Beaumont High School - Live Oak Yearbook (Beaumont, CA)

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22 II. II IF ,IE W II 'IIT II-II ACT l. SCENE I The Time is Monday, SepTember I3, I943. The place is The BeaumonT High audiTorium. The main acTors-TiTTy-Two oT Them- are The halT-shy, half-cocky members oT The Freshman Class. They sTare wiih never-Thinking eyes: They sTare in pale and cold surprise. They siT in assembly now, each possessing a copy of The STudenTs' Handbook, sampling Their TirsT TasTe oT high school life. The TirsT assembly oT The year opens wiTh a loud, hearTy yell Trom each class. The seniors are TirsT, Then The Juniors and Sopho- mores, and Then-silence! The Freshman Class siTs wiTh open mouThs noT knowing iusi whaT is expecTed of Them, and, if having a TainT idea, Too scared To Try. Finally some oT The Juniors sTarT yelling Freshman, Rah! Rah! and The Freshman ioin The shouT. All This gives The oTher members of The school a pleasanT older feeling. They TorgeT ThaT The same Thing happened when They had iusT sTarTed school. Now, Mr. Sewell is making The TirsT speech oT The school year abouT absences, Tardies, The values oT a high school educaTion and such-The sorT oT speech ThaT bores The knowing Seniors, buT only conTuses The Freshman, Tor They can give iT only hall: of Their aTTenTion. There are many Things To Think abouT. The boys are worrying abouT Their ThreaTened iniTiaTion. There have been .all sorTs of conTradicTing rumors abouT iusT whaT fearsome elemenTs would be included, and some ThaT said There would be no iniTiaTion aT all, buT The only way To Tind ouT is To waiT and see. The girls are self-conscious, worrying wheTher Their sweaTers are Too TighT or Their lipsTick-Tor some a new habiT-is Too dark. They giggle, make insulTing remarks abouT The Freshman boys, and Talk a IiTTIe Too TasT and quiTe a biT Too loud in order To cover up Their embarassmenT. A Tew oi Them, already having begun Their search Tor eligible upperclass boys, oTTen glance back aT The Senior secTion, To be meT by The exTra Triendly glances of The Senior girls, who have been Talking abouT The Freshman girls among Themselves, saying, Oh, isn'T T-lelen's liTTle sisTer adorable? l beT she'll be popular and really meaning, l hope she leaves The Senior boys alone. Why, There are Twila Blain and Delila CourTney and Dick Harrison and Elise Thompson! Imagine Them as Treshmen! Jackie SmiTh, STerling CarTer, Francesca Kresse, BeTTy Kuhn and oThers had been going To BeaumonT schools ever since kindergarTen, yeT high school was compleTely new. A loT of Freshmen had graduaied Trom The eighTh grade aT Palm School: The kindergarTeners iusT menTioned and Edgar Elam, Raymond HeyTens, Monica Rainer, J. C. Moore, Jimmy Moore, Richard Bailey, Carl Gordon, Charley King, and BeTTy Carr. Here They all are, looking so undeniably- uh-Freshmen. As They siT in assembly They learn many Things abouT Their coming year. They are inTroduced To Their Teachers: Miss Jane ZarTman, maTh and biology: Mrs. MargueriTe Friedley, English and girls' gym Teacher: Mrs. Louise Laurence, Teacher of home econo- mics: Mr. Davidson Siivers, who Teaches band and drama: Mr. Theodore Bergen. of hisTory and shop, and Those Teachers who belong To BeaumonT, Mrs. Snyder and Mr. Adams. Now The mosT complicaTed Thing of all is being explained To Them-The demeriT sysTem. TT is sound in Theory: aT The end of The year each sTudenT is given one hundred meriTs, some oT Them being Taken away Tor each misdemeanor and made up by working a half hour To redeem each demeriT. NineTy meriTs are necessary Tor exTra-curricular work, such as plays and sporT Teams, and Tor graduaTion. The Freshmen Think This will be easy: all you have ye dp is obey The rules. Freshmen always Think ThaT, buT They'll