Bethany High School - Reverie Yearbook (Bethany, IL)

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TIHIE REVERIE SENIOR HISTORY ■s? Let’s see—it’s just four years since we were Freshmen. It seems like only yesterday. I remember so clearly our first day of High School. There were twenty- seven in our class who graduated together from the grade school. There were eight new members from other schools. At the first of the year we elected class officers. They were: President, Bob Boyer; Vice-President, Bill Puyear; Secretary, Mary Martha Ward; and Treasurer, Kenny Coventry; Sponsor Mr. Schmitt. Student Council members were Earl Heckler and Mary Martha Ward. As the custom was, the Sophomores gave us a welcoming party which was a weiner roast and a hay ride. We returned the party with a hamburger fry and a treasure hunt. Had anyone visited our fair school on December one of that year they would have been surprised at the appearance of the freshmen, for on this day as a part of our initiation of the girls wore long underwear and the boys wore burlap bags. These were accompanied, of course, with plenty of lipstick and a few other incidentals. Several of our class members had important positions. On the football team were Bill Bland, Bill Puyear, Mervin Warren, Bob Boyer, David Wimmer, and Jim Wheeler. Bill Bland and Jack Wheeler were on the basketball team and Gene Tinnea was the manager. Isabelle Freeland and Becky Walton were cheerleaders from our class and Devereux Powell was Majorette. Annual representatives were Phyllis Oathout and Bill Bland. Our Sophomore year we gained three members. They were Nora Utsler, Joann Gregory and Harold Sill. We lost Ken Coventry and Devereux Powell which made our total thirty-six. Class officers that year were: President, Bill Bland; Vice-President, Jack Wheeler; Secretary, Mai'y Martha Ward; Treasurer. David Wimmer; and Sponsor, Mr. Mahan. Student Council members were Phyllis Oathout and Earl Heckler. Isabelle Freeland and Becky Walton were cheerleaders. Sophomore majorettes were Beverly Goetz and Joyce Malone. Boys on the football team that year were the same as the freshman year ex- cepting Jim Wheeler plus Lyle Heustis, Marion Windell, Harold Sill, Dean Taylor and Jack Wheeler. Gene Tinnea was manager. The boys on the basketball team were Bill Bland, Jack Wheeler, Harold Sill, Gene Tinnea, Dean Taylor, Dave Wimmer, and Marion Windell who was manager. Members of our class who were on the annual staff were Marna Queen, Bob Boyer and Earl Heckler. As juniors we were very busy. We gained Ken Coventry back but we lost Velma Jean Tinnea who had come in at the middle of the sophomore year. Velma Jean continued her studies at home. The junior class officers were: President, Isabelle Freeland; Vice-President, Mer- vin Warren; Secretary, Marna Queen; Treasurer, Earl Heckler; Sponsor, Miss Mosby. Student Council members were again Phyllis Oathout and Earl Heckler plus Isabelle Freeland. Cheerleaders were Pat Wheeler and Joyce Malone. Majorettes were Beverly Goetz and Joan Pritts. BETHANY HIGH SCHOOL-1952

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TIH E E EVE EIIE CLASS PROPHECY X (Continued) I asked her if she knew anything about Juanita Carlyle and she told me that Juanita was back home at Bethany, still with her mother. Juanita does many nice things for the poor people around Bethany. Besides that she has an orphans’ home of her own for poor homeless children. She cares for about one hundred children at the home. Harold Sill is a young man that has surprised many people as well as himself, I guess. He is married, has eight kids and is he ever hen-pecked. He used to con- sider himself quite the dashing young knight, but those days are gone forever. He farms the ground that his father used to own. Darlene Marshall is working at the office of the largest skating rink in Lovington, Illinois. Lovington has grown by five hundred people since 1952, but even when it was still small it always seemed to have an odd attraction for her. Joann Gregory is hostess in a swanky restaurant on Fifth Avenue in New York City. She started out as a waitress and worked her way up. She wrote me and told me that she hadn’t met up with any rich Indians with oil wells yet, so she is still un- attached. Maybe she had better go out West to find one of those. It will probably increase her chances. Gene Tinnea, being among the nicer looking young men in our class, is now the most eligible young man about town. What town? Why Bethany, of course. He is judge of the beauty contest held there every year in the spring. He sure knows how to pick ’em too! After exchanging gossip about our old friends, I bid Mervin a good-bye so I could get back home in time to go to a new movie co-starring Ken Coventry and Pat Wheeler. The movie is called “The Love I Left Behind Me.” Do you suppose they might have left someone behind? BETHANY HIGH SCHOOL-1952

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THE EEVE 12IE - SENIOR HISTORY S? (Continued) We ordered our class rings and pins that year. We had charge of the concession stands at the basketball and football games. We had our magazine sales and made over $500. We helped in the band fund by having a waste paper drive which netted $72.00. One of the things we most enjoyed was the Junior-Senior Prom held in May at the Decatur Club. Another thing which we enjoyed was the Junior play, “The Late Mr. Early” which was given in April. Several honors were given to the Juniors. Becky Walton went to Girl’s State; Beverly Goetz was Homecoming queen attendant and Harold Sill was Carnival King. Members on the annual staff were Mervin Warren, David Fitzgibbons, Bill Bland, Gene Tinnea, Marian Moore and Jo Gregory. Bill Bland, Harold Sill, Bill Puyear, Jack Wheeler, Jim Wheeler, Bob Boyer, and Dean Taylor were on the football team. Bill Bland, Harold Sill, Jack Wheeler and Gene Tinnea played on the basketball team. During the summer Joan Pritts married Carrol McDaniel; Mary M. Ward married Scott Pearson and Mervin Warren married Maxine Marshall. We began our Senior class with thirty-four members. Joan Pritts and Marion Windell had dropped out. During the year we lost Norma Stocks, Dean Taylor and Darlene Marshall who married Stanley Taylor. Officers for the year were, President, Bob Boyer; Vice-President, Pat Wheeler; Secretary, Marna Queen; Treasurer, Earl Heckler and Mary Pearson. Sponsors were Miss Guthrie and Mr. Voyles. Cheerleaders were Pat Wheeler and Joyce Malone. Beverly Lacy was majorette. Homecoming queen candidate and D. A. R. winner was Mary Pearson. Janet Harchous was fall festival queen candidate. Bill Bland, Harold Sill, Jack Wheeler and Gene Tinnea were on the basketball team. Bill Bland, Bill Puyear, Harold Sill, Dean Taylor, Mervin Warren, Jim Wheeler, Jack Wheeler, Bob Boyer and Gene Tinnea were on the football team. Six seniors started school together at Bethany grade and continued together, namely, Marian Moore, Gene Tinnea, Janet Harchous, Phyllis Oathout, Marna Queen and Mary Pearson. In October Janet Marlow married George Harchous and in December Beverly Goetz married Merril Lacy. Both girls continued their schooling. Dean Taylor and Earl Heckler left with the National Guard for the Army. Earl did extra work and will receive his diploma. The senior play “The Able Miss Cain” was well received and enjoyed by everyone. We want to thank the Juniors for the fine prom they gave us. Now we are looking forward to graduation, the senior trip and last, to the life before us. BETHANY HIGH SCHOOL-1952