Longfellow High School - Log Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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e o my Beryl Boffs, Lynn Porfer and Helen Tafum are frying fo concenfrafe in sfudy hall. ln February we presenred our annual Mid- Winler lnslrumenral Concerf composed oi our high school band and orchesrra under rhe supervision and direcfion of Mr. Jaclc Snider. The orcheslra presenled The iirsl porfion of 'rhe evening program and 'rhe band 'rhe second parr. Everyone Thoroughly enioyed fhe various rypes ol numbers 'rhar were presenled. gi. g.. 4 The Grand lsland l-ligh School gave usfiheiri exchange assembly on February l5. They had Their - Ks N is Q F X x Teaching physical educarion and sponsoring bcfh Bearcal Booslers and GAA gives Miss Donna Neal very lifrle leisure Q.. Claiming second place in ihe Log sales conlesi is Mrs Frances Anderson's firsf period iunior English class. usual program ol slcifs, vocal and insfrumenrai music, humorous and serious readings and iusf plain corn. The exchange assemblies have been an annual evenr for lhe lambiew years. Each year we look forward lo our exjhange assemblies and we have as much lun in puffing ours on lor rhem as we do having lhem perform for us. K - A' WTB hog our annual Y-Teen Banque on Febru- ary 23 in ihe iunior high caieferia. 'li Jordan. our presldenl presided as S J lime. Knowing rho? praciice makes perfecl, LaVonne Markus. Audrey Gillespie and Rayoma Tollefson waif rheir furn while Barbara Lindholrn shoofs for ihe baske? in girls physical educafion. Page 29

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Finding The unknown was one of The goals ThaT we seT up for ourselves in chemisTry. We worked long hard hours Trying To find ouT whaf we could produce ouT of The chemicals. We found ouT abouT The hisTory of our neigh- boring counTries and whaT gifTs The old world gave us, when we sTudied our world hisTory. We learned abouT The exciTing lives of The feudal lords who lived in The early Times. One day of The week we spenf sTudying The currenT affairs of our foreign counfries. We received our informaTion Through weekly newspapers. We boys Trained all year in our physical educaTion class for The Decafhalon which is held 06 Fave and Ten mmuTe Timed wrihngs oTTen find Bonnie Moylan George Sadd Jean Taole and David BarTh Typing rapidly To bring up Their scores -3 N -QQ-Ions mc NEB? ,ss Mr. ChesTer Marshall Teaches us The TacTs abouT Typing, bookkeeping and com- mercial law plus sponsoring Boys Club. l annually in The spring. We waiT for This conTesT in anxieTy, hoping To break The records seT up in for- mer years. We use our physical educaTion classes for a means of Training for such sporTs as Track, boxing, wresTling, Toofball and baskeTball. The four members of The Quill and Scroll So- cieTy for journalism sTudenTs, from lasT year, iniTi- afed The new members info Their club. The annual iniTiaTion banqueT was aT The ForT Kearney T-loTel. Remembering The Torfure They wenT Through lasT year, The Tour members really cooked up a rough iniTiaTion. Two of The sTudenTs being iniTiaTed had To perform for The benefrT of The people siTTing in The lobby of The hoTel Some of The kids decided They would be beggars afTer learning how much money one can geT by begging pennies on CenTral Avenue Kissing The firsT man or boy To geT off The bus was The iniTiaTion for one poor girl One of The courses greaTly sTressed in our school was lnTeresTed an whaT oTher schools prmT In Thelr papers The Drivers Educahon Course Lillian RoberTson and KaTherlne are These gournalism sTudenTs Sue Holmes John Bancroff Kappas believe nn Taking advanTage of :T Darlene Glass JaneT ATwaTer and Sharon PeTerson Page 28

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Larry Seery, Eugene Burlhead, Ray Mickelson, Gordon Muller and Loren Laue are worliing af lafhes in machine shop. A chemical equalion is shown by Anna Marie Hansberry To Faye Brown, Bill LancasTer, Jim Tye, Loren Howe and George Hayward in Third period chemisTry. BeauTiTul and someTimes noT so beauTiTul Tones could be heard coming Trom The manual arTs build- ing as we once again prepared Tor The big musical evenT oT The year, The preconTesT concerT which was Tollowed by The music conTesT. SoloisTs and en- sembles Trom The band, orchesTra and The vocal deparTmenT combined TalenTs and represe-nTed Kearney aT The l-lasTings DisTricT Music ConTesT. All The hours oT Tedious and Tiresome worlc puT TorTh in preparing our numbers was noT in vain, when Kear- ney was considered among The Top lisT oT schools wiTh many superior and ouTsTanding raTings, shouTs oT glee and happiness bursT TorTh Trom everyone. AT lasT we had accomplished a goal ThaT would male everyone proud ol us. Our high school iazz band Tor 'flue TirsT Time in Three years played Tor a school dance, The Shann- roclc l-Top. Every year iT is cusTomary Tor The SmarTer and SmooTher Club To sponsor a dance. This year we chose The Theme oT Shamrock l-lop and held iT in March near SainT PaTriclc's Day. The Kearney High's EinsTein is Mr. Lou Ninegar, who Teaches boTh chemisTry and physics and coaches boxing. He also sponsors The Science Club. Theme was carried Through wiTh all Those aTTending wearing green and The band having green haTs and bows. Each couple as They enTered The door was given whiTe and green shamroclc pins while singles wore only a green shamroclc. All were given lrish names and The name oT The band Tor The nighT was lvlchlamarais Band, The reTreshmenTs were Paddys Punch and Murphys coolcies. A very en' TerTaining Tloor show wiTh many oT us lrishmen lending a helping hand was The main aTTracTion. The band came ouT wiTh an added aTTracTion To The amazemenT oT everyone, Diclc TripleTT's beauTi- Tul voice as vocalisT senT many hearTs TluTTering inTo space. IT was Diclcs TirsT appearance wiTh The band buT he has become a TeaTured vocalisT now. The l-lop was held in The iunior high gymnasium and was under The general chairmanship OT Delores Richardson.