Benton High School - Wahwahlanawah Yearbook (St Joseph, MO)

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AS SENIORS PLAY You re Only Young Once but once IS enough to Judge by the narrow escapes and near crrses befallrng the twenty Senrors who rmpersonate hrgh school youth and the oflrcrals of a mythrcal Lrncoln Hrgh 1n thls year s class play The settrng IS the hrgh school offrce The c1ty football champronshrp depends on Lrncolns wrnnrng the next game At thrs cntrcal Juncture crgarettes are drscovered rn the locker of Ron Dayton the grrdrron star' Suspensron IS the prrn crpal s ultlmatum Comes now the school nursance Gabby Gallagher to convrnce shy studrous Paul Chapman that he must shoulder the blame so Ronny can play and wrn for dear old Llncoln All of Whrch happens Gabby 1S the school s hero But theres more too Gabby convrnced that the school needs a movle camera rnterests the P T A to the pornt of buylng and presentlng one l-le loses hrs heart to a wee vulges that the crgarettes were CURTAIN Ar' rntermrssron of ten mrnutes between acts STANDING H Boswell K bnow B Bedford D Holdxng B Kerns E Hancock L Iohannes D Sprxnger R Iones H Schxrmer B Young I Carson R Benner SEATED C Bxihck P Blanchard E Heaston H Lawhon L Riley F Lexmnger NOT IN PICTURE R Cole D Lannxng Page Twenty lwe bashtul maiden. The school busy-body, Bernice lohnson, di-

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Y N STANDING H Cook E Crandell W Raumaker O Vanmeter R Cole D Lanmng B Bedford H Wanda V Poli C Leonard N Hyde M Hammond B Gibson O Edwards I Crouclm M Stxckler H Schumer M Rosenauer L Rxley F Lexnlnger SEATED Mxss Lomax E Hancock D Sprmger P Blanchard M Barton M Fehrman F Kazan Mllohnson B Hurst D Holdxng H Gxlley I Farley A Carnllo R Bloom R Benner I Babb I Krumme LWAYS a br1ll1ant and movmg servlce the 1940 lnduc hon ceremony for Semors and Iumors elected to the Na tronal Honor Soclety was especlally unpresswe as 1t was the last to be held m the school on the h1ll Semors elected last year Don Lannmg Dorothy Sprmger Bett1e Bedford Ruth Dale Cole Evangelme Hancock Pearl Blanchard Marlorle Barton and Maxme Fehrman made the speeches asslsted by the sponsor Mlss Lomax and the prmclpal Mr Daffron They welcomed lnto membershlp from the 1940 class Henry Sch1r mer Raymond G111ey Dorothy Holdlng Frances Kozan Mary Lou Bosenauer Iune Krumme Boy Benner Marguente Iohn son Alex Carrlllo Iaquelme Farley Iames Babb Rosemary Bloom Lorralne Phley Frank Lelnmger and Madge St1ck1er from the class of 1941 Iewell Crouch Henry Wenda Clara Mae Leonard lfllldred Hammond Ohve Edwards Norma Lee Hyde B111 G1bSOH ana V1rg1n1a Lee Poff LET H0 DRS CQME Page Twenty four , X , I . : . : . : . : . : . : . : - I A - - I. . II . gg I I I I I I I A I I - I I - - . I - I I I I I I I - I I I I I I I I 1 1 I I I- I I . . I . .. I I -

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W? A Last Look at the Old More Vans Move Up Loadmg the Sewmq Room Thls Way to the New OVING DAY W1th a b1t of sadness for the dear old school left behmd Wlth eager happy exc1ternent over the prospects ahead on March 21 puprls collected therr books and teachers packed the last boxes ready for the trucks What quantltles of belonamgs Went down the hlll ln the b1g vans' At the new bu11d1ng cartons of books stage turnlshlngs art easels chernlstry glass cateterra kettles and scarred desks hobnobbed forlornly But everybody took a hand Soon books and prctures drsappeared rnto classrooms the cateterla staff rounded up the alurnxnum the 1an1tors by some maglc knew where everyth1ng el e belonged Movrng Day was over 'TWAS G E GRE T DAY Page Twenty slx 'af t' 1-1 l 121 f ,fv K 111 I 2 A ,,,. 9' M, We . R Sflwaif L 1 1 ' 1- 1113, . ' , U if 1 1 'Si 5 ,, 1 , 4 Y N? . . I 1 1 - 1 1 1 A 1 1 I . I W ' s . . ' .