Moline High School - M Yearbook (Moline, IL)

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SENIORS All good things must come to an end, and during the course of every year some old traditions must either be revised or abandoned. So it was that the spirit, in his seventy-sixth year of life here at Moline High School, saw the old practice of two yearly graduations, one in January and one in June, replaced by the newer system of only one graduation — the spring one. This last mid-term class, which graduated on Wednesday, January 16, is worthy of special note. Throughout their high school years the members of this class were exceptionally active in every type of activity offered to them. The eighty members of the class of January 1952 can well be proud of the fact that they were the last seniors to graduate from Moline High in January exercises. In this sec- tion, asteriks ( ) are used to denote January graduates. Our spirit in the tower celebrated his birthday a month earlier than usual this year due to new state legislation which enabled these seniors to plan the school s first May graduation. He donned blue and w hite — to match the graduation robes — to attend the spring commencement exercises of Moline’s seventv-sixth class on Monday, May 26, at Wharton Field House. By an almost unanimous vote of the entire class, white robes for girls and blue robes for boys were chosen to replace the tradi- tional gray robes.

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USING HIS SALESMANSHIP, Mike Mullinix, senior class president, explains to the senior class sponsors, Mr. Carl likblad, Mrs. Annette Bonnell, and Mr. Archie Suanson, the ad i ant ages of buying the annual. Active Seniors Pave the Way Busy sophomores edited junior high school newspapers and annuals, presented class plays, Date Bait at John Deere and Mugsy’s Merry Christmas at Coolidge. Trial by Jury and The Toymaker were the major musical productions of the two classes which merged into one under the watchful old eye of the spirit in the tower in September, 1950. The Korean War was only three months old and senate investigations against Communists were front page news when the class stormed Moline High School with every intention of taking over the school. And, within the ensuing year, they did just that! At high school the young dramatists took to the stage in Life With Mother, Hamlet, and You Can’t Take It With You. The bright class musicians performed in High Notes of Harmony, One Night of Melody, Christmas Vespers, The Marriage of Nanette, and Brigadoon. But the pride and joy of the senior class was their unusual, original and wonderful ADC-Fellowship production. Rodney Bruner Lee Hansen Janice Parmentier President Vice-President Secretary-T reasurer