earn. - ThaT Takes care oi all The TirsT-year business. Assembly is dismissed. The newcomers begin Their Tirsi classes in high school. SCENE ll Time: Theiend oT The Freshman year. Place: BeaumonT High AudiTorium. CharacTers: same as in The beginning. buT how They have changed! They are aT home in The audiTorium now, having losT ThaT confused look and become an acTive and Tangible pari oT BeaumonT High. A loT has happened since ThaT TirsT assembly. They have elecTed class oTTicers Tor boTh semesTers: Richard Bailey and Charles Kihg, presidenT: Charles King and Delilah CourTney, vice- presidenT: and Barbara Carpenier, Elise Thompson. and Twila Blain Tor The oTTTer oTTices. They have ioined G.A.A. and chorus and band and drama. Three Freshmen made scholarship: Elise Thompson, Joanne GenTry, and Raymond HeyTens. Two Freshmen -Twila Blain and Joanne GenTry--were in Poor FaTher, a l-acT play given Tor The sTudenT body. They have passed Their subiecTs, aTTended assemblies, gone Through hick day, pal'TicipaTed in The TalenT Show, aTTended The Girls' Formal, and helped elecf sTudenT body oT'Ticers. Two Freshmen were elecTed Tor cheer leader during The second sernesier: Twila Blain and Joanne G-enTry. OTher officers The Fresh- men helped To elecT were Andrew Chavez, Jackie De Roos. Beverly Eisele and RuTh Sewell. FooTball was The highlighT oT The whole year, because BeaumonT High sTayed on The Top of The league Tor The sixTh consecuTive year. The highesT score oT The season. 32-I4, was chalked up againsT Palm Springs. STars of The Team were Duane Brown, Roy GiTTord, Ted Ward, Joe Mize. Paul Lewis, and Jack HolT. The disTincTion of being one of The very Tew Freshmen To receive a leTTer Tor TooTball was given To Edward Gordo Nunez. ln baskeTball The A's won Three games ouT oT six and The B's won every game They played. ln The Live Oak of I944 The Freshman Class was described as grassy. They had Their own ideas abouT iT, for in The same annual Twila Blain wroTe. The Freshman Class of I944 is one of The mosT ouTsTanding ,classes ever To parTicipaTe in school acTivi- Ties. ' The assembly ends. AnoTher class has graduaTed, buT The Freshmen aren'T Thinking abouT ThaT. They have a much more wonderTul ThoughTq The nexT Time They are all siTTing in assembly They can look over aT The Freshman seciion and smile, Tor They will be Sophomoresl ACT ll The Sophomore year was diTTerenT. There were new Teachers: Mr. George M. SmiThpeTer, maThemaTics: Miss MarTha Lee Ken- dall. physical educaTion: Mr. Marion Ray HoTTell, shop and Typing: and Mrs. Rebecca GoTorTh, English and hisTory. There were new sTudenTs. There were new classes-driver's educaTion, Tor one. BUT mosT of all There was ThaT new Teeling oT imporiance and belonging. ThaT is denied Freshmen. IT was wonderiul To be a Sophomore! The coming oT The Sophomore year saw The coming oT a new vocabulary, subsTiTuTing deTenTion Tor demeriT: Tor lasT year's demeriT sysTem had become someThing To laugh and ignore. Tardy? Two demeriTs.. CuTTing a class? Four demeriTs. Running in The hall? Two To five demeriTs-un'Til The poor oTTenders didn'T know which way To Turn. Some oT The Teachers assigned demeriTs unproporTionaTely wiThouT even having The sTudenT Tried aT courT. A Tew oT The sleepesT high school-ers had hours of deTenTion To make up aTTer a' couple of monThs, iusT Trom being Tardy. Nineiy meriTs were necessary Tor parTicipaTion in a play or on a Team, and iT The sTraTegic number Tell below sevenTy, parenTs were noTiTied. Then some oT The sTudenTs goT wise. Football players could make up all The meriTs They needed by going To TooTball pracTice. Gradually everybody began To Tind ThaT if They applied Tor meriTs, They would geT Two aT The end of The week wiThouT making up Time. IT was sTill a good idea, in Theory!

