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Please click here to read the obituary of
Nancy Foxworthy Graft
Valedictorian of the Class of 1951

Please note!
Be sure to read the information on the other page
with a special request from the son of Pat Bussell and Jack Walsh.

Great thanks to Barbara Mohr Heiden for sending these first few photos.

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Ethel Normington Nichols, Harold O. Holland, Shirley Julian Webb and Clayton E. Ray

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Thanks to Glenn Holle for sharing his 1951 class photos with us!


Glenn F. Holle at the 1951 Senior Prom, June 1, 1951

1951 Alumni Awards Candidates
Photo taken in the ATHS Principal’s Office 1:00 PM Tuesday, 10 April 1951

Front Row: Nancy V. Foxworthy, Sherry K. Davis, Marilyn J. Loomis, Nancy M. Pearson, Jeanne E. Busard
Back Row: Ronald L. Deem, Robert E. Hales, Jerry L. O’Dell, Gilbert H. Bierman, Glenn F. Holle

The Alumni Awards were given to the boy and to the girl of the graduating class whose personal characteristics, school records and relationships, and qualities of leadership evidence all-round development.  The $100 Award Winners were Jerry O'Dell and Nancy Foxworthy.


1951 Senior Class Play
"I Remember Mama"
by John Van Druten
Directed by Gaylord Allen
Presented at Caleb Mills Hall,
Shortridge High School
April 20, 1951 at 8:15 p.m.

Seated Front: Hugh Daugherty, Billie Wegener, unknown
Second row seated:  Hugh Price, Rosanne Lukens, Ronald Deem, Gertrude Weest, Paula Hawkins, Glenna Martin, Dorothy Straub, Fred Klingstein, Nancy R. Pearson.
Standing:  Patricia Jones, Margaret Genge, Robert Hales, Lawrence French, Joan Yandell, Nancy Shearer, Edward Landreth, Nancy M. Pearson, Glenn Holle, Shirley Morlock, Fred Albrecht, Jr.

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Glenn Holle

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Walt Hadley

Walt has shared some of his wonderful photographs of some of the planes he has flown during his career in the U.S. Air Force.  Please click here to see them!

Thanks, too, to Mary Lockard Clark for sharing the following photos of Graduation Day
taken from the vantage point of the press box in the stadium!

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Wayne Stafford
(Brother of Judy Stafford, '59)

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Patricia L. Bussell

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Coach Howard Longshore being lifted triumphantly to the shoulders
of Gene Turnipseed and Bill Norris after the Tech Greenclads win
the City Co-championship.

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The Tech Nature Preserve

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Miss Parker in 1951

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1951 Block T Club

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Chemistry Club

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Cheerleading Squad
Front:  Judith Woolgar, Joan Troxel, Jean Ratcliffe, Phyllis Toler, Arlene Zambon, Lawrence French
Back:  Jerry O'Rear, Fred Forbis, Roberta Bishop, Patricia Dunn, Marion Barclay, Cherry Sheppard, Sue Siebert

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Cross Country Team

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(Did they really dress that way?)

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1951 Varsity Football
Indianapolis City Champions

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Majorettes
Phyllis Jones, Paula Hawkins, Kathleen White

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Sketchbook!