Champaign Junior High School - Retro Yearbook (Champaign, IL)

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THE NINETEEN THIRTY-SIX RETRO Page28 Last Will and Testament of the Class of '36 We, The Class of Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-six, of The Champaign Junior High School, being of a sound mind and disposing memory, do make and declare this to be our last will and testament, for the purpose of disposing of all our chattles, opportunities, and advantages, and do bequeath our cares. responsibilities, and burdens unto our successors, and to that end do solemnly give, devise, and bequeath the same as follows, to-wit: ARTICLE I Item I-We leave to the faculty the most sincere wish that the next ninth grade class will be as much a comfort as we have been. Item II-Our knowledge of Algebra, we leave to the eighth graders. It is too deep for us, and therefore we do bequeath a whole book of unsolved quadratic equations, formulas, algebraic fractions, etc. Item III-To Mr. Thomasson we do bequeath the memory of the presence of some of us gracing his office after school hours. Item IV-To our class sponsors-Miss Vose, Miss Carder, and Mr. Baker-we do be- queath the memory of our Retro pictures and also some headache pills for the after effects. ARTICLE II Item I-We, Laurine Babb and Bob Carson, do bequeath our hours of detention to Irene Southwood and Virginia Wendt. Item II-We, Toots and i'Honey Morfey, do bequeath our experience with the four- lettered word beginning with l - - - to Barbara Holmes and Bob De Long. Item III-We, Jeannette Andrews and Bob Chase, do bequeath our dreams of future happi- ness together to Dorothy Murphy and Arthur Skelton. Item IV-We, Julia Anne Zombro and Joan Werstler, do bequeath our seats before the mirror to Kathryn Williams and Mary Helen Marquardt. Item V-We, Pauline Sizer and Anna Snow, do bequeath our modest voices and beautiful manners to Grace Piersol and Carolene Hodges. Item VI-We, Thomas Wise and Johnnie Ambrose, do bequeath some of our nerve and courage to Johnnie Shaffer and Addison McLintock. Item VII-We, Jacqueline Tarpenning and Florence Zibel, do bequeath our dark hair and black eyes to Irma Shepherd and Carmon Hubbard. Item VIII-We, Bob Wagner and Frank Leonard, do bequeath a portion of our Senior dig- nity to Jack Gibson and Morris I-Iecker. Item IX-We, Elaine Smith and Leroy Smalley. do bequeath our midnight hours to Jean McGuire and Eugene Drollinger. Item X-We, Bob Wagner and Melrose McCormick, do bequeath our life sentence in school to Jane Dodds and Edward Roderick. Might as well get good lockers, you two. ARTICLE III Item I-I, John Hayes, do bequeath my ability to say the wrong things in the wrong place at the wrong time, to James Curzon. Item II-I, Wilma McNabb, do bequeath my love and ability to follow out the subject of antiques to Helen McQuade. Item III-I, Virginia Hawkins. do bequeath my number eights to anyone who can wear them without having them fall off. Item IV-I, Earl Nelson, do bequeath nfteen tardy slips, well used by me, to Francis Law- head. Item V--I, Harold Sprinkle, do bequeath my wink to Kenney Porter. May he make good use of it.. Item VI-I, Mary E. Ciiertz, do bequeath my nickname to whomsoever will bear the tor- tures of it for a whole year. Item VII-I. Betty Ann Somers, do bequeath my passion for Greek drama to Lois Peach. Item VIII-I, Alton Howard. do bequeath my shyness and blushes to Klank Kisner. Item IX-I, Charles McDaniel, do bequeath my woe's me to Dwyer Murphy.

