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

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ROW ONE--William Albers, Lloyd Allen, Maxine Anderson. Melvin Batchelor. Bernard Billups, Phyllis Birkeland. Jackie Bramlette, Patsy Callison. Kenneth Clark ROW TWO-Wayne Crawford, Wesley Crawford, Robert Deck. John Deck. Earl Dedman. Bob Doll. Franklin Elliott, James Elliot. Mary Ellen Ennis. HOW THREE-Bernita Flatt. Lily Foucher. Altha Frieling, George Frieling. Margaret Frieling, Marjorie Frieling, James Granger. Ruth Guy. Bertie June Hankins ROW FOUR-Margaret Heinen, Edward Hoeffner. Voncile Hudelson, Robert Kelley. Vanita King. Jean Kingsland. Olive Lane, Marjorie Laulo, Howard Le Furgey ROW FIVE-Genevieve Lenington, Lyle McKeever. Robert Murray, George Nottingham. John Rowe, Selma Schultz, Naomi Seright. Chris Small. Phyllis Smith ROW SIX-Leonard Spear. Otto Stevens, Robert Taylor. Betty Lou Vinion. Doris Willson, Thomas Wood, Miss Patricia Berry NOT PICTURED-Vincent Bogner lln Armed Forcesl, Lawrence Granger, Paul Jones. Louis Schumacher SOPHO ORES,

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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.

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SOPHOMORE HISTORY To begin a new year the sophomore class elected as officers: Otto Stevens, presi- dent: Bob Kelley. vice president: and Doris Willson. secretary-treasurer. Miss Patricia Berry was chosen class sponsor. Sophomores do not have many activities, traditionally, because they are in an in-between stage. That is, without the novelty of being new, as are freshmen, and without the activities that juniors and seniors enjoy. In grade school this class got a head start on money matters and are now well- fixed as to a treasury. During their freshman year they held a return party for the seniors, and the freshmen boys whitewashed the after which the girls served lunch to the workers. This year the sophomores held their annual party, A Superstitious Dance, on April 13. The high school gym was decorated with the traditional ladders. horse- shoes, broken mirrors and black cats. Music was furnished by a high school orchestra. The public was invited, and dancing lasted from 8:00 to 12:00. On April ll, the sophs went on a picnic to Shonkin. They left after school and were transported there in trucks furnished by class members. Three sophomores were on the football team. and three sophomores numbered in the first five on the A basketball squad. One was manager of football and basket- ball, and one was a cheerleader. COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Probably one of the most hard-working departments in school is the commercial department, whose handiwork is evidenced at all plays. banquets, and concerts given by the school. Completely unrelated to the school paper or other clubs, the typists. artists, and mimeographers under the direction of Mrs. E. S. Schmidt work many long weary hours to get programs, menus, and posters out before the deadline. Often, the requests for programs, et cetera, are sent in at the last moment. or when the department is already working at full speed to help put out the school paper. Although commercial students and their teacher sometimes consider theirs a thankless task, the entire school appreciates their patience and tireless cooperation.