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

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organizations. Margie Bomhoff was chosen as state secretary for the Future Homemakers of America, while Dolores Brown was state publicity chairman for the International Understanding Or- ganization. . . . The senior class was represented in the all-school play, “Junior Miss”, by Glyndeen Crawford, Darrell Williams, Kay Demke, and Don Smith. . . . Oh, yes, Wilma Mathews and Dorothy Ward were sweethearts of the Forum and Senate, respectively. . . . The athletic captains for our senior year were Charlie Snow, foot- ball, and Richard Dozier, basketball. . . . Nineteen members of the Class of 1947 were returned veterans—Gene Boatman. Lawrence Carl. Ronald Cox, Bill Cunningham. Bob Davis, Sherman Davis, Jim Gil- more, Harry Hale, Elmo Hulbert, George Lamka, Paul Mills, Robert Mitchell, Neil Niles, Phil Rice, Charles Snow, Bill Tait, Roy Thein. Merle Whenry. and Jack Whenry. . . . Two members of the graduat- ing class, Jack Pearce and Pat Keller, are now in service. . . . “Lost Horizon”, the senior class play, was a big success. . . . Jack Tomlins was the valedictorian of the class, while Marie Dittmer and Carmen Wyatt tied for salutatory honors.

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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

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.... Then came the most memorable of all our days in high school— graduation day! All our hard work and long hours of study had not been in vain, for at last we received our “sheepskins” . . . And then there were things that happened every year that we won’t for- get, such as the B.M.C., Phi, and L.L.T. parties, the pep assemblies, the band concerts. Forum and Senate socials, the carnivals, the Pep- ett athletic banquets and the Squaw birthday parties, the choral con- certs, bond drives, queen contests, and then those not-so-special things like six-weeks and semester finals. All-in-all we’ve had a colorful history—one that we won’t forget for a long time. Graduating seniors not pictured—William D. Cunningham, Sher- man Davis, Elmo Hulbert, Pat Keller. George Lamka, Jack Pearce, Phil Rice, Marjorie Sams, Delmar Stockton, Jr., Roy Thein, Merle Whenry, Hugh Hawkins. Undergraduates pictured—Bill Bomhoff, Barnard Douglas, Don- ald Kelley, Liddie Nickels Keller, Virginia Mason, Melba Moore, Bob Palmer, Jerry Rose Paxton, Geneva Peterman, Melvin Robinson, Leo Sellers, Emmett Sherman, Bill Tyner, Kenneth Wright, Amos Young- blood.