Bethel High School - Beacon Yearbook (Bethel, MO)

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Class Poem of 1952 High school is but a day in life, That prepares us for some future strife. We live, we worK we love, we play, We fill each moment of the day. Dawn found us in our Freshman year. Each golden moment we treasured here. Like tender green plants we grew, Both in wisdom and in stature too. Morn, we'll call our Sophomore days. Carefree were we in all our ways. Unaware of the passing of time, We sailed through our school days sublime Noontime, we'll call our Junior year. School life was quite interesting here. Through all the year we tried and tried, To tame our ways and be dignified. Eve, our Senior year will represent. A dignified group it does present. Each one has begun to realize, The one who wins is he who tries. Our motto now we understand. They Conquer Who Believe They Can. Our parents we appreciate. Their efforts our ways will dictate. They have not striven long and taught Us all these things for naught. Many things they thought we ought to know, As on our way through life we'd go. Our teachers hold a spot so dear. Remember what they've taught each year. They've laid the stones of our foundation, So we'll take our place in the nation. Even though we'll soon be far apart, School days we'll treasure in our hearts. Many examples here have been set, Lessons taught, that we'll never forget. Written by Bonnie Smoot 9 au

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Senior Class Prophecy One day in 1962, while lookihg through my scrapbook and reminiscing I ran across some clippings which brought back many memories of my former classmates, During the ten years since graduation, Ihad collected some very interesting information about each of them, I knew when we were in school to- gether that we were a rather unusual group, These clippings prove that this knowledge was one hundred per cent correct, With your permission I shall read some of them to you. MOTHER OF 18 SWIMS ENGLISH CHANNEL On Friday, June Z, the former Miss Gladys Hawkins swam the English Channel, After much diligent training and a good application of grease she was able to break all previous records by swimming it in only eight hours, Her happy husband and eighteen children were there to greet her as she reach- ed the English shore, VISITS MT. PALAMOR Roy Fuqua still single and fancy free, went on a tour of the West in his own Piper Cub plane, under his own guidance, He saw many things of interest, While in California he viewed the heavens through some of the lenses at Mt, Palamor, Newspapermen report that he was somewhat disappointed---he had expected Movie Stars, TRAPEZE PERFORMER VISITS PARENTS Miss Bonnie Smoot, 'who is with the Ringling Brother's Circus, arrived home Saturday for a four days visit, She has been a trapeze performer with this circus for three years, The manager says that she is the most fearless and daring young woman in this field he has ever seen, Upon her return to the circus her salary will be raised to four hundred dollars a performance, MAKES DEBUT ON BROADWAY Miss Nadean Spencer danced her way on to the stage and into the hearts of the audience at the American Theater in New York last night, She wore a gown of sheer, filmy, white lace entwined with rhinestones, She is a graceful toe- dancer, Irnmediately after the act a Warner Brother's representative came to her dressing room and presented Miss Spencer a two year contract, They plan for her to appear in many musicals during that time,