Wawaka High School - Pow Wow Yearbook (Wawaka, IN)

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SCHOOL MARMS AND MASTERS-Continued She occasionally helps take tickets at ball games. In her spare time she raises chickens and does other home chores. In all, she has taught Z3 years. Ready and always willing to help, that's Mrs. Thelma Frick. She takes care of the little tots in the first and second grades. At some of the noon folk game periods, she has been seen on the gym floor, leading her little folks right along with the older ones. Manchester and Ball State Colleges were her studying points. She has taught school for 9 years. She often assists at ball games with the ticket selling or taking. Her other chores are keeping house and helping her husband on the farm. Currently, she has a horror of icy roads and ditches. BUS DRIVERS For the past 13 years, Lyman J. Piggott, who is far better known as Pete, has been a Wawaka School bus driver. He has lived in Elkhart Township for nearly 54 years and at present lives off Road 6 just west of Wawaka. In all his bus driving, his severest thrill came when his bus slid down Diamond Lake Hill on the ice and there were three children in the bus. His pet peeve is back seat driving. Besides driving a school bus, he farms and shares management of the Houston-Piggott Store. He is the father of two children, both have grad- uated from Wawaka High School. He has two grandchildren. Robert ggi, who is a native of Elkhart Township, has driven a school bus for 9 years. He gets quite amused when he hears, I hope we can't get to school tomorrow, I have a test. lt's disgusting to have children throw paper and the remainder of their lunches on the floor, he says. Being stuck in the mud with his bus from 7:45 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. and having nearly all the Noble County Highway Equipment to get hirn out has been his most thrilling experience. Hunting and fishing fill Bob's leisure hours. He. has often driven the players' bus to ball games. His two girls are in school, but his son is yet at home. A For thirty-one years Kenneth galil- has lived in Elkhart Township. This is his fifth year of hauling students to North Elkhart and Wawaka Schools. Sliding on the ice have provided him with most of his bus driving thrills during that time. He thinks eating and sleeping are NS P01 PCCVCS- For sports he prefers fishing. Have you caught any big ones lately, Kenny? He is a farmer by trade, The Boyd's have four boys. Another school bus driver from North Elkhart is kg-gag: Ramsby. He, too, has lived

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BUS DR IV ERS -Continued around here nearly all of his life. For the past five years he's been hauling kids. Last year he faithfully drove the fan bus for ball games. Bucking snow banks has been his most thrilling experience in his bus. He says his favorite car is a Chevy. Something's fishy, his bus is a Ford! Maybe he couldn't get what he wanted! When he's not driving the bus, he is hard at work on the farm. Arthur Ernmert, a resident of Elkhart Township for twenty-nine years, has been driving a school bus for three years. He drives one of the three buses from North Elkhart School to Wawaka. His most thrilling experience while driving was taking a load of young people to Indianapolis to the Youth for Christ Rally. He was amused when one of his riders said he liked to smell gas and gasoline, too. Take notice Wawaka kids: His pet peeve is kids getting into the bus through the back door! He delights in teasing Mary jane Eberly and Homer Lindsey. Art also does trucking and farming, he especially enjoys crying sales. The Emmert's have five children, only three are yet in school. Another bus driver, Frederick Burket, is also in his third year of driving. He also is a native of Elkhart Township. His most thrilling experience as a bus driver was when joan Yoder tried to run over his bus with her brother's motor scooter. His pet peeve is getting up to early to drive the bus. His favorite sport is basketball. The school basketball fans will remember Fred for taking them to many of the games away from home this year. The Burket's have one son. THE JANIT OR MAN Olin Lower, our efficient and accommodating janitor, is a graduate of Wawaka High School with the class of 1932. Besides keeping our working quarters clean and comfortable, he is very helpful in unnumbered other ways. He is our picture projector operator, general repair man, and ,willing helper in many capacities. The chair shown with hind on another page is a Christmas gift from students and teachers in appreciation of the extras he does. :eoeukmk Mrs. Shurnaker, who teaches biology, asked Bud Hjelm to report to the class what he had found out about the salivary glands. Bud replied, I couldn't find a thing, Mrs. Shumaker. They're to pesky secretive. If you get zero on your exam, don't let it bother you. It means absolutely nothing!