Monticello High School - Memories Yearbook (Monticello, IL)

Text from Pages 1 - 60 of the 1938 volume:

T-'mmf' SL K 'm.S1.'4.i':'+an w ''2liH-n.Pa.L x.uifi-+S-Th'Lix-.E.nlU:rL:Inn-.-1 ,':4a5'-SBIG-..-N . , iw The 1938 . . . MONCOHI Focus h amera y on the events . . . of the school year in Monticello Comm unity High School Focusing First . . . on Our . . . Building XTX Here We have found Work . . Play . . Tears Laughter . . Training , .- ,-, .x . .i'4 V f- E: 5. ,J f Entrusted by Me commzmify fwitfz tfze aa'mz'm'stra1fz'0n gf Me scfzoof, is rfzis faery jfne Board Of Ea'ucatz'07z.' Dr. W. N. Sievers .... ..... P resident C. C. Austin. Roy Jones Lloyd Plankenhorn Harry Combes R. W. Bushee H. M. York Secretary Inside Our School We . . . Find Many interesting people . . . doing various and interesting things. FACULTY CLASSES ACTIVITIES ATHLETICS DRAMATICS FEATURES AS SHOWN BY THE STAFF THROUGH , . . . THIS Editor in Chief Faculty Adviser Activities . . Girls Sports . Boys Athletics Art .... Jokes . . Pictures . Literary . Typists . . Lower Classes MONCOHI Bonnie Laurence Mildred D. Fleming Wade Hannah Mary Paul Carl Hunt Ralph Bushee Mary Cynthia Norris William Fitzwater Bettie Tavenner Isabel Pembroke and Lois Hays Mary Townsend. Betty Norris, and Gordon Trumbauer An Important Personage Is This Our Superintendent Our Friend MR. F. M. PETERSON Mr. Peterson is assisted in his educational direc tion by a corps of sixteen teachers . . . trained . . . and capable. 6 Xin. Nmm.xN j, Sxmu Miss RIII.I7RICIl IJ. F1,l-LMIN1: Mlss ANN.,xm-11. Row: .lgriflrlflarr pllflillrnzutirx S!'f'7'I'fllI'-V Miss .'xliI.XNlu Rl-,1,x'1,s Mae. RAYNIUNII fJl'lNl..XX Miss Ymlux l'l.fYl'I llil.ll I,lI'V.Nil'tl! lffflmufimz C'rfn1n14'r4'i41lS11I1j1'f't.v ArvIl7'.Yt' Miss llmemln li.xx'1.1-.ss Miss l'1l.lZ.XIil-1'l'II FINK l'm'u1 .llzzxir Ilnmr' lirmmnzifxv A I MISS XVORTII LAW MISS MARY HUssEY MR. CARL BERGESON Art English and Speech Social Science and Coach Miss ANICE SIQYBOLD MR. JAMES K. FELTS Lggblggyclgljlg Igkrggifogf Mathematzcs History Physical Education MR. ERNEST LURENS Miss KATHERINE TURNER Miss ETHEL SEYBOLD Srience and Band English Languages 8 The Senior Class Comes Into View THE CLASS OF 1938 has been outstanding since it entered high school. Some of the most noteworthy accomplishments of our freshman year were the choice of our candidate for homecoming queen, our regular parties, our regular on the varsity football squad, and our ninety-five members which made us the largest class in the high school at that time. During our sophomore year, we distinguished ourselves by giving more successful parties and taking part in more activities. The most outstand-- ing events of our junior year were the presentation of our play New F ires, and our junior-Senior Banquet which was held in the assembly for the first time. As seniors, we have presented our play, The Royal F amily, and published our annual. We are now preparing, with some regret, to leave M. C. H. S. to our successors. President . . . HERBERT BRADLEY l Vice President . . . BONNIE LAURENCE Secretary . . . MARSHALL SWOVERLAND Treasurer . . . LESLIE ALEXANDER MELBA TIMMONS WILLARD HUFFMAN Lois HAYS MAX EVANS JEAN BRITTIN LoU1S WAGY LUELLA DICKERSON MARSHALL SWOVERLAND HELEN HILL MELBA TIMMONS-Cheerleader 45 Homecoming attendant 45 junior Play5 Senior Play5 Home Ec. Club-Pres. 45 Jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee. VVILLARD HUFFMAN-Track 35 'MH Club 3, 45 Phi Epsilon 15 Photo Club 3, 45 Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 45 Band 1, 2, 3, 45 Commercial Team 45 Class Sec. 15 Public Speaking 25 Senior Play5 Operetta 45 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 35 Minstrel 1. LOIS HAYS-G.A.A, 15 M.W.O.L. 25 Glee Club 1, 45 Commercial Team 45 Annual Staff 45 Min- strel 15 junior Play5 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 3. MAX EVANS-F,F.A. 1, 2. ,IEAN BRIT- TIN-Glee Club 1, 45 Public Speaking 35 Jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 3. LOUIS WAGY-'Phi Epsilon 15 Photo Club 45 Art Club 45 Public Speaking 2, 3, 45 Oratorical Contest 35 jr,-Sr. Banquet Committee. LUELLA DICKERSON-Phi Epsilon 15 Photo Club 45 Glee Club 15 Art Club 45 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 35 Minstrel 1. MARSHALL SWOVERLAND-Cheerleader 45 Glee Club 45 Art Club 45 Class Sec. 45 Public Speaking 45 junior Play5 Opcretta 45 Jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 3. HELEN HILL-Phi Epsilon 15 Glee Club 1, 45 Jr.-Sr. Banquet Committeej Operetta 4. ' 10 l,ESI,lE ALEXANUER-Football 3. 45 M Club 3, 45 Photo Club 35 F. F. A. 15 Sec. 25 Pres. 35 V. Pres. 45 Y. Pres. of Section 11445 Class Pres. 25 Class Treas. 5, 45 Ag. jurlging Team 2, 3. 45 Commercial Team 4. ALICE STIVERSON-Glee Club 3, 45 Home Ec. Club 4. CHARLES ZIN- IJARS-Football 2, 5, 45 Basketball 3, 45 M Club 3, 45 F.F.A. 1, Z, 3, 45 Track 4. CAROL ALEXANDER-Glee Club 45 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 35 Home Ee. Club 1. RALPH BUSHEE-Mgr. Football .45 Mgr. Basketball 35 Mgr. Track 25 Math. Honor 2, 3, 45 Phi Epsilon 15 Photo Club 3, 45 Glee Club 1, 2, 45 Art Club 45 Band 1, 2, 35 Class V. Pres. 15 Annual Staff 45 Public Speaking 1, 2, 3, 45 Oratorical Contest 1, 2, 35 Librarian 35 junior Play5 Senior Playg jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 35 Minstrel 15 Operetta 4. OPAL WILEAVER-Glee Club 45 Operetta 45 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 3. NORMAN HAMMERSCHMIDT-Photo Club 3, 4. HELEN PIERSON-G.A.A. 1, 25 Glee Club 45 Commercial Team 3, 45 junior Play 35 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 5. DWIGHT RHOADES- Football 45 M Club 45 F.F.A. I, LESLIE ALEXANDER ALICE STIVERSON CHARLES ZINDARS l CAROL ALEXANDER RALPH BUSHEE OPAL WII.IEAVER NORMAN HAMMERSCHINIIDT l HELEN IIIERSON 5 DWIGHT RHOADES l l I - A - - i MARTHA ZINDARS ROBERT MEECE VIOLET BAKER DEON TIPSWORD MARY HODSON LYNN FISHER ELSIE NELSON CHARLES OLSON ESTHER EDWARDS , i - - ffmm-Aw: MARTHA ZINDARS-Glee Club 1, 4g Operetta 45 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 3. ROBERT MEECE--Mgr. Football 4g Mgr. Basketball 4g F.F.A. 3g Senior Play 4. VIOLET BAKER- Glee Club 1, 2, 35 Home Ec. Club 45 Minstrel 1. DEON TIPSWORD-F.F.A. 1, 3, 4. MARY HODSON-Jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 3. LYNN FISHER-Phi Epsilon lg F.F,A. Z, 3. ELSIE NELSON-Glee Club lg Home EC. Club 4. CHARLES OLSON-Photo Club 45 F.F.A. 1. ESTHER EDWARDS-G.A.A. 3g Home EC. Club-V. Pres. 45 Commercial Team 3, 4. 12 BONNIE LAURENCE-G.A.A. l, 45 M.W.O.L. Z, 35 Math. Honor 1. 25 Exeeutive Committee 35 45 Phi Epsilon 15 Art Club 45 Band I, Z, 3, 45 Class V. Pres. 45 Photo Club 45 Annual Staff 45 Publie Speaking 2, 3, 45 junior Play5 Senior Play5 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 3. ELDON MOYER. MARY V. PAUL-G.A.A, 1, 2, 35 Sec.-Treas. 45 M.W.O.L. Z, 35 Phi Epsilon 15 Photo Club 45 Art Club-V. Pres. 45 Annual Staff 45 Public Speaking 35 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 35 Commercial Team 45 Property Mgr. of Senior Play. TEIJ MINTUN-Football 45 M Club 45 Commereial Team 45 Public Speaking 25 Intramural Handball Champion in Singles and Doubles 3, 45 Intra- mural Ping Pong Champion 4. ELSIE LOUISE MILLIGAN-G.A.A. 1, 25 35 M.W.O,L, 2, 35 Cheer Lezuler 45 Glee Club 1, 2, 35 Home Ee. Club-See.-Treas. 4 LAWRENCE HANNAH- Football 45 Basketball Z, 3, 45 Track 3, 45 M Club 3, 45 Photo Club 45 F.F.A. 15 Class Treas. Z5 junior Play5 Senior Play5 jr.4Sr. Banquet Committee 3. BERNICE MAIJlJENfPhoto Club 45 tllee Club l, 25 Commercial Team 45 jr,-Sr. Banquet Committm-e5 Minstrel l. LYNN ROYSE- F.F.A. 3, 45 Glee Club 45 Public Speaking 35 Operetta 4. FRANCES CONARIJ--G.A.A. 1, 2, .il Pres. 45 Photo Club 45 Glee Club I5 liancl 2, 35 Pres. 45 Publix' Speaking 3, 45 junior Play: Senior Playg jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 3. BONNIE LAURENCIE E1,ooN BTOYER MARY V. PAUL ,FED MINTUN LOUISE TWILLIGAN ELSIE LAWRENCE HANNAH BERNICE TVTADDEN LYNN ROYSE FRANCES CONARD PAUL PATTERSON JEAN KELLER -1 i PAUL PATTERSON. ISABEL PEMBROKE-G.A.A. 1, 25 M.W.O.L, 25 Cheerleader 15 Glee Club 15 Band 45 Annual Staff5 Public Speaking 25 Senior Play5 Commercial Team 45 Minstrel 1. WILLIAM FITZWATER-Football 3, 45 Track 3, 45 M Club 3, 45 Sec.-Treas. 45 Math. Honor 1, Z5 Chairman of Executive Committee 3, 45 Phi Epsilon 15 Photo Club 3, 45 Annual Staffg Senior Playg jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 35 Stage Mgr. of Senior Play. JEAN KELLER-Glee Club 15 Jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 35 Minstrel 1. HERBERT BRADLEY--Phi Epsilon 15 Photo Club 3, 45 Pres. 45 Band 1, 2, 35 V. Pres, 45 Class Pres. 45 junior Play 35 Commercial Team 4. BETTIE TAVENNER-M,W.O.L. 2, 35 Math. Honor 2, 3, 45 Phi Epsilon 15 Photo Club 45 Band 1, 2, 3, 45 Class Pres. 15 Annual Staff 2, 45 Public Speaking 1, 25 Oratorical Contest 15 junior Play5 Senior Playg jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee5 Editor of Hi-Lite first semester 4. CHARLES McINTOSH-Football 45 HM Club 45 Phi Epsilon 15 Photo Club 3, 45 Art Club 45 Public Speaking 1, 35 Ir.-Sr. Banquet Committee 3, FLORENCE MCGEE-G.A.A. 15 Glee Club 1, 2, 45 Home Ee. Club 45 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 35 Minstrel 15 Girl Scouts 1, 2, 3, 4. MAURICE YOUNG-Football 45 'AMP Club 45 F.F.A. 35 Sec. 45 Judging Team 3, 4. 14 ISABEL PEMBROKE WILLIAM FITZWATER HERBERT BRADLEY BETTIE TAVENNER CHARLES MCINTOSH FLORENCE MCGEE MAURICE YOUNG l.l7l.A MAIC STANl.l'IY-Glee Club 1, 43 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 33 Operetta 43 Commercial Team 4. ARTHUR COX-Football 43 Basketball 43 Track 33 M Club 43 Photo Club 43 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 33 Senior Play 43 Operetta 4. ROSE BREEN-Phi Epsilon 1. JOE IJOYLIC-Football 3, 43 Basketball 43 M Club 3, 43 Poto Club 43 Glee Club 3, 43 Senior Play 43 Operetta 4. MARY CYNTHIA N0RRlS4G.A.A. Z3 Phi Epsilon 13 Glee Club 1. 2, 43 lianrl l, 2, S, 43 Commercial Team 3, 43 Annual Staffg Public Speaking 23 junior Play 33 Senior Play3 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 33 Homecoming Play Big Time 1. DUNN PIATT-Football 3, 43 HM Club 3, 43 Phi Epsilon 13 Photo Club 33 V. Pres. 43 Glee Club 13 Band 13 Commercial Team 43 jr,-Sr. Banquet Committee 33 Senior Play3 Minstrel 1. ORVICTTA KICYICS-G.A.A. 1, Z, 3, 43 Photo Club 33 Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 43 Art Club 43 Class Pres, I3 Class Y. Pres. 23 junior Play 33 Operetta 43 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 3, CARL HUNT -Football l, Z, 33 Captain 43 Basketball 3, 43 Track 3, 43 M Club Pres. 3, 43 Phi Epsilon 13 Photo Club See,-Treas, 43 Glee Club 3, 43 Annual Staffg Senior Play3 Operetta 43 jr.fSr. Banquet Committee 33 State Chorus 3. MARIAN MARTIN-Photo Club 33 Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 43 Operetta 43 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 33 Minstrel I3 Commercial Team 4. , -4 - LULA lxlAIC STANI.Icv ARTHUR Cox Rosie BRI-:RN I JOE IJovI.I+: lVlARY CVNTIIIA NORRIS IJoNN PIATT ORVIQTTA Kicvias CARI. HUNT NIARIAN BIARTIN l DUANE HANKINSON EDGAR HINTON ELDON CHAPMAN WADE HANNAH LUCILLE PERRY JOHN DIGHTON ROBERT DUVALL DUANE HANKINSON. EDGAR HINTON. ELDON CHAPMAN-F.F.A. 1. WADE HANNAH-Cheerleader 45 Math. Honor 35 Chairman of Executive Committee 45 Photo Club 45 F.F.A. 15 Glee Club 35 V. Pres. 45 Art Club Pres. 45 Public Speaking 45 Junior Play5 Senior Play5 Operetta 45 jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee 3. LUCILLE PERRY-Glee Club 1,2. JOHN DIGHTON-Football 45 'AMN Club 45 Photo Club 3, 45 Glee Club 15 Commercial Team 45 Senior Playg jr.ASr. Banquet Committee 35 Minstrel 1. ROBERT DUVALL-Football 3, 45 Bas- ketball 3, 45 UM Club 3, 45 F.F.A. 1. 