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

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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

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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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GRADE SCHOOL RAREBITS Those TirsT eighT years oT our school liTe were giddy and happy and so disillusioning when we look aT ourselves now. Our TirsT grade Teacher musT have made a propheTic TorecasT oT a TuTure oT swing, Tor The rhyThm band assembled daily. We ThoughT The rhyThm band was grand and especially envied The Tambourine player, who happened To be Corinne WolTT. The drum was oll righT, Too, unTil someone sTuck his TooT in iT, and iT had To be discarded. MosT oT us TirsT graders were conscious almosT To The exTenT oT conceiT oT our TooTwear, and reading class was oTTen inTerrupTed because a wise Teacher knew Time could be saved if The new shoes were given a liTTle aTTenTion. We oll regarded Corinne WolTF wiTh awe, Tor she used words like encyclopedia and expressed a desire To beauTiTy herself wiTh Treckle cream. ' Meanwhile our counTry Triends were also making The news: Doris Myers sTood in The corner wiTh her nose in a ring: l-lelen Clow, when ad- vised To simpliTy her number problems by counTing The caTs, hesiTaTed because she ThoughT The number mighT be increased by a loT oT liTTle ones when she wenT home ThaT evening. l-lerby RoberTs, according To oTher sources, was a TaT, girl-shy boy. l-le's changed Though. BeTTy STeele was learning ThaT alThough The Teacher was her aunT, she had no Tamily peTs when anyone copied. When one looks aT an early group picTure, his memory reacTs mirTh- Tully. Reid Voelcher was quiTe The Don Juan. Girls vied wiTh each oTher To siT by him and even cried To sTand by him in class picTures. OTher recol- lecTions are Those oT Emily Grove's baggy kneed socks, BeTTy WigTon's blousing bloomers, and Corinne's exposed shimmy shirT. BUT we've changed and-Then we haven'T. Corinne sTill grumps abouT her Trecklesg buT Treckle Taced, runTy Lil Leach has pushed The bangs ouT oT her eyes and become The school siren. ln The second grade The day was always sTarTed by marching around The room while Miss Mamie pumped on a wheezy old organ. Each li++Ie sTudenT had a placard on his desk bearing his Tull name which remained There Till he knew who he was. We even had sewing lessons and pieced miniaTure quilTs. Twice a day we Tiled on TipToe over To The big building, which was Then The high school and six upper grades, and moisTened our whisTles. There we scraTched our iniTials on a TrosTy painTed window. The ouTsTanding accomplishmenT in The second grade was a noTebook in which we counTed To a Thousand, adding TiTTy or so daily. Then The book- leTs were hung in a Trieze around The blackboard, and appropriaTely com- plimenTed by oll visiTors. The highlighT oT The Third grade was The breaking up oT a noTe-wriTing gang by The lady PinkerTon. Each Ii++Ie sinner was summoned ouTside The door To conTess and, we hope, To repenT. We were in The TourTh grade when a disTincT Type oT shoe wiTh Tan uppers and black paTenT leaTher boTToms was iusT The Thing. Knee socks worn Then weren'T TlaTTering To healThy calves. The school yard was large and roomy, and The more advenTuresome hid liTTle noThings in The hollow sTumps and made ouT Treasure maps. We played iail in The ash piT and slid down The Tire escapes unTil Naomi Moore Sl