Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1959 — Page 11
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1959
The School Reporter
PLEASANT MILLS HIGH by Marie Ohler
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The 1959 grad-1 uating class consists of: Marjorie Dailey, Richard Ehrsam, Ferris Fox, Steve Irwin, Sheldon Light, Judith Lough, Edward Lugin- ; bill, Gary Millington, Betty
Myers, Marie Ohler, Janie Raudenbush, Steven Riley, Roger Roe, Roger Snyder, Kenneth Terrell, Judy Williamson, and Jerry Winans. —P.M.H.S.The teachers, seniors basketball players, and cheerleaders want to thank the Pleasant Mills P.T.A. for a very interesting evening of entertainment. If anybody went home hungry it was his own fault. Mr. Davis and Mr. Turner distributed letters to the players and cheerleaders. Miss Andrews showed slides and played a tape recording of the various activities during the school year. Mr. Gage of Decatur showed selected pictures of different countries. —jP.M.H.S.— It does not seem possible that this is my last news report for this column. I want to say how much I have enjoyed writing about the occurrences around Pleasant Mills each week. Writing this column has been an educational experience. —P.M.H.S.The senior class, along with Mr. and Mrs. Luyben sponsor and cosponsor G. W. Vizard and wife, will dine at the Colonial Restaurant in Fort Wayne Saturday night to climax the twelve hard working but enjoyable years in school. —P.M.H.S.The seventh and eighth grades enjoyed a picnic at the Bluffton conservation park last Tuesday evening. Twenty seven members and Mrs. Isch, Mrs. Hamrick, Mrs. Williamson, Mrs. Turner, and Miss Andrews attended the picnic. We hope they enjoyed themselves. —P.M.H.S.Remember —Y.F.C. Bible club
Public Auction REAL ESTATE — PERSONAL PROPERTY e ... HEIRS OF MYRTLE DANIELS PLEASANT MILLS, INDIANA SATURDAY, MAY 2 -1959 Selling at 2:30 P. M. Located one block from school on U. S. 33. Good modern one story frame house, 26 by 36%. Asbestos Lifetime Roof and Asbestos shinele sidinfi Complete basement, Sunbeam stoker furea turnace, electric water heater, cistern, good drove well. Full size lot. Driveway at front and side. Beautiful lawn, evergreen shrubbery, shade and fruit trees ample garden space, strawberry bed. Good frame garage & storage budding 18 by 24. This pleasant home has a living room 12 by 22. two nice size bedrooms with closets, kitchen 12 by 15 with built in cupboards, complete bathroom. Constructed in 1936, m excellent you; inspection is invited at any time. Phone Ned C. Johnson, 32796 or Bill Schnepf, 39147. TERMS & CONDITIONS—2S% down day of sale, balance on delivery of deed and abstract. Immediate possession. Statements made on day of sale shall take precedence - Selling at One P. M. r Zenith 21 inch Console TV, like new; 11% cu. «• Philco Refrigerator, like new; 3 Piece Living Room Suite; Wicker Upholstered Rocker, Kneehole Desk; 9 x 12 Rug & Pad & Thorw Rugs; Lamps; PiUows & Bed Clothing; Modern dining Room Buffet; Two Dmmg Room Chairs, Elec. Sweeper & Attachments; New GE Fan and Other Good Elec. Appliances; Wall Mirror: Hall Tree; Singer Seeing Machine; Drop Leaf Kitchen Table & 5 Chairs; Hotpoint Elec. Stove; Antique Mantel Clock; Small Wood/Coal Kitchen Stove; Antique Table; Chest of Drawers- Single Metal Bed & Double Metal Bed, complete; Cupboard, Stand® DrSsfrl Piano Stool; Luggage; Nite Stand; Miscellaneous dishes, cooking utensils, etc.; Washing Machine & Tubs, Large Fruit Cupboard; Radio-Record Player (Console); Girls Bike; Antique Rope Bed; One Reel Type & One Rotary Type Lawn Mowers & 3 Hand Mowers- Roller; Garden Tools; Lawn Chairs; Six meh Power Rip Saw and miscellaneous hand tools and other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS—CASH. Not Responbile for. Accidents. r - ._ til iot •«*>■*•**■» ■«'», '*• 11 .■ ■ NOTE—Sale will be held under large tent in case of rain. HEIRS' OF MYRTLE DANIELS OWNERS. Ned C. Johnson—Auctioneer Bill Schnepf—Auctioneer — Decatur 2 _Jnd i^_____Harry^ [
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party Friday at 7 p.m. at Miss Lehman's house in Geneva. Everyone is invited and be sure and bring a friend. They do not have to be from this school. Have fun kids!!! —P.M.H.S.—• Be sure and come to Y.F.C. Bible club tonight. The Bible club contestants for the quiz on Gelations are to be picked then. Be sure and come!!! Reporter-Nina McAhren. —P.M.H.S.The senior’s baccalaureate and commencement will be this Sunday and Monday nights. All of them are very excited as they have been getting ready for it for 12 years. Their gowns have been hung up for the big important night. —P.M.H.S.— The graduation class will practice their processional and recessional Friday. They will probably need a lot of practice. —P.M.H.S.— The senior class will be busy decorating the gym Friday, the class colors are blue and white, the moto “Upward and Onward” and for the flower they chose the white rose. —P.M.H.S.- \ The sophomore girls in home ec. are having a smorgasbord Thursday. They are having: spaghetti and meatballs, macaroni and cheese, apple salad, scalloped corn, ham salad sandwiches, pizza pie, potato salad, salmon salad mold, rice and turra casserole, jello, baked beans, peach upsidedown cake, deviled eggs, chocolate cake, cole slaw, perfection salad, cherry cobbler, and fruit whip. Mrs. Luyben, their teacher is fixing bread and something to drink. It looks as if the doctors might do some business Thursday night!!! —P.M.H.S.— At this time I would like to take the opportunity to thank the faculty and students who gave me news from their classes. Next school term Judy Shoaf will be the P.M. school news reporter. I’m sure she will send all the news to you from dear old Pleasant Mills.
