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

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 of us will ever forget was our first junior-senior banquet, except- ing of course for the lucky girls who served as waitresses in their sophomore year. We worked hard all year at the concessions at the football and basketball games to raise money. And we worked more making decorations to carry out the “Oklahoma” theme. Then came the big day! Everything was buzzing with excitement but no one “buzzed” harder than Hugh Hawkins. Remember how he worked all day and was still in his shirt sleeves at 7:00 o’clock that night? . . . But all our hard work was well worth-while, as the “Oklahoma” theme was beautifully portrayed in both decorations and program as an appropriate setting for an evening of fun.......... So ended our junior year. . . . Let’s move on to the year 1946-47 when we were “dignified” seniors. . . . The boys didn’t have a chance when it came to electing class officers because the girls took every office. Kathleen Miller was elected president; Louise Powell, vice president; Norma Lorenzen, secretary; Pat Hooe, treasurer; and Mary Cornelius, student council representative. . . . Two 1947 seniors,

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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

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’47 Jack Whenry and Charles Wauhop, were mid-term graduates. . . . Remember the day when a certain picture caused quite a bit of comment? It was Eugene Key’s “portrait of Jack Wosika. The lesemblance was amazing. . . . Boys chosen to serve as Student Kiwanians included Keith Schroeder, Jack Ricker, Richard Dozier, Chauncey Hall, and Gene Von Tungeln. . . . The Business and Pro- fessional Women’s club chose girls from the different departments in the high school to serve as junior members. Girls selected were Lois Jean White, Glyndeen Crawford, Marie Dittmer, and Emma Culley. . . . Another honor that the senior girls captured was all the editorships of the two school pages. On the list of editors were Wilma Mathews, Betty Merveldt, Marie Dittmer, Natalie Lokensgard, Norma Lorenzen, Louise Powell, Kathleen Miller, and Lois Jean White. . . . Remember how proud we were of our band for its per- formance at the football and basketball games? And didn’t Betty Merveldt and John Stroffe make the perfect queen and drum major? . . . Two senior E.H.S. students were elected to state offices in school