Cahokia High School - Cahochron Yearbook (Cahokia, IL)

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Looking back to their high-school days, the Seniors remember- lt was their freshman year of high school-how they looked up to the seniors! Some of these upper- classmen were even nice enough to direct the green freshies to the cafeteria. Their first class party was on St. Pat's Day and their first public appearance was in the operetta In Old St. Louis. The girls will long remember the first dresses they made in home- making. The dresses were never worn-could be they were too long, too short, too baggy, or too tight. Of course, no girl ever admitted to any fault in her very first sewing achievement. The boys now wonder if their moms really liked those little wooden hot pads that were taken home. It took only one hot pan to ruin the shiny gloss that had been labored over. As sophomores, the class felt they knew their way around a little better. Their volleyball and basket- ball improvcd, and they were no longer the last to be chosen on a team. The headstand and backbencl which seemed so difficult the year before were exe- cuted with ease during the semester on tumbling. The boys found that their dads would sometimes let them have the car. They managed to get the car for the sophomore Valentine Party. Their dates wore high heels, probably for the first time. The boys tried to look a little taller than their sophomore years. At last the class became a junior class, and at a new school, too! They sold candy and soda at football and basketball games at Maplewood Grade School since the high-school gym wasn't completed. As a matter of fact, the school wasn't completed. Untiled floors, rooms without lights, rolling wheel-barrows filled with plaster, workmen all around were not uncommon sights the first semester of their junior year. In the spring, the class convinced the teachers that they just , .GAA W . Seniors are smooth operators Norma Wakefield Jerry Wallace l Bob Wheeler W. R. Morris couldn't have a prom without attendants and a queen. The Prom, the school's first formal dance, was held in Parks Air College Gymnasium. Long hours were spent in decorating for this event. Help from Parks' students was appreciated in more ways than one-at least, by the girls. Everyone was pleased as punch when the collegiate-looking class rings came to school. The last year of high-school beings forth the most memories. The boys will always remember being yanked out of line for cutting in and having senior girls casually take their places-all while the teacher was busy elsewhere. The only class reserved strictly for seniors is fourth-year English. One of the most pleasant memories from,that class consist of two words, Congratulations, Comanehesf' neatly written across the front board following a basketball victory. History class was a lot of fun, too. Such things as, What time does the bus come down Carol Streetf' Give us the Menu for todayf' and, Sure, he said we could get out of class fifteen minutes early to go to Wayne's were just a few of the students' daily joshing remarks. The football'and basketball boys had a good time on their away games. It was always nice to stop on the way home for food-especially when the coach footed the bill. Thoughts of secretarial training brin back varied memories: Notebooks full of shorthand with a red line through each page, page after page of wasted typing paper because of a two-error limit, gooey pink stuff put on faces to make them beautiful, and being scared stiff at the first dictation on a job. It hardly seemed over yesterday that the class was starting out on their high-school career, but they found themselves going through the formalities of closing up that phase of their life. There was a wonderful Skip Day, their last Prom, Baccalaureate, and GRADUATION.

