Gorham High School - Gorannum Yearbook (Gorham, IL)

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SENIOR HISTORY On a bright sun-shiny day in September 1942 if you would have been wandering around near the school you could have seen a gang of green freshies entering the front door of C1.C.H.S. to start their high school career. We had sixty-two members that year. Mr. Gibbons was our sponsor and with his help we elected the following officers: President, Margaret Korandog Vice-President, Marian Korandog Secretary-Treasurer, Arlene Dietrich. The following year in September we stood back and laughed at the new freshies, wondering if we ever acted like that. We had forty-one members that year, Twenty-one of our classmates were lost somewhere by the way side. With Mr. Dunn as our sponsor we elected the following: President, Wilbur Clendening Vice'President, jerry Perkins, Secretary-Treasurer, P. D. Baggett, Our junior year we had only thirty-five members left. I guess the other six were too smart for us. We enjoyed a wonderful banquet this year at Giant City Lodge 'flat tires and all. Mrs. Jacobs was our sponsor and with the following officers we put in a fairly good term of school. President, Wilbur Clendening Vice' President, P. D. Baggettg Secretary'Treausrer, Marian Korando. , In the 1945-46 term you can't classify us as 'kids anymore. No sir-ree! We're the dignified Seniors this year, Our first commotion this year was suppos- edly a Senior dance. All of the seniors didn't show up but we that did surely had our fill of hot-dogs and soda pop. We got our class rings about the middle of Jan- uary. Wesve had our pictures taken for the annual and I'm telling you these tea- chers didn't know they had such a good looking Senior Class! Talk about brilliant-- boy, here's the class that is! Why, we never have to take home a book! fWe think that if the Freshmen, Sophomores, and juniors take their books home that ought to be enough.l O111' Senior play went off with a bang. Oh yea---do you recall when all those mumps were going around? Well, only about half the absences were Seniors so we think we're pretty strongg Miss Henson's American History class proves that. Miss Slechticky is our sponsor and also the English Literature tea- cher. You'd think with her being our sponsor she wouldn't expect us to do much studying! Well she never does. She just says, Now we have only one chapter tomorrow and youvd better study. If you think we don't you ought to look in her grade book: Ibet we've all got an average of 5 point which is an MAH. By Hall I mean that's all thirty-two of us put together. Wegre looking forward to a big banquet again this year. Our officers are: President, Wilbur Clendening Vice- President, Charles Asburyg Secretary-Treasurer, Laura Jarrett: Sponsor, Miss Mary Slechticky. Now since you know everything we've done in the past four years I'd like to thank all the teachers and everyone else that's made it possible for us to get this education. We'll see how many of us can use if when school is out. ----Ruth Kenon

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Time--Thirty years later Place--Ocean Liner Characters--Ralph Hollman az Benny Easterly Ralph Hollman, of all people, where in the World have you been? HWhy, Benny, I haven't seen you in years, which makes meeting you a very pleasant surprise. I have been in China Working as a doctor for the past twenty-five years and have lost all connections with the past, Please join me and bring me up to date on things, uSuch as ? , Oh-Tell me all about our old school chums, where they are, and what they are doing.n uBrother, that is a big order but I will try. Shall we begin with Donald Schilling and his wife, Ruth Kenon? Don is an engineer of some kind and hails from all over., He and Ruth are in Washington D. C. at the present. Let's see--There is Wilbur Clendenin who is now the president of the Lockheed Plane Corp. in St. Louis. Two of our old classmates, Laura Jarrett and Paul David Baggett, made a striking success in the theatrical world. P. D. is known for his ability to Woo the fairer sex while Laura is noted for her great dramatic acting. HWhat ever became of the two Charles's ? Asbury and Pickering ? Pickering is roadmaster on the Missouri Pacific and lives there in Gorham while Asbury made good in baseball. He pitched for the Browns until he became too aged and is now managing the Browns. He and Helen Needham married soon after we all bid the old school adieu. Harold Choate bought a farm and is busily rearing, not babies, but colts, at an enormous profit while his old pal, Alfred Moureau, crashed Wall Street and is piling up the moola. V Laverna Arbieter is personal secretary to the First Lady at Washington D, C Where are the Korando Twins ?g' They are both in Gorham occupying the positions of old maid school teachers Chifford Korando and Arthur Frazer shot to the top financially by discovering oil in the near vicinity of Gorham. Clifford Korando married Mary Kunce but Arthur is an old bachelor. Maxine Guetersloh was formerly in the medical field as a nurse but is a house wife now.