El Reno High School - Boomer Yearbook (El Reno, OK)

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ri»T»A lortum and there couldn’t have been anyone better than Jack Riley as the eccentric brother! Indeed a swell performance! . . . The E.H.S. In- dians really played basketball that year! First of all, they won the Boomer Conference title; then the regional; and last, but definitely not least, the state championship. Don’t believe there was one of us El Renoites who wasn’t dying a slow death during the last sec- onds of that final game with the Muskogee Roughers. No need to remind any of us that the final score was 32-30 in favor of El Reno. Close, but, oh, how wonderful! . . . After that, the sky was the limit for the Indians and their coach, Jenks Simmons. Remember the day school turned out for the big parade and “send-off” for the boys when they left for Kansas City to attend the National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament? .... Members of our class who played on the championship team were Richard Dozier and Chauncey Hall. Then, every once in a while some occasion for Jack Tomlins, Bob Fowler and Jack Riley to get their heads together and come up with one of their clever skits would pop up. Their droll sense

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Things really started buzzing in our junior year. . . . First of all, we elected our officers. Hugh Hawkins was our prexy , while Clarice Childers was vice president; Wilma Mathews, secretary; and Emma Culley, treasurer. . . . And remember all the excitement when E.H.S. was host to the Oklahoma Federation of Student Councils conven- tion? In addition to all the fun, we learned about plans and proj- ects sponsored by student councils in other parts of the state. . . . Speaking of student councils, this was the year when E.H.S.’s stu- dent council officers attended the Southern Association of Student Governments at Little Rock, Arkansas. What wonderful reports those officers brought back with them! Made us all wish we were officers. ... Of course, there was the junior class play, “Arsenic and Old Lace.” Students participating in it included Glyndeen Crawford, Norma Lorenzen, Mary Cornelius, Bill Shirey, Bob Fowler, Hugh Hawkins, Jack Tomlins, Bill Bowers, Joe Perry, Jack Riley, Jack Ricker, Chauncey Hall, and Jack Kinkade. Glyndeen and Norma were perfect in their parts as “old maids” (a compliment),

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of humor always produced something for a laugh. Never shall we forget “Mergetroid’s Victory”. . . . The junior class was well-rep- resented in the all-school play, “The Man Who Came To Dinner. Ten juniors with parts were Bob Fowler (the “Man”), Louise Powell, Bill Shirey, Keith Schroeder, Alan Peabody, Mary Wynes, Jack Riley, Don Smith, Tommy Spurr, and Jack Kinkade. Mary Cornelius was the student director. . . . Then the day came for the “intelligent- sia” of the class to shine. Eight lucky students received bids to the National Honor Society—Jack Tomlins, Marie Dittmer, Louise Powell, Glyndeen Crawford, Natalie Lokensgard, Marcia Nation, Emma Cul- ley, and Gene Von Tungeln. . . . The first junior creative writing class was organized that year, under the direction of Miss Josephine Hodnett. We juniors felt important to be given a chance to work on the newspaper and annual along with the seniors. . . . Remember the Victory Bond Drive and how we all “knocked ourselves out” selling bonds? As a perfect climax to the drive, Betty Merveldt was crowned Victory Bond Queen. . . . An event of events that none