Moe Hedetniemi, Malcolm Carpenter, Raiford Pierce, and Dave Benn go fishing (spring '55?)

Dave and Raif.

Moe, Raif, and Dave.

Can this really be 9th grade?  When do the legs start to grow?

Meanwhile, at a more mature level, Jackie Abramson learns how to fake smoking at the tender age of 14.

Dec. 1954, Gwen Warton's 14th birthday.  Jim Byrne, Donna Howe, Ronnie Miller, Gwen, Frank Abeel, and Nicky Beach.

Feb. 1955, Jackie Abramson's 15th birthday.

Anne Lewis and Jananne Fleenor (Jackie's 15th).

Jananne Fleenor, Virginia Kilgore, and Peggy Betters (Jackie's B'day).

Jananne Fleenor, Peggy Betters, Virginia Kilgore, and Regina (Suzy) Davis (Jackie's B'day)

Jananne Fleenor, Suzy Davis, Virginia Kilgore, Sue Stattner, Peggy Betters, Patt Manly, and Jackie Abramson at Jackie's 15th birthday, Feb. 1955.

End of Jackie's B'day party, Feb. 1955.  Front: Anne Lewis, Stephen Abramson, Patt Manly, and Mary Jean Sandford.  Back: Peggy Betters, Joan Laugman ('59), Virginia Kilgore, Suzy Davis, Sue Stattner, and Jenanne Fleenor.

Bill Hartman's contribution to the Palette in our freshman year.

A youthful picture of Chip Chandler-- could have been 9th grade, maybe 10th?

Sue Stattner's slumber party.  Judy Brickman, Sandra Sims, Jackie Abramson, Leslie (not in our class), and Elsie Jay Dunham.

Morning after-- L. to R., Jackie Abramson, Elsie Jay Dunham, Sue Stattner, Patt Manly, Mary Jean Sandford, and Leslie Legs.

Patt Manly's slumber party, winter 1955.  Bottom: Sue Stattner, Anne Lewis.  Middle: Shirley DeJoy, Mary Jean Sandford.  Top: Jackie Abramson, Jane St. John, Sandra Sims.

Anne Lewis, Jackie Abramson, and Patt Manly pose for Arid Extra Dry antiperspirant commercial.

Patt Manly's slumber party, con'd.  Sandra Sims, Anne Lewis, Jane St. John, Jackie Abramson, Shirley DeJoy, and Sue Stattner.

Patt Manly's slumber party the morning after. L. to R., Patt Manly, Jackie Abramson, Mary Jean Sandford, Sue Stattner, Shirley Dejoy, and Sandra Sims.

Jerry Kunz, Nash Gifford, and Jim Byrne on Seaton Circle ('54 or '55).

9th Grade Glee Club, directed by Miss Sperling.  Top row: Jane St. John, Patt Manly, Mary Jean Sandford, Gwen Warton. Sue Stattner, Alex Dougherty, Lee Howard, Jim Ricketts, Dan Persinger, Larry Lind, Art Iodice, Irv Busbee, and Tom Varney.
Middle row: Jackie Abramson, Peggy Betters, Marilyn Crooks, Anne Lewis, Bill Pritchard, Tom Jackson, Frank Abeel, Ronnie Miller, Virginia Kilgore, Suzanne Cook, and Sandra Sims.
Front row: Shirley DeJoy, Brenda Bushdid, Margaret Wilson, Tiana Gillespie, Carolyn Lay, Margaret Hindmarsh, Nicky Beach, Donna Howe, Janet Rees, Anne Wilkerson, and Anita Sauveur.

David Benn, with enthusiasm.