Rock Port High School - Bluejay Yearbook (Rock Port, MO)

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COMMENCEMENT SPC-9-kef, Mr. Don Johnson Valedictgrian, Robert Howell - Salutatorian, Kay Greer Presentation of Diplomas Presentation of Scholarships Mr. Donald L. Sawyer Mr. E. R. Dalrymple H . Lk' -

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY On a bright, sunny day in the year 1947, Miss Anna Proudfit stood in the doorway and counted twenty-four shining, young noses. Those who started on the long, winding stairway were: Jerry Ben- nington, Kay Greer, Jay Gore, Okie Davis, Rita Garst, Edna Lininger, Keith Otmian, Robert Howell, Kenton Krusor, Howard Bunton, Garry King, Mark Luhrs, Dick Salfrank, Bobby Taylor, Sharon F ahseler, Jerrianne Stites, T o mm y Stanton, Portia Oswald, JaI1iC6 TUdO1', DOH HI1dS0H, .TiII1II1Y HUdS0f1. Floyd Strange, Jerry Johnston, and Judy MoC oy. During our second grade, we found that we had several new classmates to borrow paper from. They were: Arthur Cook, Janice Mather, Judy Maness, Billy Nelson, Wilma Stanford, and Martha Graham. Miss Velma Inbody, our teacher that year, learned quickly not to turn her back on the class. Probably the most useful piece of knowledge we gained was how to tell time. We all learned to read a watch except Kenton Krusor, and he learned to read a sun dial. In the third grade we all took our turn sitting in the hall, and during the recess' we played a great game called Capture, Those who decided this game was too rough and left us were: Arthur Cook, Keith Ottrnann, Floyd Strange, Wilma Stanford, Martha Graham, and Judy McCoy. Our teacher was the very pretty, Miss Faye Stevens. Several of the boys proposed to her daily. When Miss Royston, our fourth grade teacher, was calling roll for the first time, she found that there were two new faces. They were Priscilla Bowers and Carole Lininger. During the summer Don and .Timmy Hudson and Billie Nelson moved away. As we entered the fifth grade room and greeted our teacher, Mrs. Nina Thomas, we found that Jimmy Smith and Margaret Huff had heard of our class and decided to join us. Although our multiplica- tion tables were difficult to learn, we all made it through that year without one person leaving our merry band. When Mrs. Salfrank, our sixth grade teacher seated us alphabetically, we found that three students were missing: Judy Maness, Jimmy Smith, and Portia Oswald. We had also gained five: Jeanie Welch, Kenneth Burgess, Myrtle Webster, and Lennis Million. The reorganization of 1953 brought in several new students to join us in the seventh grade: Wilma Stanford, Dan Boatrnan, Mary Brown, Marjorie Cook, Mary Lou Grubb, Carl Herron, Don Ingram, Connie Lauman, Roselea Patton, Sherry Pebley, Marvin Rosenbohm, Darlene Schmidt, Joyce Shandy, Betty Jo Thomas, Betty Turner, Shirley Perry, Jimmy Simons, Annette Bennington, Jane Cooper, Melvin Grubb, Peggy Harger, Alberta Herron, Judy Pebley, Virginia Roop, Beverly Schroeder, Max Thomas, and Cecil Cook. Because of our superior leadership, we had the best safety patrol system EVER seeninkock Port. Mrs. Pierce and Mrs. Shaw were given the privilege of teaching us. The entire student body was grieved to learn that during the summer we lost one of our students. She was Edna Mae Lininger. Mrs. Hills and Mrs. Linville saw that we all graduated from the eighth grade plus three others that happened to be passing by. They were Virginia Boulden, Dick Asbury, and Portia Oswald. As we started our ninth step to the top, we added to our list, Jerry Welch. We were all quite proud of ourselves that year, for we had four girls and four boys letter in sports. On our tenth step we stopped for a while, and out of thousands of out-of-state applications, we ad- mitted only two. They were Norma Jean Esser and Janice Schnegelberger.This was a slow year, but most of us made it. After hearing about all the work involved in giving aJunior-Senior banquet, Richard Asbury, Vir- ginia Boulden, Priscilla Bowers, Peggy Harger, Max Thomas, and Myrtle Webster gave up and left our flock. With all this loss of man-power, we gladly welcomed Nancy King to our ranks. This was a booming year and went surprisingly fast. Our Play The Perfect Idiot and oriental banquet were tremendous successes and everyone enjoyed them. Now that the Senior Play, Nuts in May, is over, we are preparing to take the last long step - that of graduation. Those who have been with us all twelve years are: Jerry Bennington, Howard Bunton, Okie Davis, Rita Garst, Jay Gore, Kay Greer, Robert Howell, Garry King, Kenton Krusor, Mark Luhrs, Dick Salfrank, Sharon Stanton, J errianne Stites, and Janice Tudor. We were sorry to have lost Judy and Sherry Pebley and Joyce Shandy at the beginning of the year. We were exceptionally happy to have Shirley Perry come back and take this big step with us, since she had started with us earlier. This is our history. We would, at this ti.me, like to forgive our teachers for all they have done to us these past twelve years. Although there could be thousands of pages written, and many incidents related about our class, we MUST be modest.