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claimed they not only atc 'em, but luv'd 'emi Remo, who made his mark in football, and Gene, who Won honors in cross country, were faithful members of the ticket-taking squad at basketball games. One ol' the cutest members of the senior class was MELVA CISCIIER. One laddic, who had already linished his school days, found her irresistible. DALE Cl lANliY acted as mailman fifth hour for the faculty. jllXlMY CANDY, Cahoki.i's llarry james, spent a good deal of his time making beautiful noise. In his many years of contest attendance, jimmy never re- ceived anything but a first rating-quite a record! Big Don printed the sch0ol's basketball schedules. DON CAMPBELL got his nickname cause he is as he is. The twins, NORMA and DORMA WAKE- FIELD, and RUTH ENTEMAN made a neat trio. Anyone who could find one of these girls without the other two was a better man than Cunga Din. NOR- MAN IUNC was more interested in the 1952 cheer- ing squad than this year's, Three real cute guys in the senior class were BOB CRIDER, BUDDY MA- COUIRK, and DANNY JEROME. Danny took his Mary lou Piper Joan Ronge Bobby Remelius Margaret Rice Bob Simpson Dicy Mae Smith Marlyn Sudherry Bob Talbott Myra Thompson Joey Vecero Gene Vogt Dormo Wakefield place on the gridiron team and Ruddy was a member of D.O. CAROL KEENEY and DOROTHY PATRICK. co-editors of the Calzoclzron, were noted for their sut-i- lut-lut-yut-ness. They will long remember their early morning walks, their joining the malt-slingers union, and their entering history class wrapped in bandages looking like accidents going someplace to happen. RONALD PI IILLIPS and ROB TALBOTT were another part of Cahokia's pigskin eleven. Ronald played tackle and Talbott guard. Red Talbott was also a member of Student Council. PAT SMITH acted as exchange editor for the Council Ring. She was also good at getting posters made. RICHARD SCHISLER, one of the seniors with his own car, earned that needed green stuff by working at a local filling station. ln

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The days of a junior at Cahokia in l952-1953 might read something like this page taken from one hoy's diary: I go to the corner in the morning to catch the school hus. After fifteen or twenty minutes, the bus comes screeching up to a halt. I slowly fall on. The bus ramhles into the school parking lot about ten 'ril eight -just time enough for me to fly into the building, get lny hooks, and dash upstairs before the hell rings. I manage to live through my first hour, which is Physics. Second hour I go to my favorite class-gym. Then I go hear Mr. Logan talk about American Ilistory dates and such foolish stuff as that. By fourth hour I am half starved. I patiently ivait in line for my lunch. After stuffing in food, it's off to the gym for some haskethall. I start off the afternoon with another fav- orite class-studv hall. After wasting an hour study! . F5 ing, l go upstairs to wear my fingers to stuhs in typing class. My last hour of the day is spent in learning something foreign. predicate nominatives hy name. After school l run my legs off in haskethall. VVhat a life. liut come to think of it-all of it is funln The school year for the juniors was full of fun and work. lt all started on a bright morning in September. The corridors of Cahokia were filled with the laughter and talk of the newest crop of jolly juniors. They felt superior since they were now upperclassmen. Also, this was the year they would receive the much-admired and long-awaited class rings. VVhen basketball season rolled around, it found the juniors ready to make money by selling pop and candy to the spectators of the games. The selling committee was headed hy industrious jim Adams. Before Christmas, the junior Class sponsored a Happy Iloliday Dance. This was the very first all- date dance held in the new gymnasium, Iloliday music was furnished hy Carlos Camacho and his or- chestra. The gym was festive with gaily decorated Christmas trees and colored lights. Punch, made from a secret formula concocted hy junior chefs, was served. In the spring, many committees sprang up in the Tlwgfre real cool uniors junior-class ranks. Much time and effort went into the planning of the one great social event of the year -the Banquet and Prom. The Juniors had decided to give the Seniors a banquet in addition to the tra- ditional prom. jim Adams, Gary Groce, Bill Bolh linger, Leonard Iiohannon, Martha Capper, and June Ann Reiss made up the hoard of directors for the planning and execution of the banquet and prom. During the week hefore the gala affair, the juniors had joined whole-heartedly in the task of changing the gymnasium into a dreamland. Ilaving the prom in the gym was another first for this class. The day of the Prom, hiay 9, the Juniors were still hard at work putting the finishing touches to the gym and decorating the dining hall for the banquet. That evening. the Seniors and Faculty stepped into a beauti- ful world the Juniors had created for them-a world well-worth remembering. Gary Grace, President, Leonard Bohannon, Secretary-Treasurer, Bill Bollinger, Vice-Presidentg Mr. Franklin, Sponsorg Miss Dunn, Sponsor, Miss Gressel, Sponsor, Miss Human, Sponsor.