(Shirley) Ben Funk High School Quick Facts
Year opened: 1914
Year closed: 1948
Consolidated or annexed to: Heyworth
School District
Ben Funk HS team nickname: the "Cornhuskers"
BFHS team colors:
Blue & White
School Fight Song:
"The Royal Blue and The White"
(author unknown--taken from the 1945-46
Ben Funk HS yearbook)
In the peaceful grove of Funks
Our alma mater true
In her colors so triumphant
Looks down on me and you,
In the song which we now render;
With our honor shining bright
Always we will stand defenders
Of the Royal Blue and the White.
Through the three long years of high school,
Midst the scenes we love so well,
Where the mystic charms of knowledge
We vainly seek to spell,
And
we win athletic victories
As all children do with might,
Still we'll work for dear old Ben Funk
And the Royal Blue and the White.
When the cares of life o'ertake us,
Mingling fast our looks with gray,
Should our dearest hopes betray us,
False fortunes fade away,
Still we banish care and sadness
Throughout the day and the night
And
recall those days of gladness
'Neath the Royal Blue and the White
)
