Moline High School - M Yearbook (Moline, IL)

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Fun and laughter come easily for sen- iors, but an adult world holds a challenge, a duty. We pass, on our own, into this new sphere as strangers — but yet belonging. This is our time to live and use what has been handed down to us — or else it is lost. As educated individuals, we owe more to our generation than tradition.

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SENIORS 24

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Who studies? Certainly not the Senior Class officers who set the pace in early autumn tempted with unusually warm weather last- ing until late fall. Jan Marzorati and Will Park, literary board members; Carol Kramer, secretary-treasurer; Jack Petit, president; and Nancy Flick, vice-president toss their books and decide to en- joy life. Last Flings Mingle with Anticipations With an eye to the future, a thought to the present, and a pause for the past, the 1964 Graduating Class moved through their final year reflecting ideas of a new era. Early September Homecoming festivities fully initiated the new school year with excitement and enthusiasm as students participated in the bonfire, coronation, parade, football game, and dance for the last time. Upperclassmen were among the first to promote the hootenanny craze with casual home get-togethers. As extremely warm days continued through October, many seniors took full advantage of the opportunity to survey college possibilities. They traveled by bus, train, plane, and car to every section of the country hoping to find just the right school. This year’s addition of a third counselor aided the senior class of six hundred as more time was provided for guiding students in the responsibilities of furthering their education and choosing occupations. Stunned to silence, students dutifully paused in respect at the sudden death of President Kennedy. Seniors especially remembered 1961, the year they entered high school, the same year he entered the White House. Mr. Kennedy had been a leader in the cause of world peace and expressed a definite concern for us, the new generation. Cold record-breaking winter temperatures took energetic seniors ski- ing, sledding, skating, and partying as the glow of 1963 lighted the way to a prospective 1964 and — leap year. The recently established curfew expired for several who celebrated eighteenth birthdays in the new year. Spring greeted anxious grads with college acceptances and career decisions as they kept busy with the Senior Class Production, Senior Ball, Swingout, and Baccalaureate. Graduation Day mingled tearful farewells with happy memories as the graduates passed the traditions of America and MHS into the hands of the seniors yet to come. Ready and willing to lead the 1964 Senior Class are sponsors Mr. McMinn, Miss Garst, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Willits, Miss Coin, and Mr. Boom. Ab- sent from the picture was Mr. Brown.