Dayton Cooperative High School - Beavers Log Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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On March I3, The sophomores pre- senTed a sTyle show sponsored by Rike's. Juniors parTicipaTing were Phil I-Iuri, DoT Conley, Virginia ArmsTrong, Shirley Brodnick, Bob Caldwell, and Elmer LuTh- man. The Music DeparTmenT provided The musical background. The CaT's NighT OuT was The TiTIe oT The parTy given by The Junior Class on March 2I. The junior candidaTe Tor AThleTic Queen was Wanda Arvin, Sec. I. VarsiTy C's were awarded our junior boys Tor baske+baII and a megaphone awarded The junior cheerleader. Harry James and Tommy Dorsey on record played Tor The Garden 6aiT on April 3 sponsored by The AITroo Club. On May 2 and I6 were The daTes of The Junior-Senior Plays. Shirley Nelson, Bill Turney, Bill VonDerau, Shirley Brod- nick, KeiTh Brunk, and Jim Davis had parTs in The plays. The Square ShuTTle was a dance The juniors had Tor Themselves. Didn'T we have Tun learning To square dance? ThaT's someThing ThaT we can puT in our memory books. The Senior Honor SocieTy held Their inducTion on April l8, and TwenTy juniors were Taken inTo The socieTy. The AThIeTic Queen conTesT was now in Tull swing. BerT MarTin and Ramona Siegel were on The commiTTee Tor The dance The Club I8 gave on May 23 and called STardusT STroII. The aThIeTes and cheerleaders were honored aT a special parTy on May 22 by The P.-T.A. We had our Junior-Senior Prom on July I8. Earl Holderman played dreamy music Trom 9 To I2. Juniors in The courT oT The coronaTion of The King and Queen were Dick Topp, Jim Zimmerman, RiTa Bergemeier, and Shirley Brodnick. We were shocked upon hearing The news oT The reTiremenT oT our principal, Clare Sharkey. An assembly was given in his honor, and our class presenTed him wiTh a porTabIe radio. A The Third week oT SepTember we en- Tered The school building Tor our IasT year. JusT Think, our I2Th year. Didn'T The name senior sound wonderful? This year sTarTed To be a hard year oT sTudy so we puT ourselves To The grind- sTone and sTored our vacaTion memories back of our minds. Beaverines sponsored Their annual I-Iallowe'en dance OcTober 3I. They call- ed iT The KaT's Kaper. WiTh Miss RuTh WersT as our adviser we sTarTed ouT acTiviTies early. OTTicers Tor The year were: SecTion I SecTion II PresidenT Bill Turney Carl EiTerT Yice-PresidenT BeTTe WighTman Phyllis I-Iuri SecreTary PaT Luce Sue Granzow Treasurer Maurice Krug WaI+ Reinhard SergeanT-aT-Arms Al Fischer Wesley Newsome One Third oT The year was gone and clubs were iniTiaTing, sporTs were in The groove, and everyone was sTudying like mad. We began Thinking oT graduaTion: picTures, announcemenTs, and gowns were uppermosT in our bewildered minds. Marjorie Suman won The Prince of Peace DecIamaTion medal in which many members oT each class parTicipaTed. Phyllis I-Iuri and Shirley Brodnick were The senior cheerleaders This year. Our baske+balI Team was working very hard. My how Time Tlies. IT was ChrisT- mas holidays and SanTa was real good To us because we had one week Tree. The seniors sponsored a Turn-AbouT Dance on February I3, Friday aT ThaT.