16 The Underclasses Come . . . Into View XTX Freshmen President . . . GORDON TRUMBAUER Sophomore President . . JUNE PIATT Junior President . . . ALBERT BIOHLER juniors, sophomores, freshmen They will be ready to take up Where the seniors . . . stop THIRTY-SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE JUNIOR CLASS ARE READY TO CARRY ON IN 1938-39 It was in the year 1935 that 44 of us enrolled as Freshmen to climb the hill to the '39 graduation. C. H. Summers received the honor of being our first president, Verne Purcell, vice-president, Frank DuBree, treasurer, and Albert Mohler, secretary. During our Sophomore year, after the opening of school, we again voted. This time C. H. Summers was re-elected president, Mary Townsend, vice-president, Payne Harris, treasurer, and Robert Clapp, secretary. Some of us helped serve at the junior- Senior Banquet to see what it was all about and get some ideas. The fall of 1937 found us re-entering dear old M. C. H. S. as Juniors. In the annual class election we chose Albert Mohler to take the throne of president and guide us through our most difficult year. Sally Phillips, as vice president, Ernest Lohr, treasurer, and Blossom Bacopulos, secretary. Albert, The Great, called in his prime ministers, Felts and Fink, and after some discussion proclaimed that we could have a masquerade Halloween party. There was everything present at this party from ghosts to clowns, but it was Mary Ellen Cox who hobbled in Cpoor old ladyj and walked away with first prize. Under the supervision of Miss Hussey and Miss Turner we gave our Junior Class play, Heart Trouble,'l on Friday December 6, 1937. We had a capacity crowd in spite of the weather, and we were all very proud of the chosen cast. We are now in the last lap of our junior year and are looking forward with great anticipation to the junior-Senior Banquet. BACK Row-Brown, Harris, Hiett, Abner, Mohler, LcVeck, Shaffer, Allen, DuBree, Timmons, Thompson, Keller, Summers. SECOND Row-Sprague, Chambers, Moore, Thompson, Lohr, Hickman, Piatt, Brighton, Phillips, Townsend, Smith, Norris, Denison. FRONT Row-Mullvain, Brady, Prosch, Ellis, Ellis, Bacopulos, Denny, Bennett, Rhodes, Cox, Blacker. 18 BACK Row-Duvall, Wright, Hubbard, Plankenhorn, Yockey, White, Lohr, Hosler, Angel, Thomp- son, Martin, Hazlett, Moyer. THIRD Row-Blacker, Clark, Davis, Merriman, Salyers, Hancline, Barclay, Spooner, Seyler, Stiver- son, Bushee, Martin, Varner, Hankinson, Hammerschmidt. SECOND Row-Norris, Rudisill, Comell, Secrist, Piatt, Mitchell, Meece, Chambers, Cox, Higgins, Widick, Shaft. FRONT Row-Mackey, Hannah, Hodson, Ellis, Musick, Smith, Bensyl. THE HISTORY OF THE SOPHOMORE CLASS HAS A PURPOSE The purpose of this co-called class history is to impress in your minds the impor- tance of the present day Sophomores, and the struggles we endured to shed the all too enveloping rage of the lowly freshman. In 1936-37, as Freshies, we were meek, wide-eyed, gullible children fwith a few brazen exceptionsj typifying all freshmen. Our triumphs funless you call the dis- tinction of being the largest class a triumphj were for the most part individual, for we were awe-stricken youngsters striving for a substantial foothold on the ladder of school activities. Of course we elected class officers, since it was the proper thing to do, and in our atempt not to appear too freshly-green, we strove for the conventional. We chose Berlyn Beautiful Scott as our president, and Francis Utall, lean, and blond White as his right hand man. The honor tif it so might be calledl of the secretaryship went to Eleanor jane Bushee Cinformally known as just plain Bushee l. We handed the money-bags over to Dwight Card-Slickster Mackey. tYes, we trusted him that much -then! J. In the fall, 1937, we returned more or less willingly to our familiar haunts. As Sophomores we have newly discovered that we are individuals, and verv interesting individuals at that. Somewhere along the line we dropped our inferiority-complexes and have emerged to face the world with the bright confidence so characteristic of youth. With our new-born enthusiasm we really made the 'LSoph election a closely con- tested affair. Our number one man, or I should sav woman, turned out to be Mr. Piatt's little girl, June. To back up her authority we elected Dean '4Lady-Killer Carrow, vice-president. Our class officers are complete with Fleta f'Horsey Orrison to push the pencil and a newcomer Revis 'fthe boy with the beautiful voice Haslett to horde the gold. fWhat gold?J 19 GREEN BUT GIFTED FRESHMEN On Tuesday, September seventh, at eight-frfty o'clock, a group, fifty-eight to be exact, of very green and slightly bewildered freshmen walked hesitantly into the audi- torium of the Monticello Community High School building. We had begun our first day as students in the above mentioned school. After a few days of this strange life some of our earlv bashfulness left us, and we became the chief worry of our ever-watchful guardians, the members of the faculty. Most of the boys were still on the shy side, having recently received a rather short and somewhat hacked haircut, due to the sudden urge or desire of some ambitious, unli- censed barbers among the upper classmen to make a start on their careers. The next adventure was the election of our class officers. The election was held like a real one with voting booths, ballot-boxes, and judges. When the returns had been posted, it was found that Gordon T rumbauer had been chosen to lead us, Martha Hiett, second in command, Mary Wall to record the notes of our meetings, and Alice Miller to guard our finances-such as they are. Miss Anice Seybold and Mr. Lukens are our class advisors. We had just been nicely adjusted to the routine of our new work, when one of the deciding factors in our high school career loomed before us-the first semes- ter examinations. The large majority of us passing this gigantic obstacle, were greatly relieved, and although we as a class are small, we hope that we shall be able to continue our pursuit of education in this institution and graduate with the feeling that our efforts have been amply rewarded. BACK Row-Wrench, Trumbauer, Fitzwater, Fisher, Glenn, Combes, Plimpton, Downs, Milligan, Salyers, Hency, Stanley. THIRD Row-Cox, Hurley, Buchanan, Wall, Marquiss, Evans, Mewes, Brighton, Henson, Brown, Valentine, Moore, Mintun, Conard, Hiett. SECOND Row-Claxton, Livingstone, Miller, Brown, Burns, White, Trimble, Hayes, Nelson, Von Troesch, Thompson, Spooner. FRONT Row-Brown, Sprague, Abner, Miller, McKinley, Madden, Stoddard, Lyon. 20 Our Camera Clicks On Our Activities XTX CLUBS . . . . Local and State SPECIAL . . . CLASSES HOBBIES . . . INSTRUCTION . . RECREATION BACK Row-Bushee, Hannah, Mohler, Swoverland, Wagy. SECOND Row-Miss Hussey, Conard, Salyers, Laurence, Phillips, Salyers, Trumbauer, Hency. FRONT Row-Bushee, Conard, Widick, Cornell, Von Troesch, Shaff, Norris, Wall. TWENTY FUTURE ORATORS CGMPRISE SPEECH CLASS On September 7, 1937, twenty-four students representing all four classes in school, embarked on a journey that presumably would end near the first of June. However, junior Earl Le Veck soon dropped out because of his more consuming passion for athletics, and junior Eleanor Smith's later surrender was due to an unconquerable shyness and timidity, technically known as stage fright. Three other members of the class-junior Robert Abner, freshman Bob Fitzwater, and sophomore Revis Haslett-managed to stay with the ship till near the end of the semester. The remainder of the roll read as follows: Eleanor Bushee, Sophomore, Ralph Bushee, senior, Barbara Conard, freshman, Frances Conard, senior, Phyllis Cornell, sophomore, Wade Hannah, senior, Bonnie Laurence, senior, Betty Norris, sophomore, Sally Phillips, junior, Harryette Salyers, sophomore, Julia Rose Sal- yers, freshman, Ruth Shaff, sophomore, Marshall Swoverland, senior, Gordon Trumbauer, freshman, Grace Von Troesch, freshman, Louis Wagy, senior, Mary Marie Wall, freshman, and Helen Widick, sophomore. At the beginning of the second semester Albert Mohler, junior, joined the ranks. Therefore the second semester finds the class with an enrollment of twenty, six being freshman, six, sophomores, two, juniors, and six, seniors. Of the seniors, Ralph Bushee is com- pleting his fourth year of speech. During the first six weeks the group laid a course for presentation of a Horace Mann playlet as a part of the program for a Parent Teachers' Association meeting. The rest of the first half the voyage was spent in preparing and delivering two-, three-, and five-minute speeches, offering pantomimes and interpreting poetry orall . ,The second half of the voyage has been spent in further interpreting of poetry, exercises in articulation, enunciation and pronunciation, learning some funda- mentals about the art of theatrical make-up, studying some textbook material, and performing in one-act plays. 22 ONLY THOSE WHO PASS THE TEST ARE MEMBERS OF THE MATHEMATICS HONOR SOCIETY The Mathematics Honor Society first organized in 1933. All members are required to pass a special examination before being allowed to join. The meetings are held once a month with each member participating in the program at least once a year. The programs for his year have consisted of: Mathematics and the French Revolution Division of the Circle Unsolved Problems Dyadic System Magic Squares Conic Sections Duality lt has been the custom in previous years to have one outside speaker-Dr. Bailey, who is in charge of freshman mathematics at the University of Illinois, and to invite members of other Mathematics Honor Societies to this meeting. Near the close of the school year this organization holds its annual picnic, the one meeting of the year in which recreation and other sports are planned. This picnic is held in Crystal Lake Park in Champaign. The aim of this organization is to supply the members with some interesting and worthwhile things in mathematics that cannot be obtained in regular mathe- matic courses. M , Officers are elected once a semester and the officers for this year are: First S1'm1'stf?r- Second Semester! William Fitzwater, Chairman Wade Hannah, Chairman Bonnie Laurence Betty Tavenner Payne Harris Ernest Lohr BMX Row-Harris, Hannah, White, Shaffer, Lohr, Fitzwater, Hannah. Mlnlmuz Row-Smith, Blaeker, Tavenner, Meecc, Bushee, Miss Seybold. FRoN1' Row-Laurence, Piatt, Mitchell, Bushee, Shaff, Norris. 