Fairbury High School - Trail Yearbook (Fairbury, NE)

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Gals in Calico Mt' 3 ? it in F , , 7 K' . V Y ,535 BACK ROW flelt to rightlz Merlene Iordening, Minnie Rube, Ruth Dalke. Mary Ann Pavlicek, Martha Vculek, Mildred Eret. Leona Richter Wilma Hirsch THIRD ITOW: Kathryn hitch, Donna Snell, Anna Weidenhaft, Cleo Hummel, Ianice Eisenhauer, Mary lean Schwisow, Donna Leigh. Marlys Hummel Mrs Genevieve Fitch sEcoND Row: imiei llickman. iieam iiixiey. Lillian Hohensee, Betty wiii, viiiene Momiiig. virginia voiideiiiqiii. Myrna Mcciuie. Ioan Fraser FIRST ROW: -Marilyn Pleis, Buelah Lurz, Sandra Carrico, Loretta Brown. Bette Pleis, Patty Cobb, Donna Wilson, Letha Glassock. The FHA selection in the school chorus be- gan last lune as a bit of impromptu. The newly installed officers piled into the school bus and went to a summer camp at Lexington for Offic- ers' Workshop. There the retiring chapter president, lacelyn Leonard, became the first Nebraska girl to achieve the degree of State Homemaker. The FHA staff hap ily agrees that the clothing drive lor the needy in Europe WGS an eXll'UOl'd?HCIl'Y SUCCESS. STANDING: Lillian Hohensee, Ianice Eisenhauer, Cleo Hummel, Mrs. Gene- vieve Fitch. SEATED: Mildred Eret, Donna Snell, Beulah Lurz, Loretta Brown, Bette Pleis, Donna Leigh, Sandra Ccxrrico, Letha Glasscock. Page 58 The next movement was more serious. At the district conference in Crete it was decided that FHA would work with the Save The Chil- dren Federation to collect clothing for the shiv- ering little ones of Europe. With the co-oper- ation of the other school organizations, the stu- dent body and the people of the community, the Fairbury chapter amassed 725 pounds-- the largest single contribution in the state. During several quieter interludes, the club members adopted a uniform, built up a music scrapbook and sold taffy apples. Now the tempo became gayer, faster. At the Leap Year party the girls invited the fellows, paid the bills and supplied the food and entertainment. Next came the stunt night skit, which was frankly ragtime. And then, the mighty climax-- the Barn Dance. From there the music proceeded more slowly until Finale -the installation of officers at the Mothers' Tea in May.

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President Richard Iohnson crowned ldon- na Burkhart FFA Queen lor 1948 in an elaborate ceremony at the annual FFF.- FHF. barn dance. Her attendants were Shirley Snyder and Rllene Wittig. The much awaited annual FFA-FHA barn dance was held on Friday, April 2. Boys in overalls and girls in print dresses lound it necessary to crawl through a tunnel ot bales ot hay and climb over a gate in order to enter the gym which resembled the inside of a barn with lanterns and harnesses hung on the walls. Bales ot hay on the floor and a wagon gear, from which doughnuts and apple cider were served, completed the decorations. The evening was spent in both popular and square dancing, music being turnished by the Rhoden brothers with Harry Schenk calling the sauare dances. Other entertainment consisted DeBord, a nail driving contest tor the girls won by Dortha Garrison, a milking contest won by Harvey l-lardesty and a needle threading cone test won by Kathleen Luby. Then came the greatest event of the evening -the curtains parted revealing the FFA Queen, ldonna Burkhart, seated on a throne of bales ot hay. Beside her stood the attendants, Shirley Snyder and Allene Wittig with their escorts, Ro- land Mollenberndt and lohn Snyder. Richard Iohnson, FFA president, stepped up and solemnf ly placed an official FFA cap on the head ot the queen. Cider, doughnuts! shouted the F. F. A. boys at their annual Barn Dance where there was lun galore and refreshments to suit the occasion. Page 57

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Body and Soul Z 'xx X R -N., STANDING lleit to rightj: Miss Katherine Lambart, Willis Else. Dick Ford, Willis Day, Dortha Garrison, IoAnn McDonald, Idonna Burkhart, Ioe Lesher, Bob Kenney, Darrel Iunker. SITTING: Allen Wood, Bill Lea, Leland Wittler, Kathryn Fitch, Ieannette Hayes, Betty DeBoer, Shirley Hammond, Mar iorie Huss, George Holloway, Kay Iones. 4 BACK ROW fleft to rightj: Ivan Loyd, Iack Huff, Harold Shortridge, Ed Kruger, Bob Kenney, Phil Heidelk, Dick Anderson, Dale Walker. Dean Michels. THIRD ROW: Coach Frank Sullivan, Ioe Lesher. Stanley Oberhelman, Ice Mees, Charles Scheuler, Richard Chirnside, Butch Pleis, Kay Iones. SECOND ROW: George Karabatsos, Pat Seachord, Iohn Snyder, Bud Kirby, Bill Lea, Dick McKenzie. FIRST ROW: Floyd Wade, lim Preston, Douglas Thomas, Willis Day, Kenneth Duensing. Page 59