bowersock and Sharon Thrush as senior attendants. Our band was really tops again this year, the most outstanding event being the trip they made to Wachington D. C., to march i11 the annual Cherry Blossom Parade! The football team did mighty fine also, having a record of six wins and three defeats. The most outstanding event in the football season was the fact that we defeated our long-rival, St. Marys, something that hadn't been done for nine long years! l l Along with the football team comes the basketball team which deserves a good hand for some of the outstanding victories they made also. Again tl1is year a very fi11e class play was produced, A Dance With Our Miss Brooksf' by the dramatists of our group. The 1955 junior and Senior Prom was indeed a gala affair, SOII1Cfl1ll1g none of us will ever forget. Then along came Baccalaureate and Commencement g the two big events that ended twelve very short, very pleasant years of our lives, twelve years that most of us traveled the very same road. From here on out eacl1 of us will have different roads to travel. For some it will be a road to higher learnings, others will be thinking of marriage and getting a job, and still others will be entering the armed services for a couple of years. Whatever road you may travel and whatever experiences you may have, I'm sure some off your most pleasant memories will be in the years you spent in high-school.

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CLASS HISTORY We the graduating class of '55 entered the halls of Blume High School as wide-eyed seventh graders in 1949. We'll never forget our first few days at Blume as we got lost in the halls or went to the wrong rooms and had to be shown the way by some of the then upper classmen. We got a big thrill out of all the different things that happened at high-school that didn't happen at grade school. Things such as the changing of classes every forty-five minutes, going to assem- blies and pep-meetings and many of us seeing a football or basketball game for perhaps the first time! Most of us started going to the Recreation Center on Friday and Saturday nights and to the Teddy Bear afterwards for a coke. Some of the boys of our class even had a basketball team organized. Perhaps one of the biggest things that happened that year was the seventh and eight grade party we went to. We then learned how to dance and how to act like big boys and girls. Also that same year we went on a trip to the Ohio Caverns. Not too many changes took place as we entered school the next year as eighth graders. How- ever, we had one more year added to our lives That year we were in charge of the seventh and were something then! Now comes the year of '51 and we along with Local entered Blume's halls as greenies. We were year and we also elected officers for the various Many of us joined clubs such as Band, Hi-Y, of our boys went out for basketball that year and knew that in a couple of years they would be the and we were really beginning to feel 'up to snuffi. eighth grade party and gosh, did we think we some new friends from Moulton and United allowed to choose some of our own subjects that homerooms. F.F.A., F.H.A., G.A.A., mixed chorus, etc. More began to take an interest in football, because they 'big men' of the team. We were invited to the freshman and sophomore dance, the theme of which was The Bunny Hopf' It turnd out to be a huge success. That year we were also permitted to stay at the Rec unil after 10:00, Qwhich had been the deadline for seventh and eighth gradersj During our Sophomore year at Blume we were just in the midst of things. We began to get more and more busy with our clubs and activities. We elected class officers to preside over the whole sophomore class. We also elected Barbar Seitz as the homecoming attendant to the queen. That year our class was in charge of the freshmen and sophomore dance which had a St. Pat- ricks Day theme.

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SANDRA LOUISE BANCHART Sandy Donlt put off until tomorrow what can be enjoyed todayf' Mixed Course Freshman Chorus 1, Girls Chor- us 2, Mixed Chorus 2, 3, 4, Cheerleader 1, 2, 3, 4, Captain 2, 4, Vice President 3, Secretary 4, C.A.A. 1, 2, 3, 4, Y-Teens 2, 3, 4, Secretary-Treasurer 2, F.B. L.A. 3, 4, President 4, Retro 4, Jr. Class Play Commit- tee 3, Prom Committee 3, See- retarial Staff 4, Intercom. An- nouncer 4. BARBARA ANN BOVVERSOCK Barbara', To know her is to love herf, Business Course F. H. A. 1, F. B. L. A, 3, Y- Teens 2, 3, 4, Secretary 4, Home-room Secretary 3, Band l, 2, 8, 4, Secretarial Staff 4, Homecoming Attendant 4, Ir. Class Play Committee 3. MILO AGNEW Milo Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sitf, Academic Course Band l, 2, 3, 4, Retr0 4. EDGAR A. BOBB ROSE KIARIE BONVDEN BolmhH Rosie Better a witty fool than a lf silenee were golden she'd foolish Wit. he a llllllltllHllI'l'.U Aeademie Course Freshman Chorus I, lttixed Chorus 8, 4, F.B.L.A. 3, 4, Inter Nos 2, Mixed Chorus 4, l . ILA. 4, Retro 4, Secretarial l 'ootlmall 2. 3, 4, Baskellmall 3, Statf 4. Sr. Class Play Cast. SHIRLEY ANN BOVVERSOCK- Shorty I will do everything I ean As well as I eanf' Freshman Chorus l, C i rl s Chorus 2, Mixed Chorus 2, 3, 4, F.II.A. I, 2, 3, 4, Retro 4. ROBERT LEYVIS BEHM Roh 'Alle who says little has little to answer for. Industrial Arts Course Mixed Chorus I, 2, Boys Cleo Club 1, Sr. Hi-Y 2, 3, 4. FREDA ANGELINE BUNVERSUCK Freda A girl in whom there is no guile, ller hrown eyes greet you with a sniilefl Freslnnan Chorus I, Mixed Chorus 3. 4, Retro 4, F. H.A. 2, 3, 4, F.B. L.A. 3, 4, Seere- tarial Staff 4, Sr. Class Play