Illinois Valley Central High School - Sequence Yearbook (Chillicothe, IL)

Text from Pages 1 - 56 of the 1945 volume:

EX LIBRIS 3ln Memoriam FRANK HARTZELL, JR. Class of '45 PAT MOONEY Vice-president, Class of '48 Band 1. 2. 3. 4 Operetta 1. 2. 3 Student Council 1. 2. 3 Basketball 1,2. 3 Football 1. 2. 3, 4 Track 1. 2. 3 Baseball 1 Baseball Mgr. 2 Tempest 3 Junior Play 3 C Club 3. 4 MAROON AND BLACK . Rosemary Mellcr . . Killy Edwards 11rlrn Haas M iss (dadvs Morrison CHILLICOTHE TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL Chilli€'otlie, Illinois DEDICATED TO iTliss iTiae T) 0 ona ueames 4 The 194 5 Maroon and lilack 6 The 1945 Maroon and Black MISS PAUI.A JURIC. B.M.E. Music and English MR. FRED BOHANNON. B.S. Science FACULTY MISS MAVIS CONLEE. B.E. Physical Education MR. ARTHUR LAMBERT. B.S. Biology and Coach MISS ETHEL GERBER. B.E. Commerce MR. WILLIAM JORDAN. A.B. History FACULTY MISS GLADYS MORRISON. B.S. Mathematics MR. GEORGE MERCER. M.S. Agriculture 8 The 1945 Maroon and Black CLASSE S SENIORS MARY AHLSTROM Commercial Operetta 1. 2. 3: Music 1. 2. 3. 4: Intramural 3.4; Tempest 4. ROBERT BIERWIRTH Academic Baseball 1. 2. 3. 4: Basketball 4: Track 1.2. 3. 4; Football 3. 4: F.F.A. 1. 2. 3, 4 (President 4); “C” Club 1. 2. 3. 4 (Presi- dent 4): Intramural 1. 2. 3: Yearbook 3; Vice-president 4. KENNETH BORNSHEUER Academic F.F.A. 4: Intramural 1, 2. 3, 4. PAT CASSIDY Academic Baseball: Basketball: Intramural. WILLIAM CRUTCHFIELD Academic Intramural 3. MILLARD DAILEY Academic F.F.A.: Intramural ESTELEEN DAY Business Tempest 4; Band 1. 2. 3. 4: Intramural 2. 4. Robert defoe Academic. 10 The 194 5 Maroon and Black SENIORS ELBERT DUCKWORTH Academic F.F.A. 1. 3. 4: Intramural 4: Tempest 4. KITTY EDWARDS Academic Operetta 1,2: Tempest I. 3. 4; Junior play, business manager: Yearbook 1, 3. 4 (Assis- tant editor 4): Secretary-treasurer 1. PATSY EMS Business Tempest 4; Intramural 2. 3. MARIANNE FLEETWOOD Academic Student Council 3. 4 (President 4): Oper- etta 1, 2. 3: Junior play: Tempest 2. 3. 4: Yearbook 3: Vice-president 2. 3: Orchestra 4; Intramural 1. 2, 3. 4. GILBERT GALLAGHER Academic Junior play: Track 2. 3; Baseball mgr. 4: In tramural 2. 3. 4: Student Council 4: Tempest 4. BARBARA GAUWITZ Business. JOHN GRAY Academic F.F.A. 1. 2. 3. 4; Intramural 1. 2. HELEN HAAS Academic Operetta 1.2: Tempest 4; Yearbook 4. busi ness manager: Junior play: Student Council 4. The 1945 Maroon and Black 11 SENIORS MARLYN HANNAH Business Operetta 1; Student Council 3: Intramural 2. 3. 4. ROBERT HAVERLAND Academic Pootball 3. 4: Intramural, captain. BETTY HESS Academic Intramural 2. 4. FRED KELLY Academic Football 2, 3. 4: Track 1; C Club 2. 3. 4 (Secretary-treasurer 4): F.E.A. 4 (Treas urer) : Intramural 1. 2, 3. 4: Operetta 1. 3: Tempest 4. ROSIE LOPEZ Business Tempest 4; Operetta. EUGENE MANOCK Academic Operetta 1; F.F.A. 1. 2, 3. 4; Intramural 3. 4. ROSEMARY MELLER Academic Student Council 1.2; Secretary-treasurer 3. 4; Tempest 4: Yearbook 4 (Editor); D.A.R. DEAN RIGGINS Academic Junior play; Baseball 3. 4: Track 3; Bas- ketball 4; Intramural 3. 4. 12 The 1 4 5 Maroon and Black SENIORS ROBERT SLEDGISTER Academic Operetta 1. 2. 3: Junior play; Basketball 1. 2. 3. 4: Track 1.2: Tempest 1. 2. 3. 4; Student Council 3. 4 (Secretary 4): Band 1. 2. 3. 4. President 2, 3. 4; Yearbook 1, 3: C Club 2. 3. 4. LORRAINE SMITH Academic Intramural: Student Council 2. HELEN SNYDER Business Operetta 1. 2. 3: Junior play; Band 1. 2: Tempest 4: Intramural 2. 3. 4. EDWARD SWEETNAM Business Basketball 2. 3: Football 3. 4: Baseball 3. 4; Junior play. Intramural 3. 4: “C” Club 4: F.F.A. 3 ; Band 1. 2. BETTY TALBERT Business Intramural: Operetta; Tempest 4: Junior play. MARILYN WAGLE Business Band, twirler 1, 2. 3. 4: Intramural 1. 2; Junior play. JANE WARRICK Business Intramural 3, 4 Tempest 4. DICK YARGER Academic KATHARINE YOUNG Academic Band 1. 2. 