Richland High School - Richlander Yearbook (Richland, MO)

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i BACK ROW: Dorel Eakens, Steve Belshe, Leon Schuenemeyer, Jerry Dodson, Charles Barnes, DorsieS ott, Alfred Powers. Kenny Hankins. FRONT ROW: Miriam Halter, Mary Lou Murphy, Sally Dustin, Gay Nickels, Donna Witt, Shirley Tucker. d One bright sunny morning in September of '48, the new first grade of that year was formed. Our mothers informed us that we would at last have to give up our baby ways and try to be good and do what the teacher told us to. Of course, our mothers brought us to school for our new ex- perience, and believe me it was an experience. We can remember Jerry Dodson crying, and others even ate their crayons. With all the crying and wonder of it all, we got acquainted. Mrs. Simpson listened to all our problems and helped us solve them, if at all possible. When roll was taken those that made it that morning and are still with us were: A. Powers, D. Scott, J. Dodson, J. Thornsberry, C. Barnes, A. Carnes, S. Tucker, V. Anderson, D. Witt, G, Nickels, S. Belshe, K. Hankins, S. Dustin, and M. Murphy. Our second year at school wasn't quite so difficult, because we understood a little more about what we were expected to do. Part of our friends were sent to another room and we couldn't under- stand why they would want to leave Miss Grey, because she seemed so nice, but we then found out that there was too many second graders and they would have Miss Hoover as their teacher. 1 5

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We were very proud of ourselves because we seemed to be learning more every day. Our third year was even more exciting because we were becoming more grown up, or so it seemed. You couldn't tell it though, because Mary Lou Murphy would bring her betsy-wetsy dolls to school, and Jerry Dodson would help her dress them (during class). Another new thing happened to us this year; Miss Hoover, our teacher, got married and we had a new teacher, whom we learned to like very much. Her name was Mrs. Warren. Then came the year of Pirates and Civil War days. Of course, we're talking about our fourth year in school. Miss Boyd helped us through this year with not too much staying in after school. Connie Keller, Miriam Halter, Jerry Shupe, and George Windes must have heard about how much fun we were having, because their mothers brought them to join us. Mrs. Batterton was waiting for us at the other end of the hall. This year was very full of 5th grade ballgames and cheerleading. I can remember a very important part of the fifth grade; when it would rain, we would play Clap-in and Clap-out. This was always a lot of fun. We must say, not too many looked forward to the sixth year. We had heard some very weird stories about the paddle with the holes in it. We soon found out that Mr. Hughes' bark was worse than his bite, and to prove it, Mr. Hughes took us to Bennett Springs this year—and did we have fun! We made it through the sixth grade with flying colors and had a lot of fun doing it with the help of Bob Browinng, and Farrell Hutsell, our new-found friends this year. Our next thought was toward Junior High. So much of growing up to do and so much fun along the way was anticipated. We had two teachers this year and no recess, but we made it just fine with the help of Mrs. Peterson and Mrs. Strain teaching us our 7th year. I'm sure we can still remember the pop-quiz Mrs. Peterson gave us on an old geography assignment and guess what we all made------F. Believe it or not, we learned that assignment!!!!! More fun in the 8th grade, and almost out of Junior High. This year, we took a trip to St. Louis and attended a ball game which was really swell. Mr. Prewett and Mrs. Strain helped us with graduation and gave us the honor of going on in to high school. High school---and the name tagged on us was green freshmen. How we hated it, and we could hardly wait to be Sophomores. We, however, had fun this year with our sponsors, the Vernons. We went to St. Louis and on the way saw Meramec Caverns for our excursion trip. The F.H.A. girls can still remember the F.H.A. initiation, which wasn't as bad as we expected. We had to learn a lot of new names this year because we gained a group of new friends from Laquay and Swedeborg. These were: L. Black, B. Drennan, D. Carlson, N. Ledbetter, A. Davis, J. Ellzey, C. Carroll, A. Lowery, D. Raines, S. Wilson, M. Gann, D. Demott, M. Gladden, S. Fuller, J. Stewart. Finally silly sophomores and our sponsors Mrs. Humphery and Mrs. Rayl welcomed us to the sophomore class. E. Pentecost, S. Dillow and G. Greely joined us this year. We had even more fun this year, and our class even represented the Junior and Senior Banquet. These girls were chosen to serve: E. Pentecost, S. Dustin, M. Murphy, M. Halter, C. Keller, L. Black, D. Carslon, N. Ledbetter, B. Ledbetter, D. Demott.