Nevada High School - Nevamo Yearbook (Nevada, MO)

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The NEVAMO

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TWNEVAMC FACULTY COMEDY CUES Mr. Iilka: Do you know why I ilunked you, lunior? Iunior Short: I haven't the least idea. Mr. Iilka: Correct! Dear Mr. McKeehan, wrote Mrs. Denman, you must not whack my Iohnny. He is a delicate child and isn't used to it. At home we never hit him except in self-defense. Miss Burns: David, can you tell me how matches are made? D. Inwood: No, but I don't blame you tor asking. Miss B.: What do you mean? D. E.: Well, mother says you have been trying to make cr match for thirty years. Mr. Limbaugh: Now students, here you see the skull ot a chimpanzee, a very rare specimen. There are only two in the country-one in the national museum and I have the other. Mr. Howell: If there are forty-eight states in the Union, and super-heated steam equals the distance from Bombay to Paris, what is my age? , Richard Potter: F'orty7four, sir. Mr. Howell: Correct, and how did you prove that? Richard: Well, I have a brother who is twenty-two and he is only half nuts. Mr. Angus Springer was busy in his study. Have you seen this? said his wife, entering. There's a report in the paper of your death. Is that so, returned Angus without looking up. We must remember to send a wreath. Miss Bray: Cto Chinese man-servant? After this, when you enter my bedroom, please knockel might be dressing. Chinaman: Me no need knock. Me allawys look in keyhole first. Miss Dorman: tBride ot the yearl I want a loin to cook. Butcher: Okay, goilie, l'll see if I can find youse a cook book. Pagel2'

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TWNEVAMQ SENIQBS THEIHSTQRY Potential glory was presented to the Purple and Gold colors as they were assigned to a promising organization of Sophomores who were to be known to posterity as the class of 38. Upon entering Senior High, these happy-go-lucky students showed everyone that they were ready, willing and able to perform Sophomore duties in an efficient manner by electing David Inwood as class president, Charles Sterett as vice-president, Doris Mae Smith as treasurer, and Marion Scott as secretary. Mr. Roy Wert was selected to advise this administration on the perp'exities of class organization, and lane Brown's leadership of the class yell, Booma-lacka, Chicka-lacka, resulted in lingering echoes when 127 sturdy voices were raised in lusty support of the Purple and Gold. ' After the excitement of class elections had subsided, plans were made for an entry in the local P. E. Q. Stunt Contest. The dramatic genius of Sponsor Wert was proven when he wrote the playlet Doom which tied for first place in its division, thereby enriching the class treasury to the extent of 55.00. This triumph was especially important because defeat was placed squarely upon the shoulders of the Senior class by energetic actors who were responsible for the first successful venture of the Sophomore year. Mirth and glee in all proportions were bestowed upon N. I-I. S. after the Christmas holidays by that event of events, the School Carnival. Bette Io Iudy and Ned Clemensen were the Sophomore candidates for Queen and King, respectively, and a wave of dauntless enthusiasm trippling from their classmatesl carried them to second place in the regal oontest, enough tickets being sold to keep the Iuniiors in the third bracket. Bent for success and determined to be outstanding was the mental status characteristic of the members of the Iunior class in September, l936, for the toll of the school bell had brought the grades of '38 together for another year of cooperative effort. Great was the satisfaction of the llth graders when the results of the class officer election was inscribed upon the annals of N. H. S. politics in the following form:- Faculty Sponsor .... .... Miss Nell Dorman President ....... .... H arry Hammer Vice-President . . . .... Charles Sterett Secretary ..... ...... B etty Bush Treasurer .... Inez lean Tow Yell Leader ................................ ...... ............ Q u enton Lesher Twenty-two of the class dramatists were soon in shirt sleeves as hard work was begun on the Iunior class play, written by Charles Quimby Burdette and titled Shirt Sleeves. A large audience of students and townspeople were royally and pleasantly entertained on the night of November 6, as those playing the principal parts, Bill White, Bette Io Iudy, Helen Warren, Charles Sterett, Doris Mae Smith, Ralph Wardin, Inez lean Tow, Iunior Shellenberger, Phyllis Runyan, and Harry Hammer, gave a very good demonstration on how to put one over. It was in this Iunior class that the notoriously powerful and much discussed club known as the Brush was organized by a few prominent and adventuresome students. Although the club is now known only to antiquity, it started such a wave of cliques in Nevada high that some note should be made of it if this chronicle is to be accurate and complete. More experience was gained by the class officers in speechmaking and by the class in ticket selling when Parker Wilson and Helen Dale were supported in the race for the Carnival King and Queen. The crowning glory of the Purple and Gold lay in Publicity because the halls of N. S. H. were filled with readable, if not artistic, posters bearing class and clever slogans and boosting the Iunior candidates. Pagel4