Hemingford High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Hemingford, NE)

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When students first walk up the steps and through the doors of Hemingford High School as Freshmen, they don't begin to comprehend what the next four years will have in store for them. The school year 66-67 is over now and high school students will no longer walk up those fa- miliar steps or through those doors to attend classes in this building as a new HHS will be ready to receive its first class by fall. Just as the centennial year marks 100 years of progress for the state of Nebraska, this year marks a move from an over-crowded and inadequate building into a new classroom facility. The present facility was constructed in 1926 and has met the needs of the students for 41 years. Now this building will be used for elementary classrooms, retiring the old north ward building. Of necessity, high school students will still have to use the old gymnasium for physical education classes, athletics, and convocations.

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Foreword In this day and age of rapid learning we must look not only at academics as our source of knowledge but also to the many happy, sad, anxious, and indescribable memories we have experienced in these last four years. We have made some of the greatest friends of our lives and now as we journey farther down the path of life, we may see some of these associations grow and some fade. Behind these fading friendships, however, will remain the memories we have lived here in the halls of HHS. We the staff of 67 hope we have retained some of the very close moments in the pages of this book. Table of Contents Title Page 1 Foreword 2 Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 Centennial Activities 17 Athletics 35 Homecoming Royalty 42 Academics 51 Faculty 52 Seniors 52 Juniors 70 Sophomores 79 Freshmen 84 Jr. High 86 Elementary 88

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The doors of the old HHS are slowly closing, but the memories of the last 41 years will linger on through the ages. Recollections of friendships and good times will bring a smile while thoughts of games that were lost or friendships that went amiss, or grades that didn't materialize will bring a frown or perhaps even a tear. HHS isn't merely the name of a building. It represents four years of hard work — happiness and sadness, triumphs and failures. It represents all of the formal edu- cation that some of its graduates will ever receive; it is only the simplest beginning for a few of its graduates who will go on to become doctors or engineers or profes- sionals in many of the complex vocations. One can literally relive the past by a casual stroll down the hall of the old high school building observ- ing the pictures of the graduating classes, or by re- examining those tattered old newspapers — The Feline or the Bobcat Tales —or by browsing through that treasured copy of a Spudpicker or a Bobcat, depicting the years' highlights.