Bement High School - BIM Yearbook (Bement, IL)

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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

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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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★ ★ ★ News Staff The Betohi News is published weekly in the Bement Register. Students volunteer to serve on the staff, and Miss Houston acts as adviser. Meetings are held at 8 o’clock on Tuesday mornings in the English room. The Editors, Willa Mae Patterson and Bob Moery, write editorials on all phases of school, from what the students wear to what they do in the class rooms. Humor is presented in the paper by the features of Mary McPherson and Rose Glennon. News editors, Wilma Porter and Gayle Smith, see to it that the outside world knows about all the parties, meetings, and other happenings of the school. Football, basketball, noon athletic programs, and all other sports are covered by Ted Petersen and Earl Wright. Margaret Frye, Marilyn Auth, and Doris Shepherd report what the different departments are doing. What the students do in their leisure time is brought to light in the personal column edited by Ellen Abel, Roseann Ford, and Bob Neal. At every staff meeting we find Dorothy Hawver behind the typewriter. When she gets the copy typed, it is proof -read and delivered to the Register office by Bob Moery. Sitting: Abel. McPherson. Hawver, Wright. Porter. Standing: Ford, Glennon. Moery, Patterson, Houston. Shepherd, Frye, Smith.