Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 235, Decatur, Adams County, 6 October 1955 — Page 9

The School Reporter

DECATUR CATHOLIC HIGH By Margie York

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Last week, the! students of I Decatur Catholic] assembled in the! school gymnasium for the purpose of electing cheer leaders sot the ’sr>-’56 basket-1 ball season. The varsity cheerleaders Jire:

Joyce Loshe, Sue Holthouse. Judy Parrish and Janice Titus. Cheers for the second team will be led by Sue Sutton, a sophomore, and Leonida Mies, a freshman. — D. C. H. S. — Plans are being made to form a pep club for the coming basketball season. Delores Kintz is taking charge of this organization. There will be monthly dues 0f25 cents and the money will be put in the pep club treasury. — D. C. H. S. — Itest week, the junior class started its campaign to raise funds for the junior - senior prom, by sponsoring a dance in the school auditorium. A record player had been previously planned to supply the music, but due to a breakdown

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in the machine, the school jazz band took over and proved to be the better of the two,. ' —D.C. H. 8. — Several days ago, the freshman class had an opportunity to see themselves as the student body saw them on Initiation day. Monica Rumschlag, with her moving picture camera, had captured the proceedings, and showed the results of her work to the high school. — D. C. H. S. — Recently, Lawrence Anspaugh, local photographer, talked to the senior class about their graduation pictures. The class then voted between him and 'Robert’s Studio, so as to have only one photographer taking their graduation pictures. The result of the voting was Robert’s Studio. — D. C. H. S'. — With the opening of school comes the advent of the school paper, the “Hi Light.” This project requires the co-operation of the entire senior class. Co-editors of the “Hi-Light” are Rite Heimann and Jerry Voglewede, assisted by an able staff. The seniors are now working feverishly on the first' edition to have

it ready for the press by the latter part of this week. A subscription drive, in which the whole student body will participate, is now underlay. To add impetus to the drive, Tl free day is awarded to the class turning in the most subscriptions. Besides this, each individual receives a half free day for every five subscriptions brought in. — D. C. H. S. — The home ec HI class is busy making pajamas as their first sewing project of the new year. Each student chose a small child to whom the article of apparel will be given. — D. C. H. S. — Friday is the first Friday of the month, and the seniors have announced that they will serve breakfast for the entire school in the home ec room. — D. C. H. 8. — The Decatur Catholic fall basebaJL season has come to a close with a record standing of four wins and three losses. Already the basketball equipment has been taken out of storage and put Into active use during th® first basketball practice of the season, which was Monday. — D. C. H. 8. — Recently, classes were interrupted by the first fire drill of the school year. The building was ev-

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acuated quickly and orderly. — D. C. H. S. — DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL By Dee Dee Striker

Sorry! Our mistake! Jane] and Jean Wassj are sophomores,] not freshmen.! Also, we erred! in failing to men-] tion the juniors’] new class rings.! C o ngratulatlons,! kids — they sure! are neat! I

— D. H. 8. — The home' ec class Is beginning to work on huck toweling or Swedish weaving. They won’t be doing any cooking and sewing until after the elementary students have moved to the new building. — D. H. 8. — Some of the students may have noticed the flag at or near half mast one day last week. This was not done on purpose, but was due to faulty mechanism. — D. H. S. — Several carloads of students attended the football game and aft-er-game dance at Portland, last Friday night. The dance featured an orchestra and everyone seemed to be having a lot of fun. — D. H. S. — The students of Miss Weidler’a

senior English class are choosing topics for a term paper, due around the first of December. Many different topics have been chosen and it should prove to be an interesting project. — D. H. S. — An F. F. A. meeting was held September 28. at w-hich time four new members were initiated into the chapter. Those who received their green hand degree were as follows: Bill Bischoff, Leonard Thieme, Leonard Bleeke, and Rex Allison. The next meeting will be held on October 10, when officers for the following year will be elected. The nominating committee consists of: Arlen Fuelling, Ivan (Roth, Richard Marbacb, and Stanley Al’lison. — D. H. 8. — That Latin class sure is keeping busy! A Roman house was assembled and decorated by Bobbie Kalver. John Hebble. and Pat Nelson. The furniture for the house was carved from soap by Jane Stiverson and Judy Smith. Sitting in the lovely new display case, among other things, is a doll dressed by Jane Grimm to represent the goddess of grain, Ceres, in keeping with the Tall season. The class is also busy making reports on the various phases of Roman life.

