New Bloomfield High School - Beacon Yearbook (New Bloomfield, MO)

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GLASS HISTORY To each of us graduates of '46 our class history holds worlds of adventure, pleasures, romances, sorrow, and studies. To an outsider the recollections may seem of no consequence, yet to us who have toiled up the rodky way, our history looms as an important milestone in our life. Each of us started his school career at a very young age. Three of our class--Peggy Holt, Betty Sue McKim, and Russell Holt--spent their twelve years of study in New Bloomfield. Others have come from adjoining districts and still others from various towns. However, twenty-eight members met together for a common purpose--that of attaining a high school education. Thus in the year 1942 we banded together to begin four tedious years of work. The group who comprised that famous title of “green freshies’’ in '42 were as follows: Udell Baker, Pauline Bratton, Lois Jean Burre, Mae Dean Craighead, Hazel Craighead, Charles Elley, Peggy Holt, Lorene Fulkerson, Lorene Gray, Margaret Gray, Betty Sue McKim, Clay Gregory, Betty Hickman, Letty Hickman, Russell Holt, Helen Peterson, Betty Keyhill, Robert Mirts, Carroll Murphy, Margaret Sparks, Claud Reiter, Claudia Reiter, Nellie Ann Smart, Reid Straw, Dorothy Schreen, Doris Mae Thomas, Opal Wallace, and Ruth Weibel. Later in the year we increased to thirty members with the addition of Jackie Schouten and Bill Henderson. We had an unusual situation in our class in that we had two sets of twins--Claud and Claudia Reiter, and Letty and Betty Hickman. Our Freshman year was spent mainly struggling to overcome the name “green freshies. Oh, but we had lots of fun, too. Two class parties were held--one at Town Creek and the other in the gymnasium of N. B. H. S. The sponsor of our freshman year was Miss Hazel Cheatham. Thus, the year finally elapsed and no longer could we say we were freshmen because our school year had ended. We had our usual summer vacation and in September we returned to the fam- iliar halls of New Bloomfield High. At the beginning of the sophomore hear, we had an enrollment of twenty-two in our class. We lost Mae Dean Craighead, Charles Elley, Lorene Gray, Margaret Gray, Jackie Schouten, Betty Keyhill, Claud Reiter, Claudia Reiter, and Opal Wallace. Helen Peterson and Reid Straw had dropped during the freshman year. We gained Dorothy Whyte, Jimmie Salmons, and Donald Duff. During the sophomore year Clay Gregory and Lorene Fulkerson departed from N.B. H.S. which left us with twenty members. Mrs. Susan Peters was our sponsor. This year we chose our class colors and motto. We chose navy blue and white as colors symbolic of our class. The motto we chose was, “By our deeds we hope to rise. The red rose was chosen for our class flower. We had our gay parties and presented several assemblies. Then our sophomore days were over, and we turned to our junior year. Our junior year began with eighteen members. Jimmie Salmons, Bill Henderson, Robert Mirts, and Carroll Murphy departed from our class which left us with a decidedly man-power shortage. During the year Udell Baker dropped his studies. Johnny Bickel entered the school but did not stay to finish the year. We welcomed Claud and Claudia Reiter into the fold once again. During this year we presented our assemblies and gave our excellent play, The An- geli Brats, which was a grand success. Miss Helen Vaughan was our class sponsor. Thus three of our school years had fled by and we turned eager faces to our senior year. This September each of our jolly class came back to the folds once more to finish his school career. We welcomed Frankie Stokes as a new member. Our class sponsor was again Miss Helen Vaughan. During the second semester Donald Duff answered his call to the Navy, and our class dwindled to 15 girls and 2 boys. Our last year was crammed with those “difficult senior studies, plays, parties, plans for the future, and all those other activities which go with the senior year. Undoubtedly we could sum up this year as one of the most enjoyable of the four fleeting years we had spent in attaining our high school education. And it is with a somewhat saddened heart that we depart from the gay halls of old New Bloomfield High. So our merry group of seventeen have braved the storms and at last we are ready to step into life’s school. Thus our history does not stop with this brief sketch. It continues as long as we graduates of '46 live.

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CLASS WILL We, the Class of 1946, in seventeen individual and distinct parts, being about to pass out of this sphere of education, in full possession of a crammed mind, well-trained memory, and almost superhuman understanding, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills or promises by us at any time heretofore made, or mayhap, care- lessly spoken, one to the other, as the thoughtless wish of an idle hour. As to such estate as it has pleased the Fates and our own strong hands and brains to win for us, we do dispose of the same as follows: Lois Burre wills to Bonnie Schneider her ability to stick to one man. Take care of it, Bonnie, and don’t break too many hearts. Doris Thomas leaves her tall, gangling figure to Harry Sweeten. Betty Hickman bequeaths her extraordinary ability to write love letters to Laura Gray. Guard it carefully, Laura. We don’t want Karl unhappy next year. Dorothy Whyte Ferguson bequeaths her experience in home making to Miss Vaughan’s next year’s home economics class. Claud Reiter wills his masculine handsomeness to J. T. Gathright. Just bleach your hair and widen your shoulders, J. T. Betty Sue McKim leaves her theme song, “Bell Bottom Trousers,’’ to the freshmen of 1945-46. Sing it, kids. Frankie Stokes wills her unexcused absences to Curtis Yancey. Don’t lose any, Curt. Dorothy Schreen wills her famous book, “How to Get Your Man and Hold Him, to Betty Hurley. Take care of it, Betty. We girls may want to borrow it in the future, Nellie Smart bequeaths her love for Andy Cave to Lillian Moore and Betty Bickel. Nellie wants you to take good care of him, girls. Russell Holt has the formula for growing tall. He leaves it to Doyle Thomas, as the girls say that’s all he needs. Claudia Reiter bequeaths her ability to get up at 8:44 and get to school at 8:45 to Anna Ruth Young. Margaret Sparks leaves her bowed legs to the senior girls of next