Big Sandy High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Big Sandy, MT)

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I, Erma Mae Buchholz, bequeath my chewing gum wrappers to Patty Williams and Donna Reichelt. These, combined with the ones they already have, will keep the school house warm for a couple of days at least. I, Margaret Cole, leave my gift of gab to Frances Petr even if it gets her in hot water at times. I, Robert Green, bequeath my forwardness to Fritz Osterman, hoping he will make as good use of it as I did and wishing him the best of luck. I, Joe Quinn, leave my arguing ability and ingenuity for telling tall tales to Tom Sevcik. I, Muriel Lund, will my brown eyes and dark hair to Beatrice Buchholz so her teachers can distinguish her from Bernice. I, Walter Monson, will my physique to Kenny Darlington. He may fall in love with a tall girl. I, Edward Pokorny, leave my faithful Ford to Harold Sherbeck. It at least beats sprinting to keep from being tardy. If Clinton Hagen, leave my manly voice to Alan Lohse hoping he will use it to a good extent. If Delores Goecks, bequeath my dimples to Ruby Flanery if they don't bring her any more attention than they brought me. I, Edward Nygard, will my ability to be on time to Dora Goecks. It makes life more exciting. I, Leona Sanford, give my ability to stay out of the detention room to Joyce Chauvet. She may need the time for something else. I, Mernie Wright, will my ability to eat and asking When do we eat? to all the other slender (!) people with an appetite. I, Mardella Reichelt, bequeath my ability to ride that bucking bus to the rest of its victims. I, Blanche Riley, leave all the answers to my curious questioners. I, Violet Lanik, leave my bright and happy smile to anyone who can use it as effectively as I can. If Margaret Bakke, will my soft singing voice to Frances Eve. Take are of it, there might be a shortage of baskets. 21

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read in the newspapers of his saving a Pekinese puppy of Lana Turner's. Quite the hero. As for me, this tour was almost too much. I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I think I'll settle down in the Rockies and raise flowers in a rock garden. BLAZED TRAILS 1945 --Mernie Wright LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, The Senior Class of the Big Sandy High School, of the city of Big Sandy, county of Chouteau, and state of Montana, being of sound mind and memory, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking any will or wills heretofore made by us. FIRST: We direct that all our just debts and graduation expenses be fully paid and satisfied, as soon as convenient. SECOND: We give, devise, and bequeath unto the Juniors our sneak day. ( For Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall , as it did on our sneak day). THIRD: We give, devise, and bequeath unto the Sophomores --nothing as we haven't anything they would be interested in (or have we?) FOURTH: To the Freshmen we leave the remembrance of initiation to help them when they have reached the glorious realms of seniorism. FIFTH: To Erwin, our janitor, we leave the memory of our smiling faces--and devilish pranks. SIXTH: To the school we leave the memory of our bobby socks, page-boy bobs, and the traditional cars, cords, ? , ?,. Also our ability to concentrate on all the things we shouldn't and the unused portion of our intelligence (which is plenty). If you don't want it, save it, because we may want it back some day. SEVENTH: To the faculty we leave our procrastination, prevarication, and pernicious perseverance for our assignments. They will be in safe-keeping so the other students will have to use their ingenuity to find new methods of evasion. We each individually would also like our say. 20 EIGHTH:

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In Witness Whereof, We the Undersigned, the testators, have set our hands and seals hereto this fifteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty rive (1945). BLAZED TRAILS 1945 —Violet Lanik June 30, 1945 Due to the nation-wide teacher shortage, it was necessary to call upon a number of local persons to fill vacancies. These individuals responded generously, and helped keep student and teacher morale at a high level throughout the school term. Evidence of a high teacher morale last year and prediction for another successful school term next year, is seen in the fact that only one high school teacher, and one grade school teacher resigned at the end of the school term. In many schools teacher turnover has been a most serious problem. The 1944-45 school term just completed was-at the same time- one of the most successful and one of the most difficult to be experienced at Big Sandy for many years. The difficulties may have been due, at least in part, to the tremendous history- making events which transpired simultaneously and which were bound to effect, to a more or less greater degree, the students on the home front. From D -day, followed by the long casualty lists; and the sudden death of President Roosevelt; to V-E -day and the San Francisco World Security Conference, earth-shaking news flashes seemed to follow one after another. In our small way at Big Sandy, we kept at our job, attempting to turn out good citizens for the world of the future, hoping that this new world would be a better place in which to live. --Chas. E. Hood, Superintendent EPILOGUE Consider the changes we have witnessed: We were born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, plastic, contact lenses, Frisbees and the PILL. We were born before radar, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams and bail-point pens; before pantyhose, dishwashers, clothes 22