Rochelle Township High School - Tatler Yearbook (Rochelle, IL)

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l L 'T' ii l Sophomore class officers Carol Birkland Qsecretaryj, Edward Wright fpresidentj, Mary Hintzsche ftreas- urerj, and Jeanne Cham Qvice-presidentj, are preparing decorations for the Frosh-Soph Party. Edward Wright moved away early in the school year and Jeanne Charn became president. This is your sophomore year, Class of 1963! August 31, 1960, 162 students register and are now officially sophomores. 105 of these are boys and right away it looks like an interesting year. You enroll in typically sophomore subjects such as biology. Remember these words from that noted personi- fier of the anopheles mosquito, You don't know beans when the bag is open! ? With great courage and forti- tude, you tramp through thickets and across creeks, thistles in your socks, pollen in your nose, a butterfly net in one hand, Guide to the Ifzrerlr under your arm, and you in the midst of this misery and paraphernalia trying to catch insects. You survive dissecting of frogs and seven familiar words of Mr. Cooley, Take out a half sheet of paper. You slave through geometry. Strange, it seems as though in every class there is either the student who can't do problems the book's way but must devise his own method or the clever one who sets up beautiful proofs and verifies them by No particular reasonf' or It has to be! It's improbable that there will be a Latin Il class to rival the one you were part of. What other class has a Sherman Werdin who translates amicus bonus Qgood friendj as goody Buddy, quis agit? fWhat's going on?j as What's the gig ?', and the superlative of good as Like tremendousf' When asked to look up the meaning of the abbreviation S.P.Q.R. QSenate and the Roman Peoplej, students came with small profit, quick

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5 Marilyn Crocker shows Valerie McCoy what should be done 3 in planning for the future. 5' i vcr Q55 To A ,dsrsmw 5 1 3 uuuu t - Vp: I 2: X . D'PfMs on hm Kathy Dentler, Susan Olson, and Susan Harms ! I ur are standing in front of one of the many gpg? signs around school which are used to encour- , AND STAY 'iv if age school spirit, V OUT i C- S . .1 Donna Strawbridge and Wayne Gittleson are construct- Vickie Cardot awaits a lift pass from Carolyn ing sentences in Spanish in Mr. Polhill's eighth hour Brown as they work on speedball skills in Miss Spanish I class. Fowler's first hour P. E. class. Zip ?rc'shmcrL 5211001 Spirit Means Support Schopl and Calm, Llprk far Selma! and Team Glen Smith, Michael Babcock, and Darrell McKinney get in condition for track by running up gym stairs in Mr. Mully's ' seventh hour P. E. class. jim Woollacott is identifying rocks in Mr. Kyler's second hour physical science class by determining the specific gravity of the rocks. 3

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TOP ROW: David Wickness, David Snyder, Robert Watson, Phil Strang, Carl Yocum, Michael Tracy, Bill Stocking, Karen Skinner, Donald Werdin, james Watson, Linda Strawbridge, and Peggy Towns. SECOND ROW: Mr. Yenerich fadvisorj, Mary Terviel, Larry Swope, Elaine Zies, Pamela Wolfe, Gary Smith, Violet Tyler, Mary Voss, Edward Wright, Michael Stein, jerry Wrenn, and Mr. Nutt fadvisorj. BOTTOM ROW: Roberta Vaupel, Suzanne Tilton, Constance Weisshaar, Sandra Wilkinson, Arlene Woodrick, John Slothower, Corky Wetzel, Connie Stangely, Carl Simpson, and Ellen Tigan. ,flcczciclccic Kcquircmcnfs, Afhlcfics Uccupy Hlczss cf '63 return, Snyder, Paul, queer Roman, and Society for the Prevention of Quiet Russians. But you have a Latin teacher who is tops. She endears herself to you with things like You people are so noisy or jim, put that chair down. English is required and you find that an interest in a certain New York nine is cagey, but you learn too, that you are graded objectively, that you're wasting your polish on the teachers' apple. You are indoctrinated in typing, When you become secretary to the 'President . . You have enthusiastic participation in the athletic pro- grams, Class of '63, often being represented by more boys than any other class. Problems arise, however, for three Holcomb football players. Practice clothes have to be washed and the practical solution is a coin wash. .If an IBM machine is complicated, operating a washing machine is beyond human comprehension for a male. In the first place they need dimes. The dimes are procured and spent . . . on the soap three husky football players forgot . . . Ever notice how dirty some practice uniforms were? Larry Allison seems amused as he ex- amines the record album used in French I class to help students in the pro- nunciation of new French words. Where is Quemoy? asks jon Parks and Carl Yocum in world history as they watch Bonita Prewett locate it on the map. Sonia Benson offers them an article about the island. i I5