Johnston High School - Beaconite Yearbook (Johnston, IA)

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Homer fb ji Darrc S is E'-Q Qu x...q C huc N NN SBUIDI' 3, li15f01'Q xg rly one bright September morning in 1939, forty ve children enrolled atthe Johnston School This was a record class for enrollment in Kinder garten Nine brave little souls remained tofinish 'W ey were Dixie Clover, Suezanne Bilz, .Iacquelyn Longshore, Darrell Seibert, David Schuessler, Bill Peterson, Homer Betz, Dick Rock, and Charles Howe That year everyone brought his little rug and all took naps That was back in the good old days We really thought we were big when they let us take part in a Mother Goose Program with the First and Second grades Miss Pilmer, our teacher, left us in the Spring to get married, and Mrs Marjorie Rittgers had the pleasure of our company the rest of the year She sent us all on to First grade This year the same little cheery group entered Miss Lohr's First grade Here the main things we began to learn were penmanship and reading Pete LJ 'ff built a play house and invited other grades to play X house with us ,S In Second grade, Donald Ge.ndy joined our ranks? This was the year that mischievous little Bill recovered from the shock and had threatened him did not put them in her desk any more sternly, he in her coat closet instead' he put them Now we ated from Third grade were cn the first floor We had gradu the basement Mrs Benshoff was our teacher Carol Inman came to back us up this year I don't believe any of us forgot the narrow escape we had this year when the chimney of the school building was struck by lightning and fell :Lnour room one morning before school had taken p Back to the basement we went and finished the school year in our old Kindergarten room Mrs Murray had the pleasure?? of teaching us in Fourth grade She conducteda Valentine contest which we all worked hard to win Carol Inman de cided to take a vacation from us, so we let Roger Tasler take her place We won the Rhythm Band contest at West Des Moines that year for the first time We built an Indian village asaclass project In the Fifth grade our teacher was Mrs Baker At the first of the year we made a rule that you couldn't run on the stairs If you were caught five times in one week, you got a spanking on Friday Bill Peterson and Donald Gandy were caught five times and received the grand prize come Friday afternoon Donella Crowell came to take a chance on us about the middle of this year In Sixth grade, Mrs Manny directed us in play called How Boots Fooled The King Incide ally this won the Academy Award out 'N-5' We inv ed the ird, Fourth, and Fifth grades to watc production Later in the year, we invite Fl! grade to visit the Historical Building with us ck 15 ss?- I Dove Jackie ff Cl 1 f f---1: -I I I .is U f ,f 'ml Q' ,H ' ' x 1 y I ' I F If L g 1 . . ' K . vi s e K - IX x W . ' , 4 N , . Xf W . We 0 Q, xx 1 Q7 4 my Peterson put mice 1nMiss Taylor's desk. After she 253 - vu - Q J . Dix-, O . ' ' A 9 ,M Wr- . Ol . 33' ., . 'ul ,, 'A 1 , . - 5 - ' - Su e 'iw ' ' I ' .X ' ' ' be I e il- - I I Th ' ' is