Fort Benton High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Fort Benton, MT)

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PAGE 20 THE PIONEER FOBSASS: eS Sw JUNIOR PLAY On April 19, 1940, we juniors presented our play, ‘““Mr. Cook Takes Over,” a farce, portraying the life of a mathematics teacher’s family when father decides to balance the budget. Marian Bowker, Wally Morger, Donald Adams (father) and George Stevens had especially good laugh lines. Miss Hagie, our director, certainly turns out excellent plays. Se eae) oe JUNIOR PROMENADE Emerald City in the Land of Oz with all its beauties floated from nowhere and landed in the high school gym as the theme for the Junior Prom, May 18. A grand and glorious multicolored rainbow made everyone feel close to heaven. The wide yellow brick road from the door to the stage served as a path for the grand march. A white lattice fence added a harmonious note to Oz. It has been unanimously voted one of the most delightful proms held in this high school. 40 KODAK DAY Breeze! Buzz! Bums! And with a bang, Kodak Day began. An army on the march! And what an army—cowboys, mountaineers, negroes, Spaniards, Daniel Boone, Robin Hood, Little Miss United States, and even Hitler, along with many more. After the march came the movies, and stunts by all the classes and school organiza- tions. All those in costumes “fairly strutted” across the stage to “catch the eyes of the judges.” Amy Hanson, as “Friday,” walked away with the best girl prize. The best boy prize winner was Norman Tacke, all “decked out” as the well-dressed lady and it is rumored—(Shhhh)—that he actually wore some of the unmentionables! Couple costume winners were June Hollreigh and Virginia Swanson, two “right-about-face kids.’ Last came the 6 “babes in arms” wearing the usual apparel plus derbies, bottles and cigars, who took the funny prize. The best stunt prize was “copped” by the F. F. A. boys, who convinced the judges that Future Farmers knew their stuff about judging. For all the chilly breeze that blew, everybody was all “het up” for the jam session which brought to an end a “perfectly swell” day. THE MYSTERIOUS NIGHT Clark Hilton Night, a black shapeless mass, creeps slowly upon us Gradually, a dismal gray covers the earth like a blanket to keep out the cold of night. Then the gray of evening slowly trans- forms itself into the black of night and all is calm. The pale moon and twinkling stars replace the brilliant sun, which has now drop- ped in the west leaving only a dim trail behind it. At last, that too, disappears, and the world slumbers peacefully, unaware of its surroundings until the dawn of a new day. ——— A () Mr. Ide was doing his best to fit his key into the lock, humming absent-mind- edly as he thought of next week’s exams. After a time a head emerged through the window above. “Go away, you fool,” cried the man up- stairs. “You're trying to get into the wrong house.” “Fool yourself!” shouted back Mr. Ide. “You're looking out of the wrong window.” A SAILOR’S LIFE Warren Halley I wish I were a handsome slug Like Gable and Robert Taylor Instead of being a common mug That’s just a U. S. sailor. I'd slay the girls with my handsome smile And pitch a little woo. They’d see me coming for a mile Without the navy, too. Boy, what a life I would lead Cocktails, girls and wine Oh! when I think of all these deeds Shivers run up my spine. nA) Mary Gray had an Elgin watch. She swallowed it. It’s gone, Now every time that Mary walks. TIME MARCHES ON. A () Miss Buckland: ‘What did the Federal government do with Negroes who fled to the North during the Civil War?” Jean Reynolds: “They put them in Union suits.”

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PAGE ee tolnehs THE PIONEER FBHS. Top row: Alice Galbraith, Jerry Sweeney, Lurene Anderson, Daryl Hagie, Jean “Reynolds, Keith Neyland, Virginia Swanson. Second row: Geraldine Schuhmacher, Frank Clark, Elsie Ritland, Frank Manley, Patricia Anderson, Bill Louther, Lenore Frieling, Edward Dickens, Dorothy Ronning. Third row: Leonard Steinbacher, Fern Kelley, John Sullivan, Jack A. Anderson, Mary Gray, Carl Bratz. Fourth row: Margaret Birkeland, Clark Hilton, Delores Frieling, Lucille Callison, Tom MacKenzie, Effie Ritland. Fifth row: Arthur Bennett, Mabel Stevens, Dale Taylor, Barbara Scott, Stanley Whitehorn, Patricia Wackerlin, James Wood, Rosemary Schuhmacher, Walter Weeks. Sixth row: Lorraine Baker, Kenneth Vinion, Marjory Jones, Ralph Kerl, Delores Wagner, Warren Stanton, Bertha Lundy, Dick Moses, Sylvia Wolf. ; Seventh row: Cecil Seright, Betty Schmidt, Bill Koepp, Lorne Ritter, Donald Rust, Velma Ames, Junior Tope, Jacqueline Castor, George Calkin.