Waveland High School - Hornets Nest Yearbook (Waveland, IN)

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SENIORS First How: Victor L. Pence, Sponsor; Alma Brewer; Patty Patterson; Gerald Fry; Don Gentry; Walter Metzger; Charles Felkner; Daniel Sewell; Delores Thomas. Second How: Mrs. Servies, Sponsor; Jack Mitchell; Jack Howell; Jim Wheeler; Alan Milligan; Bill Collins; Walter Overstreet; Norma Atkison. SEMI! I! CUSS III ST Oil V On April 28, 1957, we will take the semi-final step in our high school careers—baccalaureate. Then the long awaited, but dreaded, day will arrive . May 3, when we march down the long aisle to receive our diplomas and take the final step out into the world. But as we look back on the past twelve years we see some very vivid headlines of our most memorable vears. “Backward, turn backward Oh, time, in your flight. The brightest headlines of all are those of this Last year: SENIOR ENROLLMENT IS THIRTEEN, SEN- IORS INITIATE FRESHMEN, CHRISTMAS BALL IS Ill' l l) I SCHOOL. RES I SSl RED” Is PRE SENTED BY SENIOR, JUNIORS HOLD RECEPTION FOR SENIORS. The month of September, 1956, brought us into our final year of high school. The class membership dropped from sixteen to fourteen when Mar)' Umberger and Patty Patterson left us to get married. Gerald Frye, a new member this fall, left us, leaving the following thirteen: Nonna Atkinson, Alma Brewer, Bill Collins, Charles Felkner, Don Gentry, Jack Howell, Walter Metzger. Alan Milligan, Jack Mitchell. Walter Overstreet, Daniel Sewell, Delores Thomas, and Jim Wheeler. Our first memor)’ of this vear is of the day we so cruelly initiated the freshmen. Then came the Christmas Ball, our largest dance of the year. On April 5. we presented our play, “Rest Assured,” and last, hut not least, the Prom, given in our honor by the Class of 1958, with its fine food, dancing, decorations, and memories. On page eleven we see: RECEPTION PLANS ARE COMPLETED, JUNIORS PRESENT COMEDY. HAPPY DAZE,” JUNIORS LOSE SEVEN CLASS MEMBERS. The reception. Stork Club theme, was finally ready after weeks of planning anti a long day of decorating. The most outstanding event of the evening to us will probably be when the awning fell and the frightful work required to get it up before the guests arrived. In October, 1955, we appeared on stage for the first time when we presented our comedy, “Happy Daze. In Septemlx r of that same year seven- teen students enrolled to ! egin the eleventh year. How- ever, that was five short of the enrollment the year before. Those who left us during the summer of ’55 were: Sandra Murray, Melvin and Marvin McDonald. Joan Allen, and James Lowery. Pete Stewart and Ellen Short dropped from the ranks the first semester to make thc total number fifteen. Page Nine

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 The most potent of all indirect influences in the development of our citizenry is the influence of a good teacher”—Armand J. Gcrson. A (Tribute As we began preparing the pages of this yearbook to commemorate our last year in Wavcland School, certain things stood out distinctly from the routine of day-by-day learning. Events had occurred that made deep impressions; classmates and teachers had created lasting impressions upon our personalities. For eight years we had had music and art and for four years most of us have had chorus and band—twelve years of instruction in art. music, in manners, in morals—twelve years of devoted service from a man who came into the community thirty years ago as a stranger and remained to be- come a vital force in the lives of the hundreds of boys and girls who have been students in the Waveland School. While acknowledging with gratitude the many services rendered us by other memlxTS of the faculty, because of his many years of faithful service to our school and community, his devotion to his profession, his love for children, and ability as a musician, we. the Class of 1957, pay tribute to X. R. Walker. In the fall of 1927, Mr. Walker came to Waveland as the music and art teacher. For the next several years lu1 coached many vocal groups in addition to his regular classroom work, as well as staging operettas and cantatas in both the grades and high school. In 1939 the community expressed a desire for instrument tl music, and Mr. Walker organized instrumental classes in the school that fall for the purpose of assembling a band. In January, 1940, the hand was organized under Mr. Walker’s direction, and played its first concert in the school gym on April 5, 1940. In 1942, the hand entered the district contest and won a first place. Since that time many Waveland students have ! een entered in instrumental and vocal contests for which they have received numerous awards. Mr. Walker gave up the hand work in 1953, but continues to teach grade music and art and directs the high school glee clubs. During the many years Mr. Walker has served the Waveland Sclux l he has sponsored all the different classes, coached plavs, sponsored Junior-Senior receptions and class parties, and for several years was school treasurer. He is a member of the NEA and the Indiana State Teacliers Association; a life m ■mber of the alumni of Indiana State Teachers College of Terre Haute, and is listed in the 1957 edition of Who Is Who In Music. Mr. Walker is quite active in the community. He has served the Waveland Christian Church as organist for twenty-five vears; is a charter member of the Lions Club of Waveland, of which organization lie is now secretary-treasurer; is a mem lx r of the Masonic bodies and has served a number of years as organist for Crawfordsville Commander) 25. Mr. and Mrs. Walker own their home in Waveland. They are the parents of three children, all of whom graduated from Waveland High School. Mrs. Don Cabbage (Martha Jo) is a stenographer at Donnelley’s, William is a student in engineer- ing at Purdue, anti John is a junior in business accounting at Indiana State Teachers College in Terre Haute. We extend our l»est wishes to Mr. Walker as we leave Waveland High School. Page Eight

