Fairbury Cropsey High School - Crier Yearbook (Fairbury, IL)

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THE C E I E E i i) :s o History of the Senior Class In the spring of 1923 there were eighteen students enrolled in the first grade of the Edison and Isaac Walton schools. Keith Anderson, Arthur Ferguson, Hiram Hood, Charlotte Larkin, Clyde Knipp, and Keith Melvin w'ere enrolled in the Edison school. Billy Beckley, Mary E. Combes, Louis Downing, Jean Drennen, John Grisson, Mary Hagen, Leroy Hartman, Harvey Reavis, Lola Mary Weber, and Norma Zim- merman were enrolled in the Isaac Walton school. Many changes took place from the first grade to the seventh. Some of our classmates were waylaid and others we gained as we traveled through the grades. The class of 1923 took the third grade with the second, therefore, making us advanced one year. There were A and B classes, so we did not unite both A and B classes until we came to the seventh grade in the Isaac Walton school in 1929. In the seventh grade there were added to the original eighteen, Sara Ann Braun, John Bushman, William Dawson, Wilma Drennen, Virginia I'elkey, Louise Fincham, Doris Floyd, Maxine Floyd, Dorothy French, William 1 Iallock, Frances Healy, Eugene Herzog, Wilma Hibsch, Eve- lyn Hirstein, Mardell Howell, Mildred Jackson. June Johnson, Walter Johnson, Melvin Jones, Betty Kelso, Marjorie Knott, Nettie Mowry, Ernest Murray, Frances Pittman, Ralph Runyon, Dorothy Schnet .ler, Lloyd Slagel, Juanita Taque, Allen I hatcher, Dorothy I hompson, Mar- garet Troehler, Earl and Louis Tull, Kenneth West, and Andrew Zim- merman, twenty-one of whom are Seniors this year. Some of these moved away and were missed in the eighth grade, besides the few who were detained. The new students who joined us in the eighth grade, increasing our enrollment to thirty-eight were: Marjorie Knott, Melvin Jones, Walter Johnson, Ralph Runyon, Lloyd Slagel, Gwendolyn Alt, who came to us from Montana. I am very glad to say that we all were graduated and most of us took another step toward our education. A few of them be- lieved they knew enough to go out and conquer the world with just a grade school education, so we missed them when we gathered together in the fall at the Fairbury Township High School, dear old F. I. H. S. A few of them moved to other cities. That fall when we met in the assembly of F. T. H. S. there were sixty-six of us. Thirty-six came from the country and from out of town. As Freshmen we took part in the activities of the school. Many went out for glee clubs, and F rances Pittman, Sara Ann Braun, and Mil- dred Jones made the contest chorus. Mildred Jones, Dorothy Thompson, June Johnson, Keith Melvin, and Mary Hagen competed in the declama- tion contest. Some of the boys went out for basketball making the F resh-

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THE C E I E E i = o = :s 5 Frances Pittman Operetta 3, 4. Quartette 3, 4. Contest Chorus. 1, 2, 3, 4. Crier Staff 4. Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4. Typing and Shorthand Team 4. Latin Club 1. Sub-district Vocal Con- test 4. District Vocal Con- test 4. “And what is fame? Nothin»: to mo.” Joseph Shilts Trials and tribulations. I Telex Leffingwf.ll Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3, 4. Crier Staff 4. Harold Finnegan Band 1, 2. Class Play 3, 4. “Here comes Finnegan! Bang! Bang I Wilma Drennen Glee Club 1. Lat'n Club 1 Pep Club 4. Band 3, 4. Be gocd, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. Frances Broadwei.i. Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4. Home Economics Club 3, 4. 7? “We like her for what she is. “Prim and petite—she knows her place.

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THE C E I E E i = 9 = 3 5 man team. Our class officers were: Dorothy Thompson, President; Leroy Hartman, Vice President; Mary Hagen, Secretary; Willis Reavis, T reasurer. In our Sophomore year, Mildred Jones, Lucie Marie Carrithers, Mary Hagen, Dorothy Thompson, and June Johnson took part in the literary contest. Dorothy Thompson, Sara Ann Braun, Mildred Jones, Frances Pittman, and Welby Harvey made the contest choruses. Some of the boys made the second team in basketball, and some went out for football and track. This year was full of hard studying—but what years aren’t? Perhaps they were a bit more noticeable because there was less outside activity. The class officers were: Leroy Hartman, President; Al Swartz, Vice President; Melvin Jones, Secretary; Kenneth Mowry, Treasurer. Our Junior year was quite a hit more exciting than the ones before. There were eight Junior girls who made the contest chorus and five Junior boys. Our Junior play went oft with a bang—the first Junior class play to be presented for a number of years. The cast included Francis Brown, Melvin Jones, Charlotte Parkin, Dorothy Schnetzler, Sara Ann Braun, Wilma Hibsch, Mildred Jones, Hartzell Rigsby, and Harold Fin- negan. We made enough through it to give the Seniors a real prom. We carried out the theme of a pleasure trip on the “S. S. Fairburian.” The decorations, favors, menu, and program Suggested the marine theme. We had a four-piece orchestra, and after the program the evening was enjoyed by dancing. We had our first school party which was a great success. We also had another one to which we could invite a guest. The class officers were: Dorothy Thompson, President; Jack Macdonald, Vice President; Mary Hagen, Secretary; Charlotte I arkin, Treasurer. At last, our Senior year, which is filled with joy of graduation. Some of us are undecided whether or not we are glad we are to be graduated, although we have looked forward to the day when we will walk across the stage for our diplomas. Each year we had wondered how it would feel to be a Senior, and at last we have found out; but the feeling is no different from the one we had when we were Freshmen, but of course we have increased our knowledge, or at least we think so. This year we Seniors are sponsoring the enlargement of The Crier, thus making it our annual instead of as heretofore, a pamphlet. We hope the classes following us will continue to publish it and that it will become a perma- nent phase of our school life. To finance this we gave a carnival from which we cleared $63.58. There were twenty-three of us in the play: Jack Macdonald, Lola Mary Weber, John Ulfers, Dorothy Schnetzler, Francis Brown, James Glennon, Stanley Barnes, Harold Finnegan, Wilma Hibsch, Maude Broadwell, Dorothy Thompson, Mary Hagen, June Johnson, Sara Ann Braun, Hartzell Rigsby, Paul Glennon, Eugene Herzog, Welby Harvey, Keith Anderson, Melvin Jones, Merle Spence, 30