DeLand Weldon High School - Eagle Spotlight Yearbook (Weldon, IL)

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@Ccte4 ‘P ' tafiJtecy In the year of our Lord 1963, our boat slowly sinks into the west. As we approach the island of Lula, we find Mrs. Kioua, the former Sharon Sparks, doing the Hawaiian hula, accompanied on the ukelele by Mrs. Maiki, the former Barbara Kallembach. Across the island there is a new scientific laboratory equipped with the latest of everything. Here we discover the eminent bacteriologist, Marilyn Massey, with her assistant Jim Pearl, M.D. Dr. Pearl is wearing Mari- lyn’s dark -rimmed D-W Sr. High glasses. Marilyn has replaced them with a new pair of bi- focals. We sail across the lagoon to Honolulu. Here Jackie Benge is running a pineapple plantation, and her head pineapple thumper is Gray Reeser. She says he can really tell when the pine- apples are ripe. Every day she and her chauffeur, James Massey, motor into the city in her 250 horsepower Lafayette. As we leave the plantation and go into the city, a bright flash suddenly blinds us. After recov- ering our sight, we find Evelyn Hoops standing in front of us. sporting a huge diamond ring. She and her husband, Harold Allen, run a very prosperous dog kennel. They raise the breed for which Mr. Allen is noted - S loose -hounds”. Evelyn tells us she has just employed a new kennel sweeper, Rob Roy Twist. We then go into the swanky club Lei and find Joanne Webb, Patsy Swartz and Shirley Lane doing the grass skirt wiggle. Shirley ' s husband is now stationed in the Hawaiian Islands. These girls tell us that Delores Monkman has a lot of dates, while Eileen Followell has figs. Don ' t get the wrong idea now - Delores is running a date farm and Eileen is running a fig farm. Their businesses are very profitable. As we continue on, we meet Steve Goodmon. He offers to take us back to the United States in his private yacht. By working in the designing department of General Motors, he is making a lot of dough. Our boat lands at San Francisco. As we travel from San Francisco to Beverly Hills, we discover that the bachelor Phil Mullvain lives here. They tell us that all he does is sit on the porch, twiddle his thumbs and think of his oil wells in Southern California. By means of the Super Chief, we travel to Chicago. We discover that our engineer is Sylvan Franklin. He is really president of the railroad, but is out on the trial run of a new turbo-jet engine. On our tour of Chicago, we find Roger Perkins entertaining the monkeys of Brookfield Zoo. Roger tells us that Fred Gift is a bouncer in the Chezparee . On the last stretch of our journey, we travel on to the old home town. Here we find Mr. and Mrs. Glynn running a prosperous duck farm. She is the former Jan Ruby. They tell us that Bill Swanstrom and Phil Whiteside are partners in Registered Berk and Duroc farm, east of Weldon. In Weldon, Ronnie Baker and his wife now have full ownership of the hardware store. We now motor over to the old Senior High, at DeLand. Here they are still honored with the presence of an old 1953 senior, none other than Bill Gift. He is the head janitor, taking the place of John. Well, it looks like the D-W Senior Class of ' 53 has become a howling success in the last 10 years. We hope they will keep up the good work.

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TifiM 7 We, the Senior Class of DeLand -Weldon Senior High, being of sound mind and memory, and under no restraint, constraint, or undue influence whatsoever, and realizing the uncertainties of this frail and transitory life, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be our last Will and Testament, herebv revoking all wills and codicils to Wills heretofore by us made. Steve Goodmon bequeaths to Shirley Helton his big feet, in hopes they will smell as good on her as they did on him. Bill Gift bequeaths to Mamie Clifton his stubbornness. Jim Pearl bequeaths to Claudine Stine his ability to keep the English class peaceful. Joanne Webb bequeaths to Margaret Cooper her ability to sing. Sharon Sparks bequeaths her tallness to Dolores Sparks. Marilyn Massey bequeaths to Andy Burgess her waistline. Gray Reeser bequeaths to Jerry Schroeder his nickname Antelope . Barbara Kallembach bequeaths to Sally Maden her ability to get along with Mr. Glad. Phil Whiteside bequeaths to Nancy Seal his nickname Duroc and ” Whitewall”. Patsy Swartz bequeaths to Ruby Stone her muscles. Sylvan Franklin bequeaths to Dewey Roberts the curl in his hair. Shirley Lane bequeaths to Lou Emma Norfleet her good looks and nice shape. Delores Monkman bequeaths to Sue Taylor her shortness and light hair. Eileen Followell bequeaths to Alice Leevey her habit of reading. Jim Massey bequeaths to Dorothy Carr his nickname of Speed . Janfer Ruby bequeaths to Jim Norton her shorthand abilities. Rob Roy Twist bequeaths to Wilma Rule his shortness. Jackie Benge bequeaths to Denny Lisenby her gossiping ability. Evelyn Hoops bequeaths to Alma Jean Grant her romantic abilities. Bill Swanstrom bequeaths to Barbara Nichols his ability to get into trouble. Roger Perkins bequeaths to Mrs. Paterson his knowledge of English. Ronnie Baker bequeaths to Darmon Clifton his shortness and may it keep Darmon as low in the world as it has kept him. Phil Mullvain bequeaths his Chevie to the girls who rode to lunch with him. Fred Gift bequeaths to Gladys Eller his short hair so she can wear it in a pony tail. In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hand and seal to this our Will, this eighth day of January, 1953. Senior Class of DeLand -Weldon Senior High Beginning our sophomore year, we entered DeLand -Weldon Senior High with 31 members. During the year, we lost Herbert Burton, who enlisted in the Navy; Joe Tool, who moved to Rantoul; Edward King, who moved to Mt. Pulaski; Marie Watkins, who moved to Clinton; and Janet Lashbrook, who dropped out of school. Evelyn Hoops, who came from Clinton, joined our class in the spring of 51. We also lost Doris Ann Webb, who moved to Rock Island at the end of our sophomore year. Starting our junior year, we had 26 members in our class. This was a big year for us as we ordered our class rings and planned the Junior-Senior Prom. During the year, we lost two members: Bob Norton, who joined the Navy; and Agnes Wilson, who moved to Normal. At the end of our junior year, we lost Margaret Gantz, who is attending school at Monticello College in Godfrey, Illinois. With great enthusiasm, we entered our senior year. We gained one new member, Bill Swanstrom, who came from Ellsworth. The highlights of the year were ordering pictures and and invitations, and working on our annual. Our final event is graduation. Then we ' ll pause to think of all the joy our class has gone through together and all we have to look forward to.

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Seated: Sparks, Lane, Baker, Whiteside, Followell, Mullvain, Webb. Standing: B. Gift, Reeser, Twist, Mr. Glad, Monkman. Seated: J. Massey, Swartz, F. Gift, Hoops, M. Massey, Kallembach, Ruby, Benge. Standing: Goodmon, Pearl, Franklin, Swanstrom, Mr. Glad.