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.

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This year Jerry Ehrig, Charles Brandhorst, and Ralph Schlicht joined us. Once again time had flown quickly and we were ready to enter our Junior year after three short months of vacation. J'c ff' 'BH'uP'dv,-M.1H - Presiggntgunlgls Efggog, lgggietvgrgg overs. M6Creg?'?i eqreasurEr?neWalT?fnnLarge?1?, Student Councilg and our sponsors were: Miss Staveley, Mr. Grace, Mr. Hopkins, and Mr. Burg. We were all quite excited and thrilled at the idea of ordering our clam rings. After many months of patient waiting, our rings arrived in the spring. It seems many of them met the usual treatment by appearing soon on the fingers of other schoolmates. The F. F. A. boys entertained the whole high school at a semi-formal fall dance which was very well attended and quite different from most of our parties Later this same year the F. H. A. girls returned the favor by sponsoring a Hjean-partyn at which everyone wpre jeans or suffered the consequences. The class play we produced under the direction of Mr. Grace was nhobgobl n Housen and centered around a kidnapping. Everyone in our class helped whether it was on the scenery building proposition or doing the actual acting. This project helped boost our treasury for the big main event of the year with tm banquet and promz The KXEL Broadcasting station from Waterloo made a tape recording of someof our outstanding people, our music groups like the girls' sextette and Dgijp, Arlene Sc ildroth's commercial advertising the aspects of Reinbec won e g rlsv prize. 3R,,,,-Q,,,,,, , Aiowt We were sectional tournament hosts to all the surrounding schools. For four nights we made good money on the refreshments. This was the year that we won the Northeast Iowa Cedar League Football chanh pionship by having an undefeated team. The Legion sponsored a banquet in honor of the fellows and their coaches. The basketball team was just as good. We remained undefeated until Dike beat us at the County tournament in Grundy Center when we were beat in the first game by one point. The fellows went on with their march of victories on through to the sub-state. The very last game of this tournament was when we suffered our second defeat by losing to Waverly. If we could have overcome the l6 point lead Waverly had, we would have been state tournament material. Reinbeck was host to a speech contest this year,the first one we had partic- ipated in for years. Some of our class members took part in it. The small groups Preliminary Music Contest was held in our community and at our churches and school. About SOO people were here. Reinbeck's ratings were unusually high as we received seven firsts. The Girls' Glee Club and the Mixed Chorus went to the contest at LaPorte City where the girls received a II and the Chorus a III rating. The Annual Junior-Senior Banquet was held on May 7 at the Masonic Hall. Our theme was NMoonlight and Rosesn. After many careful weeks of preparation with making crepe paper roses and dying cheese cloth blue, the big event finally gappened. One hundred eight faculty members, seniors, and juniors attended the :BO dinner. May 18 was the evening we held the big prom in the gymnasium. Vic Miller and his orchestra played for this formal dance. The Baccalaureate Services were held on a Sunday evening at the schoolhouse with both the Juniors and Seniors participating. The girls' formals added arnte of color to the huge throng of people. The band under the direction of Mr. Bowman attended the Waterloo Band Jubilee and the Cedar Rapids Band Festival. This was the year Reinbeck's candi- date, Elizabeth Snyder, was crowned queen. It had rained all day, and that eve- ning, too. But every one was still so excited that when the band got back to