Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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THE 1937 jfu'shuni On Monday morning, August 31, eighty-three of us inexperienced freshmen flocked into the assembly to start our high school education. Here we were told something about the nature of our classes, their location, and who our teachers were. We visited each class for about ten minutes; then we were dismissed until the following morning. The next few weeks were a mad jumble with our getting into the wrong classes, having trouble with our lockers, or falling down on the slick floors in our hurry to reach class on time. After we had settled to a certain extent, we found that it was time for our election of class officers. With the help of our patient sponsors, Helen Harris and A. B. Ives, we selected officers as follows: president. Betty McCash; vice-president, La-mont Dehl; secretary-treasurer, Lor-ene Ping. These became our representatives in the Student Council. On September 25 came the night, at the thought of which all good freshmen quake—initiation night! Arriving in costumes we were escorted into the gym which was filled with gaily dressed people. We were lined up for the various games and relays which followed. After this we were ordered to the front of the gym where we could see on the stage a jury composed of upperclassmen. One at a time, or in groups, we were called before the heartless jury, convicted, and made to pay the awful penalties. Later, to console our grief, we were fed cup cakes and pop. First Row: Clayton Evans, filbert Collins, Everett Groves, Clayton Robey, Lee Roy Lacey, Ivan Van Houton, Howard McSchooler, Jerald Barr, Russell Mumford, Win-ton Hammond. Second Row: Dee Liffick, Charles Jacobs, Harold Hollensbe, Marion Kilborn, Bruce Daughhetee, Donald McFarling, Lewis Laymon, Robert Sherwood, Darrell Shute, Kenneth Glidewell. Third Row: Glenn Jones, George Giffin, Merle Snider, Lamont Dehl, William Weaver, Leo Simpson, Charles Simpson, Donald Foreman, Raymond McConnell. Fourth Row: Ferrald Kelm, James Walters, Charles Ulrey. Junior Brewer, Warren Merling, Gene Hartman, Boyd Howe, Dale Small. Fifth Row: Jack Davis, Floy Cummins, Paul Wright, Robert Smith, Kenneth Washburn, John Parker.

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FLAME §opI|o mores First Row: Lydia Mills, Mary Shick, Gleneva Havens, Norma Carrell, Juanita Barr, Betty Brown, Norma Greever, Betty Hemingway, Marjorie Delp, Maxine Davidson. Second Row: Marjorie Watt, Maude Orndorff, Betty Daniel, Helen Dawson, ftrladene Main, Mary McNurlan, Maxine Staley, Gusta Moulding, Thelma Shackelford. Third Row: Lucille Roberts, Ruby Thompson, Ethel Ulrey, Modena Jeffers, Irene Kemper, Ruby Partlow, Ruth Crampton, Berniece Watts. Fourth Row: Cleda Smith, Esther Sidwell, Marian Lacey, Ruth Steward. by Don Brewer, Max Meeker, Betty Jane Daniel, Maxine Davidson, Marjorie Delp, Ruth Crampton, Mary Shick, Ruth Steward, and Berniece Watts. Out of the fifty members of Inter Nos, seventeen were members of the Class of 1939. The two highest offices in this club were filled by Betty Jane Daniel and Eugene Johnson, who served as consuls. Marjorie Watt was one of the censors and Norma Greever, a tribune. In G. A. A. sixteen second year high school girls went on the hikes, played after school games, and enjoyed the good times planned for them. There were fourteen sophomore girls who learned in home economics how to toast bread without burning it and how to sew a seam straight; they made up one-third of the Home Economics Club. Eugene Johnson, Clifford Roan, Mary Shick, Berniece Watts, and Marjorie Watt were out for debate In scholastic ranking the sophomore class had a favorable position. Act III will begin in September, 1937. and several of them took part in the debates held at Casey and neighboring schools. The class was also musically minded; one-fourth of the band and one-third of the music clubs were sophomores. A one-act play, Not Quite Such a Goose, was presented to the assembly in a Monday morning program early in November. An admission of five cents was charged and the money collected was used to pay for the sophomore pages in the Flame. The characters were portrayed by Modena Jeffers as the mother, Mary Shick as the sister, Betty Brown as the girl, Paul Robey as the sister's friend, and Eugene Johnson as the hero of the play, the one who was never going to be quite such a goose as to fall in love.

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FLAME 23 jfiTslmicn By the end of the first semester we were beginning to realize that school was not all fun, as some of us must have believed judging by our report cards. We had already resolved to try a little harder next semester. At the end of the first semester, scholastically, Cora fane Shackelford, Virginia Moore, and Betty Mc-Cash had high honors; Martha Buckler, Winton Hammond, Alta Law, Russell Mumford, and Pauline Wright had honors. In the various school activities we freshmen soon found a place. Our band representatives were Martha Buckler, Norma LeMay, Eleanor Kite, Maxine Lee, Winton Hammond, Donald Foreman, William Weaver, Warren Merling, Jack Davis, Evelyn Callahan, Virginia Moore, Vaneta Whitney, Betty McCash, Bert Brewer, and George Giffin. In football we were represented by Clayton Robey, Everett Groves, Lamont Dehl, Charles Jacobs, Robert Smith, and Charles Ulrey. Merle Snider, Charles Ulrey, Marion Kilborn, Clayton Robey, Jerald Barr, Lamont Dehl, Don McFarling, Howard McSchooler, Dale Small, and Robert Smith from the class played basketball. When our school decided to have a pep club for the basketball team, Lorene Ping, Martha Buckler, Virginia Moore, Lamont Dehl, Clayton Robey, Maxine Leohr, Vaneta Whitney, Bert Brewer, and William Weaver proved to be our peppiest freshmen and therefore became members of the pep club. After a very busy and pleasant year we feel that we have won a place in the hearts of the upperclassmen of Casey High. First Row: Rosemary Stephenson, Wilma Barker. Audrey Fain. Ethelyn Fitch, Thedis Rude, Mary McKinsie, Ruby Moore, Mary Minesinger, Alta Law, Vaneta Whitney. Second Row: Maxine Lee, Pauline Wright, Evelyn Rowland, Marjorie Lacey, Marjorie Townsend, Katherine Biggs, Norma LeMay, Thelma List. Third Row: Maxine Leohr, Lorene Ping. Evelyn Callahan, Margie Gtidewell, Evelyn Welker, Imogene Ault, Cora Shackelford, Edna Littlejohn. Fourth Row: Vera Johnson, Betty Agler, Rosemary Robey, Virginia Moore, Martha Buckler, Eleanor Kite, Betty McCash,