Metamora Township High School - Parrot Yearbook (Metamora, IL)

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PARROT STAFF f) l ti Seated, left to right — Burtron Schertz, Betty Gries, Janice Sullivan, Marvin Smith, Doris Elbert. Standing, left to right — Feme Garber, Kathryn Leatherman. THE PARROT This year The Parrot, our school newspaper, had as co editors Janice Sullivan and Betty Gries. Others on the staff were: Doris Elbert and Burtron Schertz, as- sociate editors; Kathryn Leatherman and Marvin Smith, business managers, and Feme Garber and Bernadette Giehl, exchange editors. Most of the members of the senior class are appointed to some .job on the staff. However, this year we were fortunate enough to have some juniors help us with the paper. James Zimmerman was a sports editor, Donald Halford and Marietta Schneider were associate editors and Ccnnie Stamper wrote feature articles. The co-editors want to thank these people for their cooperation and their willingness to work to make The Parrot a success. Published monthly, the printed paper consists of six pages and is made up of news around school. However, there are essays, poems, two editorials, letters to the editors, an athletic page and other feature articles. For the future it is planned that each class will have members represented on the newspaper staff. The Parrot was originally a senior publication, but under- classmen should gain experience so that when they become seniors they will be competent to fill major positions. The Parrot has an exchange list of forty schools, and quite a number of students and townspeople are subscribers. We have continued as a member of the Illinois State High School Press association. Robert Hires was the adviser for The Parrot. Fifty-Two

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UP IN THE AIR Seated, left to right — Norma Smith, Betty Gries, Nancy Smith, Standing, left to right— Marvin Elbert, Burtron Schertz, Janice Sullivan, Marietta Schneider, James Wiltz, Connie Stamper, James Zimmerman, Harold Neumann, Marvin Elbert. A capacity crowd was present at the high school gymnasium October 26 to enjoy the operetta, Up in the Air, a comedy by Geoffrey Morgan and Don C. Wilson. Mr. Stephenson was the director. George Burbank (Marvin Elbert) is a big businessman who tolerates no one but a young man of brawn and daring as a candidate for the hand of his daughter, Betty (Betty Gries). Betty is already wooed by Harold Post (Jim Zimmerman) much to Mr. Burbank ' s annoyance, because Harold is a young man of just the opposite type that Burbank admires. Burbank ' s friend, McCullom (Burtron Schertz), a movie magnate, proposes to stage a spectacular flying stunt by a young aviator, Joe Bennett (James Wiltz), who has applied for a job in the movies, and offers a prize to any amateur who will make a parachute jump. Jim Carter (Har- old Neumann), Harold Pest ' s busybody friend, seizes on this as the young man ' s opportunity to make good, and devises various alibis which will prevent his actually going up, while still gaining credit for bravery. One by one these alibis fail and Harold gets more and more deeply involved. Finally, he is forced to go through with it in spite of himself, and by a comic fluke manages to maintain his reputa- tion as a dare-devil, to gain the enthusiastic approval of Burbank and to win the girl of his choice. Other members of the cast included: Connie Stamper as Shirley Kingston, Nancy Smith as Annie McCullom, Norma Smith as Fannie McCullom, Marietta Schneider as Mrs. McCullom, Janice Sullivan as Mrs. Burbank and Marvin Smith as Juniper Johnson. The students in both girls ' glee club and boys ' glee club made up the chorus. The operetta was given in two acts. During the intermission there was a special dedication ceremony of our new stage curtains given to the school by our alumni classes of 1945, ' 46, ' 47 and ' 48. Fifty-One

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LIBRARIANS First row, left to right — Leroy Noel, Colette Bachman, Doris Elbert, Connie Stamper, Phyllis Schumacher, Janice Sullivan, Marietta Schneider, Donna Rose Wagner, Pat Grieser, Miss Helton, librarian. Seccnd row, left to right — Arthur Kiesewetter, Barbara Grebner, Murlene Gar- ber, LaVne Wolfe, June Bachman, Alice Wernsman, Barbara Koch, Pat Koch, Gene Kennedy, Back row, left to right— Donald Halford. Donald Kennel, Richard Mishler, Ray- mond Brodt, Eugene Schaefer, Harold Neumann, James Zimmerman, William Zim- merman, Alan Welte. LIBRARY The main library contains most of our books, but the reserve library i n the study hall contains newspapers, magazines and reference materials. This year the library added a new system of stacking magazines. The card file was completed. Eighty-three new books v ere purchased. On Honors day, awards were presented in recognition of students ' services to the library. Silver medals were given to Barbara Grebner, Donald Kennel, Pat Koch, Alan Welte, LaVerne Wolfe and Doris Elbert. Gold awards were presented to Colette Bachman, Phyllis Grebner, Donald Halford, Harold Neumann, Marietta Schneider, Phyllis Schumacher, Connie Stamper, James Zimmerman and Bruce Seeber. The gold award with the year guard for outstanding service was presented to Murlene Garber. In order to be eligible for any award a student must be of junior or senior standing and have at least one year of library work. Librarians are selected on the basis of scholastic eligibility, integrity, desire to work with books and to be of service to the school. Miss Helton is in charge of the library and has twenty-six student librarians. Fifty-Three