Valier High School - Northern Lights Yearbook (Valier, MT)

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GEORGE DEN BOER There is such a choice of difficulties that I am at loss how to determine. Seven Chances Staff 4; Track 3; Annual Staff 4. RUTH CULLETON It's nice to be natural when you are naturally nice. Pep Club 2, 3; Home Ec Club 1; Panther Staff 3, 4; Full House Staff 3; Class Sec.-Treas. 3. BOB SLEZAK None but himself can be his parallel. We Shook the Family Tree 3; Seven Chances 4; Six Who Pass' 2; Glee Club 2; Panther Staff 2; Motion Picture Projector Operator 1, 2, 3, 4. BETTY KIBBEE She's neither great nor large nor fair, but when we hear her voice we know she's there. Home Ec Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Pep Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 1; Panther Staff 3, 4; Seven Chances 4; Full House Staff 3; Basketball 2; Drill Team 1. CONNIE SHEBLE Happy - go - lucky, fair and free, nothing there is that bothers me. Home Ec Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Pep Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 1, 2; Panther Staff 2, 3, 4; Drill Team 1; Librarian's Club 2, 3, 4; Full House 3; Annual Staff Snapshot Editor 4. (6)

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JIM TIDYMAN He labored hard to gain this day and won many honors along the way. Basketball 1, 2. 3; Football 1, 2, 3; FFA Vice Pres. 1; Glee Club 1, 2. 3, 4; Quartet 1, 2, 3; Band 1, 2; Best Foot Forward 2; Janie 3; Full House 4; Seven Chances 5; Class Pres. 1; Student Council 2; Pres. 4; Vice Pres. 3; Baseball 2, 3, 4. FLORENCE HABETS It's greater to be small and shine than too large and cast a shadow. Pep Club I. 2, 3. 4; Home Ec Club 1. 2. 3. 4; Glee Club 1. 2. 4; Drill Team 1; Janie 2; We Shook the Family Tree 3; Seven Chances Staff 4. THERESA BOUMANS A comrade blithe and full of glee; who dares to laugh out loud and free. Pep Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Home Ec Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Tumbling 2, 3; Librarian's Club 2, 3, 4; Panther Staff 4; Basketball 2; We Shook the Family Tree 3; Seven Chances 4; Annual Staff Circulation Editor 4. NANCY PULVER The smile that wins and tints that glow. Home Ec Club 1, 2. 3. 4; Pep Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Drill Team 1; Glee Club 1, 3; Seven Chances 4. BERNICE VAN DE POPELIER Silence sweeter is than speech. Home Ec Club 3, 4; Pep Club 3, 4; Six Who Pass 2; Heisey Award 3. (5)

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CLASS HISTORY For nine members of the great class of '49 the history began when these charter members trod the path to good old Valier Grade school to enter the first grade in September of '37. The 49-ers. on entering the seventh grade, were the first to be moved to the high school, where a new system of education was tried. At this time we took only four subjects. However, this experiment was not satisfactory, and when we continued on to the eighth grade we were entirely under the supervision of H. H. Hartley. Many joined our worthy class and some left us, but we endured the trials and tribulations of grade school to graduate from the eighth grade in 45. The brave class of '49 was found walking barefooted on the road to town from the dike in September of 45. They were dressed in strange attire, the boys being half-dressed. You guessed it—we were being initiated into high school. We took it like the hardy prospectors we were. This year Florence Habets and Pat Cronk joined us from the Bullhead, and Constance Sheble came from Dupuyer. Darleen Embody was the student body representative. Betty Myhre was chosen Carnival Queen. Although we were only freshmen, the class was represented on the football team by Tom Briden and Bob Wenzel, earninq letters in this sport. In basketball. Bob Wenzel. Dan Stokes and Tom Briden played on the team. Helen Stoltz was one of three girls selected by the faculty to be a cheer leader. When we were sassy sophomores. Janet Kingston was sent to Bozeman High School Week, where she won a ribbon for being in the upper third of Spanish. Bernice Van De Popelier came from Great Falls this year. We gave a skit, Six Who Pass, for an assembly program. Darleen Embody was voted to be a cheer leader, an honor that she has received every year since. Charles Kester was secretary-treasurer of the student council. The highlight of the junior year was the extraordinary Junior Prom which had as its theme. Blue Hawaii. It was decorated enchantingly with blue streamers and on one side a large chalk scene of an Hawaiian sunset. Our play was. We Shook the Family Tree, with Ruth Russell capably filling the lead of Hildegarde, the high school wallflower who couldn't stay out of trouble. Tom Briden. Bernice Van De Popelier, and Ruth Russell received Heisey Awards this year. Ruth Russell was chosen cheer leader. George Den Boer of Dupuyer joined our class to help out the boys who are badly outnumbered. Charles Kester. for the school paper. Janet Kingston and Helen Orr in declamation, were delegates to the Missoula Interscholastic Track Meet. Helen Orr was candidate for Girls State, and Tom Briden for Boys State. Tom was captain of the football team, which won the subdistrict championship for the ihird consecutive year. He also took over the duties of president of the student council. After journeying through eleven years of school, our class finally came into their rights as the upper-classmen of V. H. S. James Tidyman joined our class to boost its total number to twenty-three. He was elected president of the student council. Tom Briden, Charles Kester. and Bob Wenzel received letters in basketball and football. Our play. Seven Chances. under the direction of Mrs. J. A. Tidyman. was a farce comedy. Jim Tidyman played well the lead of a man who received much education in proposing. This year our class, which has always been rated high scholastically, had more members continuously on the honor roll than the other three classes. We. the '49-ers, after May 23 our commencement, go out into the world to try to make it a better place. (7)