Belvidere High School - Belvi Yearbook (Belvidere, IL)

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BELVI-1938 Row 1fLIsT, COUNTRYLIAN, ATKINS, Miss FULKERSON, HAACK, .-XNDERSON. Raw 2+CORMIE, BUKER, SHAYV, HAMILTON, CONLEY. Row 3-WOODS, LAW, PIERCE, VVxcKwmE, DEMPSEY. BOOSTER CLUB The Booster Club is one of the most active organizations in the high school. The members support athletics and promote many other activities as Well. ljarly in the year the club has charge ofthe freshman initiation at which time the freshman members of the organization are chosen. Each year four freshmen are elected, and once elected, the students continue to be members of the club during the remaining years in school. The freshmen chosen this year Were: Betty Shaw, Shirley Hamilton, Douglas Cormie, and Ray Conley. The club sells all the football tickets and season basketball tickets, and sponsors the annual football and basketball banquets. The group also has sponsored many assembly programs for the entire student body. Two of the big events of the year, the Homecoming dance and the Christmas dance, were sponsored by the Booster Club. The annual Booster Club Carnival, held each year in April, is one of the biggest undertakings of the club. The concessions, sponsored by the organizations and classes, helps to make it an outstanding affair. All the profits from the carnival are used to support athletics and aid other organizations in need of assistance. OFFICERS XIAN DEMPSEY . , . Prfridenz HELEN JOHNSON . Vice-Prffidmt HELEN ANDERSON. Secretary and Treafurm' Miss FULKERSON . . . Adzfifer 46

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BELVI-1938 Row 14MR. MCA LLISTER, E. STRONG, VANDEWALKER, L, WOODS, DAVEY, FELTZ, GARRIGAN, WYLDE, GREEF, MEYERS, MANLEY, D. WOODS, MR. HARKLESS. Row 2-WENZEL, Fox, HICKS, WALLS, COLLIER, SWANEON, LIST, REIMAN, ELLIS. Row 3-ALLEN, SALLEY, P. STRONG, BERG. LAW, DEMPSEY, BENDER. Row 4-PERSHINA, CARVER, KRAEMER, EDWARDS, JOHNSON, HOUDEN, SANDS, EDWARDS, SLATER, BAILEY, LANNING. Row 5-FOLEY, HARNED, DARBY, BURCHARD, COURT, GUSTAFSON, WELCI-I, ROWAN, WALTER, MCKIBBEN, KIESTER. HI-Y The Hi-Y club is a group of senior, junior, and sophomore boys Whose purpose is to Hcreate, maintain, and extend throughout the school and community high standards of Christian Characterf' The four standards are represented on the pin of the organization by four C's', engraved upon it. These standards are: clean mind, clean spirit, clean living, and clean sportsmanship. lvleetings are held every two Weeks on Nlonday night, and one meeting a month is a 'Lbean feed. lVr. McAllister and Mr. Harkless are the advisers, and under their leadership much is accomplished for the members. One of the outstanding activities of the group this year Was the Induction ceremony, which Was conducted by the Rockford Hi-Y, at the Presbyterian Church early in the fall. A father and son banquet was held in February, and an older boys, conference Was formed for the first time in Belvidere. OFFICERS WWARREN ROWAN . . Prefidfnt VVAN DEMPSEY . Vicf-Prffidfnt RICHARD LAW . . Sfrrfmry and Treafurfr MR. HARKLESS I . MR. MCALI.ISTER j Adwfwf 45

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BELVI--1938 Row 1fDEMPsEY, GRAVES, Lxsr, GIBSON, LAW. Row 2-MCELROY, JOHNSON, HARNED, MCKIBBEN, RENNIE. SENIOR CLASS PLAY The senior class, under the direction of Miss Bowman, presented The Nut Farm at the Apollo theater on Friday evening, April I, 1938, before a full house. The play Was a success financially since the theater was entirely sold out, and also it was one of the best plays ever produced here. CHARACTERS lVlrs. Barton ..... Olive Gibson VVillie Barton . . Van Dempsey Robert Bent . . Richard Law Ezera Sliscomb . . Robert Johnson Helen Bent . . . Marguerite lWcElroy Agatha Sliscomb . . . Madeline Graves Hamilton T. Holland . David List J. Clarence Biddeford . . Charles Harned Harold VanHorten . . . Winton McKibben Hilda ..... Florence Rennie PRODUCTION STAFF Business Manager .... Etta Nease Assistant Business Nlanager . . Eva Jukes Publicity Nlanager . . . Vivian Blackledge Advertising lvlanager . . James Wylde Poster Manager . . Bettie Hall Large Properties lNlanager . . lone Hammond Small Properties Nlanager . . Beatrice VVelch V Prompters-Florence Rennie, Shirley Berg Cactionl Josephine Turnure Sound Effects ..... Joan Knox Stage Nlanagers . . Wvarren Rowan CChairmanD Wendell Court-Donald Fair