Green Valley High School - Green Lantern Yearbook (Green Valley, IL)

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SENIOR CLASS HIS TOR Y On September sixth, nineteen hundred and forty three, twenty-two green freshmen entered the halls of G. V. H. S. At our first class meeting we organized and elected Fonda Lahman as president, Ike Baysinger vice president, Marvin Dean as the secretary and treasurer. We chose Evelyn Parr as our student council representative, Carrie 1VIcCarrio moved away at the beginning of the year and Lyman Urish left at the end of the first year. This left twenty members in our Sophomore class. We were less bashful this year and it did not take us long to organize with Evelyn Parr as president, Dale Drake vice president, Ike Baysinger as secretary-treasurer. Our boys have been very active in athletics and the girls have been very active in school activities. We were very unfortunate in losing three members at the end of our sophomore year. They were Leonard Aldrich, Etta Forbes and Carl Waymire. The junior year was for the most of us the hardest one. The seventeen members left in our class were by now very much at home in the halls of G.V.H.S. The officers this year were elected and they were all boys with Dick Chitwood president, Bob Sloter, vice president, and Ike Baysinger, secretary-treasurer. We were told that in our junior year we were to earn enough money to provide for the Junior-Senior banquet and also to plan for it. The banquet was a lot of fun. At the start of our junior -year Vauna Morris was missing, and during the year we lost Fonda Lahman and Marvin Dean. This left fourteen students to form our Senior Class Grace Hutton and Marvin Kemper joined our class for their senior year. The class elected boys as officers again. joe Bussone, president, Ike Baysinger, vice president, Bob Sloter as secretary-treasurer. CLASS WILL. I, Marvin Kemper, bequeath my knowledge of history to Miss Deffenbaugh. I, Thelma Knaak, bequeath my ability to pop gum to Miss Gragg. I, joe Bussone, bequeath my ability to talk my way .out of trouble to Dick Watts. I, josephine Burns, bequeath my black hair to Burr Dickerson. I, Dale Drake, bequeath my curly hair to Bob Diess. ' I, Donald Ike Baysinger, bequeath my athletic ability to Bob Lyons. I, Betty Stout, bequeath my Vim, Figor and Vitality to Ray Winner. I, Louis Thomas, bequeath my sly jokes and remarks to Larry Moehn. I, Bob Sloter, bequeath my girl trouble to Donnie Hoeft. I, Shirley Drake, bequeath my quietness to jim Ary. I, Earl Hamann, bequeath my speedy driving to Orrie Woodruff, I, Grace Hutton, bequeath my ability to skip schoolhto Lewis Hamann. I, Bethel Wagner, bequeath my giggles to Bonnie Drake. I, Glenn Ripper, bequeath my ability to argue to Marlow Clauser. I, Evelyn Parr, bequeath my height to Frances Clauser. Q I, Dick Chitwood, bequeath my flivver to john Goeken.

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C LASS PR OPI-IECY AS the rocket ship, .in which I was riding, sped down the runaway or the Green Valley Airport, I noticed hundreds of people getting out of planes. When the ship came to a stop and I got off Ilnoticed the hude-crowdf of excited people were waiting for tazicabs. The taxis seemed to be all headed in the same direction. I became very curious, so I hailed a taxi and told the driver to follow the others. The cab stopped in front of one of the largest buildings I have ever seen. Across the front of the building, in large letters, was National Convention . I was very much surprised when the door keeper handed me a program which stated that my two old classmates of 4-7 were presidential candidates. The first speech was to be given by Thelma Knaakvwho was running for fist woman president on the Democratic ticket and the other speech was to be given by Marvin Kemperwho was running on the Republican ticket. As I read on I noticed Marvin's platform stated that if he were elected he would have one of the most famous engineers of the world, joe Bussone, construct a bridge which would span the Atlantic Ocean from London to New York. This bridge would be called the Bussone Bridge. just before the signals were given ior the speeches to be broadcast and taken to the homes by television, I saw a person hand Miss Knaak a slip of paper, The young lady lookediery familiar and Ifound, upon inquiring, that she was the famous secretary and companion of Miss Knaak. She also was a former classmate, Josephine Burns. As I was leaving the convention, I bumped into an old schoolmate, Bethel Wagner and her husband Ralph Schmitgall. They were in a hurry because they had -to catch the nine 0'cluck rocket ship to New York where upon their 'arrival they would board one of the famous honeymoon luxury liners commanded by Earl Hamann. I hailed a cab and asked the dirver if he knew of any vacancies in any hotels. He told me that he didn't know of any hotels but he knew of two men who were offering their large hunting resort as a place to stay. We drove to the north of town until we were well out in the country. We drove through one of the most beautiful forestswvhere wild game could be seen. and as we came to a stop in front of' a hush hnildins 1 Saw two familiar figures coming toijneet us. They were Dale Drake and Louis Thomas, owners of this famous hunting resort. I stayed there and before I left they told me that the old Nlackinaw river had been damned and a beautiful artificial lake had been formed on the land of their resort. They also told me that Bob Sloter had inherited a large amount of money and had a hugh cattle farm east of Green Valley. Dale told me I could find Glenn Ripper at the I-l1f01'mU-ti0I1 Building bali in the city and that people came from everywhere to seek in- formation from Glenn. They also told me ms famous secretary was Shirley Drake. As I walked out iof this building I noticed that across the street was a small but very 'stylish and modern beauty culture school operated by Grace Hutton. I walked on through the city, and across 'from the park I saw a beautifufcampus with hugh build- ings surrounding it., As I entered the main hall I met my old school pal, Betty Stout. She told me that she had been made head of the English department of that college.. She also told me that Dick Chitwood had just solved the great crime wave, as a F. B. I. agent. Betty told me that Ike Baysinger had joined the navy and while he was in the navy he went to Forestry College for four years and then he took a iob as head ranger over the Forest Rangers of Amerie...