Hot Springs County High School - Round Top Yearbook (Thermopolis, WY)

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CLASS HHSTURY l-ltstory can be an extremely dull subject provlded the notorxous events are left out But m a graduatmg class such as ours we senrors leavmg Hot Sprmgs County Hrgh School thrs year of 1958 can not fmd ll m our hearts to leave behxnd a who when what where why and how news story as our class history Probably we have been the most notorxous of all graduattng classes here lf you don t belreve us Just ask our teachers and the freshmen WE rnmated thrs year We launched our hxgh school career ln September of 1954 and wrth the exceptlon of the mmatron we gave the freshmen thls year that mrtratron we recelved four years ago was the harshest ever' Most of us can look back and strll feel a pang of p1ty for ourselves as we recall how cruel the class of 55 was to us Nerther wrll certam of our semor glrls forget the horse tank near the rodeo grounds' Our elected class offxcers that f1rst year were Leroy Strausner Presrdent Roy Burrows Vrce Presrdent Shrrley Thorpe Secretary and Sandra Pursley Treasurer No other class tn the hrstory of THS can boast of havlng the fust all boy near nudrst freshman swxmmrng team We say near nudrst because after all the boys dxd have on thetr T shuts Mlss Jean Graves sec ond hour general scrence class w1ll undoubtedly never forget that freezrng event whrch occured ln the Blg Horn Rxver durrng a VERY screntrfrc freld trtp that had been deslgnated to study the Brg Sprmgs Now we were sophomores and we were brave enough to be the first class rn the last 25 years to elect a female presrdent Our offxcers thrs year were Carol Benson Presxdent Roy Burrows Vrce Presrdent Verna Wmtermote Secretary Sandra Pursley Treasurer and Leo Hammond Student Councrl When we were sophomores we couldn t let our freshman notorrety dre wrthout another slzzlrng contrr but1on So thrs trme some of our most promment sophomores staged one of the greatest hoaxes to ever blast the halls of THS THE SOPHOMORE SNEAK' The hours served LH detentron brought that l1ttly drtty to a defmlte clrmaxl We gave a sophomore dance that year but rt was so successful that xt has smce faded 1nto oblrvton At the end of our sophomore year Ann Cook and Donna Fogelsonger held a hamburger fry for all therr classmates After eatmg, we all enyoyed a forbrdden drp l.l'l the Scotch Plunge , 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 ' . . . . , . . 1 1 . 1 , . . . , 1 . . . . ' . . . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' - . . . - . . ' - 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 . . ' ' . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' , . . . . . .- 1 0 1 , . , 1 1 1

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RAYMOND SMITH -'Smitty-' Chorus 1, 2, 3: Intramural Basketball 1,2, 3,45 Band 1,25 Glee Club 15 Football 1,25 Track Manager 2,35 Basketball Manager 35 Camera Club 1.2: T Club 45 Junior Class Play, Sta . 3' lng 3. SAM WITTERS Hsambol. Q, Glee Club 15 Band 1,2,35 Basketball 1,25 Track ' 1.2. 3.4: Football 1,2,3,45 Football All-State, Honorable Mention 45 Spanish Club 15 T Club 4 VINCENT DUANE 0'coNNELL BILL SPRATT JOAN SHAW Oodles Pinky Ian Wolden, Colorado, 15 Football 15 FFA 45 Rodeo Club 45 Wres- Bemidji, Minnesota, 1,2,35 TMT Chorus 1. tling 25 Intramural Basketball 2. Club 35 Pep Club 15 OMCC Club 15 Art Club 1,25 Sewing Club 1,25 CMT Music Club. LEROY STRAUSNER Straus Football 1, 2, 3, 45 Basketball 1, 2, 3, 45 Track 1,3, 45 Class President 1, 25 Student Council 1,35 Spanish Club 15 Band 15 Glee Club 15A11- Dlstrict Chorus 1,35 T Club 2,3,45 FTA 2,3,4 Boys' State 35 Football Co-Captain 45 Chorus 35 Annual Staff Advertising 45 Junior Class Play, Staging: Thespians 4. KENNETH TAYLOR Ken Chorus 35 Wrestling 15 Manager of Football Team 15 Intramurals 1.

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CLASS HWSTC R Q ONTH LEU? IUHIOIS' UPPCI' C18SSfI16H at last' We were somebody now We took actrve parts tn all events We no longer scurrred down the halls wlth our eyes lowered and our tarls between our legs Because now we counted' He rergned as a freshman and agam Leroy Strausner became Class Presrdent Larry Marcott was V1ce Presrdent Barbara Llndsay Secretary and Ann Cook Treasurer Duane Watson was elected to Student Councrl Our Junror sock hop became the scene of an enormous weddrng you guessed rt artrfrcrall The Cat and the Canary our Jumor class play drrected by Mary Belle Skrnner drsplayed an array of talent both m crew and cast Because of lack of gxrls parts the play was double cast This led to double fun and a lrttle double trouble Soft ltghts sweet musrc and an orrental atmosphere created by paper lanterns bamboo drapes and a square summer house rn the center of the floor for the orchestra transformed the gym Lnto The Tea House of the August Moon our Junror prom theme These and red and black streamers and a beauttful mural behmd the throne parnted by Duane Watson and the memory of the Junror Semor Banquet wrll long be remembered by all of us Nelson Rrchard Nelson and Hrlan Jones Almlghty semors' Almrghty semorsl Vengeance was now ours' We took more out on the freshmen than the 55 senrors drd on us' For our frnal year we have selected Melvm Nelson Presrdent Leo Hammond VICE Presrdent Verna Turnell Secretary Norman Redland Treasurer and Carol Benson Student Councrl Our semor class play Bernard Shaw s Pygmalron under the dtrectron of Mrss Barbara Sukovskr In sprte of what s happened before now 15 what really matters Now we are LH the open dlsplaymg our talents and abrlrtres We re preparrng for Jobs careers further educatlon marrlage famrlxes Matter of fact some of us already have some of these! We are proud of our trlumphs of these past four years and there are strll more to come We are proud of our Judy Bartlett who won the state Vorce of Democracy contest and went on the the natronal fmals Proudly we present Rrchard Nelson Melvrn Nelson Hrlan Jones Leroy Strausner and Sam Wrtters for becoming All Conference Football Players and Hllan Jones for becommg an All Amerrcan hrgh school football player We are proud of our scholars our clowns our Thesplans our honor socrety members our athletes our musrcrans for all then accomplrshments large and small We wrsh to extend our srncere thanks to our teachers and our school for everythmg that has been done and that has trred to be done for us Durrng these past four years we may not have shown much apprecra tlon for your efforts but we hope that henceforth our lrves wrll be a good reflectron upon our hlgh school days In all earnestness we hope to make the world a better place tn which to lxve by applymg what we have learned here tn hrgh school Leroy Strausner Rlchard Nelson Barbara Pastor Donna Fogelsonger , 1 rw , c w -X 1 xt Y fs -v E jr , l to L b' 1 , 1 x 4 A ' P f l le In our junior year we had three of our classmates among the All-Conference Football Players: Melvin