Selden Rural High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Selden, KS)

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NEarly the next year, continued the shadowy figure, clenching its claws, Uthey elected Betty Rome as president, Donna Weis Vice president and Jean Home as Secretary and Treasurer Miss Bolton was the sponsor The number in the class had dwindled to seven Charles Arnold changed to Leoville, Madonna Koerperich went to Overlin Alvira Junneman dropped school entirely Clarence Knopp dropped, and at the end of the first semester Mary Ann Cana ga went to Oberlin The outstanding event of the year was 'An April Fool's Partyusponsored by the Sopho ore class H 'When the class reached the Jun or year,' bellowed the Wildcat enthusiastically, 'There were but six members in the class Opal Lea Smith, Donna Weis, Clara Mumm, Jean Home, Edith Trimble, and Betty Rome,with Hrs Anderson as sponsor for the first semester and Irs Lukinchook as sponsor for the second semester This was a busy year Every Junior took part in the school athletics when a girls basketball team was organized They also played volley ball and softball The Junior play, 'No Soap', coached by Hr Lukinchook,was very successful In the Spring, the Jun ors gave the traditional Junior-Senior Banquet, the theme of which was A Dutch Garden U The biology class was especially enjoyed by every one that year because of our pet bird, Penelope, and turtle, Oscar Jean Rome was President that year Donna Weis Vice President and Clara Mumm, secretary and Treasurer The Junior year was brought There was a short silence, then the Wildcat said, 'All the Juniors came back again in the fall of 1950, the year that Selden High School was to have an all girl graduating class Jean Rome was elected President, Donna Weis, Vice president, and Betty Rome Secretary and Treasurer Hr Lukinchook was our sponsor All the girls participated in the ball teams The most exciting and the first game we won, was with Rexford The Seniors began planning S R H S's first annual They also published the school paper That year was spent in various activities to earn money for their sneak, such as the Senior Play, food sales, serving at ball games, ect 0 In the silence that followed I thought of the things the noc turnal disturber had told me At last I turned to him and said nTell me what vou are, and why you speak to me of those past days 'I,' slowly answered my visitor, 'am the spirit of S H H S e spirit of the class of Sl, the spirit of the past Those days are now gone forever. I am but their shade, their memory W NBut will the girls who have graduated ever experience the joys of their high school life again?' I, quiovered slowly: Came the deathlike inaper, 'Never Nevermore ' The morning sun found me at my desk I wondered why I was still there. Then I remembered the midnight visit of the spirit animal. Was it a dream? On the cornor of m desk lay 'The li1dcat,' the first annual of S R H S,published by the Seniors of 1951. . . . as 0 . , ' 1 I to a happy close with a picnic and hike near the Oberlin Lake.H . . i . . . , . . . J ?u ' jth

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'CI-A55 YU .ERQII-EN? The night after the Junior-Senior Prom, being extremely weary, I immediately fell asleep As it to be the year 1965 Things were back in 'Sl It is not an flying around, as I step into happened to the class of l95l the mists seemed to part, I found are a lot different now then they unusual thing to see magic carpets mne,I begin to wonder what ever I was on my way to home coming at S R H S Q as I circled Selden,I was very much surprised to find a mty of l0,000,with 1ts ch1ef industry, that of making toy bal lons As I settled on the steps of the school house, I heard a fa miliar voice Turning to f1nd whom it belonged to, I saw a very soplnsticated young woman nth a man,presumably her husband, and a child Upon 1nqu:lring,I discovered she was the former JEAN ROME now married to Montgomery Clift, the movie star They live in a large glass house in Hollywood They have one child, Monty Jr up It was EDITH TRIMBLE, a strlctly career girl with no mrriage but plenty of prospects, especially Neal Nelson She is now li.v1ng in Topeka where she is employed as private secretary to--Well my stars! OPAL LEA SMITH, the first woman governor of Kansas Ac cording to rumors she won't be Governor Smith much longer, but Governor Zurbuchen U-Ieck of a name, Isn't it J Wierd shrleks and shnll trills come from the distance Invest igating we find Clara llcGowen, CNUVMJ leading the Selden Symphcry Orchestra It seems she continued teaching music in Selden schools after marrying Benny Looking over the orchestra members,we fini several who closely resemble Clara She says 'they should they're her own, but these are just a few You know they come cheaperty the dozen Hearing the orchestra, DONNA MAE WEIS, now Irs llelvln Jones, and General Jones came strolling up to Join the discussion Don- nie is now l1v1ng in South Carolina where Melvin is commanding of ficer of an army camp They left then- three children in Colby with llelvin's mother A A During our conversation, a tall, dark-complexioned woman came