Ganado High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Ganado, TX)

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CLASS HIS TOR Y September 6, 1937 eleven years ago, many small tots climbed the steps of the Ganado Public School to begin one hard struggle with Mrs. Lambert as our teacher. That group of small, scared tots consisted Of: Evelyn C81'i1Ota. J. D. Ashley, Jack Boepple, Anton Bures, Fred Jaap, Frances Padilla, Georgia Surovec, Josephine Matus, Rita Lib- erda, Lorraine Mae Pheffer, Arnita Koudelka, LeRoy Liberda, Leon Srubar, Lyn Pape, Elbert Farris, and Dolores Novosad. In our second year, which was taught by Mrs. Jordon, we were happy to have added to our class Lorraine Scheel and Mary Ann Webel. That year many of us were in the rhythxn band, and some took part in the various programs that were held. Our third year, taught by Mrs. Head,was ayear inwhichwe learn- ed many new things. That year we had to rack our brains trying to figure out how 9 X 9 could be 81. As the days rolled by, we finally solved the problem. We were glad to have one more new member to join us: he was Raymond Tristan. The fourth year was a jolly year because the teacher thoughtwe were smart enough so she taught us how to dance. Miss Ross was our teacher that year. Again we had some new students to join us - Elsie Olsovsky, Bennie Olsovsky, and Roland Liberda. Lest we forget, the fifht year was the most exciting because we skipped it and became sixth graders. Our. sixth grade teacher was Miss Daisy Janica, now Mrs. Jim Strauss. That year we were joined by a cute blond, Lonie Fleeman. Our first year of Spanish was taught us in the seventh grade by Mrs. Woodrow Brown. We had four new students join us - Elsie Dus- ek, Lillie Mae Englemohr, Betty Jean Meloy and Marvin Morrow. Our next year of school we thought we were grown up because we moved from grade school to high school. That year the new students kept pouring in, and before we knew it, they were putting double seats in the room. The grade book of Mrs. Walch, our teacher that year, showed the grand number of sixty-one students. Some of those new students were Evelyn Janssen, Christine Nixon, Elizabeth Kaspar, Homer McLean, Wanda Dulaney, Annie Huseman and Lonie Fleeman, who after leaving us for a year, came back. We were all looking fo.r- ward to a large graduation exercise but were disappointed to find we would not have one. At last we had become fish with Mrs. Winstead as our sponsor. The initiation and the change in our routine made the year exciting. The extra fish to join us that year were Lucille Roehl, B.W, Hicks, John Wesely Hicks, Elroy Wiese, Vaughn Williams, and Elbert Farris, who joined us after leaving us for several years.