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called The Flash. The sophs wenT sTylish This spring and sponsored a sTyle show on March 28, Thursday. The show was presenTed by The Home STore and some of our girls and boys were models. Mrs. DoroThy HuTTon, Columbus millinery designer, also helped by providing some oT her original designs. And Then The mosT imporTanT evenT oT The year, The AThleTic Queen Con- TesT. The classes were on Their sTarTing lines waiTing To see who will be The winna'. RepresenTing The seniors was Mary Parks: juniors, BeTTy Graham: and The wonderful sophomores, Phyllis Huri. All us chillian's wenT To The Ten Ace- AlTroo Dance on March 29. AT The music conTesT on March 22 aT WesTminsTer Church, Norman Hoyer and Bing Crosby won awards. AThleTic awards were given To The baskeTbaII players and among Them of course were our sophomore heroes. Mr. Jukebox provided us wiTh sen- TimenTal music aT The TeeneTTes' Twirl, April IZ. On April 25, we enioyed a VarsiTy BanqueT in honor of The Beaver BoosTers. We were Thrilled To deaTh ThaT we had won The AThleTic Queen conTesT. Our queenie was Phyllis Huri. OuTsTanding sophs were Elmer LuTh- man and Phyllis Huri. They were presenT- ed wiTh medals by a represenTaTive from The Sons of The American RevoluTion. We enioyed The plays very much wiTh KeiTh WolTram The only sophomore Tak- ing parT. CandidaTes Tor Queen of The Pin Wheel Prom, a Tormal given by The Y Teens were Corky Helman, senior, and Lois WesT and Shirley Brodnick, sophs. Wow, ThaT year sure wenT TasT. JusT Think, we'll be big Juniors nexT year, we ThoughT. Feeling a year older and looking Tor- ward To The big year ahead, we marched bravely up The sTeps of our school ready To cope wiTh any siTuaTion. BuT when we saw our schedules we were ready To Turn around and walk ouT and we muTTered, I ThoughT This year was going To be a cinch, huh. How could we ever geT used To This Two week period sTuTT? We were very happy To hear our ad- viser Tor The year would be Miss RuTh WersT. She prompTly inTormed us in OcTober we would be The proud new owners of our class rings. OTTicers This year were: SecTion I SecTion ll PresidenT George EsselsTein Dick Topp Vice-PresidenT Mariorie Dawson Lois WesT SecreTary Jeanne ReiTer Elaine PeTers Treasurer Joe Weber Elmer LuThman Cheerleaders Tor The year oT I946-47 included one member oT our class, Shirley Brodnick. The Music DeparTmenT presenTed The opereTTa l-l. M. S. PinaTore on January 30-3I. Juniors having leading roles were Jeanne l-lauck, WalT Perry, Norman Hoyer, Bing Crosby, and Marilyn Kress. Many oT our boys received leTTers and cerTiTicaTes Tor cross-counTry. We were sure proud oT Them, Too. Gee whiz, iTs Time To sTarT checking our grades. IT's halT semesTer Time. Once again we approached The ATh- leTic Queen ConTesT. We were Teeling preTTy biTTer because The Junior Class had never in The hisTory oT The school won The conTesT. WhaT a iinx, we ThoughT! AT exacTly Three o'clock on February 27, we iusT abouT broke our necks Tear- ing down The sTeps To geT our class rings. WhaT a day! Bing Crosby and Norman l-loyer, Jeanne Hauck, and WalT Perry received awards Tor Their singing aT The music conTesT on February 28 aT The WesT- minsTer PresbyTerian Church.

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Jim STaTTord and Phyllis Huri were crowned king and queen aT This aTTair. Open House was March 29 wiTh en- TerTainmenT being provided by The Music DeparTmenT. Our Senior Dance was April 2. On ThaT nighT our candidaTe Tor The AThleTic Queen conTesT was announced. She was RiTa Bergemeier. Junior-Senior Plays were April 30 and May I4. Ginny ArmsTrong, Maurice Krug, Elmer l.uThman, and BeTTy l-luddle- sTon received awards Tor The besT acTing. April Splash was The big shindig dance given by Club I8 on April 23. BaskeTball players and cheer leaders received awards Tor service This year aT a big assembly. The '48 Review was a varieTy show given on May 20 and May 2I under The direcTion oT Mrs. Genevieve Benben. Beaverines gave a dance Tor The Sophs on June II and called iT Soph's Send- oTT. CuTe, huh. Busy days ahead Tor us seniors wiTh pracTice in marching and singing. We love The sound oT iT, Though. You know we always gabbed abouT how glad we would be To be ouT oT school, buT when The Time came iT was preTTy sad. Especially To Think you'll never see some oT your acquainTances again, ever. Many years Trom now you'll look back and Think whaT you did Then and The acTiviTies you had. You'll see your Triends' picTures in The papers and say, I knew her when... Our daTe oT Class Day was Friday, July 23. Didn'T we have Tun aT Old River? Remember ThaT Senior and Junior Prom on July I62 Oh yes, BaccalaureaTe on Sunday, July 25. WhaT an exciTing week! And Then The day, July 30, GraduaTion, Friday evening, 8:00 o'clock. When we sang our class song To The Tune oT The WhiTTenpooT Song, everyone had a liTTle Tear in his eye. WhaT abouT you? Well, kids, I guess iT's so long. Good luck. QUEENS OF THE CLASS OF '48. Wanda Arvin, '47, Rifa Bergemeier, '48, Phyllis Huri, '46