Richland High School - Richlander Yearbook (Richland, MO)

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The fall of ‘48 came and we were eighth graders. This year Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. Elizabeth Shipman, and Marvin Wilson joined our class this year. We made notebooks on “Evangaline”, “First Aid”, “Presidents”, “United States”, “In- sects and Machines”. Lucille Prichett and Maxine Harmon left our class. We went to Jefferson City for our class picnic. We went through the state capitol and on the way home stopped by Bagnell Dam for boat riding. Our graduation exercises were held May 12, with 50 graduates. We had a modern graduation and gave readings and songs instead of the usual Valedictorian and Salutatorian speeches. The girls wore pastel formals and the boys wore suits. 1948 and “green” freshman entered Richland High School. New students this year were: Mary Bob Clark, Dillwood Tabor, Elva Lane, Evelyn Fbote, Amy Carr, Doris Jean Manes, and Earl Tanner. We learned the Preamble and Gettysburg Address. Before the year was over we had lost Barbara LaOuey and Gary Watkins, who moved to Lebanon and Ralph Gideon to Stroutland. Mrs. Wills and Mr. Miller went with us to Springfield to Doling for our picnic. Mr. and Mrs. Ruble were the sponsers of the “Silly Sophomores”. Jack Walker from Indiania came to join our class. Also Evelyn and Lindell Anderson and Sharon Ramsey. Bennets Springs and Lebanon were our picnic ground s this year. When our Junior year began we had three new members: Douglas Davis, Karl Stout, and La Donne Bartlett. This year was full of activity for us “Jolly Juniors”. We presented a three act play “Quit your Kidding” and published the school paper-- “Bear Tales”. We gave a farewell party to Bobby Coyle and Sharon Ramsey. La Verne McDaniel left us and went to St. Louis. In Mav we gave a banquet for the Seniors. We used the “Circus” for a theme and built a large tent from colored crepe paper, in the gym. Our program consisted of a circus parade. Our Senior year, we kept the same sponsers, Mrs. Ruble and Mr. Moffatt. Our class rings came the third week of school and were envied by all the lower classmen. We have given four one act plays: “The Best Teacher”, “Leave It To Joe”, “Mag- nolia Blooms”, and “Life With Willie”. Sneak Day took the gang to Jefferson City and then on to Columbia where we visited the University Campus and attended the Class A State Basketball Tournament. We have received our senior pictures and ordered invitations and cards. Preparing the annual has been one of the highlights of this year. Our class officers are: President- Karl Stout; treasurer- Doris Jean Manes vice president- Orville Roberts; secretary- Margaret Howlett. We have been so busy this year , we haveq’t had time to act our rank, but the com- mencement exercises we hope to be aeting like “dignified” seniors.

