Ranchester High School - Rustler Yearbook (Ranchester, WY)

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PRIMARY NEWS (Continued from Page 18) paper plate rabbit faces with pipe cleaner whiskers and pink ears and eyes: and right in the middle of our art period Byron Black broke forth into song— and what did he sing?—why. “Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Hopping Down the Bunny Trail of course. What could be better? So we all sang it. We made these bunny faces the same week the show Harvey” was in Sheridan: and when everyone was picking a name fcr his bunny face, Gary Addleman, when asked what his was to be called, said. “Har- vey. We observed February 14th with the usual Valentine party. After playing some games we had refreshments. Larry’s and Charlene’s mothers sur- prised us with Valentine cookies, and Mrs. Olson treated us to red heart cookies and ice cream. In May during music week we attended the an- nual County Choir held at the Sheridan High School and of course it was a big day for us. We had work- ed very hard on our songs and certainly enjoyed singing them with all the other children from coun- ty schools. We had several birthday parties at school. After the last recess the mothers would bring birthday cakes and treat all our room. Everyone in our room wishes his birthday could come during the school year. At the beginning of school we had eleven first graders enrolled: Ronnie Aksamit, Michael Bari- beau, Nancy Davis. Bobby Egan. Jack Ellsbury. Diane Hauf, Wilma Paulus. Penelope Schilling, Marilyn Wondra, and Ronald Cummings and fourteen in the second grades. During the year Richard Dovey, Larry Ruckle, and Earl Berlinghoff enrolled in our room and then had to leave again; Bobby Egan. Diane and Brian Hauf, Jane and Bonnie Spauld- ing, and Ronald Cummings dropped out also. Our biggest and nicest party of each year is our annual Mother’s Day Tea. As usual it was a success. Some of the high school girls helped us make the tea. but we did the serving ourselves. We had work we’ve done this year on the bulletin board and blackboard and on the tables to show our moth- ers, and a flower for each one. We also invited all the children that are starting to school next year and their mothers. This has been a very nice year in every way. We are glad vacation is here, of course, but sorry too, that such a nice school year is at an end. PRIMARY GRADES CALENDAR What to do each month— September—Start to school again. October—Get ready for “Stunt Night , and Hallowe’en. November—Think about Thanksgiving Day and what we can be thankful for. December—Be ready for Christmas Day, and try to remember that it is Christ’s birthday and not just a day for Santa Claus to come. January—take reading tests to see how we are doing. February—Talk about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and have Valentine’s day. March—Saint Patrick’s Day, and we must wear green or be pinched. Easter comes in March this year too. April—April Fool’s Day—look out!! May—Our Mother’s Day Tea. May Cay and the end of the school year is next to think about. EASTER Who comes hopping Easter Day? The Easter bunny on his way. He's bringing Easter eggs for all Everyone both big and small. —By the Primary Grades. HALLOWE’EN Hallowe'en night is fun. Because the ghosts make me run. Because there are big black cats And scary black, black bats. The witch on her witch-broom Flying around in the gloom. But most of all because of jack-o-lanterns. —By the Primary Grades. VALENTINE’S DAY On one day in the year I can send a valentine To someone very dear, And say, “Will you be mine? —By the Primary Grades. THE REAL MEANING OF EASTER Christ arose on Easter and ascended into Heav- en to be with his father, God. Mary came to the tomb to pray and to mourn for Jesus. She found the stone rolled away from the opening of the tomb. She saw that the tomb was empty and she was frightened. Suddenly she saw an angel. He told her not to be afraid that Jesus had ascended into Heav- en to be with God. —By the Primary Grades. —19—

