Bement High School - BIM Yearbook (Bement, IL)

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First How: Mildred Mmkrr, Helen Hummer, Betty Day, Pauline Day, Leila Lamb. Leola Cuifinan, Dorothy Allison. Rachel Dumb, Maxine Appelt. Elzora Smith. Marian Lamb, Dorothy Bruce. Martha Lane. Lucille Kitson, Barbara Camp, Doris Lamb. Mary Foran, Betty Adams, and Miss Ecklund. Second Row: Helen Pruitt. Pauline Kay. Jean Vaughn. Audrey Coffin, Frances Moery. Ilaruth Klump. Flo Mario Wright. Betty Hill, Marjorie Lamb. Helen Porter, Lena Cornelius, Marjorie Funk, Anna Mary Smith, and Helen Biuce. G. A. A. Realizing that tomorrow we will be members of the group who must carry on the ideals and standards of our nation and race, we must prepare ourselves physically and mentally. It has been said that “a friend is one’s second self” and again, “to have a friend, one must be a friend.” We learn to be friends and to gain friends during the wholesome play hours when girls of the local and neighboring G. A. A.’s are together. Let us visit a G. A. A. meeting which is typical of those held once each month. Our president, Rachel Lamb, calls the meeting to order. We sing some pep songs under the leadership of Barbara Camp. The roll call and minutes of the last meeting are read by Helen Plummer, our secretary. We plan our initiation for Thursday, January 26. It is announced that basketball will take the place of volleyball beginning January 20 and the girls must have a heart examination before entering this sport. All the girls are urged to participate in the sports and keep health rules to earn points. Those earning the most points will attend a summer camp held at Lake Bloomington. The president asks for suggestions for earning money which will be used to send twelve or fourteen girls to camp. It is suggested that we have a G. A. A. play in the early spring. A committee is appointed to choose a play. We decide to have a benefit show in March or April. The meeting is then adjourned. —22—

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Sitting: Dorothy Bruce, Maxine Probus. Lola Hamman. Catherine Kintner. George Loud-enback, Lucille Kitson, Kathryn Probus. Standing: Marjorie Bogue, Ralph Rose. Mary Conlin, Hollis Stout. Charlotte I-efever, Helen Porter, Charles Ray. Doit Fish, Mary Redman. Marjorie I.amb. Miss Houston, sponsor. THE BETOHI NEWS STAFF If you should drop into the English room on any Tuesday morning at 8:15, you would hear the murmur of voices and the click of typewriters. The Betohi News staff is busy preparing their weekly newspaper which is printed in a section of the Bement Register. Each has been observing activities during the week to use in writing his column. You might find Charlotte Lefever writing up a play and Helen Porter a party. Charles Ray and George Loudenback are eagerly preparing an account of a game that we won. Mary Conlin is writing up the girls’ sports. Miss Houston, the faculty adviser, is helping Kathryn Probus and Marjorie Lamb write a feature column. Hollis Stout and Marjorie Bogue are busily engaged in writing departmentals. Mary Redman and Lucille Kitson rush in late; they have been trying to gather some last minute personals from the students. Maxine Probus, editor-in-chief, and her assistant, Dorothy Bruce, are proof-reading and writing editorials. Then Lola Hamman and Catherine Kintner type the finished work, and the business managers, Doit Fish and Ralph Rose, take it to the Register office for publication. The staff anxiously waits to see the results of their efforts when the paper is published. —21—

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First Row: Catherine Kintner, Agnes Manna. Barbara Camp. Rosann I-leming. Margaret Winzenburger, Emily Vance, Frances Mot ry, Marjorie Funk. Mr. Keller, director, Mary Brandenburg. Marjorie Rogue, Gordon Hopper. Dean Medaris. Second Row: Betty Hainey, Edwina A nth. Peggy Moery. Mary Conlin. Irene Flenniken, Anna Rita Grennan. Jimmy Raglan, Elton Haynts. Warren Metcalf, Scotty Wilkinson. Doit Fish. A CAPPELLA CHOIR-SOLO CONTEST The a cappella choir, under the leadership of Mr. Keller, met three times a week. They also had extra rehearsals to prepare for special events. At the Christmas program, they presented a group of carols supplemented by poetry. On Tuesday, March 21, aided by the more accomplished members of the freshmen chorus, they presented the operetta, “Jerry of Jericho Road.” Another important event was the district choral contest held at Charleston on March 25. The selections used were “Incline Thine Ear” by Alexander Arkangelsky and “Cherubim Song” by Dimitri Bortniansky. Our chorus was placed in the superior group, and thereby advanced to the state contest held in Urbana, April 28 and 29. Members who sang in the contest but are not enrolled in the regular a cappella choir are Robert Driskill, William Fleming, Edwin Kanitz, Edward Kinney, Virginia Lux, Norma Resler, Lois Ryan, Barney Slevin, and Bud Warner. There were five persons entered in the district solo contest held in Arthur on March 11. Two of these, Catherine Kintner and Edwin Kanitz, were placed in first division. Catherine Kintner played a piano solo, “Polonaise” by Edward MacDowell, and Edwin Kanitz played the cornet solo, “Prelude et Ballade” by G. Balay. Both will enter the state solo contest held at Normal on April 15. The other three who entered were: V Eleanor Ann Lefever, Eb alto saxophone; Marjorie Lamb, Eb clarinet; Jvs and Margaret Winzenburger, Bb clarinet. w —23—