Mendota High School - Atodnem Yearbook (Mendota, IL)

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Relaxation or Book- Weary Students The band room, however, was a lively spot as Mr. Pierce's summer band practiced for their evening concerts in Blackstone Park. The FFA was active during the summer months as it had a picnic complete with all of the trimmings. The high school tennis courts also were occupied every sunny day with racket- swinging figures, attempting to wham the ball across the net. With the coming of August, the building began to come to life. New teachers were shown around the school and reg- istration was finally completed. The office buzzed with activity as schedules were planned and classes organized. The foot- ball field was covered with burly figures as football practice once more got under way. The Tri-County Fair was the climax to another summer. Be- tween rides on the Tilt-A-Whirl, the events of the coming school year were hashed out. School was about to begin.

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Summer? Plememt Interlude rowele RILLIANT Iune sunshine heralded the completion of an- other year of school at MHS. Books and homework were forgotten as the summer advanced. The Kitch was filled to overflowing with laughing kids in jeans and shirts dis- cussing their summer jobs. Detasslers came dragging in after a hard day's work, but proudly showing off their suntans or sunburns. Vacations were eagerly anticipated by many. School romances often faded because of that handsome boy at camp or that cute girl visiting the neighbors. MHS looked desolate even when decked out in all of her summer finery. Another graduating class had left her doors for- ever, but another group of freshmen were about to enter her doors, clutching their grade school diplomas. No students lolled about in the sunshine, waiting for the bell to ring. The halls were empty and the lockers were bare. Only the janitors moved around the corridors, busily preparing for another school year.

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olby Zif Due. .. Testin I-2-3-4 . .. Goof BROAD ll Tl G 0UNClL VEN BEFORE the first clay of school commenced, the school board placed before the junior and senior classes an ambitious plan to purchase a new public address system for the school. Various members of the two classes met to discuss the possibility of such an undertaking during the latter weeks in August. lt was proposed to finance the public address system by selling advertising to the local mer- chants. A booth was set up in the Floral Hall at the Tri-County Fair to conduct a survey of the merchants, ascertaining their reaction to the proposition. There was such a favorable response among the exhibitors at the Fair that one-half of the advertising contracts were sold before the first day of school opened. The sales committee under the guidance of Miss Payne and Mr. Mauntel successfully sold the remaining advertising contracts to the local businessmen. The contracts provided for TRAFFIC COMMITTEE TOP HOW: W. Engelbrecht. V. Gromunn, C. Prescott FIRST ROW: M. Ashley, G. Larson. Mr. Rollins. B. Waller twenty commercials over a two-year period to be given at football, basketball, and track contests. The advertisers could either write their own advertisements or submit their ma- terial to the copy committee. The feverish activities of the copy committee were supervised by Miss Swanson and Miss Breese. The committee members had to es- tablish contacts with all of the advertisers to get the material for the commercials. The col- lected advertisements had to be rewritten if they exceeded the word limit and then typed. The typed cards then went into the hands of Mr. Rollins and his traffic committee. The spe' cific duties of this group were to keep a record of when each commercial was announced and to be sure that every term of the contract was upheld. The announcing staff, coached by Mr. Pour' chot and Mrs. Doenier, carried on the actual broadcasting of all athletic events, special an- COPY COMMITTEE TOP ROW: N. Cummings, B. Pedersen, I.. Svendsen. I. Dun B M l M' S I t ' t dl Shoemaker. . uunte . iss wanson no pxc ure FIRST ROW: I. Fuller. C. Hoffman. N. Yost. Miss Breese. I. O x ft 'I A