3 Junior play Intramural T empest The 1945 Maroon and Black 13 CLASS WILL We. the Class of '45, relinquishing all former claim to this mausoleum, do hereby bequeath this damp vault to the mortal re- mains of those entombed herein. With the deepest feelings of sympathy and compassion we leave this parchment as a fitting epitaph for those who here valiantly gave their lives in the futile pursuit of Education. To the underclassmen who repose in this burial mound, we will some grass seed to sow on their early graves. To the ghoulish juniors we wish to dedi- cate as a final requiem honoring their dead souls the composition Pomp and Circum- stance” as a fitting dirge for their last rites. To the termites, the school board, and the taxpayers we bequeath our light bills and other outstanding debts—the termites to gnaw on them, the school board to decide on them, and the poor taxpayers to pay on them. We award to Miss Morrison, for high bravery and valor above and beyond the call of duty, the Congressional Medal. She shall also be the recipient of a third Oak Leaf Cluster for meritorious service in the Smilin' Through Theater of War. To Mr. Nothdurft we leave a six-foot plot in Cutright Cemetery, so that when he retires, he'll have a bit of real estate to fall back in. I. Mary Ahlstrom. leave my scanty locks of hair to Jim Kavanaugh. my rival, to sup- plement his own. I. Robert Sledgister. leave my ability to hold my temper to Sonny Johnson and Yvonne Kowasch to nobody. I, Patsy Ems, leave my career at Wrig- ley’s Gum Factory to Miss Deames. I, Elbert Duckworth, leave my hot air to any country boy who has a windmill. I. Betty Talbert, leave my sense of humor to Dorothy DeFoe and my pleasing plump- ness” to Mrs. Pruett. I, Bill Crutchfield, leave all of my ability as a mixer of explosives to Mr. Bohannon, from whom I acquired my knowledge. I, Marianne Fleetwood, leave my moon- light maneuvers to Claire Anderson, while I, poor fish, devote the rest of my life to that great sediment love” and settle down as an army Bean (Jack Bean, of course). I, Kenneth Bornsheuer, leave to Mr. Jor- dan a little black book for the sole purpose of keeping track of the time future U. S. History students will have to make up. Let the following be their motto: “I’ll sit with my hands upon my desk And refrain from making myself a pest: I'll speak only when spoken to, Or I’ll be making up time for you.” I, Katharine Young, leave my hard-lead pencils to Mr. Wilkinson and my bubbling spirits to raise the water pressure in the drink- ing fountains so that one does not have to crawl inside to quench his thirst. I. Rosie Lopez, leave the ornaments I wear in my hair to Mary Colwell. I, Esteleen Day, leave my shorthand and typing ability to Virginia Gettel and my book on How to Become a Straw in U. S. History to Tom Fink. I, Jerry Yarger, leave my perfect” at- tendance record to Joe Foster and my mem- bership to the Gay Nineties” to Norris Blackwell. I. Jane Warrick, leave my voluminous army correspondence to Mary Agrue. know- ing she will keep it a military secret in the interest of all concerned—and who isn’t? I. Pat Cassidy, leave my class behavior to any sucker that doesn’t know me. 14 The 1945 Maroon and Black CLASS WILL I, Gilbert Gallagher, leave my Metropoli- tan Accident Insurance Policy to Jack King, knowing as I do how many telephone poles exist along roadsides; also I leave the follow- ing articles: one collapsible stretcher that fits in the trunk of a car, one package of Band- Aid, one “walkie-talkie” to communicate with the next of kin. I, Rosemary Meller, leave my renowned musical composition that completely finishes —and I do mean finishes—Schubert's “Un- finished Symphony to that wonderful group of fellow artists, the Chillicothe High School Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by the noted concert pianist, Wayne Wilkinson. I, John Gray, leave to Shirley Schwarz my beautiful, long, dark, lustrous, curling eye- lashes so that she may continue on her way as the Heart-breaker of C. H. S. I, Helen Haas, leave all of my “art (not necessarily dramatic art), acquired at play practice to Eleanor Keene. I, Fred Kelly, leave my stump-box oratory to Mr. Orville Nothdurft for use in his short. fifteen-minute addresses to the study hall, my free booklet on public speaking, and one glass of water. I, Lorraine Smith, leave my soft voice to Dwight Mullen in the hope