Monticello High School - Memories Yearbook (Monticello, IL)

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Our Camera Clicks On Our Activities XTX CLUBS . . . . Local and State SPECIAL . . . CLASSES HOBBIES . . . INSTRUCTION . . RECREATION

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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

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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