Ashton High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Ashton, IL)

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4 T 5 I N ASI-I'IoN cQII,III,IurII'IY I UI IFN, . S' I 'TT m ,, rl-E f f- Y- ASHTON, ILLINOIS IirIj4sfII1 ' S- .fl III' III, S' lg Lg, Fiigfi LICVIOOL 1 the ' 4. '-ar . .'II JL-'nf i -L-v 'T'T'?'T,,j-.ff March 18, 1942 Dear Pete, 'We in the Ag. department thought you would be interested in know- ing what was happening in F.F.A. since you were a former member. The presiding officers this year are: President, Ralph Salzmang Vice Pres- ident, Russell Semmlerg Secretary, Loren Calhoung Treasurer, LaVerne Kersteng and Reporter, Paul Chadwick. On June twelfth the annual state meeting and judging contests were held at Champaign. Ashton's delegates to the meeting were Duane Henert and Russell Semmler. The three teams taken to the judging contest were: Grain, Dairy and Fat stock. The members of the Grain team were Donald Jacobs, Duane Henert and LeRoy Majors. The Dairy team placed favorably but were not in the first ten and therefore did not earn the right to participate in the finals. The Fat Stock team composed of Russell Sem ler, LaVerne Kersten and Ralph Salzman placed in the first ten and earned the right to compete in the finals in September. Also at this contest Russell earned a high honor by being the fifth place individual in the Fat Stock division. Another feature of the State meeting is the presenting of the State Farmer Degrees. These are awarded on the basis of at least an average of 8575 in scholarship, earning of a minimum of 3250 from pro-- jects and on social activities. Two of Ashton's boys, Ralph Salzman and Russell Semmler, were privileged with these awards. ' On July eighth our Ag. teacher Mr. Wayne A. Wise was unexpectedly called into military service as a First Leutenant in the 40th Coast Artillery Brigade at Fort Sheridan. The Ag. students were indeed'sorry to see Mr. Wise leave and all the boys wished him grand success in his new venture. Upon leaving he was presented with a fountain pen and pencil set as a token of appreciation from the F.F.A. boys. on August l our new Ag. teacher Mr. John D. Rosenberg of Thomson arrived on the scene to take over the duties of Ag. teacher and advisor

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Tr p As-I row COMMUNITY ' In .' ...-.i., i If' .Q ' f:H+1sE1'r. gff1 1a'iv+'if Q ASHTON ILLINOIS ' ,ff n , 4' r, an r I - JZ: IF' :Ji I 1 c' I A Nga, H - Qing, VIIQVI DCVIQOL J11' 4-J: . F . Lb, Q., . Q I fa I 1' , On Parade! Dear Bob, Yes, we'll agree that you're in the army now, marching grandly and carrying out orders snapped to youg but we must add the all girl' drum and bugle corps and drill team are following close at your heels. Why we even are organized as you are. Our captain, Eloise Mear, may not be as tough and grouchy as captains in the army but still y she's captain. And that goes for Sergeant's Gwendolyn Schaller and Natalie Chapman as well. Why we even have color guards and twirlers, Betty Wilhelm and Orla Karsten. You must admit that you can't top the latter. Of course we know in there you parade in a grand manner before Colonels-and Generals, but we had our fling at parading when we per- formed before Governor Green and then again before Louella Parsons and a group of movie stars. We have uniforms too. The girls are grandly dressed in green and gold capes and hatE'Ever white skirts and blouses. The color guards and Sergeant's look very military in black skirts and white blouses, and Captain and twirlers have white satin outfits. Of course, we have no medals pinned on our shirt fronts, but you must give us a little time. I When Eloise shouts tenshun , I can just picture these girls transformed into a thousand soldiers standing straight and all eyes forward. She calls out right dres 5 hands fly to hips--heads turn-- it looks so military. I often wondered how it would look with your company carrying out these orders. Of course you know all these com ands and probably carry them out quite well, but I'l1 vouch that these girls are close at your heels. Enclosed you will find a picture of the group and the one respon- sible for producing such a nice exhibition--Mr. O'May. Parade is on, A proud wearer of the green and gold!

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'E 'Tis as-1 on co,vxMUN1'rif Jqgul i Q 'sg .JT ' Q A sl. ' ' ' T 1-11.5 A ' 5 '- 'l' V E-,, Lys - M me H sci-Jo ol. .'3. q gjli. : ,,- 6 ,rQffJ ' M7 i -- il Zo f JF ...H A leafs IPFHF IEW' wr rf ASHTON ILLINOIS By the time of his arrival many boys had made extensive plans for exhibiting their projects at County and State fairs. The Ashton boys again hung up a very impressive show record. The 4 second week in August Ralph Salzman took several of his outstanding Hampshire sheep to the Illinois State Fair. Here he won first prize on his pen of three breeding lambs together with a large number of other prizes. ' Ralph together with a nu ber of other F.F.A. boys won over 3973 in prize money exhibiting at the following fairs: Gregon, Princeton, Morrison. Dixon and the sectional vocational fair at Morrison. Also in totaling up their record books for the year they found that they had a total income of 56,344.42 and an expense of 32,730.86 with a net labor and management earning of 33,615.56 and it certainly looks as if they will be caught on income tax too. After this most prosperous show season all the boys came back te school with a new outlook on life. Im ediately after school began the Fat Stock team began to practice for the coming state contest on Sept- ember l3. The boys were out to make a strong bid fer high recognition in this competition. The team was asked to place eight rings of stock and then give oral reasons before the judge on four of the rings. The boys made an admirable showing by finishing in ninth place out of 402 schools competing, Soon after the return from the Fat Stock judging contest in Sept- ember it was decided that there was enough interest to warrant tlb new judging fields, those of meat and milk. By method of elimination two teams were chosen. The meat team composed of Willis Kersten, John Kersten, and Wayne Nass placed eleventh with Willis placing as twelfth individual in the contest. The milk team of Eugene Steder, Kenneth Page and Ralph Salzman placed twentieth which was good since it was their first attempt. On November 4th the F.F.A. boys held their annual Corn Husking contest on the Earl Ewald farm south of Ashton. Nine contestants were on the starting line when the gun went off. The field was led by LaVerne Kersten and Donald Jacobs but when the final deductions were