23 BACK Row-Ellis, Cox, Merriman, Glenn, Downs, Davis, Denney, Baker, Stiverson, McGee, Buchanan. THLRD Row-Miss Fink, Stiverson, Marquiss, Seyler, Varner, Stuart, Nelson, Bennett, Plimpton, Brighton, Mewes, Valentine, Orrison. SECOND Row-Livingston, Mintun, Hurley, Hammerschmidt, Hiett, Spooner, Rhodes, Barham, Timmons, Edwards, Milligan. FRONT Row-Gray, Watts, Hayes, Ellis, Von Troesch, Dial. FUTURE HOMEMAKERS ARE MEMBERS OF THE HOME ECONOMICS CLUB The Home Economics Club was organized in October, 1937. The girls in foods, clothing, and home management classes are members of this organization. Oflicers elected for the year 195 7-38 are: Melba Timmons, President, Esther Edwards, Vice- President, Elsie Milligan, Secretary and Treasurer. The club, with an enrollment of forty-live members, meets once a month. Two captains were chosen and the club was divided into two groups, who take turns in being responsible for the meetings. Each girl entertains the group and each thing she does counts a point. At the end of the year, the group with the largest number of points is entertained by the losers. This fall at Halloween, the merchants of Monticello offered prizes to the classes or organization that decorated the best store window. The Home Economic Club competed in this contest and won fourth prize, which was two dollars. You might be interested in knowing how we decorated the window. Clothes pins were dressed as dolls and a miniature masquerade dance was very well planned. The purpose of our club is to combine the Home Economics classes and a monthly get-together. 24 M.C.H.S. GLEE CLUB linen Row--Smith, Townsenrl, Salyers, Norris, Lyon, Thompson, Martin, Stanley, Zinflars, Brigh- ton, Phillips. Vllllllili Row'--Miss Bayless, llroseh, Brady, Denison, Hayes, Meeee, Seyler, Mitchell, Haneline, Den- ney, Stiverson, Norris, Rhorles, Watts, Wileaver. Sicvown Row-Cox, livans, Livingstone, Hurley, Burns, Hiett, Moore, Hill, Wall, Spooner, Brighton lfkoxi' Row-Fox, Hankinson, Nelson, Hayes, Miller, Keller, Thompson, Claxton. Baex Row--Mohler, Fisher, Phillips, Bushee, Hunt, White, Hickman, Swoverland, Hannah, Sprague, Sprague, McKinley. 'I'mRo Row-Miss Bayless, Huffman, Doyle, Rhodes, Barham, Comhes, Downs, Davis, Piatt, Breen, Blacker, Stiverson, Mewes, Royse, Brown. Srjroxo Row-Higgins, Valentine, Yarner, Brittin, Martin, Orrison. Keyes, Martin, Pierson, Stanley. FIRST Row--Gray, Ellis, Ellis, Baeopulos. Hammerschmirlt, Alexander. 25 FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA STUDY AGRICULTURE ASSIDUOUSLY The F.F.A. is a national organization of farm boys regularly enrolled in a class in vocational agriculture. The purposes of this organization are as follows: 1. To promote vocational education in agriculture in the public schools. 2. To create more interest in the intelligent choice of farming occupations. 3. To create and nurture a love of country life. 4. To encourage recreational and educational activities for students in voca- tional agriculture. 5. To promote thrift. 6. To encourage co-operative effort among students of vocational agriculture. 7. To strengthen the confidence of the farm boy in himself and his work. 8. To promote scholarship among students of vocational agriculture. 9. To develop rural leadership. The insignia of the Future Farmers is made up of four symbols, namely: C13 cross section of an ear of corn, representing common agricultural interests, since corn is native to America and grown in every state, KZ J the owl, representing wisdom, C35 the plow, representing tillage of the soil, the basis of modern agriculture, and C45 the rising sun, representing progress. The oflicial colors are old gold and national blue. In the Monticello chapter we have elected the following officers: President, Charles Zindarg Vice-President, Leslie Alexander, Secretary, Maurice Young, and, Treasurer, Earl Blacker. Regular meetings are held monthly in the high school. These meetings have an educational as well as recreational value and are under the supervision of our Agricul- ture Instructor, Mr. Smith. Leslie Alexander is vice-president of Section 11 in the State F.F.A. and is in charge of an area covering Z1 chapters in central Illinois. BACK Row-Fisher, Zindars, Plankenhorn, White, Keller, Barham, Summers, Henderson. THIRD Row-Mr. Smith, Musick, Yockey, Angel, Wright, Bickel, Young. SECOND Row-Watts, Hickman, Blacker, McKinley, Alexander, Gadbury, Royse. FRONT Row-Miller, Wolfe, Madden, Ellis. 26 Bam: Row-Conard, Summers, Piatt, Dighton, McIntosh, Harris, Hiett, Salyers, Shaft. S1-:comm Row-Miss Seybold, Tavenner, Brown, Hunt, Fitzwater, Bradley, Lohr, Hannah, Huffman. FRUN1' Row-Hannah, Madden, Laurence, Doyle, Paul, Cox, Bushee, Dickerson. PHOTO CLUB MEMBERS DEVELOP A PLEASANT HOBBY The history of the photography club dates back to 1934, when it was organized by a group of chemistry students. ln 1935, the dark rooms were re-furnished, and an enlarging machine was added to the club's equipment. Many students became inter- ested in this field and as a result many adopted this as their hobby. ln 1936, the membership of the club increased, and at the close of the school year, the organization had nineteen paid members. In 1937, due to the fact that there was a small senior class, the club's membership was decreased. Soon 1938 rolled around, and we now find the club fiourishing with twenty-five paid members. Many of these students have taken interest in the activities of the club, and each has devoted his time to some certain phase of study. Club officers are: President-Herbert Bradley. Vice-President-Donn Piatt. Secretary and Treasurer-Carl Hunt. The work of the club started immediately, and dark room privileges were granted to all paid members. Pictures of the junior play cast and setting and snapshots of the football squad were then taken by members of the club. These were sold to the pub- lic, and the cash from these sales was deposited in our treasury department. After holding two instructional meetings, the executive committee with the assist- ance of Miss Anice Seybold decided to hold a snapshot contest. The prizes for this contest are to be awarded for the best snapshot taken by club members after February 1, 1938. We hope all the club members will participate and that the contest will be a huge success. This year, 1938, has marked another chapter in the history of the photo club. We, the members sincerely appreciate the co-operation and assistance of both the school and our sponsors, Mr. Lukens and Miss Anice Seybold. Had it not been for their helpfulness there would be no photography club today, and the students of the M.C.H.S. would never have discovered the fascination and enjoyment gained from studying in this rapidly spreading field. 27 THE ART CLUB IS THE THRIVIN G BABY IN OUR FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS The Art Club, a new organization, made its debut among school activities, janu- ary 4, 1938. The society is the outgrowth of an idea born in the mind of its sponsor, Miss Worth Lacy, who wishes to promote greater knowledge and appreciation of art in general. Membership in the club is open to the entire student body, the only requirement being an interest in art Cif admittance were limited to those with talent, Ilm afraid the majority of us would be out in the coldj. At present thirty-one students constitute the membership in the organization, but we have hopes for an even larger following next year. The officers are to be elected each semester and the ones chosen to guide the club through its initial appearance are: President-Wade Hannah. Vice-President-Mary Paul. Secretary and T reasurer-Betty Norris. Each of the thirty-one members must take part in at least one program during the year. The meetings are held monthly, consisting of short business sessions, and frank discussions of art, past and present. The programs are provided for by a com- mittee which is as follows: Chairman-Ralph Bushee. Bonnie Laurence. Jean Ann Mintun. Alice Miller. Mary Jane Moore. BACK Row-Cornell, Wagy, McIntosh, Paul, Mohler, Hannah, Swoverland, Bushee. SECOND Row-Miss Lacy, Glenn, Townsend, Salyers, Laurence, Marquiss, Mitchell, Bushee, Keyes. FRONT Row-Norris, Mintun, Miller, Hiett, Conard, Moore, Von Troesch, Dickerson. 28 BACK Row--Conard, Denney, Salyers, Townsend, Paul, Cox, Wall, Widick, Si-:r'oNn Row--Miss Reeves, Moore, Valentine, Cornell, Mintun, Norris, Laurence, Salyers, Merri- man, Bushee, Rudisill. FRONT Row-Keyes, Conard, Bacopulos, Seylcr, Miller, Brown, Hiett, Prosch, Cox. GIRLS IN M.C.H.S. HAVE AN ACTIVE INTEREST IN SPORTS WHEN THEY ARE MEMBERS OF THE GIRLS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION The Girls Athletic Association usually has from twenty to forty members. At the beginning of each year new officers are elected. The girls selected to fill the various offices are: Frances Conard, President: Esther Edwards, Vice-President: Mary Paul, Secretary-Treasurer: Norma Norris, Sports Manager: Helen Widick, Social Chair- man: and Harryette Salyers, Membership Chairman. In October a party, which included the candlelight ceremony and an informal initiation, was given for the new members. During the course of every year many games are played. Each of these sports are studied for about six weeks. They include soccer: baseball: basketball: volley ball: swimming: and shuffle-board: badminton: handball: ping pong, and gymnastics Cwhich are all included in one six-weeks periodj. For sixteen weeks health rules are kept. All these things and many others add points to each girl's score. These points help the girl to win numerals and letters. The G.A.A. usually has a party every month. In addition to these parties, Play Days are held. These affairs are given by different schools who invite members of the association in other towns. In May, members of the Monticello G.A.A. are to be hostesses to several other groups from surrounding towns. Some of these so-called Play Days are sponsored by the State Headquarters. A program of sports is planned, and teams are selected. The team with the most points for all the games is usually awarded a prize. At noon, the girls meet in a central place and eat lunch. About two or three o'clock the Play Day ends. An event of this kind is a source of great pleas- ure to all G.A.A. members. The girls all appreciate the effort that is put forth by the officers and the adviser in planning a full program for the year. Perhaps co-operation and good sportsman- ship are the two most outstanding qualities of every member of the organization. There is not a girl in the Monticello Girls Athletic Association who does not deserve the title a good sport. 