Mexico High School - Mascot Yearbook (Mexico, MO)

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BEVERLY OVERFIELD LAURA JANE RICHARDSON KATRINA SCHMIDT Play 3 4 4 Play Ch01'Ul Vlce Preudent Secretary CONNIE SHOEMAKER BARBARA SMITH Play Chorus Ope re tta Cantata Queen Cand1da te 3 234 Play Chorus Queen Candxdate Lxbranan 2 3 4 Speech Contest Play Chorus Band Operetta Cantata Lxbranan NOR MAN SNYDER Play Baa ketball Softball Volleyball President Vlce Presldent 344

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History The freshman year was a new and exc1t1ng year for us We may have been green fresh men when we started but lt dzdn t take us long to catch on to the routlne of hrgh school Thele were twenty s1x students 1n our freshman class Gary Arnold Rose Butler Karen Condon Janet Conner Joe Dunnuck Annette Flook Mar1lyn Fouts Leona Hetzner Gene Huddleston B111 Leffel Polly Le1by Paul Mc.Al1ster D1Ck1e Mallot Donna Martm Beverly Overf1eld Laura R1chards on Jerry Saylor Katrma Schm1dt Conn1e Shoemaker Barbara Sm1th Norman Snyder Betty Tharp Peggy Walden Nelda Weaver Carol Wllburn Shxrley Wmnmgham Our class was 1ncreased to twenty seven when Barbara Curt1s came One thmg we looked forward to but was a httle fnghtened of was our 1n1t1at1on The hlgh l1ght of our freshman year was the Halloween Carn1val Mar1lyn Fouts was our queen cand1date though we worked hard to get her elected she came 1n th1rd Our f1rst class party was a W1ener roast held at Lou1e Fr1ck s woods We had only twenty two students 1n our sophomore class Rose Butler moved away and Paul McAl1ster qu1t We had great fun that year 1n1t1at1ng the new freshmen Polly Le1by was our queen cand1date for that year One of our class part1es was a W1ener roast held at the F'ranc1s Slocum Park jun1or year was fmlled w1th many more act1v1t1es than our two preced1ng years We had the COHCCSSIODS at the home ballgames and presented the play The Case of the Laughmg Dwarf Conn1e Shoemaker was our queen candxdate for the Halloween Carnwal We had a skatlng party at Rock Lake for one of our class part1es and for our other party we had a ch1l1 supper at school then went to Logansport to a mov1e Our class was decreased when Martha Hoover and Jerry Saylor left The h1ghl1ght of our jun1or year was the receptzon we gave the sen1ors We used the western mot1f for the theme of the recept1on We went to the Ranch House a restuarant located near Mar1on Afterwards we went to the movre Ma and a Kettle at W1kak1 We f1nally reached our goal when we becarne senlors All of us looked forward to the senlor year whrch promlsed us new and exc1t1ng thmgs We were pr1v1leged to have Renate Volmoller a German exchange student wh1ch brought the total of our class to twenty three One of the projects we sponsored was the Halloween Carnlval 1n wh1ch Barbara Sm1th was our queen cand1d'ate We sponsored a skat1ng party at Rock Lake for the purpose of raxsmg funds for our sen1or tr1p In add1t1on to th1s we presented our senlor play on March 9 We were a group of happy but sleepy sentors who left on the morrnng of March Z4 on our tr1p We spent the f1rst n1ght ln P1ttsburgh Pennsylvan1a on our way to Washmgton D C Then we went to New York where we stayed two days On the way home we stopped tn Ph1ladelph1a and toured lndependence Hall We arr1ved home on the afternoon of March 31 Baccalaureate was held on Apr1l Z9 and our Commencement was on May 4 We chose Effort Brmgs Success for our motto and whlte roses for our class flower We worked hard through the twelve years of school untll we could graduate We have certa1nly proved that Effort Does Brmg Success O f . - I ' . . Q v v Q . - nz , , I I I I ' I I Y , I l I . I l . I I l I - I I ' . I . I ' I ' I I I I . I . Y , . . , . . . . n . s . , , . . . . ' . . . . , We gained two new students, Martha Hoover and Roger Dock, in our junior year. Our v ' Il , . I D . , . . 7 I - n ' I P . .- I Y - ' ' I I I U ll - 41 . v . ll 1 Il .