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

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SUPERINTENDENT’S MESSAGE The 1977 Annual has special meaning to me because it honors the Class of 1977. One of the members of that class is my oldest son and the first of my three children to graduate from high school. He has attended the Big Sandy Public Schools for ten years of his life, and I am very thankful and proud that he had the opportunity to gain the greater portion of his elementary and secondary education in a school and community of this caliber. Learning One Step at a Time is the theme of the '77 Annual, and I believe that the children in the Big Sandy community have certainly experienced this, for how else would such an over-all educational foundation have been laid for the Class of '77? Our school is now one of the smallest in the B classification, and yet we have experienced academic and extra-curricular achievements which have made us the envy of many larger peers. We are always concerned when we are about to lose a graduating class because we wonder if classes that follow will provide the kind of positive leadership and example that the current Senior Class has exhibited. Generally our fears are unfounded because our students are learning one step at a time, and when the time arrives, are ready to step in and take over the active reins of leadership in our school system. Congratulations to the Class of '77 on all of your achievements including this publication, and thank you for your contributions that each of you have made in making our school one of the best. 29

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SCHOOL BOARD I would like to congratulate the teaching staff and students of Big Sandy Schools on another year of achieve- ments. We must never stop working to keep the Big Sandy Schools at th- top of the fist. 1 feel your theme - One Step at a Time - is very appropriate in a world that has so many social and political problems. To the Class of 77, the school board would like to wish all the very best of everything in your future. God Bless You All Fred Bitz Top Left: Fred Bitz, Chairman. Top Right: Marilyn Lund. Center Left: Darrell Chauvet. Lower Left: Robert Boyce. Lower Cen- ter: Ray Williams, Lower Right: Louis Beirwagen. 28

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PRINCIPAL’S One Step at a Time Education is one step at a time. We usually crawl before we walk, walk before we run, and talk before we read. It is our hope that the curriculum, the extra-curricular activi- ties, and the experiences within and around this curric- ulum have provided important steps in every student’s high school life and a broad prepa- ration for later life. It has been said that life is but a breath of time and so each minute a step in your life. Following this time relationship, the beginning and ending of each year is a threshold in each life. It is convenient to survey our progress on the thresholds of any climb, so it should be appropriate for each of us to reflect on his or her progress at the end of each year. Graduation marks an important threshold in the lives of high school seniors and their families. It is also a very pronounced threshold to the school faculty as they reflect on their successes and failures in helping each student reach what they as teachers see as each student's potential and to what degree that potential was realized in each case. The 1976-1977 school year has produced many successes for Big Sandy High School in all school activities. Divisional Championships were gained in football, wrestling, speech, and drama, and we competed in the state tournament or state play-off levels in football, basketball, wrestling, speech, and drama, winning the State Championship in Speech and Second in Drama and sending one student to national. The Music program won six places in All State Choir, two places in All Northwest Choir, and won outstanding ratings in the district and state music meets. F.F.A. provided a state farmer and a state officer. F.H. A. provided a state officer and a candidate for national office. This outstanding record is the result of leadership and effort on the part of the Junior and Senior classes, together with the dedication of teachers and coaches. I wish to congratulate this Senior class on their very constructive efforts and thank them for the kind of influ- ence which has helped this student body to achieve such success in both curricular and extra-curricular endeav- ors. 1 am sure this annual will be a fine history of your outstanding year of leadership. I congratulate the editors Charlotte Jenkins, Marjory Sheehy, Pamela Welty, and Yvonne Cornett; the photographers Kevin Skaalure and Alan Archibald; and their advisor Mr. Nicolson for a job well done. MESSAGE 30 Howard H. Hammond, Principal