Ranchester High School - Rustler Yearbook (Ranchester, WY)

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FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES Eleven boys and fourteen girls made our room a busy, happy place. I hree of the girls and one boy were new students. Judy Pfau came to Kanchester from Kersey. Colorado. Loretta and Marian Peterson formerly attended school in Sheridan. Richard Dovey came to us from Dayton. Since our slogan for the year was Know your world and its people. Social Studies has been the favorite subject. Map studies, murals, imaginary trips to foreign countries. Spanish dictionaries made while studying Latin America, totem poles made while studying Alaska and Canada, and daily current-event reports from radio and newspapers were only a few of our activities. Parents' Christmas gifts made of natural wood, spatter-painting, finger-painting, and papier-mache puppets were our favorite art projects. Art plus our parties equalled our fun times. We have worked, we have played, and we have had a successful year.

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JUNIOR HIGH ANNUAL NEWS Shortly after 8:30 on the morning of September 7. a mad rush for desks began in the junior high room. Everyone was swapping his desk for just the right one. Students enrolled in the seventh grade were Cecilia Aksamit. Bonnie Black. Kathy Dvorak. Becky Rawlings. Toni Smith. Audrey Wondra, Rodney Bisbee. Bertie Graham. Ben Reynolds, Ronald Schilling, and Benny Shipley. Those enrolled in the eighth grade were Alice F.llsbury. Patricia Bocek. Annette Malyurek, Alixe Paulus, Cleo Peterson. Jacque Wilkinson, Barbara Wolney. John Fiedor. Gary Kramer, Barry Osgard. Tommy Pfau. and Bill Pence. The teacher was Miss Natalie Hansen. In September and May science field trips were taken. The group hiked many miles in search of insects to mount in its insect case. The junior high was well represented at the annual junior high basketball tournament of February 25 and 26. Ceramics, glass painting, and leather tooling were projects undertaken by the group. Some of these articles were exhibited at the annual spring school exhibit. Jacque Wilkinson and Audrey Wondra were spelldown winners during the year. Alixe Paulus and Alice Ellsbury were elected cheerleaders. Their assistants were Kathy Dvorak and Becky Rawlings. The group bought ten beautiful warm-up jackets for the basketball team with the magazine campaign proceeds.

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THIRD AND FOURTH GRADES As the school year of 1954-1955 began, nineteen pupils enrolled in our room. At the end of the first six weeks two children moved to other communities, and we finished our year with the seventeen enthusiastic pupils shown in the above picture. As we review the year’s events together, we decided unanimously that the biggest event of the year was the acquisition of a piano in our room. Many happy hours were spent around this piano the remaining months of school. The highlights in entertainment were the Halloween party, the Christmas program and gift exchange, a Valentine party, the school operetta, and Easter party, and the picnic the last day of school.