Clinton High School - Clintonian Yearbook (Clinton, IA)

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Class of 1945 We are not the first of the Class of 1945 to leave the halls of Clinton High. The first left in 1944 when Dick Anderson and Norbert Bossen enlisted, and already we miss Kenny Weaver, Jack Reed, Howard Wegener, Larry Petersen, Gil- bert Leslie, Charles Sheen, Dale Petersen, LeRoy Schoenig, Bob Behr, Bill Newkirk, Don Shelko, and Gene Llgarph. As a class we have many memories. We remember the Monday, four years ago, when we filed into the auditorium to hear President Roosevelt ask Congress to declare war against Japan. We remember a Monday this May when we took our places to celebrate VE Day. We remember war stamp drives and clothing-for-Russia drives, Red Cross drives, and collec- tions of comic books for Schick. We remember Mr. Findley who taught social studies and joined the navy in 1949. We remember air raid drills in the lower hall. We remember ten- cent hamburgers that used to be a nickel. We remember that home room of Mr. Herkelmann's with its wonderful war stamp record. We remember our senior class president who left in January for the navy. But, our memories go back to a time before there was a war-to the first time we got together as a class. lt was in 1938 when we first said hello as fifth graders from eight schools taking part in a music festival under the direction of Miss Alice McCarthy. That was also our first visit as a class to Clinton High. The next year we put on an operetta, The Prince of Pedlars, with Jackie Fitch and Gene Evers as stars. Other leads were Lou Williams, Pat DeMoss, Charles Sheen, and Dick Husmann. And then we went to junior high! Outstanding memories of those days are the good times we had in the social periods our home rooms presented, the class picnic we had at Eagle Point, the gym frolic, the Junior Chatter we edited, the time Jack Bishop ran his sewing machine so fast that it smoked, when the boys took cooking and sewing for three weeks while the girls took shop. We were proud of our basketball team, too. Yes, Jim and Gene Burlingame, Jack Clleed, Dun- more, and Jowettl, and Bill Jensen were athletes even then. There was war on the horizon in September 1941, but we didn't see it. l'm a little prairie flower was the song we sang all during our first week as freshmen. Lipsticked faces, rolled- up trousers, shoes hung around our necks-yes, our class came in the hard way. Electing Phil Kirkman, Bill Northcutt, Helen White, and Pat DeMoss to guide us, we started on our career. We helped ratify the present Student Government constitution with Jack Jowett, Ted Renkes, Lynn Shaff, and Carol Wagner as sena- tors. Homecoming brought one of our biggest thrills as we took part in the bonfire, snake dance, and parade. Helen White was freshman attendant to the Homecoming queen and later to the Gateway Classic queen. And then the war came! Undaunted, we sponsored a Bomb Shelter Dance setting a record as the first freshman class to sponsor a dance, and we really had a black out, too. Wake Island fell-then Bataan-and Corregidor. Our older brothers enlisted, we went out for sports, worried about an F in Latin, and tried not to think-too much. Our sophomore year seemed tamer in comparison. We missed cars in the Homecoming parade, the banquets served in the cafeteria for clubs, and the giant Christmas tree by the front door, but we bought war stamps with a will and sang Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. We took driving courses, learned about A cards and wondered why it had to happen to us. Still, we had fun. Hel White was again our football, Homecoming, and Gateway Classic attendant, while Pills Temple, Dick Husmann, Gene Burlingame, and Howard Wegener were class officers. As juniors, we presented Letters to Lucerne, a play about the effect of the war on a girls' boarding school in Switzerland. Kathryn Lesher, Jackie Fitch, Helen White, Elizabeth Marshall, Lorraine Volckmann, Carol Wagner, Dorothy Thorsen, Doris Cozzens, Lynn Shaff, and Gene Evers took part. Phil Kirkman and Bill Northcutt were again heads of the class, and we all worked like dogs and loved every minute of it on the Homecoming dance, the Junior Carnival, and the Prom. Janice Archibald, our Homecoming attendant, and Gene Burlingame were queen and king of the Carnival, while Norma Ketelsen, our Gateway Classic attendant, and Jim Burlingame ruled over the Prom. Two days after the Prom, the Yanks invaded France. We sat with our ears glued to the radio and then went to summer school, trying to finish before we were eighteen. Before it seemed possible, we were seniors, weighed down with responsibility. Although many already held jobs, more went to work, cutting down on extra-curricular activities. Cthers took tests for branches of the service and more pre- paratory courses. ln spite of war restrictions on travel and equipment, we had an undefeated and always-to-be-re- membered football season. Basketball and track won't be forgotten soon, either. Things like that game with Dubuque when Gene Burlingame tossed in the winning point at the last minute, homecoming with Betty Lou Williams as queen, Norma Ketelsen, senior attendant, and a crowd of 6000 watching us beat Davenport, the Gateway Classic with Betty Rosenberger as queen and Norma as attendant-these will always be in our hearts. We have seen many changes in Clinton High. We have seen the addition of new shop courses, higher math, home management, and first aid. We have seen classmates leave and return in uniform. We have seen the pledge of allegiance be- gin every assembly since December 1941. We have gone to high school during the greatest war our country has ever fought. For only three months, our first three, did we attend a peace-time school, and we graduate into a war-torn world which we must help rebuild. We take with us wonderful memories of friends we've made, good times we've had, and interesting things we've done. We take with us knowledge. We take with us a spirit of confidence that we can meet the requirements and changes that the world will demand as well as CHS has met the needs and changes brought by the world. Strive and you will achieve is our class motto, and that is what we have learned in Clinton High. Although we are leaving, our loyalty to you will never die, for you're our Alma Mater, Clinton High. 'Twenty-three

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Richard l-lusmann, highest ideals pat Stoil4, best dancer gqfiil Kearns, mOSt mUSiCdl V H Phil Kirkman, most lilcely to succeed, most capable J 'lIl'amF.NE'tl CUtt' Elost pl1QlOiemCa most dclwe Carol Wagner, most lilcely to succeed, most capable dc yn 'tc Rmgst p Otogemc' Gt cancer most active, highest ideals Betty Lou Williams, best personality H b H G . I Dorothy Morgan, most athletic 'amd e e OHS' most musmd QQ,-12 Evers, best actor John Dunmore, highest ideals ftie with Richard l-lus Elizabeth Marshall, best actress mannj Betty Rosenberger, best dancer Ctie with Jaclyn FitchD Eugene Burlingame, most athletic, best personality Twenty-two

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.. , --.in -, ,W .s st . ., t Q, A si l . ' N Juniors Kathryn Abshire, Audrey Adler, Roberta Amey, Deloris Anderson, Joan Anderson Roberta Armstrong, Newton Baird. Brenton Baugh, Joanne Bennett, Robert Bennett, Kathleen Bentson, Sharon Bertramsen Shirley Bier, Evelyn Biermann. Donald Booth, Joan Boyd, Frances Briggs, Evelyn Brodersen, Donald Bruhn, Jaclc Bruhn Alice Bucks. Betty Buelow, l.ois Builcema, Marilyn Burde, Dean Burridge, Jacqueline Callahan Mariellen Campbell, Jeanette Carlson. Gerald Cassidy, Robert Claus, Florence Clausen, Gene Cleveland, Patricia Coombs Ruth Dale, Herbert Dann. Not in picture: Harlan Bartels, Dorothy Blumer, Ann Boudreau, Donald Brondylce Robert Chenoweth. T niy-four