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y 23 Til-lllfi STENTTQRS So This year The deTenTion sysTem was used, and insfead of making up merifs They losf by being Tardy, we find our Sopho- mores siTiing in sfudy hall making up fiffeen minuTes for every five' minuTes ,They were Tardy. There is one sure Thing: human nafure is going To see To iT ThaT some of The same problems come up no maTTer whaT kind of disciplinary sysTem is used. The class members on scholarship were Elise Thompson and Raymond HeyTens. Some of The Sophomores played on The Teams, ofhers wroTe for The Cougar Flash and The Live Oak. Class officers for The year I944 To l945 were Lyle Brown and Charles King. presidenfp Delila Courfney and Dick Harrison, vice- presidenT: Joyce McClain and Clara Charron, secrefary: Barbara Carpenfer and 'Elise Thompson, Treasurer: and Monica Rainer and Barbara Carpenfer, sfudenf body represenfafive. Under The guid- ance of These officers, The Sophomores gave Two dances: one on November 22, honoring The coach and Team: The oTher on March 9. Anofher social evenT of The year was Ye Olde Barn Dance presenfed by The 6.A.A. The Two favoriTe assemblies of The year were The AuroTone Program and Look Who's Cooking, affer which even The boys received cook books. Foofball was The highlighf of The year. Every game was Thrill- ing, high-scored and vicforious. Beaumonf chalked up l83 poinTs againsT six for The opposiiion. Undefeared Beaumonf High Took TirsT place in The league for The sevenfh-and lasT-consecufive year, wiTh such sfars as Salvador Valdivia, Jack Holf, Ted Ward, Ben Rios, Henry Diaz, Baby Brown, Roy Gifford, and Edward Nunez. ' BaskeTball was exciTing Too. The A's won Two games, losing four. The B's Took second place for championship winning Three games and losing The same number. Beaumonf High also kepT up The TradiTion wiTh baseball and Track. All These evenfs, and ofhers, conTribuTed To make I945 a mosf enioyable year. Being a Sophomore was fun! ACT Ill Upper lockers! Junior sweafersl Individual picTures for The annual! BuT Those weren'T The only advanfages of being upper- classmen for The Junior Class of '46. There were more imporTanT, more wonderful Things, such as producing The Junior Play and going To The Junior-Senior BanqueT. NOT everyfhing was wonderful Though. lT was a greaf dis- appoinfmenf noT To come ouT on Top of The league afTer seven years of holding The fooTball championship-especially when you change from firsT place To lasT' in one year. Several Juniors played firsf sfring fooTball:'Bill Roberfs, Lyle Brown, Richard Rios, Richard Lozano, Dick Harrison, Charles King and ArT Holmes. The average weighT was only I47, less Than The average for ofher schools, and by The end of The year eighT men were iniured. Those who really know fooTball look for good playing and noT aT The score, and mosT of BeaumonT's rooTers adopfed This aTTiTude by The end of The year. Anyway, we won one game-Palm Springs, seven and Beaumonf, Thirfeen. Oh boy! ' During fooTball season one of The besf dances ever To be held in Palm Audifarium was given. The ShirT-Shag was ifs Tifle, and iT was puT on by The Junior Class, of course. ln The cenfer of The room sTood The Sacks, an adorable life-size couple of dressed-up gunny sacks sTuffed wiTh sTraw. Elise Thompson and BeTTy Kuhn, Their creaTors, sTill refuse To divulge The names of Their models! Everyone wore Their oldesf clofhes, Their brighfesfushirfs, and Their gayesf smiles. Several Juniors were sfudenf body officers: Charles King was vice-presidenf under Sfanley Lewis for bofh semesfers, Twila Blain was secrefary and cheer leader. Junior Class officers were Bill Roberfs, Charlie King, Joyce McClain. Richard Bailie, Lyle Brown, Gen Dirnburger, and BeTTy Kuhn. They puT on The ShirT-Shag, organized The selling of refreshmenTs aT fooTball and baskefball games. saw To iT ThaT Junior sweaTers and Senior rings were ordered, and Then Took care of The biggesf iob-The Junior-Senior Banquef. During The