ECONOMY TIMES

PAST, PRES·ENT & FUTURE?

OF ECONOMY, INDIANA

SESQUI-CENTENNIAL

1975

Written and Compiled by LOIS BEARD LENNOX

.ECONOMY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES

1889 - Whittier Beard, deceased ... 1890 -- Jesse Dean, Bert Marshall, Thomas W. Marshall,

all deceased. . . 1893 ·- Newman Mendenhall, Elsie Marshall, Harry Mar­

shftll, Luella Marshall Mendenhall, Carrie Manning ,Burgess, Effie Thornburg Brooks, Sumner Beard, Katherine Atkinson; all deceased .. ·.

1894 - Catherine (Cassie) Burgess Martin, Economy High's oldest living Alumnus; Eldo Cain ( d ) • Lula Wilson ( d ), Helena Lamb.( d ), Stella Marshall Farmer ( d ), Clara Mendenhall Manning ( d ) , Maggie Lamb Bane ( d ) . . .

1895 - Walter Jessup, Ethel Fouts, Pearl Conley, Myrtle Clark, Charles Mendenhall, Carrie Mendenhall Stevenson, Carl Stanley, all deceased~ ..

. 1896 · - Fred Bread, Herbert Clark, Effie Fenimore Lontz, Edgar Manning, all deceased ...

1897 - Dollie Smith; Virgie Stanley, Frank Osborn, Mamie Williams, all deceased ...

1898 - Worth Clark, Calie Fenimore, Grace CQnley Powell, Cicero Veal, Nellie Cain Jones, Olive Adamson, all deceas-

. ed.'. . · 1899 - Myrtle Bailey, Jennie Albertson, Albert ·ctark,

Jessie Grace, Ralph Hadley, Elva Nelson, Lloyd Osborn, all deceased. . -~ . ,

1900 - Minnie Marshall Borders, Miriam ,. Hunnicutt Beard ( d ) , Carrie Chamness Atkinson ( d: ) ,_ B_lanche Man-ning Coggshell ( d ) . . . -

1901 - Rena ·Clark Greenstreet; Evit ,Hadley Healton, Daisy Osborn, Bess Albertson, Chris C. Fenimore, . all de­ceased ...

1902 - Earl Morrison, Edith 1'4ason Albertson, Zora Bal-

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lenger Cain, Nellie Jones, all deceased ... 1903 - Mae Veal, Madge Hadley Cheesman, Bessie Taylor

Ballenger, Nellie Cain Veal, Walter Hunnicutt, all de­ceased ...

1904 - Nola Oler, Howard Ballenger, Joe Osborn, Jesse Osborn, all deceased ...

1905 - Blanche Wilson Ballenger, Fred Greenstreet ( d ), Archibald G. Manning, Arthur Clevenger, Albert Ballenger (d), Mabel Hunnicutt Mendenhall (d), Emma Stegall (d), Effie Wright Wolford (d), Walter Cain (d) ...

1906 - Gladys Brown, H.C. Hutchens (d), Elizabeth Cook Bullerdick ( d ) , Maurice Ballenger ( d ) , Raymond Marshall (d), Edith Scantland (d), Reba Mendenhall (d) ...

1907 - Alma Clevenger Russell, Bessie Frazier Edwards James, Raymond Daughterty, Blanche Fenimore (d), Love Lindsey (d), Augusta Scott Mize (d), Erma Veal Pugh (d) ...

1908 - Anna Hadley Kendall (d), Myrtle Haxton Husted (d), Marjorie Brown (d), Mark Albertson (d), Elizabeth Stanley Petty. . . This 1908 class was th~ first to graduate from the new school.

1909 - Ruby Jones Manning, Virgie Mendenhall, Mary Jessup Smith, Howard Manning (d) ...

1910 - Myra Hunnicutt Beard, Margaret Hunnicutt Stewart, Winnie Brown Hutchens (d) ...

1911 - Wilbur Brown (d) ... 1912 - Mary Ballenger Werking, Elsie Veal Mendenhall,

Clara Hill Phillips, Avis Veal Gilmer . . . 1913 - Charles Franklin (d), John Jessup (d), Paul Oler

(d), Frances Lindsey Shoemaker, (d), Harold Williamson (d), Louise Manning Proctor, Hazel Haxton McCann ...

1914 - . Ruth Jackson, Harold Hutchins (d), James Haxton (d), Raymond Hofford (d), Clyde Townsend (d), Leona Charles Townsend (d), Marcella Cain Patton ...

