West Point High School - Cadet Yearbook (West Point, NE)

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SIENI From pigtails to bobby sag from birthday parties to ban- quets, from Hring-around-the rosyn to basketball tourna- ments and sports conferences, the Class of 'M7 has advanced since that September day in 1935 when twenty-five first graders entered Miss Kase's room. In order to cope with the timid, the tearful, and the homesick, Miss Kase main- tained the Ucry baby's cor- ner.H Remember, kids? Get- ting adapted involves a mat- ter of time and willingness to make personal sacrifices. These nmen and women of to- morrown were well adjusted by their second year. Re- cess periods on the play- ground, those first struggl- ing notes on a new musical in- strument, the panicky feeling just before the presentation of the grade-school operetta- all belong to that memorable era--Hschool days.N In a remarkably short time eight years had passed. It was May, l9H3--eight grade commencement time. This was definitely a milestone i n their young lives. HElmer,H the play the graduates pre- sented, depicting the event- ful life of a fourteen-year old boy, was a high point in the evening's program. But even more important was the diploma each member of the class received--an impressive red, suede booklet that signr fied that each was eligible to enter high school. The fall of 1943 arrived. Thirty- one would- b e high school sophisticates entered the portals of WPHS as lowly nFrosh.H A week that all will remember was the week o f DRS Freshmen initiation. A set of rigorous rules were gi- ven each Freshman with strict orders that they must b e obeyed. Judicial legislation, the HKangaroo Courtn type,was administered to punish the culprits who dared disobey the law. But the week of ini- tiation passed and gradually the novelty of high school wore off, so that by the time the class reached their So- phomore year, they, in turn, dubbed the incoming Freshmen as HGreenhorns.H Throughout the year the nSophsH conti- nued their active participa- tion in athletics, band,vocal groups, and declam. May came and with it pro- motion to the Junior year. HThe play's the thing,H was the Junior's chant as they re- hearsed night after night for HThe Missing Heirs.H T h e class play exemplified a sup- posedly average American fam- ily and their life before and after a rich inheritance fell into their possession. The smell of grease paint, butter flies in the stomach, the mad bustle backstage--all of it has a definite part in that period of footlight fever and class-play time. That year's Juniors experienced all of that, too. Spring dawned on WPHS and the Juniors began thinking of that highlight of highlights- the Junior- Senior Banquet. Blue and silver the colors the Class of 'Hg had chosen afforded many interesting op- portunities. But to the Jun- iors, who could vision sil- very glaciers, blue shadows, and a cold atmosphere, it spelled HA-r-c-t-i-c.W A nd ly-