Ela Vernon High School - Elyte Yearbook (Lake Zurich, IL)

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Z, . The class of 1949 came into Ela Township High School in September, 1945 as a mass of forty-two thoroughly bewildered ufroshn. The initiation party, to which we all looked for- ward with horror, made us officially the lowest form of an- imal life - freshmen. During our first year Dolores Jenkins, Elmer Pipoly, Edward Wolthausen and Marie Catlow left, but Robert Mertes and Jean Trader joined our ranks. The most outstanding e- vent of our freshman year was a raffle in which we netted about one hu dred dollars. This surprised even us. By the fall of 1946 we had pretty well nlearned the ropesn and had left behind us the troubles of our freshman year. Our class presented a play in the spring, but did nothing to add to the all-important class treasury. By the end of the year we had lost John Lietzau, Douglas Hoff, Bill Reinwand, Robert Mertes, Nancy Shroyer, Marilyn Froelich, Jean Shober, and Donald Gray. We gained Robin Cuscaden and Harold Gnoske, however, and during the year Jo Anne Ambro- sino and Phyllis O'Blennis came and went. Our junior year was spent in a feverish sweat, what with raising money and working on the prom. In April we pre- sented our play, nWho's Batty Now?n At the beginning of the year we found we had inherited two new classmates - Harvey Pankonin and Marge Luedemann. Later we gained George Vesely, Bill Brown and Tom Regan. At the end of our third year Ted Huszagh, Harold Wakeley and Marge Luedemann left Ela High. Always gluttons for punishment, we started our fourth and last year with, of all things, plans for another formal. Our Christmas nSnow Balln was the first of what we hope will be an annual affair. The senior play, nHead Firstn, given in the fall, was a big success in spite of our rather dubl- ous expectations. Work on the yearbook absorbed our inter- ests until spring when we began planning for class night and commencement. About sixteen members of our class finished the year with a cruise to Mackinac. A great many changes, mostly for the better, have taken place during our four year stay in Ela, and our class has played an influential part in bringing about some of them. A few of these recent improvements are: revival of nBear Factsn, student council Chance, the cadet systemb, football team and field, the HSnow Balln, and last and probably least, the new study hall desks. We have taken part in many activities during these past four years, and we hope that in times to come we may all be as successful as we have been in high school.

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0 0 First Row: Catherine dollscheid, Mary Shober, Norma Garrett, UEEE'HSrdenbergh, Carolyn Butt. Second Row: Joyce Granquist, Helen Peck, Marilyn Ebel, Ruby VanoverT Third Row: Dolores Muscarello, Louise Holder, Marion Radke, HEIEE Head, Rita Obenauf. Fourth Row: Barbara Krieger, Joan Kasten, Barbara Nash, UBEE-Ur5?Er, Marilyn Moore, Sylvia Cilmi. Once again you feast your eyes unon the famous class of 1950 - famous because we graduate at the half-century mark. Returning to school last fall, we missed several of our old friends. Jim Morris had moved to Michigan, and Margaret Miller left school to work. Later in the year Helen Peck and Barbara Krieger disappeared from the enrollment. But we acquired some new classmates that were a fine addition to the class of '50, Ronnie Oberg transferred here from Ben- senville. Louise Holder, an honor student, came with Marilyn Ebel from Steinmetz High School. Marilyn Moore, too, was new this year. we began the year with hope in our hearts for a full treasury by nrom time. The magazine sales in which the en- tire school particioated netted us mart of the necessary sum, Soon after, we had a bake sale, which also helped. This' year we started something new - movies on Wednesday nights. Being new, the shows brought us a big nrofit. we did our bit to keen up school snirit by selling Ela bins about the middle of the year. '