1915 - Harold Fenimore, Russell Shoemaker (d), Jesse Townsend (d), Marie Hutchens Brown.

1916 - Hazel Fletcher, Blanche Beall Harris (d), Irvin Hunt, Hazel Mendenhall Hunt, Clyde Franklin (d).

1917 - William Ballinger ( d ) , Howard Hunnicutt, Helen Farmer Clements (d).

1918 - Euveda Canaday Hughes, Worth Hill (d), Ethel Charles Byrd, Anson Lindsey (d), Harold Manning, Sr., Ruth Drake Baxter (d), Carol Weldy Cain (d), Cecil Cain (d), Mary Cain (d), Harold Fouts ...

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1919 - Bennie Franklin (d), Williard Jordan (d), Gerald Kennedy, Anna Beard LeMaster, Carri~ Cranor Manning, Gertrude Stevenson Tegler, Gilbert Wadman ( d ) , Henry Farmer, Mary Byrd Graver, Raleigh Townsend (d), Thomas Marshall (d), Juanita Atkinson Jordan, Faye Hadley Buckner (d), Edgar Farmer, Harold Bowman (d), Alma Cain Charles, Kenneth Cain (d), Margaret Loop Howell.

1920 Zella Lamb (d). 1921 Clara Moran Robinson, Harry Van Schoiack (d),

Elizabeth Manning Quigley, Mary Mendenhall Page, Ruth Nolte Lindsey, Fannie Cain Farmer, Reece Lamb, Arthur Beard.

1922 Mary Beard Williams, Ralph Fisher, Karl Weyl, Marjorie Lamb Marshall, Helen Lundy Whittle (d), Forrest Cain, Meree Oler Crownover (d), Rena Manning (d) ...

1923 - Thomas Cheesman, Cecil Charles, Herbert Beard, Harland Cain (d), Helen Fisher Sheibla (d), Malcolm Marshall (d).

1924 Christine Manning Weber, Macy Marshall, Joseph Lamb, Martha Weaver Curliss, Virgil Oler, Margaret Bow­man Reynolds, James Lundy, Raymond Jordan (d), Mary Anderson Weyl (d).

1925 - Alice Stanley Stratton, Esther Conway Doll, Robert Pierce, Cecil Ruson, Gwinn Robinson (d), Pauline Fuson, Veal Morrison, Marian Beard Hawk, Lawrence Beard ( d ), Delbert. Cain ( d ), Martha Cain-Strickler ( d ), Grace Healton Keene ...

1926 - Olive Swaim, Harvey Saunders, Paul Sanders (d), Hubert Perkins (d), Joseph Maynard, Mary Fisher Lester, Harry Dixon, Marguerite Atkinson Eatherly (d), Marie Healton Klute .. .

1927 Martha Farmer Whitman, Marguerite Veal (d), Paul Williamson, Christina Oler Wilson, Mildred Mendenhall Wilson, Donald Williams, Helen Cain Bales, Emerson Carver, Everett Delph, Rex Fisher (d), Katherine Fisher Jester, Jesse Ray Mendenhall (d), Dora Perkins (d), Ada Ballenger Sharp, Emery Carver ...

1928 - Bernice Healton Mitchell, Ralph Charles, Paul Turner, Frank Bond (d), Howard Weber (d), Mary Helen Pierce River, Edith · Swaim Marsh, Phillip Haisley, Borter Bradrick ...

1929 Russell Beard, Mary King, Earl Lamb, Fred Dixon, Catherine Riggle Driscoll, Melmuth Lindsey (d), Frances

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Fisher Hanen, McCullough Lumb, William Shell (d), Mary Beth Hennigan Sharp, Don Luellen, Worth Stanley ...

1930 - Clarence Turner, Earnest Randall, Gertrude Manning Newman, Helen Beard Heacox, Melvin Bradrick, Ruby Healton Dale (d), Clara Lamb Sharp (d) ...

1931 Gertrude Stanley Odell, Elmo Lucas, Isabel Bradrick Clark (d), Allen Bradrick, Hazel Swaim, Martha Fisher White, (d), Robert Collings, Mildred Kirtley Seybert, Vera Strickler Rankin, Frances Morrison Beard, Charles Beard, Christine Beckman Lamb, Marion Lindsey, Allie Cain Oler ( d). . .

1932 Curtis E. Healton, Margaret Robinson Perry, Velma Lamb Sharp, Oscar Oler, Thelma Strickler Ford, Anna Robinson Danels, Mabel Moore, William Morrison, Martha Macy Luellen, Roy Luellen ...

