Glen Elder High School - Gold and Black Yearbook (Glen Elder, KS)

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ll tl ll. ll nl ml llll ll IK ll 17 ' SALUTATCJRY Classmates, Faculty, Parents, Board of Education and other Friends: Under the title of salutatorian, it has become my privilege to extend to you the pleasure and delight of the class of 1947 in having you here with us this evening and to welcome you to our commencement exercises. Tonight marks another milestone in our journey through life, the end of our high school days. It is indeed a happy occasion, but still our hearts are sad because tomorrow each of us will go his way. To some it will mean the commencement of higher educational work, to others the beginning of business life or home cares. Nevertheless. we hope never to stop learn- ing whether in school or out. Our task now will be to make use of the education we have acquired to nut forth our best efforts in every way possible to further the prcgress of this great country. Our high school days have been filled with joy and happiness along with a great deal of hard work, and they will linger forever in the memories of each and everyone of us. We realize that it has been through the efforts, thoughtfulness, and co-operation of our teachers, parents, and friends that these past four years at G. E. H. S. have been very educational as well as enjoyable. We sincerely thank you for your guidance and help during these years, as we shall always be grateful to you. Now as I close, again 1 wish to say, we welcome you. --Charlene Kohler VALEDICTCIRY We build the ladder by which we climb. Classmates and Friends: The motto of the twenty-three Seniors of the class of 1947 is, We build the ladder by which we climb. Throughout our school year you, through your sacrifices and help. have been helping us build our lad- ders. Graduation from high school is perhaps one of the most important rungs in our ladders. By placing this rung in our ladders tonight, we ended a part which, if we have accepted its offered opportunities and resulting experiences to the utmost, will help us build higher ladders to the planes of success, happiness and good citizenship. We, as the citizens of tomorrow, must do our best to promote peace in this new Atomic Age by giving full, intelligent support to our churches, school, homes and our local, state, and national governments. We have perhaps a more diflicult task and a more important challenge to meet than has had any generation of young people who have gone before, that of preserving this world in its entirety for our children and grandchildren. Our ladders are not complete--indeed they never can be, but although sad at the thought of leaving our underclassmates, the halls that seem a part of us and all the little things that mean so much, we are happy, awed, and perhaps a little afraid of the challenge that awaits us--that of securing and maintaining peace--peace of mind, soul and body for the people and nations which will follow us. With these thoughts we leave you with a thankfulness to you in our hearts which we can never express. --Evelyn Steele

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QL an IL n .ami lL4l1llKf ll 94170 MARCH 3. Girls Practice Basketball. 5. Y-Teen Meeting. Christianity theme 7. G. E. 4-H Club organized. Roddy Cooper president 10. P. T. A. 11. Many attended Broadway Clowns--American Legion game at Beloit 17. Track Practice began 18. Y-Teens atterd Y. W.-Y-Teen meeting, Beloit 20. Sextette sings at Ladies Aid Society of Christian Church 26. More Annual pictures taken 26. Mr. Bat visits GEHS 27. Sophoinores journey to Mankato to see Redheads play 27. 1946 Seniors present picture, The Sunset, to school 31. Dad-Daughter party APRIL 3. Y-Teens present Easter program 3-6. Seniors conquer Denver and surrounding territory 7. George and Mary Betz win Elimination Spelling Contest' 8. Emporia tests 10-11. Afternoons oif for school meetings 11. Arlen Treaster and Jeneane Holloway attend Music Festival in Con- cordia B 12. First place to George at County Spelling Contest. Third to Mary 14. Kansas Wesleyan Scholarship tests taken at Beloit 14. Track meet at Beloit 14. P. T. A. 15. Normal trainers visit schools 16. More future teachers visit schools 18. Operetta, Old Fashioned Charm 21. Freshman Party 1 25. Beloit Relays 26. Fort Hays Relays MAY 2. Junior-Senior Banquet 8. Mother-Daughter Banquet 9. Regional Track meet at Beloit 12. P. T. A. 16-17. Normal Training Examinations 18. Baccalaureate 19. Class night 20. All school picnic. Graduation

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Glenna .1-...I I llnlllll ', ll' 417' AND IN THE YEAR 2022 Ah, what have we here? A grave yard in a far corner of the world. Amid tangled briars and weeds gray tombstones loom forward. But look--such strange inscriptions, Father Time 1892, Father Time, 1929, 1930, 1940, and there that large one Father Time 1947! Seventy-five years ago he passed on leaving twenty-three G. E. H. S. Seniors with only memories. We touch the headstone and call softly, Awake, Father 1947, arise and make your way around the earth and bring us a report on the lives of that brilliant class of animated studentsf' Father 1947 rises mistily, and whispers softlv, Sleep, I will return presently. Here is the report he brought: I spirited myself over much country until, while passing over a coun- try grave yard, I saw the spires of the city in the distance. I sank down on a tombstone to rest and noted the inscription. It read, Sir Richard Dean, millionaire playboy, who married John's other wife, and who wouldn't open the door. Off to a good start, I thought to myself, and continued to- ward the city. I entered -a large park and came face to face with a huge bronze statue of two tired looking women. The inscription on the base read, J oy Forster and Berta Lou McFarland, pioneers of education and aggressive in work- ing for the rights of under privileged students burdened with tests. I spied a newspaper, yellow with age, caught in a crevice of the statue. The date was 1972 and the headlines read B. J. Ahlvers, greatest woman scientist since Madame Kilroy, has discovered an astounding remedy for fatuitousness. Her helpmate, Martha Betz, upon whom the remedy was tried, lost fifty pounds in three days by eating a certain kind of horse-radish soup. I also read an article by Robert L. Weidenhaft, the world famous bachelor and bookkeeping expert. He expounded a new theory called the Weidenhaft Edict. The theory was, if you want to be rolling in the dough take up baking, not bookkeeping. Leaving the park, I passed an office building, where pert stenograph- ers were pounding away on the Weidenhaft Special, perfected by the re- nowned typist, Marjorie Weidenhaft. Farther on, I passed the Weidenhaft School of Shorthand founded in 1962 by Dorotha Mae Weidenhaft. I picked up a newspaper, hot off the press, and in the Fifty Years Ago Today column, I read of a banquet given by society 's number one matron, Geneva Neifert, in honor of the World famous authority on American His- tory, Newell Eberle. The entertainment was provided by Ruby Cooper and her Tromboneneers. Flitting along, Ireached New York City and entered the cool halls of Carnegie Hall. There I found two busts done in gold plate of Arleta White and Virgina Shoemaker dubbed by critics as the best cowgirl duet team of the twentieth century. In Europe they were known as the Two Sharps. Picking upa current magazinel became deeply interested in an article written as a tribute to the late Donna J. Jones, a social worker who wal instrumental in cleaning up of the slum area of the great western