Bedford High School - Torch Yearbook (Bedford, IA)

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LATIN CLUB Back row, left to right: Doris Stithem, Doris Damewood, Mary Hamblin, Bonnie Hamilton, Dorothea Lincoln, Mar- garet Putnam, Carmalita Savage, Donald Perkins, Dwight Perkins, Richard Black. Second row, left to right: Bob Morris, Betty June Irwin, Evelyn Ailshie, Lela Mae Adkisson, Phyllis Terry, Wil- ma Meikle, Beatrice Ulmer, Genevieve Lambley, Donald Beard, Miss Long. Front row, left to right: Earnest Bycroft, Betty Marsh, Margaret Salter, Elise Sawyer, Vera Petherick, Saral Marie Penton, Phyllis Hatfield, Eugene Burks. V LATIN CLUB The Latin department of Bedford High school maintains an active chapter of the Na- tional Junior Classical League, whose purpose is to spread the knowledge of classical civilization in the modern world. The business and social meetings of the organization offer members an opportunity to put into actual practice. Roman customs and manners which have been studied and discussed in the first and second year Latin classes. The officers of the Latin club are Robert Morris, primus consul: Dwight Perkins, secundus cofnsulg Donald Perkins, scribag Beatrice Ulmer, quaestor and Evelyn Ailshie, censor. Usually the yearly high point of the organization is a Roman banquet, served and eaten in true Latin fashion.