Lyons Township High School - Tabulae Yearbook (La Grange, IL)

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LOUISE BAKER . . . According to all reports this dignified young lady who walks down the hall so sedate- ly turns wildcat on the basketball floor . . . She finds most enjoyment in the pleasures gained from litera- ture and from music . . . Miss Baker is gracious, quiet, assured and al- ways willing to cooperate. IUANITA BARGER . . . An ardent and extremely enthusiastic chewing- gum participator . . . Likes to read, play tennis . . . Collects stamps . . . Was an actress in the Fresh- man Theatre . . . A live wire with plenty of shocking power . . . Played in the band as a freshman and as a sophomore. MARIORIE BAUERS . . . A little gal from way down south . . . Stars in the Virgil class and club . . . Can she ever sock that little white golf ball around . . . Four years of Girl Reserves to her credit . . . A passion for Spanish . . . Knows how to pick her clothes . . . Dabbles in tennis . . . Belonged to Teenya. FLORENCE BERGQUIST . . . Blue- eyed blonde . . . Hard to tell when she is around, she is so very quiet . . . Always hearing things she's not meant to, so they say . . . Likes puns and pomes mixed with her typing and shorthand . . . And did you mean it when you made that mischief dance in your eyes? Out for track. CLIFFORD BIELBY . . . Those gor- geous waves the girls adore reveal work of the night before . . . A country boy with modern ideas . . . Chief pastime is hunting in the wilds of Ioliet and Wolf Road woods . . . Socked home runs his first two years in school . . . O-league . . . Span- ish club member. ROBERT BODWIN . . . Tall, dark, and you can look at his picture for the rest . . . Came to us from Oak Park and before that Burlingame high . . . Participated in lightweight football, basketball, track, and box- ing at this time . . . A Playmaker in El Tee . . . Has made a big hit with everybody, especially the girls. Page ll IANE BABCOCK . . . Is mathemati- cally and scientifically minded . . . Belonged to the Science club and to Teenya her fourth year . . . Is a satirist at heart . . . Knits in her spare time, and oh those Friday nights??? Was an officer in the Girl Reserves her last two years of high school. WILLIAM WESLEY BALLARD . . . Shines in football, basketball, and baseball . . . Blows a mean trom- bone in jazz or symphony . . . Or- chestra and band have been his school activities . . . To say nothing of his scholastic abilities . . . An ardent stamp collector . . . Boasts a lovely crop of red hair. WHITMAN BARTLEY . . . One of the few fellows from Western Springs who remains home on Fri- day nights to study . . . Bashful boy but tops in sports . . . Execu- tive abilities . , . A bridge addict . . . President of the German club his fourth year . . . Played light- weight football when a senior . . . Track man, also, 3, 4. MARGARET BEHRLE . . . Artistic tendencies . . . Belonged to the A. A. K. her second year . . . In the line of sports she participated in soccer and did a little hiking on the side . . . Margie wants to be an air hostess and has the required qualifications . . . Her quiet and sociable ways will be an asset to her. AGNES BIELBY . . , Her poems are something togmite home about, if t re's!lfnyo'ne there . , . Athletic ntlusi st . . . Belonged to G. A. A. . . . . Splanish club . . . Teenya too . . . Said to be nerve racking to teachers but manages good grades at the same time, believe it or not . . . Ouite a combination, what! IACK BLACKMORE . . , Hockey ex- pert . . . Bridge fan . . . Who or what is Annie? Kicked the football all around in the lightweight divi- sion as a junior and senior . . . A Hi-Y convert his last year . . . Fun to be with . . . Possesses more than half a wit . . . In fact a good three- fourths half wit, or sumpthin . SET RECORDS AS

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LEONARD MIDDLETON . . . Tops in our top sports of football and basketball . . . Ask him if you want know, he'll tell you, and how! ...President of the senior class . . . Six foot blond viking of El Tee . . . Did a little acting in the sopho- more class play . . . Loves the girls and the girls love him. CASHMAN LAFFERTY . . . Secre- tary of this senior class . . . Main- stay of the track cmd cross country teams . . . Captain of the latter, 4 . . . L Club man . . . Member of French club . . , Cash plays a mean game of tennis . . . Favorite pastime is making models of trains and automobiles and such . . . On '37 Tab staff. EVERT BARTHOLOMEW . . . Schol- astic and leadership qualities . , . Likes all kinds of music . . . Played the trumpet in band and orchestra ...Ledaband of his own... Also interested in journalism . . . Worked as a member of the Tab staff . . . Evert was bays' treasurer of the senior class. MARY ELLEN AMIDON . . . Hasn't been with us long . , . Comes from Lindblom high, Chicago . . . A stu- dent with ambition . . . Leisure spent in skating and tobogganing . . . Tennis and riding in the sum- mer . . . But her week-ends are a mystery . . . A gay disposition and tact has already won ,her many friends. EARL G. ANDERSON . . . Signs himself as Esq. II . . . Hails from Rockford, Illinois, where he attend- ed the Abraham Lincoln junior high school and the Rockford senior high . . . Was a member of the Student Council his first year . . . Intra- mural basketball was his sport . . . Was in El Tee Hi's Spanish club. WILLIAM AVERITT . . .Iust plain Bill . . . Quiet lad until you know him . . . Interested in photography and radio . . . Played lightweight football his third year . . . Tennis his fourth . . . He's a Spanish stu- dent and club member . . . Was a Hi-Y enthusiast his second and third years . . . A wrestler, too. I937 SENIORS STEPHEN PLASMAN . . . Vice-pres- ident of the senior class . . . A pop- ular fellow and a busy man . . . He is the owner of the amateur ra- dio station WQYOC . . . Treasurer of the senior Hi-Y . . . President of Science and Math club . . Has the very commendable habit of winding up on the honor roll regularly. LOIS PAYNE . . . Senior girls' trea- surer . , . Little and blonde with an infectious laugh . . . Spends part of her time in summer on the golf course, swinging her clubs and hit- ting the balls??? Was one of the cast in the sophomore class play . . . Played hockey and soccer , . . Member of G. A. A. I and 2. CHARLES AGUILAR . , . Round- faced and dark-eyed Charles car- ries with amazing grace an impene- trable silence . . . A silence which speaks of many thoughts , . . De- scended from Mexican stock, Charles was a brilliant Spanish student . . . A willing helper and and industri- ous student . . . A true gentleman, courteous and respectful. DOROTHY ANDERSON . . . Held an efficient hockey stick while a freshman . . . Went out for G. A. A. too . . . Played in the orchestra the following year . . . Left us to attend school in Springfield, Illinois, as a junior but returned to us in '37 to graduate . . . At this time joined the Home Ec. club, Teenya. THEODORE AVERITT . . . Slim, lanky, and athletic . . . A great practical joker . . . Not a lover of work . . . He's a great football end . . . He outjumped all opponents at center on the Masonic Home's rec- ord-making basketball five last winter . . . Very popular, but often the despair of his friends , . . An excellent chess player. NORMAN AYLESWORTH . . . Mot- to is See America First or Go West, Young Man, Go West . . . Reported to be following in Astaire's footsteps . . . Likes horseback rid- ing if he can stay in bed the next day . , . Will come running if any- one yells redcap . . . Is blessed with a sense of humor. Page 10

