Orient High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Orient, IA)

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto subscrlbed our names and fxxed our seal rn th1s hrst day of March Nlneteen Hundred and forty e1ght QSEALI Slgned sealed publxshed and declared as and for hxs last wxll and testament by Or1ent Semor Class the above named testators 1n the presence of us who at their request and the presence of them and of each other have subscrxbed our names hereto as wxtnesses on the day and year last aforesald Wltnesses CLASS HIS TOR Y Once upon a tune ln the year 1936 twenty seven frlghtened lzttle squ1rts entered the b1g house to begm thexr way on the long road of educatlon I..1ttle d1d they know how short It really was compared to the great span of open road whlch hes ahead Wzth all the ups and downs seventeen of us made the grade They were Robert Buchanan Eugene Buckzruller Paul Clark jr Melvxn Fulton james Hartrnan Harold Klnkennon Edward Melsenhelmer Robert Me1senhe1mer LEWIS McCla1n Margaret Eblen Mary Lou Green Paulxne Bathurst Melba Caviness Edythe Gustason Sally Mlller Helen Stutt and Mary jo Vernon Our lnstruc tors were Mr Vernon M1ss Long, and Mr Clark ln 1937 we declded to take a gander at the second floor By chmbmg what we thought teacher Mzss K1nyon we buxlt a play house and made llfe szze furmture for lt We also trled to learn to do a llttle arltlunetlc We had two other teachers who made th1s grade a success They were Mr Vernon and Mlss Flnley By loslng some classmates and gaxnlng others we advanced forward Those who were added to our bunch were jerold Gordon Earl Vande water, Billle Steel Margaret jean Kuhns and Llllxan Purdy Those who left were Robert Garrett Jerold Gordon and Robert Meisenheimer Nlneteen thlrty elght found us back on the flrst floor agaxn Our mstructors were Mr Vernon Mr Stewart Mlss I-Iolxnes Miss H lmes taught us to wrxte and to rnultlply Charles Evans moved 1nto our happy throng this year and Margaret Eblen moved away Here we were gomg up agaln In 1939, we were ln the fourth grade Wxth the help of our teachers Mlss Mltchell Miss Moore and Mr Vernon we took up a lot of new subjects We also took IH some new classmates who were joan Frederick Wanda Weed, Wlnston Kxngery and Richard Wallace Those who dropped out were Edward Melsenhelmer and Eugene Buckmiller We decided we would stay on the seconf floor thls year and enter fifth grade Thls was ln the year 1940 Some others decided they would Jom us in our journey too They were Ivan Musmaker Bill Bakerink and Donme Hazen But two of these declded they would leave and travel with other classmates Bill Bakerink and Ivan Musmaker were the ones to do thu We had four lery good xnstructors, Mxss Caryl M155 Hglmes M155 Mgore and Mr Sav111g Step by step maybe we can go down this road of hfe By 1941 we were . l I I I . . . , - I . , , , I 1 1 1 o ll 1 li , - ,.. . , , 'I . I I . I . I I ' I I . . I I I - I 1 I I ' ' , 1 ll II . 1 1 was an endless amount of stairs we reached the second grade. With the help of our piient I I ' l . 1 ll ll , .- . ' . . ' , . , O . , . U 0 . . O I . . I l ' I D ' I , V I ' , 1 , 1 ' 1 .