Chenoa High School - Chenowan Yearbook (Chenoa, IL)

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STUDENT CCUNCIL i 3 w 9l'IIl ' First Row fsittingjz Nlarcellin Kauffman, Kare Kaplan, Junior Roszhart, Merle Parry, jean johnson Ruth Ann Schwager, Keith Phillips Second Row Cstandingjz Miss Johnson, Robert Pickett, Russell Zook, Jerome Schickedanz, Verne Erdman, Wendell Augspurger, Kenneth Zimmerman, Mr, Schniepp The Student Council tor l939-40 was organized on September 28, l939, with Mr. Schniepp and Miss Iohnson as their sponsors. lean Iohnson was elected as president, Merle Parry as vice president, Ruth Ann Schwager as secretary, and lunior Roszhart as treasurer. The meetings were to be held every two weeks in order that they might discuss the current problems of the students and of the school at large. They try to find ways of improving these situations. The Council sent a delegation to Champaign District Student Council Conference to learn the activities of other councils, their problems, and their ways of overcoming them. They spon- sored an all-school party early in the year to initiate the Freshmen. At Christ- mas time they bought two strings of electric lights for the two evergreen trees in front of the school building. As a whole, the Student Council has worked for the benefit of the student body. page twen ty-two

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FIQESHMEN Mnnummtr.. A , f----.-1 First Row Ksittingj: Darrell Stalter, Frederick Bunge, Richard Jacobs, Jerome SchoPP1 Billy Osborn, Thomas Higgins, Bobby Meier, Jack Sievers, Leslie Kindred, Thomas Murphy Second Row fsittingj: Myrtle Cooper, lda Marie McBroom, Fontelle Sweeny, Genevieve Rhoda, Marjorie Jean, Mary Ann Gentes, Russell Zook, Mardelle Wilder, Josephine Kinsinger, Joyce Willis, Faye Miller, Gladys Gibson Third Row Qstandinglz Lorraine Schoop, Helen Johnson, Mary Jane Power, Alberta Jackson, Corliss Bliss, Irene Burroughs, Gloria Masso, Edith Regenold, Delsie Smith, Gwendolyn Jacobs, Elizabeth Streicl, Evelyn Roszhart, Norma Thum, June Oyer FIQESHMAN DAY Listen here, Freshies, you didn't curtsy to me, or Who do you think you are not to salute an upperclassman? These were just a few of the remarks heard on the Freshman initiation day. The Student Council planned an all-day initiation for the newcomers of Chenoa High School in order for the upperclassmen to get better acquainted with the Freshmen. Each Freshman was asked to wear two different kinds of shoes, two different kinds of stockings, and wear the sign Green but growing, Dumb but learning with his name signed to it. Every boy had to have his pants legs rolled up, too. ln addition to that, each boy had to salute every time he met an upperclassman, and each girl had to curtsy. lf any of these qualifications were not fulfilled, the Freshman had to pay a forfeit at the evening party in honor of the Freshmen. Consequently, no one failed to do these things. Everybody had a good time that day watching the boys walk down the hall with their pant legs rolled up, and the girls trying to walk in a low heel and a high heel shoe at the same time. On that day the Freshmen were probably all dumb and green as that sign said, but they also were growing and learning. page twenty-one

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Coach and Senior Football Letter Men Commercial Contestants Music Contestants Boys' Glee Club ACTIVITIES I page twenty,-tIM'ee