Metropolis High School - Illohmet Yearbook (Metropolis, IL)

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g g gg gggg A gg ILLQHMET - - 1946 First Row-eLeft to Right: Betty Wiseman, Audrey Richardson, Betty Tanner, Roland Moss, Richard Rushing, Elbert Smith, Betty Jo Pearce, Vera Skinner, Nancy Smith. Second Row: Veral Terry, Brea Stockton, Ruth Loverkamp, Wilma Leukering, Larry Laird, Donna Schneider, Jesse Lassiter, Raymond McDowell, Donald Luck. Third Row: Eugene Wetherington, Wayne Verbarg, Alan Oakes, Lester Mitten- florf, Troas Modglin, Robert Tobin, Mr. Cochran. First RowfLeft to Right: Alice Jane Bull, Phyllis Farmer, Marilyn Hille, Laura Dennis, Carline Harrington, Alma Ashley, Phyllis Holder, Dorothy June Eickholz, Betty Ferguson, Mary Lou Hood. Second Row: Mary Fisher, Anna Cochran, Floy Cletcher, James E. Jones, James Kommer, Clarence Holt, Edward Joe Hinners, Jean Childers, Sue Kraper. Third Row: Ivan Helton, Gene English, Harold Hall, Dale Grothman, James Graman, Bob Kersey, Paul Bakehouse, Lyndell Caldwell.

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ILLOHMET - - 1946 - mica The Junior Class made its first appearance at MCHS with the reputation of being the greenest bunch of freshmen ever assembled. They struggled through be- ing silly Sophomoresg and now if anyone has any objections to our being juniors, let him speak now or forever hold his peace. When all the brains were put together, Roland Moss was elected president, Jesse Lassiter, vice-president, Betty Tanner, secretary, and Mary Sue Kraper, treasurer. We are proud to have so many of our class members in the limelight of school activitiesg for instance, on the basketball team, Ivan Helton, Jimmy Graman, Dale Grothman, Roland Moss, Jesse Lassiter, and Lester Mittendorf. Along the cheer- leading line, Alma Ashley and Betty Tannerg drum majorettes, Mary Lou Hood, Betty Pearce, and Phyllis Farmer. Now we are looking forward to '47, when graduation awaits us. A great event took place on the campus of MCHS in the fall of 1945. It was not the introduction of the atomic bomb, but something equally as important-it was the gathering of the powerful Sophomore Class. After much thought and deliberation on the part of this great group, which, incidentally, is the largest class in school, Anna Mae Wade was elected president: Lindell Brenningmeyer, vice-president, Kathryn Verbarg, secretaryg and Martha Russell, treasurer. Attention was called to this mighty class by the outstanding performances of its members on the hardwood g namely, Herbert Austin, Jim Owens, Bill Comer, Odell Pansing, and Jack Taylor. ?zea4mcm dam In the fall of 1945, and as every year, a great delegation met. It was not the United States Senate or the House of Representatives, but a group much more powerful than that-the group that had always kept MCHS running-the Freshman Class. After registration, the class was put down in the books. Robert Corky Palmer was elected president, Jim Fulkerson, vice-presidentg George Yotts Schneeman and Jack Miller secretary and treasurer respectively. The Seniors looked down at this from their great age and experience, and thought maybe that we were not all there, but they couldn't remember their freshman year, the Juniors barely could, and the Sophomores were trying to forget. Basketball season came around, and out came the boys that would always make the team the pride and joy of the school. The class this year is none out of the ordinary, but it goes to prove that a school would be nothing without a Freshman Class.

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