Richland High School - Richlander Yearbook (Richland, MO)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY V It was a-w-a-ay back and long ago it seems, although really it was only in September 1941, when approximately 70 of us (Mother's pride and joy—although everyone else con- sidered us spoiled little brats) started to the Richland Public School. We were so very proud to be going to school but and I'm sure that at least one of us cried and many more an one of us called Mrs. Fern Kulimax mother. We ati.er.pted to learn how to get along (with our new manta as well as with each other. We became quite proficient in the art of holding our respective noses within the confines of a smallcircle drawn on the blackboard. That little stint taught us that we'd better mind not only father and nother but teacher as welll Among that early grou of seekers—after-learning are the following students who are still among our number touay: Coruia Ann Noe, Betty Les Henson, LeRoy Hughes, Mary Lou Powers, Connie Powers, LeOren Simpson and Delores Wood. Most of us were passed that year and moved on to the second grade which was taught by Mrs. Clarice Barr. And wasn't that fun? There was one class below us in rank in school nowl We felt so vastly sup-rior to the new first gradeJ Mrs. Barr tried to teach us some of the funda- mentals of spelling. Bobby Evans and i-.orris Hawkins joined our ranks that year. We moved downstairs in the basement room next September, subject to Lois Martinson's — reign. We made several notebooks that year, chief of which was one concerning Indians. We felt like pure-blood Indians for a greater part of that year; the role suited us, little savages that we were 1 Beulah Scott became one of our number. Most of us learned how to write, (write, mind you, not printJ) maybe not legibly, but write nevertheless. With the feat of writing mastered we moved on to Mrs. Jenny Roam's room across the hall. In the fourth grade we had the distinction of having desks instead of tables and chairs. Clifford Ogle became a fourth grader with us. We participated in an operetta, The Cobbler of Fairyland. We also had to write the Roman numerals clear up to 10001 That may not sound like much now, but then it vas a gigantic taskl We climbed the stairs the next year back to the main floor and to Miss Pauline George's room. Half-way through the year she decided there ought to be some changes made to her name so it was legally changed to Mrs. Pauline Bunger. Mrs. Delilah Harrison taught U3 for two weeks while Mrs. Bunger was away on her honeymoon. When she back it ves so difficult to remember to call her Mrs. Bunger, and not ..iss Geor;e. Most of us were in the grade school operetta Cinderella. Bobby Fahy Roach, Margaret Michels and Bonnie Sheeley joined our class. This was the year that THE THING we had I been dreading for years came to pass—fractionsj But we lived over the or eal and we either mastered them or else ,.rs. Bunger wanted to get rid of us for she passed us into the sixth grade, taught by Mrs. Batterton. The next year we moved upstairs. Robert Kula was our class sponsor. Jerry Ghramm joined our number, .-irs. Peterson was our other teacher that year until she was re- placed by Mrs. Elizabeth Shipman. We att.ended the Shrine Circus and Doling Park. We financed the trip by selling slices of cake in the lunch room. In May of that year a ' few of us were privileged to usher at the 8th grade graduation. We passea on the the 8th grade the next fall with the same teachers, Mr. Kula and i-.rs. Ship;-an. Doris McClay came to our class from Nebraska. We held a carnival in the gym that year. With the money we earned we returned to Doling Park for our annual picnic. But the climax of this year was our graduation from grade school. How superior we feltj We selected as our official class colors red and silver and these are still the colors we have .cept through the years. ow we were officially in High School and we had a little voice in the selection of 8

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LORENE FUL8RIGHT HSL 3ATTSRT MARTHA SIM. JCK IR..NE JENNINGS Compliments - SALTZMAN PAINT FLOOR SER RICHLAND HARDWARE FURN. CO

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the courses we were to take. Our sponsor was Hiss Leta Ray Locke Editions to our class that year. They were; Delilah Timmerman, Lillian Smith, Morri ■TTkcDaniel, Clyde Woody, Bruce Wanger, Sddie Robeson, Boyce Hurley, Shirley Morrow, ana l Gerald Henorix. Bennett Springs was our picnic spot that year. We stopped in Lebanon I to skate. Bob Ogle also joined our rank that year. few -The next September we became Sophomores vith growing poise and egos. Now the studyhall lecame our home room. JoAnn Scott, Don Fancher, Kay Vance and Mary Holder swelled our forces. But we lost a member because Shirley Saltzman oecided to set sail on the sea of matrimony. With Miss Locke as our class sponsor we gave a program which incluueo a play and several stunts. The money enabled us to hold a picnic at Lost Lake, across the road from Ozark Springs. In our Junior year we were given another sponsor in addition to Hiss Locke; this being Coach Clyde Ruble. This was the eventful year when we decided that wc would endeavor to save enough money to make a trip to some other state during our Senior year. Chicago was eliminated ana we settled on New Orleans as our goal. We presentea a three act play under the direction of Kiss Locke. The title was Are you Mr. Butterworth? Jesse Robertson and Jimmy Campbell came to our class that year. With the profits from our play we financed the Junior-Senior banquet in the spring. Our theme was A Nautical Adventure, We decorated the gym as a large ship. Mr. Schrimsher gave the address. At last we reached our Senior year—the rar-off objective we had set when first we'd entered the first grade in 19A1J From the first of the year we started working for our proposed trip to Louisiana. Vernon Bassett, Don Hanson, Cary Matthews and Oeorre L. Baker joined our class this year. We had lost Miss Locke, so now we chose both Coach and Mrs. Clyde Ruble as class sponsors. We held a pie supper in November and sponsored a basKet- ball game. We sold—oh well, lets say we said articles too numerous to mention, ,'e washed dishes, we cut sprouts. The Lions Club helped us in giving a Pancake Breakfast. Together with the profits from these and other projects and what we made on our three one-act plays (presented under the direction of Mrs. Juanita Stillwell.) We made more than enough to make possible our long awaited trip. So at 3:05 Thursaay oming, April lbth, 22 of us together with Supt. Schrimsher and Mr. and Mrs. Ruble left for the sunny s uth. The first night we spent at Vicksburg, Mississippi and the second night wc arrived at New Orleans. On Tuesday morning April 21st we left for Biloxi where deep- sea fishing and sun-bathing on the beach were enjoyed. We arrived home April 25th dog-tired, short-tempered, sun-burned but oh, ever so happy. It was a fitting climax for our high school career