Berthoud High School - Spartan Yearbook (Berthoud, CO)

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The year l954 presents the largest class that has ever graduated from Berthoud Hugh School We are proud to graduate twenty seven students nlne gurls and eughteen boys Jum Reusbeck Norlen Sandy and Junuor Ramos have completed all twelve years un the Berthoud schools whule the rest have uouned these three along the way We reached hugh school as green freshmen un the year l95O We found out what ut meant to be under classmen when we were unutuated by the mughty Senuors un September We had twenty eught members un our class We added Robert Orback Esta Ault LaVonne Bassett Gerald Spencer Joe Lunch Donald Johnson Donna Martundale Doyle Swafford Ruchard Schleuger Gene Ostermuller Sandra Thornton Kenneth Gentz Darlene Glasgow and Roy Burch That year we lost Robert Orback Esta Ault LaVonne Bassett Gerald Spencer and Joe Lunch On February l3 the class had a roller skatung party In November we had a theater party The class won the Band Queen contest wuth Vuola Ornalas as Queen Sweetheart candndate was Vurgunua Starck Class offucers were Presudent Dorus Ferguson Vuce Presudent Ruchard Schleuger Secretary John Hahn Treasurer Alan Buehler Student Councul members Robert Starck and Joann Adler Sponsors were Mrs Schnurr and Mr Matsomoto We started the year l95l with thurty four mem bers un the Sophomore class We lost Ruth Velasquez Vuola Ornalas and Leroy Long We gauned Arlus Falls and Ruta Nadeau We had a theater party un November Vuola Ornalas was our attendant to the Homecomung queen Offucers for the year were Presudent Vuola Ornalas Vuce Presudent Robert Starck Secretary Ruchard Schleuger Treasurer Vur gunua Starck Reporter Donna Martundale Student Councul Charlene Johnson and Howard Buehler Sponsor was Mr McKunnon The Junuor Class entered Berthoud Hugh School un the fall of l952 wuth twenty seven members Durung the year we lost Mollue Lopez and gauned Donna Mar tundale On the nught of December 20 the class pre l declare' as the day drew nearer when l was to take that Aurways plane which was to transport me back to the old schoolhouse and the old school fruends of Berthoud the Garden Spot of Colorado I became more and more excuted The last few days each seemed a week Whom would l fund? Would I know them? Would they know me? How would each one look? What would they thunk of me? These and a hundred more querues puled themselves up un my braun Well' the day arruved Wuth heart beatung fast and sented a three act comedy entutled Funders Creepers A float was entered un the Homecomung parade and won furst pruze Sandra Thornton was Homecomung queen attendant On May 2 the class put on the Junuor Senuor Banquet and Prom honorung the Senuor class The theme for both banquet and prom was The Enchanted lsland The tables were decorated wuth palm trees along the muddle wuth graduatuon caps as nut cups The welcome was guven by the Junuor Presu dent Kenneth Gentz and the response by the Senuor Presudent Shurley Schleuger The wauters and waut resses were chosen from the Sophomore class The wauters wore dark slacks and whute shurts and leus the wautresses wore peasant blouses and grass skurts and leus After the banquet we went to the gym for the Prom The gym was decorated wuth palm trees and hula gurls fastened to the walls Blue paper strung along the ceulung guve the effect of the sky wuth the moon promunently glowung