he'll use it to good advantage. I, Bob Haverland. leave to these ivied walls my disgusted frown, as it was here that I first acquired it. My expression is but a fitting tribute to my glorious Alma Mater. I, Gene Manock, leave my “ad lib” com- ments in U. S. History to any misguided youth who thinks he can say them without incurring “Flash the Frigie-Dipper’s” wrath. I, Barbara Gauwitz, leave my quietness and classroom actions to Betty Roebuck. I, Dean Riggins, leave my ability to write everything about nothing and nothing about everything to Charles Hess, who really doesn’t need it. I, Marilyn Wagle, leave my long hair and my eyes that send you to Rosemary Shep- ard. I. Bob Bierwirth, leave my Casanova tech- nique to Jim Sheets and all of my high school flames to heat this drafty building next winter. I, Marlyn Hannah, leave my farmer’s ac- cent to Mr. Mercer, our Ag teacher. I, Millard Dailey, leave my two hours a day at school to anyone who cannot endure any more. I, Helen Snyder, leave my sparkling radi- ance to brighten up our trophy case. I. Robert DeFoe. leave my principles, as set forth in my extraordinary thesis, to any- one who wants to know how to be the first to find the answers to the history questions Mr. Jordan asks. I, Betty Hess, leave my literary master- piece. Memoirs of R. R. No. 2 to the school library to provide the student body with an- other book report. I, Ed Sweetnam. leave my powers of con- versation during class hours to Marilyn Welch. I. Kitty Edwards, after serving my sen- tence of four years in this “house of correc- tion and being released on my record of good behavior, leave . . . just leave. We, the undersigned, the Class of '45. do hereby reaffirm the above document as our last Last Will and Testament and sorrowfully depart, leaving our little “chums.” the stu- dent bodies, to pursue the Four Freedoms, freedom of the press (Tempest), freedom of speech (study hall), freedom of opinion (class meetings), and freedom from oppres- sion (everything in general). Signed, sealed, and slapped together this twenty-third day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-five. Class of ’45, C. H. S. The 1945 Maroon and Black 15 CLASS PROPHECY Browsing through the 1955 WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA, we came across the modern vintage of John Pierpont Morgan, the noted John L. Gray, who had worked himself up from cal! boy on the Santa Fe to senior partner of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. He had married his wife (how odd!) after a serious illness in which he was at death’s door—but she pulled him through the window. His bride, the former Marilyn Wagle. wore orange blossoms, and little else, as she was picked Miss Chillicothe” in a beauty contest. Another renowned personage, the Honorable Reverend Fred Kelly, D.D., was hailed as the most inspiring preacher of all time. His oratory at the pulpit was so impressive and so vigorous that thousands journeyed to his parish just to see him in action. A tireless worker, in his spare time his hobby and avocation was raising prize hogs. The Nobel Prize was awarded to Merrianna Fleetwood for her out- standing play, The Fleet Fairy,” which is still running on Broadway, starring that great stage and scream artist, Betty Talbert. Merrianna. ac- cording to the United States Government figures, pays the largest income tax of anyone in America. And to think she was always broke. Dr. Katharine Young, the finest doctor of psychology in America, discovered a new process of treatment for psychopathic cases. Unfortunately for Dr. Young, she is now in a psychopathic ward herself, recovering from a complete nervous breakdown. She was made an honorable member of the Royal Society in 1954. Esteleen Day. typing on an electrotype machine, with a bucketful of water on each wrist, won honors as being the fastest typist this side of para- dise. Helen Snyder competed in this strenuous contest, but her wrists snapped under the pressure of the water; and she was rushed to the Haver- land Clinic where her bones were set by Dr. Bob Haverland. Rosie Lopez, the Mexican bombshell, has a five-year option