Chadwick High School - Silver Comet Yearbook (Chadwick, IL)

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endafz 65444 7few4 Ah, yes! September 1950 found us as Seniors! So we set about preparing to leave this school with a lot of fond memories and also to leave it some fond ones of us., Early in October, we began rehearsing for our Senior Play What A Life, which was to be presented November 3. Of course, it was to be the best one ever presented. On October 11, you could have looked up and seen the senior boys combing their hair and--yes, they were wearing ties, and the girls too were dressed up. Yes, it was the day our famed senior pictures were taken. Then, one day in December, you probably heard the seniors all talking about whether they wanted red and white or blue and white or gold and white or black and blue. Well, that day we chose our motto, Our Aims Success: Our Hopes To Win. We also chose our colors, maroon and white and our class flower, the maroon Carnation. This was one more of the deciding factors heading towards our graduation. On the evening of December 22', if you would have looked into the Gym of C. H.S there you would have seen a gaily decorated Christmas Tree in the center of the floor and many couples dancing around it. This event, of course, you recall was the Christmas Dance sponsored by the senior class for the entire student body and faculty. Now, we are still looking forward to the Junior-Senior Prom and banquet at which the Juniors will entertain the Seniors. Also, there will be the Senior Guidance Day at Stockton sometime in April. Most of all, we are closely counting the days until we and our sponsor Mr. Brett, can take our long awaited trip known as Senior Class Day. Then, the other two events left will be the ones in which you will see we eleven dressed in white caps and gowns walking down the aisle toward graduation from high school and a new future for all! 3

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enchfz Piney On the night of November 3, the Senior Class of 1951 presented What A Life to the largest crowd ever known to attend any event in Chadwick High School. The play opened in the principals' office and revolved around the trials of the well known radio comedian, Henry Aldrich fportrayed by Lano Frankl. Two particular things make high school life very trying for Henry. His father had been recently elected President of P. T. A. , and George Bigelow fVirgil I-Iandelj, the high school bully and athlete, seemed to have the inside track with Henry's girl, Barbara Pearson QWanda Brownj. She was the typical high school girl who eventually saw that football glamour didn't make the man.. She stuck with Henry through nearly all his troubles. The office had its usual interruptions with students bursting in, and many other interesting characters added to the comedy of the play.