Hoopeston High School - Picayune Yearbook (Hoopeston, IL)

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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

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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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v, f f 5 .w 1 'vi' :ww fa., P -T. SDAN This year's Spanish Club consisTed oT TiTTy-Tour members, wiTh Armenia York as presidenT, Pauline Hixson as vice- presidenT, Delores GusTine as secreTary, and MilTon Linn as Treasurer. Miss Andersen was our sponsor unTil The end of The TirsT semesTer, when she resigned as Spanish and English Teacher. For The remainder of The year, Miss Joy Covey, The new Spanish Teacher, was our sponsor. During The year we had various parTies and geT-TogeThers. in The Tall we all wenT on a hayride To McCormick's Cabin. where we kepT up The harvesT TradiTion by roasTing apples. LaTer, we celebraTed Halloween wiTh a parTy aT Carol Crouch's home in The counTrv, where we helped The spooks wiTh Their midnighi pranks. ISH C .UB The purpose oT The Spanish Club is To promoTe a beTTer undersTanding wiTh people in Spanish-speaking counTries. wiTh girls and boys a laborious Task To This was accomplished by corresponding who live in l.aTin-America. IT was quiTe Those who received replies Tound ThaT Their Spanish-speaking Triends are much wriTe leTTers in a Toreign language, and more deTT aT wriTing in our naTive Tongue Than we are in Theirs. We enioyed learning oT Their schools, home-life, and culTure as iT was relaTed in These leTTers. The Spanish Club is one of The mosT acTive organizaiions in our school and has proved To be one of The mosT popula' among The sTudenTs. CGHCESS ONS Your choice of candy. popcorn or pop if you have Ten cenTs. ThaT's righT, everyThing sells Tor Ten cenTs. IT you have ever aTTended any of The home TooTball or baskeTball games you probably know righT now wha+ corner oT The gym or Tield This Type of conversaTion comes Tram. lT is Those angels of mercy for whaTever you wish To call Theml, The concession sTand members, speaking. As candy was raTher hard To geT aT The beginning of The year, we inTroduced The selling of popcorn To The public. We made quiTe a proTiT Trom These sales. ThaT pleased all of us. since The money earned goes inTo The STudenT Council Treas- ury and brings To John Greer inTeresTing speakers and enTer- TainmenT. Mrs. Schrock. a former sponsor. leTT aT The end of The TirsT semesTer. AlThough we haTed To see her leave, we were pleased To welcome Mrs. M. Smyfhe, who sTepped in and conTinued in Mrs. Schrock's absence as our sponsor. Only eighT girls are needed To Tend The concession sTand, buT There were several oTher girls who worked as subsTiTuTes. and we wish To Thank These girls for Their splendid help. The regular commiTTee This year consisTed oT Business Manager. CharloTTe Ann Russell, Julia PeTry, RuTh Ann Egnew, Mary Leigh Goold. Alice Campbell, Virginia Dalrymple, Peggy Musk. and Joan Williams. I, Tor one, Think everyone should give These girls Tiffeen hearTy rahs Tor all The splendid help They have given To- ward making The games more enjoyable. ve ' F.I.. The FuTure Homemakers oT America began The year wiTh a Tormal iniTiaTion. All who had earned Tour hundred poinTs or more received Their chapTer pins. The Theme for The club This year was A Twig of The Branch , which means ThaT This chapTer is one Twig of The disTricT, which is a branch of The naTional organizaTion or The Tree. Miss BraTT and Mrs. Schrock were sponsors Tor The TirsT semesTer. buT when Mrs. Schrock leTT, she was replaced by Mrs. SmyThe, who carried on her work. Under The direcTion oT The following oTTicers: Doris Powley, president Peggy Musk, vice-presidenT: Elaine EllioTT, secreTaryg Helen Suhre, Treasurer: Jean Galloway, reporfer, and Virginia Dalrymple, corresponding secreTary. The chapTer enjoyed a successful year. ,'. The 1947 Picayune 16 . . A For The purpose oT raising5.,i,'pone2f:2Qi'i1e'i club operaTed a coaT-check aT The baskeTball 4jaQri.e32rjQQfQThanksgiving and ChrisTmas They Tilled baskeTs andlf-Vfpviejhem To Two needy Tamilies and also made several garmenTs Tor The Children's Home aT Danville. During The year a neighboring chapTer was enTerTained, and in April The eighTh grade girls visiTed a meeTing. ln addiTion To These many acTiviTies, Two F.H.A. delegaTes are senT To STaTe Club Camp aT EasT Bay. Bloom- ingTon, every AugusT. The club was very TorTunaTe To have Miss Hazel HaskeTT of The sTaTe oTTice spend a day aT John Greer. She gave The girls new and beTTer ideas Tor earning pins and The fouls: Tfomemaking degrees To add To The chain guard oi Their chap! Tag pins. The members are all looking forward To The honor of wiearing Their hard-earned degrees. Page 29