Waterloo Public School - Panther Yearbook (Waterloo, NE)

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4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 i 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 | 4 4 f CLASS HISTORY On September third in 1934, ten small frightened children marched bravely up to the school house door, thinking about what would happen on that day and on the days to come. Miss Margaret Alpers, our teacher, found the following in her room: Betty Ann Allison, Virginia Betters, Frances Bruce, Ben Butler, Nonas Jean Hester, Herbert Hoover, Mary Jensen, Curtis Moore, Donald Rhoades, and Lenora Smith. Later on Billy Headley Joined us, but in April of 1935 he moved away reducing our class to ten again. Everyone of us enjoyed our kindergarten year and we were promoted to the first gradeVwhich Miss Susan Smith wa3 our teacher. The mysteries of writ-lng readlng were taught us and at the end of the year ten of us were ready for the second grade. Evelyn Bayless joined our class making eleven in number once again and that year Miss Coonley was our teacher. Herbert Hoover moved away at the end of the year leaving our class at ten. In the third grade Miss Marjorie Coy endeavored to teach us the multiplication tables, spelling, and reading. During the third grade Ben Butler dropped back but Carl Buhl, Earl Trullinger, and Donald Walker Joined our class making twelve in number. At the end of the year we were promoted to the fourth grade. In the fourth grade Carl Buhl left the class making eleven. Miss Coy taught us again. We are now ready for the fifth grade. During that year Donald Walker moved away but Delores Hug and Bobby Bruhn became members of our claa i. Miss Lorraine Compton became our teacher. ? e were promoted to the sixth grade. Delores Hug and Bobby Bruhn moved away leaving eleven in the class. When we finally reached the seventh grade. Miss Elizabeth Peterson was our teacher. Betty Allison moved away and Earl Trullinger dropped a grade leaving only nine in the class. Ronald Denker and Ramona Seba Joined our class making eleven once more. The eighth grade promised many good times for us and was looked forward to as being the last year before entering the adventures of high school. Miss Anne Walla, with never-ending patience prepared us for the venture and furnished us with a pleasant school year. Rosetta Rhoades moved to Omaha at the beginning of the year and Ramona Seba left at the end leaving nine in the class. We ended that school year with a party at the community building given by Miss Walla at which we had a very good time. Then came that day when we were green freshies. How vivid are the memories of that day when we walked into the assembly to be greeted by stares and scoffs at our bashfulnes and apparent terror at seeing pupils so much wiser and older than we, and at knowing at the tricks of being a typical high school student. When we entered high school our class was as follows: Evelyn Bayless, Virginia Betters, Frances Bruce, Norma Hester, Mary Jensen, Donald Rhoades, Curtis Moore, Lenora Smith, and Ronald Denker. Mr. Hauser, Miss Jaenike, and Miss Back were on hand to try their best to form good ideas and ideals of high school duys during our freshman year. We lived in fear of initiation which was held about four weeks after we first entered high school. The remaining part of the freshman year went smoothly with all the members learning by the end of the year, what every freshman should know. We looked forward to the beginning of our sophomore year with a little more enthusiasm and knowledge. Miss Neville, Miss Mallory and Mr. Porter were the new teachers that year. Curtis Moore had moved away and Donald Rhoades had dropped behind because he missed so much school on account of the illness of his mother. Carol Hensen had joined our class. Our Sophomore year was spent in untangling Geometry mysteries and understanding Just what Silas Mamer was all about. At the end of the 10th grade Merlin Gerch had Joined our class by Norma Hester had moved away. At the beginning of our Junior year Mary Jensen had left us but she was again present in the Second semater. Miss Mallory was replaced with Miss Wilson. In December under the direction of Miss Neville, our Junior class play, Here Cones The Prince, was presented ofter a little difficulty. The Black stone Hotel was chosen as the place for our banquet on April 25. Our theme was nautical and was carried out in blue and white. Finally came the day when we became dignified Seniors with our class and teachers the same except for Miss Wilson and Mr. Porter who had been replaced by Mrs. Wilson and Mr. Larsen. The class Officers werwe as follows: Merlin Gerch, President, Evelyn Bayless, Vice President, and Frances Bruce Secretary and Treasurer The Senior class Journeyed to Fremont on October 30 to have their pictures taken at Skoglund's Studio. This year the Juniors entertained us with a banquet at the Fontenelle Hotel on April 24. The theme was Cowboy and was carried out In blue and pink. (Continued) r 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ? 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 '■ E 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

