Meadow Grove High School - Trojan Yearbook (Meadow Grove, NE)

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Left to right: Top Row.- Lloyd Avery. Don Can. Charles Dahl, Jerry Daugherty, Barbara Dreger. Second Row; Sharon Goulding. Bruce Horn, Dean Howard. Jean James, Robert Jensen. Third Row: Gary Kuchar, Kermit Larson, Carl Mandel, Jean Monson, Albert Nelson. Last Row: Donna O'Banion. Janet Warrick, and Sherry Wynn. Absent, Jean Alyea.

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COMMENCEMENT Sunday, May 18. at 7:30 p.m. twenty one seniors donned caps and gowns to get ready for their baccalaureate services. Miss Barbara Dreger played Largo for the processional and recessional. Reverend H. J. Alexander gave the baccalaureate sermon on '-'Pursuit of Happiness . Vocal solos were sung by Miss Donna Rae Daugherty and Mr. Ben Hamley. After the semester exams on Tuesday and Wednesday, the seniors again donned their caps and gowns for commencement exercises. The processional and recessional, Pomp and Circumstance , were played by Miss Jean Monson. The invocation was by Reverend J. M. Hodgkin. Dr. J. R. Johnson of Wayne, gave the address on The Big Chance . Vocal solos were sung by Mrs. Bernard Osborn. The eighth grade was presented by Mrs. Waegli and given their promotions by Ernest Ellis. Superintendent Adams presented scholarships to Joan Weerts, valedictorian; Delores Nelson, sa-lutatorian; and Richard Wyatt. Band awards went to Marilyn Daniel. Janice Dreger and Joan Weerts. The activities award was given to Dixie Ferry. Two juniors received awards: Bruce Horn, athletics, and Janet Warrick, citizenship. Mr. R. H. Merklinger, Principal, presented the Class of 1954 and Ernest Ellis presented the diplomas. After the benediction and recessional the graduates of 1954 received congratulations.

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CLASS HISTORY We, the remaining nineteen juniors of '53 on September 7, once again filed into the old assembly, (slow and not sure.) We had the same number as we had as sophomores. However, as freshmen we had 24. We elected our class officers as follows: President, Dean Howard; Vice-President, Albert Nelson; Secretary, Barbara Dreger; Treasurer, Kermit Larson and News Reporter, Janet Warrick. Mr. Merklinger was once again our sponsor for the year. During .the first semester we had a hayrack ride which turned out to be quite a On December 1, we presented the class play, The Whole Town's Talking , a farce comedy in three acts, with Mr. Larson as our sponsor. The story concerned a false love affair between Chester Binney, a slovenly, carelessly dressed, impolite, drudge, with Letty Lythe, a famous movie queen. The girls who were chosen as cheerleaders from our class were Janet Warrick and Jean Monson. Several of the boys from our class made the football and basketball teams as did many of the girls the volleyball team. On May 7, we gave the seniors a beautiful Junior-Senior Banquet, which 1 am sure, we all enjoyed. As we near the end of this year, we are looking anxiously toward the next year which will be the last step toward our goal-GRADUATION. The road to success is a long and tiresome one, but we have finished three years and should survive our last year, the one which will seem the shortest.