Clay City High School - Claytonian Yearbook (Clay City, IL)

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CALENDAR 8? (Continued) FEBRUARY: j Short month. Lots of things to do and we’re off to a flying start with a German Club dance. g Home Ec. and F. F. A. held respective sessions today. 12—Juniors sponsored a Valentine’s Dance tonight. No school today because of Lincoln’s birthday. 19 Flora came over and don’t believe what they say. 27-28-Mar. 1—Regional Tournament. MARCH: 5 Spanish Club party. How would you like to have that food every day? 12—Seniors came up with a party. Went down to Mexico for a bowl of chili con came and came back here to dance the soles off our shoes. 16 Home Ec. Girls gave a party in the form of a scavenger hunt for the F. F. A. boys. 20 Freshmen got together awhile back and planned a party. Pretty good party, no? 22—Party after party, and are they fun! The Band sponsored it tonight. 29 Danger FIRE; Notice: Extinguished by F. F. A. and its helpful, simple methods of Fire Prevention. APRIL: 2—Rotary met in the gym and how they ate! Ask any one of the girls who served as waitresses. 4 Hubba! Hubba! Army films were shown by a Lieutenant and a Sergeant. Did any of the girls look at the film? Senior Sponsors and Annual Staff had a rendezvous with Mr. Spieth. 5—German dinner. Sauer Kraut???? 12—WDZ gave an amateur contest. Did you realize how well some of the C. C. C. H. S.’s gang could do? 15—Women’s Christian Temperance Union movie was shown in gym. 19—Good Friday—Brush up for Easter. 24—Boy Scouts met here. MAY: 2— Junior-Senior Banquet. How do you like “horsebait ? Was the floor slick as usual? 3— How long can they tolerate us here at school?? 24—Last get together of the classes. “Bye” say the Seniors. They sound very unhappy to be leaving. 26— Baccalaureate. 27— Underclassmen enjoy their exams. They also have them on the 28. The Seniors had theirs beforehand. Ah! me, has it been worth it? I guess so. 30—Commencement. Whew! Thought they vreren’t going to let me have that tain piece of paper for a minute. Nearly as embarrassing as when Santa Clau. asks if you’ve been good all year.

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CALENDAR H SEPTEMBER: 3—Labor Day, then to school. 12—Sandoval challenges Clay City in a game of soft ball. OCTOBER: 10— Senior party at camp. The fun is starting already. 11— 12—Institute. Teachers come in handy after all. 19—F. F. A. held a hayride in honor of the F. H. A. — Future Homemakers of America. Better known as Home Ec. girls. 24— A little diversion of routine; the Juniors held a party. 25— Sophomores are not to be left behind and come up with a party. NOVEMBER: 2—F. F. A. initiation. “Greenhands” were in evidence today as new members were welcomed into the F. F. A. organization. 8—Dizziest Dizzy Derby with the Senior candidates elected King and Queen of the carnival. 12— All not in favor of attending school on Armistice Day, met in gym and staged a strike. What fun we had today (not at school). 12— (p. m.) Board of Education holds a meeting to decide terms of dealing with “strikers.” 13— A good start into the basketball season. We dealt with Sandoval. Most of the Pep Club turned out, led by those super cheerleaders, Patty Miller, Elinor Heninger, and Merle Poland. 16— Cisne came up tonight and we had a little test of skill out on the basketball court. 19— Home Ec. Party for the newly initiated poor woeful little girls. 22— Thanksgiving. Look at that turkey shrink under the faculty’s wolfish eye. 23— My how they do eat on Thanksgiving! DECEMBER: 5—Juniors held a class party. Two down and one to go. 7—Commerce meeting. Ask Simmons if any of those commerce people will ever hold down a commercial job. 12—Coach McDonald and the boys turned up in room 10 with hearty appetites and who but the Home Ec. Ill class was there to feed them. 18—Met that rival Flora again. Just wait until we are a little stronger. We’ll make them eat those words! 20— Band Concert—Everything went off in tune. 21— Vacation starts. Exchange of presents after drawing names. Ha! One time I found out what Santa had for me before Christmas. JANUARY: 2—Returned sorrowfully to school, but, “buzz, buzz’’ what didn’t you get for Christmas! 14— Warning: Semesters ahead! 17— Semester’s have arrived. 18— They’re here to stay. We’re so bright the teachers couldn’t find out what we didn’t know in one day, so they took two days for it. 25—M. T. C. Luck wasn’t with us this year. 31—Faculty meeting—those teachers can stand it only so long before they have to have a gossip session.

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BRIGHT ANSWERS •W Miss Simmons—“Marilyn, what is a lo »?” Marilyn Cockerel—“When a house burns down.” Don Taylor—“Miss Harris, does this seventy-seven mean I have seventy-seven wrong?” Miss Harris—“Don, we only had seventy questions.” Mr. Nash—“Bobby, what is a consumer?” No answer from Bobby. Mr. Nash—“For example, you are a consumer. Now what are you?” Bob Billingsley—“A person.” Miss Simmons—“Frankie, what is a bond?” Frankie Mayden—“A bond is when a person is in jail and you get him out.” Miss Harris—“Name some canine animals.” Russell Fields—“A fox.” Miss Harris—“Wolf.” Miss Harris—“What do you think about this skipping school?” Mr. McDonald—“I think it is wonderful—.” Clara Rose—“This typewriter just won’t work.” Miss Simmons—“Oh! Yes it will, you don’t know how to work it.” Miss Wiegman—“You People better get busy. Jim Nail—“Here he is.” Miss Harris—“Too bad we don’t have a rocking chair for John in our English class.” John Schnarr—“Aw, that’s all right.” Mr. Nash—“What is influence?” June Smith—“Something you think you have until you try to use it.” Miss Harris—“That’s the third time you’ve looked at Jim’s paper.” Don Miller—“Yes, Ma’am, he doesn’t write very plain.” Merle Poland—“Where did you get that black eye?” Bill Pierce—“I told the conductor I was traveling on my face and he punched the ticket. Mr. McDonald—“Tell me five ways of choosing the atomic weights from the combining weights.” Jim Nail—“I only know four.” Mr. McDonald—“Which one don’t you know?” Dean Frank—“Do short skirts make women look shorter?” Norman Moseley—“No, but they make men look longer.” Carroll Wayne Lewis—“Which would you choose if you could—wealth, beauty, or intelligence? Norma Gene Hall—“Not any, I want you.”