Adair Community High School - Reedor Yearbook (Adair, IL)

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Wayne Pugh leaves his nerve in asking the girls for dates without means of transportation to Harold Rutledge. To James Ackman, John Berglund wills his popularity with the fair sex. The senior hoys will their confidence ef winning the basketball trophy and of having their pictures taken with it before the last game, to the freshmen boys and their power to run their class to the junior boys. To Miss Wyles we will our best wishes and hope she may have the honor of being sponsor in the near future to a class as easily managed. To Hiss McCutchan, we leave all our old themes as good examples for future classes. To Mr. Landis, Charles and Lee leave their ability to work difficult physics problems. Too Miss Hankins, we bequeath our ability in drawing blue prints so that she may finish her Martin house. To Mr. Sullivan, we will all our foot prints made so carefully on the gym and other places of restriction. Eldon Walters James Solomon Drawn up by: Dale Hamm, John Berglund, Charles Conner, and Orion Shinberger, CLASS OF «37 Executors (Class of '38) Seal Witnesses Mack Leighty Prof. Walker Robert Landis

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The Class of 1937 of the Adair Community High School having come to our last hours in our right mind, and in peace with all the world, do on this twelfth day of May 1937, hereby give and devise all our worldly goods and our possessions to the following beneficiaries, to-wit: To Dorothea Allen, Helen Camp wills her athletic fig- ure. To the Junior Class the ability to win the honor tro- phy because we believe they need it. To the Sophomores, Dale Hamm wishes to leave the sen- ior unerring good sense and remarkable instinct in se- lecting a class president, choosing him not for beauty, wealth, or knowledge alone but for a wonderful combination of all three qualifications. To Jean Nelson and Gilbert Welch, Dale wills his school spirit and his untiring faithfulness in yelling for the home team. To Duane Smith, Orion Shinberger bequeaths his inter- est in, and his ability to play, basketball, Lois Lee Wherley leaves to Eugene Miller her studi- ousness, To Jean Nelson. Ethel Baldner bequeaths her ability to attract the attention of the boys Lois and Ethel leave their ability and desire to keep their dates a secret to Frances Danner and Dorothy Spencer, Lee Stockham and Helen Dean bequeath their everyday romantic conversation to Leland Graham and Doris Vance, Lee wills his ability to get high grades with little ef- fort to Gilbert Fugh. Helen leaves her ability to play basketball and her popularity to Agnes Lovell, Lysle Moore wills high ambitions to Gilbert Welch, Pius Wherley wills his unending love for Dorothy Seymour to Dale Jones, r

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Aophecy The Senior Class Prophecy was in the form of a reunion of the class held in 1952 at the Adair Tea Room, All members of the class arrived to enjoy meet- ing old classmates, 1, Dale Hamm, a United States senator from 111, has just returned from Washington D. C, where he has been attending Congress, 2, Ethel Baldner, an opera singer on Broadway, en- joys her work immensely, 3, Lois Lee Wherley holds a position as-secretary for the Walter's Seed Co, Inc. in Quincy, Illinois. 4, Lysle Moore has just recently been transferred to St, Louis where he is a telegraph operator. 5, Wayne Pugh, a noted contractor, is building a large hotel in Adair, 6. Charles Connor, a leading lawyer, is now located in New York City. 7. Pius Wherley, who is Coach of Canton High School Basketball team, won the State Championship vA th his team this year. 8. Orion Shinbergor, Adair's leading citizen, is now mayor of the town. 9. Helen Camp (Bayless) now edits the Adair Week- ly Beacon. 10. Lee Stockham has become an undertaker in Chi- eago, Illinois. 11. Helen Dean-is now the superintendent of a hos- pital in Canton, Illinois. 12. John Berglund, assistant state veterinarian, lives in Glasford, Illinois,