29 BACK Row-Marquiss, Milligan, Pembroke, Trumbauer, Salyers, West, Abner, Phillips, Huffman, Mr. Lukens. THIRD Row-Gibbs, Giffnn, Smith, Webster, Rudisill, Miller, Livingstone, Burns, Stanley, Ellis, Denny, Giflin, Brown, Bradley, Brown, Fisher, Brown, Fitzwater, Hiett, Wall, Tavenner, Martin, Lyon, Baird, Bushee. SECOND Row-Thompson, Taylor, Delbridge, Summers, Laurence, Ellis, Smith, Brighton, Martin, Moyer, Evans, Hiett, Spooner, Meece, Stoddard, Salyers, FRoNr Row-Mohler, Norris, Conard, Purcell, Brighton, Harris, Conard, Shaff, Salyers, Norris, Conard. BAND MEMBERS ARE EARLY BIRDS The school year of 1938 dawned. Sparrows shivered on snow-covered bough. Trees quivered and groaned. Presently, the feathered creatures heard rival voices from within the portals of the Conservatory of Music. Winging their way to the building they looked in and saw Maestro Ernest E. Lukens directing his Symphony to the strains of the F ootlifter. After the last echoes of this brisk march had barely died away and the Symphony's minor mistakes had been corrected Csomething about a dotted quarter note or a lot of feelingj all eyes were glued on the door which had so unceremoniously squeaked. They shouldnlt have wasted their energy for they might have known that some prodigy was arriving fifteen minutes late. A close election early in the year proved that Frances Conard was to be presi- dent of the band, Herbert Bradley, vice-president, Albert Mohler, secretary, and C. H. Summers, treasurer. For the first time in many years Monticello High and Grade School musicians entered the Regional contest for solos and ensembles which was held at Gibson City, March twenty-sixth. Seven high school soloists and one ensemble and three grade school soloists and one ensemble placed in the iirst division. However, the price for such good luck was heavy. A case of smallpox developed at Gibson City which resulted in seven days of confinement for eleven students who had participated and who had not been vaccinated within the past live years. It is the utmost desire of every Monticello High School Band member to achieve a lirst division rating in the regional contest, next year. 30 Shooting Our Stars Athletics Six cheerleaders may seem a surplus but 1937-38 furnished much to chccr. . . Second in confort-ncc standing in football. . Co-champions of Okaw Vallcy in basketball Consistent winners in truck ...... BACK Row-Coach Bergeson, Patterson, Dubree, Brown, Assistant Coach Schroth. Tuuzn Row-Perkins, Summers, Chapman, Duvall, Young, Allen, LeVeck, SECOND Row-Hammerschmidt, Rhoades, Cox, Doyle, Mintun, Chambers. FRONT Row-Zindars, Hannah, Fitzwater, Piatt, Captain Hunt, McIntosh, Hiett, Dighton, Alex- ander, Mackey. THE FOOTBALL TEAM RANKED SECOND IN THE OKAW CONFERENCE The M.C.H.S. football season as a whole was very successful. Netting six wins, one loss and two ties to give the Sages a tie for second place in the conference. The team was full of spirit and vigor, which was a decided asset to this successful foot- ball team. The line was probably the best in the conference. The backfield, at first, was inexperienced but later developed into one of the fastest and best blocking back- fields in this part of the country. The excellent line included ends: Charles Zindars and C. H. Summers: tackles, Charles Mclntosh and Mix Hiett, guards, Leslie Alexander, William Fitzwater and Ten Mintung and center, john Dighton. C. H. Summers and Max Hiett were the only underclassmen. The backfreld included: quarterback, Frank Dubree, right half, Les Mackey: left half, Capt. Carl Hunt: and fullback, Bob Duvall. Frank Dubree is the captain-elect for the on-coming season. On the first team there were eight seniors and three juniors. The scores of the games played this year were as follows: M.C.H.S. L Farmer City M.C.H.S. L Villa GroveL M.C.H.S. L Oakland LLL M.C.H.S. L Shelbyville M.C.H.S. L Cerro Gordo M.C.H.S. L Arcola LLLL M.C.H.S. L Sullivan LLL M.C.H.S. L Tuscola LLL M.C.H.S. L Bement LLL Points Points The hardest fought and best game of the season probably because the strength and fine record of our opponents made us especially anxious to win was the one with Arcola which finally ended in a 6-6 tie. The Sages were a much better team than the record has shown. They were always eager to win and were said to be the best in sportsmanship of any team in this part of the country. The great offensive strength of the Sages is shown by the two hundred ten points they ran while their opponents were scoring thirty-eight. In other words, about 6 to 1. The leading scorer on the team was Carl Hunt with 111 points. Bob Duvall closely followed. joe Doyle was considered the best passer on the team. The second team under the excellent coaching of Mr. Schroth furnished very good opposition for the varsity, their lines matching in everything but weight. After all, much credit has to be given to the second team for the tough opposition that they furnished which is probably the reason for the success of the first team. In short much of the success of the first team was undoubtedly due to the hard work of well coached reserves. 33 'ABUCKH SCHROTH f'Buckl' Schroth is a very capable assistant coach and is also director of physical education. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois. Before coming to Monti- cello six years ago he was assistant coach at Urbana High School. He is well liked and is best characterized by his noted way of getting along with the boys. Another of his abilities has given him the title 'fthe original song leaderfl A lot of credit must be given him for his untiring work on the under-classmen in preparation for their later years on the varsity. COACH BERGESON Two years ago Carl Bergeson was appointed coach of M.C.H.S. after six suc- cessful years as head coach at Casey High School. Coach Bergeson is a graduate of the University of Illinois in the class of 1930. While at Illinois he received letters in both football and basketball. During his six years stay at Casey his football teams won two Eastern Illinois League championships and one Wabash Valley champion- ship. In basketball Coach Bergeson's teams were equally strong by winning three county championships. During his two years at M.C.H.S. the seasons have been satisfactory. In '36 we finished second with 8 won, 1 lost and 1 tied. Last year we finished second also with 6 wins, 1 loss, and 2 ties. Mr. Bergeson is well liked by the M.C.H.S. students and we fondly hope that his stay at Monticello is very long. CAPTAIN HUNT Carl Hunt had never played football until he came to M.C.H.S. to enroll as a freshman. He made the varsity team the first year, he improved much the second year, he was the star player the third and fourth years and captain of the team the fourth year. Carl is the only four-year man in football to graduate this year, and he is the most outstanding athlete that M.C.H.S. has had for ten years. He is a fine leader and is well-liked by the boys, he has a grand spirit of cooperation and is an all- around athlete. During all activities in athletics he has maintained a scholastic standing that places him in the upper ten per cent of the class. He has never been seen to loaf on the athletic field. Carl has won four letters in football, three in track, and three in basketball, and he is a fine college prospect. 34 THE BASKETBALL TEAM SHARED THE CHAMPIONSHIP WITH VILLA GROVE The Sages' basketball team led by Mr. Bergeson and assistant coach, Mr. Schroth, followed the football team in having a very successful record. All of the boys expressed talent in their particular position. The Sages rolled up 997 points in 29 games for an average of better than 34 points per game as against the opponents' 726 points for an average of 25 points per game. Lawrence Hannah and Howard Allen were high scorers with 292 and 261 points respectively. The other scores were: Rob- trt Duvall, I34Q Charles Zindars, 108, Howard t'Shorty Shaffer, 951 Art Cox, 651 Carl Hunt, 183 Les Mackey, 16, Joe Doyle, 12, and Payne Harris, 4. Charles Zindars, who was a consistent player and a very fine leader among the boys, was the captain of the Sages. Three of the Sages' six defeats came from the hne Villa Grove team. After we had beaten them once they turned the tables on us and cornered us three times in suc- cession. The other three setbacks came from Urbana, Bement, and Mt. Pulaski, respectively. Howard Allen had the privilege of making the most points in one game. He made 28 points in the final game of the Invitational Tournament against Philo. Law- rence Hooey Hannah came close to this feat when he obtained 20 points against Tri-City in the Sectional Tournament. The Sages have long been known for their fine sportsmanship in the Okaw Valley conference, so this year they were awarded the sportsmanship trophy given, by Dutch Leonard of Champaign, for their manly conduct. They have won four basket- ball trophies besides that one this last year3 a trophy for winning the Invitational Tournament at Arcolag a trophy for being co-champions of the Okaw Valleyg a trophy 35 for coming out second in the Okaw Valley tournament at home, and one for winning the Regional Tournament at Clinton. On this year's squad, Captain Charles Zindars, Lawrence Hannah, Bob Duvall, Joe Doyle, Art Cox, and Carl Hunt were seniors while Howard Allen, Howard Shafer, Les Mackey and Payne Harris were juniors. All of the seniors and two juniors, How- ard Allen and Howard Shafer, received letters. Some of the under classmen who are likely to receive future attention and action are: Bob Hubbard, Dewey Chambers, Ernest Lohr, and Dean Carrow. We certainly hope that next year's season is as good or better as that of the past year. With Mr. Bergeson and Mr. Schroth at the helm we fondly believe that the M.C.H.S. records will be upheld. Now is the time to thank the Monticello people in the four years that we have been in school for their untiring support of the athletic teams. Every senior who has been out for athletics is wholly aware of your loyalty and we hope that you have been repaid for it by the hard and clean playing of the boys who are graduating. Your wonderful sportsmanship has helped tremendously in the outcome of the very success- ful season. The excellent record of the M.C.H.S. Sages is as follows: M.C.H.S. 21 ...Daa Urbana M.C.H.S. 44 ,,.... Arcola 13 M.C.H.S. 25 ...a.a Uni High M.C.H.S. 29 .D.D.. Sullivan 23 I . . 1 U M.C.H.S. 22 aaca.. Villa Grove 24 nvltatlona tournament. M.C'H.S. 3177-W--,Oakland 19 M.C.H.S. 35 ...SDD Tolono M.C.H.S. 39 .,.,.. Bement 29 40 .YYYYY Atwood C H S Fisher ....., Grove M.C'H'S. --AHAD Tuscola gg ---ess grove MICIHISI szifficerro Gordo 20 M.C.H.S. 31--nwsuuivan M.C.H.S. 27 ...... Villa Grove 28 M.C.H.S. 31 ,D,D. - Fisher Regional tournament: M.C.H.S. 31 .a,D,D Cerro Gordo M.C.H.S. 48 ....sa Maroa 19 M.C.H.S. 30 D,.c.. Sullivan M.C.H.S. 39 ,,.c.. Weldon 37 M.C.H.S. 23 ,,.... Bement M.C.H.S. 48 ,..... Clinton 28 C'C ' ggjffgg Sectional tournament: ' ' ' ' U M.C.H.S. 31-.-----Tri-City 29 Okaw Valley tournament: M.C.H.S. 37 .....c Mt. Pulaski 39 M.C.H.S. 38 ...a,D Newman Won 23, Lost 6. This record talks for itself, as it is almost as good as that of any team in this part of the state. There are six seniors who would like to help better this, but as time marches on, other talented lads also want to fight for their school, and will carry on to even greater successes. CAPTAIN ZINDARS Charles Zindars didn't go out for athletics until his second year, but he immedi- ately became very proficient in football and basketball. He went out for track in his fourth year and has had a short but very successful career in that sport. Charlie is a great leader and a great competitor. He is popular with all the boys and plays well under any conditions. He has won three letters in football, two in basketball and one in track. He was the captain of the basketball team in his fourth year and one of the outstanding guards in this section of the state. 