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Gymnasium Plaque Dennis Boyd from the Class of '61, John
Kessler from the Class of '56, and Dan Blaney from the Class of '63 were
present at the ceremony to dedicate a sign describing the Morocco High School
gym. The group met with Mariesa Blake, the principal of Morocco Elementary,
and Dr. Mike Razo, the superintendent of North Newton School Corporation.
Unfortunately, Kathy Rotert from the Class of ’65, a member of the committee
and an instrumental figure in the dedication of this plaque, was unable to
attend. The plaque, as attached, will be mounted on the North entrance to the Morocco Gymnasium.
Tip of the
Hat… A tip of the hat is due to the behind
the scenes crew that set up and broke down the banquet area for
dining, meeting, etc.
The crew again this year was Bev Sherman, Karen Harrison, JoAlice Warne, and Barney Belt. Give or send them a big thank you
the next time you see or talk with them. - Provided by Judy Cupp Schultz ‘58 State Title
The North Newton Lady Spartans won their first State Title in softball this year. The winning pitcher is Syndey Rainford. She is the granddaughter of MHS graduate Denny Rainford, Class of ’67. - Provided by Larry “Doc” Schanlaub ‘63 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 Heartfelt Thanks
I would like to convey my heartfelt thank you to the entire Alumni Association Membership for the surprise gift of appreciation presented to me today, sent by the 2021 Officers of the Association as recognition for my efforts in maintaining this website. I pledge to you all that I will continue doing so as long as I am able. If any of you, or a younger computer-savvy relative or in-law of yours is interested in taking over after I can’t, please contact me. In this way, the site will be able to continue on after me. - Dave DeKoker ‘63,
webmaster Did She Teach
You in the 1950’s?
Many people will remember Mrs. West as the first grade teacher, who taught them to read. She died at age 100, (May 22nd, 2018) and was still as sharp as a tack! I visited with her on the phone several times in recent years, and she seemed to remember everyone in our class (1953-54) and would ask about people from other classes she had taught. She wrote 4 books on her family history, played bridge, was a member of the DAR, and attended church regularly. Remarkable lady.
- Kathy Yoder ‘65 Historical
1923 All High School Photo now has student names!
The original listing of all the students by name was found and these have now been entered below each of the 6 Section enlargements. See name viewing instructions here. If you find any necessary name corrections, please advise the webmaster. Two
years after the “new” high school was built, at the
direction of Principal Roush, the entire high school body was
assembled behind the grade school for a professional photo to be taken. Judy Cupp
Schultz, our Historian, sent this panoramic photo in 3
parts to the website for posting. As you will see, the quality of the
photo is fantastic and provision has been made in
the presentation for you to enlarge for viewing, or
download for saving or printing. Enjoy this vintage archive! Kudos from a
Classmate Good morning
Dave, I enjoyed seeing pictures of the
2018 MHS Alumni Association event, especially of our 1963 classmates. I regret I was
unable to attend. Thank
you for what you and others do to maintain a quality website for all of us. Great job! - Sandy Clarkson Stuckman MHS Class of 1963 Tried the
Trivia Yet? Did you notice a “New” feature added to the site? Just for fun (and maybe to get you diving into the site a little deeper), we have added a Trivia Questionnaire page. We are eager to see if this is something the Alums will enjoy. Remarks and comments can be sent to the Webmaster link in the header above. To test your knowledge or hunting skills, return to the Home page and click the MHS Trivia “Can U Answer This?” link. “I Am
America” Our nation is alive and speaks up in this excellent Memorial Day narrative authored by a man in Florida. Click here to read it. Still
Collecting
Alumni Email Addresses! We are gathering email
addresses of Alumni who wish to participate in our Group Email Listing for the
issuing of special notices, site changes, updates, voting issues, etc. So far we have 117 participants at the time of this writing. Alumni may also elect to
list their email addresses in a password protected area of the site so that
other Alumni, using a password, can locate and mail other alums directly from
the site. Special
security measures protect the privacy of those participating. Alumni email
addresses will NOT be made available by the
Association or the Webmaster to ANY outside source for ANY reason. To participate in either or both of these
programs, click on any Webmaster link to
indicate your interest in participating. A short form to complete and return
will be emailed to your address by Dave DeKoker.
Simply fill in the 4 blanks and Forward that email to Dave.
To access the email addresses section, you will need to contact the Webmaster to receive your password. For Member privacy reasons, you MAY NOT share your password with non-MHS Grads. Click here to visit the Members’ Email Address page. Awesome Book Still on Sale, Get
yours now!
Ron is still taking orders for this book he has compiled, which contains many pages of action photos, team pictures and newspaper articles about the teams and cheerleaders from the years shown. The work is quite extensive and massively interesting, a truly comprehensive look at the historic athletes of our historic high school. To order your copy, please send
your check made payable to “Ronald Rush” for the
amount of $15* along with your return address to: Ronald Rush P.O. Box 245 Morocco, IN 47963 *Postage for shipping is included in the
price. STANDING NOTICE: If anyone viewing this site notices any links that are broken or if you receive an ERROR message of any kind, PLEASE click on any of the “webmaster” links on the site to report the problem directly to me. THANK YOU for doing this. Your help is greatly appreciated!!! Looking Back
Check
out all the “Looking Back” histories in the Shool History section of the
website. Judy
Schultz compiled all of these for us!!!!!!!!!!!! A HUGE
thanks goes out to Judy for her extensive efforts to deliver these
"accounts of old". I'm sure you will all find these "Blasts from the Past" very interesting reading. You will find them under the "School History" link on the Home Page, or just click on this blue hotlink. Thanks again for all your support for this website. Old 8mm Movies Surface
From the Harley and Ethel Smart film archives, Mr. Jim Snell of Earl Park has digitized a copy of the 1957 Football Parade down State Street. It appears to feature all the students of the school marching. Jim tells us that more school related ones will follow. To view this film, click here, or go to the Photo Gallery “Videos” link. Due to the high quality of the digital version, a high-speed internet connection will work best. Ted Hayes wins
Schricker Award!
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 |
2026 Banquet Photos & Minutes Posted The
photographs of this Alumni have now been posted for your viewing pleasure. Click here to view. If you have
additional photos you would like to have posted, please email them to me as
photo attachments. Minutes of
the meeting this year are available, as well. Click here to
visit. - Dave DeKoker ‘63,
webmaster ‘26 Alumni Banquet Minutes! An
attendance of only 49 folks (62 dinner tickets sold)
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. Photos were taken
by our Historian, Judy Cupp Schultz ’58 and those have now been posted. To read the full
minutes of the meeting, click here. - Dave DeKoker ‘63,
webmaster Alumni Weekend Review 2023
MHS Alumni weekend, wow......Simply Wow! 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 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.......... 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.
* * * The Alumni
Association Association correspondence and
business should be directed to either of our
secretaries, Pat
Wynn or JoAlice Belt * * * 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. * * * 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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Scholarship
Awarded
Luke DeYoung was our Scholarship
winner for the 2026 season. He is the grandson
of Allen Cox. He will be
attending Nashville Auto-Diesel College in Tennessee.
He was on the North Newton golf team, played basketball and ran track. He enjoys playing golf and helping his
friends working on farm machinery. - Provided by Larry “Doc” Schanlaub ‘63 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!
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 |
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