Alvo High School - Oriole Yearbook (Alvo, NE)

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The curtain rises on the first scene of Act I:the time--1938;the occasion--first day of schooljthe actors- Evaline Coatman, Charles Hemke, Jeanette Fischer, Norma Jean Elliott, Marilyn Kellogg, George Peterson, Berdina Rueter, Bernice Rueter, and Rosalie Villiams. In the years to follow many scenes and many stages furnished the background for the students who came into the class to nlay their parts and leave again. Among those entering the class during the years we were going through the first seven grades were: Asenath Craven, Clyde Collins, Velma Dringman, Eunice McCormick, Doris Nelson, Donna Lee Heier, Brooks Schuelke,Dorothy Fisher and Richard Lear. However we lost many of these classmates so oy the time we reached the eighth grade our class consisted of the following members: valine Coatman, Charles Hemke, Norma Jean Elliott, Berdina Rueter, Doris Nelson, Donna Lee Heier, and Brooks Schuelke. Act II onens as we enter high school with this same group. Marilyn Kellogg, who had left us for a semester in the eighth grade, joined us again. Two well remembered scenes in our froshman year are the initiation of the freshman and the freshman-sopho- more party given for the juniors and seniors. Some of the outstanding incidents of Act III, our sophomore year, were the writing of a nlay, The Soirit of Thanksgiving by the class members and its being presented at the P. T. A., and the freshman-sophomore party given for the juniors and seniors because the juniors were the lucky ones again and found the senior banner which had been hidden on the morning of sneak day. This year Norma Jean won a typewriting award. She and Donna Lee were chosen to take part in the Junior play, He Couldn't Marry Five. The scene changes--the curtain rises on Act IV, and wo now find ourselves juniors. Some of the actors are missing now. They are Evalinc Coatman, Charles Hemke, Brooks Schuelke,and Doris Nelson who left us the second semester.

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Class History, continued 2 The junior-senior classes combined and gave the play Back-woods Romeo. Another memorable event was the junior-senior banquet at Cotner Terrace. Our theme,be- lieve it or not, was School Days. We sang nursery songs, sucked lollypops, blew up balloons and had a lot of fun being very young again. Now we see the curtain rising on Act V, the last act, our senior year. By this time our class had dwindled to four. The members were: Norma Jean Elliott, Berdina Rueter, Donna Lee Heier, and Marilyn Kellogg. At the end of the first semester Marilyn left our class. In October of this year the junior and senior classes attended the Nebraska High School Press Association held at the University of Nebraska. Berdina entered the news-writing contest and won second place in class B. In November the juniors, seniors, and two sophomores took part in Girls and Boys’ County at Plattsmouth. In February the junior and senior classes were guests of Supt. and Mrs. W. W. Schneider at a theater party where the movie, Hamlet ,was given by Lawrence Olivier and cast. The scenes that high-light our last act are the senior-junior play, Six Wives on a Rampage , given April 14, in the High School Auditorium and tho junior- senior banquet given at the Lincoln Hotel in Lincoln, April 28, 1950. Baccalaureate and Commencement exercises are the closing scenes in which the three actors, Norma Jean Elliott, Berdina Rueter, and Donna Lee Heier played the major roles and bid a last farewdll to thei -clessmates and friends before the final curtain fell on the class of 1950.