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Attention!! The junior class is sponsoring a dance entitled “Harvest Moon” following* the DecaturBluffton football game, Friday night. Cal Stewart of WOWO will lie present to M.C., which will be an interesting addition to the dance. The admission is 25 cents per person. “Harvest Moon” will be held at the Community Center and everyone is invited to attend. — D. H. 8. — Each year, representatives from the senior class are chosen to attend the Weekly Rotary meetings. The junior ‘ Rotarians for this school year are: Harry Hebble, October; Ralph Thomas, November; Dan Krueckeburg, December; Terry Murphy, January; Phil DeBolt, February; James Bowman, March; Jim Sheets, April; Bill Zwick, May: and Bill (Roth and Rocky Strickler are the alternates. Congratulations! — D. H. S. — The Jacket Journal subscriptions will exceed 275, which is an appreciable gain over last year’s 240. — d. n. s. — Quite a few freshmen enjoyed a pleasant time on a hayride, Saturday night They traveled around the country side for three hours, singing, talking and freezing. It was a lot of fun and they would like to do it again soon. — D. H. S. — The third period biology class was upset Thursday. It seems someone let a snake loose and the girls weren't very happy about it. The snake was recaptured and Name Plea DALLAS, Tex. (INS) — A comely Dallas “lady cop” is pleading with parents to learn the last names of their children’s friends, (heir phone numbers and addresses. Geraldine Notley. a crime prevention officer in the police department's juvenile bureau, who spends many hours looking for missing children, said its surprising how many parents do not know where their children are at night. “They don’t really know who their youngsters’ friends are. They may know the friend’s first name —but they don’t know where they live or anything about them.”

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peace was restored. - D. H. 8. — The senior civics classes will attend a naturalization ceremony at 10 o’clock Friday morning. The ceremony will be held in the Adams circuit court room. — D. H. S. — MONMOUTH HIGH By Shirley Bleeke

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“Sic ’em Fido! Sic ’Em Fido!” No, we don't have any canine friends running loose in the halls, but the seniors di d present a play last Friday and Saturday and this phrase echoed repeated-

ly from the lips of the cast. Both performances were quite good, but at one time on the first evening the cast had to suppress their laughter when one girl remarked, “Everyone knows the way to a man’s stomach (heart) Is through his stomach.” Well, biologically she was correct! A total of nearly 400 persons attended the two productions, and they were welcomed by the class president. Clint Fuelling, who also presented the director. Mrs. Geraldine Herderhorst. with a corsage of carnations. — M. H. S. — The Art Club, under the direction of Mrs, Vera Owens, has recently elected its officers for the coming year. They are: Joyce Kirchner, president; Carolyn Fast, vice president; Gail Hammond, secretary; and Dblores Rodenbeck, treasurer. — M. H. S. — To aid in bringing news, junior reporters have been chosen from each class. They are; juniors, Betty Bultemeier; sophomores, Claudia Caston; freshmen, Joan Fleming: junior high, Winnie Mankey. We know their cooperation will make this column bigger and better. — M. H. S. — Sondra Sonner, who two years ago won second in the state music contest as a pianist, presented a musical on both evenings preceding the senior play. She also accompanied the trio composed of Sondra Brown, Rowena Merriman,

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and Sharon Schuller. They sang between the acts. Alson singing between acts were Vivian Fuelling, who also played the guitar, and Sharon Beltz. These girls received many deserving compliments. " ; - —M.H. S. — * . The library club recently held its meeting of organization and the following officers for the present year were selected: president, Anna Schlemmer; vice president, Judy Goldner; secretary, Kenny Peck; treasurer, Pat Hurst. The purpose of this club is to assist in the operation of the library. — M. H. S. — E-A-G-L-E-S!! This yell will resound through the gymnasium Friday afternoon, and all the past weeks of hard work will be over for the groups going out for cheerleaders. The cheerleaders will be selected in groups not to exceed three. They are elected by ballot with the student body voting. Those trying out for varsity leaders are: Sondra Brown, Ruth Buimahn, Esther Cook; Ruth Macke Janet Grandstaff, Carla Synder; Karen Schaffer, Sharon Schuller, Norman Davis. Second team: Cl» udia Caston. Marilyn Reinking Kay Biritemeier; Becky Gaunt, Sue Merriman, Shirley Liby. The student body wishes victory to the outstanding group. — M. H. S. — Those members of the 1955 graduating class who are taking advantage of their education and continuing their schooling are Betty Andrews, who entered Ball State this fall to prepare herself for an elementary teaching profession, and Janet Busick and Audrey Grand staff, both of whom have chosen nursing as their career. Janet is attending school at the Lutheran hospitai in Fort Wayne, and Audrey is at the Parkview Methodist hospital, also in Fort Wayne. M. H. S. wishes them good fortune in their careers. — M. H. S. — The 1956 “Eagle” will again he published by the senior class. The entire annual staff consists Off editor, Shirley Bleeke; co-edltor, Clint Fuelling; photographic manager, Stew Schnepf; business manager, Marlene Johnson; advertising manager, (Rowena Mtfrrl- < Continued On Page Two-A)