36 TRACK TEAMS ARE SUCCESSFUL FOR TWO YEARS The Sages went through one of the best track seasons in 1937 which had been witnessed in Monticello for many years. They started out by winning all of their meets but the district at Rantoul, annexing the Okaw Valley Championship by a nine point margin with 32 points to Z3 for the nearest opponent. Harry Clapp was the captain of the '37 team. The letter winners were: Payne Harris, in the mileg Verne Sumner, in the shot, discus, and javeling Shelton Downey, in the discus and shot, William F itzwater in the 220 and 4403 Willard Huffman, in the sprintsg Lawrence Hannah in the dashes, hurdles, broad jump, and high jump, Carl Hunt, in the dashes, shot, and broad jump, and Harry Clapp, in the hurdles, pole vault, and high jump. The 1938 team is not nearly as strong as that of the preceding year. The lack of weight men and a pole vaulter is one of the hold-backs. It is the desire of the squad to come out in the conference as well as they did last year. Buck Schroth, the well-liked track coach, is a veteran at the sport, and if it is possible, he will pull the boys through in fine shape. The veterans on this year's squad are: William Fitzwater, Payne Harris, Law- rence Hannah, and Carl Hunt. They are all consistent point winners and furnish keen competition for one another. After all, track is the sport of the individual, and the success of the team depends more largely upon the attitude of the individual, than in any other sport. The team, so far, has proved itself capable, on the track and in the field. Our track meets thus far, have been: a triangular with Mahomet and Argenta, a triangular meet with Bement and Cerro Gordo, the Urbana invitational at Urbana, a dual meet with Farmer City, and the Farmer City relays at Farmer City. The team won the field event trophy at the Farmer City relays with 22 points. Carl Hunt made ll points, Lawrence Hannah 6, Bob Duvall 4, and Charles Zindars 1. The remaining track meets include: a triangular meet with Champaign and Decatur, the District meet, and the Okaw Valley Conference Track Meet. The sea- son ends with the Taylorville relays. The Sages have fond hopes of winning the Okaw Valley Conference trophy as they did last year. They are very capable of it as has been shown in the previous meets. At first it was thought that they would be weak in the field events, but it has turned out that the reverse is true. Robert Duvall is one of the surprises to the team. He puzzled everyone by com- ing out and giving tip-top performances in the high jump and low hurdles. The possi- ble letter winners this season are: Payne Harris, William Fitzwater, Charles Zindars, Bob Duvall, Lawrence Hannah, and Carl Hunt. Dean Carrow, Bob Clark, Berlyn Scott, Gene Groves, and Lyle Yockey are some wonderful possibilities for the next year. 37 Top Row-Harris, Summers, Piatt, Dighton, Hiett, Zindars, Hunt. SECOND Row-Coach Bergeson, Rhoades, DuBree, Hannah, Mintun, Fitzwater, Huffman. FRONT Row-Brown, Duvall, Cox, Doyle, Alexander, Young, McIntosh. THE M-CLUB . . BOYS WHO HAVE SHOWN SUPERIOR ABILITY IN COMPETITION The 'tllll' Club is an organization of boys who have won athletic letters at M.C.H.S. The purposes of this club are: to maintain a closer relationship between the boys and their coaches, to foster sportsmanship among the students, and to pro- vide a social and recreational relationship among the members. Each year after football letters are awarded, a special assembly is called and the signing of the roster by new members is performed along with other special features. Boys who have won letters in football, basketball, and track are eligible for member- ship. There are numerous parties and special f'feeds held throughout the year. The finances for these events are provided by small contributions from each member. The creed of the UMM Club is UOur aim and purpose is to foster a high standard of sportsmanship and support the athletic traditions of Monticello High School. Present members are: Carl Hunt, Verne Sumner, Howard Cekander, George Seyler, Caroll Cain, Leslie Alexander, Bob Duvall, Charles Zindars, Joe Doyle, Lester Mackey, James Chitwood, William Fitzwater, Harry Clapp, Benny McIntosh, Law- rence Hannah, Linden Combes, Donn Piatt, Max Hickman, Shelton Downey, Frank Dubree, Dwight Rhodes, C. H. Summers, Maurice Young, Max Hiett, Charles McIn- tosh, Ted Mintun, john Brown, Arthur Cox, john Dighton, Willard Huffman, and Payne Harris. Honorary members are: Carl Bergeson and E. H. Buck,, Schroth, Coaches, F. M. Peterson, Principal, and Harry Combes, former M.C.H.S. athlete. Officers for the year are: Carl Hunt, President, Charles Zindars, Vice-President, William Fitzwater, Secretary-Treasurer, and Bob Duvall, Sergeant at Arms. New officers are elected each year. The UMW Club is a rather new organization, but is growing rapidly. In a few years it will, we feel, be one of the outstanding organizations in the high school. 38 ft PLAYS PA RTI ICS S'l'l'N'I'S ALL HICLP BIAKIC VVORK LIKIC PLAY Features Take . . . The Spotlight THE SENIOR PLAY . . . alias THE ROYAL FAMILY WAS GIVEN ON THE THIRTEENTH . . . NOT FRIDAY The Seniors decided that they had had their share of bad luck when the feature character, Mary Cynthia Norris, was quarantined for sixteen days due to a smallpox scare, thereby wrecking all well-laid plans to produce the Senior Play on April 8. Con- sequently they braved an ill-omened thirteenth to present one of the most difficult plays attempted by a Senior class for many years. The Royal Family was written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, and has been a noted stage success. Production of such a play requires much real charac- terization and the success of the actors was evidenced more noticeably by the silence and attention of the audience than in any other way. The story dealt with the struggles of the Cavendish family to lead normal lives and at the same time be actors, the family profession for many generations. A wide variety of situations arose in this most interesting family to furnish comedy, duels, tears, and sweet romance, which mainly concerned Frances Conard and Lawrence Hannah with Carl Hunt and Mary Cynthia Norris contributing their bit-and although a local scribe insists the boys would have been more effective in an athletic setting, we still think they proved their versatility. Bettie Tavenner, playing Fannie Cavendish, the grandmother and iron-hand ruler of the family, portrayed well the old lady who couldn't quite bear to give up her career as an actress. Mary Cynthia Norris as Julie Cavendish, a successful Broadway actress, did an exceptional part in playing a high-keyed temperamental part. Frances Conard as Gwen started to follow in the family footsteps, but stumbled into love and was lost temporarily. Wade Hannah fHerbert Deanj and his wife Kitty fplayed by Melba T immonsj furnished all the family rows and a big share of the humor. Ralph Bushee, in the role of Tony, the spoiled son, the great lover, the unpredict- able, carried perhaps the most difficult part enthusiastically and well. Joe and Della were the butler and maid respectively. Irish joe Doyle and Bon- nie Laurence in these parts served the family well. Bonnie drawled her part well nigh to perfection and joe carried his fchiefly traysj quite expertly. John Dighton as Wolfe-Oscar J. Wolfe-was after none, my boy as he man- aged the unmanageable Cavendishes, stormed and comforted and rescued them all from all hazards. He really turned in a finished piece of acting. Isabel Pembroke as Miss Peake-nurse to Gwen's baby, Donn Piatt as Gunga, a Hindu friend of Tony'sg Robert Meeceg William Fitzwater and Willard Huffman did not contract brain fatigue from their long parts, but a bit well done is a credit to anyone. The star-well, each of the capacity crowd had his idea-it may have been Wade or Mary Cynthia or Bettie or Bonnie or perhaps we might just say a constellation of seventeen. The production staff, including Director Fleming, Property Manager Paul, Stage Manager Fitzwater and two able assistants, Miss Hussey and Mr. Schroth, all worked hard to make a success of the play. An attractive stage and excellent makeups added to the general effectiveness of the play. 40 HEART TROUBLE . . . THE FIRST DRAMATIC EFFORT OF THE JUNIORS December third saw the first effort of the class of 1939 to do anything in the form of dramatics. After due consideration, Miss Turner, the dramatic coach, and her body of helpers, chose that farce dubbed Heart Trouble by the author, Howard Chenery. It deals with that aged and much over-worked theme of that other woman with a splattering of little sister interference, plus the cozy, quiet comfort of small town home life. In the beginningn the Morrison ancestors had been instrumental in the forming of this community, and, now it appears that they may be detrimental to its enjoyment in the form of a new golf course for which the town badly needs a piece of land owned by the self-made Fred Morrison, enacted in Monticello by Mr. Albert Daniel Mohler. Personally he seemed more like a Park Avenue Aristocrat than an overworked small town business man with family troubles. His socially ambitious wife, Grace, was excellently portrayed by Sally Phillips, who loves to sit and chatn with her neigh- bors, only we daren't tell of what they talk. The two lovely daughters are Mary Ellen Cox, who could become more expert in the art of pitching a little woo, and Blossom Bacopulos, who both did comparatively well. The adolescent junior rather 'tdrooped but could not that be expected since he was portrayed by Payne Droopey'l Harris? Tommy Caler, the drug-store hero would have seemed more natural deliver- ing papers. The golf-pro's characterization was in the hands of Ernest Lohr, who teed-off, and nearly, up to our expectations. His wife, Jeanne Prosch, is a surprise motif in this case and Jesse Hickman the town's rich man or nearly so, for he is a banker, is the most ardent supporter of the golf-course-idea. His daughter, the heir- ess Lenore, takes up with Junior and brings the transaction to a close. She, in other words Norma Norris, was just a little demure and quiet, but was O.K. e'en tho'. Hussey and Felts assisted and made it a spanking success withal. -As seen through the eyes of a Senior. 41 THE GLEE CLUB REVIVED AN OLD CUSTOM AND PRESENTED AN OPERETTA . . . THE BELLE OF BARCELONA This operetta was put on by the M. C. H. S. Glee Club on May 11, 1938. The cast of characters were: Luis de Montero, a wealthy plantation owner ..... ......... C arl Hunt Gloria de Montero, his wife, an aristocrat ...L Margarita, an accomplished daughter L,.. Mary Jane Moore --L--Fleta Orrison Mercedes, her sister .LLL...,.....L.-...,vL,......,,......,,.-.. Orvetta Keyes Francisco de la Vega, Chief Inspector at the Custom House, who claims to be a nobleman .... L .,...,.L,... L ...LL......,.L.c. Albert Mohler Pedro, manager of de Montero's plantationw Emilio, a toreador, suitor of Mercedes- ..-.,,. --, Don juan Don Jose Dona Marcela - - Dona Anita friends of Margarita student friends of Emilio. 