Riverton High School - Electron Yearbook (Riverton, KS)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY On September 13, 1943, fifty-five freshmen enrolled in Riverton High School to start a course of training that would enable them to take their places as citizens of the community with confidence and ability. The class sponsors were Miss Marjorie Havens and Mr. Joel Livingston. The class officers were Wayne Messenger, President: Donald Mishler, Vice-President: and Scottie May, Secretary-Treasurer. Gladys Miller and James Earl Livingston added a touch of royalty to the class by being selected as Princess and Prince of the Electron. Two one-act plays were presented: The Pampered Darling, a comedy, and Who Murdered Whom? a mystery. A three months' vacation was granted to the students to practice what they had learned during their first year. Forty-nine sophomores came back on September 7, 1944, to resume the course of study. Miss Agnes C. Stairrett and Mr. Wyatt P. Laughlin sponsored the group through the second year. Presiding officers were Mary Hardy as President, Robert Card as Vice-President, and Scottie May as Secretary-Treas- urer. The class play was The Angell Brats. The sophomores were honored by having Jane Marie Williams and Donald Mishler be the first underclassmen to become King and Queen of the Electron. September 3, 1945, found thirty-three juniors ready for the third year of the courses they had undertaken. They selected Miss Agnes C. Stairrett and Mr. Gerald E. Barkley as their sponsors, Mary Jo Wilson, President: Mary Hardy, Vice-President: Wayne Messenger, Secretary: and Jane Marie Williams, Treasurer. The outstanding play of the year was The All American Family. Mary Hardy and Lloyd Bowers were class Princess and Prince. The juniors placed second in the Sweetheart Contest with Scottie May as the Class Sweet- heart. The junior's southern hospitality was shown at the Annual Junior- Senior Banquet in the Auditorium on May 3. Three more months of vacation were taken to prepare for the senior year at R. H. S. On September 2, 1946, thirty-eight seniors came back for their last year as students in Riverton High School. This time the sponsors were Miss Agnes C. Stairrett and Mr. Raymond A. King and the class oflicers were Calvin Win- frey, President: Jane Marie Williams, Vice-President: Mary Hardy, Secretary: and Robert Card, Treasurer. This year the class reflected the training of the previous three years and demonstrated their newly developed initiative and leadership qualities in all activities undertaken by them. Glenna Dell Barr and Bud Garber, their candidates for King and Queen of the Electron won first place. On October 25, Wanda Kuns was crowned Queen of the Grade School Carnival. On February 14, Mary Hardy was crowned Sweetheart Queen of '47. James Earl Livingston, Calvin Winfrey, Ray Anderson and Robert Card demonstrated ability in basketball of which the entire class was proud. Jane Marie Williams and Mary Hardy were the school cheerleaders. Class members feel that they are capable of assuming their places in society and accepting their responsibilities with confidence. The class has been given a good start during the four-year course here in school, and they shall continue to advance and do their best in all that they do. SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS President ..,,,,..,.,,.,.,,,,..,.,.,...,,.,.....,,,...,..,....,,,,,, Calvin Winfrey Vice-President .........,,......,,.,,...,....,..,......,... Jane Marie Williams Secretary ........,., ...,.......... M ary Hardy Treasurer ,,..,,. .......,....,...,. R obert Card Cheer Leader .,,,.. .....,,.... J ane Marie Williams Cheer Leader ...... ...,...................... M ary Hardy Sponsor ......... ..,...... M iss Agnes C. Stairrett Sponsor ...... . ,....... Mr. Raymond A. King Color ...... ..,.......,....... B lue and Silver Flower .................,.......... ........................................ P eony Motto- The Elevator to Success ls Not Running: Take the Stairs Electron Page Nineteen

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Electron Page Eighteen fNot Pictured! ROBERT HITE HENRY WATKINS JOHN L. BALL FRED MILLENDER JAMES L. PRUITT MAURICE MYERS S E N I 0 R S BUNNIE HARDIMAN- Buster Why can't school all be football? TROY COFFMAN- Stonewall 'Hurrving makes one excited: Troy is always calm JAMES SOUTHARD- Jim It is better to wear out than to r t t JAMES C. COFFMAN- Pete Genius is the means of avoiding hard work.

