Chester High School - Summit Yearbook (Chester, IL)

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Juniors CIVILIZED SENIORS After four years of toil and struggle with textbooks, we Seniors have emerged out of the dusk of an ancient past to appear as civilized students, with proud trophies of our long struggle. We are proud of our record of achievements. Today we find constant reminders of our pre-historic days in C. H. S. As we look back over the pages of time, our memories fall upon that glorious September day in the fall of 1936 when we were enrolled as students of the Chester High School. Everything was new and mystifying to us. Among the strange students were the Catholics, the Lutherans, and above all the red-headed country boy, Vernon Hesse. Eventually we got over our timidness and set to work to make a name for ourselves and our class. To prove that we have accomplished our purpose, let us review some of our activities. In 1938 the Freshman-Sophomore basketball team, consisting wholly of members from our class, received a beautiful trophy for winning second place in the Junior tournament. In this same year the ambitious biology students of our class organized the Ferreters, which won a cup for first place in the biology competition of the Illinois Junior Academy of Science at Car-bondale. The following year they won the first place cup at Springfield. The first president of this club, Delbert Rainey, and both presidents since then, Paul Backer and Clyde Martin, have been members of our class. In athletic fame also, we have not been lacking. Eleven seniors this year received letters in football: B. Eggers, J. Bruegger, F. Eamey, V. Hesse, D. Gillis, C. Manwaring, D. Rainey, L. Surman, P. Novack, B. Davis, and P. Backer. Let us also look at our track stars: D. Wittenborn, F. Eamey, J. Bruegger, V. Hesse, and B. Eggers; and at our basketball stars: P. Backer, F. Eamey, V. Hesse, and J. Bruegger. For a record of these boys' successful achievements, I will refer you to the athletic write-ups of this book. We may also look proudly toward our cultural achievements. In the band we have D. Rainey, D. Gillis, D. Wittenborn, F. Geppert, and Irvin Kendall. We must also not forget the thrilling drum-major, B. Matthews. In the Glee Club we have W. Davis, P. Backer, E. Huffmaster, H. Hoffman, B. Matthews, L. Duchinsky, M. Mueller, G. Paulus, C. Manwaring, M. Krueger, M. Moeckel, B. Johns, A. Welge, J. Wittenbring, and D. Aspley. Of Dramatic Club fame we have C. Martin, K. Pohle, and B. Matthews. Now let us look at the governing ability we have developed. First there is our line of class president D. Rainey, P. Backer, and J. Brueger. Then we have the president of the Student Board, P. Backer; of the Glee Club, W. Davis; of the band, D. Rainey; of the G. A. A., M. Hapke; of the Rip and Dip, A. Welge and of the Ferreters, already mentioned. Other minor offices held by members of our class are too numerous to mention. Surely these people have gained invaluable experiences in fulfilling these duties. Our future journalists, D. Rainey, D. Gillis, D. Wittenborn, C. Martin, W. Davis, A. Welge, M. Adams, and B. Matthews, are all doing their parts to make this year's Summit a success. We must not forget to mention the successful banquet given by our class for the Seniors of 1939. In this brief summary of our activities at Chester High, we have merely touched upon the highlights. To make a long story short, the Seniors of 1940 are leaving a proud and glorious record behind them when they leave C. H. S. 25

