Belleville Township High School - Bellevinois Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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This is our calendar SEPTEMBER 3, 1958 found a group of confused freshmen roaming the campus, a schedule clutched in one hand and a locker deed in the other. This confusion carried over to the fol¬ lowing day when the book store was jammed with the entire student body, lined up to get their hooks for the first day of school. May I charge it? is the question as we load up on supplies in the bookstore. A few days after sch x l started, the Bellevinois staff began taking class pictures for the yearbook, lo meet the April 15 deadline they worked throughout the year in their staff room in the library building basement, closed to “foreigners’ (non Bellevinois staff members), except for an occasional rat. The boys hooped it up at the Football Frolic after the first game on SEPTEM¬ BER 13, when they entered the hoola h(K p contest. Not to be outdone, the girls had a football kicking contest. The team and spectator interest aroused our football spirit. And going in to kick the extra point against Cdwardsville it the winner of the football kicking contest. The absentee list grew during the first two weeks in OCT OBER as our failure cards were due. “Are you a freshman? Sign my petition.” This phrase floated around campus as fresh¬ man election drew near. The cheerleaders im proved their routines as the season progressed and did much to w r hip up our school spirit. Hey, mommy, you used too much storchl 8

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for the school year A South Sea island was the scene of this year’s Junior Jam, Tropical Punch. The auditorium stage on OCTOBER 17 was filled with palm trees, cocoa nuts, and hula girls. The carnival and dance following rounded out the evening of gaie¬ ty. The District Cross Country meets, beginning OCTOBER 25 at Westhaven, gave the boys their first chance to prove their endurance and speed. Boy, that must have been a playl We showed our parents and relatives our work in school during American Education Week, NOVEMBER 8 through the 14. Freshmen and sopho¬ mores were asked to join Little Theater through their work in Freshman-Sopho¬ more one-act plays, on NOVEMBER 21. The Thespians rounded out the pro¬ gram with the third one-act. The morning of NOVEMBER 27 was tense at the B.T.H.S. stadium during the Thanksgiving Day game with East St. Louis. The result was disappointing, hut we were proud of the players. The football queen and her court reigned over the Letterman’s Dance, which end¬ ed the football season in a gay mood. Some people always forget their books! On NOVEMBER 22, many students spent a husv and difficult morning, taking the competi¬ tive exams for the Illinois Scholarship Awards. Excitement built up as we worked on our floats and cars for Hobo Day on NOVEMBER 26. The pep assembly put us in the right spirit for the game when we had a mock wedding be¬ tween Miss Victory and Mr. Township. She tripped up the aisle. Tip toeing through the tulips!