Elgin Academy - Hilltop Yearbook (Elgin, IL)

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ROBERT BURGESS Mayor E Club Football Boys Chorus Orange Club Camera Club toothy smile tottered up to Old Main fell on the steps and with a wheezmg gasp saxd aha at last Im here With that elegant speech there was founded the now exalted Senior Class to be of 49 As can be seen from above Bob didnt do much in the lower grades He did however as a fresh Frosh partake of sev eral athletics where he mayored in football enough to get his letter and membership mto the E Club Bob was always rather quiet while he was with us and although he seemed to prefer the girls with a St Charles accent he had lots of school spmt and was plenty of fun Always helpful we could always get a nde somewhere in one of his immortal automoblles If liked for nothmg else we can all say Bob was a regular guy CAROLYN BOPP Elgin Illinois Editor 1949 Hilltop Secretary Treasurer Aelch lorlans Homecoming Queen Page Editor Orange and Black Girls Chorus Girls Athletics Orange Club Carolyn with her sparklrng vwacxous personality was undoubtedly the spark of this years semor class Being crowned Novembers Homecoming Queen was only one of the many honors bestowed upon her Always a cheerful and cooperative worker Carolyn helped this years Hxlltop blossom mto one ol the most successful yearbooks in the Academys history Her efficient managing of the second page of the Orange and Black proved to everyone that Carolyn also has a serious side to her personallty too Carolyn will be missed by us all and will long be remembered as that gal who set things off better than a stick of dynamite l About five years ago a small. red-faced fellow with a

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Graduatlon IS here and we the departlng senior class of 49 walk down the cusle with mary happy memorles We thmk back to the begmnmg of our classes when Elgm Academy welcomed m the elghth grade Iames Krohngold Bob Burgess and Phyllxs Harbula In September of 1945 Carolyn Bopp entered to lom the many who were there and then were to leave A we grew older and wldened our knowledge and attamed the rank of sopho mores Ilm Wolter Iohn Doyle Iohn Lessmg and Ioe McConnell became part of the hte at the Elgm Academy In our th1rd year here we became proud Jumors The new add1t1ons to the clas were Lo1s Plttenger Bob Francis Roland lmes Doug Thomson Iohn Ollver ard Don Maler FIVE hard years of workmg and making new fr1ends growmg older and at last we are semors Amle Stem entered 1n 1948 The 49 semors wxll long be remembered at the Elgm Academy We are indeed a class of 1nd1v1dual taste Yes we are sorry to leave but as we go we hope that the spmt we have known at the Elgm Academy w1l1 hve on wlth us m even greater mtenslty . . . . n 11 , 1 1. - 1 1 1 , . S 1 1 1 1 . I 1 1 1 1 1 1 A - 1 1 . . . , . . I . 1 1 1

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Elgm 111111015 Mayor E Club Boys Chorus Basketball Tenms Orange Club A lnend and a pal ot everyone on the campus Bob was a fellow who was consistent on the basketball lloor the tenrus court and any branch ol athletlcs ln whxch he partxcxpated A very good ball handler wxth the Hoopsters Bob also made the E Club ln his semor year however lus E pm remamed hrs own property Bob was quxte a smger and besxdes bemg a promment member of the boys chorus he also held up the maponty of the barxtone section Bob has shown hxs hne spmt not only on the basketball tloor but m all his other actlvltles Lots of luck ln the future Bob' IOHN DOYLE Kenxlworth Illmols Mayor E Club Football Tenms Swxmmmg Dramatxcs Orange Club Iohn came here m hxs sophomore year and helped strengthen our ever growmg semor class Known as the Sophx txcated Englzshman Iohn almost swooned the ladxes just by talkmg to them Not only was he tall dark and so lorth but he went out lor athletics too He played tennxs football and even dld some swxmmmg He made the Mayor E Club m hrs seruor year and was one ol the few fellows that kept hxs own E pm Doyle also lzked dramatxcs rn whxch he agam made a name for hlmsell but he ls most mterested m wntxng and polo We hope to hear about Iohn ln several years and see ll he IS domg as well as he dld here wxth us ROBERT FRANCIS