at Metro. This expired but under Samuel Goldwyn’s heated arguments was renewed for another five years. Betty Hess, petite airline hostess, invented a new parachute the size of a compact. On her first trip as stewardess, the plane developed engine 16 The 1945 Maroon and Black CLASS PROPHECY trouble. The entire crew and passengers had to bail out. Poor Betty had to share a chute with a 275-pound co-pilot. Betty decided from then on to carry her own. Gilbert Gallagher won the cup in the national auto races. He used his old car. put some high octane gasoline in the tank, tucked a meat chopper under the hood, and stepped on the gas. He came past the grand- stand two dust clouds ahead but didn’t stop; he couldn’t—his brakes weren’t working. He finally halted in a cement culvert. This modest young man is now compiling his auto biography. “We,” to sell in twenty-five-cent editions. Helen Haas, a piquant Powers’ model, was chosen as the most popular model in the United States. She has endorsed 200 makes of automobiles. 300 brands of tooth powder. Absorbine. Jr., for those tired, aching arches. 600 boxes of cough drops. Dr. Scholl’s Zino-Pads. and J. C. Penney and Co. shoe strings in one year alone. She is now working on a campaign for Wayne Chicken Mash. Professor Patrick Cassidy. Ph.D.. M.A., B.S., M.S., etc., professor of English at the University of Chicago, collaborated with Opdyke, Candy, and Skinner to write a graduated set of English grammar texts. Miss M. D. Deames took summer school under his excellent tutelage. Barbara Gauwitz, the leading Hollywood star (according to top box office figures), spurned her passionate sweetheart. Roderigo Roderiguez. for love of another. Roderigo committed suicide on a four-lane drag.” (Hmmm, messy.) Fortunately the leading undertaker on Hollywood and Vine. Dean Riggins, ran out with his embalming fluid and took care of the body. Miss Gauwitz then faced a jury trial for putting trash in the street. “Hanging Judge” Kenny Bornsheuer, who convicted every man who took the stand, immediately acquitted La belle Gauwitz. Judge Kenny in- formed the jury that Mr. Riggins had tampered with the evidence by re- moving the body to a cut-rate coffin before the police arrived and that, therefore, Mr. Riggins was the guilty one. Dean protested against this, but the jury brought in a 1 2-0 verdict of “guilty.” Riggins was borne away screaming. I’ll see my lawyer about The 1945 Maroon and Black 17 CLASS PROPHECY this! I've got my rights! .... Hedda Hopper's column: Miss Gauwitz was seen at the Palladium with Judge Kenny the same night.” Bob Sledgister and Mary Ahlstrom. the Castles of today, opened a studio of dance in New York where they taught Russian Ballet to talented performers. Eugene Manock and Millard Dailey took lessons there for years till Bob and Mary closed down in self defense. The team Sledgister and Ahlstrom went on the Conga line: the team Dailey and Manock went on the bread line. Jerry Yarger became a member of the Prairie Ramblers” on WLS where he sings through his nose, too. Bill Crutchfield applauds for the program. Jane Warrick howls about the goodness of oleo: but we watched her—she uses butter on her bread. Ed Sweetnam ran for president of the school board again and again and again. He pushed legislation for a girls' lounge and a boys’ sleeper. 1 was a boy once myself, he creaked. This measure didn't get through, however, because Ed's rheumatism prevented his coming to all board meet- ings to plug for it. Marlyn Hannah tends children by the hour—her children. She has the orneriest brats in her block. Patsy Ems is another matron. She mar- ried after a brief fling in the business world—with her boss. Lorraine Smith, bank president, recently floated a loan to free Rose- mary Meller from the county jail. Rosemary had a long record: one arrest for passing a red light, one “pinching for nor having a driver’s license, one for removing a little cement curbing on Main Street in Peoria, and the last for running over a motorcycle cop. Elbert Duckworth has a farm bloc in Congress. He advocates govern- ment leasing of horse troughs to all farmers of the