Contributed by Teresa Douglass, Genealogy Specialist
Congratulations to all Harrison County high school grads – you made it!
Here’s a look back at some past seniors from various schools throughout the county.
Visit HCPL’s Harrison County Schools digital collection to view more photographs.
Elizabeth High School, Class of 1952
Front Row (l-r): Evelyn Pearl Knear, Geraldine Kingery, Carolyn Edmonson, Geneva Stewart, Wilma Jean Saltsgaver, Mary Lee Miller, Erma Jean Mason, Mary Helen Conlee. Second Row: Mrs. Noble Wiseman (teacher), Carl LaDuke, Darrell Schoen, Edgar Lopp, Lawrence Gail Turner, James A. Wilson, Wanda June Brown. Third Row: William E. Weber, Paul Bierly, E. William Monson, Virgil Jawtok, Harold Hoke, Arthur Luther. Fourth Row: Alvin Wilson.
Laconia High School, Class of 1952
Front Row (l-r): Marilyn Johnson, Mary Ann Goldman, Ellen E. Lemmon, Mary Jones, Mary Lea Faith, Pauline Margaret Pindell. Second Row: James Sample, Alice Biddle, Phyllis Ann Crosier, Sherley Jean Boone. Third Row: Carter L. Adams (principal), Johnny Boone, Allen K. Denbo, Wayne M. Snyder, Floyd E. Stevens, Melvin King.
Lanesville High School, Class of 1952
Front Row (l-r): Marilyn Glietz Wiseman, Patsy Stanley Summers, Virginia Turley Clunie, Vilma Yeager Higginbotham, Joyce Carver Philpot, Lucille Blank Stewart. Second Row: LaVerne Lowe Smith, Jean Carver Baumgart, Louise Geswien Stilger, Loretta Schuler Marking, Lois Conrad Baumgartle. Third Row: Herman Prage (principal), William Baker, Harold Schneider, Louis Lindle, Sherman Thomas.
Mauckport High School, Class of 1949
Front Row (l-r): Nina Beanblossom, Clara Jean Love. Second Row: Dorothy Watson, Helen Singleton. Third Row: Herschel Frakes, Hugh Foster, Kermit Hayes, Verrelle Mackison, Gaylord Duley, Charles Goldman.
Morgan Township High School, Class of 1948
Front Row (l-r): Alliene McAfee, Wilmetta Chumley, Patti Ollis, Mary Catherine Fouts. Second Row: Patty Arnold, Roberta Herd, Helen Gettelfinger, Mary Catherine Fessell, Frieda Wolfe. Third Row: Marie Smith, Harold McIntosh, Herman Beuchler, Rita Gettelfinger. Fourth Row: Irvin Gettelfinger, Marvin Stemm, Jim Walker, Irvin Ferber, Merle McIntosh.
New Amsterdam High School, Class of 1946
Paul Cotner, Bobby Coffman, Verlo Hibbs, Paul Daily, Iva Haas, Corinne Watson, and Earl Finn.
New Salisbury High School, Class of 1951
Front Row (l-r): Joyce Dodds, Beulah Mae Walk, Virginia Southard, Nancy Fulkerson, Wilma Lone, Betty Adkins, Cordelia Rose Swartz, Pauline Arbuckle. Second Row: Nessie Clunie, Lanie Eversole, Charlotte Troncin, Pauline Byrn, Jeanie Rusk, Delores Wright, Jean Smith. Third Row: Charles Gaither, Thomas Chinn, Vaughn Adams, Charles Dodds, Eugene Higdon. Fourth Row: Ervin Wagner, Dallas Ray Richards, Tommy Burks, Donald Bruner, Wanda Toffolo (music director).
New Middletown High School, Class of 1951
Front Row (l-r): Billie Reeves, Ruth Gerdon, Norma Pendleton, Carol Luther, Sue Shawler. Second Row: Margaret Fisher, Daisy Lowe, Rita Lillpop, Wallace Shewmaker, Cleo Kirkham, Edmund F. Schneider (teacher). Third Row: Bill Pate, Dick Burger, Max Rupp, Sammy Wolfe. Fourth Row: Sonny Combs.
Corydon High School, Class of 1934
Front Row (l-r): Stanley Chinn, Charles Davis, Charles Gehlbach, Thelma Walter, Irma Kinter, Alliene Ehalt, Lewis Stoy, Virginia Wilson, Mildred Kiger, Georgia Brown, Claud Tindall, Charles Rowe, James Heaton, Carl Richert. Second Row: Farn Doll, James Benton, James Stepro, Audra Rowley, Clara Reasor, Mildred Marcilliot, Ruby Boston, Dorothy Hunter, Berneda Carnes, Edward Crosby, August Sell, Claude Krause. Third Row: Lucien Garner, Stanley Boxby, James Brengman, Hubert Miller, Oliver Rothrock, Forrest Gilham, Walker Overton, Dorothy Wells, John Frederick Jr., Loran Bussabarger, Ernest Neafus, Blaine Gilham, William Anderson, Alvin Smith.
The seniors are photographed outside the high school located on Chestnut Street. This brick building was constructed in 1928 and served as Corydon High School from 1928 until 1954. After this it became the Corydon Junior High School.
