Taft High School - Eagle Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Mary Schwartz Alan Taenzer Richard Tesch Gerald Valesek Gwendolyn Weber Jean Williams William Wolz Anita Zabel SENIOR HISTORY ln January, 1951, our class entered Taft High School, numbering 143. On January 27, 1955, 130 of us will graduate. Our first semester was most confusing, but summer came and went, and we were finally freshmen. Will we ever forget the football game that fall when Lane's Indians beat the Eagles 52 to 7? Oh yes, there was the Clean-up the l.unchroom Campaign, and we certainly showed we were on the ball when we won the paper drive that year. Came '52, and two of our girls showed their initiative by restarting the long dormant Spanish club. We first showed Taft our wealth of talent at the Spring Concert when Virginia Petersen and Jayne Riley danced, and we made the school sit up and take notice when Joan Gaertner, Connie Popovich, Jackie Richter, and Carol Staiger made the cheerleading squad. Weren't we proud in 1953 when Pris Fisher became an officer of Junior Girls and Mary Jo Osborn was chosen our representative in the Baseball Queen's Court? And what about the fine iob Dick Olson did for our football team, and Bill O'Brien's fine playing on the basketball team? We really beamed all over when Ginny Peterson won a S200 bond for her slogan in the safety drive. January '54, and we were seniors, upper classmen. Mary Ann Albrecht won a poster contest, and we popped our buttons again when Carol Kurfess was in the Baseball Queen's court. And weren't we proud when Donald Mellema, Carole Oliver, Dick Olson, Carol Staiger, and Gwen Weber made the National Honor Society in their 4B semester? 4A's at last, was our cry in September, but the ioy bells ceased to ring when we found we had class dues to pay. We were all happy to see the school spirit at our pep rally, and to see our new principal Miss Gillies taking such an interest in our school's activities. We had such a lovely time at our luncheon, and simply tops would describe our class party. Next, the Hoefer Memorial program and the Christmas Concert were impressive. Carole Oliver and Connie Popovich represented us as officers in the Student Council. Bill Moody was elected as our class president and Donald Mellema was declared valedictorian. We looked forward to the installation of 19 of our members in the National Honor.Society, the Key Ceremony, held on January 14, and the wonderful prom which was held on January 7. But with graduation night comes the end of our four wonderful years at Taft, four years we will never forget. Judith Wilkinson Lilli Schange lCamera Shyj

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Wayne Rees Jacqueline Richter Mavin Ricklefs Jayne Riley Donald Rowe Auther Rush Robert Ryan Robert Schafter John Scherly Ronald Schoenberg David Schultz Henry Schumacher Dolores Semchuk Sandra Shattuck Joyce Shellhamer William Simonson Joyce Smuskiewicz Dorothy Stadel Carol Staiger Robert Stark Gordon Stoppel Richard Stueckemann Lois Sullivan Alan Swanson

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JUNE 1955 CLASS OFFICERS President-Allcun Fisher Vuce President-Don Mozur Secretory-Pot Long Treasurer-Pct Dunn