Manhattan High School - Blue M Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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DAVID MCARTHUR President 4, Southland Six 4, Hi- Y 2,3,4g Interest Club 2,3,4g Band 2,3,4g Orchestra 2,3,4g Track 2,3g Pep Band 2,3,4g Goldiggers Comm. 3, Play Crew 3,4g Music Contest 2, 3,g,4Brass Sextet 2,3,4, Intramurals MARILYN MOORE Secretary 4gY-Teens 2,3,4, Cabinet 25 Interest Club 2,3,4g Goldiggers Comm. 35 Treble Clef 2, Basket- ball Comm. 3g Y-Teen Conference 2, Jr.-Sr, Comm. 3, Soph Party Comm. 23 Thespians 4g Pep Club 3,4gMusic Contest 2g Inner Willy 3g Play Crew 3,4. BRUCE STOVER Vice-president4g Hi-Y 2,3,4, Cab- inet 3,4g Interest Club 2,3,4g Band '2,3,4g Orchestra 2,3,4g Golf 2,3,4g Music Contest 2,3,4, Hi-Y Con- ference 3,4g Pep Band 2,3,4, Brass Sextet 2,4g Play Crew 3. Graduation - And Seniors Recall Three Years Of MHS Life We have reached it, lived it, and are now about to leaveit. Our year, as some people express it, is fast coming to a close, and we, as seniors, would like to write down some of the things that stand out in our minds as we finish high school. Remember the football and basketball rallies, the racing to class with three seconds left before the tardy bell 1jings,or not racing to class and making up half an hour after school? Everyone will remember the pink and charcoal fad,the out-of-town football and basket- ball trips, the CKL championship in 1952, the assem- blies, the M-Clubinitiations,the kings and queens, the spring elections, and the Christmas vacations! These things, along with many others will long be in the mem- ory of every graduating senior in 1955. Let'slook backto 1952 when we entered Manhattan Senior High School as sophomores. of course we put up with the razzing and teasingthat is always associated with sophs. Led byGary Hixson, president: Diane Koon, vice-president, and Bob Haines and Leland Reitz on the Student Council, we managed very well. We enjoyed a great sophomore party and Pigskin Prom. We entered many activities and let everyone know that we were not to be slighted. Wefinished our first year with the same enthusiasm with which we started it, and looked forward to being the little upperclassmen. As September, 1953, rolled around we came back again in full battle dress. Now it was our turn to do a little teasing, but we were busier still, just being MHS'- ers. We began to think- maybe we should take a book home at least once a weekg what could we have for a Goldiggers theme, who will get the leads in the junior class play, and what do we want to accomplish next year year as seniors. The lnner Willy was a great success, along with the Goldiggers to the tune of Red and yellow-catch a fellow! The School Daze Dance and the Battle ofthe Sexes were equally successfulg the Sponsor latter especially to the Y-Teens. Finally it was our big chance. We just had to give the class of '54 a big- ger and better Jr.-Sr. Banquet and Dance. And , we did! We saw them through Baccalaureate and Commence- ment,realizing all the time that we were next. Under the leadershipofour president, Trudie Foltz, our vice- president, Pete Lindsay, our secretary, Sandra Hodgson, and Bryan Barr, Charles Kerchner, Benny Osburn, and Bob Haines on the Student Council, we increased our loyalty to MHS. At last we were there. David McArthur was there to lead us,along with Bruce Stover as vice-president, and Marilyn Moore as secretary of the senior class. Leland Reitz, Diane Koon, and Pete Lindsay represented the seniors' wisheson the Student Council. Mardy Edwards, Don Pady, and Greta Florell were right there in the middle of allthe activities leading our most important organizations. We felt like it was really our football team and our Pigskin Prom with Greta Florell and Larry Bnimm reigning. Everyone didn't really mind those senior class dues as much as was put on, nor the expenses for invitations and cards either. We knew these were coming and we had been looking forward to them for two years. We were deeply saddened by the death of our fellow classmate and friend, Gary Hixson, who was a favorite with all of us. The basketball team really gave every one of us something to be proud of, as did the senior class play. Now,as we look back on it all, we realize the tre- mendous wealth that is stored in the walls of old MHS. She holds many a secret desire and wish which have come true. All that we, the class of 1955, are trying to say is that we are proud to be students in MHS and for years to come, will be proud to be alumni. STUDIO ROYAL

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-.. 49 3 ' Joyce Albrecht Lorraine Alexander Evelyn Arnold Janice Amgld Carole Backman JOYCE ALBRECHT School Daze Comm.35 Y-Teens 2, 3,45 Interest Club 3,45 Girls' Glee Club 25 Treble Clef 3. LORRAINE ALEXANDER Boys' Glee Club 25 Interest Club 45 Hi-Y 2,3,45 Football 2,3,45 Track 2,3,4, EVELYN ARNOLD Y-Teens 2,3,45 Interest Club 2,3,45 Pep Club 2,3,45 Girls' Glee Club 25 Treble Clef 35 Robed Choir 45 Pigskin Comm. 35 Basketball Comm. 25 School Daze Comm. 35 Soph Party Comm, 25 Music 4 as dfx .-.Q 3 Carole Baker Shirley Baker CAROLE BAKER Interest Club 2,3,45 Band 2,3,45 Orchestra 2,3,45 Y-Teens 2,3,45 Play Crew 35 Intramurals 2,3, SHIRLEY BAKER C leburn , Kansas 25 Interest Club 3,45 Y- Teens 45 Inner Willy 35 Girls' Glee Club 3. BRYAN BARR StudentCouncil3,4, Pres. 45 Hi-Y 2,:3,45 Interest Club 2,3,45 Robed Choir 2,45 Boys' Octet 2,45 The Night Oflanua ry 16 3, JIM BECKENI4 TER Boys' Glee Club 25 Interest Club 45 Hi-Y 3,4 murals 253. PAT BLASING Pigskin Comm. 45 Y Contest 3. JANICE ARNOLD Pigskin Comm. 3,45 Interest Club 2,3,45 Band 2 3,45 Orchestra 25 Mentor Staff 45 Y-Teens 2,3,45 Goldiggers Cgmm, 3: Schgol D826 COPHITI. 3: PCD Club 3,45 Jr.-Sr. Comm. 35 Play Crew 35 Music Contest 35 Journalism Conference, CAROLE BACKMAN Girls' Glee Club 25 Goldiggers Comm. 35 Pep Club 2,35 Y-Teens 2,3,45 Interest Club 3,45 Play Crew 3. Our Last Pigskin Prom 2,3,45 Band 45 Orchestra 45 Interest Club 45 Basketball Comm . 4. RALPH BOCK I-Ii-Y 2,3,45 Ba nd 2,3,4. JERRY BOOTH Pigskin Comm.2,35 Interest Club 2,3,45 Boys' Glee Club 25 Hi-Y 2,3,45SODl1 Party Comm, 25 Track 3,45 Basketball 2,3, Bryan Barr ,lim Beckenhauer Blasing Ralph Bock Jerry Booth ZS' -can -