Atkinson High School - Tiger Yearbook (Atkinson, IL)

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SENIORS IVAN QUAYLE, Quayle F. F. A.—I, 2, 3 Football—I, 2, 3, 4 GORDON TABER, Coxie Football—I, 2, 4 Basketball—1, 2, 3, 4 F. F. A.—I, 2 Dramatics—2, 3 Student Council—3 DEAN TEERLINCK, Teerlinck Football—2, 3 Basketball—3, 4 Track—I, 2, 3, 4 F. F. A.—I, 2 3 4 Student Council—4; President—4 RALPH TEERLINCK, Pete” Football—2, 3, 4 Basketball—3, 4 Track—3, 4 F. F. A.—I, 2, 3, 4 FRANCES VANDE VOORDE, Fran Chorus—2, 3, 4 Home Ec. Club—I, 2, 3, 4 G. A. A.—2, 3, 4: Point Captain—3 Class President—2 Student Council—4: Vice-President—4 BEVERLY WELVERT, Bey-Chorus— I, 4 Home Ec. Club—I, 2, 3, 4 G. A. A.—2, 4 Dramatics—3 IVAN WILDEMUTH, Willie Track—3, 4 F. F. A.—I, 2, 3, 4 CREIGHTON WILSON, Midge Basketball—1, 2, 3, 4 Band—I, 2, 3

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Twas in the month of September and in the year of 1942 when twenty-eight shy freshmen entered the new Atkinson High School building to further their school careers. Freshman initiation was the event most highly remembered by all of us. The year passed quickly, and we soon found ourselves to be high and mighty sophomores. We knew all there was to know for we were really big stuff —we thought! During that year we ordered our class rings. Ronald and Ralph Lester came into our class then. Jane De Decker joined our ranks in 1944 when we were juniors. In December we presented the junior class play. The Importance of Being Young. We made enough money from its presentation to sponsor the Junior-Senior Banquet which was held in the school gym on April 27, 1945. All too soon we were seniors and were in our last year in high school. High spots in our memory books were the football and basketball games, homecoming, the carnival, the Junior-Senior Banquet put on this time in our honor, baccalaureate on May 19, and the finale—graduation on May 24, 1946. We, who were the first class to graduate from the new school, leave with a feeling of sadness for happy, carefree days gone by. But we look to the future with eagerness and with hope in our hearts for a new era of peace and happiness for all.