Highland High School - Iris Yearbook (Highland, IL)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY To think we had only one more year in which to enjoy ourselves and to prepare ourselves more fully for our future life! It seemed like just yesterday that we were those green freshies of '34. Thus last September we came back to our Alma Mater as dignified seniors, somewhat sor- rowful and reluctant, however, at the thought that we would soon be leaving her. This year our class was enlarged by six students from Marine: Glenn Maedge, Calvin May, Dorothea Middleton, Myra June Manville, Wilbur Bast, and Marian Redford, one from Greenville, Ruth Frueh: and one from Alhambra, Herman Schuette. We chose Dwight Lory, Betty Leut- wiler, Mildred Haller, and Margaret Knebel for our officers: and Miss Foster, Mr. White, and Mr. Ewing were our sponsors. Quite a few seniors took part in the dif- ferent school activities during the year. Seven of our members helped the band win honors this spring. Three of our boys, Dwight Lory, Roger Thiems, and Milton Siegrist, were on the first basketball squad, and three, Johnny Clayton, Milton Siegrist, and Dwight Lory, were on the football squad. We also have some journalists in our midst, since Herman Schuet- te, Vivette DeForest, Edith,Beckmann, and Ruth Frueh are on the Reflector staffs. Ten Tri-Hi-Y girls are seniors, and six senior boys are Hi-Y members. The F. F. A. next year will miss the presence of Burnell Casper, Henry Metzger, Wilbur Bast, Glenn Maedge, Bernell Stueber, Herman Schuette, and Harvey Ahring. Besides we have seven G. A. A. girls, six Thes- pian members, three track stars, and six warblers in the Glee Club. Having the lust for dramatics again in our veins, in November we presented Who's Boss? Our director was Mr. Valentine, who coached us in a most efficient manner. In February we entertained at a back- wards party, which was held in the afternoon. Everyone had his clothes on backwardsg and, at the beginning of the party, each class Dut on a stunt. However, the senior class put on two. After the stunts everyone's time was divided between playing games and dancing. The gala time ended with the serving of re- freshments in the cafeteria. The biggest job of the year has been the publication of our year-book. Our annual is quite different from those of preceding years. Candid pictures have been used in place of those of the formal type. The Writeups are also more informal. The book has many more pictures than usual this year, and we have tried to give a more complete picture of our school life. The staff has undertaken all the duties and obligations connected with this task, and we hope our annual will be enjoyed by the school and its patrons. At the time our book goes to press, we are looking forward to being entertained by the juniors at the annual junior-senior banquet on May 14. Since experience has taught us how much work a banquet really is, we will appre- ciate the delightful manner in which we are sure the juniors will entertain us. We are also looking forward to our Class Day exercises, when we will- appear before the whole high school and experience, for the first time, the thrill of appearing as the graduates of '38. Then, only too soon, will come the Bacca- laureate Service and Commencement. How- ever, the thought of Commencement has also made us conscious of the fact that our school days are now numbered. Therefore, wishing that our high school career were just beginning, we close the history of the senior class of 1938. Even though the next road we take will probably be more bumpy and more difficult to travel than the one we've just come over, if we just keep in mind our class motto, Success Is Our Goal, we are sure to get over the road safely.

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SENIOR CLASS HISTGRY PRESIDENT-Dwight Lory SECRETARY-Mildred Haller VICE PRESIDENT-Betty Leutwiler TREAS'URERl-Margaret Knebel SPONSORS-Miss Foster, Mr. White, and Mr. Ewing N COLORS-Pink and Green FLOWER-Pink Rose MOTTO- Success Is Our Goal In September, 1934, fifty-four, awe-strick- en, bashful, and by all means green freshies entered the old Highland High. We chose as our officers Quentin Nungesser, President: Wilma Earnhart, Vice President: and'Betty Leutwller, Secretary-Treasurer. Our class spon- sors were Miss Foster and Mr. Yates. The first get-together of the year was in September. It was a wiener roast for the freshmen only, but lt had to be held indoors on account of rain. In February, we were the hosts and hostesses at an all-high-school party, which was a suc- cess in every way. Dancing and card games provided the evening's entertainment, and re- freshments were also served. During the rest of the year, we acted as freshies usually do. We were carefree and gay, forgot our lessons, and were set on having a good time. In September, 1935, forty-five of us re- turned, not, however, to the old school, but to the new Highland High. There was quite a marked change between the awe-stricken, bash- ful, and green freshmen of '34, and the proud sophomores of '35. We felt quite superior to the new freshies of '35. We chose as our officers Emily Messerli, President, Robert Koch, Vice President: and Edna Essenpreis, Secretary- Treasurer.' Miss Suess acted as our sponsor. The only form of social activity presented by the sophomores throughout the year was an assembly program of nursery rhymes, in which each person dressed to fit the rhyme he said. Time passed all too swiftly for most of us, and before we realized itl, we were juniors. This year we numbered only Qthirty-seven, and three of our members, Milton :Bieser, Bernice Hoefle, and Genevieve Snyder did not finish the year with us. We selected as our class officers Dwight Lory, Presidentgi Betty Leutwiler, Vice President: Edna Essenprels, Secretary, and Wilma Earnhart, Treasurer. We opened the social activities of the year with a box social on October 30. The boys bid for the boxes after seeing the silhouettes of, the girls who brought them. After we had Qartaken of some very luscious victuals, everyone went to the gym to dance or play card games. Later in the even- ing Mr. Yates told us a very spooky ghost story. In February, as an assembly program, we pre- sented a play entitled Dusty Road . On April 9, we tried our hand at higher dramatics, and as a result Robert Ray's Cam- pus Quarantine was presented. It was a comedy published by the Northwestern Press and was a huge success ilu every way under the very able direction of Mr. Yates. Q The climax of our ,junior year was the junior-senior banquet held on the evening of May 1. The theme of fthe banquet was May Day, and was carried out very well by the presence of butterflies, bllue birds, spring flow- ers, May poles, and abolve all the May Queen and her Maids. With the completion of the banquet and, subsequexitly, the end of the school year, we began to lrealize that our school days at Highland High lwere passing swiftly.

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