above the band Punch was served at untermussuon The musuc was furnushed by an orchestra from Greeley Junuor offucers were Presudent Kenneth Gentz Vuce Presudent John Hahn Secretary Joann Adler Treasurer Clarence Hart Student Councul Ruchard Schleuger Robert Starck Howard Buehler and John Hahn Sponsor was Muss Dorothy Whutney ln the fall of l953 we reached the top We were now the mughty Senuors We gauned two new members Mary Louuse Ferguson and James Musser We lost Joann Adler and Johnnue Nolde In October we unu tuated the green freshmen The freshman Receptuon and the Homecomung Dance were combuned Home comung was October I6 We had a parade and pruzes were guven for the best floats Charlene Johnson and Alan Buehler were the Homecomung Queen and Kung Theur attendants were Beth Grauberger Mary Lou Velasquez and Kay Munter Senuor offucers were Presudent Duck Hummel Vuce Presudent Howard Buehler Secretary Vurgunua Starck Treasurer Alan Buehler Student Councul Charlene Johnson Ruchard Schleuger John Hahn Robert Starck and Howard Buehler Sponsors were Muss Pearl Wrught and Mr V A Cunea my luggage tuggung at my strength l boarded the plane Two hundred and fufty mules an hours Fuve hundred mules to go Do you mean that l am only two hours away from the scenes of 20 years ago? And yet I have not been back un all these 20 years Where have I been? What have I done that now seems half as um portant as seeung John and Robert and Sally agaun? Tus tume to start' I m off' In those two hours I recalled agaun the pranks and prucks of chuldhood the games and trucks the - 11 A 11 - I I I - - 11 . . . ,, . - 1 1 - I . - . , , 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' I I ' ' I ' I . I 4 1 - ' 1 ' ' - 1 1 1 1 - - 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 I I I 1 1 1 1 I ' 1 1 ' . - 1 . , 1 - I ' ' 1 1 I . ' 1 I I I ' I. I I I - . In 1 . , - 1 1 1 . . 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 ' . 1 1 ' I - . . . . I 1 1 , ' . 1 - - I - - 1 1

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ROBERT STAHLECKER Football 4 Basketball 2 3 4 ROBERT STARCK Fotball l 2 3 4 Basket all Annual Staff 4 journalism 4 orus 2 3 F F A I B Clu sical Ed l 2 3 4 Trac 2 3 4 Tr ur r 2 District 2 Sentinel 3 retary 4 B Club l 2 3 Secretary Treasurer 2 journal :sm 4 Class Play 3 4 Student uncil l 3 4 Secretary Class President 2 Annual Staff 4 Physical Ed I if VIRGINIA STARCK i ma Club l 2 3 4 L tin S nlsh 2 Band I 2 3 4 n nual Staff 3 4 Commercial Club 4 Valentine Queen 3 journalism 4 F H A 3 4 Class Pla 3 Chorus 2 3 4 O ce Prac 4 Class Treasurer 2 Class Secretary 4 G A A 3 4 Driv ing 3 F H A Secretary 4 CLASS FLOWER: White Carnation CLASS COLORS: Purple and White MOTTO: One Step At A Time, But Always Forward SPONSORS: Miss Wright and Mr. Cinea HAROLD WILLIAMS Latin l Freshman and Sopho more Play 2 Basketball l 2 3 4 Chorus 2 3 4 Football 2 3 B Club 3 4 Class Play 3 Commercial Club 4 Physical Ed 4 journalism 4 Annual Staff 4 ,K SANDRA THORNTON Sp nish 2 L tin I Commer cial Club 4 Sigma Club 2 3 4 Sigma Club President 4 Chorus 2 3 4 Class Play 3 4 Ann al Staff 3 4 Driving 4 CAA 4 Homecoming Queen Attendent 3 junior Red Cross 4 junior Red Cross President 4 journal ism 4 SALLY WILSON Latin l. Spanish 23 Commercial Club 4g Sigma Club I, 2, 3, 4g Band l, 2, 3g Chorus 2, 35 F.H.A. 44 F.H.A. President 43 Cheerleader 4: Class Play 3, 45 Annual Staff 43 Home Ec, 43 Driving 3g Library Science 45 joumalism 4.

