Jacksonville High School - Crimson J Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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SIENIURS Hazel Knight Beaumont Kumle lim Lair Thelma Lawson Beverly Lindley Iune Little Beulah Looker Bettiiane Marshall Iohn Marshall Ruth Massey Mardelle Maurer Ella Mae Megginson Ruth Meyer lim Million Geneva Norvell Edith Nunes Mari Margaret Pires Melba Potter John Reed Frank Reeve Henry Reinders Carroll Rexroat Claribel Reynolds Merle Richardson Elouise Robinson

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tainer for her remaining years of high school. Flash! l'ettes dood it againl Second Sadie Hawkins Day held in the history of Newton Bateman-gala event. lncidentally, gals, for exclusive rights to her newest novel on How To Catch a Man-Via Dogpatch , per- sonally see Miss Ruth Sheptenko, belle of the HS. H. Ball-l942 fmust have been that outfit, huh?l Fighting for this year's pin-up ac- claim are beautiful, blonde Dottie Woodall and green-eyed, lrish Mar- cy Cox. Little foe Evemeyer is fast becom- ing a crack shot at basketball. Big things are predicted for that boy, though as yet, he and Dale Hudson make a comical pair on the floor. Front page newsl limmy catch me if you can, girls Million is the choice of the D.D.D. association fdelegation of desperate debutantesl as the man they'd most like to be marooned on a desert island withvfifteen years from now tyou know, lthink they've got something therell A lunior Chapter is now being or- ganized under the leadership of Mary Carter and Helen Vieira. They call themselves the D.S.D. fdisillusioned sub-debsl and have recently inter- viewed the following pledges, the only immediate requirements being No lovefno nuthin' ffrom the song of the same name published two years laterl: Louise Baldwin, Betsy Beale, Ruth Skeets Brogdon, Midge Col- well, Fern 'lPeaches Coultas, Elizabeth Cris Hart, l'Beta Lena Hacker, Liz- zy Hardy, Thelma Lawson, Ruth Mas- sey, Mardelle Maurer, Hazel Rachel Knight, Mid Wheeler, Claribel Cookie Reynolds, Betty Butch Rush. The three new additions to this years class were made mascots - Merle Richardson, Gilbert Todd, and Gene Crabtree. Being new makes a world of difference you know. They were the only available males trusting enough for maybe just indifferentl to get taken in . lohnny Wurtsbaugh, that man about town , is now organizing a simi- lar chapter for the masculine popula- tion of l. H. S.-or suffering humanity, consisting at present of Warren Brune four camera fiendl and Harry 'lBuck Hubbert. Remember kids? That was the year when parties were featured attractions, and every party eventually wound up with all the little boys bunched togeth- er on one side of the room gaping in open-mouthed awe at all the little girls crowded together, giggling and whis- pering on the opposite side of same. Ohl blissful childhood-how well do we rememberl I. H. S. 1943 A new chapter in our young lives- and the first signs of real accomplish- mentl Not only had we now joined the vast ranks of the upperclassmen- we had something special on the ball. You see, conventionalism was a thing of the past-almost completely un- heard of. This was the era of the zoot-suit and the sloppy foe sweat- er. Even a new lingo had come into being. Though styles may be short- SENIOR GALS

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S lE N ll 0 R S Betty Rogers Carol Roy Bernita Rudisill Betty Rush Velma Schall Patsy Seaver Margaret Sevier Ruth Sheptenko Don Shumaker Aileen Simpkins Norma Skinner Frank Slagle Alan Smith Elizabeth Snyder Mariorie Snyder Doris Spencer Phyllis Stone Iacqueline Tankersley Bob Taylor Elizabeth Thurmon G. H. Timmons Gilbert Todd Bob Underbrink Helen Vieira Bette Waggoner