La Cygne Rural High School - Swan Yearbook (La Cygne, KS)

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fire, S1'.2,v-5J1l7,r f5'f'.z,1'rzfa,J fo At last we're graduating! Shout the seniors of LaCygne High, Come to our Commencement The date is drawing nigh. Go all around just where you please No class like us you'll find, The LaCygne folks are proud of us That's something we don't mind. We appreciate our teachers Says each in this class of twenty, We thank them.for their patience Which doubtless was tried plenty. We hope we can repay you Our friends and parents dear For all the sacrifices made During each high school year. The elevator to success Is not running, so they say, So we'll take the stairs, one by one, And we'll reach the top someday. Some have careers in view, Some have homes to make, Some are going on to school Again to graduate. Perhaps each one of us His ambition will achieve And on this great world of ours The mark of worth will leave. Then won't you be glad you came To see us graduate? This wonderful class of twenty The seniors of 'L8? ikvklklklkfklklkltvkvkPlvkflwklkvkvlflifllllivkikliilklklkviwkllwlflklrlklkHkbillklkvlillflklklklivklklklkfklldvkliflklkvkllvlvklklifvkBIOKIKDIUIOIOIOKPKHK 10014 ggigiyy- h!e55'fCu7'CifEif2!'lJ In the fall of 1944, 58 little NScatterbrainsN started on the WLong Long Trail a Windingn into the land of education WWith a Song in Each Heart.N we chose as our leader Pat Smythe, with MiSS Olive Gage as our adviser. School to us was a four part chorus and our section, which often made noisy, discordant sounds before finding our place was composed of: Dicky Banks, Charles Beckman, Joyce Boone, Fontella Butler Ernestine Butts, Curtis Capehart, Dorothy Driskell, Clifford Driskell, Georgia Lou Harper, Robert Johnston, Dean Evelyn Miller, Gene Rockwell, Haupt, Fauna Hobson, Ferne Hobson, Marian Hoover, Doris Hoover, Doris Keitel, Joe Kiplinger, Norma Dean Kyle, George Long, Harold Marmon, Doris Mossman, Ellen McCammon, Rozella Newman, Carl Null,Lorene Pease Mildred Smith, Scott Shaull, Roy Shields, Carl Wade, Kenneth Wilson Betty Jean West, Pat Smythe, Bill Stark, Bill Trinkle, Basil Fri, and Orville MendeL We learned to NKeep Smiling at Troubleu, and NYou'd be Surprisedn 'How Soonn we could answer WAin't Misbehavin'W. We enjoyed a party at Morrison's Lake HBV The Light of the Silvery Moonn in the fall. In the late spring we parted singing WTill We Meet Again.U Having learned lessons in harmony the 27 sophomores who believed Wwe Could Make' Beautiful Musicn NTogetherN assembled in the fall of 'L5. We welcomed Yvonne Lynch, Betty Phalen, and Roberta Gage into our chorus. We chose Carl Wade as leader, with Evelyn Miller, and Lorene Pease assistants, and Miss Potter as our director. During the second semester Doris Johnston left us to take up house-keeping. With out bonus from the magazine sale the class enjoyed a party and a show. We bade each other good bye singing WI'll Be Seeing You.H WOnce Again Here as Schoolmates Assembledn in the fall Flightyn boarded the band wagon to start of l9u6, 20 WJuniors so our junior year. Carl Wade resigned as leader and we chose Lorene Pease with Ferne Hobson and Georgia Harper as assistants, and Mrs. Handley and Mrs. Irwin as directors. We presented a play WA Ready Made Family'in November and were made happy by its success and the 373 we cleared. During the year Betty Sue Phalen left us and took up house-keeping. On April 25, we invited the faculty, the school board members, and the Seniors to our Mexican Fiesta, WSouth of the Bordern in our nAdobe Hacienda.W HIn the Middle of Mayu we bade each other goodbye until the next September. In the fall of l9h7, 20 Wseniors so mightyn started on the WLast Roundups of their high school education. We welcomed Dale Hatch from Drexel, and Lois Jean Wil- son from Manhattan. We elected Norma Dean Kyle as leader and Doris Hoover and Ferne Hobson as assistants. Miss Mitchell and Mr. Handley were directors for our finale. A Christmas party and an all school party were enjoyed. 29 L 4

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Deciding to leave a record of our NSchool spent many hours on its production. We were HS raised 3150 by selling the basketball games. To the juniors we said us Hln the Merry Month we purchased an electric score board which was Time passed quickly and on May 21 with ma friends and school singing NI'll be Loving You, Jklkakfklldflkfkllvivkllfllvklklklkbkikiflflkblfikvkilkvkik2kvl0K11Oi0k1lOiOI0k'PKHk2k Daysn we elected the Hswanv staff who itting on Top of the Worldn when we magazine subscriptions and also made money by selling food at WNight and Dayn we worked on our senior play in the spring. WThanks for the Memoryn of an unforgettable banquet given for of Mayu. For something to remember us by when we are far away used during the basketball season. ny pleasant WMemoriesW we left our Alwaysn. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Wffef were f.p We the Senior Class of La Cygne High Schoo mental faculties and having no reason to fear a school board, the professor or the other teache Last Will and Testament in the manner and form To the faculty we leave an unbroken recor senior class behaviour. To the juniors, the coming seniors envied dignity, our excelling wit, our with the teachers. To the sophomores we bequeath all gum, all the unsharpened lead pencils, claimed properties of no value. , we bes GUHQLI l being in full possession of all our nyone before our eyes, not even the rs, do hereby declare this to be our following, that is to say: d of most desirable and intelligent tow our richest treasures--our much good looks our charming manners and our favor our tardy and absent marks, all the unchewed half filled note books and all the other un- To the freshmen we will our high grades, our laughs and giggles and our excell- ent conduct. Ferne Hobson thought about willing her engagement ring to Kathryn Newman as it is her only valuable possession, but decided she would need it. Carl Wade wills his athletic ability to Johnny Yeokum. Doris Hoover wills her seat on the bus to Jean Hatch. Georgia Lou Harper leaves her quiet dignity to Katherine Barrett. Dale Hatch leaves his ability to be an efficient office boy to Mr. Handley to Tommy Gowing. Fontella Butler wills her hope 'two can live cheaper than ona'to Darlene Tolman Evelyn Miller wills her ability to have a date every night to Joan Scott. She doesn't think she will need it after school is out. Rozella Newman wills her American History A'S LO Ruth Ellen CaTOth6rS- Roy Shields wills his place as football ca Norma Dean Kyle wills her tall slim figure Jean Wilson wills her shorthand ability to counts. Gene Rockwell wills his muscular figure to Ernestine Butts leaves her ability to play Lorene Ellen Pease wills her vocal ability Ellen McCammon wills her shyness Scotty Shaull wills his car full the car. Dicky Banks wills his ability to iels. Roberta Gage wills her lady like to Charle of girls get along behaviour ptain to Robert Hoover. to Joan West. Ferns White.Every little bit of help Leo McRae. the bass drum to Barbara Hays. to Esther Kerns. ne Johnston. to Charles Conner--if he can furnish with graduated girls to Glen McDan- to Illene Mendenhall. Marian Hoover wills her ability to pop gum in study hall to Jannet Fannan. Fauna Belle Hobson wills her womanly ins Norma Lee Keith. tincts and sparkling personality to In Witness Whereof, We, the Senior Class, do hereby set our hand in presence of Witness this twentieth day of May in the year of l9A8. WITNESSES Adam EVS 30 Pinch-m