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

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NCHS uses nearby recreation areas Four years of high school are often the busiest and most active years of one’s life. School affiliated activities such as athletics, plays, choir and band seldom leave free time to worry about. Students, as well as adults, who are involved in a forty-hour week, look for leisure activities and the school often times fulfills this need. For those in- terested in the finer arts, the school offers band and choir for the musicians, art classes for the artistically inclined, musicals and plays for the actors and actresses. Athletic recreation used to be confined to playing basketball, baseball and track. Only in the past two years has the school begun to take full advantage of the three parks surrounding three-fourths of our school building. People always find time for leisure to escape the five-day work week. Tennis courts, picnic grounds, baseball fields, golf courses and a swimming pool are all to be found within a five-minute walk from the school. Above: Mr. Kent Heckman, an English instructor. finds time for tennis after school hours. Top right: An original log cabin still stands in Arbor Lodge as a monument to the early pioneers who ventured this way Bottom right: The Period House in Wildwood Park, south of the school building, contains many antiques and items holding historic value of this area. Opposite page, top left: J. Sterling Morton's mansion in Arbor Lodge is the most travelled of all of our parks. Top right: Craig Davis practices his pitching technique on one of the four diamonds located in Steinhart Park. Below: John Mann takes defense against a return by tennis instructor Mr. Robert Rathe while Greg Mann looks on. The two tennis courts, swimming pool, picnic grounds and part of the golf course are contained in Steinhart Park.

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Above: Sophomore Todd Dawson practices for the upcoming season on one of the ball diamonds which is adjacent to public picnic grounds (top right) also found in the park. Below: The annual spring clean-up of the pool takes place with disinfectant being sprayed on the pool floor. Opposite page, top: The recreation grounds in Arbor Lodge are found directly behind these statues that are now a part of our heritage Bottom left: The olympic-size swimming pool as seen from a hill top. Bottom right: The main diamond at the park used most by the Legion ball clubs. a