Nebraska City High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Nebraska City, NE)

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Pioneer Volume VII MCMLIV Nebraska City, Nebraska Table of Contents One Hundred Years................. 1-7 Faculty.......................... 8-15 Classes .........................16-39 Organization ....................40-61 Athletics........................62-73 Activities ......................76-85 Advertising .....................86-96 Centennial Staff Editor Harvey Hutton Business Manager. . . . Dolores Lundy .Make Up Editor Artist . Mike Gilligan Photographer . . . Bill Phillips Adviser Florence Barta

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This year the Court House lawn is lighted with the one-hundred candles shining to celebrate our 100 years of Progress. Our city started in 1854 with only one candle. Each year as our city grew a new candle was added. These are significant of the foresight of the early Pioneers and their hard work as well as co-operation to fulfill their dreams of a growing community. A community that we can all l e proud to lie a part of. This past century we have grown from a tiny scattered village protected only by the Block House shown above into a thriving modern town. Today we are result of the hope and vision of our forefathers. We have survived the early hardships: the drouth, the fire, depression; and faced the new century with a grim determination to carry forward in the same stern pattern set by those who blazed the trail one-hundred years ago. With this Centennial Celebration begins a new era, a new century. Each day in this new century brings an opportunity for progress and advancement. We are proud of our “firsts.” A number of churches were organized, the Methodist being first in the state. Our own High School has the distinction of being the first west of the Missouri. Our Courthouse is the oldest building in use in the state. The first newspaper moved from Bellevue to Nebraska City passed the Century mark last November.