Chester High School - Summit Yearbook (Chester, IL)

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Future Farmers Club The Future Farmers of America is a new club that was introduced into the Chester High School last year. During this short time the club has gained recognition for its activities. The Future Farmers is a national organization of which there are 192 chapters in the State of Illinois. In its membership of over four thousand. Illinois has surpassed all other states. The aims of the club are: (1) To promote vocational education in agriculture in the public schools in the State of Illinois (2) To create mere interest in the intelligent choice of farm occupation (3) To create and nurture a love of country life (4) To encourage recreational and educational activities for students in vocational agriculture (5) To promote thrift (6) To encourage cooperative effort among students of Vocational agriculture (7) To strengthen the confidence of the farm boy in himself and his work 8 To promote scholarship among students of vocational agriculture (9) To develop rural leadership. Last year the members of the club set a good record. The Dairy Judging Team won fifth place with competitive Judging with nineteen schools at Carbondale. The Poultry Team won second at the same contest. Lorin Douglas won third place as-individual dairy judge at Carbondale. William Decker was awarded seventh place as individual judge of poultry, competing with 352 boys in the Champaign contest. This year several of the boys won distinction through showing their projects at fairs in different sections of the state. The corn produced and exhibited by George Anghouse won grand championship at the Belleville Fair. The judging contests will be held later in the year. First row—Conrad Welge. Paul Kirk. James Herschbach, Richard Wilson. Jesse Colvis (Treasurer), Adolph Decker. Harold Mueller, Clarence Vieregge, Williard Bixby (President). Second row—Mr. Colvis (Advisor), Alfred Decker, George Decker (Vice-President), Lorin Douglas, Robert Knapp (Secretary). Dean Harris, John Dougl?.s, Charles York. Arnold Fey. Third row—George Anghouse. Henry Bunselmeyer, (Reporter). Harold Scheltgen. William Decker, Lester Gremmels. Del-mar Asbury. Arthur Fey. Rip and Dip Club The Rip and Dip Club was organized in 1930 under the leadership of Miss M. Wayland, Home Economics teacher. The membership of the club is limited to girls enrolled in the Home Economics classes or to those having had these courses. The first year the club had about thirty members, who spent most of the time in social meetings and programs, including talks given for the benefit of the club members. The officers at the organization of the Rip and Dip club were Virginia Sherril, President: Zelda Wittenbrink. Vice-President: Alberta Huskey, Secretary and Treasurer. This year the club organized with about forty members under the guidance of Miss U. Glister. Home Economics teacher. The officers for this year are Ruth Horman, President: Vada Wehrheim, Vice-President: Zelda Wittenbrink. Secretary and Treasurer. The club is now working on a scrap book of the styles of years gone by. It includes pictures of all the styles since 1920 and some from before that time. This work is very interesting and should produce a very good scrap book. The clubs of the following years will be expected to add the fashions characteristic of those years. Several sales, such as cookie and doughnut sales, have been giver , throughout the year by the Foods Class. The members of the Club who appear on the opposite page are as follows: First Row—Wilma Moore, Marie Wessendorf, Dorothy McGuire, Hilda Mueller. Ruth Ellen Bean, Mildred Schnoeker, Lola Cullen. Martha Herberts. Vivian Allison. Eleanor Dorn. Mary Jean Aszman. Sylvia Moeller. Second row—Lucille Mueller. Alberta Huskey. Ruth Bartels. Vivian McConkey, Grace Aszman, Elinor Beinke, Ruth Horman. Anna Ruth Backer. Third Row—Erna Gross. Esther Eilers. Elsie Framebs. Sylvia Harmon. Zelda Wittenbrink. Alice McConkey. Sylvia Kuykendall, Miss Una Gilster (Instructor), Marie Welten. Fourth Row—Imelda Siebold. Dorothy Wittenborn. Beulah Flannigan, Lucille Beare. Alice Barger. Annette Ducnsing, Bernice Stollc, Selma Sasse, Ruth Harris. Not in the picture—Vada Wehrheim. +