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Category: Pictures from the Past

North Side Spring Choir Concert – 1957

Posted on January 29, 2018April 14, 2018 By Ellen Turnock

This picture and the description were provided by 1961 Classmate Dave Steede. The event was the spring choir concert during  8th grade year at North Side (spring of 1957). The story is such.  In the “old” days the girls met in one class and the boys in another.  In our class one day the boys…

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Lincoln School Patrol Boys and Girls – 1955

Posted on August 14, 2016August 14, 2016 By Ellen Turnock

Ron Padgett furnished this picture of the Lincoln School Patrol Boys and Girls in 1955… .  Can you ID any of them??  

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EHS in 1921

Posted on August 2, 2016August 2, 2016 By Ellen Turnock

EHS 1961 Classmate Linda Braun Oelschlaeger found this postcard in an antique store.  It is labeled the New Elkhart High School and was postmarked 1921…. 40 years before we graduated.

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Posted on February 26, 2015February 26, 2015 By Ellen Turnock

  Back row : Sandy Osterloo Campbell,  Barb Jones, Mary Newton Somerville, Cindy Pendill Evans Front Row: Sue Markey Frick, Rosemarie Massoth Martin

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Last Day of Ninth Grade at Roosevelt Junior High School

Posted on August 22, 2013September 10, 2014 By Ellen Turnock

It was a tradition to dress up for the last day of 9th Grade at Roosevelt Junior High School.    Joan Trindle supplied the picture  taken in front of her house as a group was on their way to school for the final day of junior high school. Cheryl Wright, Jeanne Ramsey, Judy Koeppel, Sue Gornik,…

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Basketball Sectional Memories

Posted on January 26, 2013January 26, 2013 By Ellen Turnock

Denny Foster,  a member of the Elkhart Blue Blazers basketball team,  contributed the following pictures  that were printed in the Elkhart Truth Sectional section –  February 1960.

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Roosevelt Blue “n” Gold Pictures

Posted on April 22, 2012 By Ellen Turnock

The following pictures are from the Roosevelt Junior High School Blue ‘n” Gold, June 5th, 1958.   They were contributed by Suzy Wilcox Stoner.      

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The Elkhart Truth, March 1st, 1943 clipping

Posted on April 22, 2012 By Ellen Turnock

The following birth announcement clipping was published in The Elkhart Truth  on March 1st, 1943.   It was contributed by Joan Trindle Stiver who discovered it while sorting thru her Mom’s things.  Three of the four ended up being classmates.  

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A Trip Down Memory Lane

Posted on March 7, 2012March 7, 2012 By Ellen Turnock 4 Comments on A Trip Down Memory Lane

The following pictures were contributed by Ron Wolschlager.  Do you remember these ??  YES WE DO !!!

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St. Thomas 6th Grade

Posted on January 24, 2012February 26, 2012 By Ellen Turnock 2 Comments on St. Thomas 6th Grade

Can you identify any of these  6th graders from St. Thomas  ??  The picture was furnished by Emil Friedauer. After publishing this pictures, Bob Hapner identified a few of these classmates. 1st Row – Holding sign, both unknown.   2nd row:  unknown 1st name  Deputy, ??, Robert Reno, rest of row unknown.    3rd row: ??, Jimmy Ashe,…

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