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

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CLASS OF' 1948 LATER ON-Continued looking restaurant on Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. His wife is head cook and his children are waiters and waitresses. We now see -D-cg Eilene Wysong as head of the art department at Wirk's Garment Factory in Ligonier. Her husband is one of the foremen. Her twin daughters are now in the second grade in Ligonier. It is rather hard to'get this next scene as it is wh Eugene Troyer and his youngest son coming in for a landing at his airport. Now that he has stopped we find that he seems to have a very pleasant occupation. His air- port is in connection with a gas station along Road 6 near Wawaka. Our last vision is that of a farm just across the road from Troyer's Airport where we find Edward Evans Mawhorter doing his spring plowing. His wife and son are out at the barn milking the Holsteins. The crystal ball is not to be held responsible for any change in the above predictions., CLASS HISTORY Only seven of the thirteen Seniors started at Wawaka School under the guidance of Mrs. Ruth Schwab johnson. They were: Merrill Frick, Donald Gangwer, Edward Mawhorter, Marion Franks, james Fulford, Doris Wysong, Lois Damon. Lois later spent one year in New York but decided she liked Wawaka best. Others beginning in 1936 were: Ruth Dunlap, Jeanette Hale, Betty Fulk, Norma Smith, Thomas Magers, Donald Meroney, jack Smith, Gwan Kimrnel, and Richard Pusti. In the second grade jim Gleason and Donald Meroney left the class in order to help enlarge some other schools. When school opened the following fall we had another loss, jack Smith had moved to Wolf Lake. The fourth grade found the class minus one more member, Richard Pusti. Lyle Klemn joined us in the fifth grade. Max Musselman was temporarily with the class. Robert Haney, who got his start at Wolf Lake with Blanche Erdly as his teacher then went to Merriam, some way wound up at Wawaka for six and one-half years. Then in the sixth grade Lyle Klemn and Jeanette Hale left. As the year went by, jack Wallace came and Doris Donley added defense to the feminine side of the class. 1 Then came the junior High years with the North Elkhart gang raising the seventh grade crew to 19. North Elkhart School graduates were: Dean Wysong, Arlene johnson, Norma Day, and Sally Donat. Dean Wysong, Ruth Dunlap, Dean Kline, and Sally Donat left

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Some schools have colors old CLASS HIST ORY-C0n'Cin11ed during the eighth grade year, but Josephine Gappinger's coming from Elkhart helped to offset that loss. The thinning-out process soon reduced the class. Norma Day moved near Columbia City when a freshie. jack Wallace and Gwan Kimmel were lured to Ligonier the same year. Ellen Church and Barbara Gaunt were only with the class a short time. Old gold sweaters were chosen by the 16 Sophomores. All the gang stayed for the whole year. junior life spelled downfall for the school life of three of the class. Marriage claimed Betty Fulknand Norma Smith. Tom Magers joined the factory workers. Twelve Seniors were soonjoined by a thirteenth one this fall. Wayne Moore transferred from York Township. And, so we've trailed the class of 1948 from way back in 1936. If there have been omissions, it has been quite unintentional. The history from here on, is up to the Class of 1948 as they go STEP BY STEP. CLASS OF 1948 Colors: BLUE AND GRAY Motto: STEP BY STEP Flower: AMERICAN BEAUTY ROSE GINGER ITEMS And some have colors boldg But I have a hunch That the best in the bunch, Is the one that is purple and gold, Freshman: Mom, can I go out tonight, please? Sophomore: I'm going out tonight, Mom, junior: Goodby, Mom. Senior: I'll bring the milk in with me. At a very exciting ball game the people were so people in back asked if they wouldn't sit down in front. Lower replied. We don't bend that way. Mr. Tierney fFinishing a long algebra problemlz Gloria Oesch: All that work for nothing. Though high school days Have their delights, They can't compare With high school nights. Wit: It's all over school. Half Wit: What? Wit: The roof. enthused they were standing up, The Quit your kidding, Marianne And so we find 'x' equals zero.