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Show union entries In the parade the morning of the twenty-fourth, twenty-fourth, the class of 37 took first place. The finale of the reunion consisted of lunch in the city park, prepared and served by the LDS wards in Beaver. Other graduates who worked work-ed on different committees were: Reunion - Thelma Farnsworth Priday and Florence Flor-ence Smith McBride; Ban- quet - Elaine Willden Nlel- ; sen and Maurine CarlowSly; v: P ictures - Molly Cartwright Tanner; Parade - Clark A. Patterson, Ira Baldwin, Acel Gillies, Mildren Mackrell, and Paul Smithy prize for having the most (twenty) grandchildren, and she and Maurine Carlow Sly tied for having one greatgrandchild great-grandchild each. Acel Gillies Gil-lies won a large red comb for having the least hair, and Esther Barton Rollins won the prize for remembering remem-bering the most classmates. The class felt especially honored to be joined by some of the faculty and their spous -es: J. Edwin Paice and his wife, and David R. Pearce and his wife from Beaver; J. Reed Moore and his wife from Coalville, Utah; Lois White, and Cannon Thomson and his wife from Salt Lake City. Lloyd Hunsaker and his wife drove down from Logan, Utah. Doctor Hunsaker Hunsak-er and his wife are now the ' President and Matron of the I Logan LDS Temple. Paul Beecher, who was the principal prin-cipal of the Beaver High School for three years, wrote ( a letter to the class compli-m compli-m enting them on being a very i outstanding class while in. I high school, and to congratulate congratu-late them as well for their achievements since graduating. graduat-ing. He regretted that he and M rs . Beecher we re unable to join with them. The class also heard from Olive Win-terton Win-terton Hart a former faculty member that she, too, was sorry that she was unable to attend. Out of the three class re- r "" '""- J 4 : CLASS OF 37: Members of the cla nt tin ,, Q who attended their reunion SJ.lSlTZ V I - H 23rd Md 24th Jani Bowman Little, toSTi? 7VV P len Crai Less Fowles, Molly Cart , 1 Tanner Eleanor Hickman Keelin, Maurine CarVowS , Edwin Paice, J.ReedMoore, Lois White.DavldR. Pearce ,j ,f Cannon Thomson, and Lloyd Hunsaker. 2nd Row; Faye 1 i d frSen r 1'ams'MildredMackrellDraper, LouiseChris-tiansen LouiseChris-tiansen Clyde, Reva Hollingshead Albrecht, Florence : .'I Smith McBride, June Davis Pearson, Thelma Farns- JZ3 worth Priday, Olive Fox Matheson, Elaine Willden Neil- urn i m niiti-in Aim mam -,..,,, ..ia. .4 k, t&isis.- . sts&.&itimjt&&n,:: li-a.. -s , h s sen, Mary Carter Tanner, Esther Barton Rollins, Bertha I Carter Cussick, Kent Murdock, and Kenneth Hoopes. 3rd row: Ralph Rollins, Justin Tolton, Royle Wood, Ira I ' j Baldwin, Nelson Spafford, Aubra Morgan, Shirley Foth- i eringham Hollingshead, Mable Branin Thompson, Car- f ' lisle G. Tanner, Howard Paice, and Merril Edwards, f - 4th row: Paul Smith, Richard Haddock, Eugene Baldwin, I " Calvin E. Mortensen, Melvin White, Clark A. Patterson, '' Keith Hollingshead, Douglas Boyle, Edward Nowers, I - - Reuben Dotson, Mac Patterson, Acel Gillies, and Mack Gentry. Kerksiek photo f Largest class from BHS has successful reunion bers and faculty, to whom she also paid tribute. She opened her remarks by telling tell-ing her classmates that she thought they all looked much better that night than they did 'way back when. She also al-so reminded the class of several outstanding events they, participated in as a class at Beaver HighSchool. "It was in the fall of 1933 that we entered our freshman fresh-man year in a class of ninety-two. ninety-two. In our sophomore year our enrollment dropped to around eighty-five, but jumped jump-ed to one hundred and six students in our junior year. It was then in the fall of 1935 that the Miners ville students joined our ranks. By the time we were seniors in the fall of 36, our class membership had dwindled to ninety -six, and when it came time for us to graduate in by Esther Barton Rollins The largest class to graduate grad-uate from Beaver High and from Beaver County as well, the class of '37 enjoyed their reunion on the 23rd and 24th 0f July in Beaver, Utah. The buffet supper, which Wis beautifully prepared by the Ponderosa Cafe, was served to the ninety-three guests in the Belknap Elementary Ele-mentary recreation hall by Louise Christiansen Clyde ud her committee. The tables, set in a bicentennial Heme, lent a festive air to He occasion. Clark A. Patterson co-chairman co-chairman of the event and now a resident of Provo, Utah, emceed the program. Esther Barton Rollins, chairman of the reunion and ilso a resident of Provo, telcomed the class mem - the spring of 37, there were seventy -three who received diplomas. Our class's motto mot-to that year was, "Green But Growing." "In the spring of 1937, under the direction of Jack Barton, who was the president presi-dent of the studentbody, the change from the letter "M" that stood for Murdock Academy Aca-demy to the letter "B" that stands for Beaver, took place on Black Mountain east of Beaver. After William Hurst, who was then the county surveyor, sur-veyor, had surveyed the site, our boys removed the letter "M' from the mountain. In its place, they dug a trench in the form of the letter "B", which they then filled with large rocks. The next day, the boys rounded up an old model A Ford truck, and on its bed, they hauled five bar rels of water and several pounds of whitewash. After making a mix of the water and whitewash, the boys and the girls used it to paint the letter "B" white with the use of old mops and brooms. It was also in thespringof '37 that our basketball team, coached by David R. Pearce, participated in the state basketball bas-ketball tournament in Salt Lake City. Our team took seventh place in a game won from the American Fork High School in the only overtime over-time played in the tournament tourna-ment that year. The score was 37-31. The players on the mam string all members mem-bers of the class of '37 -were: Clark A. Patterson, Edward Nowers, BlairSteed, Dick Banks and Keith Albrecht. Al-brecht. It was also brought to m ind, that their class rings ordered or-dered from O. C. Tanner -only cost $7.00 each. Mildred Mil-dred Mackrell Draper remembered re-membered that their gift to the school was a microphone. Thelma Farnsworth Priday, who was the treasurer of the sutdentbody, remembered that the full amount taken in for studentbody fees for the year '36 and '37 was $121. The class was then reminded re-minded that it was during the years between 1941 and 1974 that twelve of their classmates died two of them giving their lives for their country. These were: Phillip Jackson (Jack) Barton, Bar-ton, Jr., and Blair Steed. The other ten were: Francis Pierce, Garneith Atkin, Al- bert Stewart, Leland Jessup, i Quentin Gunn, Jay Rollins, - Donald Fotheringham, LaVar Hutchings, Helen Gillies j Craighead, and Lois Baldwin Smith. Prizes were awarded to , Aubra Morgan for having the most (ten) children, as - well as being the father of I the youngest child who is only four months old. Elaine Willden Neilsen received the |