Ranchester High School - Rustler Yearbook (Ranchester, WY)

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R. H. S. PEP CLUB The Pep Club has been a busy organization this year. There are fourteen mem- bers including their sponsor, Mrs. Torbert. At the first of the year the club decided to get uniforms for the entire Pep Club. After much debating we decided on white sweaters and dark skirts. Our cheer leaders, Jan Lyman and Helen Kukuchka, wore purple swing skirts with gold satin blouses. Each girl had a purple and gold beanie. The sale of pop and candy at the home games gave us enough money to finance our trip to the Gillette Tournament March 4, 5 and 6. There were ten girls and two chap- erons present at the tournament. This was, of course, the climax to our year’s activities. At the first of the year the Pep Club Girls were going to organize a tumbling team. We served Rotary dinners to earn enough money to get tumbling mats. For three weeks after we got the mats everyone worked hard at tumbling but then we became more interested in basketball and usually used our gym period for ball practice. The girls organized a basketball team which played the seventh and eighth grade boys twice and won by a small margin both times. To help earn enough money for the Rustlers to go to Laramie we divided our team and played against each other. The games were well supported. Although the 47-48 Pep Club was unable to become spectacular in tumbling, we learned to do forward rolls, head kips, pyramids and head stands, which will give us a good start next year. —Violet Birdie WASHINGTON, THE FARMER AT MOUNT VERNON (Continued from Page 13) Washington was a stockman as well as a farmer. He branded his own cattle, was especiaUy inter- ested in fine horses and improved his droves of sheep and hogs. It was Washington who first gave farming a dig- nity and position worthy for the best of men to fol- low. It was he who made it a science. It was he who encouraged agricultural education and farm journals. The beautiful Mount Vernon farm is just as much a monument to his greatness as the monu- ments on the battle fields that are made of stone. DOROTHY KAWICKI, Grade 8 (Submitted to the D.A.R Essay Contest to be judg- ed May 15, 1948, as the representative paper from Ranchester school). 28

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Future Homemakers of America President....... Wee-President .. Secretary ...... Treasurer ...... Parliamentarian Editor.......... Historian ...... Song Leader..... Helen Kukuchka Betty Lou Goodill . Roberta Goodill ....Kathleen Sperl ..Catherine Fiedor Julia Ann Lyman ...Julia Mae Cable ....Carol Zawicki Adviser—Mrs. Mary M. Belding Chapter Mother—Mrs. Margaret Barbula Colors—Red and White Flower—Red Rose Motto—“Toward new horizons.” When school let out last spring, FHA work was still carried on through the sum- mer with the aid of our chapter mother. Our summer projects consisted of serving at a country sale and giving a style show of our summer sewing projects. Later the pro- jects were shown in the Sheridan County Electric window. This fall the FHA girls donated a new electric sewing machine to the school home economics club. This was considered our community project. Representatives of the Ranchester Future Homemakers of America, and their ad- viser left on October 11, 1947 for the district FHA meeting held in Gillette. The pur- pose of this meeting was to elect district officers. Helen Kukuchka was elected district secretary. We were all very proud of her for bringing this honor to our chapter. Next year the district meeting will be held at Ranchester. During the Christmas season the FHA girls sold Christmas cards in the commu- nity. The money which was made from this project helped to send representatives from our chapter to Laramie. One of the purposes of the FHA is to be active in affairs of the community. One of the most successful community projects was our serving of the Rotary Christmas din- ner. We persuaded some of the boys to help with the dishes. Aside from the experiences of seeing the Rotary at its best and proving our abilities to this organization, we en- joyed a good meal ourselves and had a pleasant time together. The state FHA convention met at Laramie April 2 and 3. We sent as delegates, Helen Kukuchka, Roberta Goodill and Lorna King. They stayed at the Hudson dormitory on the University campus. The entertainment while they were there consisted of a lunch- eon, a formal banquet and an evening of square and folk dancing. The purpose of this meeting was to elect state officers and review the year’s work. They also elected a can- didate for each chapter, to attend the National FHA meeting which will be held in July at Kansas City. In April we gave a fifteen minute musical program over the KWYO radio station at Sheridan. For the success of this program we thank Anna Louise Cable who helped us select the songs and taught us how to sing them. Our program included “La Golin- drina” by Serradell; “Home Road” by Carpenter; “Merry Life” by Luigi Denza; “Whis- pering” by Schonberger and Cole Porter’s “Old Fashioned Garden.” —Julia Mae Cable 29