Middle West. also, insulated straw hats for summer besides French-seamed overalls. Ducky is thinking of running for Secretary of Agriculture as a personal favor to Mr. Mercer, who assured him that the administration needed a new back- sticks hick to further the production of soy beans, corn, wheat, beef, and 18 The 1945 Maroon and Black CLASS PROPHECY alfalfa. Elbert’s latest experiment was to cross a razor-back hog with a sheep so that it could do its own shearing. This, he thought, would solve the manpower shortage. Foreign Minister Molotov made a special journey to Elbert's home taown to confer on Soviet Russia's “growing prob- lems.” Bob Bierwirth, swimming instructor of McGrath Sand and Gravel Company (in other words the gravel pit), jumped in the foaming brine and saved his darling Clementine.” He lost his class ring through this brave deed and had to plunge in after it: but as he could only dog-paddle, he was accidentally sucked into the water hose and came out with the washed gravel. Bob DeFoe. section gang worker on the Long Shore, Renchville. South Rome, Rome, Chillicothe. and North Chillicothe Consolidated Railroad, had his own little putt-putt.” He just got it on the track when Nothdurft’s Comet was due. He took it off and thirty minutes later the Comet crawled by. He just got it back on the track when a slow freight trailed through. He had to take it off for that: then he put it back on again. A doodlebug” tooted its horn, sending him off again. He put it back on and putted” to the next crossing, looked at his watch, and dis- covered it was dinner-time. He left the hand car on the track, forgetting about the return trip of Nothdurft’s Comet. Therefore in the middle of his lunch, he was forced to remove it. But did he give up? No, not he! His was a one-track” mind. Kitty Edwards is now a linematron for the Public Service Com- pany of Northern Illinois. She became so fascinated one day by the colors and shapes of the insulators on the telephone poles that she resolved to in- vestigate. Now she has become firmly attached to her work (and it to her) and remains constantly by it. Her close connection with this job has made possible various creations that have revolutionized the whole electrical field. Among these is a splinter-free telephone pole which makes the work much more comfortable. The things they print in WHO'S WHO ! The 1945 Maroon and Black 19 JUNIORS Back row—J. Fisher. J. Stoecker. L. Salmon. J. Boyer. C. Mann. H. Hart. J. Mooney. M. Dunlap. Front row—C. Hess. E. Keene. D. Philyaw. B Lewis, L. Edwards. M. Montonyc. W. Scoon. M. Sarver. J. Gilmore. 20 The 1945 Maroon and Black JUNIORS Back row—P. McCormick. B. Smith. J. Sheets. H. Arnold. T. Fink. Front row—R. Coultas. C. Simpson. M. Hanny. D. Mullen. S. Ferguson. J. Murphy. M. Gettel. Back row—K. Boylan. T. Damm. C. Droll. J. Kneer. S. Schwarz. M. Bierwirth. E. Scheafcr. Front row—L. Lopez. M Crutchfield, D. Carlisle. E. Vonk. E. Anderson. B. Roebuck, I . Davis. N. Bertschi. • The 194 5 Maroon and Black 2L SOPHOMORES Back row—P. Burkholder, M. Colwell. H. Baer. L. Medina. N. Blackwell. J. Mercer. M. Agrue. B. Cook. L. Russell, J. Merdian. Front row—R. Kelly. A. Huerta. M. Welch. D. Taylor, W. Murphy, J. Kavanaugh. Y. Kowasch. B. Mc- Laughlin. R. McDonough. P. Israelson. 22 The 194 5 Maroon and Black SOPHOMORES Back row—B. Sturgeon. A. Johnson. M. Colwell. B. Davis, D. Schubert. A. Scmtner. J. Reeder. D. Mullen. D. Rogers. Front row—J. Magee. F. Davis. M. Gordon. D. DeFoe. M. Ferguson. M. Day. M. Kriete. B. Edminster. Back row—B. Montonye. H. Passage. W. Carroll. R. LeMastcr, J. Anderson. K. Stiers, L. Adams. B. Yager. B. Salmon. Front row—C. Allington, P. Kelly. A. Nurse. J. McDonald, M. Miller, S. Mooney. B. Schlosser. K. Hannah. The 1945 Maroon and Black 23 Back row—B Murphy. J. Horan. H. Johnson. B. Anderson. D. Bradley. B. Houser. D. Israelson. Front row—J. Scott, D. Duckworth. L. Shepard. L. Stoecker. K. Damm. J. Poster. K. Colwell. 24 The 1945 Maroon and Black FRESHMEN Back row—E. McDonald. G. Huckins, D. Smith. Front row—R. Baker. B. Allington. L. Adams, J. Cox. L. Manock, B. Simms. Back row—R. Wait, T. Nurse. B. Hart, A. Mathison, B. Miller. Front row—W. Schaffner. B. Stedman, P.