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Alum Gets
Great Eclipse
Shots Class of 1956 graduate
Charline Bridgeman took some great photos of the 2024 Solar Eclipse. She lives in Paducah, Kentucky and was
directly in the path for a total eclipse of the sun by the moon. Nice work Charline and thanks for sharing
that with all MHS Alumi!
- Photos by Charline Bridgeman ‘56 2023 Alumni
Banquet Minutes The
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KNOX — Theodore “Ted” Hayes, well-known local broadcaster and
general manager of WKVI, has been named recipient of the Henry F. Schricker
award. Some of Hayes’ activities that he has been involved with
include, but are not limited to the following:
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MHS Alumni Room Project
Paid in Full
Morocco High School's trophies are now secured and kept
freshly polished in a glass display case in the Local History Room of the
Newton County Library in Morocco, IN. for all to enjoy.
Alumni can come in and enjoy seeing the class
composite photos in their new mounting case.
Folks can locate their classmates' names and see the senior pictures!
Project
Contributors:
-Lois (Morgan ‘62) & Dave Hensel
-Vic & Betty (Heath ‘47) Carlson ‘42
-Eldon Purdy ‘44
-Kathryn Arbuckle ‘52
-Dennis & Roslyn (Merchant ‘61) Boyd ‘61
-Dennis Vanderwall ‘59
-Judy (Cupp ‘58) & Bernard Schultz ‘54
-Diane (Krueger ’58) Castongia
-Tony Myers ‘58
-Judy (Turnpaugh ’58) Myers
-Joanie (Madison ‘58) Regan
-Merlin Woods ‘58
-Lon & Bonnie (Brown ’48) Skinner
-Sandra (Potts ’58) Lawson
-Linda (Maschino ’57) Gibson
-Barbara (Hunter ’48) Pettit Regnier
-Max Hunter ‘62
-Mary (Brown ’40) Krueger
-Dale & Betty Borem ‘52
-Sherry (Samuelson ’66) Wirt
-Jean (Bridgeman ’57) Leavitt
-Sue (Plaster ’65) Pantos
-Betty (Deardurff ’47) Holmes
-Sharon (Potts ’58) Pommier
-Judy (Brunton ’56) Keppner
-Sharon Potts Pommier in Memory of Marilou (Carlson
‘58) Woods
-Betty Heath Carlson in Memory of Mary (Heath ‘34)
Gilmore
-Marian (Johnson ‘55) Coapstick
-MHS Alumni Historian in Memory of Patsy Bruns ’59,
Alumni Sec/Treas. 1978-2005
-Dale and Kathy (Christenson ’58) Wiseman ‘56
-Larry Schanlaub ‘63
-Dean and Barbara (Christenson ’50) Dawson ‘50
-Dan Blaney ‘63
-Linda (McClatchey ‘66) Flack in Memory of Genola
(Porter ‘40) McClatchey and Norma (Porter ‘41) Bice
-Cathy (Smart ’66) Oates
2025 Alumni Banquet
A Fine Success!
A great
gathering occurred this year at the Senior Citizens Center in Morocco for the
annual Morocco High School Alumni Association Banquet and Business Meeting. This year’s honor classes were all
recognized and represented. Prior to
the dinner, an hour of “meet and greet” was had by those coming at 5:00 o’clock. Many photos were taken by our Historian,
Judy Cupp Schultz ’58 and those will be posted relatively soon. Please check back on the website to see when
those are available for viewing!
- Dave DeKoker ‘63, webmaster
Alumni Weekend Review
2023
MHS Alumni weekend, wow......Simply Wow!
Congratulations to all the faithful who pulled it off! This had to be an
extraordinary effort ... great job to all...!
A
special thanks to Judy Cupp Schultz from me & Tanya for the personal
guidance & getting us to Dave Lindlow's & the ‘58 class gathering,
and giving me tips on putting some photos
of Old Morocco, Indiana on face book.
......thanks to Dave Lindlow & our great little ‘58 group....that was
really fun......10 of us I think....
I'm not sure who or whom was responsible for such a terrific Morocco BeaverFest event....but that was simply terrific.....wow!
Antique
cars parading & driving around..........
Blocking downtown off, people milling all over....,..
In the middle of the street a live band was really, really good.....and
played on & on.....just great......
Betty Kesler Park brewery station.....just great......
Food trucks.....
A "Dunk-Me”, in the town center......wow
And the MHS alumni banquet later which came off great too......!!!
We really enjoyed it......ALL!!!!
