Du Quoin High School - Flashlight Yearbook (Du Quoin, IL)

Page 29 text:

Lcfi' fo righh Lcuna Curlis, Mark Blanchard, Karla Kay House. Janel Parfer. '56 queen, Sleven Edel, crown bearer: Ellen Schue, '57 queen: Richard Gilliam, '57 foolball capfaing Susan Taylor, giff bearer: Jim Slanlwouse, '56 'loolball caplaing Jeanie Rodman, Niclc Jen' Sandy Griffin, and Ken Napier. . . . Cap DTHS Homecoming Events To bum rhe Pinckneyville Panfhers in effigy. DTHS lurnecl ouf in large .umbers lo inspire Du Quain's foolball feam on lo viclory in llweir annual Homecoming game on Vanmelre Field. The bonfire along willm ll1e snake dance was slaged afler lhe junior varsi1y's encounler wilfw Pinclcneyville. Playing the Pinckneyville PCIlf'lEfS for fl1eir annual Homecoming game, Friday evening, Nov. 7 on Vanmelre field, Du Quoin's Indians deall a 24-6 sefbaclc lo 'rl1e visiling leam. .

Page 28 text:

Leff fo rlghf Janet Porter, Steven Edel, crown bear r Eilen Schue Richard Gilliam, Susan Taylor, gift bearer and Jim Sfonhouse. Football W1n Dance, Coronation . . . The eleventh annual DTHS Homecoming was well under way Monday evening, November 3, with the pep rally and snake dance following the junior varsity game against Pinckneyvfie. Friday night, November 7, the Indians' var- sity squad triumphed over the Pinckneyvllle Panthers with a score of 24-6. Climaxing the week'5 festivities with the alumni dance, held Saturday evening, Novembe' 8. The students and alumni with their guest.: danced to the music of Bill Stroders ani hiz Egyptians Miss Ellen Schue, a senior, was selected :is thc eleventh annual I-lomecomfng queen. In charge of pfanning and directing t'ic Homecoming activities were members of the Girls' Athletic Association and their spfnzsor, Mrs. Rosemary Pullis. oming dance

Page 30 text:

Leff fo rlgllf: Connie Wyatt, president: Bonnie Pro- vcrf, vice-presidenfg Ellen Schue, secretory: C. K. West, treasurer: and Miss Olive Vecch, sponsor. Hi-Tri Seeks Improvement in Character Beginning the school year, the Hi Tri spon- stired a coke and cookie party for senior and freshman girls in honor of the end of big sister guidance week. That week was designated as a time when senior girls made a special ef- fort to help freshmen get acquainted with DTHS and the students. Other activities undertaken by the Hi Tri, an organization at DTHS of which all the girls are automatically members, included attending a fall conference at Collinsville and a spring conference at Metropolis, sponsoring an assembly program for the student body, and being in charge of an all-girl school party held October 24. This party was preceded by the formal cere- HI Tri monies presented by the older members to ex- plain the goals of Hi Tri to the new members. Miss Veach, the sponsor, explained that the purpose of the Hi Tri is to teach the girls to be cheerful, honest, helpful, friendly, loyal, and to look to the future. To earn money for their trips, conference dues, and parties, the Hi Tri members sold Christmas cards. Bringing their social activities to a close, the junior and senior girls with their mothers at- tended a Mother-Daughter Banquet on March 27. Highlighting this banquet was the installation of the 1957-58 officers,