'r ---kRobert Phillips ,Marshall Swoverland Harold Thompson ,-- William Martin - -- -Marjorie Higgins Martha Matilda Ayers, an English governess- Martha Hiett Francis Barclay Lieutenant Harold Wright, Custom Inspector from United States---Willard Huffman Patrick fPatJ Malone, companion of Hal ....,.,,..L.,c.,,,,..,L,, Wade Hannah Francis White Captain Colton, of the cruiser Montana ,,.....L.L,..s,,c....,,.. Margarita de Montero, the daughter of a wealthy plantation returned home from a finishing school in Madrid. It is fiesta in the day of the seasonls big bull fight. Margarita meets her friends in owner, has just Barcelona, and the Plaza where they are singing and dancing and lauding the great toreador, Emilio. Three years before, while touring the United States with her parents, Mar- garita met Lieutenant Harold Wright. It was love at first sight, but their court- ship was soon interrupted by her unexpected return to Spain. Lieutenant Wright goes to Barcelona as custom inspector, and arrives at the time of the annual fiesta. On the day of Margarita's return from Madrid, as he is walking in the Plaza, he finds a mantilla on which is attached a silver pin. He recognizes it as one he had given her in Washington. They meet when Margarita returns looking for her mantilla, and the old romance is resumed. Lieutenant Wright learns she has become engaged by her parents to a scheming Spanish nobleman, much against her will. He secures the aid of his friends in his efforts to break this engagement, but is opposed by the scheming nobleman and Margarita's ambitious parents. Lieutenant Wright suspects the nobleman, who is chief inspector for the Spanish government, as being responsible for certain alleged conditions existing at the custom house. He begins an investigation that leads to some surprising discoveries. The scenes that follow lead up to a climax in the third act revealing the true character of the nobleman. He pleads for mercy through Margaritals parents, which is granted after a promise to release her from the old engagement. All ends well as wedding bells proclaim Margarita's engagement to Lieuten- ant Wright. 1 42 W , l Ca Pfam Cholly V8 - Boo! D Ta-zv 1-UlU WhaTaMan Izzy M342 Coxle Frugndljy EYNCYYNGS School Daze !l -k3.Ch6Y'5 PETS Cy H7 JvST Friends? Bill Keyes - 43 STUDENTS AND FACULTY . . . THEIR SOCIAL ACTIVITIES Homecoming was held this year on October 22, 1937. The Parent-Teachers Association served an excellent meal to a very large crowd from five to seven. The crowd then adjourned to the football game, which resulted in a 6 to 6 tie with Arcola. The final celebration was the dance. Dick Shelton furnished the music and they proved quite a drawing card since they were scheduled to appear in Chicago at the Aragon and Trianon the following week. Another feature of the Homecoming was the revival of the election of a Home- coming Queen-june Piatt, Sophomore President, carried off this honor. She was crowned by Captain Carl Hunt just preceding the game after a processional in which she was escorted on to the field by Captains Hunt and Pullen of Arcola, followed by her attendants, Melba Timmons, senior, Norma Norris, junior, and Martha Hiatt, freshman. These girls had previously been presented gifts as a token of their partici- pation in the contest and their efforts in making the Homecoming a success. The Annual Athletic Banquet, sponsored by the Community Club, was held in the cafeteria on November 29 and attended by about two hundred men and boys. A meal which satisfied even the appetites of the long hungry football stalwarts was served by the Methodist Guild, after which Mr. J. P. Kratz, toastmaster, introduced Coach Bergeson, Captain Hunt, and Captain-elect DuBree, who spoke briefly and the main speaker of the evening, Ray Eliot, of the Physical Education Department at the University of Illinois. The final entertainment of the evening was given by a group from W.D.W.S. and it is rumored that they really entertained some of our athletes. The Football Squad and Coaches Were Guests at a Chop Suey Dinner given by Miss Fleming at the home of Mrs. D. F. Pembroke shortly after the close of the foot- ball season-no speeches-just food-was the slogan of this party. A Faculty-Board Steak Fry was the opening social event of the year for faculty and board members of grade and high school. It was held at the Forest Preserve Park on September 23 with eighty present. The G.A.A. had a variety of parties during the school year, the first being a weiner roast at the City Park on September 22. Plenty of food was consumed by all present C it being said that the Conard sisters depleted the town supply of hamburgerj and later informal tryouts for cheer-leaders entertained the guests until they were able to make their way home. The Halloween masquerade was a huge success, although the G.A.A. seemed to have acquired some new members with rather large feet, who were given rather rough treatment when their identity was discoverd. On March 16, after several postponements the G.A.A. made their annual trip to skate at the University Ice Rink, after which they refreshed themselves at Prehns and returned without broken bones or cracked craniums, much to the amazement of every- one. Girls Athletic Association also sponsored an Invitational Play Day on May 7, and were hostesses to about two hundred girls from ten or fifteen schools. 44 Tea Dances were held on November 12, February 3 and 8 with the later ones having music furnished by a high school band. The Okaw Valley Basketball Banquet was Held at Villa Grove on March 21, and was attended by our squad, coaches, and Mr. Peterson. Doug Mills, basketball coach at Illinois, was the speaker. The climax of this function for us was the awarding of the Sportsmanship Trophy, since we were fortunate enough to be awarded this very fine trophy we feel that this is a real honor. The P.-T. A. Banquet was held on February 21 and was a very outstanding affair. Table decorations were in blue and gold with gold nut cups, programs bearing the oak tree insignia of the P.-T. A. bouquets of yellow narcissus and blue candles. A capac- ity group sat down to a nearly perfect meal, prepared by members of the P.-T. A. and served very efficiently by members of the home economics classes. Music was fur- nished by an orchestra of high school students with Willard Huffman adding vocal numbers. Miss Bayless sang and Mrs. Arthur Williams of Normal, State President of the Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers, spoke in her usual inspiring manner. The Senior Play Cast Celebrated on the evening following the play. Twenty-two, cast members, Miss Fleming, Miss Hussey, Mr. Schroth and Mr. Quinlan had dinner at the Park Avenue Tea Room in Champaign and later attended the Baroness and the Butler at the Virginia. During the dinner Miss Fleming was presented with a compact by members of the Senior Class. The whole affair was very informal, but two outstanding events occurred: Bonnie Laurence called the bluff of Carl Hunt and as a result he broke training probably for the first time in his career. QAsk him how he likes Park Avenue cigarsjg and Buck', well nigh lost his wedding license. Eugene H. Schroth and Maxine York were married on A pril fifteenth. The wed- ding, a simple but pretty ceremony, took place in the parlors of the First Methodist Church in Urbana in the presence of about seventy-five guests. A wedding breakfast was served at the York home in White Heath, after which the popular couple left for a short honeymoon, spent at points south. May we take this opportunity to wish them every future happiness. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson entertained the faculty members and their wives at a very lovely spring buffet supper on Thursday evening, April 21. Bridge and Crossword Lexicon furnished the entertainment for the evening with the newlyweds, the Schroths, apparently the champions in the latter. OUR NURSE ANNOUNCES HER ENGAGEMENT AND IS FETED BY HIGH SCHOOL AND GRADE SCHOOL FACULTIES Miss Viola Hatfield, our school nurse, announced her engagement to Alvin Hinton of Decatur at a very pretty bridge party given by her sister on May 6, at her home in Decatur, and on Wednesday, May 18, the faculties of the grade and high school held a potluck and bridge party honoring the bride-to-be, to whom they presented a Toastmaster sandwich tray. 45 WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO OUR REUNION IN 1968 In 1940, that little city of the Middle West, so prosperous and influential since the day its first bottle of Doctor Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin was put on the market- that little city of Monticello, in 1940, struck oil and became a second Tulsa over night. Since then, the years are many. As I look upon yon calendar, I catch my breath. It is the year 1968 A.D. just thirty years ago I graduated from my beloved M.C.H.S. It was in those good old days when one could tear down the middle of the street in a snappy roadster without stopping at any of the corners placarded ffStop. Now there is a traffic light at every corner and a cop. There are competitive trolley lines and taxis whiz by. Town property is worth 35300 per square foot. Monticello is a big city easily the size of Chicago, and I understand the state capitol is to be moved here as soon as one hundred thousand more people decide to make it their permanent resi- dence. While I was thus retroflecting, my secretary announced that a gray-bearded man with a strange invention wanted to interview me and had called for an appointment at two o'clock. Being almost that time, she admitted him. His face was not unfamil- iar yet I could not place him. As soon as he started to go into detail about his machine, telling me about the relative force of part Na upon part xv and positive charges upon cosmic rays which made so and so collide with such and such atoms, I knew him to be my old colleague, William Fitzwater, Esq. I've been working on it for years, he told me. Everyone laughs at me. I've been professor of electrical engineering at Hale, Yarvard, Soxford, Bombay, and Mad- agascar for the past twenty years. Every time I even suggest my theory, the board of trustees forces me to resign, he explained. I agreed that it was too bad he was unable to keep his splendid positions just be- cause those 'ffool trustees couldn't see through his formulas and blue-prints. I was afraid not to agree. No telling what sort of personage I had within my portals. He might at any moment draw a firing-rod on me and before I could call Miss Quince, my secretary, I would be in my death struggles. 'fBut you believe me, don't you? Willie pleaded. Can't you explain it a little more simply? I never was a mathematician. Tell me in my language, what is that thing? I said, pointing to the pile of paraphernalia. 