Moline High School - M Yearbook (Moline, IL)

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To All Ou r Friends We Present This Book As We Ask Our Spirit to Help Us Look To our city Moline and to our parents and friends who have made it possible for us to attend school and to publish this record, we, the class of 1952, with sincere gratitude and thanks, dedicate this yearbook as a small token of our appreciation for the opportunities and activities that the adult community has sponsored in our behalf. The proud and lofty head of the tower of Moline High School looms far above us on the city sky- line. Long ago this tower was thought to be deserted. But, lo and behold, it is not empty, for in this bulwark of learning dwells the spirit of ’76 — 1876 — the date of the first graduation from Moline Senior High School. The early classes of Moline seniors were educated in the old George Washington building on Eighth Avenue and Seventeenth Street, but when the school was moved to the building now called the Annex, t)u lonely school spirit could not bear to be left behind, and so he came to take up his new home in the Annex tower where he has lived ever since. We want you to meet our spirit, for, in a way, he really belongs, to you. In him is a part of every Moline High School graduate — he is the spirit of all our graduates. Under his watchful presence, we have carried on our school activities this year. He sees, hears, and knows about the lives of all the students in our school. Through the eyes of this spirit of ’76 — the spirit of all the people who can proudly say that they are graduates of Moline High — the staff of the 1952 M M will recall the memories of the past year. You will see all that this spirit ' )as seen during the school year 1951-1952 while peering down on the school and the community from his privileged position.

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Here Are the People Who Worked To Bring a Good for You Annual for Janet Ainsworth Nil Muldur Kay Zimmer Pat Weigandt Mike Mullinix Di Coombe Barbara Peterson Janet Olson Jim Thompson Jetta Fiedler Caroline Ross Barbara Hatje Janice Parmentier Editor Assistant Editor Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Advertising Manager Solicitor Solicitor Solicitor Subscription Manager Layout Editor Picture Editor Assistant Assistant Marian Osherofif Dede Jacobsen Nan Sadler and Carol Coulter Peggy Scott and Georgia Miller Nancy Hoover and Kay Carlson Annamae Scott and Nancy Miller Nancy Wallentine Lee Hansen and Bob Rexford Elene Schiermer and Mary Lou Zink Bebe Gamburg and Louise Neal Eleanor Rollo Craig Johnson Miss Clara Carlson Copy Editor Art Editor Co-Senior Class Editors Co-Junior Class Editors Co-Faculty Editors Co-Activities Editors Music-Dramatics Editor Sports Editors Co-Snapshot Editors Typists Copyreader Photographer Adviser

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Community Co-operation Has Been the Key To the MHS Annual You ' re About to See Without the aid of the citizens of this community, young High School people would not have the many chances for advancement which are now offered them. The business men work with the L. O.’T., M ' and IMP staffs to print these publications; they present gifts to the school; and the) work with the teachers to conduct B. I. E. Day. Most important of all, the people of Moline give youngsters a chance to further their education b voting and paying the taxes necessary to the continuation of the school system. The three pictures on this page are onl a very few of the examples of how the citizens and business men of this city co- operate to help theirs and their neigh- bors’ children. Mike Mullinix . president of the Stu- dent Congress, receives congratulations from Mayor Paul C. Johnson after the Exchange Club presented the school with a collection of freedom docu- ments entitled The Freedom Shrine. Others in the picture are Gerald Smith, principal of MHS; George F. Strieker, president of the Exchange Club; and E. S. Metcalf, Rock Island County superintendent of schools. Dick Jirus, Tom Rogers, Dick Ehr- hardt, and Ray Evans are government students who arranged this exhibit in ( he American Legion Clubroom win- dow in observance of American Edu- cation Week. Posters, books, a slogan , centering around the idea of democ- racy, our heritage , our rights, out privileges, our duty, and the heritage books given to the school by Airy. Katherine Butterworth were on dis- play, as well as books and pamphlets on democracy. This is one of six windows painted by high school students in the seventh an- nual Hallowe ' en Jamboree sponsored by the Moline Jaycees. The window painting contest is just one of the sev- eral activities planned by this group to give youngsters a chance to properly celebrate this holiday.