WHEN HIGH by Jo Ann Lichtensteiger
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Go Eagles go! is the cry at Wren. Wren’s baseball team is going places, and doing things. Scores of the games so far are: Wren 6, York 1; Wren 11 - 13, Paulding 5-3; Wren 7,
Van Del 5; Wren 11, Van WertS; Wren 13, Ohio City 3. —W.H.S.— Wren school was well represented at the county Journal Gazette spelling bee. Os the 17 spellers, Barbara Fegley was the third from last to go down. She misspelled javelin. Nice try, Barbara. —W.H.S.— The seniors were surprised and happy to get their yearbooks back from the press a month early. They're all delivered now. Saturday afternoon the seniors started a scrap drive. This week they will be canvasing the community for more scrap. If you have any you would like to have them pick up, any of the seniors would be very happy to hear from you. —W.H.S.— A “Sadie Hawkins Dance” was held in the Wren gymnasium last Friday evening. The gym was very fetchingly done by the Y-teen girls. A tumbled down little house with red and yellow flowers blooming beside it, a bright crepe paper sky, and a stone wan constituted the biggest part of the well planned and effective decorations. The sophomores won the mystery box of bubble gum for having the most class members there. —W.H.S.— ADAMS CENTRAL HIGH - By Shirley Osterman
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“Under West-1 ern Skies” will be the the me j for the special; medley of songs • to be presented at the spring concert Friday at 8 p. m. Cen-
tral’s seven music organizations—senior, junior chorus, and girls’ glee club—will be bringing this’ musical program to the public under the direction of their choir and band directors, Leon and Don Gerig. Another special ribbontwirling number will be given by Central’s twirlers in western fashion. So be sure not to miss this colorful program. Tickets may be purchased at the door. — A. C. H. S. — One-third of the abailable prizes in the art-safety window-painting contest last Saturday were awarded to Centralites. Jeanne Kaehr’s painting on Schafer’s window won a first in the high school division, and Inez Merriman and Carol Sho-
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ass painting at Holthouse Drug tied. Third prizes in the high school division went to Sue Pageler and Larry Andrews, painting at the Kiddie Shop and Toni Rupert’s drawing at Wertzbergers. Junior high winners included Barbara Wolfe, Karen Shoaf and Sharlene Wagley second prize at Sheets Furniture, and Gary Barger and Mark Fraughiger third prize. — A. C. H. S. — In a triangular meet with Berne and Monmouth last week Central won second place. Berne with 73% points captured first, AC 58%, and Monmouth 5. Larry Foreman and Tom Heyerly tied for first in the broad jump competition.. In the high jump event, Bill Hoffman and Max Egley tied for first place honors, and Larry Foreman ceived first in the shot put event. — A. C. H. S. - Twenty juniors "reached into the shadows of their gray matter” last Tuesday to try their best on the national merit scholarship tests. The three-hour test was supervised by principal Herman Frantz and was taken by juniors all over the country. Those competing from Central in the national tests were Tim Ringger, Lana Mcßride, Tom Ripley, Jim Brown, Tony Sharp, Sid Schwartz, Palmer Urick, Marcia Zimmerman, Jeannie Smith, Lois Steury, Junior Hollinger, Ron Maines, Twila Arnold, Jeanne Kae-
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hr, Sandy Strickler, Dixie Smith, Bob Hart, Larry Decker, Delora Mishler, and Joan Rupert. — A. C. H. S. — After school last Monday, three of Central’s girls’ volleyball teams journeyed to Decatur High School to play a few games of volleyball with the Decatur girls’ teams. Quite a few games were played with Decatur winning the majority. Refreshments of hot dogs, cokes, and potato chips were served by the Decatur hostesses alter a couple hours of volleyball. Central then invited the Decatur girls to AC for a few badminton games in the near future. — A. C. H. S. — .Next week marks the end of the school year for Central’s seniors. Their schedule then turns into senior trip fun, from May 10 to May 13; baccalaureate, May 17; and commencement, May 18. The class will leave by train for Washington D.C. from the Decatur depot Sunday, May 10 at 1:30 p.nx. and will return to Decatur the following Wednesday afternoon. — A. C. H. S. — Awards in intramural ping pong competition have been posted and are as follows: girls’ singles, Janice Ringger; boys’ singles, Tim Ringger; boys’ doubles, Sidney Schwartz and Tim Ringger; and girls’ doubles, Brenda Sommer and