'fVery well, Willie began. You see it has two caps to fit the human head. There are wires attached to these hoods or caps and these wires in turn are connected to the box-like compartment with the mirror in it. Y? Yes, yes. Go on. If I was to put one of these caps on my head and one on someone else's and push this little button, he said, showing me a button on the box, 'fa red light would go on,,' he continued, Hand a picture would flash on the mirror of what we were thinking. I cleared my throat and felt dizzy. Indeed, I managed in a hoarse whisper. Come, let me demonstrate. I shall put on one of the caps and you the other. I'll prove to you it can be done. I'll prove my theory of Fitzwater's Famous Fizzle Machine! he roared. After I had protested vigorously, I was finally subdued and let Willie place the horrible thing on my head. Sit still, he ordered. 46 I did. I was paralyzed. Now let us think of something or someone, he said after he had adjusted his cap. Ah, I have it! he cried. We shall think of our old classmates back in M. C. H. S. We'll see where they are and what they're doing. Good Willie pushed the button, a red light flashed on and a bell rang. Suddenly, a picture Hashed on the mirror. It was not distinct at first but soon become quite plain. It was the scene of a plant nursery. There busily among his lilies, pansies and rosemaries was Dr. Louis Wagy. The scene changed and it took us to Africa. A farmer dressed in blue denim and a straw hat stood 'midst sleek porkers admiring the brood. He looked up and saw us. It was Maurice Young. Africa is the best place in the world to raise pigs. I've got a meat packing industry at Crepe Town, he told us. But before he could say more, the picture faded. The third picture revealed the North Woods and Bob Duvall striding about. He had bought up four million acres of timber and now operated a lumber camp. I understand he owns a wood pulp and paper works and all the lumber yards of teakwood and ebony in India. A flash and the scene was that of Television City, New York. A small sweet- faced old woman was speaking over the microphone. It was Melba Timmons. She was talking on her own program, known as Aunt Penny's One Hundred Years or Monticello Hobby Horse. Another scene was that of the Throes Bowl, California. The football game was in progress, and the crowd was mad. The shout went up, t'Monticello University, 70 and California Tech, O! Hooray for Coach Carl Hunt! The next picture was that of the renowned Piatt Plush Brush Company. Piatt Brushes are twice as famous now as Fullerls were back in '38. Beside this building was the imposing site of Doyle's Crunchy-Wunchy Breakfast Foods Company, Doyle and Piatt being brothers-in-law. An opera stage next came to our view. I heard the tones of a lovely voice which I at once recognized as the golden voice of the Silver Sangamon, Miss Orvetta Keyes. The next picture was that of the renowned Tipsword Motors Company. Deon took over the Chord and Fevorlet many years ago. He is also president of the Tips- word Salted Peanut Plant in Mexico and the Tipsword Better Bacon Company in Walla Walla. I next saw a crowd of people parading down the street with placards on their shoulders saying, Vote for Bradley,', Vote for Honest Herb,'l and Bradley for President. He was running on the Publicrat Ticket. The picture changed to a Wollyhood movie set and I saw that they were making that new picture, Stranger Than Fiction, starring Clark Taylor Dighton, son of John T. Dighton, This Clark Taylor is the new matinee idol, so to speak. While the scene was still in Wollyhood, the picture revealed Mary Paul to be the competent secretary of none other than Crecil B. De Pille, II. Marshall Swoverland also has his headquarters in California, being President of the Swoverland, Foolworth, and Pesky Corporation. 47 I saw Max Evans teaching Tiddly Winks in Yarvard University. And accord- ing to the machine, Charles McIntosh owns the Never Splinter Tooth Pick Com- pany at F aultin', Illinois. Then the scene changed to the main office of the Old Cold Tobacco Company in Hamstring, North Carolina. There, with his feet resting on the desk marked HPresident,l' sat my old friend, Lynn Fisher. Suddenly across the screen Hashed slap-happy Paul Patterson, chief demonstrator for the famous product ''The-Only-Rub-Is-In-The-Price'l Shaving Cream. Paul is very proud of the fact that he is the only demonstrator who has the privilege of wearing the badge of that famous corporation. Gradually, Paul faded into space, and he was replaced by Mary Cynthia Norris creeping along, tap shoes in hand, to rehearsal. Since the retirement of Eleanor Howell, Mary Cynthia is the Number One dancer of the United States and colonies, according to the latest report of Reel Life. For your information, Reel Life is a popular magazine edited and published by Helen Scoops Pierson. The next tableau to present itself was a door which bore the title, 'fArthur Cox- District Attorney-Walk Infl The door opened and who should emerge but Charles Pussy-Foot Olson, private investigator. Down the corridor of this building was the office of Bonnie Laurence, newly-elected treasurer of Pokum County. Her oppo- nent in the last election, Mr. Lawrence Hannah by name, found to his great dis- illusion that one cannot successfully fill a public office from a basketball court. Quite unexpectedly, the scene shifted to the palatial residence of my friend and classmate, Lula Mae Stanley, who is happily married to the chief mechanic of the Spike Garage, and I am happy to say, Lula Mae has everything she wants in- cluding a new granddaughter. Our conversation was interrupted by the pounding of a typewriter. Upon inquiring, I found the noisy neighbor to be Rose Breen, who was busily preparing her twentieth volume on social customs. The title was Of Men and Manners. When I returned to the street, I saw something approaching. Soon I recognized it to be a car drawing a trailer labeled The Moving Institution for the Study and Development of Flora and Fauna. In the driver's seat sat Leslie Alexander with a broad grin on his face. It seemed there was a procession of trailers, for right behind it came Ralph Bushee's 1938 Pantiac rattling along and drawing its trailer behind it. Bushee, in 1945, after an unsuccessful stage career, had decided to revive The Krunch and Foody Shows,'l but his progress has been noticeably slow-probably due to the Pantiac. As an added attraction, he played the famous recordings of Willard Huffman, singer De Luxe. In the midst of Willard's interpretation of On the Toad to Ramble-lay, the town marshal, who was none other than my esteemed classmate, Dwight Rhoades, approached on motorcycle and arrested the caravan for disturbing the peace. They were taken to court to plead their cases before judge Opal Wileaver. The bailiff who called the court to order was Norman Hammerschmidt, of all people. In the press section sat Martha Zindars, busily taking notes in shorthand for her paper, The Chicago Fibune. Probably due to the length of my visit, this scene was suddenly snapped from my vision. I now found myself in a luxurious studio whose walls were plastered with photos. In one corner of the room sat Bernice Madden, brush in hand, tinting photos. The proprietor, Eldon Chapman, was busy photographing the new World's Cham- pion Wrestler and Mud Slinger, Duane Hankinson. While all this was taking place, Wade Hannah was in the middle of the Grabi Desert busily digging up the fossils of-welll never know! 48 In another part of the world, Connecticut to be exact, Charles Zindars, the curly-haired land-baron of New England, and points north, south, and west, had just leased a forty-acre field to Frances Conard and her Female Football Team. Publicity stated that the team was composed entirely of women, but I noticed Robert Meece in the backtield. No one cared to explain this, so I didn't make an issue of it. The adjoining plot was leased by that national organization for girls, The Pearl Sproutsf' I found to my amazement that my old friend, Florence McGee, was the camp director for the little Pearls, On the highway that runs past this camp, I found a stand bearing the sign, Fresh Pop-Corn and Home-made Candies-Proprietors, Stiverson and Martin. In 1940, Mickey Martin became famous as the greatest living candy-maker, having taken over the Trybll Feastly Factory. Alice Stiverson bought the pop-corn stand that originally stood by the Smearic Theatre, and she has made quite a success of it. Was it a coincidence that the next scene to greet my eyes was a thriving Funeral Parlor? Behind a casket, mumbling to himself was that world-famed undertaker, Eldon Moyer. Behind a desk in the corner sat jean Brittin puzzling over the accounts of Mr. Moyer. The map of Illinois was before me, and my gaze focused on the old home town. The Yallerton Public Library was my next stopping place. I observed that the building had been remodeled by that internationally known architect, Edgar Hinton. The sign on the front of the building had also been changed, it now read, Ted Mintun's Emporium for Better Reading? I must have arrived at the visiting hour, because I noticed that the place was overrun by Luella Dickerson's Latin I class. My conversation with librarians, Mary Hodson and Jean Keller, was cut short by the sudden disappearance of Lynn Royce, III, who had accompanied his venerable grandpa to the institution for research in the latest development of Haggie and Figgsf' After a frantic search, Lynn, III, was found swinging in the chandelier. From the opera house next door, issued the sweet notes of the Monticello Kill- harmonic Simpany Corchestra. I met two classmates here, Isabel Pembroke, who pounded the big bass drum all by herself, and Esther Edwards who waved a stick before the aggregation-this was supposed to keep them together, but I later dis- covered that no two of them were playing the same piece. In connection with the opera house, there was a radio station, B-L-O-W. At the time of my visit, Elsie Louise Milligan was presenting her weekly program, 'fYour Sock Procession, sponsored by the Mucky Spike Cigarette Company. Lucille Perry managed the local hotel, the Jiltmoreg Violet Baker and Elsie Nelson were in charge of the hotel beauty salon. Adjoining the beauty salon was the jiltmore's Drug Store, the pharmacist being none other than Lois Hays. Lois proudly displayed our mutual friend's famous product. The label read Halt Hic- coughs with Helen Hillls Honey and Hoarhound Hazard. Near the city was an airport, from which transcontinental planes left daily. I found upon inquiring that my chum Carol Alexander was the air hostess on the main line-and doing very well, too. About this time, two men walked into my room. Now, now, Professor. You mustn't run away. Come with us. We have a nice padded cell all ready, said one of the men. But I just wanted to-'i Willie stammered. They took Willie by the arm and led him away. TAVENNER, PAUL, AND LAURENCE. 