Hoopeston High School - Picayune Yearbook (Hoopeston, IL)

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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

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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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SPANISH CLUB Firsl Row: Hixson, York Guslino, Linn. Second Row: Sills, Caw- thon, Thurman, Murphy Williams, McVicker, Loclcl harr, Larrabcc, McCor, mick. Third Row: Lonqlellow, Brown, Crouch, Miller PeirCC, Polls, Crumloy Campbell, Decker, Finch OH. Fourlh Row: lngrarn, Cline Leenion, Olson, Samaras Slreel, Ellioll, Tarman l-ledqecock, MacMurray. Fiffh Row: Freeland Woods, A. Pugh, Regan Reynolds, J. Puqh, l. Peers, Hess, Goold, Free- land, Lillick, D. Peers Daniels. Sixth Row: Finley, Galrell Bradham, Powley, M. Scullin, P. Scullin, Mc Farland, Jackson, Caslro' dale, Thomas, Cooksey. CONCESSIONS Sealed: Williarris, Musk. Sfandinq: Dalrymple, Pelry Miller, Campbell, Mrs. Smylha, Goold, Russell. F. H. A. Firs? Row: Dawson, Carler, Sills. Second Row: Dalrymple, Musk, Powley, Elliolf, Suhre, Galloway, Miss Brall, Mrs. Smylhe. Third Row: McElhaney, Bridges, W. Riley, H. Ri- ley, Mallhcws, McAvoy, Linn. Fourth Row: Puqh, Camp- bell, I. Peers, Goold, D. Peers, Daniels, Madison, Carter. Filfh Row: Collins, Kincaid, Shaw, Galloway, Law- rence, Ramsey. P000 28 The 19.47 Picayune