Yorktown High School - Episode Yearbook (Yorktown, IN)

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PAGETWO THEY.H.S.BROADCASTER JUNIOR CLASS YORKTOWN HIGH SCHOOL 1931 Class Hlstory Hello everybody this 1S Station 1 H S broadcastm all the great happenings and dorngs of thls great Senior Class of 1931 who wrll leave thrs school behind to take up new work Thls class started in as freshmer in 1927 and were called green and fresh when they entered but proved to be quite a good straight forward bunch of young men and women They came to the Y H S from Sycamore Cammack and Yorktown to work for their own good not to pass away time as they would have done in other re spects There were 43 freshmen enroll ed Estel Plummer Merlm Cox Jean Workmen Grace Borum baye Rrchmen Elrzabeth Shanefelt Lula Weaver Hur tha Donovan Merrrl Pennybacker Beat rrce Keely Irene Donai an Byron Col lrns Evelyn Brown Elnora Applegate Kenneth Burke Harold Turner Lyndall Kathryn Kytchen Edith McKinley Mary Myers Crystal Walker Harold Funder burg Marjorie Donavan Doris Lee George Goodpaster Lydia Coulter Mar un Gleason John Mitchell Cleason Hod son Luclle Johnson Woodrow Parklson Chester Justice Edna Kilgore Cleo Snodgrass Marcellus Wright Farrre Long Dale Mann and Paul Duncan When the Sophomore year rolled around there were onlv 32 present when the roll was called they either had dropped out or moved to drfferent schools The following are the ones that came up missing Lula Weaver Hurtha Donavan Alvin Eden Mildred Kirtley Kathryn Kytchen Edith M Kmley Mary Myers Crystal Walker Edna Krlgore and Dorrs Lee The remarnrng group had a good trme studying trying' to pull through that year with quite good re sults The Junior Oh' Boy' what a feat it was to become one and to look down on those green freshmen and to be able to help rmtxate them but that year there were still fewer rn the class with the dropprng out of Elizabeth Shanne felt Faye Rrchman Estelle Plummer Irene Donavan Byron Collins Evelyn Brown Kenneth Burk Elnora Apple gate There were three new ones enter d Florence Kllgore Opal Carter and Helen Noble making the total of Juniors 27 During the Junior year we put on the play Aaron Boggs Freshman whrch was a success and some pictures shows and at the close of the sclhool gave the Semors a trip to Turkey Run State Park Then the 4th year and last year for those Freshmen of 1927 28 became the Semors with only 21 Seniors including four new ones Carl Campbell Belford Mrller Tom Nelson and Marietta Con way The following, Semors will gradu ate thrs year Tom Nelson Peck Mrl ler Carl Campbell Marvm Gleason Marietta Conway Lydia Coulter Flor ence Kilgore Chester Justice Farrre Helen Noble Gleason Hodson Woodrow Parkrson Dale Mann Lucrle Johnson Marcellus Wright and Paul Duncan wrth with the following' pupils lacking credits to do so Jean Workman and Merlin Cox During thls year we put on the play Alabama Bound But we still hold the record of havrng the smallest number of students on the honor roll during the four vears of high school We wrll now sign off at 3 00 P M Central Standard Time from statron Y H S PAUL DUNC KN Y CALENDAR SCHOOL EVENTS 1931 32 Frrday April 10-Count3 Oratorical Contest Tuesday Wednesday April 1415 Ex amrnatrons DWednesday Aprrl 15-Semor Class RY Thursday Friday Ap1'1l16 17-Junror Semors Trip Sunday Aprrl19 Baccalaureate Monday April 20-Alumm Banquet Tuesday Apr1l21 Commencement The Semors You know all the Semors but you don t know how hard they have worked There were just five seniors to get serv ice sweaters all these bo5s have worked hard as well as the rest of the team and really deserve credrt for what they have done To begrn there is John Mitchell who has played basketball four years and three years on the first team Then there rs Dale Mann who got two stripes Gleason Hodson a veteran has three stripes Merlm Cox has played four years Then last comes Cell Wright a four year man All of these boys have worked hard m