Bement High School - BIM Yearbook (Bement, IL)

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Spring approaches-greener grass -longer days-track and baseball-lighter hearts - more tests - Spring Fever-faraway looks-the Junior-Senior reception, with festive formals and gay music-Senior play practice-Annual arouses a stir - all of this before Semesters approach once again and the year ends in a whirl of Commencement activities.

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 SPICE OF March 5: Practice in earnest begins for the operetta with the first night rehearsal. March 6: Mr. Slusser can cook! The teachers verify this statement after a chili supper. March 9: The Juniors are guests of the Seniors at a very successful St. Patrick’s party. March 13: Patty Bogue presents an interesting talk on “Why Buy War Stamps and Bonds”! March 15: Rotten Eggs! Chemistry students plus H2S succeed in filling the whole school building with a horrible odor. March 16: ’Tis the day before St. Patrick’s Day! All the Irish—and some of the rest —show their color. March 19: The Senior Play committee start reading plays! March 20: Three days before the Matinee, one of the operetta’s stars, Bob Postle-wait, almost bites his tongue off in noon basketball! March 21: The operetta cast suffers another casualty—Willa Mae Patterson underwent an appendectomy. Plenty has been said about buying war stamps—but nothing yelled, so the cheerleaders lead the student body in some patriotic yells. March 23: After many weeks of work, the B.T.H.S. choruses present “The Forest Prince.” March 26: The senior play committee chooses the three-act comedy “Tish” for their class play. Work! yes, work! Five staff members were busy until eleven tonight getting the dummy of the Betohi ready for the printer. April 4-5: Talent is displayed at Senior Play tryouts.