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(Slaii Y On Monday morning, September 2, 1940, fifty-eight little children entered the doors of Richland School and were greeted by Mrs. Lillian Heiserman, the first grade teacher. We were scared and some of us were crying. This was the first time in our lives we had to leave our mothers at home and begin on something we knew absolutely nothing about and with children we didn’t remember ever seeing before. Some of us who start- ed this year are: Glyna Appling, Patsy Bowels, Flo Harris, Georgis Henson, Sue Lee Chalfant, Barbara S. LaQuey, Larry McGowan, Gordon Davis, Carol Ann McGimpsey, Lois Jean Miller, Mattie Bell Enyart, Lucille Pritchett, Bonnie Jo Reid, Ralph Gideon, Jerry Rowland, Josephine Robinson, Hugh Harrison, Ruth Warson, Peggy Williams, Douglas Davis, Betty Jane Welch, Peggy Evans, and Billie Tucker. Later in the fall we had a pet show and parade. We also built a playhouse and grocery store in our classroom. In the spring we participated in the all-school May Day program given in the old gym. We acted the part of butterflies and bunnies. By the fourteenth day of May, when school was out, most of us could read “Tom’s Trip” and “Dick and Jane” quite well. Mrs. Lena Bohannon was our second grade teacher. We welcomed Gary Watkins, Jane Adkins, and Pauline Campbell to our class this year. We learned to read “Friends and Neighbors” and the facts of addition and subtraction. After Christmas we gave a doll show and invited the other grades to bring their dolls, We dyed eggs and had an egg hunt in Shady Dell Park on Easter. Our part in the May Day program this year was a dance in which we were all dressed in white as sailors and carried red hankies. This was given at night in the park. Douglas Davis left us during the year and moved to Springfield. Our total enrollment this year was sixty-four. On August 31, 1942, Miss Lois Martinson took the responsibility of guiding us through the third grade. Billy Dan Adkinson, Audrey Carter, Maxine Harmon, Phinas Jackson and La Varn McDaniel joined us this year. Our biggest accomplishment was learning the multiplication tables and to write instead of print. We helped give the grade school operetta “Patty Sue’s Birthday Party and “A Kitty For the Princess”, given in the Legion Hall that spring. The total enrollment for this year was fifty-six. Mrs. Jennie Roam taught our fourth grade. We felt quite grown-up since now we sat at desks instead of the tables. New students this year were Mark Day, Eddie Macey, Joan Scott, Orville Roberts. Douglas Long was with us this year but he and Jerry Row! land left in the spring and went to Waynesville. Betty Welch left us and moved to Belle. The new high school building was being built and we spent our recesses and noonhours in hunting shells in the sand and gravel piles and building playhouses from the cement blocks which were on our playground. There were 45 of us in the fifth grade. This was quite a number of pupiis for Miss Pauline George to try to teach fractions and American History, but somehow she man- aged . We held a bake sale this year and were in the operetta “The Cobbler of Fairy- land” given in the new gym of the high school building. Our favorite games were, fox in the river, hop-scotch, and rope jumping. Larry McGowan left us and went to Buff- alo. Alice Gifford was a new student this year. Mrs. Ethel Batterton was our sixth grade teacher. We remember making books on “Life in the Middle Ages”. We had a tonette band too. Our uniforms were red crepe paper skirts, capes and hats. That spring we were in the operetta “The Maid and the Golden Slipper” Mark Day moved to Buffalo this winter. Peggy Brandon and Mary Jo Weeks joined our class this year. September third, nineteen forty-seven and we were now in the seventh grade and felt almost like high school students. We were upstairs and went by periods. Mrs. Louisa Peterson was our beloved teacher. We made notebooks on the “Little Shep- herd of Kingdom Come”. We had a junior high basketball team and pep squad that year. Virginia Joiner and Jerry Manes were annual King and Queen. This year with help of all junior high students Bobby Coyle, Martha Johnson joined our gang this year. We were sorry to lose Eddie Macey who went to Lebanon and Margaret Howlett who attended Licking. Our picnic the last of school was at Bennet Spring where we ate supper and then went to L3banon skating that night. We took Mr. and Mrs. Peterson and Nathalie Clark and Ralph Froeschle.

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V JACK WALKER Class Play 3-4 Glee Club 1-2 Baseball -1-2-4 Basketball 1-2-3-4 Annual Staff 4 Vice president 1 F. F. A. 1 Paper staff 3 Softball 1-2 PEGGY RUTH WILLIAMS Pep Leader 2-3-4- Glee Club 1-2-3-4 Volleyball 1 Mixed quartet 1 Operetta 1-3-4 Pep Club 1 Class play 4 Paper staff 3 Annual staff 4 Mixed chorus 1-2 SENIORS PEGGY BRANDON Glee Club 3-4 Plays 4 Class treasurer 1-2-3 Home Ec. 1-2 F.H.A. Treas. 2 Paper Staff 3 MARY BOB CLARK Girls Glee Club 1-2-3-4 Operetta 1-3-4 Mixed chorus 1-2 Girls trio 2-3 Mixed chorus 1-2 Home Ec. 1-2-3 F.H.A. 2-3-4 Class President 1 Vice president 2 Pep club 2 Class play 3-4 paper staff 3 Annual staff 4 ORVILLE ROBERTS Basketball 4 F.F.A. 1-2 Glee Club 2-3-4 Operetta 3-4 Annual staff 4 Vice president 4 MARGARET HOWLETT Band 1-2 Home Ec. 1-3-4 F.H.A. 2-3-4 Annual Staff 4 Paper staff 3 Secretary 4 Class play 3-4 Pep club 2 Pep squad 3-4 Dramatics 2