Benkelman High School - Tiger Yearbook (Benkelman, NE)

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CLASS HISTORY AS WE THE SENIORS OF 'RQ THUMB THROUGH OUR BOOK OF MEMORIES WE FIND ONE D MARKED SPECIAL AS VE LOOK CLOSER WE SEE THAT IT IS THE DAY WHEN WE FIRST ENTLRED B I S AS GREEN 'FRESHIES' THINKING BACK ON THIS DAY, WE VAGUELY REMLN ER BEING JUST A LITTLE SCARED BUT VERY PROUD TOO HOWEVER, WE SOON DID AWAY WITH THAT SCARED FEELING AND IT WASN'T LONG UNTIL THE UPPER CLASSMEN WERE SAYING THAT THE FRESHMEN REALLY TOOK OVER JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT OUR CLASS RUST HAVE BEEN, HERE ARE THE MEMBERS WE STARTED VITH RICHARD ANDERSEN, FRANK BALDERSON, JACK ALLARD, BARBARA BARNELL, BARBARA BATES, ILA LECHA, LILA BLECHA, VIOLET BROJN, ARLENE CARPENTER, BILL CHAPMAN, ZETTA LU HAINING, WARREN JACKSON, ANNABELL KENTOPP, LESLIE KIRKNAN, JOANNE LAUGHLIN, WARD LINGO RALPH MADDOX, DARLENE NICEK BERNICE REIMAN, DOROTHY SIDELL, JEAN SPAULDING, LORA STROUP, GERTRUDE WALT, LEROY OSBORNE, MERLE OSBORNE, SALLY CLINE, CHRISTIE DORTON, HAROLD DEAN, MARDELLE DIXON DONA LU FERGUSON, INA MAE GEE, NORLIN HAM, ROBERTA LITTLEFIELD ILA JANE OAKLEY, JIM PURSLEY, DARREL ROUSSELLE, GERALD JONES JUNIOR JUSSELL, BILL SCHEEL, ALVIN LAPBERT, NORMAN STEVENS, VERA TETRICK, JOYCE TODD, DONALD WHITMORE, LELA WILLIAMS, AND GERALDINE LITTLE AT THE END OF THAT YEAR, LUCK WAS WITH US AND THE COMING YEAR FOUND US AS SOPHOMORES AS SOPHOMORES WE WERE CONFRONTED WITH SOME BIG PROBLEMS TWO OF THEN BEING BIOLOGY AND GDOMENTRY DURING OUR SOPHOMORE YEAR WE FOUND OUR CLASS GROWING SMALLER AS WE LOST VERA TETRICK, HAROLD DEAN CHRISTIE DORTON, LEROY OSBORNE, BERNICE REIMAN, DOROTHY SIDELL, ALVIN LAMBERT AND DONALD WHITMORE, WE DID GAIN A FEW HOWEVER, THESE BEING MILDRED ERDMAND, DOROTHY GUNTHER, AND LYLE WOLFE AS FATHER TIME NARCHED ON, WE BECAME JUNIORS THIS YEAR AGAIN WE LOST A F W, THIS TIME THEY ERE VIOLET BROWN, DOROTTY GUNTHER, MERLE OSBORNE, NORMAN STEVENS, AND MILDRED ERDMAN AND AGAIN WE GAINED AS CTLORENE MASTEN AND LEROY GERDES WERE ADDED TO THE CLASS OUR JUNIOR YEAR vAS A VERY IMPORTANT ADMIRED UNTIL NE FOUND OURSELVES LOST IN THE HUBBUB OF THE PRODUCTION OF OUR JUNIOR PLAY A DATE WITH JUDYH, IT PROVED TO BE A BIG SUCCESS AFTER THIS QUIETED, WE AGAIN FOUND OURSELVES BUSY, THIS TILE PLANNING FOR THB JUNIOR SENIOR BANQUET WE USED THE STORK CLUB AS OUR TPEME, APD IT TOO PROVED TO BE A SUCCESS OUR JUNIOR YEAR LNDED WITH THE CLASS GOING ON A PICNIC EVERYONE RETURNED HOME SUNBURNED BUT HAPPY TO START THE CUSTOMARY THREE MONTHS VACA EQON AND WAIT FOR THE FOLLOWING SEPTERBER WHEN JL WOULD RETURN TO B H S AS NIORS SEPTEMBER FINALLY CAME AND WITH IT THE OPENING OF SCHOOL THIS YEAR WAS A VERY ADVENTUROUS YEAR FOR THE SENIORS ONE OF THE MAIN ATTRACTIONS OF THE YEAR WAS THE TAKING OF THE SENIOR PICTURES THIS YEAR COACH WITTY WAS ELECTED TO THE TERRIBLE FATE OF BEING SENIOR SPONSOR EVERYTHING WAS QUIET FOR THE SENIORS UNTIL SHORTLY AFTER CHRISTMAS, AT THIS TIME THINGS REALLY STARTED TO BUZZ BEFORE WE KNEW WHAT JAS HAPPENING WE WERE INTERVIEWED BY SALESMEN AND OUR ANNOUNCEMENTS ERE ORDERED A COUPLE OF CLASS PARTIES WERE PLANNED, BUT NONE OF THEB WERE EVER PUT ON SO WE DECIDED TO SAVE OUR NONEY FOR OUR SNEAK DAY' NEXT CAME THE QUESTION OF OUR CAPS AND GOWNS, WHICH WAS SOON SETTLED AS MR THOMAS SHOWED UP ONE DAY WITH A YARD STICK NOW DON'T GET IDEAS IT WAS TO WEASURE US FOR OUR CAPS AND GOWNS ONE OF THE MOST ENJOYABLE LUXURIES OF THE YEAR AS TO GO TO THE JUNIOR SENIOR PROM AND NOT HAVING TO WORK ON IT THE LAST FEI WEEKS BEFORE THE SENIORS ERE TO GRADUATE INTO THIS WIDE WON DERFUL WORLD, THEY JLRE VERY BUSY, FIRST IT AS THE SENIOR PLAY AND THEN CAME THE WORK AND SWEAT THAT GOES WIT? COMMENCEM NT WEEK ALTHOUGH WE ARE ALL GLAD TO BE THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL, DEEP IN OUR HEARTS WE REGRET HAVING TO SAY GOOD BYE TO B H S I3 I . 