Ashton High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Ashton, IL)

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X ' x ,H - Aa-1 rom fzomfxuwl rr fl ' I ' l f sg ' I I ' 1,,r5Qf - -vLfJ7f5 kij - e ' ' I ' U aw A H- :EJ March 15, 1942 Dear Bill, Am I tired, or am I tired! This annual certain- ly was a job, but it wasn't too hard on us CI guesslj We worked on the annual every Thursday during English Class until things got a little rushed, because of school on Saturdays, and then we worked more often. It was fun lots of times. We certainly enjoyed guessing who those baby pictures belonged to. It was- n't too hard recognizing Vernie and Willy, but who wou1d've thought that hat with the boy belonged to Gene Stederl Vernie and Gene were constantly arguing over who was to write this and who was to write that. They were both so anxious to do it that it was pitiful They finally compromised and finished by affably doing it together. KOh Yeahil Later ------ I had to dash off and I accidentally left this lying on my desk. Someone added the words in parenthesis and underlined one of my favorite Words! Evidently they don't agree.or more than likely they don't know what the word means. Then too, we really had a hectic time when the Calendar editors lost their calendar. They could be seen rushing madly around collecting facts and fig- ures, until the lost was found. y In spite of the fact that every editor on the annual Staff used up a ood supply of pencils, acq-f uired a few gray hairs ?wh1ch were quickly replacedl, and lost some time from his or her beloved studies, wefre glad 1t's not any longer and we've had fun do- ing it. We hope you'll like the copy we're sending to you. Good-bye for now, The '42 Staff

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ff'-e, ul 11 : - ASHT GN F UMM UNIT Y .flier 3 Hel i ' , ' ' C . F' r C Q fav. -'li-Ylzxj i i 2TW.'fL Zri3 I ' g 1 ASHTON ILLINOIS made Donald Jacobs was declared the winner with the others placing as followsz' Donald Jacobs 15.9, LaVerne Kersten 13.17, W. Kersten 12.66 Patton 12.29, L. Calhoun 12.2, Steder 11.10, Heath 10.50 and Clayton 9.63. One of the biggest social events of the school year was that of the annual Parent and Son Banquet held January 31. Une hundred and four parents, guests and members were in attendance. The Home Ee. department served the banquet. The program was presided over by the President Ralph Salzman who introduced LeRoy Majors with the address of welcome and Superintendant J. C. Bilderback who gave the response. Mr. C. H. O'May directed the F.F.A. chorus in several numbers after which Mr. Rosenberg introduced the guests and the Vice President Russell Semmler reviewed the activities of the chapter during the past year. The guest speaker of the evening was Mr. Frank E. Nangle of Paw Paw who spoke on the opportunities in agriculture for young farmers and gave inspirational advice to the boys. The banquet closed by the showing of colored pictures taken of the boy's projects and the closing ceremony by the officers. And now, Pete, we come to the closing part of this letter and to a part which we think will really warm your heart. we here at Ashton aren't standing still in times like these. The F.F.A. boys are really going all out to help lick the Japs and in two days during the Xmas vacation they collected almost four tons of waste paper and believe me that's a lot of paper. On February 13th they made their second collection and gathered almost three and a half tons. This makes a total of 592.68 taken in, which will be invested in Defense Bonds. So you can see that we are behind you 1001. Now I think I'll have to close this letter but we sincerely hope that you have enjoyed hearing from the Ag. department. . ' With best wishes, The F.F.A. Boys

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