Bement High School - BIM Yearbook (Bement, IL)

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Juniors ★ It was September, 1942, when we entered B.T.H.S. as freshmen. We had soon swung into the new routine and selected Pat Brady, Bill McManus, and Doris Shepherd for our class officers. Doris was also our candidate for Homecoming Queen, but unfortunately she was defeated. A year later we came back as sophomores. We got to the point quickly and elected Rosy Glennon, Raymond Britten-ham, and Rosann Ford for our officers. This year we hit it. Marilyn Auth, our queen candidate, was elected by the student body. Here we are in 1944-45 as “Jolly Juniors.” (That was said before Civic-Economics was a required subject.) Our election this year made Tom Murphy, Pat Brady, and Elizabeth Coffin our officers. Elizabeth was our queen candidate. Our campaign failed and we lost to the senior class. We got off to an early start with a party on September twenty-ninth. Mr. Slusser was sick all next week, but we didn’t have anything to do with it, Honest! On November seventeenth, we presented a play, “His Name Was Aunt Nellie.” Our class braved the elements and war shortages to sell refreshments at the stand at the athletic field. Through the past three years, we have had representatives in just about any school activity you could name. Members of our class have been on the News and Annual Staffs, in Band and Chorus, G.A. A., F.F.A., and out for every sport offered. A large number of us reported for baseball and track as well as for the old standbys, football and basketball. Some people say, “Save the best till last.” On March ninth, the seniors entertained us with a party, and on April twenty-sixth, we returned the favor with the seniors as our guests at the annual Junior-Senior Reception. First row: Grennon. Markel, Lawson, Camden. Brady, Coffin, Murphy, Gallivan. Johnson, H. Frye. Warren, Shepherd. Second row: Imel, Koebel. Smith. Lamb, Moery, Ford. Glennon, Pruitt. Pierce. Auth. M. Frye, McCullough. Jordan, Lugar. Coe. Rucker. Third row: Foran, Brown. Romack. Clark. Halterman, Dunn, Honselman, Morgan. Bruce, Porter, Sebens. Twenty

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 Sophomores In the fall of ’43 when we entered as freshmen we learned that we were a unique class, being the first in sixteen years to arrive at Miss Swaim’s English class on time with everyone present. We selected as our class officers the following: Jack Hooper, president; Dwight Yockey, vice-president; Edna Probus, secretary-treasurer ; and Jack Plummer, member of Athletic Board of Control. As freshmen our parties consisted of a treasure hunt, a wiener roast, and two indoor parties. On entering our sophomore year we soon discovered that we would get our fill of cheery pie alamode, as Mr. Davies, one of our class advisers, always suggested it for our parties. We had several successful parties including a wiener roast at the Forest Preserve Park. Everyone enjoyed himself although two of the boys suffered cut lips and bruises as a result of the games that were played. The class officers were as follows: Mary Lou Redman, pres- ident; Jack Plummer, vice-president; Ted Petersen, secretary-treasurer; and Jack Hooper, member of Athletic Board of Control. Each year our class was well represented on both the major and minor honor rolls with Louise Hodam holding school honors part of the time. Edna Probus, as Princess Titania, displayed her talent as did the rest of the members of our class in the operetta, “The Forest Prince.” Our class was well represented in sports. Merill Strater distinguished himself in football with his ability to carry the ball down the field for touchdowns. Other boys of our class to receive letters for football were Dwight Yockey, Jack Plummer, Jack Hooper, and Kenneth Christman. Bill Shumate was renowned for his many baskets and “personals” in basketball. Jack Hooper, a letterman, represented our class in every basketball game. Many of the girls in our class were members of the Home Ec Club and G.A.A., and the boys were members of the “B” Club and F.F.A. First row: Comerford, Koran, Defore. Strater. Sebens. Second row: Ridge, Gulliford, Fair, High, Petersen, Redman, Hooper, Plummer, Munson. Van Fleet. Hodam. Third row: Uncicum, Warren, Brown. Ford, Eckstein, Probus, Ray, Reinhart, Christman. Slagle, Dodd. Bennett, Yockey, Poundstone. Fairbanks. Fourth row: Kirwan, Leib, Scott. Shirley, Slusser, Shumate, Forcum. Ilinton, Fish, Hord. Nineteen

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 Junior Play On November seventeenth, the Junior class presented “His Name Was Aunt Nellie,” a three-act play by A. Jameson. Archie Baldwin is a prosperous small town banker with a pleasant family, Bertha, his wife, Sheila nineteen, Fred seventeen, and Joyce fifteen. Archie and Ed Saunders, the next door neighbors, invent fake relatives whom they visit as an excuse to slip away to the race track. Ed has a “cousin” from Paris, “Felix,” and Archie has an “Aunt Nellie,” a former burlesque queen. Sheila is forbidden to marry Jerry Parkham, a young actor. Just before her father slips away to Saratoga, Jerry overhears the story of the fake relatives and plays “Aunt Nellie” who comes for a visit while Archie is away. “She” tells a story of Archie’s father as an embezzler. Money is missing from the bank. Archie and Ed come back, having lost heavily, with a story about giving their relatives money. However, everything is straightened out, Sheila and Jerry are happy, and Bertha persuades Archie to swear off gambling. “HER NAME WAS AUNT NELLIE” Archie Baldwin - - Wilbur Honselraan a prosperous small town banker Bertha Baldwin, his wife - - Gayle Smith Sheila, his daughter, aged 1!) - - Roseann Ford Fred, his son, aged 17 Harold Frye Joyce, another daughter, aged 15 • Doris Shepherd CAST Cleo, their colored maid - - - Norma Lamb Ed Saunders, a neighbor - - Eugene Pruitt Mabel, his wife.................Frances Sebens Jerry Parkham, a young actor - - Bob Moery Mr. Van Dilling .... Peter G. Brown president of the bank ★ ★ ★ Junior-Senior Reception On April twenty-sixth we entertained the senior class at the annual Junior-Senior Reception. From 8 o’clock to 9 o’clock we were entertained by talent from our class. A girls’ trio, Elizabeth Coffin, Margaret Frye, and Elfrie Coe, sang, and Mary Alice Born did a solo number. Further entertainment was provided by a one-act play, “Between Dances.” To wind up this part of the evening, we had a May Pole exercise with ten girls wrapping the pole. The center of attraction was a large May Pole hung with colored streamers in the middle of the floor. Further decoration consisted of smaller May Poles in each corner, a picket fence around the wall, and individual tables with a little May Pole in the center of each table. Mendel Riley and his band clayed for three hours of dancing. In keeping with the government curfew the musicians stopped at eleven-forty-five and we broke up at twelve o’clock. We had our choice of a ten-piece orchestra for one hundred dollars or a six-piece orchestra for sixty dollars. After several class meetings, we decided to contract the smaller organization and use the forty dollars saved as a donation to the Mothers of World War II who send the Bement Register to the fellows in the service. It was a small sacrifice, but it gives us the satisfaction of knowing that we are doing something worth-while. Twenty-one