West Lafayette High School - Scarlet and Gray Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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Third Row: jack Bush, George Doyle, Horace McPhetridge, Mack Thomas, Howard Pervine, Harold Swank, Leslie Lewis, Phillip Demaree, Sam McConnell, William Sylvester, Harold Lange, Edward Pierce, Paul jackson, David Todd, Richard Small, james Gildersleeve, Richard Ward, William Moore. Fourth Row: Frances Allen, jean Burnham, Ann Muller, Molly McKee, Helen jones, Anne Newton, Betty Wilson, Maxine Sense, Betty King, Beth Schaupp, Shirley Fauber, Virginia Kashner, Lois Remmers, Constance McCoid, Katherine Burnham, Margaret Baynes. Front Row: Raymond Leonard, jack Dienhart, Donald Becker, jack Boes, Robert Schubert, Robert Barnes, Charles Lange, Elizabeth Girvin, Robert Shaw, William Greer, Henry Abbett, Donald Craig, Noel Lee. NEW BEGINNING essed with energy and ambition we wore out ourselves and our shoes selling Christmas cards, we sponsored dances and had paper drives, we planned a card party and presented a thriller called Hobgoblin House. Meanwhile we jeal- ously hoarded all proceeds from these adventures, our hearts set on going to Washington. Ending the year, we said farewell to the class of '4l with a dance and reception executed in the cabaret style of South America. ln the fall of l94l , we all felt a little queer. One could hear now and then the confidential whisper, But l don't feel like a senior! l-lowever, that superior senior feeling came when our school turned out one of the best football teams of all times, beating jeff by a large score. While we were com- pleting our plans for the trip to Washington, the japs decided that we should convert our energies into the selling of defense stamps, and now we have the never-before-recorded situation of a senior class with over S900 in its treasury and the problem of what to do with it. Because twenty-three of our class entered Purdue on May 4, a pre-Gala Week event was a Sunrise Dance and Breakfast at Lincoln Lodge. Skidding, our senior play, will be presented May l4 and l5, and other plans for Gala Week to be fulfilled at graduation time will include a steak fry, a senior night, the junior-senior prom, and a cap and gown dance. Senior officers for the class of '42 are Charles Lange, president, Bob Barnes, vice president, Elizabeth Girvin, secretary, and Bob Schubert, treasurer.

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Back Row: Eloise Bushnell, julia Ann Reed, Barbara Sanders, Ruth Lee, Loraine Stigers, Louise Rubenkoenig, Carol Elward, Dorothy Heckard, Eleanor Slopsema, Elizabeth Young, Frances George, Shirley Wileman, Clara Boz- worth Mary Kepner, Peggy Bradley, Margaret Mann, Patricia Patrick, Ruth Ann Barnes, Lois Sanford, Susan Mayer, jane Wilson, Betty Freeland. Second Row: Keith Steckel, Gene Caldwell, Robert Gray, john Phillip Pierce, Harris jackson, Frank LeBart, William Wallace joline Marsh, Georgianna Britt, Venetta Heath, Martha Cromer, Lois Rae johnson, joan Woods, Mary Eva Thompson, Barbara jenkins, Harriett Thompson, Donald Cooley, Donald Alexander, james Gaylord, Thomas Hass, joseph Mealka, james Bowman, Mrs. Ruth Hamlin, Sponsor. WE COME TO The thirty-two little boys and girls who so timidly started to Morton School that memorable September day in l93O have more than tripled in number to become the graduating class from W.L.H.S. in '42, Although we were the first class to spend three years in the new high school, we shall not forget the year we started as freshmen in the building on Fowler Avenue. Here it was that we first gazed upon the interior of a grasshopper, and here also that we learned how to hustle down a fire escape, issue forth like a shot, and be half way up the stairs for a second trip, all in the space of 23V2 seconds. Afraid even to approach the library window, we were also deeply impressed with the huge seniors. Now we wonder why. During this year we all felt deep sorrow in the loss of our algebra teacher and Dean of Girls in Miss Frances McMahon. The best part of our sophomore year was the first half when we had school only in the mornings because the new building was not yet completed. After- noons at the malt shoppe were soon interrupted, however, as in November we started to trudge up the hill to spend the entire day at geometry, English, and such, with perhaps the novelty of a cafeteria lunch at noon. Puffed up with the importance of organizing, we elected Ann Newton, President. Blue sweaters decorated with 42's became the distinguishing garb in our junior year. With Bill Wallace as president, we began our dreams of a fabulous trip to Washington, D. C., to replace all Gala Week activities. Suddenly pos- A

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FUTURE BIG SHOTS Top row, left to right-M. Abbett, D, Allen, D. Alwyn, E. Ains- lie, C. Baxla, B. Beeker, K. Bettag, P. Bruhn, A. Bugher, D. Car- bon, G. Carrick, B. Canan, l. Charles, M. Clevenger, R. Collins, B. Compton, l. Crose, K. Curtis, l. Deffendall, D. Dayisson. Row 3-M. Freihofer, E. Flemming, W. Graham, B. Gray, 1. Guthrie, D. Hamilton, B. Heath, T. Hockema, L. Horral, P. Huffman, l. Kashner, M. Kern, B, Knapp, 1. Leer, E. Lynch, H. McComb, M. McCown, Mr. Hammer. Row 2-B, Dickes, B. Devaney, H. Deck- ard, M. Fairman, R. Moore, R. Noble, D. Ostrander, S. Owens, I Penrod, H. Phillips, D, Rees, B, Robbins, M. Roberts, B, Sheetz, K Shideler, B. Soller, R. Turman, l. Warren, B. Wilkins. Row I- R. Mowery, B. Mangus, B. Miller, 1. Miller, H. Miles, P. Wiley, M Ross, M. Nicol, R, Steinmetz, E. Schroyer, R. Wilson, B. Mulvey, C. DeKay, M. Marshall, l. Collins, I. Yeager. Top row, left to right--B. Adams, l, Alexander, M. Armantrout, B. Baker, E. Barnes, M. Baumgardt, M. Baumgardt, P. Binney, L. Bozworth, A, Brady, B. Brumif, H, Burkenpas, E. Busche, R. Busche, H. Bush, B. Bushnell, M. Caldwell, B. Capps, S, Chaffee. Row 3-I. Cole, A. Collins, I. Cooley, M. Cooley, C. Cooper, B. Dawkins, B. Elrod, A, Fairman, S. Ford, A. Fulks, D. Ganong, W. Harth, M. Helm, E. Hilton, V. Holmes, W, Holmes, H. Heimlich, Row 241. Hughes, T. Howard, l. jackson, C. Kaufman, j. Kenz- ler, B. Leslie, M. Lambert, V. Linyille, B, Mann, I. johnson, V Martin, A. Mayer, B. McCormick, W. Miller, P. Oakes, D. Papen- guth, I, Pershing, D. Poe, D. Raub, Mrs. Meuller. Row l-D Ritenour, E. Ryder, B. Sexton, T. Smith, 1. Sylvester, I. Donham D. Bushnell, L. Oyler, E. Young, l. Taylor, A. Remley, I. Vander- ploeg, D. Walker, B. Topping, D. Weidner.