1 Q AY 'fr Y Y-XII T H3 il V , v A , Y 3 . Q I 3 , . YEAR IN OUR LIVES. FIRST, WE RECEIVED OUR CLASS RINGS WHICH WE CONSTANTLY N M ',v U . U in -1 - A W 4 - . T . IN

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THE: LAST WILL THE CLASS OF 19Lp9 WE, THE CLASS OF 1949, BEING ABOUT TO PASS OUT OF THIS SPHERE OF EDUCATION, IN FULL POSSESSION OF A CRAMMED MIND WELL TRAINED MEMORY, AND ALMOST SUPER HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, DO MAKE AND PUBLISH THIS OUR IAST WILL, HEREBY REVOKING AND LAKING VOID ALL FORMER WILLS OR PROMISES BY US AT ANY TIME HERETOFORE MADE OR MAYHAP, CARELESSLY SPOKEN ONE TO THE OTHER AS THE THOUGHTLESS WISH OF AN IDLE HOUR TO THE JUNIORS WE LEAVE OUR HONORED NAME HSENIORSH TO THE SOPHOMORES OUR ATHLETIC ABILITY TO THE FRESHMEN WE WILL THE SUMMER SUNSHINE SO THAT WHEN THEY ARE SOPHO MORES THEY WON'T BE SO GREEN TO THE FACULTY NE LEAVE OUR CO OPERATIVE SPIRIT IN ALL SCHOOL ACTIVITIES RICHARD ANDERSEN WILLS HIS ABILITY TO SLEEP IN CLASS TO JANICE NELSON BARBARA BATES WILLS HER SODA JERK POSITION TO DARRYL ROUSSELLE BARBARA BARNELL WILLS HER QUICK TEMPER TO ELERY HUNT JACK BALLARD WILLS HIS BASKETBALL ABILITY TO ROBERT CAMPBELL ILA BLECHA WILLS HER BEING A TWIN TO ANNA JEAN WARREN LILA BLECHA WILLS HER FRIENDLINESS TO SHERIDAN MAGNANI ARLENE CARPENTER WILLS HER ABILITY TO BE A WAITRESS TO DWIGHT PURSLEY PHYLLIS CLINE WILLS HER DIAMOND RING TO DARLENE GOODSON INA MAE GEE WILLS HER RED HAIR TO GRANT MINTON ANNA BELL KENTOPP WILLS HER STRATTON FRIENDS TO SHIRLEY CARPENTER JO ANNE LAUGHLIN WILLS HER MUSIC ABILITY TO JERRY JACKSON GERALDINE LITTLE WILLS HER CHEER LEADING ABILITY TO LELA WILLIAMS ROBFRTA LITTLEFIELD WILLS HER BUTCHERING ABILITY AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE ALMANAC TO WAYNE STROUP CHLORENE MASTEN WILLS HER SOUTHERN DRAWL TO REIKE GERDES ILA JANE OAKLEY WILLS H R CONTINOUS TALKING TO ADELE BARENBERG JOYCE TODD WILLS HER CREATIVE ARTS AS CROWNS AND SUCV TO THOIAS DWARDS JEANNIE SPAULDING WILLS HER SWEATERS TO DONNA BEHLKE MARDELLE DIXON WILLS HIS NEW CARS TO STEPHENY JONES LE ROY GERDES WILLS HIS HEIGHT TO BITHA REIMAN NORLIN HAM WILLS HIS GOOD GRADES TO JIM ELLIOT WARREN JACKSON WILLS HIS WAY WITH WOMEN TO DEAN PURSLEY GERALD JONES WILLS HIS SINGING ABILITY TO JOAN ROSSNILLER LESLIE KIRKMAN WILLS HIS BIG BUICK TO RICHARD BORCHERT WARD LINGO WILLS HIS GIFT OF GAB TO AARLIN PHIFER RALPH MADDOX WILLS HIS DANCING ABILITY TO DARRYL IRISH JIM PURSLEY WILLS HIS MECHANICAL ABILITY TO MARY JO WILSON BILL SCHEEL WILLS HIS IMPUDENCE TO ILA RICKARD LYLE WOLFE WILLS HIS INTELLIGENCE TO KEITH ELLIS BILL CHAPMAN WILLS HIS ATTENDENCE IN SCHOOL TO GENE ROSENFELT WE, THE CLASS OF IQHQ HAVE TO THIS OUR WILL WRITTEN ON ONE SHEET OF PARCH MENT, SET OUR HANDS AND SEALS THIS SIXTEENTH DAY OF MAY, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY NINE il OF , .., - , , I , 'rw DARLENE MICEK WILLS HER SWEET DISPOSITION TO ELDON ZINN.. AL IT '. I . 0 , -n