Maroa Forsyth High School - Trojanaire / Maronois Yearbook (Maroa, IL)

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CLASS HISTORY In the year 1959, 26 freshmen started down the long road ealled High School Days. We were carefull. sunervised by Miss Maxine Beutke who helped lead us on the straight road to suc- CESS. Our student supervisors were John Koss Miller, President; JoAnn Longsdorff, Vice-President; Irene Mee, Secretary: and Allien Jones, Treasurer. a RA ae Our teachers were Ir. Nicols Miss Maxine Beutke, Miss Schulze,™ Mir. Swan, and Mr. England, ’ Yy,. Keves, Miss Stadtman, iss Sutton, Miss Settenfieid, Our class showed. gome Artistic avilitvy in making a nrize oP) winning float for the Homecoming Parade that vear,. In our Sophomore davs there were thirty-six students. Dur- ing the year Barney Holladav, Henry Gentry, Norma Larson. left our group and Jim Current joined us making a total of thirty- four at the end of the year.At a Fall Pottiwal: sponsoerdd ® pr the P, T. Av, a memper of our class,Dorothy Jones, was elected Fes-= tival Queen, Officers for this year were Albert Heim, President; Wesley Gardmer, Vice-President: Wanevy Marohl, Secretary; and Clarence Young, Treasurer. John Ross tiller and Norma Larson were mem=- bers of the Student. Council and Jack Caplinger and Dorothy Jones were on he Peo Comnittee. Mr. Swan left our vresénece to become a Medical Student while Mr. Lloyd took his »nlace in the science devartnent. Journeving farther to bdécorie Juniors we added Max Wiles and Alreva Fairchild’ to: our roll’ but unfortunately Charles Streich, Nancy Marohl, and: Ruth Streight left us. Another men- ber of our class, Mary Alice Current, was crowned Homecoming Queen. '-Officers this vear were Barbara larlatt, President; Allen Jones; Vice-fresident; Wesley Gardner,Secretarv; and lary Alice Current, Treasurer. Betty Lou Stoutendorotigh and Virginia Cramer were Student Council members and Everett Leisner and: Albert Hein were on the Pen Comnittees. A few changes were made in-our teache : ers. up, Hollew took the place of “p. Lloyd: and “r. Viseur reol Ss ced «r, England.

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In our Junior year, a vlav was given entitled Wedding Spells . The cast included JoAnn Longsdorff, Betty Lou Stout- enborough, Shirley Lou Smith, Shirley Heil, Virginia Cramer Clarence Young, Albert Heim, Join Ross Miller, Hers¢hei-Mekown, Ruth Streight, Irene Mee, and: Russell: Baldwin under the adirett- 2 ion of MisstSutton, During the summer Miss Beutke became Mrs,Harold Carpenters When she left in February of this year,Miss Studtman became our Home Room Advisor. In the last mile of our road at Maroa High we began with pO Scudents. Betty Dunham joined us in our last year while Alreva Fairchild and Doran Welt¥ left our groun, Doris Gordv, Marquerite Borowski end Everett Leisner finished at mid+term reducing our number. Our officers were: Herschel McKown, President; Weslev Gardner, Vice-President;Marijiorie Massev, Secretary; and Richard Tuggle, Treasurer. John Ross Miller and John Rose were our Stu» dent council members and Irene Mee and Shirley Heil were on the Peo Committee, . A very successful pldy was given entitled Don't Keep Him Waiting , Those taking part were Betty Lou Stoutenborough, Jim Current, Allen Jones, Albert Heim, Shirley Lou Smith, Charlotte Creekmur, Virginia Cramer, John Ross Miller, Shirley Heil, Her- shel McKown, Clarence Young, and Mary Alice Current. During our Semior year there were many changes in teachers, We increased our number of teachers adding Miss Smith. Mrs. Barnes renlaced Miss Sutton and Nrs.Turner relieved Mrs.Barnes. Miss Gouwens filled the vagancy in our Home Ec. Department. JoAnn Longsdorff .received the Good Citizenship D. A. R. Award. We had several good atheletes in our class. In football was Clarence Young, Jim Current, John Rose,Hershel McKown, John moss Miller. Revresenting us in Basketball was Jim Current, Clarence Young, John Ross Hiller, and Everett Leisner. Our Class is very vroud of Carl Anderson and Russell Bald- win. Carl and Russell joined the Navy in January of this vear, ena you can bet that every one of us ie Pignt UYonina chen or them, i As we see that the end of our journev is here we have but one remark to make, We're honing that those who follow our road through High School Days will have had the experiences,the good times, and the many fond memories that we have had in good old Me Gs Hey De .