Alexandra High School - Old Acquaintance Yearbook (Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada)

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People We Know in Room 17 GRACE H.-our American Beauty's ambition lies in mak- ing Mr. Tait's hair turn grey .... JEAN E. lives only for the chance to go to Ranger Camp .... JUNE W.'s pet joke was decorating Mert's lapel .... BETTY B., strictly athletic, won the girls' intermediate championship last year. Plans on teaching .... NORA S.-why did she cut off her beautiful long hair? . . . Where does RITA L. get all the pull to ride in O.K. taxis? . . . DOROTHY H. claims she never studies, yet take a gander at her marks. What would happen if she did? Viola-this petite douce fille appears very quiet at A.H.S., but-- .... IRENE T. is an active participant in school activities, spends her spare time writing to Scotland .... WIL- BUR and ORVILLE W., the room's twins, are always fighting. They also have twin time-tables .... JEAN M. seems to be enjoying herself in her first year at A.H.S .... SHIRLEY H. is equally as fond of sports as her chum, Betty .... MERT M. is always inquiring if someone has his Social done. Active member of the T.A.M.S .... JACK D. is the only one who doesn't sleep through Social, pastime is dissecting frogs in the Biology lab .... BOB S., an active member of the Students' Council. Whatever happened to your lunch counter, Bob? . . . ALFRED B. shines in Bookkeeping .... BETTY JEAN L., known around A.H.S. partly for that red, white and blue ker- chief .... BOB S. is editor of the Weakly Whiz. It is best fContinued on page 979 28

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1947 Version of Room 29 LLOYD C. is crazy about tripping DAVE Mc., a curly- headed Casanova .... LA VERNE L. is very shy about it all. . . . PAT C. is famous for skipping periods and . . . ERNIE B. is the quiet type .... ALLAN N. is the room's genius .... HAZEL Mc. has a sweet innocent charm .... MARION W. is seen mostly with Toby .... MARTHA B. has a charming smile and dimples, too .... JOHNENE Mac. is a steady patron at Woolworth's lunch bar .... RITA P. soon became an honorary member of A.H.S.'s wolf pack .... IDA K. hails from Vancouver .... ED R. keeps everybody trying .... ALICE L. is a great lover of Taber. . . . To quote MARION M.: George did not go out with that blonde! . . . BETTY R.: Attention, everyone!! . . . JIM D., Bell-bottom trousers. . . . ERNIE S., stop your arguing and do some work .... LARRY L. finds a strange attraction in Lethbridge .... JACK H. is well known in the drama field and likes French .... RON H. excells in almost everything .... WALTER B.: Attention! Now appearing at the Sandwich Shop. . . . HENRY A. is a Whiz at bookkeeping .... Mr. Grant bears up wonderfully under it all .... HOWARD B. has an attraction for blondes. Laugh and the class laughs with you, but you take the detention alone. 27

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In Room 12 ive Saw .... . . . WALTER F. and BETTY B. discussing photography. . . . BETTY M. describing the wonders of Lethbridge, and BETTY W. countering with Vancouver .... GERALD H. mod- estly describing the merits of the H6 Ford .... DAVE M. talk- ing aviation with EDGAR H .... LORN E M. drawing pictures and DERAL M. making wisecracks .... FRED S. announcing he had forgotten to report the last Students' Council meeting. . . . IONA G., DOROTHY T. and DOREEN K. explaining why the Co-eds won the last game .... DORIS R. and WALTER B. talking over General Science and P.T .... RAY N. dozing while RON N. spoke to the fairer sex .... DELORES M. and BERNICE L. getting absentee admit slips, and LILLY F. listening silently when MARGARET M., LAURA B. and DEL- PHINE R. start one of their talking sprees, just as MR. DAVID- SON begins to read the notices .... ELAINE R. and AUDREY K. cracking jokes and GORDON B. quietly trying to figure out how to beat Rickenbacker's record. .11-...-.1 Mary had a little cow And oh how it did stutter. In place of every quart of milk It gave a pound of butter. 29