Bement High School - BIM Yearbook (Bement, IL)

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Mixers and Rippers ★ ★ “Our club must grow and glow and go, And we must help to make it so.” The Home Ec Club meetings were held the first Wednesday of each month at four o’clock. They consisted of business, discussion, Red Cross sewing, entertainment, and refreshments. Any girl was eligible for membership if she had had one year of Home Economics or was then taking the course. On October fourth, girls wearing print dresses and aprons wrong side out, their hair in pigtails with jar ring decorations, and makeup on only half the face, enjoyed eating their lunch between the library and Christian church. After a hearty chili supper, the girls were made full-fledged members and the initiation was over. The Club made extra money by selling milk and orange juice at noon hours to the students. As a patriotic gesture, they sold war stamps on Friday. After the Be-ment-Monticello game February twenty-third, the Mixers and Rippers sponsored a victory dance and Monticello students were invited. On May 2, the Home Economics Club invited all high school girls and their mothers to a Mother-Daughter Banquet in the gymnasium. The food was prepared by World War II Mothers and served by F.F.A. boys. OFFICERS President..............Margaret Frye Secretary ----- Joyce Wildman Vice-President ----- Beverly Dunn Treasurer ------ Marilyn Auth First row: Scott. Ridge. Lincicum, Tompkins. Wheeler, McConaha. Hinton. Fish, Redman. A. Sebens. Cantrell, Ref ever. Turney. Second row: Fair, Hogue, Hord. Camden, Wildman, Frye, Auth, Clark. Cotter, Abel. Jordan. Brittenham, Probus. Third row: Habben, llawver. Comerford, Hawkins. Wiggins, Klrwan, Foran. F. Sebens. Hampton, Patterson, Dunn. McPherson, Coffin. Malkus. Neal. Shirley, M. Reinhart. Fourth row: Gulliford. Smith. Hodam, Fairbanks. Munson. Vance, Slusser. Hardimon, I,amb. Tynan. Curf-man, B. Reinhart, Beals. Ray. Twelve

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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.

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★ ★ ★ F. A. A “Learning to do, Doing to learn; Earning to live, Living to serve.” The Bement chapter of the Future Farmers of America is a part of the State and National organization of the F.F.A. Its purposes are shown in its emblem. The owl symbolizes wisdom and knowledge of farming; the plow, the labor and tillage of the soil; the cross-section of an ear of corn, the national scope of the organization, as does the American Eagle; and the rising sun, the new era in agriculture. The regular meetings were held the third Wednesday of each month at 3:15 in the Ag. room. On Wednesday, November 22, eighteen new members were taken into the chapter. The initiates wore suits and neckties to school that day. In the evening the official initiation ceremony was performed. After this, the Greenhands were given a rousing welcome into the organization by being put through the paddling machine. OFFICERS President...................Waldo Born Secretary ----- Dwight Yockey Vice-President ----- James Porter Treasurer - - - - Wayne Shonkwiler Reporter ------ Earl Wright First row: Murphy. Shumate. B. Hill. Halterman, Postlewait. Timme. Funk. Collins. Christman, Markel. Second row: Eckstein. Barnhart. G. Hill. Wright, Shonkwiler. Yockey. Porter, Born. Lux. Mitchell, Rucker, Comerford, Flenniken. Third row: M. Strater, W. Foran. Leib. Brady. Neal, Honstlman. R. Strater, Heiple, Romack. McCullough, Lamb. Fourth row: Sebens. Warren, Frye. Defore. Pettyjohn. R. Foran, Cotter, Bruce, Morgan. Buckner. Camden.