Ashland High School - Blue Jay Yearbook (Ashland, NE)

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MARCH MARCH MARCH MARCH MARCH 3I APRIL2 APRIL 8 81 9 APRIL I6 8. 7 APRIL 20 APRIL 2O APRIL 'II In the tunals Wanoo won over an undefeated Holv Name of Omaha In the local declam contest Shurley Raukes won turst un the humorous duvusuon wuth her aduna Trual Mer shum Pat Jackson won turst un the dramatuc duvusuon wuth Muckey s Marker In the evenung the contest ot the one act plays was won by The Valuant The best actress of the plays was Marulyn Muller and the best actor was Gene Burdsall The Wesleyan Gurls Glee Club who are on tour pre sented a very entertaunung program ot musucal selec tuons Part of the program consusted ot vocal solousts a vuolun solo and a gurls truo At the Declam Contest at Benson Hugh Scnool Omaha Shurley Raukes won Excellent wuth her humorous readung and Pat Jackson won a good ratung wuth her dramcuruc readung The Valuant was unable to go because a mem ber of the cast was ull The regents examunatuons were postponed from March I9 to the 22nd Rene Jo Sauure was ull and therefore was not able to take the exams The tollawung senuors took them Wullard Spech Catherune Ballou Bull Scott Ruth Lund Jackue Lewus Susan Sums Margaret Leddy Bettv Durbun Bobby Young and Luculle Fox Mr J Dayton Smuth Instructor of Vouce Unuvers ty ot Unuversuty of Nebraska Symphony Orchestra were the judges tor the suxth annual musuc clunuc held at Ashland Hugh School Th Freshmen presented theur party The Freshman Froluc tor the year The Senuors present d theur play The Mystery ot Crazy Canyon Ranch The tollowung Senuors partucupated un the play Catherune Ballou Shurley Raukes Ruth New sham Bobby Youna Jackue Lewus Ruth Lund Frank Beckman Gene Burdsall Jack Anderson LaVerne Neu mann and Max VVeIch The tollowung represented the Ashland H gh Mus c De partm nt at Fremon Gurls Truo Wulluam Scott Shurley Bates C George Gade Dolores Gade Boys Quartet osemarv Costner Darlene Sowarcl Madruaa' Clar ce Buelke Jofun Ruchards Trumpet Truo lhelma Hughtshoe R n Jo Sauure Band Gene Burdsal' The Ashland Tracksters traveled to Nebraska Cuty to partlcupate un the unvutatuonal track meet Club 50 was the heme of the Sophomore Class Party The gym was decorated to fut the occasuon Th last lvceum number ot the year was Mylan a makeup artust He gave an unterestung dernonstratuon of the art . , , 1 I I' , A , , , I . reg-, ,, I M II . . -I - . . . ' 'I 4 I Il , - , I II t II I2 ,' ' ' l u - , . -. . , . I I , . I9 ' -' I I , ' II I - II I 22 ' ' . : I , I , E , I I I I 1 I I ' ,., . . . I Nebraska, and Mr. Emanuel Wishnow, Director ot the ' 1 D H v 11 , c , - II , . . . ,, . e , ,, y. . . . . i . I 4 , ! - I ,I I I I I I T , . I ' I I - S TI . , I . . , , hair L I ' S I ' T ' .e e ' I I ,, H , 1 ' l . 2 . e . I ,