basketball and deserve a lot of credit and dont think that we aren t sorrv to have them leave us So to you Semors WE KTHE SCHOOLJ want to wrsh you the best of success and happmess Napoleon made a few timely remarks when they faded from the picture Not that we are in the same class but now the Broadcaster Staff must shed a tear on leaving We can think of many thmgs to say rt has been a good year the class of 1931 has been a great class the team has been a real team the plays have all been suc cesses and when we think of all these things and try to say good bye to tmem usrng mere words IS beyond us All year we have looked toward the last day of school as convrct No 347 looks forward to the end of hrs sentence That last day is close at hand but in stead of three cheers we are sure all the Semors feel only regret Before we break down and cry upon the nearest shoulder the Broadcaster staff to all the Semors extend their wrshes for a most successful and nappy lrfe and to all its fellow students says So long' Sang untrl another year CARL CAMPBELL , .1 ' ' ' ' tc - n 1 A ' . 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THEYHSBROADCASTFR PAGEONE 5 fri SENIOR CLASS YORKTOWN HIGH SCHOOL 1931 Semor Class Wrll Class of 1931 school of Xorktown State of Indrana rn U S A do hereby after declarrng themselves to be of far fetched but of sound and unchan rn mrnds and testament vshole vrrsh to classes beneath uncongenral as whrch requrres Wrth unfarlrng srncerrty the Senror class wrshes to thank the faculty for then care and the usc of therr gurdrng hand rn hours of perrls and for sparrng the rod and sporlrnc the chrld We leave to our rnstructors a sweet and unbroken successron of restful nrghts and peaceful dreams We zrve and bequeath to our beloved prrncrpal our whole unlrmrtecl wealth of eternal memory As a partral payment for all he has done for us we make over to hrm here and there a heavy mortgage on our future Agarn we bequeath to our beloved fac ulty all the amazrng- knowledge and startlrng rnformatron we have furnrshed them from trme to trme We trust they wrll feel at perfect lrberty to make use f all such brts of wrsdom for the educa tron of the classes who wrll follow us We bequeath to the Junror Clas all such fellows as were not able to keep pace wrth such brrllrant gurls as compose the maJor1ty of our class trustrng., that the Junror grrls may be able to hold frrmly to them and steer them next year through the gates of Commencement that they may not share rn the humrlra tron that has been ours rn not berng able make thrs thelr last wrll The Senror class as a leave to the unfortunate her the abrlrty to be as possrble rn every case any acts of drscretron to hold our men folks as the world puts rt bequests but we hope they wrll be ac cepted as valuable assets to those who shall recerve them To our assrstant prrncrpal a sct of trn ears that he may not hear the unneces sary norses whrch always are profound WVe also leave a specral loud speaker for hrm To our sponser Mrss Whrnrey we leave the balance rn our class treasury to buy new stage cenerv We also xrrll her a permanent long, may rt ware To the basketball team of next year Bud Cox leaves hrs race horse abrlrtv whrle on the floor We could not rnduce John Mrtchell to surrender hrs To all future class Presrdents John Mrtchells abrlrty to comme all other students of hrs unerrrng rudgment ani the abrlrty to remarn cool on all occa srons To Martha Skrnner Farrre Long lear es the latest rnstructrons on how to rox tall and hopes rt wrll pro e helpful ar d useful Gene Campbell and Rocky M would do well to grasp some of her help ful knowledce She vrrshcs Josev would accept one of her curls so that he wrll ever remember her Florence krlgrore leaves an electrrc lrght bulb to Mary Noble o that shc may brrgfhten her future rr hen Carl must remarn at the sard offrce or luncheon Cell Wrrght rs very anrcrous for some freshre to take hrs ad free and buy only one strck of Gum