Sheldon High School - Panther Yearbook (Sheldon, MO)

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At last, on September fourth fourteen of us returned to S. H. S. as seniors. From the first day we thought about initiating the fresh- men. This was the first real fun of the year. We had the whole dl? off. That morning we made the freshmen put their clothes on wrong-side out and backwards with one side of their hair combed down straight and make-up on one side of their faces. It couldn't be a freshman inidadoxx without something green so they wore green ribbons in their hair.. Next came the Halloween Carnival. Of course, we seniors hate to admit it but the freshmen candidates were elected in spite of all we could do. The seniors couldn't let the Juniors get ahead of us so we sponsored the first school dance of the year. We ected as hosts and entertained the other three classes to a small Christmas program after which Santa helped us pass out the gifts. On December the 22nd our basket-ball teams entered the County Tournament at Nevada. The boys were defeated .by the Nevada Cubs and the Girls played in their lst competition game against Metz. On January 23, we seniors went to sell advertising for the annual. The day was spent going to Nevada in the morning and then in the afternoon we canvassed Lamar. On February 13 we went to Nevada to have our class pictures taken. This really proved that we are a good looking class. The next impor- tant event of the year was the senior play, starring all of the seniors who nearly knocked all the movie stars out of jobs. Our sneak dayproved to be one of the most enjoyable occasions of the year. Finally the last of the year rolled around and it was time for our Junior-Senior activ- ities. They acted as hosts to us at a Junior-Senior banquet. It was indeed a remarkable banquet followed by a prcmd: theconmtnity tuilding. Then came the baccalaureate services at the Christian Church. The next week marked the final chapter in our school life. First came the class day exercises at which high honors were paid to the charter members of our class. Selma Leininger being the only one who has gone all the way through school at Sheldon. Herbert Waits and Selma are the only two in the Senior class that graduated together from they eighth grade. Then came the long awaited night of graduation. There were fourteen of us all arrayed in caps and gowns of gray that marched out upon the stage as Seniors who were ready for their dlplomas. The last day of school was indeed a sad day to remember. Here we parted and started out upon l1fe's Journey. Some of us to the Armed Forces, some to defense work, and others of us to continue on our way to schools of higher learning. .2411 t0gl'd.I0 5 Peanut says: If a girl speaks to everyone she's forward, If she doesn't she's bashful, If she talks she's a flirt. If she doesn't she's high-hat. If she's smart in school she's a highbrow, If she isn't she's dumb. If she talks about others she's catty. If she talks about herself she's conceitedg If she's popular, she's talked about. If she isn't she's a dud. If she goes with boys she's a pick-up. If she doesn't she's a wall-flower. There just ain't no justicel

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.jvlidfory At the beginning of the school year of 1933-'34, Miss Flo started seven of us out on our Journey through school. There was Donna Perry Doris Fullerton T. J. Horris, Francis Forgey, Selma Leininger, Bennie Finch and Dorothy Barker, Here we mastered our abc's and learned to imitate our upper classmen. After entering the second grade we gained a new member, Frazier Goodnight. After having finished the work required of us in that room we were promoted to Miss Anna's Room. After having completed the work given us in the third grade we passed on to the fourth grade. Here Phyllislhtter and Lerene Shepherd joined us. The next year found us in the fifth grade with Miss Gillham as our instructor. After our Christmas Vacation, we returned to school to find a new member for our class. It was Herbert Waits who had come to join us. The following year found us in the sixth grade just as decided as ever to reach the top. Here Miss Hazel Moffatt helped us to attain higher ideals and to make us to want to strive to reach our goal. One promotion after another, and we finally found ourselves in the room of Miss Emily Jones. During the year that we were seventh graders Ralph Woods came to be in our class. At the end of that year we got to help the eighth grade put on their commencement program. We will remem- ber that class as the one that graduated from the eighth grade without any girls in it. ,After the completion of the school year of 1939-40 we had attained the long awaited rank of eighth graders. During that year Carroll Reynolds came to be in our class and Lorene Shepherd left. That left nine of us to graduate. They were: Herbert Waits, Ralph Woods, Bonnie Finch Selma Leininger, Dorothy Barker, Morse Groshong, Frazier Goodnight, Nike Koster, and Carroll Reynolds. The next fall found all of us entering High School except fer Horse Groshong and Frazier Goodnight. There was twenty six of us when we enrolled. They weret Cecil Karr, George Welsh, Ralph Woods, Almeta Scholes Sylvia McClellan Wendell Hutchison, Gerald McGuire, Herbert Waits, Eoyd Hauser Mike Easter, Bob Parsons Raymond Scholes, Rosalee Rutherford, Carroll Reynolds Kenneth Schmidt, Gerald Dresslaer, Bonnie Finch, J. D. Ford Rosemary Tells, Dorothy Barker Frances Alice Emery Virginia Danley, Relma Dockery, Selma Leininger, Rose Emma Carns, and Kathleen Carns. After getting acquainted with our teachers and other classmates we sailed along pretty smothly until the day we were in1ti-- ated. The sophomores didn't get initiated the year before so the senior classgot them the same time as they did us. During that year Sylvia McClellan, Mike Kester, Rosalee Rutherford, Rosemary Wells, Cecil Karr, Rose Emma Carns, and Kathleen Carns quit school or were transferred to ano her one. The next year found only sixteen of us back as sophomores. After checking up we found that Bonnie Finch, Dorothy Barker, Frances Alice Emery and Carroll Reynolds had taken on duties other places. That year we did not have many outside activities on account of the war and ra- tioned priorities. The following year we returned to S. H. S. as Juniors. This year we were fewer in number, but just a little wiser, and still very deter- mined to reach our goal. During the first part of the year we helped with the annual Halloween Carnival. Later in the year we had several dances. Then came the Junior play '0h, Aunt Jerushal' in which each one in the class displayed his acting ability. We each strove hard to make enough money in order to entertain the Seniors. In the spring we had a Spring Feastival at which we made enough money to plan a trip instead of a banquet. On April the 22nd we met at the Post Office to go to Carthage. Here we spent the day. We spent the m01'I1iI13 .111-St loaf- ing around. During the afternoon we went out to the skating rink and then went to the show that evening. This proved the last real amuse- ment we had before school was out for the year. The last day of school found us feeling more grown up than ever to think that we lhad attained our long awaited places as seniors. During the year Alice Owens, Hilda Halt, Flbfls Current, and Jack Wardin came to be in our g1aaS.

