Hall High School - Hall Light Yearbook (Spring Valley, IL)

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HALL LIGHT A Long View DURING my last trip to the old stamping grounds around Hall, I learned a few very interesting facts about some of the old classmates. Most of them are well on their way to complete their ambitious plans and during the following few minutes of time which I have left, I am going to pass on these facts, picked up here and there to you. There will be no charge for this knowledge—it is absolutely tree. I hope by this means to satisfy your curiosity as to what your old pals are doing. To start off: Our political friends Francis (President) Rooney, communistic nominee for President of the United States, and his running mate Harry Egan, arc out for the coming presidential election, and August Martinucci is running for exercise, trying to make the collegiate track squad. They arc opposed by Vernon Ghiglicri, Ovilio Zanarini, and Wayne Mavity of the Socialist party. It was too bad to read in the paper that Dante Bulli, formerly a prominent aeronautical inventor, met disaster a few weeks ago after trying to fly to China, his native land, in his latest plane, “a ship without wings. Believe it or not Karma Hawkins and Betty Trivicr have turned career girls and have opened a bcautyc shoppe down in the loop of Scatonvillc By the way, Scatonvillc's new road was not enough so they employed Atherton Kern, Frank Lanuti, Carlo Rivasi, and Aigerdis Krayauskas, a young preeminent engineering organization, to construct a new super-span bridge between Ladd and Scatonvillc. On the corner of Tit and Tat Street stands Arthur Dhesse, sole owner and proprietor of Dhcssc's Newspaper and Magazine stand. Arthur tells us he is doing fine and says he started from the bottom up just like Henry Ford did, and imagine! Thomas Peterson, Anthony Quartucci. and Clarence Dobbcrstcin arc his prominent salesmen. Imagine my surprise when I went to the Army-Navv game yesterday and saw L. Ruskuskv and E. Ycrly holding down the ends on the team, and wonder of wonders John Timm playing guard and still trying to keep ahead of the backficld in the interference. The night after the game the gang and I decided to take a tour of the night clubs. You could've knocked me down with a baseball bat when the first club we entered (The Raz-ma-taz), whom should we meet but Burl George, and Russell Batten as chief cook and bottle washer. In his floor show several stars of our memory top the list; Kir Casassa, Arlene Mattioda, Davida Piercy, Vivian Kudcla, Peggy Flood and Gladys Savio. Whatta night' Who should be conducting the swing symphony but John ’ Jitterbugs Comcrouski and his Jits,” Louis Mignonc, cornet; Joe Bemardoni, bass; Betty Rilev, piano; Jean Ingram, violin; Henry Dc Groot, mandolin; John Bruno, cornet; Paul Blum, saxaphone; Selina Bertrand, saxaphonc. and little Jean Booker, the wow blues singer. The first numbers they played were You're a Sweet Little Headache Hurry Home and their theme song was Get Out of Town. Although hoarv with age, the old tunes sounded pretty good to us. Some of the boys were bashful and so we went to Lena Biccochi's Ladies Escort for Bashful Men. A lot of fun was had by all because we met some of our old classmates- Catherine and Hattie Casassa, Loretta Crowe, Pauline Gicske, Constance Pilapaitis, and Eloise Sabatini The day after our wild jaunt, on the way to the office, I heard voices on the corner talking about the price of oats and thought that I recognized them. Sure enough, the speakers were Harry Welch, Eugene Smith, Leo Schwambcrgcr, John Lukosus, and Charles Rudiger. The love of soil had overtaken them and made farmers out of them. Yesterday I received a letter from Gerald Burman, of the Edward Haig and Burman Cheese producing firm, and he said that recently, Dorothy Ryezek. Doris Gradert, Betty Vogt, Catherine McCauley, Maxine Burke, and Albert Becherini were employed in their typing department in responsible positions of the cheese factory. Oh Yah! I remember walking under a sign down town, reading Grigalonas, Glass and Riley Electrical Supplies and Radio Company. This surely is some town but it’s good for the material around. Look at that sign We Fillem—Prescription Drug Store, Kunkel and Drager, Proprietors. And whom should we see jerking sodas but Robert Clupka and Henry Miglio. The other day, worried about mv waist line, I went to see Evelyn Ambrose, Catherine Miller and Marie Daley, expert dietitians. They told me that thetr experiences in dieting during their high school days helped decide their future. During the course of our conversation I was surprised to learn that Mary Louise Bobbio and Marion Campbell were dietitians on Ladd's Michigan Boulevard. While visiting St. Margaret’s Hospital Deluxe. I happened to see several pretty nurses who seemed familiar to me I soon found that they were none other than Betty Navin, Head Nurse, Edith Stank. Marcella Stermer, Louise Rue. and Elaine Baladinski of the surgical department and operating room staff. The other day when I took my son to start his school career, I was surprised to find several old acquaintances on the teaching staff. They were Drue Redshaw, principal, Erminia Bcrtalot, teacher of the eighth grade. Hazel Thomson, English teacher, and Viola Pawlak, teacher of the first grade After a very pleasant conversation with Miss Redshaw, I discovered that several other classmates of my high school days were in the teaching field. I was told that Dolly Nickel and Margaret Stirratt were teaching country schools in Bureau County and that Julia Ternetti and Hattie Maloolcy were teaching kindergarten in their homes. I must not forget the exclusive group of women who have chosen for their career the responsibilities of housewives: Fern Berliner, Eleanor Ratazak, Selina Condie, Mildred Farnheim, and Sally Held arc now the happy wives of prominent businessmen of this community. Page Tu tnty-suen

