Bement High School - BIM Yearbook (Bement, IL)

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Football Forty-four boys reported to Orus “Ike” Hall for the first gridiron practice of the season. The four returning lettermen, all seniors, were Captain Bob Hill, fullback; Waldo Born, end; Harold Wallace, tackle; and Earl Wright, quarterback. After three weeks of hard practice, the Bulldogs opened their season with St. Teresa on September 15. The Purple and White won 4, lost 4 and tied 1, giving them a .500 percentage for the season. In the Okaw Valley Conference, Bement won 3, lost 2, and tied 1. The Bement Wildcats, a team made up of freshmen and sophomores, tied Monticello 6 to 6 and twice defeated Cerro Gordo. They won the first game by a 7 to 0 count and the second contest by a 6 to 0 score. These boys show promise for Betohi. The annual Football Banquet was attended by a record crowd of over three hundred people. Mr. Slusser acted as toastmaster. The theme of the evening centered around the High School Sports Program. Miss Fisher explained the important part the sports program plays in the education of high school students. A talk on how the students react toward this program was given by Dorothy Hawver. Walter Ward presented the athlete’s point of view. The community’s viewpoint toward athletics was presented to us by Mr. A. E. Bodman. Coach Hall presented letters to sixteen boys and two managers. The seniors were Captain Bob Hill, Earl Wright, Waldo Born, Bob Somers, Bob Neal, Harold Wallace, Walter Ward, and George Halterman. The underclassmen receiving letters were Tom Murphy. Jim Rucker, Jim Porter, Jack Hooper. Dwight Yockey, Kenneth Christman, Jack Plummer, and Merrill “Jiggs” Strater. Bob Curry and Glenn Deering received managers' letters. ★ SCORING Hill 48 points Wright 18 points Rucker 18 points Strater 14 points Hooper 6 points Ward 5 points Born .... 3 points TOTAL .... 112 points ★ FOOTBALL SCHEDULE B.T.H.S. Opp. Sept. 15—St. Teresa at Bement - 30 6 Sept. 22—Bement at Tuscola - - 0 32 Sept. 29—Newman at Bement - - 19 6 Oct. 6—Bement at Atwood 6 12 Oct. 13—Bement at Sullivan - - 19 6 Oct. 21—Bement at Oakland - - 6 6 Oct. 27—Bement at Areola - - 0 12 Nov. 3—Cerro Gordo at Bement - 25 0 Nov. 11—Monticello at Bement - 7 34 Totals 112 114 First row: Rucker, Eckstein, Lux, Porter, Wright. Born, Hooper, Strater. Second row: Gallivan, Halterman, Murphy, Christman, Ward, Lamb, Neal, Yockey, Hill. Third row: Somers, Brady, Honselnian, Shonkwiler. Plummer, Lawrence. Ten

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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.

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 Football Lettermen BACKS CAPTAIN BOB HILL—Senior—Although slowed up with a knee injury, he was Bement’s leading scorer and ground gainer. He’ll really be missed next year. JACK HOOPER — Sophomore — Enjoyed the game. He was scrappy and a hard fellow to beat. MERILL ST RATER—Sophomore—Run and run and run! If he ever makes up his mind and gets started, he’s gone. JIM RUCKER—Junior -A hard runner. He won’t be here next year because he has enlisted in the Naval Reserve. EARL WRIGHT—Senior A hard-hitting quarterback who usually got his man. ENDS WALTER WARD —Senior—Out for the first time and really made good. How he could snatch those passes! WALDO BORN—Senior—He never let anybody get past him. He played a lot of ball for Be-ment. TACKLES BOB NEAL—Senior—He was a good plugger and could dish it out. JAMES PORTER—Junior—A big fellow who really made himself known, especially to the opponents. GEORGE HALTERMAN—Senior—Out for the first time. He was a 200-pounder who proved capable of handling any job. HAROLD WALLACE—Senior—He was a dependable performer any place in the line. He loves football, too. GUARDS JACK PLUMMER—Sophomore—He’s a little brute in the line. He has two more years. Watch for him. DWIGHT YOCKEY—Sophomore—He wasn’t so big but he was always ready for a good fight. KENNETH CHRISTMAN—Sophomore—A big fellow who can play a whale of a good game if he wants to. BOB SOMERS Senior -His first year. He made a slow start but cashed in plenty by the end of the season. CENTER TOM MURPHY—Junior—The iron man. He played every minute in every game. HOMECOMING PEP SECTION Who is it that leads the cheers and keeps up the pep of the Bement fans at the football and basketball games? It is the Bement cheerleaders and the fine crowds that always attend the games. Rosemary Cotter. “Cy” Abel, and Shirley Clark, resplendent in their purple and white uniforms, did a wonderful job of keeping up the pep of the people on the sidelines whether the Bulldogs were winning or losing. Yeh, Purple! Yeh, White! Yeh, Bement! Fight! Fight! Fight! Eleven One of the highlights of the football season was the annual Homecoming Game. The Bulldogs, playing one of their best games of the season and thinking of the celebration that was to follow, beat Cerro Gordo by a 25-0 score. A potluck supper was served in the early part of the evening with the football team as guests. The supper was sponsored by the mothers of the football boys. Later Mary Rose McPherson, who was our Homecoming Queen, was crowned by Bob Hill. Her attendants were Audine Tompkins, Freshman; Louise Hodam, Sophomore; and Elizabeth Coffin, Junior. Their escorts were Howard Lawrence, Jack Hooper, and Jimmy Rucker, respectively. The rest of the evening was spent in dancing.