Bement High School - BIM Yearbook (Bement, IL)

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H. E. SLUSSER Principal To Mr. Slusser and the other members of the faculty we extend our appreciation for their friendship and guidance through our school years. Our teachers, reading from top to bottom and from left to right, were: MISS ISABELLE HOUSTON - - - English MRS. S. C. HAMMOND - - - - Commercial MISS CHERRYL McCOLLEY - - Social Studies MISS PEARL SWAIM - - - English, Latin MR. G. A. DAVIES.....................Science MISS MARGARET HABBEN - Home Economics MR. L. A. HODAM..................Agriculture MR. L. P. BROWN........................Music MR. 0. T. HALL.........................Coach MRS. H. E. SLUSSER.................Secretary MISS MARY LOUISE FISHER - Mathematics Seven

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Board of Education L. W. WILKINSON, President. w. g. McPherson R. R. SIDERS J. B. BYERLINE R. S. KINTER 0. E. WRIGHT B. E. DYARMAN Six

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Freshmen On the twenty-eighth day of August, 1944, forty-nine grade school “kids” from Bement and the surrounding community became freshmen. Our first difficulty was finding the right class rooms, but our upperclassmen gave us some help. At our first class meeting, Robert Postlewait was elected president, Stanley Funk was elected vice-president, Audine Tompkins was elected secretary-treasurer, and John Ovid Moery was elected Member of Athletic Board of Control. Our first social gathering was a wiener roast at the Forest Preserve Park. We played several games after eating. Later in the year a party was held at the school house. After refreshments had been served, we had a treasure hunt. We wisely elected Audine Tompkins for the freshman candidate for queen. We were greatly disappointed when the senior candidate won, but Audine made a charming attendant to the queen. Many freshmen participated in the athletic program. The girls were active in G. A.A. and the boys went out for football, basketball, baseball, and track. Howard “Red” Lawrence was our football star, while Bob Postlewait, Bruce Still, and John Ovid Moery shared the freshman basketball honors. When we saw some of the boys “burdened” with neckties, we knew that they were taking part in the F.F.A. initiation. We knew that the girls of the Home Economics Club were being initiated when they wore sweaters backwards and makeshift curlers in their hair. We are expecting our next three years to be full of fun and profit, and we will strive to be as kind to the “freshies” as our upperclassmen were to us. First row: Market, Pettyjohn, Lamkin, Collins. Still, Shepherd, Deering, Cotter, Hendrix. Second row: Keeling, McConaha. Turney, Dukeman, Timme, Moery, Tompkins, Postlewait, Funk. Curf-man, Grunewald. Hall. Johnson. Mintun. Larrimore. Third row: Tynan, Propst, Brittenham. Kirkwood, Lefever, C. Heiple, R. Neal, Defore, Curry, Buckner, Wheeler. Born. Hill. Hampton. Camden, Reinhart. Cairoll. Fourth row: Comerford, Beals. Hardimon, Vance, Strater, Sebens, Lawrence. P. Neal, Foran, Romack. Lamb. Cantrell, J. Heiple. Eight