Raymond High School - Hilite Yearbook (Raymond, KS)

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CLASS PRQPHECY The seniors of 1958 were on their skip day. A weary senior who had tired feet and only a small amount of money to spend wandered into a tent. To his surprise he found a man gazing into a round crystal globe. This man studied the stars and claimed that he had the power to give the senior a vision of what the class would be doing in 1945. The senior, being very tired, sat down and witnessed the following: On entering the city of Raymond he saw a young man named Earl Pelton greasing his new Ford that had been purchased a few months before from Gordon Boy, a salesman, in the city of Great Bend. Near this Ford stood a trailer house, inside, a woman, resembling Mildred Cruth, could be heard getting the evening meal and scolding two small children. Not many blocks from this spot he saw a large sign in front of a newly built building which bore the words, Raymond Beauty Saloon.n When passing this decorated shop, he saw two attractive young women, Agnes Fournier and Veva Thompson, busy waving the hair of Josephine Malone, who was the manager of a dry cleaning and laundry shop in Sterling. At the filling station a car was being checked by several service men. Inside at the manager's desk was Orville Hunt with a large cigar in his mouth taking short puffs now and then. He was trying to balance his books for the month. As he was about to leave the station, he heard a loud manly voice telling a story that was new to a few of the men standing near by. Wishing to know who it was, he turned around and saw Ernest Smith working on a car and at the same time telling a story. After Ernest had finished his story, the senior started a conversation with him and learned that Walter Bever was the proud owner of a sheep farm north of Raymond. All the gates and fences were wired with electricity so that it was unsafe for his best neighbors to visit him. John Dittmer was president of the Dog Catchers' association in Ray- mond and was still making his weekly visits to the farm home north of Raymond. Myrtle Williamson, after completing her college course, surprised the community by wedding a hill- billy and settling far back in the hills of Kentucky. Harold Burns was drawing a high salary -by drawing cartoons for the Raymonlite, a weekly paper. He was no longer spending his money for gas to go to Chase, but instead he was paying house rent and grocery bills. After this conversation with Ernest, the senior was con- ducted down the street to a tent on a vacant lot. In front of the tent was a large billboard bearing these words,. Rev1val Meetings---Conducted by---Reverend N. C, Eatinger. EVERYONE WELCOME.0 After seeing this, the picture became hazy,and the senior paid the man with the crystal ball for his vision of the class of '38.

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Jqf, . HISTORY OF RAYMOND HIGH SCHOOL CONCLUDED In the fall students were given the opportunity of buying a season activity ticket admitting them to all school activi- ties at a reduced price. This sale of tickets was conductedin the form of a contest. The tickets proved to be so popular that every student in school bought one. The faculty, as was agreed, furnished the refreshments for the first all school party. This plan has eliminated any other ticket sale among the students, and all students have been able to come to any and all of our activities. COURSE OF STUDY. Music FRESHTTAN . English I Applied Hath Manual Training Lfitlll I 99 Domestic Science Agriculture N Ancient History Domestic Arts J Gen. Science 4 Modern History 4 Music I JL A SOPHOMORES English II Bookkeeping Mechanical Drawing Geometry t Domestic Science 4 Agriculture 4 Ancient History N Latin I-W Algebra 4 Domestic Arts f Gen. Science 4 JUNIORS AND SENIORS English III W American History 4 Physics a Public Speaking W Mathematics III 4 Typewriting I' Typewriting II Manual Training III Bookkeeping English IV 5 Constitution 4 Orchestra Modern History H Journalism 3 Athletics Latin II 5 Biology 5 Music Orchestra Athletics Latin I H Pract. Electricity. Orchestra Athletics 4 offered in l957-'38 4 offered in 1938-'59 All others are offered each year WQIT f'Xf V'W fffhl if J .ffl The merit and demerit system was continued this year. Each student started with IOO merits. A merit committee, consist- ing of three faculty members and two student members, awarded the merits for acts that in their opinion tended to make a better school. Merits were also given for high grades, for raising the grades, and for perfect attendance. The committee awarded demerits for any act which in their opinion tended to make a less efficient school such as chewing gum, sleeping in class, and whispering or disturbing the study hall. Any member of the faculty could give five demerim without having the approval of the committee.

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'f'- 1'-H '1w- '- -- f- -r--v- .v N17-Y.-.,,, I , ,-, V, E, V V ., .. --,..-W ..-Y Y -. -, ,,. qs- ,, ., , qw., ..T.a-...H Y- -..W .,,, vmhg SENIOR CLASS WILL LAQT WILL AND TESTAHENT OF THE SENIOR CLASS RAYMOND HIGH SCHOOL ln the name of the Raymond High School: We, the senior class, of the city of Raymond, County of Rice, State of Kansas, and Raymond High School, being new in good health, strength of body and mind, but sensible to the uncertainty of life and the shortness of our property and af- fairs before forgetting all we have learned in four years, do hereby make, publish, and declare the following to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking and canceling any and all wills heretofore or hereafter made by us. Article One. We direct that all our grades of the past four years be burned. We are so proud of them we would not want any other class to have the opportunity to look upon dxmh Article Two. We request that hang forever on the wall in the hall future students of their illustrious to wandering freshmen. Article Three. Realizing how class is in dignity, and the necessary characteristics which will make them qualified to hold the honored seats of the sen- iors, we leave for them the toga of senior dignity, the cap of senior intelligence, the ring of senior loyalty, and the invi- tation making certain their graduation. We hope all this help will pull them through, but we doubt it. Article Four. To the sophomores we leave a stack of ex- cuses all signed up ready for use. Cut class or school any time desired, and these excuses will guarantee a perfect grade Also realizing the difficulty all sophomores have in reading outside English readings and making reports, we do hereby be- queath to them a volume of complete book reports in the hope that they may find them valuable. We hope you sophomores will the picture of our class as a constant reminder to alumni, a perpetual guide sadly lacking the junior be kind and loan some of these things to the juniors. Article Five. the hope that the seniors Article Six. season tickets for Article Seven. To the freshmen we leave this package in contents may enable them to develop into brilliant as the class of '58. To the freshmen of next year we leave our assembly seats and plenty of initiation. To Mr. Bowman we leave an electric dryer equally as to keep his Plymouth dry while on a skip day with the seniors next year. To Mr. Jones we leave a large bottle of Professor Whet- snozles door-knob hair grower. To methods To Miss Hoelscher we leave a pair of stilts and some new in English. Miss Ballard we leave a pair of rose collered glasses to wear in place of the green ones she new has. To Miss Harris we leave a larger magnifying glass so she can find the advanced typing students mistakes and eraser marks. Article Eight. To Mr. MeCandless we will all of the noise we have made in class meetings and in going through the hall, also all of our text books for fuel next winter. Article Nine. To William Lischesky we leave a red headed doll for his amusement.