Nortonville High School - Badger Yearbook (Nortonville, KY)

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Then came the fourth and greatest year in the history of our class. Miss Laselda Hamby became our sponsor for the second successive year. We began our senior year by observing our rights of taking a sneak day. After taking our sneak day, we understood that the remainder of the year was to be occu- pied with business instead of fun. The senior play, “The Hobgoblin House,” was one of our first activities. After it proved to be a success we undertook the task of publishing an annual. Through endless days of work, we, with the help and cooperation of all the students, patrons, and faculty members, successfully completed another activity. The time of the publication of our annual finds us eagerly looking forward to the Junior-Senior banquet. As we end our senior year, we realize that without the help of our sponsors and faculty members, all of our main activities would have failed. To them we wish to express our sincere appreciation. Faithfully have we labored through these four years until today we represent the graduating class of 1948. Somebody’s Taking Our Place Somebody else is taking our place, Somebody else will occupy our space; Though we are leaving no one is grieving, They go around with a smile on their face. Little they care the things that we’ve done, Little they care that we will be gone; There’s no mistaking, our hearts are breaking, ’Cause somebody’s taking our place. 16 —

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Senior Class History Early in the fall of 1944, a group of strange and bewildered freshmen gathered around N, H. S. The group had an enrollment of approximately fifty-five students— one of the largest freshman groups ever enrolled at Nortonville High School. Although the beginning of the school year seemed to discourage us, we were very fortunate to have Mrs. Herman Gladdish as our sponsor. By her untiring efforts the freshman class sucessfully completed the first year of high school, leaving behind pleasant memories such as being winners in nearly all school campaigns and being one hundred per cent donors to the Red Cross. We began our sophomore year with renewed courage, still bearing the name which we earned as freshmen—the noisiest class in school. Mrs. Gladdish was again given the sponsorship of our class but she was unable to finish school. Miss Loella Lowery of Dawson Springs was selected to replace Mrs. Gladdish as sponsor of the sophomore class. During our sophomore year, we took part in many school ac- tivities. At the end of the school year, we were granted permission to take a trip to Evansville Zoo. We classed this as one of the many school events which we wanted to store in our treasure chest of memories. When school began another year we were “jolly” juniors. Miss Laselda Hamb was our sponsor. We began our junior year anxiously awaiting the time for the junior play and banquet. During our junior year we sponsored a magazine sale and a donkey basketball game. This was result of wanting a banquet. We worked hard to raise the banquet money, then waited impatiently for April twenty-fifth to roll around. Time flew by as we prepared for our banquet and junior play. Our play, “Aunt Susie Shoots the Works,” and our banquet both proved to be successful. Toward the last of the year the new paper staff was elected for the next year and we were given an opportunity to display our skill in editing a paper. After accomplishing all of our planned activities, we finished our junior year with a feeling of dignity as we were ready to begin the next year as seniors. — 15 —

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Class Will We, the class of 1948, in the town of Nortonville, the county of Hopkins, and the state of Kentucky, being in as good mental condition as usual, and in much better temper than usual, do hereby make this, our last will and testament, rendering void and of no avail any former will or wills that may have been previously made by us during a period of temporary optimism. And in this manner do we dispose of our possessions. We give and bequeath to the Junior class, cur most important and valuable properties, viz., our self-satisfaction, our importance, and our wisdom, all of which we possess in enormous quantities. We also leave the Junior class our good luck. It made us what we are today, and it should satisfy them. In addition to this, all our privileges and lights as Seniors will revert to them, as well as any notebooks, pencils, fountain pens, or un- finished business, including debts contracted while engaged in the business of being a Senior, also any boy or girl whom we may have left behind in our haste. We give and bequeath to the Junior class our well-known nerve which they will need next year, and all examination questions we have been given during the past year. To our good friends the Sophomore ciass, we leave our patience. It will be found useful as the only means by which they can endure the Juniors. To the young and unsophisticated Freshmen, we leave a map of the school building so that they will not get lost and roam about in everybody's way looking for their classrooms. It will be noticed that, although we have left bequests to the Junior class, soon to be Seniors, to the Sophomores soon to be Juniors, and to those who will in the fall become Freshmen, we have made no mention of the present Freshman Class. We have left them nothing, because by the time they are Sophomores their self-valua- tion will have attained such heights that nothing in our possession would be regarded by them as worthy of their distinction. To our dear old school building itself, we leave the peaceful quiet caused by our absence, and any apple cores, wads of gum, or crumpled notes that we may have left about. To our principal, Mr. Jenkins, we give and bequeath a sense of relief that we have at last been graduated. To our teachers, the faculty of the Nortonville High School, we hereby give, free from all inheritance, luxury, or income tax, our entire store of knowledge. From them it came and to them it should be returned, that others may be benefited by it as we have been. To our teachers we bequeath our valuable sense of humor, without which we should have found school life painful indeed. This valuable sense of humor should make future years of teaching more endurable. We also give and bequeath to the teachers our very kindest regards and our sincere gratitude for their unfailing kindness and aid. The smaller individual bequests are as follows: I, Amon Cavanaugh, will my privilege of smoking in the boiler room to Buster Dillingham. I Marvin Teague, will my membership in Bachelor’s Club to James Lovan. — 17 —