-Meller, B. Rusk. A. Razo. The 194 5 Maroon and Black 25 FRESHMEN Back row—A. Placher. R. Friedrich. C. Anderson. N. Flynn. Front row—P. Albert. M. Nelson. F. Welch. A. Claycomb. T. Stahl. D. Dickinson. Back row—B. Simmons. M. Alton. D. Schilling. M. Pasquay, J. Cox. A. Beaumont. Front row—O. James. W. Flowers. L. Haushahn. M. Crose. V. Rennolet. G. TerVeen. 26 The 1945 Maroon and Black FEATURES Le l to right—J. Sheets. N. Bertschi. C. Mann, M. Dunlap. P. McCormick. J. Mooney. S. Pcrguson. S. Schwarz. THE JUNIOR CLASS Presents THK LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN Directed by Wayne Wilkinson Cast Dr. Haggett Susan Haggett Abby Mrs. Haggett Ada Haggett Warren Creamer Tallant Rosen (art dealer) Davenport (art critic) Phil McCormick Nadine Bertschi Elinor Anderson Selma Ferguson Shirley Schwarz Jim Sheets Claude Mann Jack Mooney Marvin Dunlap Crews Stage—Claude Mann. Jack Mooney, Robert Jones. Jake Gilmore. Donna Mullen. Props—Jane Murphy, Virginia Gettel. Publicity—Tom Fink, Carol Droll, Dick LeMaster. Business—Jack Fisher, Betty Roebuck. Makeup—Marilyn Hanny, Donna Carlisle. 28 The 1945 Maroon and Black The Frosh proved to be good sports by doing everything willingly the ornery Sophs would force them to do anyway. The committees must certainly have racked their brains to find unusual and embarrassing costumes for the Frosh to wear. The poor 'greenies' ” knees must have been lacerated after crawling around the study hall floor. No doubt their backs ached, too. from cringing to the floor boards at the Sophs' despotic battle cry, “Air Raid!” The layers of lipstick, rouge, burnt cork, chalk, eyebrow pencil, et cetera, apparently came off for the Frosh Party that night—along with the skin underneath. Remember Bob Houser wheeling Margaret Crose around the gym in a little red wagon? Remember Margaret Crose wheeling Bob Houser around the gym in a little red wagon ? Then there were those four boys who had to peel onions and push them across the floor with their noses. The sophomores didn't play fair, however; they paddled the poor victims en route. Later the freshmen were served refreshments—the usual mess” of cider and doughnuts. Friday night, March 23. after the final games of the class tournament for girls' basketball, the sophomore Pirates” sponsored a dance, the Pirate Prance.” From about 9:30 to 11:30 they danced to the music of the juke-box. The main object of interest was the tag dance, for which a basketball was used. After this was over, a few of the basketball stars were seen trying out their shooting ability: but when a few couples got hit by the ball, they stopped, and things proceeded as usual. The juniors particularly enjoyed the evening after their victory in the tournament. This dance was put on as a project for the Junior-Senior Prom next year, which the class of '47 will sponsor. 30 The 104 5 Maroon and Black JUNIOR-SENIOR PROM On the starry night of May 1 1, the annual Junior- Senior Prom was held. Blue streamers, silver stars, and a gold quarter-moon gave things a dreamy atmos- phere. The banquet, preliminary to the dance, pro- ceeded in fine style. After everyone had devoured their chicken and accompanying food, the junior class president, senior class president, and our princi- pal gave short speeches. Mary Alice Montonye en- tertained with several vocal selections. The dance began about 9:00 in the ballroom, which seemed like the outdoors with the moon shin- ing brightly midst the stars. Ray Dixon’s orchestra furnished the music. Climaxing the evening was the Grand March led by the Prom King and Queen, Er- nie Arnold and Carol Droll. As the clock struck twelve, the juniors, seniors, and their dates left the music-filled room with light hearts after having spent a very enjoyable evening GRADUATION So we stumbled up the aisle to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance,” treading heavily on the heels of the kids” before us. Though Gallagher threatened to go barefooted and Bierwirth to wear two pairs of sweat socks to make them the same height, both, actually, stomped