McHenry High School - Spectrum Yearbook (McHenry, ND)

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IN RETROSPECT School life at McHenry High in the year l948-1949 was a glorious life of great deeds and good times. September 7th, our first day of school, was a pleasant day of greeting class- mates, exchanging stories of summer experiences, meeting the new teachers, and of course, arranging class schedules. The air was full of plans for the com- ing year and the most often heard remark was, when does basketball start? Mr. Smith, our superintendent, strode to the front of the assembly and introduced the new teaching staff. But he really needn't have, as we had already learned by devious means, all about Mr. Billigmeier, our new coach and Miss Grytness our new English Teacher. September was a pleasant month of warm, autumn days, we enjoyed those late afternoon kittenball sessions...Classes were in full swing. The newly formed Shop class, while awaiting arrival of their tools, put their time to good use trim- ming the trees on the school ground...and Freshman initiation was in the form of a roller skating party and wiener roast at Red Willow Lake. It was an evening of skating, landing, and rising only to land again. Cracking the whip added zip to the night's skating. The Student Association for the first meeting, elected a Student Council, and prepared plans for the year. There were busy days planning, and getting the things ready for the big carnival, visiting neighboring towns for donations, selling tickets for this and that, making signs, and building booths, and decorating. The girls were busy too, learning their dance routines for the show. The two nights of the carnival were big doings at Mcl-lenry High, with everyone having fun. With the carnival out of the way, everyone took a two weeks breather. Then came the, long awaited call basketball practice. For upper-classmen, it also meant play practice, as the assignments for the upper-class play, Willie's Week-End were posted. The stage was set! The upper-classmen after several delays, presented their play, and it was excellent. Typing classes by early December were pounding away at the rate of forty words a minute and rivalry was keen between Irene Smith, and Phyllis Bonnet, pushing each other for top place. The tools for the shop had arrived and the class was busily engaged design- ing their own shop benches and other equipment. The pre-Christmas holiday found the grade students learning parts and songs for their annual Christmas program for the community. The seventh and eighth grades were preparing a playlet while the high school girls chorus worked on several numbers, as their contribution. Christmas planning was to be seen everywhere. The high school sleighing party and dance was a truly gala affair and proved to be the most enjoyable of the year. The Christmas atmosphere of the Assembly with its fireplace, and lighted tree, made a school a pleasant place to attend. The faculty wished us all a Merry Christmas with a movie and a big ice cream cone. Roger McNeese, it was noted, had no less than five big scoops, and then was later seen digging out the container. A two weeks vacation O'boyl January--winter--snow--storms--drifting snow--canceled basketball trips-- snow holidays, and long nights, but life at McHenry High was comfortably warm and pleasant. Studying was the order of the day, for we had to prepare for these semester exams you know. February brought us continued stormy weather, but after a delay, we managed four respectable days to run our Independent Basketball Tournament. Oh, what exciting basketball games! what good looking guys! The girls chose l7

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