Bethel High School - Beacon Yearbook (Bethel, MO)

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Class History The closing of another school term rolls around and presents for gradua- tion another class from Bethel High School, which contains thirteen members, These thirteen Seniors came from various grade schools in the surrounding territory, On a Monday morning early in the month of September, l948,twelve of these boys and girls entered the halls of learning in old B, H, S, Three of these twelve, namely: Shirley Forman, Dean Thrasher, and Norman Schnaufer, hailed from the Bethel Grade School, Coming from the Garrison School, were: Mary Jo Hawkins, Alma Jo Smoot, Bonnie Smoot, and Gladys Hawkins, The Brick School sent Nadean Spencer and Donald Shouse. From the Whitelock School came Mary Daugherty and Roy Lee Fuqua, Charles Stokes came by way of the Haman School, During their Freshman year the class learned to feel right at home here in the Bethel School and to take part in various school activities, After a summer's vacation, all came back to enter the Sophomore class, One new member, Dale Perrine, was gained, only to be lost at the end of the first half of the school term, During the second year of high school life, several of the members went out for basketball, baseball, and other sports, A few of them also assisted the upperclassmen in presenting the Senior play, Another summer passed, all came back as Juniors, This year called for much hard work and studying, The annual school carnival was sponsored by the class, The Junior play entitled, Air Castles, was presented, The Junior-Senior trip to Jefferson City and the Ozarks was planned and sponsored, The class was divided as to subjects chosen this year, A thirteenth classmate was added during the Junior year, Maurice Tonnies, who came from the LaBelle School, joined our group, September, 1951 all thirteen Juniors of 1950-'51 were promoted to the Senior status, This year various members of the class took prominent posi- tions on the basketball squads and other athletic teams, This spring, the class sponsored the Senior play, They were guests of the Junior class on the Junior- Senior trip to St, Louis, The class attended Senior Day at Kirksville State Teachers College, Now you see all thirteen here before you, the class says good-bye to a grand and glorious high school life here in the Bethel High School, We are now ready to step out into our future life, what it will be, we do not know, but we feel prepared to meet it, come what may, Written by Norman Schnaufer l2