Harlem High School - Meteor Yearbook (Machesney Park, IL)

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• HARLEM CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOi • Seniors For four yean we have been together, playing, working, laughing. learning and developing those traits which have been discovered and nourished by a faithful faculty. As we approach the day of graduation and realize the time grows short until the world will knock at our doors and invite us to bring forth our talents, we feel quite inadequate, and wish we could once more be Freshmen. How we would study to he ready for that knock of opportunity! Then we realize the past is closed. From our four years we must organize our learning, and armed with it and a stout heart and youthful zest, we must enter the stream of life with swift sure strokes. Our thanks to our sponsors. Miss Valentine ami Mr. Moore, who have been willing to help us at all times. Also our officers. Clifford Nelson. President; David Ralston. Vice President; David Clark, Secretary; and Leslie Swanborg, Treasurer, who have served faithfully. MARLENE JEAN ANDERSON G. A. A. 1.2.3.1; G. A. A. Secretary I; Junior Glass Secretary 3; Sports Leader 2; Mixed Chorus 123; Operetta 2; Prom Gomniittee 23; Senior Play I; Play Committee 3; Pepper 3; Meteor 4; Ganiera Glub 2.3. Favorite Subjects: English and American History. Hobby: Knitting. Plans to go to the West Goasl. Go on to an art school and take up Commercial Art. PORTIA MARION ANDREW G. A. A. 1.2.3.1; Mixed Chorus 1.2; Girls’ Chorus 3.4; Pepper Staff 3.4; Meteor Staff I; Junior Class Play Committee 3; Senior Class Play 4; Operetta 2; G. A. A. Dance Committee 1.2.3.4; Publicity Chairman for Magazine Sales 3; Junior Prom Committee 3; Attendance Monitor 3; G. A. A. Sports Leader 4. Favorite Subject: Mathematics and Bookkeeping. Hobby: Sports. Intends to go to business school and become an accountant or bookkeeper. • nineteen hundred and forty-eight