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JANUARY 23 JANUARY 27 JANUARY 30 JANUARY 3l FEBRUARY 3 FEBRUARY 5 FEBRUARY 6 FEBRUARY l3 FEBRUARY l7 FEBRUAPY l7 FEBRUARY 20 FEBRUARY 27 FEBRUARY 28 MARCH l MARCH 3 4 Ashland s oldest ruval Wahoo was on the bottom of a very small score of 28 to lo Although the score was small ut was unterestung as the two teams played a very good game Muss Woutzel had a group of students from both grade and hugh school together for a good nught performance Thus group showed fune talent for later recutals One of the most excutung games of the season was the nught the Blueuays traveled to Blaur for a real thruller The Ashland fuve were traulung at the half but they came back fughtung to wun wuth a score of 43 to 34 The Pep Club presented a Sadue Hawkuns party The Spunster s Spree The gurls squured the boys for an eve nung of dancung Each gurl also brought a plate of home made fudge whuch was a very enjoyable treat The entertaunment was provuded by the separate classes of the Pep Club and the Sadue Hawkuns theme was carrued throughout For another vuctory the Blueuays traveled to Bellevue to wun wuth a score of 42 to 22 The Ashland Volleyball gurls had a very decusuve vuctory over Gretna wuth a score of 56 to l8 Ashland handed Plattsmouth a 53 to 32 defeat on the Blueuays floor The Blueuays were never un danger dur ung the enture game The Blueuays lost theur second game of the season to the Valley fuve by a score of 4l to 32 A lyceum number was presented to the Ashland students by Barbaruta a Spanush dancer who explauned and demonstrated varuous steps of the Spanush dances The Blueuays won a close game at Weepung Water bv a score of 4l to 38 Ashland lost uts last game of the season to College Vuew by a close score of 33 to 34 The score weaved back and forth un every quarter The orchestra uunuor orchestra band and tonette en mble presented a serues of well prepared selectuons They were enuoyed by all who attended The Ashland cagesters traveled to Doane to play the Doane B team Of course Doane won The funal outcome was 38 to 3l The debaters from Doane college furnushed a very enter taunung mornung for th students of Ashland Hugh School debatung on the subue t Resolved for a World Federal Government They had had a lot of experuence un th lune of debate and hav been doung very well un theur prevuous meets F r the class B tournaments Ashland got off to a good start by defeatung St Joseph s ot Omaha by a score of 43 to 33 ln the semu funals Ashland was defeated by theur old ruval Wahoo by a close score of 25 to 24 We had defeated Wahoo earluer un the season 28 to lo r 1 . 1 1 u , . I ' - 11 1 - 1 11 - - , . 1 1 . , , . 1 1 N 1 1 1 1 ' Se... ' . 1 . I . , . . 3 . I, I - - F 11 4 -f 1 11 - - D . C. ' e A A 1 V 1 . 1 - .- . U I - 1 1 1 '

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APRIL 23 APRIL 24 APRIL 27 APRIL 30 MAY 4 MAY 8 MAY I4 81 I5 MAY I6 MAY I9 MAY 20 MAY 2l The School dsdn t msss the Sensors as they took a day oft to have a good tsme sn Omaha for thesr annual Sneak Day They spent the day ssght seesng and had an all around rsp snortsng good tsme They vsent sn a specsal chartered bus wsth thesr sponsor and hss wsfe Mr and Mrs P D Pyle A hland entered the Conference Track Meet at Wahoo Ih vocal group presented thesr Sprsng Mussc Program The Ashland Track Team sourneyed to Davsd Csty for the Dsstrsct Track Meet Doane was host to an snvstatsonal track meet sn whsch Ashland and a large number ot other schools partscs pated The Junsors were host to the Sensors for the annual Junsor Sensor Banquet whsch was held at the Blackstone Hotel sn Omaha The theme One Nsght sn Heaven was presented very effectuvely Thss banquet greatly apprecsated by the Sensors wsll long be remembered as the outstandsng event of thesr hsgh school days Ashland was well represented sn the State Track Meet at the Nebraska Unsverssty Stadsum In competsng wsth several hsgh class tracksters from other parts ofthe state the Ashland representotsves gauned conssderoble recoa nstson Reverend Klsne of the Congregatsonal Church was the speaker at the Baccalaureate servsces held sn the auds by the Sensors of 48 The regular honors convocatson was held on thss day at thss tsme anyone who lettered sn vocal snstrumental mussc sntramural sports and other athletsc actsvstses were presented wsth thesr letter The Sensor Class Wsll and Prophecy were read Thss was the last convocatson for the sensors of thss year Dr G W Rosenlof Regsstrar of the Unsverssty of Ne braska gave the commencement address The dsplomas were presented to the Sensor Class by Mr Forrest L Raskes Pressdent of the Board of Educatson Honors were presented by Mr K C Wsles Prsncspal Mr P D Pyle Supersntendent of Schools gave the presentatson of the class The school year of l947 l948 came to a happy close as the students came to get thesr report cards slr it it SENIOR cs.Ass GIFT 1948 The Dstto ss a dsrect process lsqusd duplscator machsne whsch wsll be used throughout the entsre school Thss machsne wsll be used for maksng programs art work tests etc It ss the latest streamlsned model put out by the Dstto lncorporatson of Chscago Through many years of valuable use and servsce, the Dstto machsne wsll be a lastsng remembrance ot the Class ot l948 and sts generous gstt . T 1 I 4 I I ' s . .. 9 . . . . ' ll ' ' II ' I I ' I I I torium. His excellent sermon will long be remembered ' I . . 2 I I I 1 I , . , . . . . I I I . . . . . I I ' I I I ' A I , .