News Letter, the Yearbook and My Art Award

I was on both the newsletter and yearbook staff in my senior year. We had lots of fun with it. At the end of the year I received a secretarial practice award for my work on the Hi-Lights (our newspaper) and the Wolf Pack (our yearbook). In the newsletter, we included regular school news and fun news. In the fun news, we would interview different students about things like "what is your favorite song" and do surveys on who was the coolest, cutest, smartest, sweetest, most friendly, most athletic or had the most scshool spirit ect. These surveys would include students from all four classes since our school was so small.

I also received the school's art award. It sure wasn't for painting like my dad. The award was for several different projects that we did throughout the year in art class. I did some beautiful work on some caligraphy and also stenciled designs on to fabric and painted it. We did several more projects too, I just can't think of them right off hand. I know we did something with clay, but can't remember what I made.

Donkey Basketball Game

Our school just played basketball because we didn't have enough students to play football. You know it only takes five players for basketball. lol That was the case with all the little towns in that area. We did it all though, we had cheerleaders and a pep squad!! No pom teams though, never even heard of that back then. My best friend Barbara Shaw was a cheerleader and I was on the pep squad. I didn't even try out for cheerleader because it just wasn't something I would like.

One Friday night, instead of a regular game, we had a donkey basketball game. It was just as it sounds---donkeys were brought in and the players had to ride them and play ball. They didn't have to dribble but could if they wanted to. They had to maneuver the donkeys to go where they needed to go to shoot a basket!! The donkeys had sock-like shoes on to protect the gym floor. This was absolutely hilarious!!! It definitely was one of the highlights of my school days.

P.S. To "My First Steady Boyfriend"

I told you about Elmer, my steady boyfriend, a few blogs back. I also told you he was quite cute. I forgot to tell you, though, that he was yearbook king in our senior year. Laura saw his picture quite some time ago and said he looked like Kenickie on Grease . She should know because I think she watched that movie a hundred times or so. This is short because it is a p.s. lol

Fishing with Dad

During the summer, dad and I would occasionally go fishing at night. We would put a motor on one of our fishing boats and head out to one of the coves. We would find us a good spot and tie up and anchor the boat. We usually had some sodas and snacks with us. Dad hung our lantern over the side of the boat (not in the water of course). We'd bait our hook and settle back and relax. We would talk about everything from soup to nuts (an old grandma expression). The lantern light would attract the fish because they were so curious and nosey to see what was going on. This curiosity would bring them in toward our awaiting bait. And that would be their final demise!! We always caught a big stringer full of fish---never got skunked (catch nothing). This was really fun and it gave dad and I some alone time. These opportunities were becoming fewer and fewer the older I got because of dating and school functions, so this was one thing for us to do together. We had a lot of fun and as you see, it was memorable.

School Bond Issue

While thumbing through my high school year books I ran across an article that I had clipped and glued into it. Some of you will find this interesting and most will find it humorous. I shortened it somewhat down to just the important parts. So as I plagerize, I am also changing some of the words.So here goes:

Ballot January 22, 1963 on new high school:

There are over 500 students enrolled in school. School enrollment is growing so fast that the 7th and 8th graders have several of their classes in the high school section. This is causing over crowded conditions in the high school. There are study halls with more than 90 students some periods of the day.

The estimated cost for the land, construction and furnishings will be approximately 350,000.00 over a period of 20 years.

I'm Back

Well, I'm finally back and can blog again. I wasn't the one missing it was the computer.We had some problems with the old "dinosaur" and think we have that fixed now. We also bought two brand new laptops so Dave and I will each have our own. Tracy picked them out for us because we know nothing about what we would need. Thank you so much Tracy. Danny has been down all day, he brought the computers down to us and is showing us all kinds of things we can do on them. Hopefully we will remember most of it. lol Now I have to think about what I want to blog next, decisions, decisions, decisions!!

My First Steady Boyfriend

Shortly after starting school in Reeds Spring, I had a couple dates---then through the summer I didn't have any dates. I didn't care, I was having a great time at and on the lake.

About two months into my junior year, a girl came up to me in music class and said she knows someone who likes me a lot but he is afraid to ask me out. No one likes rejection afterall! She asked me if I would go out with him if he asked me? He was a very likable guy and quite cute so I said yes I would go if he asked me. He asked me out that same afternoon after school and walked me to my bus. His name was Elmer. He had a good sense of humor and was fun to be with.
We went to a movie the following Friday night in Branson. Reeds Spring didn't have a movie theatre. I can't remember what the movie was but they previewed "Blue Hawaii". It would start playing the next night. I said something like "oh, I bet that will be so good". He asked me if I wanted to go out with him the next night to that movie and I said yes. He tried to give me his class ring the first date (to go steady), but I didn't take it. He offered it again on Saturday night, so I took it.

There weren't that many boys in the dating pool. It was a small school and our class was very small. There were only around 24 of us in our graduation class the next year. So we probably had 10 to 12 boys and most of them were already going with someone. I wouldn't say I used him because that would not be nice, but by wearing his ring I was sure to have a date to all the important events. He may have given me the ring for the same reason (which would not have been nice either!!) lol

I did date a couple seniors when I was a junior so there were other fish in the sea. I liked one in particular and dated him quite a few times, but just every now and then when I would break up with Elmer. Elmer didn't like him much. lol