up the stage steps in obviously new, black leather shoes. Everyone tried to get a back seat on the platform so that he could smuggle in and drink pop during the tiresome gradu- ation ceremony. We all went out to celebrate that night, worrying ' Henry,” one of our two local policemen, nearly to death by our caterwaulings. We gorged on ice cream and anything else we could get under the national ration laws. Some of us spent the night with fellow revelers so that we could get in late: but instead, we got in early—just ask the milkman. The 194 5 Maroon and Black 31 TEMPEST STAFF Editor—Carol Droll Assistant Editor and Business Manager— Marvin Dunlap Ramblin' Thru the Classrooms—Selma Fer- guson Freshman News—Walt Schaffncr Sophomore News—Phyllis Burkholder Junior News—Jane Kneer Senior News—Robert Slcdgister Student Council—Marianne Fleetwood Sports—Jim Sheets and Phil McCormick The Mirror—Fern Davis The Spotlight—Bob Brown Musical Notes—Paul Mackey Fxchangc—Donna Mullen F.F.A.—Elbert Duckworth Feature Editors—Ruth McDonough. Tom Fink, and Pat Israelson Sharps and Flats—Janinc Mercer Boy Scout News—Dwight Mullen Girls’ Physical Education—Mary Agruc Boys' Physical Education—Bob Sims Hobby Hints—Jack Reeder Birthdays—Marilyn Sarvcr School Calendar—Philip Meller ”C” Club—Fred Kelly Song Hits—Mary Terese Stahl and Audrey Claycomb Society Column—Mary Pasquay The Dustpan—Shirley Schwarz. Mary Lou Davis, and Jack Fisher Girl Scout News—Marilyn Welch Illustrator—William Carroll Between the Bookends—Marilyn Hanny Fads and Fashions—Elinor Anderson and Betty Roebuck North Bus News—Emma Vonk South Bus News—Mary Ferguson Typists—Mary Ahlstrom. Esteleen Day. Kit- ty Edwards. Patsy Ems. Helen Haas. Rose- mary Meller. Robert Sledgister. Helen Snyder. Jane Warrick Advisers—Miss Hurt and Miss Deames 32 The 194 5 Maroon and Black MAROON AND BLACK STAFF Editor—Rosemary Meller Assistant Editor—Kitty Edwards Business Manager—Helen Haas Publicity Manager—Tom Fink Reporters—Yvonne Kowasch. Mary Agrue. Bob Brown Adviser—Miss Morrison The 1945 Maroon and Black 33 Orchestra and Soloists Left to right—Marianne Fleetwood. Pat Israelson. Bob Brown. Tootic Davis. Front row—Jack Horan. Jim Anderson. Paul Mackey. Barbara McLaughlin. Claude Mann. Back row—Mr. Wilkinson, Pat Israelson. 34 The 194 5 Maroon and Black Girls' Chorus First row—P. Burkholder. P. Israeison. T. Davis. W. Scoon. A. Placher. Y. Kowasch. M. Ahlstrom. P. Kelly, D. Taylor. R. McDonough. Miss Juric. Second row—E. Vonk. J. Magee. M. Montonye. S. Schwarz, M. Ferguson. A. Nurse. D. Mullen. M. Day. M. Welch. Third row—N. Bertchsi. D. Carlisle. S. Ferguson. M. Fenn. M. Bierwirth. J. McDonald. B. Talbert. D. DeFoe. J. Mercer. M. Agrue. M. Hanny. H. Baer. E. Anderson. J. Merdian. Dramatics Left to right—Dwight Mullen, Ruth Coultas. Bob Bierwirth. Claude Mann. Rosemary Shepard. Bob Barker. The 1945 Maroon and Black 35 Student Council Front row—Nadine Bertschi. Helen Haas. Marianne Fleetwood. Bob Sledgister. Barbara McLaughlin. Mary Lu Nelson. Elinor Anderson. Back row—Bill Murphy, Tom Fink. Charles Johnson. Gilbert Gallagher. Adrian Johnson, Phil McCormick. Mr. Nothdurft. F. F. A. First row—R. Baker. K. Damm. L. Stoecker. M. Walker, C. Hess. C. Allington. G. Davis, B. Davis. Second row—F. Kelly, E. Manock. B. Ratliff. L. Duckworth, E. Schaeffer, L. Rusk, K. Bornsheuer, D. Duck- worth. Third row—B. Sturgeon, M. Dailey. J. Gray. B. LeMaster, E. Duckworth, C. Johnson, A. Hosier, J. Stoecker, Mr. Mercer. 36 The 194 5 Maroon and Black Library Left to right—Jack Mooney, Marilyn Hanny, Pat Israelson. Back row—Jack Mooney, Marvin Dunlap, Jack Fisher. Mr. Nothdurft. First row—Mary Ahlstrom. Marilyn Hanny, Willa Scoon. The 1945 Maroon and Black 37 38 The 194 5 Maroon and Black The 194 5 Maroon and Black 39 • 1. v X s: §5 XV A. Johnson, C. Johnson, B. LeMaster, J. Sheets. H. Johnson, J. Fisher. B. Sturgeon. J. Anderson, R. Schlos ser, Manager. BASKETBALL CHILLI’S SCORING THROUGH FEBRUARY 2 FG FT PTS Mooney ..... . 31 9 71 Brown ..... . 47 21 115 Mann ..... . 42 26 1 10 Johnson, A. ... . 16 9 41 Johnson, C. 5 8 18 Bierwirth . . 13 1 27 McCormick .... . 24 18 66 Sheets ..... 