1933 - Vierl Veal, Mary Homiare Ebbert, Ivan Oler (d), Aurie Mendenhall Taylor, Ralph Oler, Marcella Lindsey Miller, John Lamb, David Hutchens, Bessie Dixon, Edith Beard Gamber, Opal Carver, Albert Turner, Edna Kirtley Turner ...

1934 - John Macy, Dorothy Anderson, Hershel Overbey, Corinna Beard Retherford, Nova Wolfe Miller (d), Raymond Mendenhall, Esther Manning Oler, Louise Kirtley Reed, Martha Stanley Odell, Clifford Weaver, Douglas Denton Winburn, Charles Atkinson, Johnnie Mae Dixon Lamb ...

1935 Floyd Healton, Eugene Harris, Eugene Franklin, Lois Eads Crabtree, Sarah Dines Bane, Barbara Clark Dick, Catherine Cain McCracken, Grace Oler Bicknell, Elbert Mendenhall, Wilson Oler (d), Charles Powell, Josephine Williams Myers, John Cheesman ...

1936 - Ernest Habben, Roy C. Little, Genevieve Carver, John Cloud, Geneva Conwell, Willard Lamb, Mary Macy Morrison, Alice Mendenhall North, · Howard Oler, William Beard (d), Edward Cain, John Wilfred Healton ...

1937 - Donald Hinds, Pauline Franklin .McCann, Leonard Healton, Kenneth Fisher, Ella Mae Collings Hutchens, Catherine Oler Grabel, Robert Swaim, Alden Turner, Dorothy Little Cloud, Emmajean Mason Turner, John Banning, Esther Helen Beckman Pownall, Charles Brown, Kathleen Lamb, Virginia Kirtley King ...

1938 Richard Bolinger, Robert Wagner, Horace McCann, Kathryn Macy Marshall, Edward Whitcomb ...

1939 Paul Banning, William Cheesman, Earl Jackson,

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Chester Lamb, Thomas Luellen, Alice Louise Manning Mosier, Delbert Mosier, Ruby Kirtley Stanley, William Stanley, Helen Swaim Bennett. . .

1940 Viot Click, Dorothy Williams (d), Harold Oler, Phyllis Cain, Catherine Beard Poole, Wesley Oler, Dorothy Swaim Schweizer. . .

1941 Robert Healton, Mary Lou Myers Lacey, Florene Franklin Oler, Neil Guthrie, Howard Snodgrass, Charles Moran, Martha Lester Oler, Irene Ellington Campbell, Bruce Clements (d), Irene Eads Addington ...

1942 James Moore, Paul Hutchens, Lyle Tipton (d), Walter Swaim, Martha Jean Snodgrass Newsome, Lawrence Smith, Agnes Oler Rodenburg, Charles White, Maribel Banning Barnard, Freda Robinson Dugan, Allen Beard, Kathryn Bond Hutchens, Fred Cheesman, Joe Hood, Howard Byrd, Robert Myers ...

1943 - Harold Marshall, Robert Morrison, Virgil Mosier, Willard Newman, Maurice Lee Williamson, Marjorie Bane Weatherhead, Bette Bowman Durnford, Delores Carver Moran, Gene Durbin, Claude Eads, Alma Farmer Esselburn, Kathleen Healton Elliott, Marjorie Jennings Fouts, Marie Kelley Duke, Dale Kirtley, Martha Jean McCord Mullins, Harold Manning, Jr., Doris Mendenhall Popielewfki. . .

1944 Betty Louise Carter Kirkman, Betty June Oler Sloan (d), Lorna Pownall Skinner, Wayne Newman, Kenneth Mosier, Lillian Marshall LeMaster, Evan Jennings, Rose Mary Che~sman Clotiaux, Faye Murrell Marshall, Warren Robinson ...

1945 Anna Louise Williamson Dennis, Eugene Pownall, Roger Oler, . Ermal Mendenhall Consolino, Virginia Eileen Mason Manning, Richard Kitts, Thurl Harris, Irma Gilbert Mullens, Marvin Davis, Dorothy Jean Beard Ownes, Cecil Beard ...

1946 Adrienne Joyce Weaver, David Cain, Marfield Scruggs, Mildred Irene Marshall Scruggs, Martha Jean Weyl Kitts, Raymond Healton, Russell Quinton Little, Betty Irene Mosier Beard, Theresa Mae Powell Setser ...

194 7 Eldon Carpenter, Joan Manning Carpenter, Richard Carter, James Bird, Roberta Smith Oler, Maxine Oxley Brown, Beverly Shields Purdy, Robert Newman ...

