Caruthersville High School - Cotton Blossom Yearbook (Caruthersville, MO)

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Registration and Freshman Week open school year EAGER STAFF MEMBERS tear into boxes containing the 1961 Cotton Blossoms. Southern, Orton, J. Corbin, R. Corbin, Adams, and Avis enjoy this moment. HEY, BOBBY, have you signed my book yet? inquires Nancy Crockett of Bobby Wilks as pens scratch busily on either side of her at the yearbook signing party, on September 5. Page 10

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ACTIVITIES From the first singing of the school song (luring Freshman Week to the last strains of “Pomp and Circumstance” on Graduation Night, activities contributed manv sounds to C. H. S. The uncertain songs of bewildered freshmen . . . the oh’s and ah’s as the yearbooks were handed out at the Yearbook Signing Party . . . groans over the long, hot wait in the registration line . . . patter of applause during assemblies . . . trill of the referee’s whistle at football games . . . the hushed impatience followed bv approving applause when the Cotton Blossom Queen was announced . . . frenzied screams durina the final moments of a close basketball game . . . tbe congratulations on Honor Awards Day ... all these were sounds of C. H. S. activities in 1062.

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Endless registration lines, unbearable heat, the amusing initiation of a freshmen, the taking of class pictures, the fun of a first yearbook signing party, and the thrills of the opening football game of the season—all these made up the first days of the C. H. S. 1061-62 school year. “Our school to us . . “Ring around the rosy . . ” These were sounds heard during the first school week, as bewildered freshmen in their green hats sang the school song and played ring around the rosy in accordance with upperclassmen’s orders. The early September heat was intense. The beginning of regular homework again was painful. But it still was fun being hack with friends and in the stream of school organizations, parties, hall games, and class activities. Before they knew it, all four hundred and seventy-five C. H. S. students were hack at work and play—and the 1961-62 year had begun. GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR, seniors Don Snow and Harold Bynum present Danny Bennett with a pacifier as his prize for winning the Peanut Pushing Contest, one of the events of Freshman Week. MRS. FRANCES WALTON registers Linda Winters as anxious freshmen look on awaiting the questions which will officially enroll them in high school. ''THIS ISN'T QUITE AS EASY AS IT LOOKS, remark participants of the Peanut Pushing Contest, one of the many exciting events planned by the S.A.C. for all freshmen during the first week of school. Page 11