Belleville High School - Rocket Yearbook (Belleville, AR)

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HISTORY OF THE SENIOR CLASS OF 48 Thxs history has a very modest purpose To revxew the past, to enjoy the present and prepare for the future Tlus hlstory of past events IS to be undertaken solely for the purpose of txcklmng the mental vanxty by re calling pleasant memorles to the mind of those dzgmfled Semors of 1948 Lxke our forefathers of the early seventeenth century they were dnven from the placxd shores of the Grades' to land in 1944 on the rugged but welcome Freshmen pemnsula of the Bellevxlle High School steps In th1s flrst year we see the early settlers sturdy pxoneers for the three years to come namely Development and Progress fSophomores and .Tumors and the modern perxod Senxorsj A large group of settlers set sa1l from The Grades in the Sprmg of 1944, solemnly but cheerfully slgnmg themr names to the Charter of Enroll ment The settlement was organlzed and estabhshed 1n Bellevxlle Hxgh School that fall under the leadershlp of Presxdent L. C Elhott who w1th untlrmg ef forts guxded lus co workers Through successwe stages of development ln the Sophomores through the Semor year many of our number fought for thexr place on the Honor Roll of Dorxs Jean Harms Nancy Apple Delvls Taylor and Bobby Moudy Other members of our class have gamed recogmtlon ln other act1v1t1es on the cam pus of Bellevmlle Hxgh School After four years of work 1n th1s settlement eleven of us have come to the end of the pathe of wxlderness and are now ready to leave for the clearmg a head of us These eleven are Dons Jean Harms, Anna Sue Caldwell Nancy Apple Ocle Lee Rutledge Pauhne Splvey Lela Kmght Frances Rhoads, Delvls Taylor B111 Madden Doyle Bryant and Bobby Moudy Durmg our four years we lost the following frxends, Vlola Rlchardson, Edxth Walls Wendell Stephens, Glydon Madden Johnny Howsley, Lulu May Barnette and Bonme Stacks It IS our profound hope that the sa1ls of Time and Earnest Effort wxll carry each of us towards the shores of Health Wealth and Happmess and anchor them m the Harbor of Success akxafawkwrxwksfrxsu-mxswkxxaktxxstxxsvvarxtxxxxwrx PROPHECY OF THE SENIOR CLASS We were afrald we would see Dons Jean Harris as a calendar xn later years as she had so many dates, but we belxeve she has decxded to settle down We see Bobby Moudy as Pres1dent of Plnlhps 66 O11 Company wnth Mzldred as Secretary For the latest 1n ha1r styles V1S1t the recently estabhshed Frances Rhoads Beauty Salon on Hollywood and Vlne n u o o 1 1 . . i : ' I 1 ' - Belleville High School. Our heroes from the Battle Courts of Basketball are I l 1 . . I . I