Effingham High School - Signet Yearbook (Effingham, IL)

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FUTURE TEACHERS OF AMERICA l will try to keep my body well and strong. I will study daily to keep my mind active and alert. I will seek to know the right and to live by it, I will cultivate in myself goodwill, friendliness, poise, upright bearing, and careful speech. I will learn the art of helping others by doing helpful things daily in school and home. I will fill my mind with worthy thoughts by observing the beautiful world around me, by reading the best books, and by association with the best companions, l will make my influence count on the side of right, avoiding habits that weaken and destroy. This is the pledge of the Future Teachers of America, Every member has taken this pledge and strives to uphold it to the best of his ability, That is why F,T,A, is one of the best clubs at EHS, During the school year, many activities are undertaken. Speakers come from different places, all, of course, interested in teaching. A day is set aside when members go to the grade school for a day of being teacher, There are the kindergarten girls who are F.T,A, members. There is always the beauti- ful initiation service which is held soon after the beginning of school. Out of this club will come the backbone of America's public school system - men and women all devoted Connie Bosley, Sharon Scherer, Elna Jackson, Judy Cutts, and Betty Evans work with kindergarten teachers, Mrs, McGowan and Mrs. Hardiek. Teaching is the most popular professional career for women and there are 835, O00 of them in the United States school system, The well known writer, Jesse Stuart, has said, A good teacher is the scarcest commodity in America today. to teaching the children of America. After these days have departed, years later these members will look back at their storehouse of memories and realize that, as a successful teacher, they have found their treasure. F,T,A, officers are: Edith Matthews, Presidentg LoElla Lankford, Vice Presidentg Ted Gravenhorst, Secretary, Sharon Barbee, Treasurer. Mr. Bachman is the F,T,A, Advisor. Front row: Mr, Bachman, Lo Ella Lankford, Edith Matthews, Sharon Barbee, Second row: Elna Jackson, Kay King, Connie Bosley, Emma Lou Edwards, Judy Lewis, Marilyn Strobel, Kathleen Zimmermann, Sharon Croft, Sandra Peters, Pat Lankford, Third row: Sharon Scherer, Kay Hankins, Barbara Cameron, Judy Cutts, Jane Brissenden, Donna Stanton, Susan Jansen, Hope Hansen, Carolyn Fisher, Phyllis Fortner, Carlene Smith. Fourth row: Don Thomas, Chuck Keller, Bill McCarty, Frank Davis, David Steffen, Richard Wooley, Chuck Ealy, John Austin, Paul Tolch, Charles Stevens, David Wernsing, Tony Manuel, Ronald Ziegler, Ronald Worstell, Larry Pagel. i ,

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if-ts Y, ' ,Ri Mrs, Free, home economics teacher and F, H,A, advisor, supervises Jane Dolbow and Edith Matthews in the hanging of drapes in the home economics department, FUTURE HOMEMAKERS OF AMERICA Future Homemakers of America is a national organization of the girls who have taken home economics during their high school years. The girls learn how to co-operate with one another and with the public, The activities of the F,H,A, are centered around the home, The high school girls of today are the homemakers of tomorrow, They face the future with warm courage and high hope, F,H,A, teaches the girls to do just that, Mrs, O, H. Free is the F,H,A, advisor, Officers are: Glenda Broom, Presidentg Connie Bosley, Vice President, Jane Becker, Secre- tary-Treasurerg Doris James, Parliamentariang Patty Lidy, Historian, Patty Weber and Cheryl Ragel, Recreation, Front row: Mrs, Free, Advisor, Connie Bosley, Vice President, Glenda Broom, President, Jane Becker, Secretary- Treasurer. Second row: Janice Pearson, Emma Robertson, Doris James, Patty Lidy, Sharon Scherer, Marcia Lohr- mann. Darlene Hetzel, Laura Belle Sapp, Patty Weber, Marilyn Soltwedel, Pat Lankford, Carol Crane, Marilyn White, Donna Marxmann, Third row: Joan Smith, Martha Bailey, Colleen Loy, Linda Ashworth, Cheryl Ragel, Edith Matthews, Jo Ann Medlin, Ada Marie Verdeyen, Wanda Gillmore, Loretta Prather, Judy Lewis, Lucille Boone, Louise Baker, Elizabeth Allen. Fourth row: Katheryn Loy, Wilmeta Loy, Judy Landers, Janet Wagner, Maxine Phillips, Willa Levitt, Betty Evans, Ruby Larimer, Jeanne Senior, Barbara Koester, Alice Pals, Beulah Morrison, Judy Broom, Mary Cox, Linda Burnett, Linda Bergfeld,