Hoopeston High School - Picayune Yearbook (Hoopeston, IL)

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PICAYUNE BUSINESS STAFF Seated—Mr. Whitehouse, Suddarth, Gatrel, Simms, Crouch Standing—Robertson, Preston, Hurst, Gress, Green The purpose of the Picayune Business Staff is to reduce the cost of the Picayune to the students. The cost of printing each volume is $5.00 and it is sold to the students for $1.50. So you see many of us could not afford to buy one if it wasn’t for the Picayune Business Staff. The Staff's two main jobs wfere to sell the Picayune and to sell advertisements. These jobs they have done very well. The Staff as a whole consists of the fol- lowing veryl able workers: Ken Crouch. Philip Sims, Don Cawthon, Josephine Green, Peggy Hurst, Evelyne Suddarth. Madge Gress, Bob Cawthon, Dale Preston, Mabel White, Hollis Robertson, and Bette Gatrell. They have done very well, and they are to be commended for their work. Mr. Whitehouse is tthe sponsor. PICAYUNE EDITORIAL STAFF Seated—Walsh, White, Meers, Patton, Collins Standing—Mell, Bauer, Bush, Correll, Tavlor, Echard, Brown, Kelly, N. White The Editorial Staff of your 1950 Picay- une, has had a grand time preparing this issue for dear old Alma Mater, John Greer High School. Staff members are as follows: Mary Patton. Betty Collins, and Bob Merritt, seniors: Ruth Kinder and Peggy Kelly, juniors; Mabel White and Mary Lou Bauer, sophomores; Natalie 'White and Arlene Bush, freshmen. Miss Meers is the sponsor. We have started the gTeen freshmen sailing on their four year journey, and have docked the honorable seniors at home port. We’ve had meetings and meetings, And meetings galore, And orders and orders. And orders some more. Although there’s been work. And sweat and tears, We hope you’ll enjoy it For years and years. JOHN GREER SPOTLIGHT STAFF 1st Row: Hammond, Jones, Peers, Dilley, Kelenhofer, Cawthon 2nd Row: Mell, Leftwich, Worthall, Healy, Scott, Wilson 3rd Row: Simms, Metz, Huber, Echard, Gatrel 1th Row: McVicker, Correll, Meers Our High School is quite proud of the bi-weekly publication. The Spotlight, which had an able staff of officers in- cluding as editor-in-chief. Bill Wilson; news editor, Dorothy Mell; feature editor, Marcia Jones; circulation manager. Pat Correll; secretary, Janet Echard; salesman, Luther Carter; sponsor, Miss Meers. The copy readers, Beth Metz and Sandra Umbanhowar, also the typists, Donna Mc- Vicker, Donna Evans, Carol Goodrum, and Shirley Lockhart have been a great help in making the publications a real success. The reporters have the privilege of earn- ing a silver pin for 60 inches of Spotlight news and a gold pin for 120 inches. The Spotlight was printed by our local printers, The Chronicle-Herald.

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STUDENT COUNCIL 1st Row: Hoover, Below, Toney, Mell, Wilson, Metz, Scullen, Bross 2nd Row: Kelley, McVicker, Ingram, Merritt, Preston, Robertson, Correll, Retry, James 3rd Row: Linn, Hammond, Cawthorn, Watkins, Wilson, Green, White The Student Council is an organization of students elected by their respective classes. Each year four freshmen, four sophomores, six juniors, and six seniors are elected. The officers for the year were Bill Wilson, mayor; Dorothy Mell, Clerk; Beth Metz, Treasurer; and Vivian Toney, .Magistrate. The sponsors were Miss Below and Mr. Hoover. As a main project for the year they sponsored the annual Home- coming. They also sponsored the Courtesy Campaign. The Student Lounge is also under the supervision of the Council. When a member of the student body is ill or a member of their family has died the Council sends flowers to them. Eight mem- bers went to the district convention at Decator. Miss Below, Dorothy Mell and Mabel White attended the state convention of Peoria, April twenty-first and twenty- second. Once each month the Council pre- sented an assembly program of an educa- tional or an entertaining nature. HONOR SOCIETY 1st Row: Linn, Potts, Clem, Toney, Wilson, McVicker 2nd Row: Sanders, Leftwich, Galloway, Crouch, Mell The only exclusive club on board is the National Honor Society. Fifteen per cent of the senior class and five per cent of the junior class were chosen to be new mem- bers. Each was ranked numerically accord- ing tc his scholastic standing, character vote by the faculty, and according to his ranking in total activity points earned by leadership and service. They took their places in the club at an impressive candle- light service before the student body in the latter part of October. On the first day of November, the Honor Society started its drive to earn the $100 for a scholarship given each year by spon- soring a dance. It sold Cornjerker pencils and pens. In the spring, it sponsored a spelling bee. The winner received a silver cup with his name engraved on it. With the assistance of Miss Sanders, the sponsor, Vivian Toney proved to be a very capable captain. STUDENT LIBRARIANS Metz, White. Miller, Hix, Evans. Wilson, Correll This year John Greer has had a group of valuable and efficient student librarians. Those that have worked all year are Mabel White. Pattie Hix. Beth Metz, and Barbara Miller. Others that have worked one-half year and part time are Pat Correll, Vonna Correll, Donna Evans, Patty Hur t, and June Wilson. Dorcas WTinters teen was typist and file clerk. The main job of the librarians is to check in and out books. Then they collect the money that is due on some book. They also keep the library books in their special order. It was esti- mated that over four thousand books were checked out.