Rocky Ford High School - Le Cantaloupe Yearbook (Rocky Ford, CO)

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BOYS Apodoca, Joe Baca, Eloy Baker, Leslie Baxter, Edward Brown, Gordon Buchholz, Coleman Call, Norman Coffelt, Lloyd Cramer, Robiert Dobeck, Vernon Edgar, Harold Frantz, Wade Garnica, Bernardo Goto, Norman BOYS Hardt, Billie Heil, George Nixon, Bruce Hughes, Raymond Hunt, Bobby Inman, Ellis Keck, Bill Laughlin, James Luna, Tony Martinez, Elauterio Miller, J. P. Nelson, Arthur BOYS Randall, James Reed, Robert Reifschneider, Alex Roughton, Minor Roybal, Joe Schisler, Howard Scott, Billy Stottler, Cleo Teter, Kenneth Turner, Melvin Uyemura, Bennie Uyeno, Tadao Page Fifty-eight SEVENTH GRADES 7-1 HOME ROOM Sponsor-MISS ETHEL HUTCHISON Grasmick, Conarsd Groth, Keith Hancock, Douglas Harada, Shige GIRLS Allen, Helen Amend, Patsy Anderson, Georgina Bates, Grace Beman, Bendel Bohl, Ernestine Bowers, Betty Brashear, Lois Brown, Elizabeth 7-2 HOME ROOM Sponsor-MISS FLORENCE SHAW Nelson, Frank Oxford, Bobblie Peterson, Robert Potter, Roderick GIRLS Hayes, Norma Herring, Frances Lee Hiett, Hazel Hollingshead, Ruth Hull, Virginia Hunt, Imogene Jackson, Grace Johannes, Miriam 7-3 HOME ROOM Sponsor--MISS HELEN SMITH Wilcox, Bobby Wilson, Gilbert Wilson, Orville Wilson, Vernon Worden, Raymond Wren, Billy Earl GIRLS Peery, Dorothy Porter, Eunice Ratliff, Vera Ryan, Carol Jean Selvage, Verna Mae Seevy, Dorothy Burris, Maxine Byerley, Colleen Cox, Ruby Darnron, Rovie Davenport, Alice Dawson, Maxine Enyart, Marie Garcia, Mary Gifford, Aliene Giffen, Grace Gonfsalez, Cecelia Gonzales, Nlettie Graham, Clottie Gundy, Thelma Hawley, Verna Lee Johnson, Grace Kitzman, Wilma Tucker, Elsie Lee Lueker, Virginia Lutz, Julia McDaniel, Zelma Mackey, Helen Mason, Lucille Mellon, Edna Meyer, Dorothy Miller, Lucille Mooneyham, Betty Mumaugh, Virginia Setser, Gladys Silvers, Esther Smith, Donna Strumpfler, Edfith Summers, Evelyn Taguchi, Mary Veatch, Mary Evely Veatch, Mavis Wallace, Irene I1 Weatherford, Dorothy Williams, Marjorie Worden, Doris Youngblood, Opal

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History of the Class of 1936 The class of '36 as Freshmen was led by Junior Brown, president and guided by Miss Ruth Ellen Morrison, Mr. Charles Haines, and Miss Gladys Reynolds. Little uf importance will be recalled from the freshman year. As solprhmores, they were lead by Carroll Wilson, president, and were guided by Miss Ruth Lytlie, Miss Marian Jordan, and Mr. Ray Ryerson. That fall the class had its first real social event, a roller-skating party in the loft of A.schermann's onion house. Mrs. Aschermann served weiners and buns ito a hungry mob, antdi they furnished their own doughnuts and dari-rich. The party was marked by a tragedy when Mildred Anderson skated to the end of the loft and kept right on skaitingedown to the ground some twelve feet below. She was confined to her home for a few weeks, nursing a fractured hip. The class, largely through the efforts of their sponsor, Miss Lytle, and their Japanese friends in the community, putt on a Japanese dinner that was highly success- ful, netting the class some 33000, 'its first money? since their minstrel show in the circus during the freshman year. In the spring the class spent a delightful afternoon at Holbrook lake, marred only by the fact that the boys would take out the boalts and had to be called in, and that the .sand on the south side of the lake proved too soft for a driveway, so a large part of 'the afternoon was spent in extracting some of the cl,ass's transportation. As juniors the class began to taste life as a class, under the leadership of Al Wunder, president, and the guidance of Mrs, Slaughter, Mr. Conard and Mrs. Imhoff. They held their first regular class meetings in the cafeteria, where occurred heated discussions about matfters of money-raising. Juniors fall heir to concession rights at the football and basketball games, and these games provided a large portion of their income. The class play, and food-sales provided the remainder. The Junior-Senior Reception was the final and greatest achievement of the year, when the class of '35 was royally entertained at a glittering dance in the Elk's Hall. The hall was decorated very appropriately for the occasion whiicli followed the roof- gardcn motif. The cars of rollicking juniors sallied forth one bright .spring day on a picnic trip to High Point, but because of the recent rains, they were forced to substitute Lost Canon. All went well until noon ,and the meal was finished when a mfinature cloud- burst sent the adventurers scurrying to the cars for shelter, and to wonder how they would ever get home. The feat was accomplished with much groaning and pushing, and slushing around in the prairie mud until the five cars were pushed separately some two miles to the highway. Difficulities seemedu at an end, when one car nearly on the highway ungratefully refused to budge another inch. It had to be left until the following day. That afternoon some twenty tired, muddy, thoroughly soaked, and shivering juniors dragged into Rocky Ford to relieve the worries of parents. And orh, the wash- ing the next Monday! In 1936, Joe Brown led the class, now dignified who had as their sponsors, Miss Opal Smith and Mr. Judd Conard. The Faculty-Senior Reception, first social event of the year, was very much enjoyed. Several student dances were successful, largely through the efforts of the seniors. They were all held in the Elk's Hall, and, though not financially profitable, they' were considered socially enjoyable even though the girls once decided to boycott the senior boys. This was the first year the class was divided into a. boys' home room and a girls' home room, both of which groups discussed various student problems, gossipeid, occasion- ally, studied, or engaged in some interesting occupation. At one .season some of the boys were deep 'in chess, and the girls in knitting. How Dare You! , the senior class play was a most enjoyable production, given in the auditorium, April 24th. In Senior Week came the annual picnic and trip to the steel mills in Pueblo. Class day was also an important event -at which the future of 'the members of the class was forecast. Commencement night on May 21 completed a very momentous week for the seniors, Two members of the class ihave already embarked on the sea of matrimony. May the lives of Lila Cramer, and Elversie Patton be happy ones. When the school year 1936 drawis to a close, members of the class of '36 will emerge from Rocky Ford High School to make their way in the world. The success that comes to some of them will be due to constant efforts of Rocky Ford High School faculty developing students who would go out and make themselves successful. May every senior justify this faith if his teachers and make himself .successful in whatever field of Work he chooses. Thank you especially, Miss Smith, Mr. Conard, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Botleman. i F I 1 i 1 i