Gillespie High School - Gillespian Yearbook (Gillespie, IL)

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Couples at the 1969 Sweetheart Dance enjoyed dancing to the music of The Creations. Mike Reinisch and Donna Kalvin found a few quiet moments to share together. Tension gripped the Sweetheart candidates and their escorts, Artie Balzrain and Tom Ottersburg, Betty Enrici and Bill Presnel, Geri Trojaniak and Jim Gallo, Mike Reiniesch and Barbara Lewis, Mar- 26

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FHA has co-curricular activities for members. G.C.H.S. Chapter of the Future Homemakers of America (FHA) provides learning experiences aimed at good citizenship for its members. The FHA's overall goal is to help its individual members improve their personal, family and community living both now and in the future. The organiza- tion presents opportunities to have additional experiences in planning and carrying out activi- ties related to homemaking and gainful employment courses. Throughout the 1.968-69 school year the FHA has held bake sales, sold Stanley products for the home, sponsored the annual Sweetheart Dance and made a trip to Pere Marquette State Park. At an annual banquet for mem- bers and their parents the year's officers install successors for the coming year. Those who joined FHA this year included girls enrolled in Home Economics, Family Living and Child Care and boys, as well as girls, taking the gainful em- ployment course in food services. They found its activities pleasur- able and rewarding. FRESHMAN FHA First row: Joyce Sattovia, Susan Heyen, Michele Heyen, Dana Alendar, Jeanette Glover, Miss Epplin (advisor), Bev Katich, Diana Jacobs, Kathy Hicken, Roseann Gallo, Janice Ruffatto. Second row: Margaret Walker, Ava Absher, Marian Girardi, Renee Folkers, Denise Bertagnolli, Cheryl Dufner, Mary Fritz, Terry Allen Coleen DeMartini, Marjorie McAfee, Erlyn Hammann. Third row: Cathy Baum, Pam Beck, Janell Mansholt, Patty Darte, Patty Minton, Patty Crane, DeYon Finkes, Diana Duelm, Rose Wehling, Julia Reed, Janine Marcacci. Fourth row: Terry Cavallo, Diana Rhodes, Loretta Sciarra, Tony Valerio, Marjorie Claro, Sheryl Melnardi, Donna Schoen, Sherry Clemonds, Patty Kidwell, Donna Sigman, and Lou Ann DeWitt. GILLESPIE FHA (foreground to back) Wanda Gipson, Joyce Gipson, Bonnie Stewart, Janis Kiss, Kathy Hammann, Dorothy Welch, (standing) Anna Glover, Jill Holman, Mrs. Kulenkamp, Jim Gipson, Art Gobble, Geneva Himstedt, Junice Marcacci, Betty Steward (standing), Margaret Brown, Denise Wondolofski, Janice Kalaskie, Elaine Enrici (standing' Doris Neff, and Betty Enrici. 25

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Surprised and happy are the words to describe Denise Wondolofski as she is announced 1969 Homecoming Queen. Couples share romantic aura of Sweetheart Dance. Each year at G.C.H.S. in Feb- ruary the Future Homemakers of America (F.H.A.) present an an- nual event of the school calen- dar known as the Sweetheart Dance. It was held in the gym- nasium on Saturday, February 15. Cupids and hearts of red and white were the main deco- rations used to carry through the theme, Love Makes the World Go Round. Beginning at 8:00 p.m., dance music for the occasion was fur- nished by The Creations.' At 10:30 the coronation began as the candidates entered the gym through a red and white heart- shaped portal. When the last candidate and her escort had taken their places on stage, it was announced that Miss Denise Wondolofski, a sen- ior F.H.A. member, had been voted by her fellow F.H.A. mem- bers to reign as the 1969 Sweet- heart Queen. To become a candidate Denise and her fellow candidates had to attain a minimum number of points in FHA work to be nom- inated by the organization. Denise and her escort, Joel Blevins, led the final dance of the evening. 27 garet Brown and Art Gobble, Denise Schnur and Jerry Ross, Regina Dunn and Dennis Hausman, as they waited to hear who among them had been chosen Queen of the Sweetheart.