Taylorville High School - Drift Yearbook (Taylorville, IL)

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1935 THE DRIFT relationship with the Chicago Tribune have become school traditions during the past twelve years to all his American history and civics students. To do him justice it must be mentioned that he does not get all his information from the Tribune. Because of his honesty and knowledge of politics we heartily in- dorse him for any public office for which he may choose to run. Mr. 0liver's home is in Rockford, and he is one of the two single men on the faculty. Mr. Ferrell E. Bryant was born at Hindsboro and attended the high school at Shelbyville. He received his higher education at Illinois Wesleyan Univer- sity, where he got his A. B., and the University of Chicago, taking one summer of graduate work. For eight years he has struggled manfully to inject both ancient and modern history into the systems of T. T. H. S. history students. He is interested in scouting, Woodwork, and music, being active in church music. Among his past vocations are clerking in a shoe store and painting. But what, oh, what did he paint ?-barns, portraits, or the kitchen table? FOREIGN LANGUAGE Miss Sarah Dale of Decatur, our instructor of French, was born and went to school in Decatur. She attended James Millikin University and the Uni- versities of Illinois and Wisconsin, receiving her A. B. and M. A. degrees. She has taken one year and two summers of graduate work. Miss Dale has always been a teacher, starting with three years as a student assistant at Millikin. She taught two years at Decatur High School and is finishing her seventeenth year at Taylorville High School. Miss Dale considers reading her favorite pastime. Miss Christine Esslinger is one of our four alumni talumnae-to be exact- for a Latin teacher! who have qualified to remain at T. T. H. S. as instructors. She was born at Rushville and received her B. A. from Knox College. Miss Esslinger also attended the University of Illinois and Columbia University and has had three summers of graduate work. Her entire teaching experience in Latin is the fifteen years here. Miss Esslinger's hobby is working wonders with needle and thread. PHYSICAL EDUCATION Our coach for the last four years, Harold E. Johnson, was born in Linton, Indiana. He studied at the high schools of Linton and Detroit, Michigan. He attended Wabash College and the biological school of Indiana University, re- ceiving the A. B. degree. While in college Coach .lohnson was an outstanding student and athlete. He came within a fraction of a point of winning the Cecil Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, one of the highest scholastic honors possible. As an athlete he played so hard in his last basketball game that his leg was broken. During the World War Coach Johnson was in the Marines. He had seven years of experience in his present vocation at Linton, Indiana. and Sidell and Arcola, Illinois. Coach Johnson was once employed as an accountant. Sports are his hobby. Miss Alice F. Baker, Dean and Athletic Director of Girls, attended the schools of Reynolds, her present home, and Bock Island, Illinois. Hampton is the city of her birth. Miss Baker was given her B. S. from MacMurray Col- lege, also attending the University of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois State Normal School. During her eight years at T. T. H. S. she has made the girls' athletic training an important part of their school life. Miss Baker is an expert in what she teaches, being especially a good basketball player. Her hobbies vary with the seasons. T uv-n ty-F re

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THE DRIFT 1935 Mr. Max E. Thompson was born at Bardolph, Illinois, and attended the high school at Macomb, where he graduated from Western Illinois State Teachers College in 1931 as a B. Ed. It is said that Mr. Thompson was so busy making an excellent scholastic record, editing the college annual, and serving as president of four organizations that he weighed only one hundred twenty-five pounds upon graduating. Mr. Thompson is an outstanding vocalist, having sung for three years in his college glee club and being active in local church music in addition to leading our glee club. Music is his avocation, chemistry his vocation. We are fortunate in having had Mr. Thompson at T. T. H. S. for the last-four years, and he must like Taylorville. Didn't he find a wife here? MATHEMATICS I Miss Margery B. Terriere was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she attended high school. She studied at the Universities of Minnesota and Wiscon- sin and at Chicago and Columbia Universities. She received the A. B. degree and has taken graduate work for two summers. Before coming to Taylorville Miss Terriere taught two years at Kasota, Minnesota. She has been here twenty- two years as an instructor of the various kinds of algebra and geometry. She is in charge of many activities of the Senior Class. Miss Terriereis hobby is playing bridge, and you can be sure that she does not trump her partneris aces. She also likes to travel, having been to Alaska and many parts of the United States. Miss Terriere makes her home in Taylorville. Mr. Ralph E. Thornton, our many sided mathematics instructor, was born at Chesterville, Illinois, and attended the Arcola High School. He became a Rector scholar at DePauw University, receiving the A. B. degree. At first he wanted to become a physician but later changed his course. Mr. Thornton had one summer of graduate work at the University of Illinois. He has taught mathematics at T. T. H. S. for eight years. A few of his hobbies show his versa- tility. They include books, boys and girls, philosophy. geometry forms in nature and industry, and museums lwhile in school he helped unwrap mum- miesb. He manages our senior play and other activities with Miss Terriere. In the past Mr. Thornton has been engaged in farming, photography, timekeep- ing for a construction company, and as a machinist. Mr. Arlie L. U'Brian, our teacher for six years, was originally a Hoosier, since he was born in Daviess County, Indiana. and attended the high school at Epsom. He received his A. B. degree from Indiana State Teachers, College of Terre Haute. Before coming to T. T. H. S. he taught six years in Indiana elementary schools and eight years in high schools: one at Strasburg, four in Stcwardson, and three in Shelbyville. Mr. U'Brian was at one time a rural mail carrier. He is interested in basketball, being an official of no little renown in this sport. HISTORY Mr. Russell W. Uliver spent his early life at Stockton, Illinois. where he went to school. He then lived for a time on a homestead in Wvoiilitig. enjoy- ing the adventures of the old, wild West. Mr. Oliver worked his way through the Universities of Chicago and Virginia, receiving his Ph. B. from Chicago. During the World War Mr. Oliver made a number of trans-Atlantic cruises while in the United States Navy. There is a rumor about school to the effect that he was the lightweight boxing champion of the Navy. He now considers golf his favorite hobby. Mr. 0liver's nominatives of address and continued Twenly-four

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THE DRI HAROLD CARD, Ph. C. Manual Training MRS. AILEEN A. CLAWSON, A. B. English A. D. CLAUSEN. B. S. Agriculture E. K. ASBURY, B. S. Head of Music Department SARAH DALE, A. B., M. A. French ALICE BAKER, B. S. Dvan of Girls Girls' Physical Education MRS. ROGER DeHART, B. S. English FERRELL E. BRYANT, A. B. History J ,ff ' -.J A. DORRIS, B. 5.35 V' X Commerce iffy , ly ill vo Mi 1 19, Q . s J 1 l I ly if-pl J ' X N Wg A fu , , ', 1. A. M ,W lf' ff'-, T R as .J i. ny