Cerro Gordo High School - Gordian Yearbook (Cerro Gordo, IL)

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MUSICAL CALENDAR KaTy's KiTchen KabineT Kazoo Band swung ouT wiTh Dark Town STruTTers' Ball, Alexander's Rag Time Band, Basin STreeT Blues, Wabash Blues, I-ley, Babe, WalTz You Saved Tor Me, and The BiscuiT Song aT The bond beneTiT. I937-IQ38. IT sTarTed ThaT summer wiTh Whispers in The Dark, Never in a Million Years, The One Rose, and The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down. AT The Tashion show This Tall Kep and Norma SeaTon Turnished The sweeT music oT A PreTTy Girl ls Like a Melody, Alice Blue Gown, and Lovely To Look AT. JusT beTore vacaTion Norma SeaTon and Jimmie Tyler did ThaT cuTe liTTle song, I WanT You Tor ChrisTmas. And aT ThaT program we all ioined in singing The old ChrisTmas carols, Too. ATTer New Year's we began To geT Remember Me, Josephine, Rosalie, You're a SweeThearT, Dipsy Doodle, I Double Dare You, on The radio, and a liTTle laTer Breezy blew himselT To a nickelodeon ThaT gobbled up The lunch money. Those young people wiTh rhyThm in Their souls lor solesl, Those swing mad l-leidT, Kyser, Goodman Tons spenT Their hard earned supper money, Too-and Then Tinally, They lisTened To some- body else's nickels. We've had hiT Tunes. swing Tunes, and crazy Tunes, all oT which will have passed inTo obscuriTy in anoTher Ten years, an obscuriTy lighTed only by The memories They evoke Tor The class oT '38. FACULTY FACTS Did you know? No? Miss Burkholder is so youThTul looking ThaT she has To wear a diTTerenT sTyled gym suiT To disTinguish her Trom envious sTudenTs? Miss Tendick. Tilling The role oT Femina Pulchra, is a living demonsTra- Tion oT The reason Tor lovable Cupid's LaTin origin? Miss Buchholz, always back in a Tlash wiTh loTions oT hisTory, is The WalTa Winchell oT social science? Mr. Nelson, The TaculTy wiT, has as his peT agriculTure proiecT, a small, adored specimen named RuTh? Miss Lamb, Tormer BemenTer buT presenT beamer Tor Cerro Gordo, proclaims rhyThm as her business? Tomorrows and Tomorrows and Tomorrows roll away when Miss Doug- lass' voice pours TorTh The poeTry oT MacbeTh? Mr. Samp, upon being greeTed wiTh quizzical noses aTTer a round wiTh buTric acid, has decided ThaT chemisTry isn'T lisTed among The social asseTs? ' Coach EbberT, alThough To our knowledge unequipped wiTh The over- lapping jaws or oTher special sTrucTures possessed by cows and sheep. eaTs grass aT exciTing TooTball games? Mr. Kepley, blond maesTro To Them Thar Cerro Gordo hillbillies, brings hope To all discouraged males under six TeeT? 49

