Hoopeston High School - Picayune Yearbook (Hoopeston, IL)

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BAND First Row: Lillick, Brown l-lux, Galrell, Leernon Sills, Sforrncr. Second Row: Powley, OH Freeland, Shinnernan, Mc Vickcr, Crouch, Byrd Murphy, Mcfxyoy, Finley Thonias, Ellioll, Leigh Fisher, Ray. Third Row: Parker, Sud darlh, Dawson, Sllhre Toney, Metz, Caslrodale Reqan, Cline, Silver. Last Row: Goodrich, May hcw, Woods, Gusfine Myers, Davis, Hughes l.inn, Green, Hopkins, Ri lryy, Cade, Mr. Jensen. ORCHESTRA Firsf Row: Galrell, Hix, Powley, Cline, Sills. Second Row: Thomas, Mr. Jensen, Silyer, Regan, Ellioll, Ferrell, Fishcr, Green. CHORAL CLUB First Row: Goodrich, V. Connor, Scoff, Reclor, Miller, Coon, Miss Hix, Roberfson, Moore, Caw- lhon, Murphy, Wallace. Second Row: Longfellow, Bloyd, Bcnncll, M.Carr1p bell, D. Crurnley, OH, Clark, Gaddis, Collins, Hixson, Sherrill, P, In- grorn, l-ledqecoclc. Third Row: B. lngram, Bridges, W, Sills, Shelton, A, Campbell, Green, El lioll, Carlwrighl, Perry, Mayhew, Cline, N. Con' ners. Fourfh Row: Pyle, Daniels, A. Pugh, Jeffers, Finley, Leigh, Fisher, Garrell, Ferrell, Loclcharl, Scullin, Pelers, Tarman. Fiflh Row: Regan, J. Pugh, Slork, Thomas, Jackson, Ray, Myers, Caslrodale, Melz, Tucker, Russell, C, Crurriley. PGV? 26 The 1947 Picayzme

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WHO'S WHO Who, Who Whol'-now who leT an owl in here? Who, 'Nho, Wno? foh, you wanT To know Whois who, do you? Well, l'll Tell youesee The picTure under here? Now you waTch The TirsT row beginning aT The leTT side, and I'Il Tell you. Lee RaTzesberger is Co-EdiTor oT The SpoTlighT STaTT, Joan Galloway is one oT The Tour Aide CapTains, Doris Rowley is presidenT oT F.H,A., Julia PeTry is Co-EdiTor oT The Picayune, CharloTTe Russell is The oTher Picayune Co-EdiTor, head oT Concessions commiTTee, and presidenT oT NaTional I'lonor Sol ciery. Peg Ingram is G.A.A, presidenT, Armenia York is The oTher SpoTlighT Co-FdiTor and Spanish Club PresidenT, and Evelyn Lah is EdiTor oT The ChiT-ChaT. Second Row: Max LongTellow is an Aide CapTain, Lorene Lawrence is also an Aide CapTain, Mr. Lyon is I-ligh School Principal, Geraldine LockharT is presidenT oT The Book Club, Mary Kay Freeland is presidenT of The Freshman Class, John Leigh is presidenT oT Choral Club, head oT STudenT Council, presidenT oT Thespians, and The TourTh Aide CapTain. Who, Who, Who. STick around and I'Il Tell you abouT The lasT row: Jack Fisher is presidenT oT Band, Charles Hopkins is presi- denT oT Senior Class and FooTbalI CapTain, Bill Henk is presi- denT oT LeTTermen's Club and BaskeTball CapTain, Roy Rowley is Camera Club presidenT, HONOR SOCIETY First Row: Slork, Peiry, Ratves- Iaerqer, Miss Sanders, Russell, Rodgers, York. Second Row: Olson, Musk, Hix- Son, LiTTick, Cooksev, Powley, Bloyd, Lah. NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY The NaTional Honor SocieTy mighT well be called one of John Greerls mosl exclusive organizaTions. ln order To be admiTTed To membership in The socieTy, one musT have aT IeasT a 4. scholasTic average, and musT be graded on service, leadership, and characTer, by The TaculTy. Only ISC? of The Senior Class and 5? oT The Juniors are eligible Tor member' ship. This year The Honor SocieT'y can boasT iT has one oT The largesT memberships in The hisTory oT The organizaTion aT John Greer, wiTh The admission oT Ten new members: a ToTai of I4. CharloTTe Ann Russell, presidenT: Julia PeTry, vice-presidenTg Lee RaTzesberger, and BeTTy Lou Rodgers, Treasurer, Till The execuTive oTlices oT The club, and The groups sponsor is Miss Sanders. The NaTional l-lonor SocieTy sponsors an all-school spelling conTesT To encourage beTTer spelling. The winnerls name is engraved on a silver cup, and he geTs a personal giTT. LasT year's winner was John Toney, '46, To raise money This year's socieTy sold aTTracTive mechani- cal pencils on which were prinTed Corn-ierkers, John Greer High School, I'loopesTon, Illinois. We saluTe you, honor sTudenTs, and Teel sure you will prove To be honor ciTizens oT The TuTure. Dick McFarland is Junior I Class presidenT, and Reid MarTin is Sophomore Class presidenT. Who, Who, 'Whof' Now look, smarTy, you'Il have To go someplace else To ask who, because ThaT's Whos Who aT John Greer. The 1947 P1'cayzme

