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

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DEWEY OR ROOSEVELT? Jerry Wilson,- Bruce Calhoun, Dale McFarland, and Kim STeyenson eyamine a yoTing balloT Tor The p'esidenTial elecTion Noyember 7 in room IOO, where yoTing booThs were insTalled. LEADERS OF THE JUNIORS. Marion Babs Miles, secreTary, smiles aT The cameraman while Dale LangTord, presi- denT, Jerry Swanson, vice-presidenT, and Bob Lyons, serqeanT-aT-arms give Their sTricT aTTenTion To Babs. These Are Tomorrow's Seniors Under Their Tlying colors OT blue and silver, The iunior class made The school year oT I944-45 one oT eyer increasing acTiviTy. ln SepTember, by popular balloT, Dale LangTord was elecTed president Jerry Swanson won The posiTion oT vicefpresidenT, The oTTice OT secreTary was besTowed on Marion Miles, and Bob Lyons was chosen as sergeanT-aT-arms. Dale and Jerry did double duTy as class oTTicers and as represenTaTives oT The class on The STudenT Council. OTher iunior members oT The council were Myra Maupin, BeTTy McGovern, Charles LeTh, and Dick STephens. The council yared Myra Maupin, Dale LangTord, and Dick STe-phens To replace The Three senior members oT The AcTiyiTies Board. THIRSTY JUNIORS. Glen Johansen and Euphema RickeTTs hold a conversaTion while Blaine Nelson Takes a long, cold drink Trom The waTer TounTain on The TirsT Tloor. Gene Gillespie courTeously Turns on The waTer Tor Blaine. PLATTE PATTER. PaT Thompson, Arlene Mcliain, Richard Taylor. and BeTTy Rowley are keeping up wiTh The laTesT school happenings by reading a copy oT The Round-Up. Are They reading The Whirl, FirsT Mile, or Yoo-Hoo?

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Shuman Snook Sorenson Tibbefs Toms Vencil Wheafley Whife Wrighf Yosf SORENSON, MRS. AGNES . . . B.Sc. in educaTion from The Universify oT Nebraska . . . her firsT year here Teaching Tull Time . . . likes Traveling and plans To do a greaf deal more affer The war. TIBBETTS, LOIS . . . came from Pierce, Nebraska, The Third week affer The sTarT of school . . . B.Sc. degree from The Universify of Nebraska . . . classifies her pasfime of card playing as diversified acTiviTies. TOMS, CHARLES . . . sponsors I-Ii-Y . . . A.B. degree from Nebraska Universify . . . Two years af Soufhwesf Tech in Oklahoma . . . came here from Ogallala . . . coaches The varsify squads in Toofball, baskefball, and Track. VENCIL, LAIROLA . . . A.B. Trom Boulder College . . . serious illness forced her resignafion mid-Term . . . she is now recuperafing aT her home in Corfez, Colorado . . has Taken up wrifing poefry during her convalescence. WHEATLEY, BEATRICE . , . comes from Emporia, Kansas for her firsT year as librarian here . . , has an A.B. degree . . . anorher librarian who spends her spare Time in reading .. . will never refuse a game of bridge. WHITE, EXIE . . . chief sponsor of The iunior class . . . came from Rawlins, Wyoming year before lasT . . . B.Sc, from The Universify of Nebraska . . . is an arnafeur arfisf who goes in Tor Tinfing picfures. WRIGHT, CLARENCE F .... Universify of Nebraska . .. AcTiviTies Associafion . . . Faculry adviser on The yearbook and The Round-Up paper . . . B.Sc. and M.A. degrees . . . sponsors The senior class. YOST, G. ALLISON . . . alumnus of N.P.I-I.S .... B.Sc. from Midland . . . sponsors junior class and Science Club . . . heads visual educaTion deparfrnenf . . . helped organ- ize The recreafion cenfer, The Bulldog Inn. SPEAKING OF ENGLISH. The scene is Thar of an English Teachers meefing, Mr. Wrighf, Miss I-Iahn, Mrs. I-lohlfeld. Miss McCormick, Miss Dannaff, and Miss Robberf are co- ordinafing The IiTeraiure and grammar classes. NEW BUSINESS. The problems facing The Teachers during The war years a,e Taken info consideraTion by a commiffee of Mr. Oakes, Miss Grill, Miss Anfonides, and Miss I-Iahn, represenfing The professional Teachers. I5

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Three members oT The class were ouTsTanding in The Tield oT sporTs, proving Their class moTTo oT They conquer who believe They can. Bruce Cal- houn proved his worTh in TooTball and Track: Glen Johansen and Dean Miller shone on The basl4eTball Team. During March and May occurred The Two mosT imporTanT iunior evenTs OT The year. Cn March 22, Tor The TirsT Time in Two years, The juniors presenTed a class play, The PaTsy. The producTion dealT wiTh The Trials and TribulaTions oT PaTsy, experTly enacTed by Myra Maupin, in disenTangling her True love Trom The snares oT her older sisTer. Dale LangTord played an amusing and convincing hero, who Tinally realized his love Tor PaTsy. Evangeleen Lymber Toolq The parT oT Grace, PaTsy's older sisTer, and Kenny Miller acTed as her Tiance. Mr. and Mrs. T-larringTon, The girls' parenTs, were played by Lile WebsTer and Marcia l-lamilTon. BeneaTh The gliTTering chandeliers oT The CrysTal Ball Room aT The T-loTel Pawnee, members oT The iunior and The senior classes danced To The lilTing rhyThms oT Lee Baron, Canada's ToasT, From CoasT To CoasT, and his orchesTra. Slcy-blue, pale yellow, and silver were The colors TeaTured in The decora- Tions, under The supervision oT Miss Gladys McCor- mick, head oT The decoraTions commiTTee, G. Allison YosT, co-sponsor oT The iunior class, was chairman oT The prom commiTTee. Among Those iuniors who were ouTsTanding Tor Their curricular acTiviTies were RuTh Jepsen, Marie Mehl, and BeTTy Beyerle, who consisTenTly were among The leaders oT The honor role aT The end oT every six weeks. Miss Exie WhiTe, Miss McCormick, Miss l-lilda l-lahn, Mrs. T-lelen l-lohlTeld, and Mrs. Verdelle l-leady, were iunior sponsors, who were presenT aT The prom. SAY AH-H-H. Virgil Dowhower sTands by and waTches Miss Alice Schoemalcer give a physical examinaTion To Dean Miller. Paul Brinlqema, MarTin Jepsen, and Norman Panzer are paTienTly awaiTing Their Turn To be examined. THOSE BLUE-PRINT BLUES. ThaT should be The Theme song oT Del KesTerson, Bob l-larper, AlberT Cole, John SmiTh, and David Mullikin, while They are learning some basic prin- ciples oT blue-prinT reading in mechanical drawing. TEST TREMORS. ThaT shalcy Teeling associaTed wiTh exams is being experienced by Loren Runner, EThel Mason, Jerry l-larTTord, BeTTy SmiTh, George l-lemmeriTe, and DoroThy SchniTzer during a remedial reading TesT. OH, MY CLAVICLE! These serious sTudenTs are Helen Robinson, lrene Reeves, LeRoy SmiTh, Shirley Calhoun, Veramae Cassel, and Sylvia Dike, pondering over biology books Tor imporTanT inTormaTion abouT The human sysTem, IS IT VAN JOHNSON? No, iT's a sTricTly inTormaTive Tilm on a biological subiecT being shown by Paul Kirlcman To biology pupils, Donna Van Buskirlc, RuTh Jepsen, Virginia l-lunT, Junior Beza, and Charmaine Cushing.