Fort Laramie High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Fort Laramie, WY)

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JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY In the fall of 1941, four of today's Juniors, Jeanette, Alice, Carolyn, and Rolfe began their unending struggle for knowledge in the old brick building at Fort Laramie. In our second year, our mothers contributed candy which we sold at a Folio benefit. Our third and fourth grades Drought us Lee Brittenham and Jack Gregg. We got our first glimpse of Junene Shoemaker, our present day class president, in the sixth grade, when Alice found her in the wrong seat. In our eighth grade, we left the now battle-scarred brick building to resume our classes in the high school building. It was here that Macel and Charles Nearing and Phil Rickey joined forces with us. Our freshman year began with a bang--initiation!!!! The sophomores were unable to hand us more than we could endure. The year ended with our annual class picnic at Guernsey Lake. Two freshman boys, Lee and Louis, played on the first five on the basketball squad. The following year we initiated the new freshmen and found them all good sports, which they proved by giving us a very nice return party. Our class increased with the arrival of Keith Hendrickson. We ordered our class rings last spring and received them this fall. The first project this year was our Junior play, which furnished us many hours of entertainment. We hope that our prom will be remembered by all who attended for years to come. JUNIOR CLASS PLAY HILLBILLY COURTSHIP--Directed by MR. LEE They were feudin', fussin’ and a fightin' on Hog Mountain. It seemed that Ma Peppin (Junene Shoemaker) and Pappy Stilsby (Jack Gregg) just couldn't agree on anything. Of course with Luke Stilsby (Phil Rickey) and Emmy Peppin (Alice Latta) it was different. They were courtin' and wanted their folks to forget and forgive, but neither would give in. Things really became messed up when two furriners, Louis Cattaro (Lee Britten- ham) and Bridget O'Flannigan (Carolyn Fintus) came up hunting for someone to marry up with. Lulu and Seedie Triffet (Macel Nearing and Jeanette Ritterling) and Wash Jeddo, the mountain Nitwit, (Keith Hendrickson) helped add to the confusion by their efforts to do the right things and always wound up doing the wrong. Of course, Sol Silverstein (Rolfe Graham) who was trying to get members for his Hillbilly chorus, had the time of his life trying to dodge matrimony with Ma Peppin, and at the same time get his job done. Emmy Peppin finally found the solution and straightened everyone out, with the help of Reverend Boswell (Charles Nearing).