Grundy Center High School - Spartan Yearbook (Grundy Center, IA)

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JOXC If. WARI' , RUTH B14 LOVE Slxth f lads. Irma Statc Teacluls Colley AI MFDA DAVIS Foulth Glade Iowa State Teachers College U of Coloxado 'N-gp. I-CC Q -Q-4 Flfth C ladc Iona Stxte Tnachels Colley. FUC ILNIA SCOTT Thnd Glade Cololado College of Educa tlon MARY VAGTS RUTH DAVIS Second Grade First Glade Waltbulg College Iowa State Teachers College -J' 5' U of Colorado ELAINE CERINE Kmdergarten Iowa State Teachers College U. of Iowa U. of Colorado il vp' I I

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KEITH FANXATT Assistant lou DIIXLI Training, Sim 38011 to ctr aduate Viml D il xeisitx NIARJOhIh HILNRX Xocal 'VIus1c Iowa Statm Teachels Colleg I I S ll I USN 'N Spcet ll D1 .im ltlts A en 1 t 1 I o L mdlmte IK ik I low 1 MILTON R. BLHRFNIS Jr. High Principal B. S. Iowa State Teachers Coll-. e Graduate Work . of Wyoming U. of Iowa -qs '3' i 1-'R -3210 ff ,..-4 11' nr' ff' W1 Q wr' x., X f, . S v ff- n .-I .Ii GAYI PARNIAI Athlctus Coach B S Upper Iowa Univei sity braduitc Work U of Nlinmsotx W B HITCH Instrumental Music B A Iowa State Teachcls College LUCRETIA KIRBY Home hconomlcs Physical Education S Iowa State College NILDARESE KAUSHAGEN Jr. High Subjects North Dakota State Teach- ers College

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CLASS HISTORY Members ofthe graduatrng class you are about to see a revlew of your school days ulet pleasel The play Class of 49 rs ready to begrn The curtarn nses on the frrst act whrch shows thrrty three bewrldered students durrng therr frrst day at school rn the fall of I936 Some of the faces are famrlrar to the audrence ln sprte of chrldrsh harr dos Shrrley Temple dresses and jackre umper corduroys the be grnners who are strll rn the class Marrllyn A Dorothy A Charles Kathryn Rose Mane B Richard Bernrce C Delmar Dorothy K erry Roger Marran S Stanley and Marlrn are recognizable Mrs Omer Robrnson the teacher rs krnd ly tryrng to rnterest the youngsters rn the attrac trve play house sandprle or burldrng blocks Many remrnrscent looks occupy the onlookers faces The class was drvrded wrth half the ehrl dren comrng rn the mornrng and the rest rn the afternoon The audrence rs rememberrnb the mrd sessron naps they took on Irttle mats to the soft dreamy musrc of the phonograph Scene two shows Mrss Ruth Davrs rn structrng the brrght eyed frrst graders rn therr reading lesson Many rn the audrence are re memberrng how grown up they felt when they could move to the second floor of the grade burldrng One of the busrest trmes of that year was at Chrrstmas when srlhouettes of each stu dent were made for hrs par nts grft Other scenes of the frrst act show small fry rn the other lower grades The class wrll always be obligated to Miss Darly Mrs O Connor, Mrss McBroom Mrss Almeda Davrs Miss Bekemerer and Mrss rngsbury rts sec ond to srxth grade teachers respectrvely It was through therr gurdance that the class got rts sure footmg for rts clrmb rn education These scenes brrng bark many memorres Never wrII the artrstrc par rt clesrgns sprayed wrth a brush or swrrled wrth our frngers be for gotten Then remember tho soap statues we carefully carved the plaque cf lay we made rn the shapes of our I-ant hc- many posters we entered rn Amerrcan l ron contests and that beautrful medreval astle we burlt rn sixth grade How old eve ne felt when he moved rnto those brg hrr topped desks rn fourth grade Our href punrshment for drs obedrence was havrrr to srt rn the hall outside the door However the dread of berng sent to the superintendent s offrcr- d vague rum ors of a paddle made rr I I rgcls most of the trme Recesses treats for classmates when brrth days were celebrated and the annual exhrbrts we proudly brought our parents to were all left behrnd us when we entered Junror hrgh In the second act the assembly on the thrrd floor of the grade burldrng provrdes the settrng Mr Behrens the prmcrpal rs making the darly announcements before the group of puprls School starts when the hand of the clock rn the northeast corner jumps to 8 50 My what a change rt was to start school ten mrnutes earlrer to pass from one room to an other for classes and to have rndrvrdual lock ers rn the hall for our wraps Oh how grown up we thought we werel In seventh grade we vrewed the freshmen wrth awe and admrratron Immedrately all the grrls began cuttmg off therr prgtarls the boys donned tres occasronally and the srgns of at tempted sophrstrcatron became notrceable These changes brrng looks of amusement to the onlookers faces because the short skrrts gangly legs and arms and awkwardness cer tarnly dont grve an appearance of sophrstrca tron Many more actrvrtres were entered rn here ln seventh and erghth grades our class competed rn the annual spellrng contest l I945 Kathryn represented the Junror hrgh rrr the county spellrng contest The rousrng pep meetrngs were led by Rose Marre H and Rose Marne B cheerleaders durrng the drfferent awards were won by Roger and Stanley began their athletrc careers durrng the yunror hrgh days Some par trcrpated rn basketball football and track all coached by Deke Behrens Crames were held wrth other schools and between the fresh men and the seventh and erghth graders f course the boys were enthusrastrcally backed by the cheerleaders and students War played a brg part rn the Irves of the members of our class partrcularly durrng Jun ror hrgh Everyone remembers the large ther mometer scale on the bulletrn board showrng rn brrght colors the records of stamps and bonds regularly bought rn the different grades Who wrll ever forget the brg day when school closed to permrt every student to do hrs brt for Uncle Sam ln the brg scrap dl'lVC? Loads and loads of junk were deposited rn the court by the grade burlclrng lt was work but we all had fun dorng rtI ln several classes we were forced to sacrrfrce teachers for the great war cause also much desrred crtrzenshrp Rose Mane B Kathryn Many of the boys . V I - 1 n a le . - il' s ' ' ' : I r 1 . - .f . 1' , ' . ., I Y T I 'U g vy ' I - ' v v ' U . . . W ' i ' . ' ' - ' ' . rr ' 1- ' ' , years. At the close of the eighth grade the .' . 0 - I 'Y U U ' . . . L.. . - . . . A v -S v s v 1 . . . . . ' . 2 O ' F i 1 . . ' , ' ' ' - , w c ' ' . - A V A g . . 5 . - . , cv 4 . . . . ni ' . arf- , ' ' F P . .5 . Q . . . ' I I ' U . . . ' :V - . . o..iH?U .. .. . , . .. 3 ...