at '1 trrne so he wrll not have to keep all the crrls supplred He wrll teach any one who wrshes to stutter wrth pleasure Chester Justrce wrlls hrs abrlrty to act and look lrke a Semor to Buster' Reed He vsrll grxe any one rnstructrons on makrng speeches rn the assembly wrth To Freda Fuson Marvm Gleason lear es anv overlooked cuds of gum whrch may have been left adherrn to the under srde of hrs desk Our lrttle helper leaves lfreda her spe cral on how to keep slender Dale lear es hrs rescurng power to any one vrrllrnc, to accept rt and whoever wrshes to become a martyr for any Just cause such as a gfrrl rn an auto accrdent Woodrow Parkrson bequeaths any ch rung, gum wrappers class rrngs stubs of pencrls and any mrscellaneous artrcles left here upon hrs retrrement to Emma Hensley Paul Duncan leaves hrs studrous out look to Gene Campbell whom he feels to be m need of rt He bequeaths all hrs lore for aux crrl to Mary Snodgrass Carl C nrprell hopes that J B Gard ner wrll accept the mc-at clearer whrch ne vvreld vrrth a mrghtv stroke so that the ud I B cannot fall to cut all the rce we knorr he wrshes to Lucrl Johnson knovvs that any grrl would be glad to possess rt anl leaves a ooklct to the rrls rn the lorrer classes rn how to get and hold your man Belford lcares hrs artrstrc alrrlrtx, to draw prctures flres or vrhat rrrll you have rt to any one vrho nceds rt espec rally on desks Lydra Coulter wrlls her 'rrt of dab to Claudra Hodson and to Olrve Krdd the abrlrtv to become pleasrnqly plumn out not rat Sever l others may accept thrs krndly offer w rch she has so wrllrngly agreed to leave In wrtrress thereof we the class of 31 have to thrs our vsrll set our hands and seal to thrs frfteenth day of Aprrl 1031 LH DIA COULTLR . . . , 1 ,' , 1 351- 3. , r ' W' . . , J V lualzu ,H -, 1 ,, , I an 1 2 V , ...,,.-..-aa-U.-M-W , . i .......-...,.,,..,,.r.... ,WW , 9 - , 5'-sf G I -f ., 1 . 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THEYHSBROADCASTER PAGETHREE SOPHOMORE CLASS YORKTOWN HIGH SCHOOL 1931 X DECADE LEIVIFR CClass Prophecy of 193D Could It be posslble Yet there be fore my eyes lay the exact proof to banlsh my doubts to the land ot Fowot ten Thlngs Evelyone ln my hlgh school graduatlng class had secured sufflclent fame to be mentloned ln the Whos Who ' of 1942 In my fervent stluggle to obtaln an M A II' entomologg etomology mor phology pathology and mycology I had been forced to resort to the Whats What ' ln the Who s Who f0l evact ln formatlon lmaglne lny chaglln when I dlscovered that I already had a llval ln tlhe Klngdom of Bugs ln the person of Helen Noble Helen had already galllell conslderable fame havlng dlscovered wlth her ever lnscrutable DYECISIOII the Lady Bug whlch had exlsted for een turles even lone: before our hlgh school years Insplred by the numerous essays upon that 1 o t popular ublect On Get lnv Up ln the MOTnlHg as well as by her own experlenc s although a glrl llor ence K1l2Ol'9 had ln Jented an lntellectual alarm clock guaranteed not to awaken lts possessor when sald possessor IS too weary from the dull hum drum of the prevlous day to he aroused trom dream of a Ilappler world Of course I had already known that Florence Kllgore s husband Belford Mll ler was an emlnent Cartoonlst Upon lntervlew I learned that Peck had re celved hlS lnsplratlon and tralnln ln the assembly of dear old Y H S Durlng penslve moments he had observed the varlous expresslons of regolclng, sorow mg and tolllng senlors and a few under class mates To reflect them on papel became hls chlef dellght He would hate for you to see some of hls most popular plctures Poslng for the famous Palnlollve Com pany of Chlcago, llllnols, was no other than Farrle Long' She had won the much coveted posltlon because Mr Palm ollve had met no other who outrlvaled ln natulal charm In fact It was she who had ollgslnated keep that School Glrl C0mDl8Xl0H, Farrls lb known now as Malvln had been one of the greatest flgures ln the lnlprovenlent