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.I 1 ez!! l W 1, f l f pm? ec? y if Washington, D. C.C-:::- Dear Mr. Haynes, Remember me? I am May, 1945. I have just graduated that year and The first one I saw May ze, 1965 one of the Seniors who graduated from Sheldon High School, completed a trip during which I visited the students who I thought you would like to know what they are doing. was Selma Leininger. As you know she started out to make a business career for herself. Well that d1dn't last long, for as soon as Gerald McGuire got back from the Navy, they got hitched. They now have a pair of twins and a boy of which they seem very proud. They live on a farm about 35 miles south of Portland, Oregon. Remember Robert Parsons, the one who would study only when necessity demanded. He is now a mechanic in an Airplane factory, makes a very good mechanic too, at least Jack Wardin thinks so. Jack said, that Bob was one of the best mechanics he had. Jack is now owner of the largest airplane factory in the United States. There was a lot of planes needed after the war and Jack was just the one to supply them. His factory is located in Kansas City, Missouri. Jack and Bob are both married. Jack married a certain WBoots' who used to live in Nevada and Bob married some girl from the South. Floris Current never married Lester Paul Hunter, after all, for as soon as school was out she got a job in a defence factory. She stayed there until the war was over, and then came back to Sheldon. She stayed home with her father and moth- er for a year and then George Welsh came back from the Army. Yes, George and Rose Mary got married as every one expected them too, but he only lived with her for six and one-half months. Afther their devorce, George and Floris got married. They now own a farm in Fairview, Washington. He was an engineer in the army and learned many things about building roads. He is now chief engineer on that high- way they have just about completed. He and Floris are planning a trip from Alaska to South America as going to You named NThe Georgian soon as it is finished. After that, George said, he was just settle down and live a peaceful life on his farm. Wonder if he will? could never guess where Herbert Waits is. He is now Captain of the ship His ship was in pdrt while I was in California, we had dinner together and what he can't tell about the sea, no one knows. ,He said that there was only one thing wrong about being a sailor, guess what it is. Jessie Shafer won't marry him until he gives up the idea of lally-gagging all over the world. I don't guess she likes the sailors any more or else she just wants to keep track of her man. Hard telling which one it is. J. D. Ford has made quite a career for himself. Would you ever believe J. D. could be one of those men who study the stars and moon. He is one of the chief astronomers at that big labortory in'Washington, D. C. He said, in his speech he made at the Banquet given in honor of some great men in Washington, J. D. being one of them, that life was at last found on the planet, Venus. A space ship is being built, so that the planet should be reached in about two weeks. Two men will pilot this plane, and though no body knows who they are, I think they are none other than Dean Yates and Eldean Gyer, who were former Sheldon Kids. J. D. is also married, his wife, Hazel Rice. doesn't think much of his career, but she sure does like the publicty shefets from being his wife. As you know Almeta Scholes started out to be a schoolteacher. She tautht school for a couple of years, and then decided to be a nurse. She got through her Nurses' training and is now head Nurse at Carrol's Hospital' in New York City. She seems to like her work fine. Her husband is a doctor in the same hospital. Remember the tallest boy in the Senior Class of 1945? Yes, Raymond Scholes. He turned out to be really makes a good told me my life was of 33.00 a month, I one of those agents an insurance Agent for some Agency in Baltimore, Marylandu He one too. For instance, he tried to sell me a policy. Even in danger, I finally took out the policy and now pay a premium am still alive though and in good health, but you couldn't make believe that. He's sold so many of them, that his wife told me how he had got their three kids 'nd her own lif 1 d b t f own. Tgogignvt that be just about iike him? e nsure ' u Ofgot to insure his a irginia Danley did become a school teach r aft ll. Sh country school for two years and then went to Utah io be in inglish ie52X22F 1? a SUSSS She is H Pretty good one too, for she is still teaching there. Her husband wants her to got to Michigan with him but she won't til h ' said he'd just wait a while yet before he went. go un Sc O01 ls Out' so he 5? 1