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studues the fruendshups the fears and the truumphs How short a tume ut seemed Well' Here we are I clumb out of the plane hardly knowung what I am doung so excuted am l I make my way up the old road now a great whute hughway lt us Class Day at the old schoolhouse Alas' I fund a new schoolhouse buult of glass and set un a forest of trees What a beautuful place ut us Now for the frsends Ah yes here us the aur traul Kenneth Gentz took Rather erratuc as was Kenneth s putchung but he made a smooth landung rught un the muddle of a fertule farm lun Wusconsunl whuch he now tulls happuly And here us the traul Sandra Thornton made She crashed rught unto a beauty shop on Fufth Avenue got her comb and curlers and went to work and now owns not only that beauty shop but a whole strung of them coast to coast all wuth a cluentele of our very best people my dears Mary Louuse Ferguson us not hard to fund She us such a bug and brulluant star brught stardust marks her path Clarence Hart? Hmm Where us he? Clarence who was to wun fame wuth the fastest flught around the world Must be somewhere away off Well look at thus' Clarence never got any farther than the street where he guves cut rate haur cuts And he has brushed up on hus old guft of conversatuon Here are the trauls of James Musser Dorus Bueh they saud Not words but deeds was to be theur watchword after commencement and so ut has been wuth them James unvented a gadget for controllung weather for fluers Equupped wuth one of those luttle thungs a pulot can make hus own weather as he flues along Some unventuon that us Jum us presudent of the aurways company that uses James unventuon wuth a great fleet of mammoth passenger planes goung any place un the world Dorus us a stewardess on one of Jums aur luners and vouches for the workabuluty of James weather maker It seems after all John Hahn could not get away from the collectung manua and landed humself un a uob of collectung taxes By the way he us happuly mar rue But alas Dorus Ferguson us stull Dorus Ferguson a teacher un the publuc schools of Berthoud the Ga den Spot of Colorado And lukely to remaun Muss Fer guson to the end of her pensuoned days And so Gene Ostermuller Norlen Sandy Alan Buehler and Gene Kuehn marrued to whom they en trusted theur hearts and affectuons un hugh school luve happuly wuth no budget bothers sunce the four of them are all puckung dollars off tomato bushes currant bushes and grapevunes for the largest cannung con cern un the Unuted States Mollue Lopez I see made her landung rught un the muddle of the bug cuty of New York where she holds down the posutuon of receptuonust un the Empure State Buuldung By the way she flues home for week ends Robert and Leonard Stahlecker sure enough made a flught across the Atlantuc and when they stepped from theur planes un Amsterdam the whole world took them to uts fuckle heart as uts latest heroes Where dud Charlene Johnson land? Ah here she us And here us Donna Martundale They must have taken back theur unseparableness from Buelah and Bertha for here they are gossupung over the back fence marrued of course to a paur of the ruchest men un the world By the way they made theur furst mulluon un farmung Sure enough Harold Wulluams landed un a bank but so furmly had hus barutone habut grown upon hum un school he soon commenced a croonung hour over WSYR Mondays Wednesdays and Frudays and then well he had to drop the bank because broadcastung took all hus tume and was a hundred per cent more profutable anyway than cashung checks We see here that Sally Wulson Duck Hummel Vur gunua Starck and Howard Buehler are all happuly mar rued Sally us the busy wufe of Duck who us now an ar chutect for a bug furm un Denver and Howard and Vur gunua are now the owners of a IOOO acre ranch un northeastern Colorado Where us Eldon Myers? Where us good old gener ous Eldon who gave hus old watch away before he would get humself a new one Ah here you are squuntung down at every courthouse you fly over to see the tume of day as you hutch fly across the contu nent dean of the new brotherhood the aur hobos We see that Ruchard Schleuger has a posutuon as teacher of Amerucan Hustory un Vancouver He draws S50 OOO a year I remember hus attutude toward hus tory un B H S but he has evudently changed hus mund We fund that Junuor Ramos has just been released from the aur force after servung 20 years He can now reture on a salary of S950 a month for the rest of hus lufe We see that Robert Starck carrued out hus ambu tuon to be a farmer He us now the owner and the manager of the well known STARCKS STARVING ACRES lreducung farml We fund many ladues have benefuted from thus plan And now the partung tume us here How short the day has been How short the years between to know to esteem to love and then part Makes up Iufe s tale to many a feelung heart And so we part agaun Twenty years ut s been but the fruendluness and Ioyaltues that we brought wuth us we shall both guve and keep as we say farewell MZ The Senuor Class beung now deceased or as the the members of the defunct class as beung theur last poets say, 'Passed on to faurer realms,' I brung before wull and testament you thus legal document, drawn up by the legal hand I, ALAN BUEHLER, do hereby wull and bequeath and head of the graduatung class and duly sugned by my long curly haur to Melvun Schaffer, my abuluty to . 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