Mendota High School - Atodnem Yearbook (Mendota, IL)

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were a strong part of the short life of the Latin club. When squeaks were heard from the hand room. or a 'fsoloi' in chorus, you could he quite sure that our mistakes were forgiven, for we were just learning, Ol course the boys went. out for football. lfven though the sophomores had the advantages, before the year was over the freshmen could take it. too. for three of them won their letters, tThey won- dered if the team could have won the conference ehampionshipeas it did-without them.J When basketball season came, the freshmen had their own teamfthe nTrojettes.'i They were really enthused about it and w on well over half their games. But donit think we didn't. study. There was plenty of slaving over the infernal TXT talgebra. of eoursel and the confounded conjugations of our Roman forefathersg tat least we remember hamo. amas. amatnt. And donlt forget the bones of 'LCravel Certiew. At homecoming time we selected Betty Mathesius as queen of our class. and Janice Pohl and Dorothy Bruck as her attendants. After having time to get acquainted, we chose our ollficers. lack Keele was presidentg Evelyn Sollitt, vice-presidentg and ,loan Truckenhrod. secretary-treasurer. Of course we c-hose four rep- resentatives in student councilfljyelyn Sollitt. Janice Pohl. Dora Lee Rider. and Deliores Preston. Our advisers-Miss Pottinger. Mr. Morris, and Mr. Nortongwere instrumental in the guidance of the class. back the hands 0 Besides homecoming. we had our freshman party for social life. and that pretty well ended our first year at MHS. SOPHOMOHES-this TIME weire Mupperv lowerclassmenl The hrst day is Tniore like itii. Maybe the freshmen ask you to help them. Don't you feel Ubiggerv? Soon petitions were circulated. ballots formed. and our second eleetion held. Results? The presi- dent was Pat Phaleng he was assisted by Joyce Roach. vice-president and Lorna May Schlesinger. secretary-treasurer. Jim Cehler joined the four girls tpoor limit representing us in student eoun- cil. The advisers were Mr. and Mrs. Doenier. Mr. Pourchot. and Miss Mabel Brown. Before long came football andfhomeeomingl This year we were to have a king and queensMax Fayen and Orrie Spenader-and an attendant for eaehfRalph Gibson and Celia Hoover. The float was a Msnazzyw convertible decorated in the class colors-green and white. As for football?-gee. were we proudl The lay Tees won the conference title again. lncidentally. they lost only one game-and that by just one point. Wllat a heartbreakerl Then when basket ball came. we had reason to be proud of our team again. No-no title this time. But they won a pleasing majority of the contests. This year some of us fought with Caesar lliter- ally. or otherwisel. constructed triangles. and dis- sected Tthings . tone girl was heard to say: TDon't touch itl You'll hurt itfil TIM JUNIOR CLASS PLAY BACK ROW: E. Jewel, J. Truckenbrod, D. Ohlinger, L. Dunn, Mr. Moogk, D. Rider, J, Klein MIDDLE ROW: H. Oberholz, S. Scherger, D. Preston, J. Pohl, V. Young, J. Dougherty FRONT ROW: J. Roach, B. Schwingle, E. Sollitt, L. Thompson, T. Auchstetter gms wimi-1 ww., -nl-fmmmmmmmmmmnrn. in in-11

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SENIOR OFFICERS STANDING: Miss Swanson, Mr. Mauntel, Miss Breese, Miss Brown, advisers SEATED: D. Ohlinger, Sec.-Treas., R. Leiser, Pres., J. Roach, Vice-Pres. HISTORY - Turning RIQSHMEN-itis TIME to heginl How low can you get'?'7 they say. Thats true. so let's get started! Boy, were we nervous that first awful flay in September of l948l tYou see, were the class of '52.,t We certainly appreciated those 'gbigu student 1-ouncil members. who showed us where to go to our classes, her-ause the place didnit look at all that hig from the outside. But the nearly one hunclrefl 'clreshiesn soon Caught 0Il+9Vi'l1 how to open their lockersgancl it wasn'l long lmefore everyone knew everyone else-- almost. The main reason was that they were really active. Yes. we made ourselves known in all the organizations-FFA. FHA. CAA. flehaleg and we hut we all have to start there some time.

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Do you E IUR One of the outstanding events of the year was selecting our class rings. I canit decide which one I wantf' Where am I gonna get the money?i' And later. '4Letis sce yoursf' Vife were just the second ones to get ours our sophomore year. To climax our sophomore year. we were asked to serve at the prom. tOf course we knew theyld ask us. hut it still was rather thrilling.l JUNIOHS-now the TIME has come when we are upperclassmenl But we still need a little super- vision lat least they seem to think solg therefore. the advisers who led us through a busy and difficult year were Miss Payne. Mrs. Elsesser. Mrs. Bryant, and Mr. Norton. The officers-Delsores Preston. presidentg Ralph Gibson. vice-presidentg Sandra Scherger, secretary-treasurerfdeserve a great deal ol thanks for the way they responded to all the responsibilities placed upon them. ive were sorry, however, to lose Ralph to the Navy during the year. Howard Schmidt was chosen to join the student council. Our class was still important in keeping all the activities Hgoing strong. Several became officers of organizationsg some excelled in debate. speech. and dramatic workg others participated in music activities. But, again, studies were not neglected-always. Wie all remember Mdigging up our ancestors-for our autohiographics, naturally. Maybe the chem- istry classes didn't learn how to split an atom, but they surely did a good joli of Nstinking out the rest of the students. This year for homecoming each class had a queen and a king. Cuess who ours werel That's right- Dora Lee Rider and Leonard Dunn, How did you know? You must have hccn there. too. Speaking of football twe were mentioning home- comingj we were pretty proud again. Now our boys are Trojans-big Hvarsity men. And gee- were they goodl Champs, in fact. Yes, they won for MHS the southwest division of the North Cen- tral Conference. The Trojans played some really upsetting'5 basketball. Over hall' the games were won. They unexpectedly beat high-rated DePue during the season. and thensin the finals of the regional tourneykalmost stopped them again. Remember HOur Miss Brooksm? This was our first chance at professional drama-the junior class play. The main 'icharactern was Janice Pohl, who was admired by her angelic l?'??l students. Remember all the complications-in the plot. of course. Really, it was quite a success. if we do say so ourselves. After long meetings, much strain on the brain. and a lot of hard work. our prom was a huge suc- cess. lAnd thatis no exaggeratiolrl ive set a new record for attendance. We had to hand it to the seniors for being so sociable and co-operativc. The theme was i'Neptune's Nocturnew. and the dance floor was decorated to resemble the bottom of the sea. The other end of the gym-where we ate- was Hahoard ship. Were you one of those who gasped upon looking at the menu? The mock iisea gullsii tasted O.K., though. SIQNIOHS-the TIME had come! Thatis rightg we're the biggest 'iwheelsii now. The Hrst day. weire on the giving end of advice and help to the freshmen, instead of as it was three years ago. Yes. were pretty thrilled to be seniors. We took up the business of the year in a really experienced man- ner. Serving as president was Dick Leiser. Joyce lioach was vice-president. and Darlene Ohlinger. . - -gm m . -tw... Aa vw l PROM CHAIRMEN BACK ROW: R. Sihigtroth, H. Schmidt, R. Leiser, C. Rich, J. Truckenbrod THIRD ROW: S. Scherger, J. Roach, D. Rider, D. Preston, P. Meuley, D. Olson SECOND ROW: Mr. Norton, Mrs. Bryant, Mrs. Elsesser, Miss Payne, Mr. Mann. FRONT ROW: E, Jewel, M. Harris, P. Mclaughlin, B. Spcnier