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

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OUR CLASS HISTORY Do you remember back just twelve years ago when sixteen curious students boarded a bus for the long trip up the Road of Knowledge? Miss Moore (now Mrs. Foster) was the driver, with Mrs. Helen Jean Patton as relief driver. Those aboard for this part of the trip were Leland Smiley, Delores Leath, Richard Morgan, Mary Leath, Ronald Lawson, Mary Gotten, Richard Graham, Larry Williams, Jim Miller, Sue Wheeler, Rov Davis, Delores Hartle, James Stockwell. Rita Moody and Larry Grimes. Richard Howell joined us on the latter part of this trip. And what a trip; well never forget all the trouble we got into and what a time we had learning to read and write. Mr. Clifford Hallet was our guide during this part of the trip. We continued our climb up to Road No. 2 under the guidance of Mrs. Glascock. Recording our voices stands foremost in our minds about this part of the trip. It was really quite comical to hear those peeps and squawks of ours coming out of a machine. We gained a new passenger, Shirley Miles; but Delores and Mary Leath and Delores Hartle were unable to continue with us on this trip. Mr. Clifford Hallet was also unable to continue any further with us. and Mr. Gale Grimes took over. On Road No. 3, Mrs. Norma Mitchell was our driver. We stopped just long enough to pick up Gary Jouris, Maurice Day. Don Linton, and David Taylor; but Ronald Lawson decided to board another bus. This was a great part of the trip for us because for the first time on our road, the honor roll system was used. Our journey on Road No. 4 was quite easy to travel under the guidance of Mrs. Ratcliff. We first met Richard Sosbc, Carolyn Calvert and Gary Douglas on this road, but Leland Smiley got off. We had a wonderful time on this part of our trip when we made our own puppets, and then put on a puppet show. Page Ten

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A TRIBUTE Virginia Moork Foster Mrs. Virginia Foster, a lifelong resident of VVaveland, has taught in the Waveland School for twenty-six years of the thirty years she has been teaching school. During these years, potential teachers, chemists, accountants, farmers, housewives and mothers, secretaries, laborers, morticians, pilots business men, linotypists. clerks, me- chanics, singers, coaches, soldiers, nurses, a physicist and a racer, have learned to read and write under the competent supervision of Mrs. Foster. Mrs. Foster graduated from VVaveland High School in 1921. She worked for the VVaveland Independent for five years before attend- ing Madame Blakers (Butler University) where she received train- ing for a teacher’s license. She taught at Parkersburg and Browns- valley before returning for her second year at Waveland where she is now completing her twenty-sixth year. Page Nine

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We continued up the steep road to No. 5. Mrs. Grimes and Mr. Ray Miller were our drivers. When we stopped for gas. Billy Apple, Kathryn and Darrell Nipper climbed aboard; but Gan- Jouris got off. David Taylor boarded another bus at the beginning of the year. I bet Don Linton will never forget being put over Mr. Miller’s desk and being spanked with his math book. In spite of all our troubles we managed to arrive at Road No. 6 where Mr. Ray Miller was our driver. This road was quite bumpy as we were preparing to enter upon the super highways of higher education. Darrell and Kathryn Nipper were unable to continue with us; but the Byron school was consolidated with Waveland and Marshall, and we gained a few more riders: Mary Long, Edward Wall and Delores McCampbell. Jerry Fitzsimmons joined us from Ladoga, and Connie Clevenger came from Urbana. 111. to continue on our trip. Richard Sosbe left us at the end of this road. We girls remember our “soap class. During the last hour of the day the boys had a “physical ed. program. while the girls carved all sorts of pictures out of soap. Mr. Pence was our guide for this part of the trip. While we were on Road No. 7 in Junior High City we became acquainted with Max Morgan. Sheron Cooper, and Don Gilloglv. Mary Long was unable to continue with us on this trip. This road was quite difficult to travel because we met headlong with so many new and troubling experiences. We had yet to travel Road No. 8 though, in Junior High City. Tin's was quite an interesting road and not quite so rough as the last one. Maurice Day had jumped off on the last curve, but Dick Day joined us on this one. This is also where we picked up Margaret Poole. However, Dick Day decided he would rather work than to continue on our trip. We finally reached Freshmanville Junction, a real dillv. We remember so vividly the initiation the seniors of that year put us through, but now that we think it over, it really was fun. Our class remained the same this year except for Jerrv Fitzsimmons and Max Morgan who got off. Also. Sheron Cooper fell in love, and so got off to settle down. With our toughest part of the journey over, (we thought) we began to take it easy and enjoy sightseeing. But apparently Billy Apple and Margaret Poole didn't, as they got off. Shirley Miles didn’t come with us to Sophomore City either; she continued her journey in a parochial school in Anderson. When we stopped for gas, we were glad to be able to welcome another passenger aboard. David Earl, from Indianapolis. This is the year we got to buy sweaters to distin- guish ourselves from other passengers. Getting closer to the end of our journey, we stopped at Junior Burg just long enough to pick up John Pickett, Pete Stewart, Charles Spencer and Don Young. We were honored by a reception in C’ville sponsored by the Juniors. We thoroughly enjoyed putting on a play “The Woman in Black for the other passengers. We soon lost Pete Stewart, Chas. Spencer. David Earl, however. We are on the last road of our journey now where we are kept busy even- minute. Shirley Miles came back to us after having been gone the last two cities; only to leave again near the end of the semester. We also lost John Pickett who went back to Bloomingdale. Connie Clevenger fell in love back there in Junior Burg, and decided not to continue on to Seniorville with us, either. After a short rest from this trip, we are planning another one to Washington, D. C. and New York, which w ill add more memories to our twelve wonderful years in Waveland High. Page Eleven