GRAND DEBUT

Just a yearbook? Yes, what is this '4 8 Rocket? 112 pages some ink a cover? Yes , but it's more , too Planning long sessions , ed itors and adv is er forming the Rocket in their minds. Building first period found activity in room 310 , staff members shared the building with janit ors as they worked into the twilight, photographers working under dim safelights building the '48 Rocket. It's finished now, a bundle of pictures , i nfo rmation, those inevitabl e mistakes and memories.

1948 ROCKET STaFF

Editor .. ....... ........................... .......... ............................................... Jo Rnn Hall

Managing editor Barbara Furman

Senior editors

Class editors ....... .

Feature editors

Organization editors

Dona Kirby

Margaret Stone

Pat Hansen

Betty Hathaway

Sue Phillips

Mary Ann Snell

Evonne Ferguson

Barbara Laughlin

Florence Leacock

Sports editor Dick Duxbury

Advertising editors

Copy editors

Pat Peirce

Glenn Rosenquist

Virginia Garlow

Dick Reid

Circulation editors ................ ..... ..... ... Don Engle

Yvonnie Yanney

Art editor Tom Porkorny

Photographer...................... .................................... ... ... ...... ...... ... ..... Dick Reid

Norman Dreeszen

Assistant

Adviser ............. Miss E. Marie Woerner

Senoritas Barbara Furman , Mary .Ann Snell , Yvonnie Yanney , and Sue Phillips are caught in "the act " during the assembly presented by the annual staff

Looking over the dummy sheets before taking them to the Journal are standing left to right : Dick Duxbury, Dick Reid, Jo .Ann Hall, and Virginia Garlow Seated , Pat Hansen, Barbara Furman , Barbara Laughlin , Betty Hathaway , and Yvonnie Yanney .

Comprising the Northeast coaching staff ore left to right: Bun Galloway , Jack Messervey , Jerry A.dams , Max Rezek , Lawrence Tepley , and Dawdy Haw kins

Touchdown Bound

The 1947 football season found the Northeast gridders turning in one of the best records in the history of Northeast with six wins and three losses . Inexperience accounted for the slow start of Coach " Bun" Galloway's crew, but he and his staff soon formed them into a smooth working machine and won the last four games in a row .

Suburban hopes were dimmed slightly when the Rockets began the season by dropping a 6-0 decision to the powerful Hastings Tigers. Inexperience under tight game conditions showed the following week as Beatrice completed a long desperation pass to take a 7-0 win

Northeast gridmen made their first win an impressive one, as they passed to a 21-0 victory over the Bulldogs from Alliance. The Black and White followed up by squeezing out a 7-6 win over undefeated Falls City on a muddy, slippery, field

Northeast's own field was the scene of the capital city championship game for the first time, but the home ground advantage was not enough to stop Lincoln as they rolled to a 20-7 win.

Undaunted, the Rockets came roaring right back and started their win streak by trimming Crete 14-0 . Northeast rushed to an early score and then was held on even terms for the remainder of the game by a primed York team to take a 7-0 win. The Black and White took another Mid-East win by whipping Fairbury 7-0. Putting the lid on a highly successful season, they outscored the Benson Bunnies 12-6 on a snow-swept field.