Buchanan High School - Pines Yearbook (Buchanan, MI)

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two football games were play- ed and won, and predictions for a repetition of last year's undefeated season began to be rumored about the school, although these rumors were not sanctioned by the ever- worried coach. The bustle of September faded into the relative tran- quillity of October, and the students seemed to settle down too, taking their work a little more seriously, with re- port card time only two weeks away. The most im- portant events of this interval were football games with Paw Paw and Niles. On that all-revealing Iirst report card day, various de- grees of surprise, disappoint- ment, and determination 'ere discernible on the ances of the came student loves forward to- institute. Two days of vacation! And the teachers have to work! What could be better? On the following Satur- day, the football team won its fifth game-from Coloma. A n o t h e r successful high school party was held the next Friday, to send the team off to victory at South Haven, but to no availg a 6-6 tie was the result. Thus came to a close the second month of the journey to progress, and most students found the time slip- ping by almost unnoticed. November of 1938 was full of activities for the stud- ents of Buchanan High. In addition to the rising tide of enthusiasm for the winning football team, which added the final two victories to its string of four wins and two ties-the victims being the two strongest teams on the schedule, Dowagiac and State Hi gh of Kalamazoo-other activities were: the obser- vance of American Education an event l19l

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ggi :Scgoof When the doors of Buchanan High School opened on September sixth, more than three hundred high school students, tanned and healthy from three months' vacation, entered or reentered to begin the academic year of 1938-39. After the boys had finished whoo! Whoo!-ing at the cute freshmen girls, everyone went to his respective classes to receive, much to his dismay, the first assignments. However each shouldered his bur- den bravely and began the nine months' journey to scholastic honor. The band and Future Farmers of America were both well organized when school began, as these groups had been meeting from time to time throughout the summer, and on the first day of school many other groups met and got under way. Among these were the football men, who really started to work on September first with the first game only three weeks away. The Microphone Staff was anxious to prepare an interesting first issue of the Microphone, and the Library Club quickly arranged the new books and prepared the room for student use. Carried over from last year was the idea of dances held in the gymnasium. The first held this year was on September 17, sponsored by the freshmen and sophomores. As the Buchanan Troubadors, the school dance band which played for the affair, hagl purchased many of the latest popular tunes, the affair was a success both socially and financially. At the first football game of the '38 season, the Bucks played host to Watervliet, who managed to put the only blemish on last year's record, a 6-6 tie. This year, however, it was a different story. With a good per- centage of the school body and the colorful parading of the band with its new baton twirlers to back them up, the team encountered little difficulty in beating the invaders soundly, the score being 24-7 . During this first month, a hundred and one things occupied each student's mind at the same time: the classes were organizing and electing leaders, clubs were doing the same, another all-school party was held,

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20 Week, a high school par- ty after the State High game, the faculty play, Penny-Wise presented on the 18th of Novem- ber, the beginning o f basketball practice, the victory over B e r r i e n Springs, and the nation- wide observance of Thanksgiving, a c c o m - panied by two days of vacation for the students and teachers, and the Future Farmers' Fair. The latter was so suc- cessful that it is now to be an annual affair. The future farmers deserve much credit for their work and cooperation on this excellent project. As he had given us so much fair weather in preceding months fthe football team encounter- ed none but sunny days, even in Novemberl, the weather man decided to W unleash the furies of Winter without waiting for December 22. And so, soon after the first of December came the first real snow storm, follow- ed immediately by the Buck first court win over Niles since 1932. The following week Dowagiac was the victim. Then came the high school musical on the sixteenth. What a colorful affair! Amidst the glow of soft red and blue lights, the musical organizations presented several types of music: choral, orchestral, and modern. On December 22, the Library Club helped make up a series of events by presenting their play The Ring and the Look. On the next day the Bucks won their fourth basketball game, celebrated by a dance in the gym afterward. Three days later, another game, and three days later, still another, both adding to the victorious string of the local courtmen. This day also marked the beginning of Christmas vacation, the mid-year breather Returning on January 2, completely rested and sporting bright-color- ed clothes, the students re-shouldered their burdens for the three week trek to the end of the semester, stopping on the way to see the Bucks beat Bridgman and chalk up the only loss of the regular season, St. Joe being the victor. Perhaps it was because the men were worried about the semester exams they had just completed. Nevertheless, this game was the last event of the first semester. la., Q