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HALL LIGHT First Row, itft to right: B. Navin, C. McCauley, D. Nickel. K. Casassa, L. Rue, D. Redshaw, B. Riley, J. Booker, D. Ryezek, E. Berea lot. Second Row: V. Ghiglieri, E. Haig, A. Martinucci, A. Kravauskas, A. Kern, F. Lanuti, C. Rivasi. (Not in picture—M. Burke.) SENIOR HONORS PENIOR honors are conferred at a special assembly in the spring of the year. The honor roll consists of the ten seniors with the highest scholastic average. The next group is given honorable mention. From the upper third of the class a group is chosen for the National Honor Society. Election of 15% of the senior class is made by the superintendent and teachers whose decision depends on the following qualities in addition to scholarship: service, leadership, and character. Hall Township High and Vocational School, one of the first in the state to enter the National Honor Society, received its charter in this organization in 1925. Now every state in the Union has a chapter. Membership in the National Honor Society is the highest honor obtainable by a senior in a four-year high school. Members of the National Honor Society are: C. Rivasi, E. Bertalot, D. Ryezek, J. Booker, F. Lanuti, B. Riley, A. Kern, A. Krayauskas, D. Redshaw, and K. Casassa. faff Twenty-six

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HALL LI G HT JUNIORS First Row, Left to Right M. Corso F. Falctti E. Bcrnatavich L. Dc Serf F. Johnson F. Dclmargo E. Boone D. Coutts J. Flaherty First Row, Left to Right Y. Khoury D. Reviglio A. Worstall M Reviglio A. Kalcel D. Trumpower H. Russell M. Pricco B. Riota Second Row, Ltfr to Right Miss Bucevich M. Grivetti K. Clupka B. Ballerin D. Dailey A. Hendry P. Burman E. Gallagher L. Chorzempa J. Hunipagc Second Row, Left to Right A. Lawless E. Perkins S. Panizzi V. Wiese J. Kwasny S. Rvan Mr. Marchiando Third Row, Left to Right E. Giacomelli J Higgins D. Flaherty P. Gad but M. Gillis M. Downic N. Coutts L. Ballcrini J. Grigalonas Third R ow , Left to R ight P Perrero H. Slcdgistcr A. Kirsgalvis A. Vccchia D. Pricco E. Savio E. Pizzamiglio L. Zimmer J. Palmicri G. Murphy F Smith Fourth Row, Left to Right L. Gualandi L. Bernabei A. Barto W. Brock K. Abrahams B. Corneille V. Gretnig |. Abrams C. Burch S Davito R Chiado Fourth Row, Left to Right D. Pozzi F. Volant H. Ulrich A. Romanclli A. Vasclcski F. Wagner E. Yanish A. Panizzi B. Schwambcrgcr J. Reynolds j. Shimkus L. Ncidctcher Page Twenty-eight