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

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ROW ONE--I-'ay Allard. Emogene Anderson. Bernard Bach. Evelyn Beecher. Charles Behrens. Therese Bogner. Charles Bradley. Donald Bramlette ROW TWO-Marjorie Burress. Bernice Cooper. Lester De Bruin. Clay Fisher. Miriam Gessaman, Ralph Guy. Junior Hankins. John Hankins HOW THREE-Dan Hazen. Donald Huffman. Holly Hyatt. Shirley Klay. Jack Lepley. Jean Lundy. Gladys Mayo, Beryl Morrow P-OW FOUR-Edwin McCatterty. Steve McSweeney, Helen Nelson. Donald Pogreba. Caroline Postill, Katherine Rowe, Ernest Schultz. Kenneth Scott ROW FIVE-Shirley Spear. Charles Stewart. Calvin Taylor. Betty Terry. Dolores Tope. Patty Uhl. Guy Willson, Miss Verna Young NOT PICTURED-Donald Archer and Raymond York lIn Armed Forcesl

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PASTIME Talking Sleeping Reading Dreaming Bookkeeping Working at the bank Daydreaming Fooling around Aching Visiting and reading Eating Guess Counting the boys in the senior class Girls Dancing Waiting for the buzzer Thinking Yodeling Talking Collecting his pictures Baking or reading Going to shows Loafing Wishing Sewing Riding horseback THINKING or Women y The future Living in a peaceful world Anything to create mischief Vacation Nothing in particular The future A little bit of everything Anything that requires it Family reunion after the war Getting out of school Cowboys How to get out of work Corny jokes Good times at Highwood and Carter Emogene Mary Lou Women School. of course It's a military secret That would be telling Graduation Most anything What to have for supper Future Vacation AMBlTlQN Doctor To travel Travel in all the countries of the world To study music To join the Cadet Nurses Corps To learn to fly To get married and have six children Military secret To be a good cook To travel Haven't any To go back to Flathead Valley To get 10 hours sleep Be a millionaire Never grow too old to jitterbug Professional loafor Have a good place to live Doesn't have any To fly To change my name Cadet Nurse To find a man To be a pilot Be Van Johnson's press agent Designer Run a cattle ranch GLIMPSES

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JUNIOR PROM The Junior Prom Committee of five, with Chairman Lester De Bruin chose for this year's theme, Springtime in the Mountains. The cool, fragrant effect of the mountains was achieved by a blue sky with white clouds scattered through it. Pine boughs decorated the sides and formed an archway at the door. Paper which the juniors had spent many hours rolling from the 1944 prom enhanced the appearance of the gymnasium. Bob Nelson's orchestra which played for the prom was framed by a huge snow capped mountain which covered the end of the gym. As the dancers entered the ball-room on April 27th, they were given programs which carried out the theme. The class chose a Queen who was crowned and enthroned as the climax of the evening. Wartime restrictions on sugar and canned juices made it impossible to serve punch, and the dancing was from 8:00 to 12:00 with no intermission as a result of the national midnight curfew. However, restrictions or not, the juniors justly felt that their prom was the climax to three years of successful dances. JUNIOR PLAY On April 6, after several weeks of strenuous rehearsing, the promising actors of the junior class presented the smash Broadway hit, Best Foot Forward, a farce written by John Cecil Holm, and directed by Miss Mildred Glover. The plot of the play is as follows: The boys of Winsocki High are making frenzied preparations to receive the girls coming up for the big annual dance. In the midst of crackling lines and humorous discussion of dates comes Bud Hooper Hack Lepley! who is very gloomy. His roommates, Dutch Miller and Hunk Hoyt !Charles Behrens and Dean Fisherl. finally find out the trouble. A month ago when they went to see a movie starring Gale Joy-the wham girl-lMarjorie Burressl trouble started. Bud got carried away and he wrote to the movie star, asking her to come to the prom. And she accepts! !They don't know how badly she needs a publicity break!! Bud has hastily written his regular date, Helen !Caroline Postilll that he has an attack of grippe and he expects to have it until after the dance. But, so that the faculty won't get angry, Bud tries to take the publicity-needing Gale Joy to the dance as his girl Helen-and then Helen arrives! ,Bud gets deeper and deeper into trouble, and the final happy solution that saves Bud from being expelled is Gale's idea of having her picture who hates students lLester paper causes Doctor Reeber Other characters in the and Minerva !Dolores Tope taken with Doctor Reeber. the principal of the school De Bruinl. Publication of the picture in a New York to reverse his decision regarding Bud. play are the cynical Blind Date !Bernice Cooperl: Ethel and Emogene Andersonl: Chuck Green and Satchel Moyer !Donald Pogreba and Ernest Schultzl: Professor Lloyd !Charles Stewartl: Miss Smith, the chaperone, !Helen Nelsonl: Chester lEdwin McCaffertyJ, the photo- grapher, out for revenge against Doc Reeber. because the principal had once flunked him in English IV: the old Grad, !Steve McSweeneyl up for the football game and the class dinner: Miss Delaware Water Gap lJean Lundyl: and Jack Hag- gerty CCharles Bradleyl who is Gale J'oy's manager. Miriam Gessaman was promoter for rehearsals. JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY Tasting the heady wine of being upper-classmen, last year's sophomores entered as juniors and a new member of the class, Kenneth Scott, was elected president: Charles Behrens, vice president: and Caroline Postill, secretary-treasurer. Miss Young was again elected sponsor. During Thanksgiving vacation the town brought out plaid shirts and jeans to put the Junior Barn Dance over in a big way. The refreshment committee served a keg of cider to all dudes in the setting of a corral. The gym with lights low, hay and straw banked around the orchestra and in the corners. and numerous saddles and milk pails provided an appropriate setting for the affair. In January the class held a supper party with dancing and singing afterward. This was a farewell party for Mary Lou Cooper who moved to Great Falls. The boys planned and served the supper which they also furnished. The president, Kenneth Scott, dropped school in March, and after due considera- tion, Charles Behrens became president: and Charles Stewart, vice president. The juniors lost several boys to the service forces including Donald Archer and Raymond York. Dick Arnst gained enough credits to become a senior.