History
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The time has arrived again, when once more, a class of seniors will go forth for their diplomas. the time draws near when some ninety-seven people will graduate and leave high school forever. these ninety-seven people have gone through most of their school career together, sharing honors and responsibilities as one. In our Freshman year, we find that our class was headed by the following officers: President, Ned Nyman; Vice-President, Dean Yocum; Secretary, Bette Shearer; and Treasurer, Laura May Biggerstaff. Our representative for the Student Council was Bob Matney. In the field of athletics that year, we took no active part, except that jack Reinecker, one of our classmen made his first team letter in basketball. Also in that year we had several fellow classmen in the band. In Girl Reserves and Hi-Y approximately two-thirds of our class were members. Then, during our sophomore year, our class was again headed by Ned Nyman, President; Bob Caton, Vice-President; Richard Angleton, Secretary; and Bette Shearer, Treasurer. In Student Council, Bob Matney was again our representative and Laura May Biggerstaff served as Treasurer of the Council. Bob Matney made the first team in football; the only boy of our class to do so. Also, our President, Ned Nyman, was on the Hi-Y Cabinet. That was the year we had our first experience with the Balcony or "Peanut Heaven", as it has been jokingly called. Our Junior year began next. those participating in Speech and Debate were: Evelyn Hunsperger, Ralph Sellmeyer, and Harold Cortner. They were entirely inexperienced, but made a comparatively good showing under their able coach and former teacher, Miss Mary Mott. they entered both the Debate tournament at Emporia and the Speech Festival at Bonner Springs and Kansas University. That year the annual Junior Play was presented, entitled "Take No Chances". It was a comedy in three acts ably given by twelve members of our class. Our Junior class officers were: President, Harold Cortner; Vice-President, Lorene Angleton; Secretary, Clotelle Farran; and Treasurer, Evelyn Hunsperger. In Student Council this year, two of our class were members, Lola Kearney, Treasurer; and Laura May Biggerstaff, Secretary. This year our class was represented on the football and basketball teams; also, in tennis and golf. three of our class played on the golf team and three played on the tennis team, which won the Eastern Kansas League Trophy. During this year,the honorary speech organization called the "Spotlight" was started. To be eligible for this, you had to participate in Speech, Debate or Dramatics during the year. Finally, the long awaited list of candidates for the National Honor Society was made public and we found that Laura May Biggerstaff, Ned Nyman, Evelyn Hunsperger, Harold Cortner, and Bob Matney had been elected out of our class. At last came the biggest event in our high school career - the Junior-Senior Banquet, which was held April 26. the theme of the banquet was patriotic and the color scheme included red, white and blue. At the beginning of our senior year, Ned Nyman, one of our classmen, left Osawatomie to finish school in California. Two new classmen were added to our ranks - Margaret Tooley and Richard Scott. Our class officers this year were as follows: President: Lola Kearney; Vice-President, Ralph Sellmeyer; Secretary, Orlando Ricci, and Treasurer, Marjorie Thompson. The first of this year, the Political Science Club, under the guidance of Mr. Reb, was formed. Deserving of attention is the fact that this year, the responsibility for assembly programs were traced to Harold Cortner, President of the Student Council. Two other members of our class were officers of the Student Council - Lola Kearney, Treasurer; and Bette Shearer, Vice-President. In athletics this year, there were four seniors on the first team in basketball - Corwyn Kirk, Bob Matney, Bill Gott and Jack Reinecker. Several of our classmen also were on the football squad and the track team. there were three senior boys and three girls on the tennis team. In clubs, Harold Cortner was president of Hi-Y, and Bette Shearer was president of Girl Reserve. Now we again find that nine seniors have been elected to the National Honor Society: Bette Shearer, Bob Eichorn, Dean Davies, Georgia May Mitchell, Jimmie Simon, Peggy Crowe, Ward Bost, Lola Kearney, and Maurice Huling. On April 9 and 10, we presented our class play, "Don't Take My Penny" with a cast of seventeen seniors. Now we are really in the last two weeks of our high school career, our yearly Spotlight banquet has come and gone, our Senior Picnic was a day for us all to remember, and the Junior-Senior banquet is over. But our Class History wouldn't be complete without a word of praise and thanks to our grand sponsors: Miss Meuser, who has been with us since we were Freshmen; Miss Mattingly, who joined us in our sophomore year; and Mr. Wagaman, who came to O.H.S. when we were Juniors. So, with Maurice Huling as Valedictorian and Lola Kearney and Annabel Whitney as salutatorians, the class of nineteen hundred and forty-two leaves high school forever. |
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