of radlo Marvln Gleason now teaches the ladlo hop OVSI hls favorlte machlne The pro gram ls sponsoled by the Palmollve Company Hls students can see and hear hlm and when he IS partlcularly angry wlth them he sends a note of dlsmlssal through the alr on the waves of sound The well known Malcellus Wrlght IS now a famous doctor at the head of Klll Em Qulck surglcal hospltal He IS encouraged by hls VVlf8 who 1S hls nurse Mrs M P Wrlght was formerly known as Jean Workman I was proud to hear that the prcsldent of our class John Mltchell held hls posltlon so honorably that hls GYGCUIZIVE worth became known all over the Umted States As the result he was elected Presldent of the Unlted States Although hlS wlfe Lydla Coulter IS stlll speaker of the house Thls was a shock to me to heal that Luclle Johnson marrled Merlln Colt and was forced to take ln washlngs because her husband spent all hlS tlme playlng ball Poor glrl' Gleason Hodson had became a Wflter ln the column of advlce to the lovelorn Hls Wlfe formelly Cleo Snodgrass had also won fame by the set of 10 volumes of books no the Llfe and Teachlngs of Leslle E Reeves Tolll Nelson had galned fame thruogh a slngle act IH hls llfe Tom was late to hls own Presldentlal Inaugulal Cere mony a hablt whlch the poor lad never out grew But then Tom makes an excellent presldent of the Womens Democratlc conventlon Mrs Nelson, nee Mary Etta Conway was very conslder ate so she went to Parls to secure a posltlon to enable them to go to house keepmg Mary Etta was very fortunate ln reeelvlng the position as a perfume tester She had to smell the perfume contalned alcohol Several of my classmates were en gaged ln radlo broadcastlng Carl Campbell lb announcer over statlon G A B Dale Mann glVeS cooklng reclpes and dally llfe savlng talks HIS wlfe havlng been successful as a blologlst helped hlm by managlng a flower shop ln Newfoundland Hel speclaltles were sunflowers and dandellons Mrs Mann IS known to her frlends as Helen Noble Behlnd the d0Olb of the Lavendar Front' one and three cent store ln the metropolls of Yolktown VVoodrow Park lson works out the prlnclple that a one cent stlck of gum bought at the one and three cent stores IS less expenslve than that purchased at any other I belng- very lnterested ln llterature admlle the works of Chester Justlce Chets most popular essay IS How When Where and Why Drag Heels lhls was dedlcated to Mlss Whlnrey The work shows much genlus and merlt Of course we know that he galned hlS ex DGFISHCG from the flllng oft of shoe leather ln the soundlng halls of H l-l S Paul Duncan had recelved natlon Wlde lecognltlon for hls capable management of hls asylum for Injured Glrl Athletes Paul keeps hls lnmates ln tralnmg by very slmple means flve hundred broad Jumps over protsrate patlents flve hun dled medlclne ball throws and twenty double hand sprlllgs For the more ad vanced patients he prescrlbes the vllor ous Dally Dozen. He IS not marrled as yet although he hopes to be as soon as he can make hls selectlon from hlS one hundred lnmates Illustrlous are all these classmates of nlme yet when I thlnk back to those years I wonder no longer The chlld IS father of the man and genlus ln youth 1S the fame of tomorrow. OPAL CARTER l ' , . , . 1 , , G X 'f-' f'1g'f'.j', ' ' , , I U . 1 1 , 1 ' 4,1 j , ,T N , -, le ' ' '- ' AN -at 'eg , . , V 1 f dl A K ,Q A Z 5, .. N' A, 1 - ls . Y A fb . . J ' JJ? g - ., Y . ' p has I ' 1 1 l ' ' A 4 . . , f ' 1 . ' ' . - ' . . i , - . I I . , ' i I , . v I 1 ' 1 .. I. M , x , . . . l . . . . lr-Q ' . , V . .W V - ' , - - Mrs. Marvin Gleason. samples to detect whether or not they ' ' u 1 - ' ' V D . , . . . . ' - 1 . U ' . . . ,, Q V 7 - ' .L . . U U , . l U i - - - 1 1 .W . . . . u 1 '. ' 1 I ' Y ' IC 7 77 1 ' . W . . 1 ' ' V. . . ' ' ' ' . ..' 1 s - ' . ' . I I 1 ' .. n . . . as ' 1 ' , 11 ' , , ' , I , , . , . . . ' 1 ' - - . . . . . , . , , . - 7 ! A, l . . . . N . . 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