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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7 A uae-Nwr JUNIOR CLASS le, the was to learn inspiring at old timers. class of '37, started off with a flourish. Our first big task how to be high school students.It was terribly strange and awe first but we soon were more or less successfully acting like Class officers were then elected, Kenneth Brown, as president' Bertha Peterson, Vice-president, Clara Sherwood secretary'and Valiere will ton, treasurer. ' ' Initiation Day was just one long jitter for us as the Juniors tried hard to impress us with their comparative worth, All of us were required to wear green that day and to do the Juniors' bidding. Some of the whims we had to obey were surprising. An innovation introduced while we were Freshmen was a banquet given at the high school for our parents and teachers. A program of talks and songs by members of the class was olimaxed by a basketball game between two teams chosen from among the boys of the class. This was the first time during the year that we had a chance to learn what happens when one eats more than e- nough,but the second opportunity came when we hadapdcnic at Minto's woods. There the loads of sandwiches furnished by the girls and the dozens of hot dogs, buns, and marshmallows brought by the boys filled even the most ambi- tious eaters. During our first year our ways of making money were not only moderate- ly successful but extremely varied as well, ranging from the usual sale of candy to ice cream, flower bulbs, and buttermilk. The next year, 1934-'35, Roger Thill served as presidentg Valiere lil- ton, was Vice-presidentg Jayne Allner, secretary, and Donald Mlnto, treas- urer. The year also brought us three changes in advisers, lr. Cox being re- placed by Hr. Suter, the first semester, and by Mr. Spacie the second. Our major activity during the year was managing the cafeteria during the Antioch Country Fair. It was a great deal of work, as those who did the kitchen police duty will long remember, but it was well worth the ef- fort and the entire class cooperated to make the venture a success. Twelve boys and girls of the class, gay in Japanese robes and flowers, served at the Junior Prom, and did much to give the affair a captivating o- riental atmosphere. The last event of the year was another gastronomic, success, a picnic held at Paddook's Lake, Wisconsin, where everyone gorged themselves on hot dogs and sandwiches, and drank amazing quantities of pop. Bob Madsen and Otto Hanke fell in the lake and then managed to oapsize the boatload of boys that came to their rescue. Nc one seemed able to prove that the boat- load had been dunked purposely, and by the time that was argued out their pants were dry so it didn't matter anyway, Our Junior play was 'Reach for the Koon,' a comedy in a western dude ranch setting, so close to the mountains that you could walk to them be- fore breakfast 'and get back in time for oawfee and waaflss' as Pete Zeien so frequently and drawlingly announced. The play was hard work and seemed to have all the bad luck in the world during rehearsals but it played very smoothly to full houses both nights so everybody finished happy. The income from the play, augmented by the profit from candy sales throughout the year was used to change the auditorium into a Spanish patio with iron-railed balconies, roses a-blooming all round, and a softly col- ored fountain singing to itself in the moonlight. Potluck suppers and three hour work sessions after school made the roses bloom and steady work by the boys made the twisted iron railings, the whispering fountain, and the softly lighted nooks amongst the roses. 18 Na