North Kansas City High School - Purgold Yearbook (North Kansas City, MO)

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SENIOR REIVIINISCENCES Our Class of 1940 has made great growth and progress throughout the many years it has spent at North Kansas City HiQh School. Being composed of sixty-eight members in the seventh grade, it now is made up of seventY-TWO girls and seventy-three boys. I In the Seventh Qfflde many students moved away and several came to join our ever-growing class. A fL1DiOI-high orchestra, composed of many of our seventh graders, was organized and Bobby Zulauf iCi1'19d the high .school band and orchestra. Our various home rooms competed in baseball, volleyball, and basketball, proving that while the life of a seventh grader is none too exciting, it can be interesting. 'Perhaps our most successful undertaking during our eighth year of schooling was the junior-high operetta. We were certainly well represented in that glorious affair. Meanwhile, Lucy Evans was fast becoming known as an excellent violinist. Who would ever have guessed that Donald Britt and Bobby Bates had not long to wear their knee trousers? Ah! At last we became those much-talkedvabout freshmen and we were 195 strong! Then we were al- lowed' to have three members on the Pep Squad, then we could put on a school assembly: then we might go out for football and girls' sports: then we could elect beauty queens and a carnival queen, and then we could be initiated! And initiated we were! Can't you just see Frances Blogin and Mary lean Vincent now in their big overshoes and the raveled seams on their wrong-side-out dresses? How well I can remember the way we wowed them with our all-school assembly. Betty Hicks danced and we all marveled at her never having taken tap lessons. It can never be said that we didn't put our quota of trophies in the front-hall case, either. Our fresh- man basketball team with Carl McMillian, David Hunt, and Lester Ross won tournament after tournament. Then, when the second quarter honor roll was published, we could say we not only had talent, brawn, and beauty in our class but also had brains, for Evelyn Smith set the all-time record for honor roll points in the school. Have you ever heard of any person descending to a higher position? Well, that is what we did. We came down from the freshmen balcony to sit in the main auditorium like real students of N. K. C. At the first of the year we elected our class officers. Later we had a hilarious masquerade party in the boys' gym. Elise Atkins came disguised as a ghost of ghosts and not one of us could recognize her. Afterwards we walked uptown to the show and Cactus Welch hobbled along on the cane that was left from his costume. Those were the days! Again we put on a class assembly and we hear rumors that it was one of the year's best. l suppose they all enjoyed Villain Zulauf's romance with Heroine Midge Leonard. Some of us girls got to serve at the lunior- Senior Banquet and peek at the going-ons of those' sophisticated upper classmen. We knew it wouldn't be so long until we would be juniors, and at least second in importance. lunior play and junior carnival-the two most important features of any'junior's life! In fact, l think we will all agree that the junior year seems the most important in the North Kansas City High School. We really had a play- George- and Margaret. All the people kept wanting to know ' who George and Margaret were. Weren't they surprised to find that neither appeared throughout the entire performance? Later in the year we started work on the carnival. We introduced a new type of queen contest and found that we had some exotic male specimen in our school, for we had five boys, yes, five, all clamoring for the queens crown. Our carnival parade was the best that any class has sponsored-We had more and better floats, even having a special fire truck decorated for the five girls finally chosen' as queens. Then, the zero hour arrived. The follies lwith Gertrudel, the country store fwith Victorl, the photo gallery twith Betty lol, the novelty booth fwith Dorothyl, and the many other features were all going' at once. lndeed, that was a hilarious night. Our last undertaking of the year was the junior-Senior Banquet. Everyone looked so grown-uppish teven Charlie Willhitel in his formal dress that evening. Who can deny that our junior year was successful? This year has come all too soon and it has passed much too quickly. lsn't it human to look forward to something in great anticipation and then, when the wish is granted, to feel disappointed and a little regretful? ln spite of these feelings a senior just can't help having the time of his life, especially when he or she has nature's advantage of Leap Year. We started the year with the election of class officers, Pauline Hartmann being the only girl elected to a position. Who says this isn't a man's world? Norine French went through that thrilling stage all Pep Squad girls do when they first find they are a new member of that organization. We, the seniors, became more interested in the football and basketball games because the teams were composed of many of our classmates. At last the girls in our class won the membership drive sponsored by the Girl Re- serves. We found that Norma Barnes scored highest on the Senior Aptitude Test given by the state. Bugoutters and jitterbugs flocked to the dance we sponsored in the girls' gym. Miss Morrow told us that, according to the money cleared, we might even be called prosperous! Miss Hume had charge of the senior aptitude meetings. They were all very interesting and helpful. Owl Queens were elected and they had their pictures taken. Midge was a scream when she donned her formal and tapped in her saddle oxfords while the photographer suggested, Look at the birdiel Fellow classmates, we have yet to come one sporting good time-that exourjion 1.x'l1i5l1 is nearest and dearest to every students heart-the senior trip! May we make the best of itl l l l6 fi , ,P l ,FJ P' T? J. we Pt l lj.. J t Q A ay .1 Jes. - J fl-Ki s. J FA-W L A TANF: ,,, 1 'Ms , 1 -A..- ,J lr 3 N 3 1311 VL 'lttf Hill A roi li pe sc go Q rn lv d tl' 1' X

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