Joplin High School - Joplimo Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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Page 10 k Xen O EVERYONE who has been or is a student of Joplin High School the words, Dear Old Joplin, are as familiar as his daily living. We have sung it to our winning and to our losing athletic teams. We have sung it to our brilliant orators, to our visiting alumni, and to our worthy faculty members. To the students of JHS it has become a ritual. As the years spin a golden thread about our memories, We of Joplin High School will have two precious themes to remember forever. The students have sung them lustily and proudly in assemblies, and now we have developed one of our songs into the theme for this 1949 JOPLIMO Yearbook. The melody is hummed in all the classrooms and halls of JHS. We believe if we live by the words of our songs we will make better citizens tomorrow. Although Dear Old Joplin will always be our dearly beloved theme song we, like President Truman, love our state-so we give you l 'Way down in Missouri, where we go to Joplin High There are all the memories that will grow and never die The band is a playin', the gang is all swayin', While the echoes recall as in days long gone by. 'Way down in Missouri, where We praise the Red and Green, There we work together for the best times ever seen Though years may go past yet memories will last For memories live 1

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L! 1 E -ip Will you sign my Joplimo? These were familiar words of students on Joplimo Day as they hurriedly autographed yearbooks. AUTOGRAPHING YEARBOOKS -T Vx ll'- vi.-xwmwgx we J. H. S. RECEIVING JOPLIMOS The great day is here. Everyone is eagerly, yet impatiently, waiting in line for his yearbook. Page 9

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