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3)imiiu s NEOLITHIC JUNIORS After living in Chester High for two years, our group came to be known as the Junior Clan. Year by year we have shaped a government, directed at the present time by our capable chiefs, Miss Casto and Mr. Ellis. Most of our members h'ave contributed quite a lot to our group life. Suppose that for the time being we are walking toward our village with Mr. Neolithic Junior Class. Because of his prosperous occupation, candy salesman at Chester High, Mr. Class has a little money to spend. As a result, he fakes us into the crystal-gazing shop on the corner, where in no time at all we find ourselves seated and gazing into the crystal ball. We watch spellbound as the small dark spot in the globe grows larger and clearer, and we see a group of rugged men gathered on a hillside. Out on the prairie nearby we see a great herd of candy bars. We recognize William Preusse (president), whose task it is to keep order in the little village of fellow Junior Clansmen. Bernice Moeller (vice-president) is there, ready to take over, should he not be able to attend. In the hut thtit serve as the treasury, we see Marjorie Gnaegy counting the day's earnings from the sale of select candy bars to the neighboring tribes. The image shifts from hut to hut. Now we look into a large one and see tribesmen Esther Taylor, Vera Beane, Fred White, Harriet Farrell, Truman Cashman, and Frank Clayton, all of whom are talking with much expression. This is the Dramatic Hut. Next door we catch a glimpse of Ioma Anderson, Bobbie Dell Ve’ath, Lillian Schuchert, Bernadine McGuire, Vera Beane, Esther Taylor, Harriet Farrell, Marie Welten, and Minnie Jeremiah. The sweet songs we hear could come from nowhere but the Glee Club Hut. Yes, there is Miss Hack. Next we get a swift view of the entire village, and see clansmen roaming about. Over at the edge of a clearing near the community is Earl Hasemeyer. He is holding at bay an ugly monster that is called a Trigonometry Problem . Using his trusty sharp-pointed pencil and his book of unfailing remedies for such predicaments, his Trig book, he subdues the enemy. Arthur Henson, Winston McEuin, Derrill May, Leo Usher, and Hoby Stoffel keep close guard around the little pasture where the candy bars are grazing, because these animals furnish the tribe with food and income of treasure from the other tribes. Dorothy Mabuce, Norma Magers, Ioma Anderson, Edna Lindenberg, Jimmy Harlan, and Dorothy Lee Stille are at the moment exercising their fingers on that queer possession, the typewriter, and some are studying the new tribe language, shorthand . Several times we have noticed Bob Brasel, Delbert Courier, and Louis Hartje playing tricks on some other companion. From all indications a celebration is about to take place. We see crude signs painted and a parade getting under way. A closer view shows the signs to hail a victory over a neighboring tribe, the Spartans, in a contest over a ball. Heroes of the occasion are Emmett Essary, Frank Clayton, Fred White, and James Stoffel. There are signs everywhere about the village that show us the Neolithic Juniors are fast traveling toward civilization. By 1941 they will no doubt have left this New Junior Age , and will be counted among the civilized Seniors. 24

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Snjjfjtmtorcs First Row: J. Stipe, F. Uchtman, R. Zang, W. Stuevens, R Welge, M. Primeau, V. Wittenbrink, B. Swain, L. Wittenbrink. Second Row W Rir' 'ons. n ''' man, M. Wittmeyer, H. Rushing, L. Shemonic, V. Wilson, G. Saak, M. Tompkins, M. Tilton, M. White. Third Row: H Slack, D. Weber, D. Steffens, A. Ruddell, F. Schmerbauch, E. Wolff, K Welge, D. Van Meter, M. Welge, R. Smith. BARBARIC SOPHOMORES One dark rainy night a small band of nomads made its way along the Mississippi bluffs. Suddenly the leader, Jimmy DeWitt, stopped. A faint sound of voices could be heard on the cliff above. He beat the bushes to frighten away any animals that might be hiding, and grasping a vine ladder in one brawny hand he swung with ape-like agility to the top of the cliff. His companions followed close behind. As the voices grew louder, the travelers recognized the cries of welcome from the Sophomore Cavemen. In no time at all the weary wanderers were resting comfortably in the Sophomore Tribe Cave. The great tribe leader, Stony (Warren) Green, and the Council of Sages, Miss Myra White and Mr. W. O. Simmons, invited the newcomers to stay throughout 1939-1940. A ray of sunlight came sweeping through the top of the cave and was ricocheted all over the crowd. Newcomer Sadie Rusk investigated the cause 26