Beardstown High School - Tiger Yearbook (Beardstown, IL)

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Meeting our new coaches . . . seeing the gang the first day of school . . . the first dance . . . fishing through the ice during Christmas vacation . . . following the Tigers. . . . this is part of our school life at Beardstown High school during the year, 1958-1959. 1958-1959 Our Story of The Year Beardstown High School students, as citi- zens of a high school which is a small world in a larger one, read newspapers, listened to the radio and TV and were influenced by news made this year in different worlds. Nationally news was made in the political, scientific, and sports worlds . . . segrega- tion in Little Rock . . . Brinkmanship in Berlin, Formosa, and Lebanon crises . . . introduction to the space age by Russia's Sputnik superceded by our Pioneer IV . . . the addition of two stars in the United States flag . . . Jack Paar's candid humor. At the same time news was made locally in corresponding worlds . . . Beardstowns new schools constructed on the catipus plan . . . amateurs launching rockets . . . students, governing themselves through the newly organized student council . . . cn- tertainment fad of the hula hoop . . . the song hit t'Tom Dooley . . . fashion changes to the sack dresses and bubble haircuts. The BHS annual staff has attempted to present to its readers the year 1958-1959 in retrospect. The Tigers were an orphaned football team without a home field since the gridiron was bulldozed for the site of the new addition to BHS. Our new field south of the high school was seeded for playing next fall. This explains why prospective football players scrimmaged in the Beardstown rec- reation park under the supervision of our