Ellettsville High School, Llamarada, 1960, Page 22

Description:	:;■■! .■-n ^ir,:SENIOR CLASS HISTORYIn September of 1948 Mrs. Leot McNeely and Mrs. Opha Kinser crossed theirfingers and greeted the present seniors who were bubbling over with eagerness anduncontrollability. After a year of trying to impress upon our young minds the importance of good behavior in school, they gave up and passed us on to Mrs. EudoraMason and Mrs. Opha Kinser. During our second years experience with an educational institution, our teachers attempted to drill us in the mechanics of writing andacquaint us with numbers. Anxious about the threatened arithmetic, we cautiouslymoved on to third grade where our fears were understood and eliminated by Mrs.Beatrice Tapp and Mr. Charles Carey. Mr. Carey inherited a few of us the next yearas the rest of the class fell under the jurisdiction of Mrs. Gledith Baynes and bothteachers introduced us to a new foe—geography. Miss Lillian Lockridge and Mrs.Emily Lyles guided us through the fifth grade, expanding our knowledge of theUnited States by forcing us to memorize the names of the states and their capitals.As grade school big wheels in our sixth year, we needed the strong guidance of Mrs.Marjorie Carter and. Mr. Russell Forsyth, and Mr. Forsyths unending advice to bewareof the future certainly helped during the next few years. While in the sixth grade,we held contests in multiplication, played softball, sold garden seeds, went on aclass trip to Spring Mill State Park, and learned the penalties of having a high schoolteacher, Mr. Noble Littell, instruct us in geography. The musical interest which haspermeated the spirit of our class through the present had already begun to develop.By the time we were ready to embark upon our careers in junior high, many membersof our class, including Roger Milholland, Paul Stewart, Don Mayo, Marshall Underwood, Nicki Parrott, and Myrna Oliver, were in the high school band.At last we were seventh graders and prided ourselves on the fact that we disprovedthe tradition that seventh graders always get lost. Mrs. Beatrice Overstreet sponsoredus through that year and quickly handed us on to our English teacher, Mrs. Joan Cox,in the eighth grade. As eighth graders, our boys on the junior high basketball teamdefeated every other team in the area and inflated our class ego beyond bounds.Freshman initiation was practically a thing of the past when we became ninth graders; but, after lengthy debate, the officials decided to give our class the somewhatdubious honor of being the last class to be initiated at E.H.S.; and, although we werentinitiated until May, we did become official members of high school. Mrs. AlicePearson sponsored us through the freshman year and helped us to produce a freshmanbanquet which was termed by attending teachers as pretty as a prom. With thetheme, Paint the Town Red, the banquet featured freshman entertainment, including our own thirteen-piece dance band. Mrs. Pearson hasnt been able to get ridof us and has even taught a year longer than planned in order to see that we graduate.We were the first E.H.S. class to receive class rings in our sophomore year. Movingon to big business in our junior year, many of us successfully carried five and sixsolids while selling concessions, sponsoring dances, helping the seniors produce aLlamarada, selling fruitcakes, planning a stupendous all-night prom, and steering ourupperclassmen through graduation.Now we are seniors; our time like an up-turned hour glass, is running out. Weare sad at leaving E.H.S. for it has been our home for several years, and we knowthat if we return for visits next year, the school and the students will not be the same.Our class marks the seventy-fifth group graduating from Ellettsville. We can lookback on our activities with smiles. We can look back on our record with as much prideas the classes that have gone before. Numbering only thirty-eight, we are not a largeclass, but we will strive to bring honor and praise to our school which has nourishedus on the milk of knowledge and prepared us for our world of tomorrow.22-
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