Cahokia High School - Cahochron Yearbook (Cahokia, IL)

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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.

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