Bethesda High School - Bethian Yearbook (Bethesda, OH)

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The group dlsbanded at th1s po1nt and decxded to meet at the end of the summer to start on another tour The meet1ng place dec1ded upon was at Seventh Grade Inn You can know It was a happy bunch who met there the f1rst Monday ln September, a brxght sunny mornmg for a long, long Journey Twenty exght of us started out on the tr p Some dxdn t l1ke xt and left the group before the tr1p was over Well you may tlunk thxs a travelog xnstead of an autobxography but you see we all traveled so much that an account of the travels IS a story about our l1ves lf you thmk lt dxdn t take some travehng to get from grade one to and through grade elght, then you don t know anythmg about the hxghway patrol system of teachers they have who make headquarters at Bethesda School By the t1me we had arrxved at the age of fourteen or thereabouts we reahzed that we were grown up, so we decxded to stop runnxng around w1th grade school youngsters Therefore we took up resldence at Freshman Inn When we took the Sophomores throne there were thxrteen gxrls and s1xteen boys 1n our happy band What a record we made What grades we captured What trad1t1ons we upset It was here that we accornplxshed our f1rst brave deed upon wh1ch our last1ng fame may rest We d1scovered a method of bemg able to get through classes wxthout the use of textbooks We d1scovered how to bluff or at least we thought we were bluffxng untml the faculty dlshed out the grade cards After that we revxsed our plan and dec1ded perhaps a httle study would be benef1c1al to the future appearance of our grade cards Someone sa1d somethxng about nothmg bemg so rare as a day mn June But let us tell you that there s no grand and glonous feelxng hke the one we had the day we became .Tumors Of all the classes mn the school tlus 1S the favored class You see, the Semors are afrazd of them, because xf the Semors mxstreat the Jumors, they may not get any banquet The Sophomores are afra1d of the Junxors because they hve ID hopes that they may get a chance to eat the crumbs left from the banquet The Fresh.men just don t know any better than to hke the Junxors So the .Tumor Class IS the most popular class 1n hmgh school or, that ls, xt was wlule we were Jumors The records of h1story cannot produce a flner class than ours whxle we were .Tumors Never wzll the h1gh school get through talknng about these students durmg the1r Semor year The Semors have done themr best thxs year to make our school one of the best m every way The four years we have spent 1n Bethesda I-hgh School w1ll be remembered always, and w1ll form a treasured chapter m our Book of Memormes 17 o ll lv ' 1 1 . I . W . . - A . n . . , , . . D I I . . . . , . a . , . . n o a o n 9 u o n . -- . . D -- o 1 , . . . . -- 9 o ' U o o . . - . . . o 1 o o . . . a

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Clan .fvlwtorg The story of our hfe reads hke a thrllllng tale of a western movxe a story 1n a true story magaz1ne Modesty forbxds our dozng Justxce to the story of our lxfe The brave deeds and great accomplxshments we have faxled to record an thls brxef narratxve would fzll all the shelves of the Bethesda I-hgh School hbrary We have omztted reference work and out of respect for the w1shes of the h1story students who dzslxke the xdea of remembermg dates Before contmuxng w1th the ma1n plot we shall tell you some of the thxngs we have done We have not endorsed any tooth paste adverhsements We have not wrltten any best seller novels We have not yet achleved stardom ln the talkxes We have not xnvented a way for students to get h1gh grades wxthout workmg although we have fxgured out a method that works fa1rly well under certam cxrcumstances Before you begm to thxnk thxs xs a game of Guess Who we shall get xnto the plot proper of th1s story We fxrst started on our road to fame as a youngster only s1x years of age Our fzrst lessons m readmg wr1tmg, and arxthmetxc were taken under the dxrectxon and superv1s1on of M1ss Thornberry ten, and many other 1nterest1ng tlungs One fxne day we found ourselves m front of a great bmg door that saxd, second graders admztted here In we went, and by the tlme we had seen all there was to see and had learned all there was to know we found our selves xn Room Ill We played around for several months mn Room Ill wlth Mxss Morr1s who proved to be a fxne playxnate and who knew Just lots and lots about numbers, and read1ng And whxle we assoc1ated w1th her we learned lots about them too Tune passed We were growxng fast, and that s the reason we made the fourth grade wxth flyxng colors and came to the portals of a great castle called the Castle of the Knxght of Knowledge on Hxghway Number Fxve We lxked thxs castle so well that the Kmght 1nv1ted us to remam as hls guests for several months, whmch we dad Whxle there we learned much about how to put letters together to make words rn a game called Spellxng Thxs was a fascxnatlng game However, we ran out of words after playmg several games One day we were tourmg and came to a s1gn wh1ch sazd, you are now half way between here and there There were twenty fxve of us 1n the tourxng party We all wondered what the sxgn meant untxl one of the boys sand at meant that we had reached the end of the Sxxth Mzle Post on the I-hghway of Educatnon 6 O . . . . . D or . . . . ' who showed us how to make a, and b and cg told us how to count from one to 1

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Clan Prophecy How tmme flzes Here It IS May 3 1960 lt doesn t seem that long s1nce I stood wxth the graduatmng class that f1ne late sprmg mght and rece1ved my d1ploma from hxgh school The old gang certamly has scattered Wonder what they are all domg now? Our heavywexght champlon, Tom Lynn, knocked out the heavywexght champ 1n a half round last nxght At the end of the flrst half round the referee stepped 1n and stopped one of the most fxerce and hard poundmg fxghters of the r1ng The round was Just one fourth over when mt was evmdent that Tom would be the champ The crowd began cheerxng and yelhng The Badgersburg Yellowsocks have Just bought the Mudv11le N1nes accordlng to th1s Clarence Fxelds w1ll be the new manager He ought to be a good one He was always tryxng to manage the baseball team when he was 1n h1gh school The Walter s drug store advertxsements are works of art Nanette Balley wr1tes them l am told Alrplanes are gettmg cheap Here s a sale on them S1 60 each That new xnventxon of Davxd If11dOW s certaxnly gave everyone an a1rplane Walkxng down Broadway, New York, 1S the world s greatest comed1an, Dav1d Heskett He has made a fortune Just tell1ng funny stor1es and makmg the world laugh The medal of award for scxence serv1ce 15 to be awarded, we hear, t Ellzabeth Froehhch, the former Elxzabeth Kemp That httle bundle of brams d1scovered a way to extract energy from a snowflake, and make enough electrlc current to make the water flow uphxll at Nxagara Falls Wxll wonders never cease? A wmgless, motorless, axrplane w1ll be put 1n operatlon across the Pac1f1c shortly Promoters of the company whxch w1ll manufacture the plane are lmsted as Mxsses Peggy P1att, and Donna Orell A new school of learmng has just been establxshed on top of Pxke s Peak Everyone gets hxgh grades and there are no fa1lures Students fxnd much pleasure 1n study1ng at thls school The presxdent of the college IS .hm McFarland A mght club on Broadway 1n New York That head walter looks fam1l1ar What do you know about that? lt s Conrad Blaney, one of our old classmates, showxng our old frxend Gladys Flowers the former Gladys Stubbs to her table That must be her husband The Count of Barnesvllle 18 . . , . . I They're thicker than flies now. Think what they used to cost. . . . 0 . . , , 0 I . '