And as if that wasn't enough; After dinner Dave DeKoker suggested we meet at the American Legion/ Bowling alley
What a surprise.......Especially since I had been a Pin Setter there all these years ago! I think I was 12 or 13 at the time. However, the really fun thing I Learned was that Dave Dekoker had been a Pin Setter there too! Only a few years later after I was......! Take care!!!
-- Submitted by Don DeKoker ‘58
New 1st
Grade Photo
A new photo has been posted of the 1948 1st Grade Class, taught by Elsa Mae Yoder. This would go on to be the MHS graduating Class of 1960. We have only a few of the kids named and those may be incorrect. If you know any other students’ names, or have corrections, please send them to the webmaster via this email link. You may view the photo on the Photo Gallery page or by clicking here.
Throwback
Basketball Experience
On the evening of December 15th, 2018, something quite unusual happened in the Morocco High School Gymnasium. Time was rewound to 1968, the year the gym fell silent from high school basketball team games forever, but maybe not? Through the idea and efforts of Morocco Town Councilman Bob Gonczy, a regular season game between North Newton HS and Kankakee Valley HS was arranged to once again play on the MHS hardwoods 50 years later! KVHS won, but the real winners were all the MHS alumni who attended, swelled with pride and nostalgia of an evening trip back in time, seeing another game played in “our” beautiful gym once again! Click here to see photos. Go BEAVERS!
Special
Request from Charline, Class of ‘56
Hey there alumni, Charline
Bridgeman is on the search for any photos that were taken on their 1956
Senior Trip. If you have any photos of
this, please contact her directly via email.
Her address is listed on our Email Addresses page. She will be very grateful to hear from
you. You may also send them to this
webmaster for posting on this site.
Departed
Alumni Listing
Each year when the Alumni
Banquet Reservation Forms come back in to Pat, we sadly receive notices of those
who have passed on, either during the previous year, or even earlier years
that we were not aware of. This year
was no exception, but it seems we received a “more than normal” number to add
to our Eternal
Honor Roll. You may wish to review
all of these new postings which are noted in YELLOW print. Be sure to scroll way down through the page
to find all the new ones just added to our listing. Also, if you know of an Alumnus who passed that
we have not listed, please click on any “webmaster” link on this site, or
contact any Alumni Officer.
New Sports Team Photos
Hey there sports fans, one new basketball team and two new football team photos have been
posted for your viewing. Check them
out. Also, we are trying to locate
some Cross Country team photos for that section now.
Kudo For The
Website
I would like to tell you how much I enjoy the MHS
website. Had we continued to live in Morocco, I was class of '55.
My brother Jack, was class of '49. However we moved to Arizona in Jan.
1950. It was by accident I found this
site and enjoy seeing those I was in class with. There were still quite
a few in 1955. We lived in Morocco from Dec. 1944 until 1950, and my
father Milt, was partners in the elevator with the Barnett brothers, before
forming Morocco Implement Company, a deal for Oliver and New Idea farm
machinery, among other things. My 2nd
grade thru 7th grade experiences will never be forgotten, as well as the
town, as it was then.
Jim Vanderkolk
Show Low, Az.
showlow04@frontiernet.net
Still Looking
- Class of 1963!
Larry
(Doc) Schanlaub is looking for the following Grade School class pictures.
If anyone has a copy of any of these, please email a copy to him at
3rd Grade Class, Mrs. Smith teacher
4th Grade Class, Miss Murphey teacher
5th
Grade Class, Mr. Stucker teacher
Thank you.
A Funny Thing
Happened On The Way Home From Breakfast
by Sue DeKoker
I live
in Seminole, Florida and this past Saturday as I was driving home with my
lady friend, I saw something my eyes could barely believe. We had been to a “Girls’ Breakfast Out” at
a great little restaurant outdoors near the beach. I noticed up ahead of me in my lane, a
fairly slow moving vehicle that appeared to be an old fire truck from the
50’s or so. As I got closer, I noticed
some white lettering on the back of it that didn’t pertain to anything a fire
truck would have printed on it. Of
course it had the standard “STAY BACK 500 FEET” and other appropriate gear
attached to it, so I knew it was indeed an antique fire truck. When I was close enough to read the white
print, it said……well, I’ll just let you see what it said…click here
Attention All Alumni
Members!
The funding for the MHS Scholarship Fund (Ruth Corbin Memorial Scholarship) is provided strictly from individual MHS Alumni Member contributions and we only have enough in the fund for a few more SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS. In order to assure the continuation of the Scholarship, we are in need of YOUR HELP. PLEASE send what you can at your earliest convenience. Mail your tax-deductible donation (make check payable to: MHS Scholarship Fund) c/o Mr. Dan Blaney, POB 500, Morocco, IN 47963-0500. Thank You in advance!!
