Silverton High School - Silvertonian Yearbook (Silverton, CO)

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Cla ffl' o y As the school doors opened in the fall of l9M3, Alice, Marlene, Vaughn, Thelma, Chas., and Jimmy were shoved into the first grade. The next year in the second grade, Darnall and Kathy entered ou: class. We spent most of our time bringing willows to Viss Holmes, tc dumb to realize what they were being used for. In the third grade we picked up Max and lost Kathy. We spent this year dodging erasers. fremember Mrs. Hamnonu?D The fourth grade was a quiet one. Mrs. Williams, at thattire Niss Bostick, frtsh from Vississippi. Kept us cuite interested with stories from the South. The fifth grade was also a quiet ye r, Urs. Rathmell kept us walking the chalk line. In the sixth, Chas left us for a year and Kathy came back only to leave at the end of that year. uk spent this year preparing ourselves for Junior High. This was the year! Je got to move upstairs. Boy, we thought we were wheels! We were proud to welcome Leita, Patty and Kathy into the eighth grade. This year we became members of S. H. Su and gained Tommy Sandell from Arkansas. The great day of initiation. The oirls wore gunny sack dresses and beer can necklaces. The boys wore skirts. le rcruooed the school bus with toothbrushes and we'll never forget Kangroo Court. The Sophomore year Eetty Anne entered our class., This year was a very interesting one. Ne had several parties at the Grand Imperial Hotel and had a spaghetti dinner at Thelma's house given by our sponsor, Mrs. Erickson. In our Junior year, we were really out to make the dough! First we gave our Junior Carnival, which went over very well, next we raffled a turkey and had a bake sale. Then came our class play,'Teter Bewaren, which went oyer with a big bang. After making all this money, we spent the biggest part of it on the Junior-Senior Prom and Banquet, which was the biggest success we could have hoped for. Our theme was the uStork Clubn and the banquet hall was decorated in pink and silver. The theme song was nThe Lullaby of Broadwayn. Now the biggest year of all has finally arrived. This.year we started out by going to Mesa Verde where we had a wonderful time. Ne then gave the Freshmen a party. We raffled a gun in October and the next month gave nNoonlight and Apolesaucen, our Senior Class Play. We had loads of fun practicing and it was a big hit. Ve are now waiting breatilessly for the night of graduation to come, although it will DO mighty sad to leave good old S. H. S. and our many friends still in school. We'll always treasure our memories of the wonderful times we've had in the halls and classrooms of the Silverton Public School, F