49 LE GAL NOTICES I, Arthur Cox, bequeath my feminine admirers to Nick', Hannah. I, Wade Hannah, bequeath my love for tap dancing to anyone who wants it. I, Orvetta Keyes, give my delightful voice to Fleta Orrison. I, Mary C. Norris, give my icy glares to Betty Norris. I, Melba Timmons, leave my rhythm to Norma Norris and Blossom Bacoplus. I, Lynn Royse, leave my ability to play dumb to Revis Hazlett. I, Isabel Pembroke, bequeath my ability to blush to Ruth Shaff. I, Maurice Young, give my love for blondes to Max Hency. I, Bob Meece, give my shirt to M. C. H. S. I, Bernice Madden, leave my sweet smiles to some lucky devil. I, Willard Huffman, give my tuba to Max Brown. Will he make it? I, Elsie Nelson, leave my giggles to Eleanor Bushee. I, Luella Dickerson, give my old Latin books to Jack Warner. I, Herbert Bradley, leave my cornet to Ruth Denny. I, Eldon Moyer, leave my ability to say I donit know to Lois Downs. I, Eldon Chapman, leave my temper to june Evans. I, Violet Baker, willingly give anyone my scarlet locks. I, Leslie Alexander, bequeath my medals in Ag to C. H. Summers. I Rose Breen, leave my English themes to Albert Mohler. ! I, Ralph Bushee, give my great mental ability to 'KDroop Harris. I Duane Einsteinl' Hankinson, leave my unfinished chemistry theories to Leland Perkins. I, joe Doyle, leave june Piatt to joe Doyle. We, Donn Piatt and John Dighton, bequeath our morning ride to school with Miss Fink to the Abner Brothers. 1, Mary Paul, give to M. C. H. S .... No, on second thought, I think Iill keep it. I Bill Fitzwater, donate my broken, burnt out, or otherwise used up radio tubes to jim Henderson. I, Lawrence Hannah, leave my stock of parlor jokes to Max Hency I Ted Mintun, will my collection of hair ribbons, notes, pencils and other what-not to Jesse Hickman. I, Lois Hayes, give my silence to Helen Widick. I, Carl Hunt, give my strong muscles to Dick Smith. I Martha Zindars, bequeath my admiration for tall, blond Swedes to Marjory Higgins. I Charles Olson, give my Ag projects to the iirst person who wants 'em. 7 I, Florence McGee, give my jet-black tresses to June Evans. I, Lynn Fisher, give my whistling ability and my cigarettes to Nathaniel Thompson. I, Lou Wagy, give my long fingernails to an inexperienced Freshie. I, Carol Alexander, will my bashful smile to La Verne Hosler. I, Charles McIntosh, bequeath my dumb answers to Lois Downs. I, Esther Edwards, give my long lashes to Dewey Chambers. I, Deon T ipsword, give my love letters to jack Warner. I, Bonnie Laurence, will my 101 pounds to Eddie Allen. I, Jean Keller, give my volleyball serves to Tub Hubbard. I, Marian Martin, bequeath my ability to make fudge to Mary Wall. 7 Y 7 7 50 I, Marshall Swoverland, leave my phlegmatic answers to sociology questions to C. H. Summers. I, Dwight Rhoades, give my handsome physique to Bela Stoddard. I, Charles Zindars, leave my cave man antics to Gerald Miller. I, Bob Duvall, leave my ability to get along with blondes to brother t'Chub,' and hope he can do better than I did. I, Jean Brittin, bequeath my cold shoulder to Ardith Brown. I, Frances Conard, just can't quite decide what to leave-probably a memory. I, Helen Pierson, give my sunny smile to Marian Piatt. I, Helen Hill, gladly bequeath my freckles to Jenny Mae Hurley. I, Lula Mae Stanley, give my brother Cyrus to June Evans. I, Lucille Perry, dedicate my subtle charms to a certain blond husky on M. C. H. S. football team. I, Bettie L. Tavenner, leave my great love of Edgar Allan Poe and freshman boys to anyone who has insomnia, yellow jaundice or hang nails. I, Paul Patterson, think I'll keep my admiration for shy country lasses until something better comes along. I, Edgar Hinton, give my worn out razor blades to Dick Lyon. I, Norman Hammerschmidt, give my dimples to Jean Prosch. I, Alice Stiverson, give my adenoids to Martha Hiett. I, Opal Wileaver, leave my locker key to Annabel Royse if shelll give me a quarter for it. I, Max Evans, will keep everything I've got and just break even. I, Mary Hodson, give my sympathy to the incoming freshmen. I, Elsie Milligan, bestow my suave manner to Chuck Wright. AC KNOWLED GM ENT To our friends and patrons, the merchants of Monticello, we take this opportunity of expressing our gratitude for favors, services, and patronage, past, present, and future. S1 A Rose BeTwee h TwoThOYn5 Our Fresfw mam Home OUP' Pvesaclerff fgfj Proc? - John WOYKS Lyle , Car! and Lynn Frances comnrfg Queen - Kahz Davis The Chuvvvmy POW' Coeds Thekflcughf O'F F?omar1ce JUST Three Brvcfs O r ve TT A .as m 5 , if if 3' . 5 'ss- g X Jusf Being Nafuraf. 52 of s feafher Come, and 5C0TTy Charles McIntosh: I think I have a cold or something in my head. Ralph Bushee: Must be a coldf' Elsie L. Milligan: I'm the originator of the worm dance. Miss Reeves: Yes, whatis that? Elsie L. Milligan: Well, you wiggle and then go into The Big Applef' Mr. Quinlan: You canit sleep in class. Herbert Bradley: I know it. I've been trying it for an hourf' Hooey Hannah: Bob Duvall burned a hole in his pants. Charlie Zindars: Did he have insurance? Hooey Hannah: No, his coat tail covered the loss. Mr. Bergeson: 'lSomeone threw a cowardly egg at me and it hit me full on the chest. Arthur Cox: What kind of an egg is that? Mr. Bergeson: A cowardly egg is one that hits you and then runs. Ruth Shaff: How'd you get by in Latin without studying? Eleanor J. Bushee: I worked a cross-word puzzle my teacher couldn't figure out. Miss Fink: 'lDo you ever wonder where all the pins go? Mickey Martin: Thatls kind of hard to answer, because they are always pointed in one direction and headed in another? Isabel Pembroke: What do the words dewey feathers suggest to you? Mary Paul A wet hen. Little Mary Paul Wouldn't play ball But along came Hunt, She saw him punt And Oh! How she did fall. Dedicated to Wade Hannah. The flivver is my car, I shall not want another. It maketh me to lie down in wet places. It soilest my clothes: it leadeth me into paths of ridicule for its namels sake. It prepareth me for a breakdown in the presence of mine enemies. Yea, though I walk through the valley, I am towed up the hill, I fear great evil when it is with me: its rod and engine discomfort me. It annoineteth my face with oils. Its tank runneth empty. Surely to goodness if the thing follows me all my life, I shall dwell in the house of the insane forever. Mr. Peterson: QTo Studentsj Instead of ridiculing the older boys, why don't you get out on the basketball floor and show the boys how to do it? Dean Carrow: We would only they don't have enough suits. Marshall Swoverland: I played the leading part in a play once. Bob Phillips: What? Marshall Swoverland: Oh, I led the dogs in on the stage and off again. Lost-Appetite for pie. Finder please return to Ted Mintun and receive a re- ward. We are unable to find out what kind of reward is offered. Charles Olson: Could you tell me in round numbers what I made on the Solid Geometry test? 53 Miss Fleming: Yes, zero! Mr. Peterson: What do you expect to be when you get through school? Charles McIntosh: An old manf' Mr. F elts: Before I dismiss the class let me repeat the words of Websterf, Bob Phillips: f'Letls get out of here. Hels starting on the dictionary. Miss Hussey: 'KWhere's your pencil, Maurice? Maurice Young: Ain't got none, Teacher. Miss Hussey: 'fHow many times have I told you not to say that. Listen, I haven't got one, you haven't got one, we haven't got one, they haven't got one- 75 Maurice Young: f'My, where are all the pencils? Bettie Tavenner: 'Td like to get a book, something deep, if you have itf' Miss Hussey: Do you think this will be deep enough? It's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea? Mae Lavonne Laurence: One reason why women do not age as rapidly as men is that when a man has a birthday, he sometimes takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday she takes a year off. Mr. Lukens: What is hydrofluoric acid used ior?', Bill Fitzwater: Cln chemistryj Hydrofluoric acid is used for itching glass. A student in a New England school had flunked in Latin. In the quiz the student was called upon to give a written translation of the verse below. There are Latin scholars reading this who will be moved to tears: Isabili. Heres ago Fortibus es in aro. Noces, Mari, Thebi trux Vatis in em pax a dux. After weeks of effort, the student came forth with the following. It is not sur- prising that the instructor read it to the class: 'AI say Billie, here's a go, Forty busses in a row. UNO, says Mary, they be trucks. What is in em? Packs o' ducks. Dear Mr. Palmolive: I bought a tube of your shaving cream. It says no mug required. What shall I shave? Yours truly, HORACE YORK. Excuse me, but we can't hear a word,'l protested a theater patron annoyed by the conversation of a couple in the row behind. L'Well,,' snapped the woman member of the disturbing pair, what we're talking about is none of your businessf' 54 THE IDEAL GIRL Inasmuch as there are no perfect beings on this earth, inasmuch as there never will be a perfect earthly being, and inasmuch as most of us canit visualize anything so impossible, here is one opinion of the ideal girl. Composed of the redeeming features possessed by members of the Class of 1938 Cwe do have some redeeming featuresj, she probably would have: Ha1r-- --- Eyes - s... Nose - .... Lips - .... Teeth .--- Ears . ....... Complexion ---- ----- Smile ----- - Chin. .... Neck --- Figure ---- Waistline --- Legs ...... Feet .... Hands s,L..,s.,.... ----- Sense of Humor Pep and Personality - --- ---- - Q Brains --.. ---- - ---- ---- Voice ---- -..- - Best Dresser --- ----- Laugh - -------- ---- - .Helen Pierson Esther Edwards Lucille Perry jean Keller Bonnie Laurence Violet Baker Mary V. Paul ----.Bernice Madden Florence McGee Mary Hodson ----.Frances Conard Jean Brittin Mary C. Norris ----.Orvetta Keyes Bettie Tavenner Marian Martin ' Melba Timmons .Luella Dickerson Lula Mae Stanley Carol Alexander Isabel Pembroke Walk , ------- Lois Hays Courtesy - ---- ---- . Rose Breen Patience --- - ---- Elsie Nelson Ambition ---- Alice Stiverson Neatness . ---- ---- . Helen Hill Disposition ---- ---- .Elsie L. Milligan Generosity . ---- ----- M artha Zindars Dimples . -------------------------- Opal Wileaver Put them all together and you have the perfect Senior girl. . . synthetic, of course, but ideal. S5 THE IDEAL BOY Our super de luxe Senior boy would have the following: Hair ...f.....l...... ........,W... -L eslie Alexander Eyes ...E Nose E... Lips ---- Teeth ,.... Ears - .sss,.. Complexion--- Smile ....,s, Chin ,,,. Neck - Ys.. Physique ---- Height ---- W aistline ...E Legs .ss.,. Feet ss,......ss Hands - ..s,.,.. - - ------Duane Hankinson ---,Eldon Moyer ----.Willard Huffman ----Ted Mintun ----Charles Olson ----Lynn Royse ----.Charles Zindars ------Lynn Fisher ----Eldon Chapman ----Arthur Cox ----.Donn Piatt ----Lawrence Hannah ----Bob Duvall ----.Marshall Swoverland ---.John Dighton Sense of Humor ,.... ----Wade Hannah Athletic Ability .... Brains Aw...... Voice - ...,.ss - Best Dresser D... Walk .....s..a Poetic Talent s,., ----Carl Hunt ---.William Fitzwater ----Joe Doyle ----,Herbert Bradley ---.Louis Wagy ----Paul Patterson Sportsmanship -------------- ----Dwight Rhoades Knowledge of Current Events ---- .--- Y Charles McIntosh Modesty ------------------ ----Max Evans Dimples .---- ---- N orman Hammerschmidt Laugh ---- ----Robert Meece Sincerity ---- ----Maurice Young Disposition - ---- ---.Deon Tipsword Kindness- -------- ---- , Edgar Hinton Art Appreciatlon- ------------------- Ralph Bushee And here we have what be consider the closest thing to a perfect Senior boy. 56 f1.m-,-an-. U .L .-.- .-mn-gn.,-, Q xpu.. 1 .,f- -- W- 1-4-:gin-yr.-.uf m..4.n. ...ff .2-nm' -' --uum--nf-r.--u..,w..,-f1- , -. ww- -ww - - xi-