Englewood High School - Purple and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THAT SENIOR FEELING By Constance Bennett So at last you're a senior! You've spent four precious years in high school. They've been filled with ioys and with heartaches. You've grown in four big ways: physically, emotionally, intellectually, and soc- ially. lt's been wonderful. You remember the time when you tried to become a cheerleader or a class officer or a member of this or that athletic team, You hoped desperately, but you didn't make it. And for months afterward you went around with a hurt feeling inside. You recall your Honor Society or 500 Club initiation. You had to bow humbly to club mem- bers. Also, for days you were required to carry around a bulging shopping bag, wear clothes inside out, keep your hair in pin curls, cover your face with cold cream, go about with mis- matched socks. Sure, you looked a mess but it was fun. You think back to the balmy spring day when friendly rivalry filled the air as the 4A's locked horns with the 4B's in a bing-bang base- ball game. Your thoughts hark back to the concentrated cramming of seniors determined to pass the Constitution Test, and you shudder at the thought of the possibility of failure. There comes to mind the school's losing streak in football, and you re-live the excite- ment you experienced as, amidst wild cheering, you carried the ball for the touchdown which brought the first victory of the season. Then there's Hobo Day when you came to school looking your worst and a prize was awarded to the senior who looked most like a real hobo. What fun, what hilarity there was in the halls on that day. Going back further and further in your memory, you recall your first frightening freshie Mr. Nowinson Receiving Gift to School from January, 1954, Graduates days. How huge Englewood High seemed to you, and how complicated. Many a time you secretly wished you were back in the familiar environment of your elementary school. lt was exciting too, however. And it gave you a feel- ing of victory to move on to your sophomore year. Suddenly you realized the school was not so big and complicated after all, and that the other students, and even the teachers, were human beings like yourself. lf you're a girl you remember how you began to notice especially the tall boy with the nice smile who sat next to you in English or some other class. If you're a boy you probably recall how you began to pay particular atten- tion to the pretty girl who had a locker near yours. Before long you were exchanging shy re- marks and then you were going on your first date together. lf you're a girl you may also Page I5

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Symbolic Rifuals Honor SocieTies' Assembly Page 14 Featured aT The school song brings iT To you. So does The lVliliTary Roll of Honor. So do our sTained glass win- dows. So do The many and various Trophies, inscripe Tions, and The like. BUT noThing can bring IT To you so Tully and forcibly as your own imaginaTion. And whaT can you do To be worThy of such a TradiTion? The answer To This is The same as The ad- vice appropriaTe for anyone who wishes To be like some greaT man or woman. Anal TT is This. Be True To The besT in yourself. ThaT is The prime essenTial of greaTness and of all worThwhile achievemenT. Be True To The besT in yourself. ThaT is The 'rinesT conTribuTion you can make To The Englewood TradiTion. ThaT is The mosT valuable way you can help keep iT marching onward wiTh banners held aloTT. J. Z. Jacobson l Lf. , A l

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Page 16 Proud Procession of January, 1954, Grads. recall The nice senior who showed you how To dance and Took you To a formal Tor The TirsT Time. Then your iunior slipped up on you. ThaT's The year, you recall, you Tried To aTTend all The school dances as well as all The baskeTball, baseball, and TooTball games you could. You began To ioin school clubs, Too. You remember geTTing your TirsT job so you could buy The nice cloThes you wanTed. lT began To dawn on you ThaT school plays a very imporTanT parT in your life. You really began To enjoy your Spanish class, or was if mechanical drawing or cloThing or hisTory? NexT'? Need l say whaT came nexT - The lasT lap of The race, The beginning of The senior year. VVhaT a Thrill you TelT when you firsr slip- ped your class ring on your finger. You wanTed To show iT To everyone. Then came speculaTion, guessing, hoping in regard To The Senior TheaTre parTy, your parT in The class prophecy, The place and Time of The class luncheon, The prom, The graduaTion pro- gram, your picfure in The Annual. As The 'final year draws To a conclusion your ThoughTs are Turned Toward The Big Morn- enT when your high school diploma will be handed To you. This is whaT you've longed Tor, This is whaT you've dreamed abouT. BUT as you sTand There erecT in your cap and gown, There's a Tug aT your hearT. IT's an old sTory ThaT's ever new. Ahead of you may be college, a job, ser- vice in The Army, Navy, or Marines. And be-