Alexis High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Alexis, IL)

Page 46 text:

QQ ASSEMBLY The assembly room or the auditorium is located on the third floor. Every Monday morning the students assemble and Prof. Hake gives us pointers for the week and supplies current information which is on the docket . Then we enjoy a special program by some organization or by a guest speaker. Every student has a special seat assigned to him and keeps it for the school year. Our auditorium is often used for community activities as it offers a great seating capacity and has an excellent stage. The stage is used for all public school functions of the year such as plays, concerts, etc. LIBRARY The library, located on the second floor, consists of two rooms. The west side of each room is lined with book shelves and well filled with good reading matter. S300 are spent for the purchase of new books and periodicals yearly. Our library has seven sets of encyclopedias. The library is used as a study hall and every period of the day is well filled. Often parties are held in the rooms. The picture shown on the opposite page represents a typical study hall although there are more students shown than make up the usual assemblage. There are eight such study periods dur- ing the day. A teacher is in charge of each. HONOR ROLL This year all those making an average grade of 90 or above were honored by having their name placed on a special notice on the bulletin board and in the Beat. Those on the first semester honor were: Back row-Dorothy Smith, Wilma Root, Marjorie Zielke, Melba Whitman, Elaine Smith, Bernadine Brown, Elsie Phillips. 2nd row-Mary Avis Phillipson, Marjorie Krug, Lenard Kenney, Alan Shav- er, Don Shaver, Gilda Fields, Mary C. Peake, Marjorie Hill. lst row-'Jane Edwards, Lois Patterson, Dorothy McKeague, Dorothy Baker, Doris Simonson, Fern Riggle, Jeanne Reedy. Irene Patterson was not present. While the school engages in many extra-curricular activities, it emphasizes, above all, scholarship. It was impossible to show a picture of the second semester honor students since this book is to be distributed before the end of the semester. We do wish to pay tribute to these high ranking students.

Page 45 text:

'iifGQ'Q-Q i'iQ'iiif A TYPICAL DAY AT A. C. I-I. S. It's 7:15 and things have started buzzing at Suzie Senior's house. Suzie rushes around and in forty-five minutes is on her way to school, which is two blocks away. Suzie is given a lift when Johnny Junior pulls up in his Model T4 Johnny lives four miles out in the country and five other students ride back and forth with him daily. It is 8:15 and everyone is arriving for classes. As Suzie and Johnny enter the door they are greeted with Hi Suzie, your hair is cute this morn! ! and Greetings Johng who was that number you had on your arm last night? After the usual morning chatter around the halls Johnny and Suzie go to their classes. The morning passes quickly, even with fifty minute periods. As today is Friday Suzie goes to Senior homeroom and Johnny to Junior homeroom. Suzie's homeroom has started a series of visits to churches and today they go to a local church and hear the pastor speak. Johnny's class is preparing for the Junior-Senior banquet which they are sponsoring soon. Oh, there is the noon bell and Suzie, just returning from church, scampers down the avenue fthe sidewalk isn't big enoughj toward home for dinner. Johnny joins the crowd in the Home Ee. room where he eats his lunch. Suzie hurries back for a Senior class meeting at 12:35. Here the Annual ad- vertisements are straightened out and the Seniors decide to have a sucker day on the day of the class play. Johnny has a spirited game of baseball with the boys. Following the meeting Suzie goes to the bulletin board to see what's new. There she reads the current A, C. H. S. Beat and puts a star on the War Bond Chart to accredit her purchase of a stamp this week. She takes notice of the G., A. A. and A club party that night and signs her name as one intending to go. She notices Johnny Junior's name above hers. Here she is pulledg outside to have her picture taken by the camera fiends. Clang! clang! there's the bell and Suzy meets Johnny at the music room door where they practice their clarinet and baritone re- spectively in preparation for a future band concert. After a windy session Johnny goes down stairs for his farm shop period. He and the boys are building' a hay rack for a neighboring farmer. Suzie goes to a sociology class where she joins in the cur- rent discussion of movies. Suzie and Johnny are again united when, at the shriek of the air raid siren, they hurry calmly down below the balcony where they await the all clear shriek to return to classes. This is the fourth air' raid drill during the year and Johnny and Suzie are auite accustomed to the procedure. At the sound of the second whistle Johnny goes to the music room again where the mixed chorus is gathering. Suzie is a member of the chorus but today she must go to the auditorium where rehearsal is underway for the Senior class play. At the close of a successful rehearsal Suzie again joins Johnny and they return to the auditorium for a band rehearsal, scheduled for that day even though the Friday band period is usually omitted. Intense rehearsal is needed as the concert must be extra good this spring. After band practice Suzie goes to a short Home Ee. club meeting and Johnny hurries out for track, determined to clear the hurdles. Suzie returns to a short play practice after handing in her newspaper story and after getting the second act down pat she walks merrily home with a girl friend, Mary Sophe. As she crosses the street Johnny yells Bye ! Suzie feels happy as a lark although it has been a busy day.. After all not every nation in the world permits its girls and boys to attend such a grand school as A. C. H. S.

Page 47 text:

If A 'L' -are cgi J G50