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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Carringtons' number five as the best flocking' player of the tournament. The boys too busy fixing hot dogs or lugging coke to find much time to flirt with the girls, so it seemed. They were earning money to go to the Girls' District at Jamestown. Uust what would they be doing at a girls' tournament? ?l Plans for the Annual Foster County Tournament now received our undivided attention. Pop and candy had to be purchased, and pennants and pep novelties, ordered. Arrangements for the banquet were also completed. We sprang into this work with zest, with major portion of the work falling upon the seventh and eighth graders, with other non-basketball players pitching in. The basketball mothers under the management of Mrs. Vance, prepared and served the banquet, while the student assistants decorated the assembly and banquet tables. cleared the assembly for the dance following the banquet. The banquet was much fun. That ham and apple pie ala-mode was supreme.. Melvins jokes as MC, kept things humming. Tournaments followed each other on successive week-ends, with the boys going to New Rockford, and the girls to Jamestown. It was during this time that the Annual staff was busy writing their material, and preparing the High School St. Patrick's Day party. Class room movies were introduced as part of classroom instruction. It brought diversion and made learning more interesting. Spring thaw soon brought pleasant May days, and Senior Graduation activities took the spot light. Plans for the Senior spring dance began to take form, and the Juniors were working hard to make it the season's biggest affair. The first beautiful spring day was given to an all high school picnic at the Lake where we forgot the worries of approaching finals for a day. The week of May ZZ, was graduation week for the Seniors, while for the underclassmen, it was a week of studious preparation for the semester finals. May 27th--the last test is written--the last paper scored--now for that final report card, Yep! l passed em! Good-by teachers, good-by classmates, have a nice vacation, see you all next fall. llllkllflklkik If I cut a beef steak in two, asked the teacher, then cut the halves in two, what do I get? Quarters, answered the boy, Goodi and then again? Eighths Correct. Again: Sixteenths! Exactly, And then again thirty- seconds. And once more? Hamburger! Cried the little boy impatiently. Leonard Derr: Putting your saddle on backward, aren't you? Dude Rancher: Thats all you know about it, smarty. You don't even know which way I'm going. Were you a good little girl at Sunday School today? Yes the teacher offered me a big plate of money, and I said, No, thank you. Auntie: And what will you do my little darling, when you grow up to be a great big girl? Betty: Reduce?3.. 19 Were