Sabetha High School - Blue Jay Yearbook (Sabetha, KS)

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pep club we cheered the team on, praising them la- ter, win or lose. The music festivals.' Remember them? Sabetha being flooded by unknown and strange faces. Each town in friendly competition with each. Mixed Chorus, glee club, and SPECIAL groups took up much of our time, but in return we received a feeling of pride. The appreciation was worth the effort. The AG boys have given our school much recogni- tion over the state by receiving top honors in the contests. The organizations—Kayettes, GAA, FHA, FFA, Kays, S-Club, Spanish Club, Alpha Club, Jay Jays—have all played their part in keeping us busy. The GAA night games brought out numerous students and townfolk to root for the comically named girls' teams. Most prominent in our memories should be our TEACHERS who have helped us gain our goal by their sympathetic understanding. They have spent many hours outside school in a personal attempt to aid us. They have offered us more than we can ever re- pay. We'll forever cherish the memories of our friends, classmates, teachers, the proms, all the happy and unhappy times. We owe a great deal to SHS.

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The EDITORS with the aid of the camera have at- tempted to reproduce the year 1950-51 so that in the coming years you may reminisce and re-live the hours, days, and years spent in SHS. STUDENTS of various types—meek, shy, boister- ous, studious, unstudious”—all have been our classmates and friends. Together they make up our school. Without any one of the types, school days wouldn’t seem quite right. FRESHMEN, some timid and others bold, begin a new chapter in their lives when they attend their first SHS class. They struggle through the tough- est year progressing from freshmen to seniors, feeling more pride each year. All of us have sat in class sniffing the odors from the HOME-EC classes. As our mouths watered, we hoped the clock would hurry and bring the lunch hour. Only if we were one of the very lucky ones, could we get a tiny morsel of the cookies or cakes from one of the future homemakers. Sometimes even the burning odors coming through classroom venti- lators, smelled good. Football, with its cheering; running along the sidelines; screaming for touchdowns; was one of the most thrilling activities in our school (every one wishing he were the hero out there playing ball). The ATHLETES, large or small, have rated us everywhere from first to fifth in the Big Six. Then when the basketball season came around, the town loyally supported our games, followed our

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DEDICATIO!! In some small way we wish to show our ap- Dreciation for the way you've held up your end of the bargain in making our high school days more rich and enjoyable------for the times you gave us a financial boost or lent a helping hand and a cheering word when we were troubled ---for the way you didn't complain when home- work or activities keot us so busy that we shirked our duties at home---for the way you came through in all those uncountable in- stances, we wish to exDress our gratitude. So to you, dear parents, we, the class of '51, dedicate our edition of the BLUEJAY.