Larry Schanlaub ’63 Receives High Honor!
On April 5th, 2009, Larry “Doc” Schanlaub (above) was inducted into the Quad County Bowling Hall of Fame.
Doc started working with the Youth of Morocco in 1965 as he helped form the Baptist Church Pal’s Club. In 1969, he helped form the Morocco Little League and served as their announcer until 1984. In 1982 as Manager of the Morocco Legion Lanes, he started the Morocco Youth Bowling. He has served as President of the LPJ Tri-County Youth Bowling Association for 8 years and was instrumental in setting up the Youth Scholarship Fund. In 2005, Doc was honored by the State Youth Bowlers with a Plaque for bringing Morocco Youth Bowlers to their State Tournament for the past 20 years. During this time, Doc has seen 60 of his young bowlers win Scholarships.
Doc has received many awards over the years for his service and bowling skills. Some are as follows:
Ø 1980 Indiana Jaycee Top 40
Region 1 Jaycee Hall of Fame
Ø 1990 Awarded a US Jaycee Senatorship (second highest award for Jaycees)
Ø 1997 Placed 2nd in the Hoosier State Game for bowling
Ø 1997 Placed 6th in the Senior Nationals in Tucson
Ø 2001 Won the Indiana State Seniors Bowling Tournament
Ø 2001 Placed 5th Nationally in Milwaukee
Ø 2009 Inducted into the Quad County Bowling Hall of Fame
Editors note: The above record is no small feat given Larry has been legally blind for this entire period, due to Macular Degeneration.
News
Page Notes:
Passing Alumni
Passing Alumni has MOVED to its own page now. To view, click here.
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The Alumni
Association
Association correspondence and
business should be directed to either of our secretaries, Pat Wynn or
JoAlice Belt
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Calling New
Candidates
If you are interested in serving as an Officer of the MHS Alumni Association at anytime in the future, please contact the President at your earliest convenience.
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MHS Alumni Minutes
The unofficial Minutes and accounts of the Annual Meetings as provided by the Officers are posted on this site.
Click here to view any of the Alumni business meeting minutes since 2004.
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Your Article
Here
Your Article is needed Here!!!
Please submit any MHS related
stories or editorials to
Grads – Please
Help?
I
am in the process of updating the Missing Alumni Addresses page and would like
to have your help. You can do this
very quickly by just going to the page and reading the names there. If you know any of these grads and have
their mailing address, click
here or on any of the “webmaster” links on the site. When your email opens, send me the name and
mailing address of the person you know the location of. Or, if you only have a phone number or email
address for them, that is fine too.
Just send whatever you’ve got and I’ll try to contact them. THANK YOU in advance!
- Dave DeKoker ‘63, webmaster
104 Year Old Alum Passed!
Dorothy
“Redden” Weir, Class of 1936 was our oldest living graduate of Morocco High
School. She passed away September 5th,
2022, 11 days short of 104yrs-5mos and is posted on our Eternal Honor Roll
page. There is a very nice obituary
for her if you care to visit.
- Connie Ackors Sell ’63
A Still Relevant Message from your Past-President
Dear Fellow Alumni,
This month (May ’17) marks the 50th anniversary of
the last class to graduate from Morocco High School. Sixty nine years ago the
MHS Alumni Association was started. That association has better enabled us to
get together once a year to celebrate our high school memories and renew old
friendships.
We have a strong base of support. Alumni faithfully
pay their dues each year whether they attend the banquet or not. And we
receive numerous donations that help offset the cost of the association.
Thank you!
The annual banquet and meeting doesn’t happen by
itself. Your officers are charged with that responsibility. Several of the
officers continue in their roles year after year. They are Connie Ackors Sell, Treasurer;
JoAlice Warne Belt, Secretary: and Judy Cupp Schultz, Historian. The Vice
President is elected at the meeting and ascends to the Presidency the
following year. Carol Warring will be next year’s President and will preside
at the 70th annual banquet. We need a Vice President candidate.
With our numbers shrinking, it has become
increasingly difficult to find volunteers to serve in those roles. If we
cannot fill the officer roles, we risk the discontinuation of the MHS Alumni
Association and the annual banquet. Please consider volunteering to help us
continue the tradition. Yes, there is a time commitment, but it is fairly
minor and the process has been very well documented to make the job easier.
If you want to volunteer or have ideas of how we
can continue in some different way, please contact any Alumni Officer.
Thanks!
