Bucklin High School - Reco Yearbook (Bucklin, MO)

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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

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FRONT ROW: Diane Taylor, Donna Niemeier, Marilyn Dowell, Carolyn Wilson, Larry Vobornik, Deloma Wolfskill, Elna Johnson, Margaret Main, Joy Teeter. SECOND ROW: Miss Iva Cannon, Roberta Switzer, Glen Kitchen, Maybeth Davis, Gary Wilson, Harrison Mendenhall, Jerry Heaton, Carrie Belle Overstreet, Laverne McCarty, Wayne Ervie, Judy Neal, DeAnna Thompson, Lois Douglas. THIRD ROW: Margaret Payne, Joyce Gannon, Wanda Denny, Patsy Wilson, Shirley Lovett, Jerry King, Dennis Judas, Tommy Edwards, Jack Anderson, Evangeline Switzer, Berneice Bertsch. Promoters of Planned Progress Stimulated by a meeting with Mr. Vic Meinert and Mr. William E. Goodman, re- presentatives of the Missouri Power and Light companywho were interested in slow- ing down the migration of rural people to cities and who were sponsoring a Planned Progress program, the civics class of '55 and '56 and their teacher, Miss Iva Cannon, made an extensive study and survey of Bucklin community. They analyzed the needs and resources of the community and presented their con- c.lusions in the form of a report to the com- pany sponsoring the P.lanned Progress pro- gram, For this report the class won a S5100 award which was to be spent for something useful for their schoo.l but which would not be bought otherwise. Thus was launched the Planned Progress movement in the Bucklin community. On February 18, 1956 at a meeting of adults and teen-agers, Ben Burnett was elected chairman of the Planned Progress council. A permanent organization was effected March Z3 with the following officers e.lected: Mrs.RussellKing, genera.lchairmangLarry Vobornik, first vice-chairman, Deloma Wolfskill, second vice-chairman, Tom Twitchel, secretary, Miss Iva Cannon, 6 recorder of progressg and Bert Nickerson, photographer. Four projects were accepted for immedi- ate initiation. These were: beautification of Bucklin, construction of a parking lot, im- provement of the ball diamond, and im- provement of the firefighting equipment. Later, committees for the four projects were set upwho enlisted aid at sometime or another from virtually every person in the community. U i Larry Vobornik receives the certificate of award from Mr. J. D. James, chairman of board of Missouri Power 81 Light Company.