Big Rock High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Big Rock, IL)

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At the beginning of our third ye r we were very sorry to hear of the de th of our former class ad visor, Mrs Uglow, who hed done eo much to help us Mary K O'Connell Joined us that ye r, but we lost Mary Ann Baumez, Betty Ness, and Robert Heed Some of our boys were in the senior cless pley We al o h d 1 clnss pl y which went over quite well It w s fun being in the pl y but I em afraid we taxed Miss Brown's patience It wouldnit h ve been very good if she h dn't been so patient With the proceeds of the ploy we h d the Junior Senior Prom which ll of us enjoyed The boys ng in were etive in b sketb ll When me got our clnss rlng we went to dll extremes to th t everyone got to see them. The Junior class of fioers were President Rojenn Anderson Vice President Betty Ray Secretary Treasurer Caroline Nelson Student Council Gerald Gum Reporter Allen Thomas The Senior ye r, fourteen very dignlfied Sen lors-AHENI strove to look intelligent nd studious it says here. Thi l st ye r sped past in whirl of our class play, classes, besketb ll pictures, dnl countless other thing class advisor w Q Mr Flck s When we officer they were President Rojean gemes, senior The Senior elected our Anderson Vice President Mary K O'Gonnel1 Secretary Treasurer Ronald Davis Reporter Allen Thomas Student Council Lawrence Phillips And so, with fonl farewells we bid H S good bye It has been a pleasant tional four years and we regret lesvlng we must move on to greener postures and portunities. old B R and educa you, but higher op- - I e Q ' A - o- Z- 10 , , . V K' - - n I i 0 t -. , F ' A O L .- F 5 1 Q A f, . - . , ' 3 ' V H .. c. , S F c c P, - - ' ' 4 - .. . . . f, . q h vm. V A V c . , X. . c, 4. 1. 1 ' .lg ' -. H ' 6 . ' - C. s u. C. Q ' 'W v I A '71' I ,- s ' Q' , a - , -1 ' . I n - ' ' ' I 1 - - ' .L F' A F' , ' 9 P. , . n 5. R .. , 7 c ., 1 S ' , c A See 'W rf' 'D l U. - 5 - .L -A I . .. .......'..L....-.L....-..................,.,. ci - un n---...--.---.v--0:-Qu A u-u-.---.-.-.-......---.--......-...v- Q ........................-....-......'..,.+,.4.-..-........-.. , . , - , , . P, 4 f - o-0 - ,L I , 3 ,..... , - s 9 a - s.u S H a c c ., R ' , F . A . r. - . Aflg , ' 2 L s , F' , , 0 S ' A . I .. , .-.-...-.-.Q.-........,....-a-.--4 0 , Lt .. fd ..............,.-.-g................ C Y ' ' v , --.....-,................--....--....................,-.-.. h A 1 , L I ' A 4 I f f . ' . .- - , l . , 0 U ' il- --- - , I V' .V an 0 -o - o - -- . Q A ' ' 'F-, , A ' F- . 4 C

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ULASS HISTORY On a fine, sunny, September day in 1943 tif teen very nervous, but nevertheless intelligent lwe thought! students started their career in Big Rock High School The members of our group were Rojean Anderson Warren Cooke Betty Ray Ronald Davis LeRoy Lawrence Allen Thomas Douglas Gleason Violet Miller Donald Thomas Gerald Gum Lawrence Phillips Betty Ness Juanita Hamblen Caroline Nelson Royal H111 Of course we thought high school was just won derful, at first, but really it wesn't too bad The teachers would just shake their heads and sa 'Oh, Well! Poor things, they're just Freshmen W They were quite tolerant When we elected our class officers they were President Allen Thomas Vice President Gerald Gum Secretary Treasurer Lawrence Phillips Reporter -Ronald Davis Mr Peterson was our Freshman class advisor The boys made a good showing in basketball and the girls were active in G A original students We h d lost Juanita Hamblen and Warren Cooke, but we had g lned Mary Ann Baumez In Merch we gained two more students, Gudrun Ronnlng and Robert Reed The Junior class was a little short of man power, so some of our able Gr bles were drafted to be in their pl y Mrs Uglow was our class advisor She was a reel friend to everyone in the class When we elected our class officers they were President Lawrence Phillips Vice President Donald Thomas Secretary Greasurer Betty Ness Reporter- -Royal H111 0 , 5 I . D ' 'i I twins- I ,I .. K ' . f yn Q c L . U . . . ' ' C 0 0 0 Our Sophomore year started with most of the I ' , P L .. c, - I - c. E' c. o ' 4' C h if. . c E' . '- a o I f- U C' 7- P L 0 - - 1

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I GLASS PROPHECY It is the year 1975, and we are in the home of Caroline Nelson, the renowned woman architect She has designed a new house in which everything is auto matlcally controlled You push a button and the beds are automatically made Another one cleans the house This home, locsted in Hollywood, is the talk of the country Betty Rey, who greduotcd from Big Rock in 1947 now a dress designer for movie ste s, with her model Violet Miller, is calling on Caroline ard they are talking over old times While they are visiting they hear 9 loud roar outside They look out and see a streamlined 75 foot Jet propelled truck pull up in front of the house Gerald Gum, the designer of the truck end his ssls tant, Don Thomas, step out and come up to the door The five greet e ch other and then sit down to talk over old times Let's listen in on their conversan tion Say, did vou he r bout our old classmate, Roje n Anderson, who h s been cosching a dcclametion cl ss? One of her students just won a state contest W Vhnd did you heer bout Larry Phillips? You know he is the msn ger of the vorld famous Psnthers championship They h vc returned from Sweden where the Olympics wer held H nLeRoy, who h s beco e f med chemist just discovered the atom-mobile with the nble ssist noe of his wife, Mary K W NDougl s is touring the country with his own rodeo. He is t king his horse Bl ckie long ' HLet s turn on the r dio, said Betty, ' n he r Al Thom s, vho h s a new progr m now You know he w s chosen Trumpet King of 1974 W - I . . . - 1 - 0 . Q f ' . c., ' ,Q . , .1 , . . , L H . ,,, . c ' . . L 3 H , , , . . I W . 'a a ' P P . e a , - L . C P ' L ,. F ' c, who hevc just won the world's professional basketball t ' . 61 P 'E -N K- o P, m P P ' , . , . . e . P L Q p . . 2 . L P P .' , l l , P H n R d P as 1 2. 4 , P. . F . - o