Roger LaCosse
Past-President
Your Help Requested
A certain contributor to the site posed an interesting question to me a short time ago: “Who was the highest scoring player of all the MHS Varsity Basketball Teams?” If you have an idea of who that guy might have been, please email your suggestion or information to me. Thanks in advance! - Webmaster
Alumnus’ Son Earns Head Coach Position
Tom Allen Jr., the son of Tom Sr. and Janet Warne ‘64 Allen is now the Head Football Coach for our own Indiana University!
Our high school is proud to have had a small
part in this great achievement. Go
I.U. !!!!
Class Histories
Now Available!
Our seemingly
tireless MHS Alumni Assn. Historian, Judy Cupp ’58 Shultz, has done the
improbable again! She has dug through
countless old issues of the Morocco Courier, the Old Gold & Black school
newspaper and other sources to provide us with an ongoing legacy for all
Morocco High School Alumni. This compilation will bring back memories like
they were just yesterday. Everyone
needs to read through these, which were prepared to highlight the school
history for this year’s Honored Classes.
Please visit the School History page, then
tell Judy “Thanks!” the next time you see her. This is a very impressive body of work.
- Webmaster
Good Help Received
We asked and we have received some excellent help on naming the individuals in the two old “mystery” photos. I would like to thank Dave Brandt and Dave Lindlow for providing most of these names. We still need a few “?” marks replaced, so let me know if you recognize any of those, please. Thanks.
- Webmaster
Renewed Heritage and Morocco Buildings
Dave,
Our son,
Tim, has completed a brochure (two-sided) that describes their non-profit
corporation, Renewed Heritage. I spoke
to you at one time about highlighting their projects and letting people know
what they were doing. …their intent is to preserve Morocco buildings as we
once knew them. I'm attaching the brochure
and you can decide whether it could appear on the website.
If
you haven't heard, there was no remonstrance against the School Board's
proposal to remodel and add on to the Morocco School (along with some
upgrades to the other schools. I am
very excited about the prospect—the addition is planned to house grades K-6,
so the students will really be in a new school! The old part of the school will be used for
special classes and the administrations of both the school and the
corporation. It is exciting!
Thanks
for your consideration and all the work you do to keep our Website going.
Bonnie
Storey
Thanks Expressed
The
following was submitted by an Alumnus for publication. -Editor
Many
Thanks to the MHS Alumni Website and the MOROCCO TIMES newspaper.
I
would like to suggest to all you alumni out there; don't be shy or
worried about signing up for MHS
Alumni website; it's safe, and It's really a
pleasure to check in on the what's happening with our alumni. It's great to
see and read what's going on in the old home town. Dave (and from Tampa, no
less) has done such a terrific job of putting it together AND keeping it updated. We're
all very fortunate that someone's willing to provide such a rich and
classy presentation - - and
at no cost! - -
Come
on in the water's fine; the more the merrier; email Dave and get internet
connected. It's a kind of glue that can help us all stay up to date and
linked together; besides that; we really need to keep DAVE engaged; if he
doesn't do it, who will. He's even delivering back issues
of the MOROCCO TIMES now; courtesy of the link up with Gerald Born.
Speaking
of the MOROCCO TIMES,
I'd also like to commend Gerald Born for his skill and efforts
with his new Morocco newspaper. He's put some real life back into
old Morocco and refreshed us all with his publication. Think of it; launching
a newspaper in today's world; in Morocco - - how risky is that! And,
what a style he has; it's like many of his readers tell him,"it's like
getting a letter from home"; what a treat. I'm sure most of you can
imagine the time, energy and expense of doing such a job today. I see that he
is providing the MHS Website with the back issues - - what a terrific thing
to do. To all of us that appreciate these efforts and those kinds of things;
I suggest that we reward those who toil for us, by subscribing to the MOROCCO
TIMES - - it's (ed. No longer available) - - and sign up for the MHS Alumni Website;
think of it as our patriotic chore and pitching in, when it needs it. As you
all can see, I really appreciate what these guys are doing and I hope you
will too.
Sincerely,
Don
DeKoker ‘58
Award Winners
including Don Hunter, Class of ‘58
Associated
Press excerpts:
“….Pat Cassidy, a three−time state champion from Bloomington North, will be inducted into the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame on Sunday.
Also named to the Hall of Fame as coaches are Dave Geyer of Penn, Ron Anderson of Winchester, Robert Kelley of Bloomington and Bill Yozipovich of Greenfield. Don Hunter of Fort Wayne North will be inducted as a wrestling contributor.”
Don was inducted February 20, 2005.
CONGRATULATIONS, Donald!
Don
receives his award!
