Taylorville High School - Drift Yearbook (Taylorville, IL)

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THE DRIFT ZETHEL EATON, B. S. Commerce MARY L. HOLDEREAD, A. B. English. CHRISTINE ESSLINGER, B. A. Latin IH. E. JOHNSON, A. B. ' Coach, Boys' Physical Edu- cation, Bookkeeping CHESLEIGH GARARD. A. B. .f....il5Tm QL.. Science J. . , Science , MRS. EVA K. GEARHART Zjcvrvtafalx, Iwlvi ll ara IC. A. L. O'BRlAN, A. B. Q . Mathematics ' Llhfarldll l.. , Aw u.i.x f' K' MRS. GRACE HILL Z ' Z f . .. lvcdl '-nn '-+1

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. X ' .xl IJ A A It THE DRIFT 1935 VOCATIONAL SCIENCE Mr. A. D. Clausen was born at Cortland, Illinois, going to the DeKalb High School. He holds the B. S. degree from the University of Illinois and also at- tended the University of Yvisconsin. While at the U. of I. Mr. Clausen became a Major in B. 0. T. C. He is a member of the Reserve Officers Association. For ten years Mr. Clausen has been the faculty manager of The Drift. To re- ward his services the annual was dedicated to I1in1 last year. Early in the spring Mr. Clausen feels the urge to make garden. He is deeply interested in the numer- ous angles of his work in agriculture. Mr. Harold L. Card was brought up in Valparaiso, Indiana. He received his Ph. C. from Valparaiso University, also attending Northern Military Acad- emy and Bradley Institute. Mr. Card taught for one year at Glenwood, Illi- nois, before coming to Taylorville High School. He has been here fifteen years. M1'. Card is active in American Legion affairs, being past local commander. His hobby is boys and boys' work, and his home is in Taylorville. Mr. Card's vocational subject as a teacher is manual training. Miss Ellen Orr was born at Maysvillc, Oklahoma, attending the Griggsville Community High School in Illinois. She holds the B. S. from MacMurray Col- lege and lives in Griggsville during the summer. Besides teaching domestic science Miss Orr coaches our junior play and has much to do with the Junior- Senior Prom. Her favorite hobby is handiwork of various kinds. Miss Orr is quite popular among the teachers, as she occasionally serves them good things to eat after school. She came to T. T. H. S. with the class of '35. STUDENTS T. T. H. S. has a total enrollment of 734 students-the Freshmen having the largest class, numbering 215 strong. The Sophomores, second in line with 180, are not far ahead of the Juniors, who have 175. There will be 134 Seniors graduated the latter part of May. In addition to the regular student body, there are 30 people taking post graduate work. The requirements for graduation are now two majors and two minors. A major consists of three years of the same subject, while a minor consists of only two. English must be counted as one major. There are five courses offered-College Preparatory, Commercial, Home Economics, Manual Arts, and Agricultural. Very often one of the latter courses is mixed with the College Preparatory to enable the student to secure the proper college entrance credits but yet have the advantages of vocational work. T. T, H. S. has a very outstanding Music Department, featuring both instrumental and vocal music. . I11 1933-34 it cost the tax payers exactly 35101.57 per student for the operation of the High school. In 1921-22 the per capita cost was 25173. There has been a steady decrease since that time. T. T. H. S. ranks high among the high schools of its size in the state. Tw--nly-eight - Q , . ..-Iva - . .un

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THE DRIFT 1935 HISTORY OF YE CONQUERING HEROES Now when ye Lorde of ye Olde Highe Schoole, even ye Professyr Walters, bethought him of ye foe, Ignorance, which lurked red-eyed and fiery-tongued throughout ye surrounding country and which year after year came whiffing through ye halls of ye T. T. H. S., he gat him from his hed and sent forth a call, a plea for volunteers. Eftsoons a whole host was clean able to answer ye Lordeis summons-people from Seniorland, luniorland, Sophomore Island, and Freshie Prairies-yea, even from .lanitor Sea and Professional Mountains. Now it happened that all these peoples had met and struggled with ye dragon in previous years except the Freshies from Freshie Prairies. The afore- said Freshies were quite grasslike-i. e., vivid green-and so young and tender that the dragon devoured many of them with great relish ere they were aware of his fiendish appetite. But though they be young and green the Freshies were a noble band and mighty and right valiantly did they attack this death-dealing dragon. Sometimes by skillful strategy and military tactics fled by Pres. Wil- liam Salhaney, V. P. .loe Brasche, Sec. Albert Hendricks, Treas. Wilma Stevensl together with courage and bluff, they succeeded in wounding ye enemy hut never did they kill him. Always he came hack. Ere spring had lent her youthful smile to brighten ye Portals, ye enemy was sore exhausted-stille more sore exhausted were ye Freshies. So ye Pro- fessyrs gave each individual member of ye host long sheets of papyrus, each sentence thereon followed hy huge interrogation marks. Then ye Lorde called alle together and spake unto them thus: Right faithfully have ye fought. Go now and rest ye for a while. They alle retired with joyful hearts. Three months did they rest themselves before they returned to the battle field ready for ye fray. And behold! they found a great epidemic of sopho- moritis passing among them during which they suffered a great exaggeration of ideas concerning the vastness of their own powers and they found it exceed- ingly difficult to adjust the helmets to ye muchly increased heads. Great la- mentation was among all ye Profs and those who watched ye struggle, for while this fever raged ye fearful Fiend, Ignorance, still gorged on ye hloode of alle ye struggling people and his sway over ye land was strengthened, and verily was his prowess to he feared. Through the battle, however, ye peoples saw, spring- ing forth on ye olde gridiron, warriors of high degree-veritably, 'Snag', 'Elmerl and Gene. And when ye foe was resting yet awhile ,lack Stokes did entertain the Sewing Club to the enjoyment of all the ranks. Among those present were Tommy Hickman, Gordon Achenhach, Homer Allen, and Gail Mcward. There were also many other numbers on this Christmas program. Thenvye epidemic raged once again. Thirty T' ff SN