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P39327 THE NINETEEN THIRTY-SIX RETRO in by Dr. Larabee. Through the kitchen door we saw Helen Mills frying the doughnuts. CShe's a wonderful -cookj The coffee tasted as though it had been in the urn for a week. We later found out that on the bottom of the cups was stamped 'lRalph Eckerstrom's exclusive poettery , which explains the bad taste of the beverage. We boarded the train again about noon. We had a pleasant trip with the exception of one incident. While passing through the Rockies a plane swooped low and dropped a note. I reached out and caught it. It said, Hi, Toots! Saw you climb this choo-choo for the good old state. Flash-This is me in the airplane. I'm by myself, but Marguerite Parkhill is with me. We're elop- ing. Bob Chase. Well, we lost our appetite then. Arriving at the depot, there was the C.J.H.S. Band playing for us. I heard a discord two or three times and thought to myself, Thats Professor Tom Wiley's son, Richie. We were very glad to get back to good old Champaign and thought we would drop by some places and see our old classmates. Down in the center of town came the street car. There, donned in a conductor's uniform, was Ray Moyer stretching his neck to look through the window. In Woolworth's 5 and l0 we stopped and caught a glimpse of the manager, James Larson. The evening was hot, so we decided to go to the Urbana Swimming Pool. Just as we arrived we heard an ear-splitting scream of Helpl . A second glance proved to us that it was Shirley Applegate in dire distress. A lithe little life guard, Johnnie Ambrose, with a dubious look, flopped in to the wildly milling water around the supposedly drowning figure. We could hardly control our mirth, so we started back. A shrill scream of a siren echoed in our ears as the flashing red of a fire engine whizzed by. On the very end perilously hung Robert McNabb. The next day on our way to the dramatic school where we taught. we heard a yoo-hoo from the principal's office of Champaign Junior High School. Looking around, there was Clifford Elliott. Besides him was his secretary, Margaret Selin. , All that day as our pupils' voices droned in our ears-Htwinkle, twinkle, little star -etc., we were continually thinking how strange it seemed to have seen so many of our old classmates all over the West. Yet it was not so odd, considering the large size of our class of '36 and the modern methods of travel. UNO, project your voice and use tone color-Twin-kle, twin-kle, little star . . . the dramatic classes droned on. ff M. M. S. M. J. C. Lady of the Lake I like the Lady of the Lake, The book is really fine, I've read it once already. And I'll read it another time. I like the Lady of the Lake, It has a wonderful plot, Twas written in 1810, The author? Walter Scott. By BERNADINE REINHART

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Page29 THE NINETEEN THIRTY-SIX RETRO Item X-I, Jack Wakeley, do bequeath my hands to Mary Joe Krabbe and Alma Bullock, so that they may hold them for me. Item XI-I, Noble White, do bequeath the curl in my hair and the press in my pants to Rodney Short. ln witness whereof, we have hereby signed and sealed, and established and declared this writing to be our last will at Champaign Junior High School, at sunset, this first day of May, nineteeen hundred and thirty-six. MARY MARGARET STEVENSON 1 The Said Class of Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Six, of Champaign Junior High School, signed and sealed this writing, and declared this to be their last Will and Testament, and We, at' their request and in the presence of each othr, have here unto signed our names as subscribing witnesses. KSealj DIZZY DILLIGAN Judge of Superior Court. DAFFY DALLEY The Scholastic Honor Roll The Junior High School is very proud of its honor students. After each grading period, the length of which is six weeks, the names of the pupils who have averages from 4.5 to 5.00 are posted on the bulletin board in the hall. Some names appear very frequently. Throughout the whole year there are six grading periods, but it is only possible for us to record the Hrst four by the time this book is printed. We congratulate the people whose names appear and hope that they may continue the ine work next year. No. of Names Times 9-l Alice Alden ...............,,... ,,..... 4 John Ambrose .... ,,,.. .... .... 3 Laurine Babb ......... ,,,, 3 Jeannette Andrews .... ., 3 Kathleen Boaz ....,,.....,.,,... .... 2 9-2 Jay C. Flowers ...,............. .... 4 Clifford Elliott ,,,.. . ,...... ,... 3 Miriam Cuppy ,,..,.. 2 Eleanor Dieckmann ..,. ,,,, 2 Marion Shoemaker .... ,,,, 1 James Burnell l George Busey ..,..,.....,,, .... 1 Jack Campbell ,....... ....... ,,,, 1 9-3 Elizabeth Gannaway .,... .... 4 Darwin Fulfer .....,,...... .... 3 Dean Huxtable . .,.,...,. , Z Lucille Hannah , .,...,. 2 Jean Lee Hartwood ..,.. ,.,. 2 Margaret Hartrick ....... ,,,, 2 Mary Ellen Giertz ........,. .... l Jean Gilmore ....,............... ..,. l 9-4 Irma Lee Miller ..............., ..... 3 Robert Mitchell ...,,......., .... 3 Robert Lewis ...,,. .,,, l Harold Kirby ,... .. 1 Virginia Mayer ,..........,. .... 1 9-5 Maxine Nickell ..... Marguerite Morton Juanita Morfey ...,.. Raymond Moyer .,.. Cleo Price ....,.... ..... Heinie Mueller ........,...... 9-6 Robert Shapland ...,....,. Mary Margaret Stevenson Anna Snow ,.... .. ,,.... Naomi Ross , ........ James Robbins ..,.. Elva Sackett Edward Ryan ...,. ...,. Margaret Selin ...,.......... 9-7 Joan Walters ....,....,...... Jacqueline Tarpenning .. Joan Werstler ...........,. Fred Webb ............., Thomas Wise .. .. Margaret Toros ....,,...... 9-8 James Grumley ..,...,...,.. Alice Marie Schienost Helen Ziegler ...,........... James Adair .,....,...,, Robert McNabb ,........ Mary Jane Clilford ..... Helen Jane Mills ...... Jean Sager ,..,,........, .. Marjorie Wise ..... ...... 9-9 Agnuss Noecker ..........,. Margaret Woods ..., Violet Larimore ...... Velma Lucke .......