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0 4 4 ■w F 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 m i 4 4 4 4 4 SALUTATORY Day after day youth wends its way--pausing awhile--yet not to stay. Friends of the Class of 1947, we welcome you to our commencement. It is to you, our parents, our teachers, the members of the board of education and friends, to whom we dedicate this service; and the message that comes first from our hearts to yours is a great hope for our dear Old Waterloo High. This you see means more to us than a mere beautiful ceremony. It Is an assimilation of your endeavor, your community service, your sacrifice, your vision, and your determination for us. Then too, this day, we are filled with a spirit of rededication to the ideals and principles of your helpfulness and devotion. You are ouV treasure chest, you have given abundantly to the youth of this community. It is through your efforts we are able to experience the realization of this portion of our education. It is through you that we may develop ourselves, not only mentality but recreatively, and and spiritually. Without you our school would fail; for it sees only with your vision. It hears only through you; it is fed with the zeal of your effort. In your hearts we have found an abode, in your thoughts we have found solace, in your devotion we have found realization, and In your presence we have found and always find satisfaction. And at this time friends, I pay tribute today to our school, soon to be our Alma Mater. I shall not praise It in terms to her structure, architecturally, but rather as a monument to the personal helpfulness, it has given each of us, and which we are sure it will continue to do in time to come. In 61 years the Waterloo School has emerged from one of rigid curriculm to one which has a program of clubs, plays, school publications, and athletics. The Ideal of our school is an ideal of democracy. It is the foundation of individual liberty, of intelligent citizenship. Just think what this school means to you and to us. Recall the long dark centuries when the masses were kept in ignorance--when creed and appression ruled the world with an Iron hand. Contrast that with the school today whose graduation class with the fullest kind of freedom can choose for it's motto;- Each Is The Architect Of His Own Fortune ; for by the small word Each is implied our individuality which is the basis of democracy and which is directly opposed to totolitarianism, one of the present scourges of Europe; the architect connotes too, that as Individuals, with free will we are at liberty to choose the materials to be used in making our fortune and the design by which it is to be made. Lastly, his own fortune intensifies the worth of the Individual by implying he has a fortune to call his own, or to anticipate. The basic aim of any school is character building—the bringing out of the best qualities that lie within the student. It endeavors to prepare them to succeed in passing the real test—the test of life. Our school has aimed to temper and sharpen the fine tool of our minds and our whole personalities. A school may be many things, but it is nothing, if it be not one above of all things—a stadium of intellitual exercises. Let it not be thought howeyer, that hign school is a place for Constance enjoyment and pleasure. Each one of this graduation class knows that there is no royal road to learning. The next time you pass our school, pause a moment to reflect that where the student gains the knowledge, self-respect, and recognition of his inalienable rights, the school has been his greatest ally. The school is democracy's greatest gift to civilization. We cherish our schools May we improve it by being true to its ideals. The school is preparing many graduates for a continued development; it Is awakening in us a consideration of great fundamental and eternal truths. It Is teaching us to rise above the tyranny of ready-made thinking and strike out for ourselves into the unknown, penetrable only by those of us with determination, ability, and the will to do. Yes, these are only a few of the services rendered today in our schools, where Day after day--youth wends its way—pausing awhile—but not to stay. VALEDICTORY EDUCATION OF THE MASSES FOR WORLD PEACE Rev. Wilson, Mr. Nelson, esteemed teachers, dear parents, and kind friends. Tonight the class of 47 begins its commencement--a commencement whose preparation has lasted for twelve years; and tonight each member of our class commences life’s Journey, not unlike a Roman soldier going to battle: equipped with our armor of knowledge, our shield on which is inscribed in clearly defined letters the motto: EACH IS THE ARCHITECT OF HIS OWN FORTUNE; our short sword of self-defence of fortitude; our helmet of prudence; our = =? = . 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 i 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4