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Class History On September 2, 1944, forty-two eager and enthusiastic Freshmen entered the door of NACHS and gained the fame of being one of the largest (and possibly the most intelligent) class in the school’s history. Some few, short days later we learned the meaning of initiation. (Oh, Yes!) We struggled from one class to another with a doll in one arm and a bucket and books in the other. A pretty sight we were indeed! Our makeup for the day consisted of flour and lipstick applied very artistically by the Sophomores. Endurance of all this was made possible by the thought that next year we would have our fun. We began our Sophomore year with thirty-nine pupils. Three girls, namely Doris Stoll, Rose Hoffman and Hattie Glenn dropped out at the closing of our first year. That feeling of excitement that we experienced in our Freshman year had vanished. We now considered ourselves full-fledged members of NACHS. At the beginning of the second semester we lost Lloyd Schaller who continued his high school studies in Belleville. We also lost Grace Loeb, Pat Crosby, and Doris Stehl. During our Junior year things began to happen. Class rings were ordered in September and we patiently waited for their arrival which occured in January. Next came the Junior play, “Bolts and Nuts” which proved to be a hilarious affair. It will long be remembered as an outstanding performance which everyone enjoyed. Immediately after the play, preparations were begun for the Prom. Through the brain work and imagination put forth by our class, we finally settled upon a “Southern Garden Party” as our theme. Music was furnished by Howard Gant’s Orchestra. Along the way we lost Norma Stamm, Vera Wilson, Helen Lehr, Edna Darmstaedt, Eileen Beck, Marilyn Steinheimer, Clyde Wiggand, and Joanne Sauerwein. We began our Senior year with twenty-six members. Our life-long ambition had finally been fulfilled—Seniors at last! Election of class officers was held and we chose Darnell Reichert, president; Robert Joseph .vice president; June Baehr, sec. and treas.; Yvonne Sauerwein, reporter; Robert Joseph and Emil Klingenfus, Student Council and Mr. A. J. Woods as sponsor. (Continued On Next Page)
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Class History On October 10, we made our traditional journey to Van Millers to have our pictures taken. Mr. Spieth of Centralia has been contracted to print our annual, which has been our major problem for this year. We have selected maroon and white for our class colors and the dark red rose for our class flower. We wish to thank everyone who has made it possible to achieve our one cherished ambition—Graduation.
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