1948 Eileen Beard Anderson, Duane Harris, Phyllis Hobbs Marlatt, Norma Jean Kirtley Wolfal, David Harold Short·, Edwin Carpenter, Keith Williamson, Marjorie Haisley

Click, Joyce Fanner Dishner, Quentin Williamson, Thelma Little Mosier. . . ' ·

1949 . James Carpenter, David Jordan, Joseph Gunsalus, Joe McMillan, Leonard Pope, Patty Sanders Hilton, Marlene Seaney Beard, Winifred Waite Chase, Doris White Graver, Charles Retz (d), David Bennett, Tom Carpenter ...

1950 Nancy Joyce Purvis, Harold Smith, Earl Robinson, Wanda Gunsalus Cole, Dwight Crownover, Gertrude Conwell Thacker, Emmett Davis, Jr., Beulah Mae Oler McMillan ...

1951 Beverly Robinson r.aq)enter, Allan Bond, Louise Jordan Kendall, Rowena Seaney · Warner, Dean Lester, James Peters, Norma Pope Mosier, Donald Retz, William Harley Shields ( d ), Ronald Luellen, Sue Williamson New­man, Lucille Carpenter Crawford, Peggy Roth Carpenter, Marilyn Weyl Fox, Howard Marshall. . . ,

1952 Frances Dickinson Joyce, Charles Davis, Elbert Beard, Londa Peters Crownover, Merle Short, Donna Shields Baer, Barbara Pentecost Alexander, Donald Hobbs, James Oler, David Gunsalus, Violet Gunsalus Aukerman . . , .

1953 Richard Davis, Margaret McMillan Webb, William Rindt, Phyllis Cox, Jilson Fox, Donald Kemper, Charles McCord, Donna Jean Lenigar White ...

1954 Rex Brooks, Carolyn Oler, Joan Bartlett Wilcox, · James Kirtl~y, Lester Peters, Tom Bond, Doris Kemper Luellen. ~ .

1955 Cathy Allen Bertsch, Glenda Robinson Tucker, Jerry Oler, Jane Retz Pierce, Larry Harris, Vernon Short,

. Margaret Jordan, Joyce Jarrett Baldwin, Judy Williamson Myers, Jay Saunders, Mona· Lindsey Paddock, Barbara Hobbs Short, Marian Colvin (d), James Williamson ... -

1956 Earl Retz, Janice Gunsalus Hapner, Mary Lou Riggle, Judy · Bane Peters, -Marlin Oler, Donald Mathews, Sylvia Lamb Ha_mmerstrom, Barbara Sharp Hollingsworth, Jeanne Shults· Spalding, Anna Belle Tutterow Jay, Barbara Davis- West, Philip Jarrett (d),' Evelyn Brown Smith, Marlene Bicknell Klemann, John Bales, Deanna - Dick Harris ...

1957 Norma Allen Cox, Shirley Conner Oaks, Stanley Williamson, M-arilyn Short Ramey,· Joe Cox, Colleen Sharp Murray, Linda Bird Williamson, Annie Raye Tutterow

· Keller, Eleanor , McCord Harvey, Jim Davidson, E.B. Conner, Ann Hathaway. . .

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1958 Lanny Harris, BobLenigar, Jerry Bicknell, Gloria Gamber DeWitt, Leon Morrison, Ronald Oler, Gary Saunders, Margaret Davidson Ross, Jerry Shultz, Wanda Davi~ Manifold, Walter Riggle ...

1959 Phillip Cloud, Janice Behr Mikesell, Carolyn Conner Hayes, Jerry r~athews, Beverly Clements Bicknell, James Noggle, Larry Mathews, John Conwell, Herman Cox, Evelyn Joyce Elstro ...

1960 Frances Atwell Newhouse, John Wilson, Marlene Tutterow Brooks, Dale Cox, Brenda Conner Steele, Karen Oler Manis, Don Mosier, Richard Retter, Keith Retz, Martin . (Buddy) Tutterow ..

1961 - - Carolyn Habben Lanter, Libby Atwell Mathews, Ruth Ann Bales Proctor, Rodney Williamson, Arlene Driskell Jennings, Ca~ol Retz Davis, Patty Wise, Judy Clements Garvin ...

1962 Sue Hall Miller, Phyllis Preston Terrell, Dean Conner, - Leonard Conner, Charolette Huffine Saunders, Patty Franklin Irvin, Ellen Clark ...

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