Lockridge High School - Golden L Yearbook (Lockridge, IA)

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Smithburg, Harold Vorhies and Bert Helfenstine visited school. Did you notice the smiles on a certain Sophomore girl's face? 12 Edith Bender visits school. 13 Mr. Calkins brings a real singing canary to school. Eddie Linn looks jealous. 14 Canary has to be removed from Literature class. 16 Marjorie Rodabaugh visits school. 20 Tests, tests, tests! Biology, History, Algebra, and Literature. 22 and 23 Six weeks tests. Oh! boy! 23 Alumni basketball game. High School wins 24 to 15. 24 Mr. Weston's sister Gertrude visits school. 25 Report cards out. Thanksgiving vacation starts. DECEMBER 3 Back to school in snow and mud. 4 Frances Messer visits school. It is rumored that her name will not be Messer much longer. 5 Mrs. Russell Rauscher visits school. New school song introduced and practiced. Nedra Archibald and Bob Grubb chosen cheer leaders. We beat Batavia 41 to 13. That pep meeting must have helped. 12 Biology and History tests. 13 Eddie Linn much worried. He cannot find his fur cap. 14 Seniors meet and decide to send for rings. 17 We lose to Packwood there 28-21. Our second team beat theirs and didn't allow them a Held goal. Carl Sodergren has charge of Literature class. 18 Seniors order class rings. 19 Juniors have farewell party for Louetta Switzer at school house. 20 Juniors look sleepy. 21 Louetta Switzer discontinues school. We beat Fairfield Freshmen 27-18. 22 Saturday. School today, but we will have one full week and New Years day vacation. Grace Hill, Paul Peterson, Dorothy Smith, Richard Walgren visit school. Christmas vacation begins. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. JANUARY 2 Everyone back in good spirits. Santa must have been good to everyone. Grace Arnold and Doris Helfenstine visit school. 3 Everett Bogner visits school. 4 We beat Libertyville there 19-8. 7 Mr. Weston is looking for a boy from the South Sea Islands in Literature class. 10 and 11 Semester tests. 15 Keith White attempts to thumb a ride in a hearse. We are glad the hearse did not stop. 16 Juniors are moved in assembly. 17 Sophomores moved.

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School Calendar SEPTEMBER 3 School opens with a bang! Twenty-one boys and thirty-eight girls. Rainy and muddy after our dry summer. 4 A few more enrolled. Helen Zihlman visits school. 6 Seniors hold class meeting. Edna Rauscher, Charles Shuppy and Gilbert Fillinger get ofiices. 7 Lester Vorhies is either hungry or half asleep. He starts home at 11:15, thinking it is noon. 10 Mable and Edna make a hurried emergency first aid call and find a woman who was thought to have fainted fishing buckets out of a cistern. 13 Members of biology class are catching bugs. 17 Juniors elect Roy Billingsley, Glenn Graf and Raymond Hostetler to ofiices. 19 Biology class takes field trip. Mr. Calkins is stung only three times. Mr. Weston uses grade book as his hickory stick. Assembly en- tertained for fifteen minutes by the team of Dryden and Sampson. OCTOBER 4 Biology class motors out to Shuppy's in a trailer behind Mr. Calkin's car. A trip not to be forgotten by those who ride in the trailer. 9 Freshmen and Sophomores have weiner roast on Brush Creek. 10 Seniors and Juniors go on weiner roast to ball diamond. 15 Second six weeks begins. 16 Everyone aching to chew gum. Candidate Wegman distributes free gum at noon. We wonder if some didn't chew. 17 Report cards handed out. Almost heart failures. 19 Kittenball game with Libertyville postponed. Rain. Miss Chides- ter visits school. 22 Mr. Calkins disects frog in Biology class. 25 Seniors and Juniors have only three tests. Wow! What a day. 26 Harry Riggs, Nathan Elliott, and Virgle Smithburg visit History and Geometry classes. Lockridge beats Libertyville in kittenball game here. Score eight to one. 29 Seniors select rings and look at graduation pictures. 31 Bernard Greeson of Parsons College talks to assembly. Subject, Dreams I Would Like to See Walking. NOVEMBER 2 Lucille and Margaret O'Dean visit school. 6 Jimmy Roules of Fairfield American Legion talked on loyalty to the United States. Election held with Eddie Linn speaking for Republicans and Everett Graf' for Democrats. Members of Sophomore Civics class acted as judges. 8 Dr. Plowman talks to American History class on, Devils, Drugs and Doctors. 9 Junior Class play, Wild Ginger. They cleared S34.96. Virgle

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18 Freshmen given new seats. Ruth Zihlman visits school. 21 Lockridge basketball team leaves the cup at Fairfield. 22 A few more in school today. Ferne Hickenbottom rides to school in a hearse. 23 Operetta practice starts. 24 Colds was the subject in Biology class. 25 Senior rings arrive. We trim Batavia 58-21. 28 Literature class learns difference between an optimist and pessi- mist. 29 Operetta cast announced. 31 Willard Nelson startles History class with the information that olive oil is made from cod fish. FEBRUARY 1 Pep meeting after school. We finally defeat Packwood 32-15. Measles epidemic begins. Ilene, Roy and Vernon first victims. 5 Lester Vorhies tells us of different kinds of bears in California. 7 Eighth graders here from country schools taking examinations. 8 Ice, ice, ice! We defeat Freshmen 42-24. 11 Raymond and Dorothy Hostetler and Frank Weston absent with measles. Harold Vorhies and Edith Bender visit school. Literature class enjoys talk on Navy by Harold and learns that sailors sleep in Hammocks 12 Eddie Linn gives his oration before assembly. 13 Eddie first at Libertyville. Ilene and Frank unable to compete because of measles. Nineteen absent. A 14 Measles! Measles! Flu! Flu! Twenty-one out today. 18 Measles victims start returning to school. Pauline Whitmore, Laurance Dold and Lewis Edmund visit school. Edna Rauscher, Flossie, Florence and Marjorie Smith latest measles victims. 20 Ilene Bogner returns. Lester smiles. A spring-like day. 21 Spring didn't last long. Dark and dreary today. 27 Miss Clark plays piano at our usual assembly singing. 28 Ilene and Frank present their readings to assembly. We had a tough time defeating Libertyville 31-22. Eddie and Frank win first places at pre- liminary state declam contest at Mt. Pleasant. MARCH 4 Rainy and muddy. Flossie, Florence, Marjorie and Edna return. Clifford Leu, a former Cantril student, enrolls as a Junior. 5 Operetta practice in full swing. A good attendance at school so we vote on Who's Who.