Black Earth High School - Earthman Yearbook (Black Earth, WI)

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HOMECOMING hOur Homecoming was a three day celebration. Thursday evening the crowning of our Queen and King, Gerry Knowles and Gene Barman was held. A large crowd attended. This was followed by a bonfire and snake dance. Friday afternoon was the parade, put on by the Black Earth Grades, High School, and outside interested citizens. After the parade the game between Black Earth and DeForest was played. Black Earth was defeated, but the boys played a good game, the score being 36 to 24. Saturday evening was the Homecoming Ball, sponsored by the Seniors. The gym was decorated in blue and white. Music was furnished by Fern Lamonte. A large crowd attended. FRESHMAN INIT IAT ION One of the first events of the school year was the freshman initiation, sponsored by the sophomore class. The boys came to school decked out in little girl's apparel wearing short dresses, stockings, hair ribbons, make up. carrying dolls under their arms and eating lollypops. The girls were rigged up like working men, wearing overalls, shirts and neckties backwards, rqen's shoes and smoking pipes of in- cense. ' The'initiates were expected to bow to all sophomores when they met as well ascrawl on all fours in and out of the assembly. The climax of the occasipn wash party in the evening, where each of the freshmen performed a special duty for the entertainment of the upper classmen.

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Our Forensics Contest was held March 9, 1948 at the Black' Earth Gym. Those participating were as follows: Humorous Erleen Schumann -------- Jimmy Jones Studies Geography Mary Fuller ------------ Mother Takes Up Slang Gerry Knowles ---------- The Cat Came Back Melva Jean Thorson ----- Love Versus Football Bernadine Brindley ----- Tommy Stearns At the Library Natalie Lee ------------- Hasty Tasty Lunch Counter Serious FloraBelle Hauge ------- Nocturne Caryl Booth ------------ White Hands of Telham Margarite Skalet -------- Patsy Betty Schulenberg ------- Daddy Doc Shirley Strang. ---------- The Forgotten Witness La Vera Garfoot -------- White Lilacs Mable Hoffmann --------- Mickeys Marker Addie Tupper ----------- Kitty Goes Adopting Oratory Curtis Everson --------- Tomorrows World LIBRARY CLUB Miss Barber formed the Library Club at the beginning of this year. It is the first year we have had a Library Club. There are seven members in the Club. Each of these members has charge of the library for one period in the day. The duties of each member is to check out the books, check in those returned, and replace them in their proper plaCes. Much work has been done to make books easier to find. All books were-recorded and accessioned catalog. cards made for each. Over one hundred books have been added to the Library.