4 3 11 Fisher ..... 4 0 8 Sledgister . . . . .29 10 68 The 1945 Maroon and Black 43 Front roiL'—P. Mooney. B. Stedman. J. Hoian. J. Callahan, E. Arnold. J. Buck row—B. Sturgeon. J. King. A. Johnson. P. McCormick. J. Mooney. Simmons. B. Haverland. T. Fink. B. Brown. B. Murphy. D. Israelson. R. Wait. K. Burkholder. C. Johnson. C. Mann. B. Bierwirth. E. Sweetnam. F. Kelly. J. B. Allington. Mr. Lambert. Fisher, B. Houser. FOOTBALL Chilli 6 Washington 7 Chilli 6 Central 38 Chilli 0 (!) Eureka 26 Chilli 12 Bradford 6 Chilli 0 (!!) El Paso 6 Chilli 0 (!!!) Dunlap 12 Chilli 12 Toulon 24 The 1945 Maroon and Black 47 Homecoming Nineteen forty - four’s Homecoming drew the largest crowd since this event’s origin. The queen was crowned at the half on a crepe paper float adorned with silver stars. The queen was sophomore Jane Magee; her attendants were senior Marilyn Wagle, junior Nadine Bcrtschi. and freshman Mary Lu Nelson. Bob Sledgister. secretary of the Student Council, crowned Her Majesty at the north end of Cutright Field. Chilli won the Homecoming game (the first victory of the season)—Chilli 12, Bradford 7. The Student Council engaged Mel Brookings’ orchestra for the dance follow- ing the game. Baseball Front row—J. Cox. B. Allington. J. Callahan. B. Roebuck. D. Israelson. J. Horan. D. Bradley. L. Medina. J. Thornton. E. McDonald. K. Damm. W. Schaffner, R. Kelly. Back row—Coach Lambert. J. Gilmore. J. Fisher. P. McCormick. H. Johnson. D. Riggins. E. Sweetnam. J. Mooney. C. Johnson. J. Sheets. B. Bierwirth. D. Mullen, J. Anderson. A. Johnson. B. Houser. B. Brown. H. Passage. G. Gallagher. The 1945 Maroon and Black 49 Track Front row—J. Cox. B. Allington. J. Horan. L. Adams. B. Arnold. D. Bradley. D. Israclson. G. Roebuck. R. Hunt. Back row—Coach Lambert. A. Johnson. B. Houser. J. Sheets. C. Mann. B. Bierwirth. J. Mooney. P. McCormick. J. Callahan. C Club Left to right—B. Houser. T. Fink. H. Johnson. F. Kelly. B. Brown. B. Bierwirth. C. Mann. B. Sledgistcr. J. Sheets. J. Mooney. E. Sweetnam. P. McCormick. J. King. J. Fisher. C. Johnson. M. Dunlap. A. Johnson. Coach Lambert. 50 The 1945 Maroon and Black SPONSORS Wait Bros. Plumbing and Heating Chillicotlie Produce Co., Alex Thornton Carroll Realty Co. Shore Aeres Country Club H. V. Thomas, M.D. S. A. Smith, M.D. C. F. Case, D.D.S. Sadie’s Beauty Shop John Scott Caldwell’s Super Service Store Tom's Shoe Shop Kelly’s Quality Store Carlisle’s Drug Store J. C. Penney Company Feldman’s Store Sunset Cleaners Gamble’s Store Ariston Cafe Compliments of A. P. Stores The Chillicotlie Bulletin F. E. Lynds, Jeweler Edwards Furniture Co. Moflitt’s Drug Store Hunter Lumber Co. Boh Poppen’s Market Geiger’s Cash Hardware King Cleaners Ben Franklin Store Brumhead’s Grocery Elliot's Restaurant Pennington's Barber Shop The First National Bank of Chillicotlie People’s Building and Loan Association o f Chillicotlie The Zinser Agency Roy’s Market Buckingham’s Texaco Service Station S. R. Northrup Young Service Station and Garage National Loan Co. Truitt-Mat thews Banking Company Chillicotlie Federal Savings anil Loan Co. Fred Scheeler, Insurance Frank E. Bacon Murphy’s Cafe Kerasote’s Palace Theatre Chillicotlie Ice and Fuel Co. Santa Fe Restaurant Chillicotlie Dairy Stoecker Tire ami Battery Co. Ladd’s 66 Station Koeli Transfer Co. L. J. Clayton, D.C. Ross Plaeher’s Grocery Deep Saad Confectionery Myer’s Produce Co. Ringenherg’s Grocery Passage’s Shell Service McGrath Gravel Co. Anderson Funeral Home Semtner Food Market Mitchell Agency, Real Estate and Insurance Weber Funeral Home White Star Motor Coach Linn’s Grocery Welch Service, Fourth and Cedar Gunther’s Furniture Co. Dunbar's Standard Service Gem Cafe Hick’s Insurance Co., Insurance, Real Estate, and Notary Public Chic-A-Dee Inn Peters Floral Co. Hough Grocery Bean Grocery Sweetnam Floral Company The 1945 Maroon and Black 51 AUTOGRAPHS ACKNOWLEDGMENT Our sincere thunks and appreciation to Mrs. Kichard Zinser and Rev. Harvey W. Young for the pictures in this hook. A Twitieo Yearbook. Twin City Printing Co., Champaign. Illinois O' '.Jit-. 5 ✓ aft «o • ■ ,fi r ■ • •- .. -v .5 ;•• h, JVJf. • ' s� • -