Meredosia Chambersburg High School - Chief Yearbook (Meredosia, IL)

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CLASS HISTORY Eight years mastered, four yet to go. That is what might have been heard from some of the freshman students in September 1944, when they all came back to school to start their high school career. High school meant settling down, working hard, and trying their best to act like, or rather be, ladies and gentlemen. If you looked this group over well, you would have found the eighth grade graduates of the Meredosia Grade School. Robert Alhorn, Charles Arnold, James Boyd, Rowland Crum, Frances Floyd, Robert Gobel, Norma June Floyd, Virginia Mayes, Odessa Rausch, Doris Ruyle, and Mary Scott. From the country, the freshmen were: Leland McAllister, GailStaake, LaVern Alhorn, Alleane Berghaus, June Ham, Bernita Hoffmeier, Rose Ann Steinberg, and Anna Belle Workman and Norma Jean Werries. There were several students who started back again as freshmen with us. They were: Jackie Allen, Courtney Easley, William Floyd, and Thelma Parks. This made a total of twenty-four freshmen. The main event of our freshman year was initiation. During the year Virginia Mayes and Leland McAllister took part in a one-act play. Going into our sophomore year, we had only seventeen students left in our class. Rankling from our initiation of the year before, we shared whole-heartedly in giving the freshmen a rousing welcome into high school. With our sophomore year over, we had two more years to go. At the opening of our junior year, we had twenty-two students. The two main features of our junior year were very important to us. We received our class rings, and in May, we gave the seniors their treat of the year. This was the Junior-Senior Banquet. The banquet was held in the basement of the Methodist Church. After the banquet, a dance was held at the high school. At the beginning of our senior year, the last lap of our high school career, we had twenty students. We had a very exciting and busy senior year. In November we gave a one-act play. Also, we had charge of the school paper this year. In December, we chartered a bus and took a trip to St. Louis to see Sonja Henie’s ice revue. The D. A. R. Award was given to Bernita Hoffmeier. This year we were the ones to sit back and watch the juniors make plans and last minute preparations for the Junior-Senior Prom. Oh, for the life of a Senior!!! As our last year of high school is drawing to a close we look back on the happy memories, and wish we could live them again. We look forward to the future, straighten our shoulders, and hold our heads high. Our high school days at M. C. H. S. will always be cherished in our memory.