Beemer High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Beemer, NE)

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Senior Class Play The Senior class presented their play “The Little Dog Laughed”. November 23 and 24. The play begins when Laurie Huntington a Sophomore in college, comes home and starts giving everybody the Zombrowski Ink Blot Test, and tells some very important ladies which her mother had invited to a tea, about their inner personality. Her interference completely finishes off Wally’s romance with Joan Wood “Deadwoods daughter. While Laurie is out on a date with handsome but moody Mark Bradford, Wally stumbles upon Laurie's professional notes and reads them aloud to his parents. After reading this his parents decided to teach Laurie a lesson. They put on quite a show when they get home at one-thirty in the morning and after this Mark leaves hurriedly and Laurie soon follows. Meanwhile Wally invites Ted and Lillian Wood to the Huntington house. Before this fateful meeting is finished, Sid and Ted get into a paint-brush fight. Sid eventually ends up with the better understanding of his rival, as well as prospect of a new partner. Wally and Joansie have re-discovered each other through “mutual crisis ; and almost everyone has learned something new and helpful about himself. CAST Laurie Huntington...............a Sophomore, home from college..........................Marlys Albus Sidney Huntington...............her father, normally jocular..................Herman Oswald Martha Huntington............her mother, charming but anxious............................Mary Kuncl Wally Huntington............be.r brother, content with the world.......Kenneth Schlickbernd Miss ( Cus ) Gustavesky...........Martha’s part-time helper...................JoAnn Tichota Joan Wood..........................Wally’s one-and-only, 16..................Ann Schlickbernd Ted Wood................her father and Sid’s competitor in used cars.........Poy Ehrisman Lillian Wood.................Joan’s cultured-conscious mother.................Naomi Kroeger Mark Bradford................Joan’s cousin and a medical student................Victor Jording Joratio P. Honeywell...........bird fancier and taxidermist...................Leroy Koenig Guests at Martha’s Tea: Amelia Dennis..........................a catty kibitzer......................Karen Burke Caroline Blakesly...................a foolish matron....................Ver Nellc Sindelar Grace Schoenbeck..........wife of the department store owner.............Dorothy Heitmann Walola Breckenrige...............wife of the bank president.............. Betty Ann Young Therese Brown..................Walola’s maiden sister.......................Mary Wesche Junior Class Play The Junior class presented their play “Ghost Wanted”, April 21 and 22, 1953. This play was not presented in last years annual. The play begins when Hugo Bromley and his partner Jeffery Hall answer an ad in the paper »or Ghost Wanted. When they come to the house which the ad describes and knock on the door Gale Stormgay answ .rs and doesn’t know anything about the ad which her younger sister Ginger put in the paper. They get their job but find that there is also someone else playing ghost instead of Hugo. There is quite a bit about voodoo and zombies going on and a monster appears and a sweet smell of perfume is in the house and everywhere the monster appears. After the monster has appeared they all gather in one room and the smell of perfume is again in the room. Everyone turns to Hatcher the houseman who says he can’t smell anything because of his cold and therefore he finally confesses about his murder of Simon Gore. He wants to disappear through the secret panel from which the monster ha appeared and when he opens it he finds someone standing there who looks to him like Simon Gore, but which is really Hugo playing m ghost act. As ne sees this figure he falls back with a scream and Braashaw enters from the library and taxes nim to the Coast Guard boats and Hugo and Ginger discover each other again. CAST Hugo Bromley..............a young man who is in ghost business...............Raymond Picha Jeffery Hall.................his friend and general manager..................Herman Oswald Troddy...................Maid and cook for the Stormgah household....................JoAnn Tichota Ginger Stormgah..............A pretty girl in her late teens....................Mary Kuncl Gale Stormgah..................Ginger’s sister, a little older................Naomi Kroeger Hatcher............................The Stormgah Houseman.....................Victor Jording Granny Kate..................The girl’s capable grandmother...................Marlys Albus Professor de Vallen.........An authority on voodoo and zombies........Kenneth Schlickbernd Madam Zolga........................His strange assistant.......................Karen Burke Azalea.......................A lobster woman from the village............Dorothy Heitmann Nora Vane.................A woman with a nose for investigating........................Mary Wesche Mr. Bradshaw...........................The sheriff........................... Leroy Koenig zz

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Freshman Initiation was held on September 25. The Seniors made all the arrangements for this event. Each Freshman was supposed to bring shoe polish for the Seniors shoes or anyones shoes that the Seniors desired to have polished. Each Senior chose a Freshman and told them how to dress for this special day. Most of the boys were dressed like girls with dresses worn inside out and backwards. The biggest share of the girls were dressed like boys with old overalls turned inside out and backwards and old work shirts turned inside out and backwards. Everytime a Freshman met a Senior they were supposed to bow. If they did not obey, the Seniors gave them a little encouragement with a paddle they made out of newspapers. The Seniors went to math class with the Freshmen to see how intelligent they were. Of course the Seniors tried to help the Freshmen as much as possible. At noon the Freshmen ate their dinner with the Seniors out on the lawn. After the Freshmen had finished their lunch they had to wash the Seniors' cars, then they had to wash some of the Juniors cars. When they got done with this chore it was 1 o’clock and time for the mock wedding. Norma Jean Toelle was the groom and Robert Schlickbernd was the bride. When going to classes the Freshmen had to go up and down the steps on their hands and knees. By 4 o'clock the Freshmen were tired and wanted to go home. So at 7 o’clock the Freshmen came for the night’s event. After the program the Freshmen and the Seniors paraded down town. W'hen they got back the Seniors served them a delicious lunch. After they finished eating the Freshmen were so kind as to stay and clean up after everyone had left.

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1 BOYS GLEE First Row: Dean Pasoid, Joe Pojar, Darrel Beerbohm, Dale Coon. Ronnie Faudel, Merlin Nitsche, Lyle Ott, Glen Ott, Billy Drake, Robert Schlickbernd. Second Row: Miss Watson, Arlan Lemm, Paul Jording, Martin Pojar, Gerald Meyer, Marvin Schnieder, David Kroeger, Howard Nellor, Loren Lemm, Rosemary Fehliman. Third Row: Harland Spangler, Don Beerbohm, Clarence Tichota, Dick Hansel, Merlin Oswald. Gene Toelle, Gene Ehrisman. Keith Freyermuth. GIRLS GLEE First Row: Janette Picha, Carol Kotik, Cora Blumer, Donna Bryant, June Hasenkamp, Alice Nitsche, Helen Jording, Joe Hasenkamp, Shirley Schultz, Eileen Toelle. Second Row: Miss Watson, Fern Schmoldt, Joann Tichota. Luetta Coon, Marlys Albus, Mary Kuncl, Noami Kroger. Lucy Schnieder. Lois Rabbass. Norma Toelle. Betty Young, Rosemary Fehliman. Third Row: Rolene Bradfield, Ann Schlickbernd, Karen Burke, Marlene Pagels, Celine Ortmier, Kathleen Ott. LaVern Pagels, Delores Hurt. Marion Toelle. Shirley Rabbass. LaVern Sindelar, Karen Fehliman. Betty English.