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As we turn to page ten we see: SOPHOMORES ORDER RINGS, SWEATERS ARE PURCHASED, SOPHOMORES HAVE TWENTY-TWO ENROLL- MENT. As sophomores we ordered our rings on April 21, 1955, from the Hcrff Jones Company. In September, 1954, we purchased our sweaters, choosing blue and gray as the colors after having quite a heated discussion on the matter. On the first of September, in the same year, twenty-two students were enrolled to begin studies as sophomores. Page nine reads: FRESHMEN ARE INITIATED BY SENIORS, TWENTY-ONE ARE IN FRESHMAN CLASS, FINAL SCORE OF FRESHMAN-SOPHO- MORE GIRLS TOURNAMENT REMAINS TIED. The freshmen were initiated by the seniors by having to wear costumes all day with the worst to come that night. All sorts of stunts were done by us freshmen, including egg-breaking and other messes. Another outstanding event of the year was the final game of the girls’ bas- ketball tournament. The underdogs, the freshmen girls, tied the sophomore girls in an exciting game. (No over- time in girls’ basketball.) During the summer and fall of ’53 we lost Carolyn Weaver but we gained Melvin and Marvin McDonald to make our enrollment twenty- one. At the beginning of the second semester another student, Mary Umberger (Lambuth) joined us and we lost a classmate, Lowell Brewer. On back to page eight: EIGHTH GRADE HAS TWENTY-ONE MEMBERS. Between May and Sep- tember of 1952, we gained two members, Joan Allen and Wally Metzger. During the same period we lost two members, Sharon Cooper and Virginia Waltz, making our total number twenty-one. Richard Day also left us during the year. Headlines on page seven: TWENTY-THREE SEV- ENTH GRADERS BEGIN THEIR FIRST YEAR OF JUNIOR HIGH. The summer of ’51 brought us five- new class members. They were: Ellen Short, Richard Day, Jack Howell. Charles Felkner, and Lowell Brewer. At the same time we lost a member, Max Morgan, mak- ing our enrollment twenty-three. On the sixth page we see: GRADE SIX HAS TWENTY STUDENTS. During the summer of ’50 Bill Collins joined us to make our sixth grade enrollment nineteen. Cecil Stewart joined us later in the year to make the total enrollment twenty. Mr. Ray Miller and Mrs. Doris Grimes were our teachers for that year. Glancing at page five: FIFTH GRADE HAS NINE- TFIEN PUPILS. During the summer of ’49 we lost three class members: Jack Martin. James Claycomb, and Carolyn Calvert. During that same period, however. we gained a student, Sandra Murray, and later in the year still another was added, Alma Brewer, to make our total number twenty-one. Before the year was over we lost two members, Sara Peck and Karen Adkins, dropping our enrollment back to nineteen. Our teach- ers for that vear were Mr. Miller and Mrs. Grimes. The fifth and sixth grades were departmentalized for three years. On to page four: MRS. RATCLIFF HAS TWENTY- TWO STUDENTS IN FOURTH GRADE CLASS. Be- tween May and Septemlx r of ‘48 we lost four members of our class. They were: Garry Brady, Don Linton, Beverly Robison, and Carleen Harlx r. However, we gained three new students, James Claycomb, Delores Thomas, and Karen Adkins, making us twenty-two members. Then page three: GRADE THREE HAS TWENTY- THREE MEMBERS, HOT LUNCH PROGRAM SET UP, MEASLES EPIDEMIC. The enrollment for Mrs. Mitchell’s class for September ’47 was twenty-two, a gain of six during the vacation months. The members that were added were: Garry Brady, James Lower)-, Carleen Harbor, Jack Martin, Alan Milligan, and Wal- ter Overstreet. We also lost a member, Janice Rosen- baum. At the beginning of our third year the hot lunch program was in full swing so away went our old lunch pails. Another outstanding event that year was the day only seven out of the twenty-two members of our class were present due to an epidemic of old- fashioned measles. On the second page we see: SEVENTEEN PUPILS ARE ENROLLED IN MRS. GLASCOCK’S SECOND GRADE. F'rom May until September, 1946, we lost five members of our class. They were: Janet Fulford. Janet Thomas, Richard Morgan, Jane Wilson, and Dale Hester. We gained one student. Jim Wheeler, to make our total enrollment seventeen. On to page one: TWENTY-ONE PUPILS BEGIN FIRST YEAR OF SCHOOL, LOVE BUG BITES EARLY. Mrs. Moore (Foster) started us out in Sep- temlx-r, 1945, for our first year of sclux l with twenty- one members, of whom only four remained for twelve years. They are: Daniel Sewell, Jack Mitchell, Don Gentry, and Norma Atkison. We will never forget that first year or the first day at W.H.S. As usual we had a class romance; none of us will forget the day Daniel kissed Beverly Robison. As we leave the halls of W.H.S. we will long re- member these twelve years of hard work and fun. But we must remember that we are now taking a big step out into the future and may we always profit by our past. Page Ten