Bucklin High School - Reco Yearbook (Bucklin, MO)

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Jiggs

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R-2 School of Linn County The combined elementary and secondary school, located just outside the city limits of Bucklin, Missouri, as seen by the photographer one warm December afternoon. A group of children are awaiting their bus to be returned to their homes.

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Bucklin, Missouri March 15, 1957 Hi Folks, You know I think you Bucklin folks are just about the most planned progress minded people I have ever met. I learned that when I moved here with the Bartees last June. It seemed that everyone was busy sprucin' up the town- -young and old alike. The mer- chants with paint brush in hand and a smile on their faces were repairing store fronts and interiors, while in the residential district battalions of moms and kids rushed about painting, repairing, and planting petunias. No matter which street we went down, these busy friendly people could be found hard at work, and whether they wielded a paint brush from the top rung of a ladder or crouched over a bed of petunias they were never too busy to look up and speak. As I said, everyone pitched in. The various youth groups of the churches, the C.Y,F, , the M,Y,F,, and Chi Ro, did their share by planting petunias in the new park- ing lot behind Stanley's market and at both ends of the overhead bridge. One of the planned progress projects was the purchasing of fire-fighting equipment. A new parking lot sprang up in the spot that stretches from behind Stanley's market to just behind the bank. The very air was filled with the spirit of the thing. One thing that I will never cease to marvel at is the speed at which the ugly blot on main street caused by fire was so quickly replaced by Robert Marcusson's electric shop. Once these Bucklin people start on something, there's no stoppin' them. The climax came at the end of the summer when time for that big 'shebangf' known around these parts as the Bucklin Homecoming, rolled around. At the Homecoming, prizes were given to those organizations and individuals who contributed the most to beautifying Bucklin. A big event came when they chose a beauty queen out of a line of dazzling competitors and crowned her Miss Petunia , the planned progress queen for 1956. Then came school time and the planned progress idea carried over. The freshman class bought a water cooler and set it up in the hall. Out in front, new shrubs which had been planted the previous spring, were beginning to improve the appearance of the building. New basketbal.l suits clad one of the best basketball teams Bucklin has been able to boast of for years. What is the future for this friendly community-minded town and its school of active, forward-thinking students? I don't think we have any need to worry. Bucklin has sur- mounted many baffling obstacles and will continue to do so for many years to come. Your mascot, 5 5 0 . . ' Jiggs