Arlene Zimmerman. Jeannie Smith and Tim Jtihgger won the mixed doubles. The free throw tourney winners were Helen Hirschy and Tom Heyerly. ‘ —A.C.H. S. — Gyneth Schnepp, Rosemary Schlickman, Judy Yoder, Nancy Raudenbush, Karen Nussbaum, Sandy Strickler, Maran Zimmerman and Karen Brandt made up the winning team of girls’ interamural volleyball players this season. Boys* winners were David Isch, Tom Heyerly, Alan Habegger, Bill Hoffman, and Jim Brown. ~ — A. C. H. S. — Intramural basketball awards went to the teams captained by Rosemary Schlickman and Norman Hart Members of Rose’s team included: Karen Stultz, Lana McBride, Karen Nussbaum, Gyneth Schnepp, Joye Yoder, and Marilyn Stucky. Norman’s teammates were Gary Bluhm, Jerry D. Gerber, Jerry Franz, Regie Welch, Jerry Hurst, and Allen Freels. — A. C. H. S. — Miss Lucile Beavers, math instructor, has announced that two of Central’s entries in the state math and English contest have placed in the third division. Arlene Johnson received a bronze medal for her preformance in the algebra division of the contest, while Regie Welch was awarded a bronze medal also in the geometry division. A total of more than 300 students from all over the state of Indiana participate in this contest. — A. C. H. S. -
Central’s last chapel program of the season was given last Wednesday morning by the Rev. Willis Gierhart of the Monroe First Methodist church. Rev Gierhart spoke on the four “lions” that everyone must face in his life. A spiritual outlook on intellectual laziness, materialism. pleasure, and doubt were the four lions discussed Preceding the main part ot the program, the junior high chorus, under direction of Leon Gerig and accompanied by Onalee Barkley, sang two songs. - A. C. H. S. - DECATUR CATHOLIC HIGH by Theresa Laurent
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Recently Bob Murphy, Decatur Catholic senior, was the receipient of a gold sodality pin given by the editor of “The Queen’s Work,” a monthly magazine for Catholic teenagers. Selected
in the April issue as sodalist ot the month. Bob was awarded the gold pin for his outstanding participation in the school sodality. Congratulations, Bob! —D.C.H.S.— The time was 9 a.m., Tuesday, April 28. Room 16—the place. The event—the national merit scholarship qualifying test, in which the D.C.H.S. juniors participated. To enter the juniors in the national merit scholarship program and certain other scholarship competitions, is the. primary purpose of the NMSQT qualifying test With these tests the students can com-
pare their educational development with high school students across the nation. —D.C.H.S.— Last Thursday the senior and junior girls were visited by four students from St Francis College of Fort Wayne. Explaining the school’s academic and social curriculum, the speakers enthused their listeners as they related their personal attitudes through informal speech. St. Francis, a Catholic women’s college, maintainsa small enrollment of nearly 309 to insure individual instruction and guidance. A fully accredited college, it fosters scholarship, gentility, and holiness. - D.C.H.S.— Sunday, April 3, 104 St. Joseph’s second graders will receive their first Holy Communion. After many
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weeks of faistwwttDps, Wf 58 Mjt and 51 girls have been made ready to partake in the sacrament at the 8:30 o’clock mass. This same group, as well as other communlr cants above the second grade and some adults, will he confirmed May 5 by the Most Bev. Lee A. Pursley, bishop ot this diocese. —D.C.H.S.— ' Hats off to the winners of »e “Safety First” contest Included among the winners are six Decatur Catholic high students and two St. Joseph’s pupils. Winners of the high school division include: Rita Miller and Rosemary Baker tying with a Monmouth group for second place; Patty Roberts and Ron Baker working together to tie with Patty Faurote and Judy Roberts and a Pleasant Mills student for fourth place. Iris Hebble and Myr-