Metropolis High School - Illohmet Yearbook (Metropolis, IL)

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FRESHMEN CLASS OFFICERS President Ella May Wemhoener Vice-President Milton Helm Secretary Robert McClusky Treasurer . Robert Gillespie Reporter Dorothy Jean Sturgis Sponsor Miss Melba Fullmer FIRST ROW: Le Roy Robinson, Philip Barton, Alex Harrison, Robert Gillespie, Vernon Johnston, Robert McClusky, Raymond Conley, Jr. McDuffee, Willis Brannon, Randel Reames, Wid Curtis Taylor, Thomas Riley. SECOND ROW:Juan Louis Lackey, Charles Davis, Milton Helm, Robert Anderson, Floyd Lasley, Melvin Rushing, Mary Hornbeck, Marjorie Swinson, Joe Ann McLaughlin, Evelyn Frink, Ruth Mescher, Ruth Elaine Baker, Roselyn Barolet, Kathleen Smith, Helen Carvel, Ollie Anderson, Melba Cummins, Nellie Barton. THIRD ROW: Gadys Phillips, Vida Mae Stagman, Helen Hovercamp, Marjorie Williams, Prudy Swinford, Lillian Ferguson, Louise Conger, Jean Strubinger, Ina Lois Bohannon, Mary V. Davis, Dorothy Jean Sturgis, Lavene Reynolds, Verna Stout, Mary Charles Lavender, Rosemary Ryan, Mary Akins, Billie Kruger, Ethel Thomas. FOURTH ROW: Katherine Jones, Mary Lucille Mescher, Evelyn DeJarnett, Ruby Schaffer, Dorothy Willis, Eleanor Wilfred, Paula Whitton, Betty Fleming, Adeline Kotter, Mary Lee Johns, Ella M. Wemhoener, Grace Evans, Mirelyn Johnston, Elmer Gibson, Geneva Grandstaff, June Moss, Helen V. Hall. FIFTH ROW: Clyde Martin, Charles Evans, Otis Mescher, George Burton, Howard Snieder, LeRoy Huckelberry, George Evers, Billy Cooper, Wallace Maddox, Paul Parkins, Norman Proffit, Lindell Shirk, Jesse Hayes, Lee Hill, John Rogers, George Shaw, M. F. Whitton, Paul Morris. ABSENTEE. Eleanor Jean Cummins. On the twenty-seventh day of October, the Freshmen Class, had a Halloween party. The seventh day of December, they sponsored a show at the Illinois Theatre, entitled, “Hot Water,” making eighteen dollars. The Freshmen gave a play before the assembly entitled, “Not Quite Such a Goose.” In May another show was sponsored at the Elite Theatre. A class picnic was held in the latter part of May.

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THE PERSONNEL OF THE BAND CONDUCTOR RICHARD A. FIOCCHI DRUM MAJORS NORMAN STEELE, VIRGIL SMITH FIRST ROW: Richard A. Fiocchi, director, Lindell Shirk, Maurice Kidd, John Bill Estes, Robert Park, James Haley, Billy, Cooper, Norman Steele. SECOND ROW: Dorothy Willis, Jean Barbour, Edna Foreman, Billie Wetherington, Robert Korte, Ella Mae Wemhoener, Dorothy J. Sturgis, Juan Louis Lackey, Jack Kidd, Carl Mescher, Eleanor Wilfred, Joe Zaricor, Wid Taylor. THIRD ROW: Joe Powell, Paul Parkins, Mary P. McDaniels, Virginia Hall, Wilma Mescher, Charles Davis, Robert Graman, Robert Anderson, Warren Main, Robert Elliott, Blane Kennedy. FOURTH ROW: Dale Baker, Louis Stratmeyer, Verna Pitt, Calista Starks, Evelyn De Jarnett, Mary L. Mescher, Katherine Baccus, Virgil Smith, Le Ray Huckleberry, Donald Baccus. The Band, again, made considerable progress during the school year and added several new members from the beginning Band. The addition of the new members together with the progress made will insure Metropolis a good Band at the beginning of the next school year. The Band held weekly programs in which Band members participated by rendering solo, duet, and trio selections. This helped to develop that kind of playing that is constantly in demand by the civic organizations of Metropolis. Those graduating from the Band this year and receiving gold medals for their four years of service in the Band are:: Dale Baker, Katherine Baccus, Robert Elliott, Robert Graman, Blane E. Kennedy, Robert Park, John Bill Estes, Warren Main, and Jean Barbour. The Band played for all of the football and basketball games, for other school functions, for County Teachers’ Institute, for the Massac County Fair Association, for the Metropolis Woman’s Club, and for the Metropolis Rotary Club. Members of the Band participated on numerous occasions on musical programs at school and in the community for various civic organizations. The Band gave an open-air concert for the celebration of Music Week which was sponsored by the Woman’s Club. The Band led two parades through Metropolis during the school year. The Band made two trips during the year—one to a football game at Fulton, Kentucky, and the other to Harrisburg, Illinois, and participated in the parade, with other bands, at the District Rotary Convention. Each Band Member received a Band letter at the close of the school year. The social events in which the band participated during the year were a picnic and a dinner with the Metropolis Rotary Club.