Bushnell Prairie City High School - Beta Pi Sigma Yearbook (Bushnell, IL)

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Freshmen anticipate high school experiences Freshmen found high school exciting and different. They marveled at the confident way that upperclassmen slipped so easily back into a familiar routine. Would they ever belong to the fascinating world which was high school? Then came their day of reck- oning. A political convention, B-PC style, attracted l'delegates from the forty-eight states and the territories- hillbillies, cowboys, cotton pickers, milkmaids, eskimos, and hula dancers. This, of course, was initiation. The 1957 seniors, with pictures of a l953 initiation vivid in their memories, took no pity on freshmen knees, The fresh- men were good sports, though, and the seniors proved that it was all in fun by throwing a party for them fol- lowing the football game that even- ing. After all the comedy and fun was over, one hundred two freshmen walked the halls as full-fledged stu- dents of B-PC. -use-sggy Freshmen classes presented incongruous sights on 5' M v',,.,- Initiation Day si ik N st if s Maybe Roger Campbell is looking up the A real cooI Elvis Presley was Jerry Mason word flamboyant, with his Hound Dog.

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Gary Gain, Larry Cramblet, and Tommy Furniss humbly kneel to senior Dwight Smith. f i il 1? E 1 1: if l. 4 595 -' sw. kms 3 so is ,... -ur '. ..'lf'f:ff'. i A s- A Qffil 5 ' ' 1 F? Y S is K Rs, Walls-ntesa, hsicuwtitl PQ Wfis maszaiii k Oh, dear Senior, hear by appeal . . was the plea of Eileen Murtin, on Initiation Day. One of the first-day prob- lems for freshmen is the tricky locker combinations. While Dottie Dodson suc- cessfully works her combin- ation, Tommy Furniss helps Mike Garrett. . . Jackie Kirby and Ronnie l mel solemnly recite the I under the ominous throat sonior's paddle.

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XX Il Little Things Mean a Lot From the first thrilling strains of loyal and True at the football games to the thought-provoking rhythm of llPomp and Circumstances at gradua- tion, you were on your,toes at all times to keep in step with the fast moving pace of school life. Amid the big activities were the little things which constitute the real heart of a school---the intimate atmosphere in the halls before classes, the usual good- natured hubbub of the lunch line, and the relaxed atmosphere in the cafeter- ia during eighth hour, You shared B- PC's successes and its failures, but you had your individual triumphs and dis- appointments, too, like the quarter you finally made the honor roll, the morn- ing you rushed to the bulletin board to check the play cast list---and your name wasn't there. All these little ex- periences were woven into the tapes- try of student life. r Sally Sperry and Janice Curfmon kept the records Mr. Conn wanted to waltz, but the record was a rock spinning at one of our informal sock-hops. 'n roll. Earlene D'Camp enjoyed the dance anyway. There's nothing like a home town band . . . Practice makes perfect . . . . Blow, Larry, blow . . . About lace . . . S is for Spartans . Our high-stepping twirlers are Karen Paul, Barbara Herron, and Jane Pan- darvis . . . Forward Marchl says Nancy Dimmitt, our snappy drum major.