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MUSICAL CALENDAR One oT our song-wriTer philosophers has become Tamous by pro- claiming ThaT LiTe ls a Song. There is no doubT in our minds ThaT songs can describe liTe and ThaT They have assumed in The liTe we've lived l The LiTe We Love l a very inTeresTing parT, so, wiTh The music mixed up in our memories, we'll recall Tour verses oT This song. During The year I934-T935 our seniors, who were Then Treshmen, probably sang on Their TirsT daTe, The ObiecT oT My ATTecTions, Clouds, l've GoT a Feelin' You're Foolin', and Rain. The Teachers were probably more inTeresTed in SoliTude and Swamp Fire. Bing Crosby blossomed ouT wiTh Love in Bloom, while Shirley Temple sTarTed The Good Ship Lollipop craze ThaT ended up in being The Tune danced To by The sailor-suiTed Treshmen girls aT The Junior-Senior Banquet l935-I936 was The year ThaT really produced. Fred AsTaire and Ginger Rogers sTarred in Two movies, Top I-laT and Follow The FleeT, ThaT gave ouT Top l-laT, Cheek To Cheek, lsn'T IT a Lovely Day?, Fancy Free, l'm PuTTing All My Eggs in One BaslceT, LeT YourselT Go, LeT's Face The Music and Dance, and We Saw The Sea. Remember-iT was New Year's Eve: we were sTanding in line Tor The midnighT show: some one sTarTed humming ThaT new song, The one ThaT ouT-sung and ouT-sold Yes. We l-lave No Bananas, buT which was soon sold ouT, worn ouT and Thrown ouT-none oTher Than The Music Goes Round and Round. And I suppose you remember Allen Jones sang Alone ThaT very same nighT. IT musT have been ThaT year ThaT Major Bowes began his original amaTeur hour, because we had one, Too. Naomi Moore sang RhyThm in My Nursery Rhymesg Firman l-lenriclcs and Bill Wallace revived ThaT old novelTy number, Barnacle Bill, The Sailor, and RoberT Milcels played ThaT semi-classic ManhaTTan Serenade. l-lere's a lisT oT TavoriTes Trom ThaT year ThaT mighT help dream up your own liTTle privaTe verses: Goody Goody, Dinner Tor One, Please, James, WhaT's The Reason l'm NoT Pleasin' You?, The BeauTiTul Lady in Blue, ls iT True WhaT They Say AbouT Dixie?, lT's a Sin To Tell a Lie, STompin' aT The Savoy, Take a Number From One To Ten, l'll Never Say Never Again, Wahoo, Eeni Meni Mini Mo, You, Robins and Roses, and ChrisTopher Columbus. Bean was kind oT young ThaT year and couldn'T, iusT couldn'T, play The niclcelodeon in ClinTon. l-le wanTed LiTTle Old Lady, buT all he goT was FrosT On The Moon. Those vocal corridor iam sessions all hiT Boo l-loo, The Love Bug Will BiTe You, and One, Two, BuTTon Your Shoe, so hard ThaT liTe hasn'T been The same since. Evelyn Grove gave a daily perTormance in cloThing class singing TrusT in Me while she accompanied herselT on The sewing machine. 48

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IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE POINT OF VIEW The freshman Thinks: The sophomore Thinks: The iunior Thinks: The senior Thinks: I l-ThaT Teachers Ore 06- ThaT Teachers are necessary ThaT Teachers are unneces- ThaT Teachers are nuisances. cessary. nuisances. sary nuisances. 2-Tlwf blondes Ore l9e0U' TlW0'f blondes mvlfe Qood Tirsf ThaT blondes are preferable ThaT blondes. like bruneTTes. TiTul. daTes. To bruneTTes. are iusT girls. 3'-ll30YSl Tlwf girls me STS' Thcli Qlfls Ore Silly- ThaT girls aren'T bad. ThaT girls make life inTeresT- sues. ing. 4-lgirlsl ThaT boys are ThaT boys are CUTS. ThaT boys are cuTe. ThaT boys are cuTe. cuTe. 5-ThaT deTenTion room is a horror and a disgrace. 6--ThaT he will be weaI+hy. 7-ThaT college is all righT Tor smarT guys. 8-ThaT moonlighT makes nighT Time day Time. 9-Thai' swing is someThing To play in. IO-ThaT love is someThing. ll-ThaT war is probably unnecessary. I2-ThaT cloThes aren'T im- porTanT. I3-ThaT marriage is Tor Tools. I4-ThaT grades are impor- TanT. ThaT deTenTion room Takes up a loT of his Time. ThaT he wanTs To be wealThy. ThaT college is all righT bul Foo Tar away To .boTher wiTh. ThaT moonlighT makes nighT Time noT so dark. ThaT swing is a crazy kind of music. ThaT love is silly. ThaT war is surely unneces- sary. ThaT cloThes are noT worn in nudisT colonies. ThaT marriage is forever. ThaT his grades are Terrible. ThaT deTenTion room is The smarT Thing. ThaT iT would be nice To be wealThy. ThaT college is a good Time. ThaT rnoonlighi' makes nighT Time romanTic. ThaT swing is The Thing. ThaT love is love. ThaT war is someThing his- Torians deem an incurable illness of scheming poli+i- cians. ThaT cloThes are superTluous. ThaT marriage is Tor oThers. ThaT grades should be abol- ished. ThaT deTenTion room is The bunk. K ThaT he'd like a SIS a week iob. ThaT college is beTTer Than a good Time. ThaT moonlighT makes The perTecT Third and iT isn'T o zrowd. ThaT swing is Goodman and Croupa. ThaT love may be love or :omeThing else. Thai' war is useless and dan- gerous. ThaT cloThes are expensive buT necessary To one's social preshge. ThaT marriage is Tor a long Time so he'd beTTer have Tun now. ThaT his grades were all righT -They goT him by, didn'T They? I 50