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THE LAST WAGON . . . (Our First and Second Grades) PRIMARY NEWS Our school year has been a very pleasant and profitable one, we think. Everyone has been happy and we’ve done so many enjoyable things, as well as accomplishing a considerable amount of work. One of the first things we worked on was our part for the annual Stunt Night event, held the last week of October. Our Ranchester Rhythm Band played for this. Jon was our director and we played Lavender Blue . Then some of us danced a folk dance called the Paw Paw Patch, and a mix- ed quartet sang two songs. Billy Boy and A Frog Went Walking on a Summer’s Day. We hope people enjoyed seeing and hearing us as much as we en- joyed doing these things. The Christmas program put on by the elemen- tary grades and some of the seventh and eighth graders was an outstanding event in the school year. All the students took part, and from all reports, everyone, audience, students, leaders, and helpers enjoyed the affair. One remark overheard by Mrs. Olson was that we all looked like angels. We won- der what Mrs. Olson said to that one! One of our pleasantest associations has been with Miss Johnson and her third and fourth grad- ers. Our two rooms have exchanged entertainments and held joint parties all through the year. Miss Johnson knows a great deal about birds, and play- ed her bird call records for us. as well as showing and explaining her bird egg collection. Her room has come into ours for music and bingo games and have acted out numerous plays for us. We did one or two short stories for them. too. We invited them in to have presents under our Christmas tree and to help us trim the big Christmas tree in the main hall. Mr. East’s mother came to our room and gave two marionette shows for us, and we invited Mrs. Smith’s room as well as Miss Johnson’s room to see and hear it with us. There was a toy bear that actually walked onto the little stage all alone. That was a very successful event. We certainly are grate- ful to Mrs. East and wish she could come many more times. After the holidays we did quite a bit of model- ing work. Some was done with our own mixture, flour, salt and water, colored with vegetable col- oring. We made rabbits, ash trays, Easter eggs, and paper weights from this mixture. Then we made regular ceramics. These last objects we painted with tempera paints, then glazed them. That was messy but fun! We had quite a variety of things—horses, dogs, bears, puppies, children, and many others. One day in March just before Easter we made Continued on Page 19)

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THE SUPPLY WAGON CREW (Our Cooks and Janitor) MRS. CECIL PAULUS MARVIN SOUTHER MRS. PAUL KUKUCHKA HOT LUNCH PROGRAM You get up early in the morning, cook break- fast, rush around getting children off to school, make beds, wash dishes, try to clean house a little, and all for what?—a very trying day in the kitchen at school. You get to school with your arms loaded down with things; school children ask you what you are having for dinner today, and you just say that you don’t know yet. You finally get the kitchen door unlocked and things put away. Then you get a good hold on your patience and dig in. You look at the menu and see. of all horrors, that you are to have mashed potatoes with meat and gravy, peas and carrots, and cherry cobbler. You get the meat ready and put it on to cook, and pray that it will get done in time for dinner. Then, since your potatoes are already peeled from the day before, you forget about them for a little while. Then you start in on the cobbler. You mix dough and get flour all over you, but that really doesn't matter, just as long as you get enough for everybody. You finish with potatoes and vegetables on the stove, and then your helper comes to make sand- wiches and do the odd jobs. Finally the table is set and the meal is all done, through some strange miracle. You check over your list to see if everything is in the right place. It is. thank goodness! Now the trying part begins. The little folks come first. They’re not bad. but just wait; the worst is yet to come. You soon have all the pupils served up to the 7th and 8th grade boys. Then things begin to happen. The bell rings; high school students come noisily down the stairs; then the 7th and 8th grade boys come from the hall at last. They crowd into line and then after what seems like ages, you at last see the end; but then a great disappointment comes. The Junior high boys are through eating and are clamoring for seconds.” Well, there is enough for a couple, you think. No more peanut butter sandwiches, just but- ter. They usually take them anyway! By that time some of the growing boys of the high school arrive, but there isn’t any more for them; and at last you see your way clear of that job. All that is left is two hours of dish-washing and cleaning up. But the worst is over, and you at least do the dishes in peace. Now for the serious side of the job downstairs. The cooks do have a lot of complications they have to meet, but somehow they make the best of it. They serve on the average from eighty-five to nine- ty children daily. The hot-lunch program is given several articles by the government such as milk, powdered eggs, orange juice, tomatoes, peanut butter and honey, cranberry sauce, apples, beans, and potatoes, and a few other things. Our kitchen is gradually improving with new implements and utensils, and we hope that it will keep on improving in future years. This year a new stove has been added. Keep up the good work, cooks. —20— Jeanne Turner, Grade 10.