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

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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,

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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. .

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Ffrsf row ilef? fo rigllfl: Charles Merrick, Bob Morefield, Charles Oberfini. Second row: Mr. Charles Swinney, sponsor: Ron Farmer, Richard Merrick, Connie Mathis, Nancy McMurray, Roger Striker, Sam Bourland, and Richard Marshall. SCIENCE CLUB Reorganizing this year, the Science Club met every other Friday after school in the Physical Science room with their sponsor Mr. Charles Swinney. Discussing the whats, whys, and hows of the latest scientific happenings and working on proj- ects in the field of science occupied most of the time of this scientifically-minded group. Leading the group onto the track of careers in science were Sam Bourland, presidentg Bob Morefield, vice-presidentg Charles Obertini, secre- tary, Fred Malan, treasurerg Charles Merrick, sergeant-of-arms, and Richard Merrick, chief judge. Figures Are Their Hobby MATH CLUB This group of mathematically-minded DTI-IS students is actually not a club, but an extra- curricular class. Meeting from 4:10-5:00 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, the group under the direction of Miss Olive Veach and Mr. Kenneth McMurray, reviewed advanced Algebra. Composed of volunteers from the advanced mathematics classes, they prepared for a math contest which was held on March 27. The scores cf the students in the contest, a written test, were compared with those of other high school students in the United States and Canada. The winners received pins denoting their place and written certificates of their achieve- ments, Firsf row ileff To righfi: Bob Cook, Richard Daily, Monie Green, Ronnie Farmer. Second row: Miss Olive Veach, sponsor: Pai Harrison, Mary Nell Theobald, Bonnie Provarf, Nancy McMurray, Judy Pnilbrick, Connie Mathis. Third row: Alan Voice, Mark Blanchard, Alberi Tollefsen, Dale Fells, Ed Collins, Fred Malan, Bob Morefield, Bruce Wheai'ey, and Mr. Kenneth McMurray, sponsor. l , i l i