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FRANCES BOSH . . . Plenty of au- burn hair, and do we love it! . . . Been quite active in her school life . . . A Spanish club member . . . Also belonged to Teenya . . . Went out for hockey and G. A. A. her freshman year . . . Will run a mile, not for Camels but for any friend . . . Likes to laugh except in cooking class. NANCY BREEN . . . Last of a ser- ies of Breens to attend L. T. H. S. . . . Parlez-vous 'd in French club . . . Congress representative . . . Her hobby, which is art, may be- come her vocation . . . Was an ac- tress in Playmakers . . .'Has Irish eyes and Irish wit . . . O. E. O., Teenya . . . Her heart is in Texas. ERNEST BROCKSCHMIDT . . . A writer . . . Ambition to travel and write as he goes . . . Hurls a mean javelin . . . Knows his track . . . Noted for his sincerity . . . Also scholastic tendencies . . . Brock uses fifty-cent words as if he knew what they meant . . . Bowls . . . Belonged to German club his third and fourth years. IOSEPI-IINE BROTIE . . . Little and industrious . . . Lets off steam by means of athletics, in which she has had four successful years . . . And the Pep club . . . Treasurer of the Senate and secretary of German club and A. A. K .... Said to prefer redheads, but blondes seem plentiful among her escorts. ROBERT BROWN . . . A great little golfer Cover 80 is a bad dayl . . . Waits all summer to play hookey and then waits all winter to play golf again . . . Captain of the school's golf team . . . Resides in Western Springs, where the men are men but the women haven't found it out yet . . . Belonged to Spanish club. ROBERT BURCH . . . Lover of ra- dio and eats . . . Played heavy- weight basketball . . . Overlooks more kids in one day than anybody else . . . However this excess height does not spoil his swell per- sonality . . . A track and cross-coun- try man . . . Was boys' treasurer his sophomore year . . . Sang in the glee club. ACTORS VIRGINIA BRANUM . . . By the looks of her, a follower of Vogue . . . No mean actress, she held star- ring roles in junior and senior plays . . . The type to be seen only with top hots, white ties, and tails . . . Her chosen field is dress de- signing and eventually to become a buyer . . . Is on her way to being somebody in radio. HELEN MARIE BRINKMAN . . . This very blonde-haired lass seems quite talented musically . . . Plays both piano and saxophone . . . Good dancer . . . Member of the orchestra during her senior year . . . Plays in a dance orchestra outside of school . . . Attended Hinsdale high school her first two years. RUBY BROKER . . . Seems to have become suddenly very interested in sports her last two years . . . She went out for volleyball, basketball, hockey, and soccer . . . She became a member of G. A, A .... Said to be a clothes expert . . . Also re- ported as a bit bashful . . . Verne is her interest at the moment. IOHN BROUGH . . . Swimming and ice-skating are favorite seasonal sports . . . Red Cross life guard . . . Ambition is to drive a car for Barney Oldfield and in the Oldfield manner . . .Slides the trombone in the band . . . Belonged to the Sci- ence and Math club as well as Hi-Y his fourth year . . . Works all day like a Trojan. IAMES BUNT . . . Played light- weight football his last three years . . . Learned how to use his fists when he was a sophomore . . . He already knew his wrestling from ex- perience gained his freshman year . . . Spanish club his avocation . . . Being so pleasant that it's fun to buy gasoline from him, his tempo- rary vocation. CLARENCE BUSCH . . . Star of lightweight football . . . One of fast- est and trickiest of backfield men . . . Iunior boys' treasurer . . . Mem- ber of Student Council and presi- dent of the Spanish club . . . Blushing is an art to Clitz . . . Bowled and played baseball last year . . . A swell kid, well liked by everyone. Page 12