Antioch Community High School - Sequoia Yearbook (Antioch, IL)

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Nxfsssi o 3 It QE! X i 0 SENIOR HISTORY The class of '56 entered Antioch High-in September, 1932 with s member. ship of eighty-six. The weeks between the beginning of school and initiation slipped by at what seemed an uncalled-for speed at the time, but not rapidly enough to leave the Juniors unprepared for the day. They initiated us---we found that anticipation was much worse than realization--and then gave us a party on the football field. Our first officers were Warren Miller, president, Evelyn Overton, vice- presidentg and.Dean Williams, secretary-treasurer. A highlight of our Sophomore year was the award of a shield to our class for winning the inter-class play tournament. Our entry was the comedy, 'A Weakness for Nurses.' Paul Richey was president that year, Margaret Hughes, vice-president, and Homer White, secretary-treasurer. Paul Richey was again elected president for our Junior year, while Dor- othy Schold was vice-president, Doris Edwards, secretaryg and Frank Zeien, treasurer. The Antioch Country Fair afforded a means of money making during our first three years. The first year the sale of trinkets and novelties filled our treasury. Our next attempt was with candy, crackerjack, and pop. le decided to do something bigger at our Junior enterpriseg so we sold candy and had a dance in the commercial room. In November our class presented 'Regatta,' a three act comedy about boats and airplanes. Special sound effects were necessary. Kenneth Morten- sen built a very professional wind-machine, which was willed to all classes following. The airplane effects were so realistic that the audience believ- ed a real smash-up had occurred. The biggest problem was making Frank Zeien and Marvin Fennema look like Stephen Worthington, a wealthy business man, Six of our members, Warren Miller, Albert Vykruta, Paul Richey, Franklin Crandall, Homer White, and Robert Brogan, made the basketball squads of '34- '35, and formed the nucleus, about which the teams were built the following season. Since we felt our ability to dance was quite inadequate for participa- tion in such an affair as the Junior Prom, we held a series of dances throughout the year. The boys found orchestras for each party. Sometimes ten cents was collected for refreshments, but more often we devoted ourselves to the express purpose of learning to dance. Socially, our eyes were on the date for the Prom, the big moment of the year, and in order to prepare for it, we had two class dances. The banquet and Prom was held May ll, in a beautiful Japanese garden in cherry-blossom time. So thoroughly satisfying was the Prom, that we held only one more gathering that season, a picnic at Paddock's Lake. Doris Edwards was elected president for our senior yearg Bruce Dalgaard, vice-president, Dorothy Schold, secretaryg and Marvin Fennema, treasurer. In October we entertained the Juniors at a Halloween party and dance, where we had corn-shocks, brooms, a treasure hunt, and cider and doughnuts to saturar tion. During the year eight of our members, served on the student Council, a new organization, that has accomplished much in enlarging and unifying the various phases of student activity. Warren Miller held the important post of president, and the other senior members were: Albert Vykruta, Raymond Hills, Lillian Musch, Evelyn Overton, Dorothy Schcld, Doris Edwards, and Marvin Fennema. 16

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ALBERT VYKRUTA 'Come hither oome hither, come, hither. LORRAINE WHITE 'A waking eye, a pry- ing mind, a heart that at1re.' FRANK ZEIEN 'Don't look so mourn- fully at the pastg 1t's gone for good.' ROBERT BISHOP Kno picturel 15

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