2011年8月21日 星期日

Class of 1961 meets, passes dance to classes of ’62 and ‘57

Editor's Note: Jack Hise is one of the organizers of the Belle Fourche High School class of 1961 reunion and the ‘50s and ‘60s dance at the Community Hall during the Roundup. He provides this retrospective of the reunion and pride that class members still feel half a century after graduation.

He said the class sponsored and hosted the dance the past two years, and is working with the BFHS classes of 1962 and 1957 to take over the event as part of the Roundup in 2012.

Hise said that the class has begun to plan for another reunion in 2016.

He said that at the dance, "I looked out there one time and there were 10 guys and women my age out there dancing and the sweat was just rolling off them and they were having the best time."

Hise added that several classmates produced CDs with photos of classmates with background music from their school years, one for everybody in the class.

Here are his thoughts on the event:

We are the class of 1961, Belle Fourche High School.

However,If any food China Porcelain tile condition is poorer than those standards, we are more than that; we are the family of 1961 with a lot of class. We held our 50 year reunion in Belle Fourche over the 4th of July Weekend.

We actually started together in 1948, at the chicken coop school and Washington School, now the police station; 32 of us started together. We picked up more along the way. In the 8th grade we graduated 86.

We started high school with 112 students.Replacement China ceramic tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. 92 of us graduated on May 24, 1961.

We lost some through death and others moved away from Belle Fourche. As seniors we elected a young man from Albion, Mont., as our marshal and a young lady from north of Belle Fourche as our homecoming queen. (Sharon Hantz Kudlock and Lee Arbuckle.)

We went undefeated in football winning eight games and losing none. We averaged 40 points a game while our opponents failed to average even one touchdown. Four of the eight teams failed to score a touchdown and we closed out our season beating Spearfish 27-7,I have never solved a Rubik's hydraulic hose . and Spearfish until that night was also undefeated.

Six players made the Black Hills conference football team and two players were named to the all-state team.

Next came basketball.there's a lovely winter Piles by William Zorach.Initially the banks didn't want our Ventilation system . We won 19 games and lost 2 regular season. We also snapped the 33-game winning streak of the Rapid City Cobblers, a school of around 4,000 students while our enrollment was less than 400.

We won the conference in basketball and went on to the state tournament and placed fourth at state. We should have won.

We were also the smallest school at the state tournament in 1961. Then we really opened up eyes around the state by winning the Black Hills Conference in track, again beating Rapid City.

Six of our members attended the state track meet and came home with four state championships, in high jump, shot put, discus and 100 yard dash.


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