North Platte High School - Roundup Yearbook (North Platte, NE)

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OLD GLORY RISES-Neil ExTrom and Sam Van Doran proudly haul The banner To The Top of The flag pole on The NorTh PlaTTe High School grounds while The TrumpeTers are inside playing. Every sTudenT sTands aT aTTenTion while The flag is being raised each morning aT Two miuTes before nine cadeTs. BUT SuperinTendenT OT Schools W. J. Braham and The school board Tound capable Teachers To replace Them. ln January The STaTe Guards were organized. The NorTh PlaTTe squad is The largesT in Nebraska. The squad is composed oT high school boys I7 years or over. This is valuable Training Tor Those expecTing To enTer any oT The armed Torces. Closely Though indirecTly connecTed wiTh The high school is The Naval CadeT Training program. Roy W. Mayer, Clar- ence F. WrighT, Raymond W. Trenholm, lvan Wilson, and Miss Marie Schaab Teach Trainees. TwenTy piloTs received Their wings on January 8, I943. VoTes were casT Tor membership in The NaTional l-lonor SocieTy on March I5. March 29 and 30 ThirTeen seniors compeTed Tor The RegenT's scholarship To The UniversiTy oT Nebraska. The win- ner will receive an eighTy dollar scholar- ship. AlThough school opened laTe The commencemenT exercise will be held only Two days laTer Than lasT year. On May 2I, I943 The iuniors will enTerTain The seniors aT The annual junior senior prom. The baccalaureaTe address will be given May 25. One hundred and sixTy-six seniors make up The class OT '43, STudenTs will receive Their diplomas on May 27, I943. PAYING TRIBUTE-To The boys in serv- ice, RoberT Crosby gives The ArmisTice day address ouT on The TooTball Tield. Behind him are The colors of diFFerenT war organi- zaTions. -LJQISITXJ

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We Serve War Needs Five chose college liTe, eigh+ wenT inTo The business world. ln order To TurTher The war eTTorT many new subiecTs were added To The school curriculum. Among Them were mechanics and elecTriciTy, physical TiT- ness, reTresher maThemaTics, blue prinT reading, and senior manual arTs. Many sTudenTs regisTered Tor These classes in order To prepare Themselves To help win The war. ConcenTraTing on lessons and buying war bonds kepT us busy. ConTesTs were held beTween The classes To see which class could buy The mosT bonds. TwenTy-seven girls answered The call Trom The Red Cross To malce surgical dressings. The Junior Red Cross drive came along and sTudenTs conTribuTed approximaTely ThirTy dollars. The TaculTy members conTribuTed abouT one hund- red dollars. Members OT The dramaTics deparT- menT gave a play Heaven Can WaiT sponsored by The NorTh PlaTTe RoTary Club. The proceeds were donaTed To The canTeen. The winTer band concerT, enTiTled SaluTe To The Armed Forces was presenTed February 4. The annual choral concerT TeaTuring The A Cappella Choir delighTed everyone March 26. The TaculTy organizaTion was TirsT dis- rupTed when Van Shaw was called inTo The armed Torces. Miss Shirley PoTTer became an army hosTess, and Roy Mayer resigned To Train The naval WHAT, SCHOOL CLOSED-Exclaimed Joy Tramp To Tellow classmaTes Maxine CarpenTer, Bob PiTzer, Alvin Cooper, Bob Guilliaume, Don Wing as They reporT To reg- isTer for Their lasT year on SepTember 8, I942 only To find A-TOPPING WE WILL GO-ThaT's The song oT Paul Dean, KeiTl1 PeTerson, Dick Lebsock, Claude Milroy, Clarence Cain, Bernard Lebsock, Lowell Houser, and Dale Applega+e as They leave classrooms and TexT books To help in The beeT Tields. They worked Two days and sTudied Three each week. The doors locked because of The poliomyeliiis epidemic. -v,.!iI4I7S.J TO WIN THE WAR-ls The aim of Mary Gummere ginia Greisen, Percilla PaTheTios, Avrom LusTgarTen, Hyland, Paul Marzolf, Warren Kenny, Lillian Woods, B Jean Kuhns, Lorraine Hora, and Alice Mickish. They offered To collecT scrap during The scrap drive Odober I4, I942.

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HOLD STILL-Says Lorene Bensen +0 Shirley Anderson as Roberfa McFarland, Belly Neve, and Jean Thomas pracfice lying bandages in lhe firsl aid class. This class was placed in +he school curriculum a+ fhe beginning of second semes+er so girls would be able +o apply firsf aid in an emergency. ONLY FOUR GALLONS?-Why I use fwice fhaf much in one week! This is only one of fhe problems which sfudenfs had fo cope wilh in aiding wifh gas rafioning November 24, 25, 26. Here Rosemary Fosfer, Wanda Hill, and Conan Casile help regisler car-owners in fhe fron? hall-way. Miss Anfonides supervises. --and FIGURING LUMBER - Are Marble, Arlene Schimmel, Belly Mildred Johnson, Mary Louise barg, Insfrucfor Vicfor Ruff, Dora Whire, Eula Lindenmufh, and Hammond in ihe wood shop. These are learning +he uses of various +1 lhe shop so fhey can use +hem af or in frades. TOUGHENING UP-Are irnporfanf words +o Allen Boyer, Bob McNeel, Oliver Barreff, and Curfis Wilson who are enrolled in fhe physical fifness class for senior boys. These boys are irying fo improve fheir physical condiiion so fhaf fhey will be ready fo serve in one of +he branches of +he armed forces.