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SENIOR CLASS WILL We, the senior class of Riverton High School, County of Cherokee, and State of Kansas, being of unsound mind and disintegrating memory after four strenuous years, do hereby make, publish and declare this as our last and best will and testament: hereby revoking all former wills, bequests, and devices of whatever nature by us already made. 1. I, Glenna Dell Barr, will the job of high school accompanist to Joseph Rea. 2. I, Helen Faye Gibson, will my ways with all the teachers to Steve Carnahan. 3. I, Russel Wayne Messenger, will with great pleasure my practically un- used seat in government to David Osborn. 4. I, Robert Dale Card leave all the dark corners in the halls to Harlan Mills l-l-and Joanne I I I I 5. I, Howard Outt, leave my eagerness to learn to Homer Jones. 6. I, Mary Josephine Wilson, will my fluttering eye-lashes and flirting ways with all the boys to Retha Bowman. 7. I, Patsy May Griggsby, will my ability to play volley ball to Joyce Watkins and the ability to run the court to my pal, Quills. 8. I, Charles Crane, haven't anything to will, I'm perfectly happy with everything I have. 9. I, Donald Verne Allen, will all my perfect physics papers to anyone who is dopey enough to take the stuff. 10. I, Earl Dean Lambert, leave my happy-go-lucky personality to Freda Bilke. 1 1. I, Ray Melvin Anderson, leave my fast fleeting feet to Luella Chevalier. 12. I, Fred Dardenne leave all my knowledge to each individual in the fresh- man class. 13. I, Margarete Mann, will my swell disposition to Chester Bilke. 14. I, Vera Madge Roberts, will my love for 'iStones to no one. 15. I, Robert Watkins, will my quiet ways to Clifford Hardy. 16. I, Alan Watson, will my keen sense of humor to Lawerence Whitehead. 17. I. Ruby Louise Jarvis, will my good jokes to Retha Bowman and Patricia Benton. 18. I, Wanda Kuns, will the Grandma parts in all of Miss Stairrett's future plays to Norma Driskel. 19. I, Max Eugene McGuire, am in too big a hurry to get out of school to make a will. 20. I, William Gene Garber, will my tenor voice to Jack Watson. 21. I, Scottie Ilene May, will my bottle of peroxide to Betty Frazier. 22. I, Opal Marie Sizemore, will all my extra dates to Louise Gibson. 23. I, Buddy Joseph Garber, will my baritone to Le Neva Mishler. 24. I, Bunnie Hardiman, will my place as one of R. H. S.'s best football players to Ray Williams. 25. I, James Earl Livingston, will all my female admirers, who no doubt will miss me greatly, Cin more ways than one!j to Bud Ball. 26. I, Donald Ray Mishler, leave my basketball suit to Otis Atkins. 27. I, Clinton Eugene Pulley, will my salesmanship in selling anything to anyone to Betty Williams. 28. I, Calvin Paul Winfrey, leave my long curley eye-lashes to anyone who will take time to curl them every other night. 29. I, James Cleo Coffman, will my height to Raymond Paul which he will no doubt need some day. 30. I, Mary Elizabeth Hardy, will Bob to any girl who thinks she is able to take him away from me. 31. I, Robert Ray Hite, leave my mental intellect to James Grimes. 32. I, Troy Alonzo Coffman, leave my sack of candy to the entire Neutral bus. 33. I, James Southard, leave part of our senior class's good looks to the junior class. 34. I, Lloyd Robert Bowers, refuse to leave Erma to anyone. 35. I, Jane Marie Williams, leave to Harlan Mills the job of looking after my interests at R. H. S. next year. 36. I, Daniel Sears, leave all my A's to anyone who can develop the art of apple polishing to my high standard. 37. I, Henry Watkins, will my love for the Army to Perry Saunders. 38. I, Gladys Marie Miller, leave my second hour study hall to Bill Kirk. Electron Page Twenty