Sheridan Community High School - Sheridonian Yearbook (Hoxie, KS)

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7 Spring is here and that means graduation is just around the •corner, We the oenior of '51, can remember very veil the first faces and wondered fr m where they all came, but soon we were all acquainted and together we started our green year. Miss Harding and Mr. Barry were our sponsors and were very heloful in getting us started during the first year. The seniors lost no time in initiating some of us, and after the formal initiation e were really a Dart of the high school During our sophomore year Shirley ColTman, Luella Boor, and Viola Ploeger entered our midst. This year, Mrs. Rohlfing and Mr. Williams were our sponsors. We watched the new freshman come in and felt old and very wise because we were now sophomores. At the beginning of our Junior year we welcomed two new classmates, Marcella Manhart and Margaret Schuck. Our Junior year was a very busy one, we ordered our rings, sponsored the annual junior and senior banquet and put on a play. Our banquet was very colorful and gay, the theme being Gay Fiesta , and we spent many working hours planning and decorating the gym. We hired a small dance band from Colby to supoly the music for the dance after the banouet. Although the crepe caper ceiling started to fall down during Mr. Laird's speech, we received many condiments on our transformed gym. The play Grandad Steps Out was our well-Dresented comedy. The Cdst consisted of Monty Smith, Leona Rail, Karen Twell. Don Currier, dlma Walden, hirley Coffman, Donna Lee Currier, Bob Cooper, Junior Lacey, Dennis Slaven, Pat Jennings, Dorothy Reitcheck, and Margaret Schuck. We all enj.yed ourselves at the day practices, and unknown to our sponsors, Mrs. Schrock and Mr Bartel we sirned our names in red and green Daint on the side wall of the stage. We tried to out them on the back of the curtain, but it was so full of names we decided to try something new. After our art work was discovered a few d us, with the help of white paint, removed all traces of our autographs. Lyle Sample and Luella Boor entered the class for their senior year. Luella had attended her junior year at Ellis. Betty Breeden.left us at the end of the first semester. Our class rings had a ruby stone tooped by the traditional crest. They arrived soon after school started and we were very proud of .them. Our senior play, Wanted A Hero was definitely a credit to the whole class. Don Currier, Dennis Slaven, Karen Twell, Shirfey .Coffman, Viola Ploeger, Marcella Manhart, Lloyd Adams, Dorothy Reitcheck, Bob Cooper, Lyle Sample, Duane Duncanson and Helen Jones were the members of the cast. We were entertained by the juniors at the Junior-Senior Banouet ■on April 21 in the midst of a beautiful Hawaiian setting. We had a wonderful time and will always remember it as one of the outstanding niehts of the vear. On April 19 we took a day off and went to Hays to visit the coll- ege and to attend a few meetings about various vocations. It was educational and everyone enjoyed themselves. baccalaureate services were held the evening of May 20. Our speaker Mr. Woolard, gave a very interesting talk. Class night was May 21. The class will, proprecey, and history was read and a short program was p-iven. The long awaited Graduation night was May 22, Mr. Deane was the main speaker of the evening. He had also been the speaker at the grade school graduation of our class in 1947• as a reward for the four, long, ward years of work and Play, we started the mornii.g after graduation for five wonderful days at the Black Hills of South Dakota. As we all piled on the bus with our sponsors,Mrs. Schrock and Mr. Bartel and left the school we knew that we had truly completed our igh school education.