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There's The gun. IT's half-Time aT The TooTbaII game. A whisTIe pierces The air, Then comes The raTTIe oT drums, Tol- lowed by The gIiTTer oT Tlashing baTons as The Twirlers Iead The band onTo The Tield, column by column. A good marching band is a sighT To behold, and iT was To be seen aT every game played aT Honeywell Field This year. Every J. G. sTu- denT had good reason To be proud of each perTormance which The 43 blue-clad members gave. . The band has been quiTe acTive This year, playing Tor The summer concerTs Ias+ summer, appearing several Times aT Chrisfmas, and playing Tor every baskeTbaIl game aT The high school. They even played Tor a circus. AT a Halloween TooTbaII game There was a special sTunT beTween The halves. ATTer forming The opposing Team's IeTTers and playing Their IoyaITy song as They aIways'do, The band made a circle and marched slowly To The accompanimenT of weird music, dim yellow IighTs, and awful, Terrifying screams. AT The beginning oT The year. officers were chosen as Tol- Iows: Jack Fisher, presidenT: Bill Thomas, vice-presidenT: and DoroThy Dawson. secreTary-rTreasurer. These oTTicers, TogeTher wiTh Mr. Jensen, The direcTor, have worked ouT a poinT-award sysTem whereby Those wiTh a ToTaI oT 9O'Z1 oT all possible poinTs, IO Tor baskeTbaII games, 20 Tor TooTbaIl games, and 30 Tor special occasions. will receive special awards. As Their years in band mounT up, so will Their awards. The only award which we are able To give Them is Three cheers Tor Their fine enTerTainmenT all year. GIQCI-IESTIQ IT's Wonderful, So They Say. WhaT's wonderTuI? Why, The John Greer OrchesTra, of course. JusT lisTen To iT awhile, and you will Think so, Too. When They play some of Those dreamy songs like The Old LampIighTer , and All Through The Day , you can hardly keep from swooning. Who is in The orchesTra This year? IT is made up oT Roy Powley, who plays saxophone: Beverly I-Tix. saxophone, Joanne Cline, saxophone: Bob GaTreII, saxophone: Dale Ferrell, TrumpeT: Jack Fisher, TrumpeT: John ElIioTT, TrumpeT: PaT Regan, Trombone: Raymond Silver, Trombone: Bill Thomas, piano: and Fred Green, drums. The group pracTices during The TiTTh hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Usually. some oT The girls who have P.E. ThaT pe- riod came running in and shouT, OhI Mr. Jensen, have The orchesTra play someThing TasT so ThaT we can dance. So, The orchesTra swings ouT wiTh Johnson Rag , Every Tub . or someThing really groovy. The orchesTra has made several appearances This year: The Picayune Carnival, The Spanish Club Dance, The SpoTIighT Dance, and aT The P.T.A. Mr. Jensen has charge of The orchesTra and he has been able To give Them valuable help. The group, besides prac- Ticing during school Time, has also had several pracTices dl' nighT. As you no doubT will agree-- SweeT and HoT, ThaT's WhaT They've GoT. CHGIQAL CLUB Music and more music! ThaT's whaT The Choral Club, con- sisTing oT abouT sevenTy boys and girls and under The lead- ership oT Miss Hix hear and give every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday morning. Their presidenT is John Leigh: vice-presidenT, Gene Myers: and secreTary, Peggy Ingram. ln The Tall a wiener roasT Tollowed by a scavenger hunT was held aT McFerren Park. IT was enjoyed by all The mem- bers. The club has been very acTive This winTer, preparing iTs annual musical. IT was divided inTo Two parTs: one Theme suggesTing coIorTuI rainbows, and The oTher, Indians. Many of The group parTicipaTed in The music conTesT as conTesTanTs The 1947 Picayune in bo+h The solo selecTions and The choral groups. For The TirsT Time in several years we senT members To The All-STaTe Chorus aT La Salle, Illinois. For This group, Julia PeTry, Mary Campbell, Ernie Clark and John Earl EIIioTT were chosen To be senT by Miss Hix Tor being among The hardesf workers in The club. The Trio. proved To be quiTe a success again wiTh Their singiing-forararious clubs in HoopesTon and Tor The assembly programs ThTI'John Greer. Mary Campbell, soprano: Lavone SherriII:'.aITo: and Pauline Hixson, second soprano, are The new Trioi Page 27