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

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Junior Class History On September 5, 1950, the Junior class met to organize for a new school yeai Within the first week, we elected class officers: Phyllis Gathright, President; Polly Yancey, Vice-President; Mary Ruth Irwin, Secretary-Treasurer; Dorece Sweeten, Reporter; Mr. Long, Sponsor. Other members of the class were Shirley Boren, Faye Wilson, Lola Murphy, and Jo Ann Lane. The following members of the Junior Class participated in the three-act comedy, “Aunt Silly,” which was presented by the P. T. A., September 14-15: Lola Murphy, Faye Wilson, Phyllis Gathright, Polly Yancey, Mary Ruth Irwin, Jo Ann Lane. On October 5th, we enjoyed our annual fall party. We had a square dance in the school auditorium and served refreshments. Our special guests were the Senior class. On November 8th, the Glee Club and Music Class gave a Negro minstrel, Banjo, Bones and Burnt Cork, in which the entire Junior class took part. Just before the close of the first semester we lost a member. Mary Ruth Irwin transferred to the Junior College in Jefferson City. The P. T. A. sponsored an all-school carnival on the night of December 16th. A carnival queen was elected by popular vote. The runner-up candidate was Phyllis Gathright. After losing Mary Ruth Irwin we chose Lola Murphy to fill her office as Secretary-Treasurer. Dorece Sweeten and Phyllis Gathright were elected to the Student Council. We enjoyed Christmas vacation from December 22nd to January 2nd. On January 15th, we began practicing on our play, “Cheerio, My Deario, a three- act comedy. We had planned to present the play on February 9th, but two mem- bers of the cast, Jo Ann Lane and Tim Suggett, took the mumps; so the presentation

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Besides these enforced gifts, we ieave--not of necessity, but of our own free will--our blessing, tender memories of our pleasant associations together, and our forgiveness for anything that we may not have exactly appreciated in the de- monstrations of the past, and a pledge of friendship from henceforth and forever. All the rest and residue of our property, whatsoever and wheresoever, of what nature, kind, and quality whatsoever it may be, and not herein before disposed of after paying our debts, we give and bequeath to our Superintendent, for his use and to be disposed of for the good of the coming classes as he may see fit. And we do hereby constitute and appoint the said Superintendent sole exe- cutor of this, our last will and testament. In witness whereof, we, the class of 1951, set our hands and seal this eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one.

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was postponed until February 23rd. As there are no Junior boys we had to borrow some from the Freshmen and Sophomores. They were H. C. Berry, Tim Suggett, Gene Finley, Jerry Bommel, Jimmy Bommel, Harold Jones, and Charles McKim. Mary Sue Witcher was also borrowed. The play was an outstanding success. The Junior class is now an all-girl class. Last year, as Sophomores, we had two boy members, but they transferred to the Fulton High School this year. Our class stands high in scholarship, loyalty, good school citizenship, pep, and of course, pulchritude.