Reinbeck High School - Smar Yearbook (Reinbeck, IA)

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Because the war was over the teaching force was enlarged by the following men: bk. Harold Marston, speech director, Mr. Woodrow Nelson, civics' teacher, and Mr. Richard Meiers, music teacher. Mr. Downey taught Manual Arts to the boys and Miss Willis taught Homemaking to the girls. Aside from a successful year in our three R's, we had some very interesdng side lights. The Junior High basketball team won a trophy for the school. A large number of the players were from our class. Junior High also produced an operetta, VThe Galloping Ghost.n Under the leadership of Mrs. Jenkins we formed The Old Glory Club. Here we learnedthe proper way to conduct a business meeting. Miss Gardiner acted as our sponsorand helped us have a very nice party--the social event of the year. After a short vacation of three months and much anticipation we enteredhigh school. Here we took our places among the gigantic seniors and tried to look small and inconspicuous. But even with all the effort many of us still got let on the water fountain, one of the many old customs. Our class staged a Halloween party in honor of our sponsors. This year we were joined by Siemon Babinet, Giles Card, Vera McCreery, Wilbur Mumm, and Joe Murphy. Many of these people came from rural schools. Our class officers for this year were: Bob Hite, President, Bill Frei, Vice President, John Jipp, Secretary, Wally Larsen, Treasurer, Luella Blakely, Stud m Council. Miss Cooper and Mr. Risdal were our sponsors. Many of the freshmen participated in the operetta WSunbonnet Sue.W Some of the money from this musica production went toward the buying of the baby grand piano. Miss Eva Johnson was the director of this well-produced number. This year we had a dental check-up and many of'us found that we had somebad cavities to be filled. The Christmas s irit got into all of us and the whole high school drew'nanass The final event of t is season was the huge party staged in t e cafeteria around a gigantic tree. Spring came along with the usual affairs, track meets and music contests. Our class was just getting into the swing of these things when school was oven By the time we entered school for our tenth time, we were a little better acquainted with the idea of what was happening. Our officers for this year were President, Luella Blakely, Vice President, Bob Hiteg, Secretary, Bob Crowley g Treasurer, Wally Larsen, Student Council, John Jippg and our sponsors were Miss Willis, who is now Mrs. Tom Emmett, and Mr. Hafke. Again Miss Johnson was the successful producer of an operettag only this time the theme was a Dutch setting and was called WTu1ip Time.W This year the student council sponsored the annual Christmas party whichums held in the cafeteria. Everyone enjoyed the festive dance around the huge tree and the mistletoe in the corner. Just ask some of the members of our class if they can remember this party--especially in the last annual we produced are some revealing pictures of this event. On April 9, our class lost one of its members when Phyllis Nehring was killed in an auto accident. Our class attended the funeral as a group. Quite a few of us sang in Mixed Chorus and Girl's Glee Club, and the boys also went to this contest at Vinton. All three groups came back home with a II rating. For the first time a band-mothers' club was formed. After much hard work, they managed to raise enough money to buy new suits for the instrumental diviskm of it. These were black, navy style, with orange trim. The marching band attended Teachers' College Relays and the Drake Relays before school was out. We also went to the Northeast Iowa Band Jubilee which um held at Waterloo and the Eastern Iowa Festival at Cedar Rapids.