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 .

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enterlng S1Xth grade Th1s year we studled about Iowa and made thlng 1n sex e M1ss Koch Mlss Tracy Mr Savllle and Mrs Brodersen helped us along We added three to our group who were Helen Roberts joan Fredenck and Shzrley Broderson Two d1dn t stay long but left the same year They were oan Frederlck and Helen Roberts When we f1nally reached the enormous jumor l-hgh room 1n 1942 we really thought we were blg shots Th1s year we learned a lot from our f1ve teachers who were Mrs Mltchell Mr G1tt1ns Mrs Engel Mlss Rxchardson and M1ss Reynolds Th1s was the year that Mar jor1e Cochran Kenneth Klburz and Mlldred Steel Jolned us But w1th the add1t1on of these three members we lost Melvln Fulton james Hartman Donme Hazen and Harold Klnkennon The next year 1943 dldn t bring any change ln classrooms but we dld have a lot of fun along w1th some good hard study Our elghth grade banquet g1ven by the seventh grade was a real success Edward Melsenhelmer and Beverly Wlllxams decxded to Join us thls year Two of our class declded to travel another road These were MBTJOIIB Cochran and Mlldred Steel At long last we are on the last lap of our Journey We were what they call Fresh men We felt pretty blg comlng mto the blg assembly and belng one of them Th1s year we took up many new subjects and trxed to master them We also declded to take up sports Basketball and football thrxlled us very much Our teachers pushed us through They were Mr Glttms M1ss Molst Mrs Wllson and Mrs Bennet Our classmates remalned about the same by loslng only one Edward Melsenhexmer When sophomores we took up some new subjects and dropped some old ones Th1s was also the year that belng 1n h1gh school IS no longer a thr1ll We were stlll about the Bob Beaman didn t stay long but left th1s year also We had all new mstructors Mlss Hun s1cker Mxss Reppllnger Mr Black Mr Lockhart, Mlss Holland and Mr Preston Our Junlor year found us ln the same well beaten path as many others had taken We were used to the old grlnd by now and settled down to business Th1s was the year we looked lnto Mother Goose Land whlch was the theme for the jumor Semor Banquet We were progressmg quite rapldly w1th three more students They were Norma Kluber janet Dlck erson and Robert Hepler Robert Hepler and Sally Miller left th1s year Th1s year was also a fateless one for our superlntendent Mr Lockhart, who passed away He 15 someone we all shall remember We then acquired a new superlntendent Mr Speed Our other teachers were Mlss Taylor Mr Lyons M1ss McKee, Mrs Supple and Mrs Kelly Well we have now come to the year 1n whxch we are semors It has been a slow but sure process but we flnally made it Phyllxs Wllllarns jolned us for our very last lap and B111 Hartman dec1ded to leave Our teachers Mrs Rust Mr Speed Mrs Graham Mlss Gustason and Mr Lovely have really made the time fly We are all ln such a scurry waxt mg untll the tlme for the junlor Semor Banquet our class play commencement and every thlng which comes while be1ng a senxor We have also had ourselves shot by a camera that 15 The w1de road lies ahead and thls is the turmng point We w1ll by thxs tlme next year have launched on a great career The road IS long and sometimes dreary but we ll try and llve up to h1gh standards Th1s IS just the end of the begxnmng Here s success to every one may you have more ups than downs! ' ' - ' ' ' s ' ' cnc . ' , . , u I u Q - - . v , . . J ' . Y . . . . : C , , . . ' . , . ' - ' , . . . 1 I a o u l l ' I . . . . Cl 1 ll . - 1 u n u u bl 'I . . . . . U u li li . . . , . . I . . . . . , . , . . . . . . . . 0 . Same bunch as before with the exception of two others, Bob Beaman and Bill Hartrnan. ' u . I n u I , 1 , , . , . . . I 0 I ll If ll l Y' n 1 o , . ' . . . . C . . 1 l I D , 0 , - o 0 0 n a n ll , 0 'I n n a s n 1 1 7 0 . I 0 , 0 , Q , s , CQ 0 'O u Q Q 0 ' . . . . - . , , - I Q o Q l Ol U' ' I n I O ' 0 a Q ll n Q il I o o ' C6 'U l