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

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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

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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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WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG Maxine Rex Gene Gad leanne Reiter Mary Zinkiewicz loyce Potter lim Stafford EU-HPS lllii llililllilli 'THTTN TEENS Co-ops have really been in The spoT- lighT in The Keen-Teens column This pasT year. We've had more characTers oT The week Than any oTher school. So leT's review whaT has happened To Them. RighT oTT The baT we Tind ThaT Don RibleT, senior, Took a Two week cruise To PuerTo Rico and came back wiTh glowing Tales. IT was a Naval Reserve cruise and aT The expense OT The governmenT, Too. ThaT was in The summer, and Then we read abouT The iniTiaTion ThaT BeTTy WhiTe, senior Trom Club I8, Joan Vogel, iunior Trom AlTroo, PaT Lowry. lunior from Beaverines, and Dick MaTson, iunior Trom Ten Ace, had To go Through. You should have seen Them-quiTe a sighT. Oh. well, iT was all in Tun. Then There was The Time ThaT Phyllis Huri appeared as characTer oT The week and was quoTed as being The Queen of Queens by Dolly Felo, ediTor. Jimmy STaTTord, senior, Tound his losT love one nighT aTTer The Team played BelleTonTaine. She was a very beauTiTul blond and very aTTecTionaTe. IT was love aT TirsT sighT Tor PaTTy. She saT on his lap and wouldn'T leT him go, buT iT was liTTle Tour-year-old PaTTy's bedTime and she had To leave him. Joe Pohl, junior, displayed The newesT Thing in men's shoulder padding, by bor- rowing Joan Vogel's snap-in shoulder pads. Then on March 22, Clara Schwaiger received The mosT beauTiTul presenT a gal ever received on her birThday. A diamond engagemenT ring. LasT buT noT leasT was The AThleTic Dance, when RiTa Bergemeier was chosen AThleTic Queen and Johnny Huri, Paper King. This was The mosT imporTanT Thing oT The year and held The whole school in suspense. Thanks a million Tor The delicious Tood cooked and served by The women in The caTeTeria. They are Mrs. Elva Gieske, Mrs. Lilian Farrell, and Miss Nellie Burns.