Junior year The class worked Togefher beffer Than ever, The officers all working for The good of The class, and The class was behind The officers. They would have To work ThaT way To accomplish all They did ThaT year. ln oTher of The sporTs besides TooTbalI BeaumonT kepT iusf abouf even wiTh The lasf year's record. The baskefball A's won Three games and losT five. The B's did iusf The opposife, winning five and losing Three. and Took 'Third place in The league. Baseball was all righf. WiTh Bob PrewiTT'of The Class of '46, Beaumonf had an excepTional all-around Track sTar, and because of him our school won Track recognilion. Somefhing new happened in The way of girls' sporTs: The girls' Tennis Team. Pracfice didn'T sTarT unTil The Tirsf Tournamenf of The season was almosf upon Them, buf They had a loT of fun. Twila Blain played firsT singles and Beffy Kuhn won her second doubles game. lf was Twila, Too. who Took The parT of Charlie in The Junior Play, The back-woods girl who comes To live wiTh rich relaTives and makes life hecTic for Them. WiTh her, she brings her hillbilly uncle, none ofher Than Charlie King. who makes The audience roar aT his humorous aTTempTs To be a buTler, winning Their hearfs as well. The rich folks, always bored excepT when shocked by Charlie's anfics, were BeTTy Kuhn, Richard Bailey, Jackie SmiTh, Paul MarTin and BeTTy Hufchins. Bobbie Knak and Lyle Brown, as maid and policeman, added a liTTle love inTeresT. ln The end Charlie be- comes a charming, sophisTicaTed young lady and marries Paul Marfin. The end of The play meanT no more long, gruelling pracfices for eifher The acTors or Miss Kendall, The dramaTic coach, no more Tenseness or worry abouT Tho final performance, no more Tickef- selling, sTage-papering, or ushering and more money for The Treasury. The Treasury grew since The firsT of The year, from refreshmenf- selling money, dues, and dances, unTil There was enough money To really do up The Banquef proud. Plans were made a long Time in advance, for This was a big affair. AT lasf The nighT came. The Deserf Inn aT Palm Springs was selecfed as The siTe. IT was a clear, lovely nighf wiTh low-hanging sTars Trying To maTch The splendor of The girls' freshly-washed hair, brand new dresses, and gardenia corsages. The boys, as always, complained of Their Ties and collars. geTTing a big kick ouT of iT iusT The same. Turkey, dressing, fruif cockfail, soup, poTaToes, peas. and frozen eclairs wiTh chocolafe sauce comprised The menu, and There were speeches by Mr. Sewell, Richard Bailie, Johnny Livacich, and movie acTor Paul Kelly. The Juniors remembered lasT year when They had wanfed To go To The Banquef so badly and had To waiT anofher year -now They could Tell The Sophomores iusf whaf They had been Told. lT was a nice feeling, so nice, in facT, ThaT some Juniors kepf enioying iT ThaT nighf way inTo The morning. BuT you're only a Junior once! V ACT IV - Nineleen forfy-seven! The year ThaT seemed so far away when Those fifTy-Two Freshmen enfered school, The year ThaT They alnfici- pafed eagerly as Sophomores, The year ThaT They wore on Their sweafers when They were Juniors-and The year in which They graduaTed as Seniors! GraduaTion was The highlighf of ThaT year and of Their whole high school life, yeT iT was noT The only significanf evenf of ninefeen forfy-seven. Far from iT! IT was when They were Seniors ThaT The Class of ForTy-seven became The mosf acfive parT of Beaumonf High, having more To do wiTh The annual, The Cougar Flash, sTudenT body officers, firsf sTring Teams for all sporfs, and ofher such acTiviTies Than any oTher class in The school. Dick NesbiTT, Corky Deu Pree, Bob Deal, Bill Roe, Nick Karoly, Curly Reynolds, and Peggy Haywood were new To BeaumonT High aT The beginning of The year, buf They quickly belonged. Since The Freshman year The Class of '47 had changed a greaT deal by The enfrance of new members, among Them Joyce McClain, Paul Marfin, Bill Roberfs, ArT Holmes, PaT Blaskowsky, Barbara Julian.