Cahokia High School - Cahochron Yearbook (Cahokia, IL)

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Melvin Scharf Betty Schnittger Nancy Singletary Elaine Stein Erma Stevens William Talbott Joseph Thomas Edith Tripp Marilyn Tyler Gail Weber Daniel Welch Janet Wheatley Conley Wilson We found our junior year to be a busy one. We had to plan the prom and banquet given in honor of thc seniors, It was our job to sell candy and cokes at the games in order to raise money for this prom and banquet. ln December, we gave a Happy Holiday Dance - the first dress-up affair in the new gym. With three hectic yet enjoyable years behind us, we came to our senior year and found it was the busiest of all, Perhaps it was the busiest because we wanted to cram everything into our last year at Cahokia Iligh. Our senior classes gave us much to write about, Our Social Studies class gave a Carlisle Dance and the unforgettable Twirp Twirln - the dance in which the girls got to ask their men, and pay for them, tool Social Studies spon- sored these affairs to get money for an Alumni Reunion held at Homecoming time. In English class we had some very heated debates. We never did decide whether or not Rosalind Russell knew anything about men. Shakespeare was also near and dear to us-Clif- ford Heil was even driven to writing poetry about Macbeth. We rcgretfully left our high-school sports and played our last games. A homecoming victory made a pleasant going-out in football, however. The last pages of the senior log are full of memos of a whirlwind of activities: banquet and prom programs, announcements, calling cards, final-exam papers Cthose with A'sD, and pictures from the last outing, Senior Skip Day. In worn moccasins, the seniors finished up their final tasks at Cahokia High. They were graduated from the Comanche Reservation on the night of May 28, The last page of their log now contains a diploma and a tassel from their mortarboards.

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These were the VVarriors of 1954. Some of them will be remembered as outstanding in sports: others, in music, and still others, for their ability to get along with others, Mr. Kneeht will always remember a certain senior leading crowds of students through the halls with his, Are you all going to the game tonight? Mr. Logan is sure to remember most of the VVarriors in his Ameri- can llistory classes. They spent hours in his classes seniorsf After becoming acquainted with the teachers and making new friends and really knowing our way around, we were transferred in our sophomore year to a tan brick building. In this building we overlooked small obstacles such as no floors, no doors, no books, and no quiet Cthe building was being constructed around us as we sat studyingl We also underwent another drastic change - we left the role of the Tiger to become Comanche Indians! Cmainly sleepingb learning who did what, when, and where. Mr. Hinson had the Wzirriors when they first came to Cahokia. Biology was something unneces- sary, most of them thought, and Mr, Hinson enjoyed many hours of argument in an effort to convince the Vvarriors otherwise. Mr, Hinson also enjoyed the squeamish look the girls had when asked to dissect a fish, And so it goes - all the Elders of the tribe will undoubtedly remember this group of Warricmrs. The Seniors own log would probably read like this: VVe entered a red brick building with a pack of green freshies, full of hearsay on what happens to kids like us. Strangely enough, even though we were to be Tigers, we could not muster a very ferocious attitude while ducking around corners to avoid 'those Wow.' Shirley Rachell, Erma Stevens, Carole Andrews, Elaine Stein. Joyce Miller Bridget Monierusso Iva Jean Morris Larry Mundy Don Muskopf Shirley Rachell Henry Rainbolt Edward Range June Ann Reiss Shirlee Ripplinger Darrell Rodemich Thomas Rushing

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bmues plan-um pow wow . . . rlillL' Junior maidens and braves spent the year in a varietv of xvavs - Vlihev worked many hours selling refreshments at home football and basketball games, and they worked manv hours planning the Prom. At times thev were exasperated when eombinations on loekers refused to work, or wrong books were grab! bed in haste, or arrows zoomed high over the targets. They found the hours long when they peeked on the new tvpexvriters, wrote strange eurlieues ealled shorthand Cwhieh took longerl or studied the Kings English. llowever, there was one relaxing class - rXmeriean llistorv 4 in which they eaught up on their daydreaming. Instead of visualizing Thomas jefferson, it was eommon praetiee to think 'of the new maiden or brave in study hall. The hours were shortest and jolliest, they discovered, when thev were at danees or in the halls relating the latest or even in classes-tor the aequiring of know- ledge was reallv the greatest thrill of all. Braves learn-um new tongue. Top row: Bill Rodgers, Gail llines, Clary lNlel3aniels. Bottom row: Alice Cuet- terman, Barbara Dent, 'lohn Lorentzen, Pauline Dur- ham, Ronnie Napier, Bob Edmondson. any Ck No smoke signals here! Bob Dinga, viee-president Larry Tolbird, treasurer: Sandra Ripplingery seere tarv: Louie Camden, vresident. . l Braves sample Kickapoo joy juice. Annella Maisel ,lim Petterson, Janet Bollinger, Mr. Froman, Mr. Car lisle, Mr. Daniels, Jean Bollinger, Margie Phillips Larry Moriee, Peggy Bohannon. we