Macomb High School - Spiderweb Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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1 lie Best Y ears As I stood today by my locker door And gazed at that hollow space, I felt as empty as those old shelves That once held my books in place. That bare empty locker, brought back all the times I’d stuffed it with pencils and pens. And papers and books, and gym clothes and coats, A hundred and one odds and ends. I’d rememberd the times I had fought with the door In a hurry to get on to class But now I was sorry I never had known How swiftly I’d let the days pass. At last much too late, I could only remember Those parties, those dances, the prom, All the fellas and girls, all the ball games and plays, And taking report cards home to mom. Each Homecoming bonfire, the game and the dance. With everyone happy and gay. The chats in the halls, with a group of good friends. The small things that happen each day. The naps caught in English, or some other class, The assemblies, the dancing at noon. The hours in gym class and practicing plays All are gone with the past and too soon. As I stood in the hall I suddenly found That my thoughts had made me grow sad. That I hated to leave those four years behind, That I’d loved them the good and the bad. It’s true that we all feel a little unhappy At the end of four high school years But they’re mixed up together, both gladness and sadness. With a sprinkle of last minutes tears. Ahead in the future in some old dresser drawer, We will find a dusty old book Where we’d long ago laid it, with an old orange M Or medals for honors we took. And we’ll pull out the book and the medals and M And say to a daughter or son, “Now this was my class of the year forty-nine, And these are the honors I won.” The daughter or son may laugh at the pictures In the yellow old Spider Web’s pages But that story’s not new, it has happened before And will happen again through the ages.

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BOB “GOOK” ROE Student Council, Thespian, Jr. Sr. Class 1’lays, Football, Track, M Club. LOIS ‘RED” ROSS Hand, Glee Club, Jr. Sr. Class Flays, Spider Web, Jr. Sr. Sub Deb, C.AA, Pep Club. MARGARET “LEFTY’ SANDERS CAA, Jr. Sr. Sub Deb, Contest Play, Spider Web, Sentinel Staff. MARY ANN SHIELDS CAA, Cheerleader, M Club, Thespian, Sr. Class Play. RODNEY SHRYACK STANLEY “STAN” SLUSHER Basketball. Football, Baseball, M Club, Thespian. Band. Jr. Sr. Class Plays Speech Contest Play. POLLY STOFFT Treas. Sr. Class. CAA, Jr. Sr. Sub Deb, Spider Web, Pep Club. MARION “COONIE” STONE KING Baseball. Sr. Class Play, Pep Club. Thespian, Student Council, Basketball, M Club. JOHN BARSI” STURM M Club, Hi Y, Football. CARRIE THORPE CAA, Sentinel Staff. RICHARD “DICK” UNDERWOOD Jr. Sr. Class Play, Football. Speech Contest Play, Track, Pres. Thespian, Baseball, M Club, Capt. Basketball. RUSSELL “PERCY” VAN HOOSER Football, M Club, Thespian, Basketball, Jr. Sr. Class Plays. KENNETH “KEN” BARTH FFA, Track. Sentinel Staff.

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Crystal Gazing One of the representatives of the Senior Class reached into the Surprise Package of 1949 and believe it or not he found a crystal ball. The class looked into the crystal ball and then they found the following prophecies. Dottie Arnold, you remember her name, is now head coach at Notre Dame. Jeanne Arnold, an active member of G. A. A., is now trying to teach children how to play. Kenneth Barth ran a hamburger stand until the meat grinder ground up his hand. Bonnie Blevins lives in a shoe, she had to move when her rent came due. Pauline Brummell, that cute little thing, sits at home waiting for the phone to ring. Bill Buchholz searching for new slaughters, he is now playing for the Globe Trotters. A marvelous girl is Guzzler Bugg, in one mighty swallow she can empty a jug. You all remember Helen Burke, well she got married so she wouldn’t have to work. Mary Bushnell is now a blond, she washed her hair when she fell in a pond. An unhappy man is Lawrence Cale, for being drunk he is now in jail. Kenneth Chenoweth is busily working on his farm he wrote a farmers book entitled, Do the Chicks no Harm”. Admiral Collins might have been a great sailor, but the sight of the ocean makes him seasick and paler. A dangerous girl is Eloise Corder, to stay out of jail she crossed the border. A popular novelist is Coplan Joan, she wrote a book on how to catch a man. A sorry man is Donald Deener, some body fed him a rubber weener. Richard Dickason this book did edit, for all the dirt we give him credit. A famous gag writer is Damon Featherlin, at his own jokes he forces a grin. Judy Fluegel is still full of pep. teaches dancing and is really hep. A talented girl that Foxall named Rita, she is leading a band better than Mikita.