Morrisonville High School - Crest Yearbook (Morrisonville, IL)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY In the fateful year of l9h0, a very large class of Freshles entered the Morrisonville Community High School Qin short H C H S At first, as the tradition goes, we were very green, but soon we became accustomed to high school life We elected Mr Schultz as Class Advisor, Donald Walker, President, Howard Wilson, Vice President, June Campbell, Secretary, and Virginia Smothers, Trees urer We sponsored a dance and a food sale, which along with our dues, helped swell the treasury One of our members, Maryalioe Coy was chosen cheerleader along with some upperclassmen and has retained this position for the full four years we had many active members in glee club and choir which was under the direction of Mr Schultz We also had some very active members in athletics We started our Sophomore year by losing some of our members but not very many We elected Mr Flemlng as Class Advisor, John Hillburg as President, Betty Rich as Vice President, Rosemary Gauer as Secretary, Nadine Jenkins as Treasurer, and Alice Sloman as Publicity Manager, and we proceeded to make our Sophomore year a successful one We sponsored a dance, hayride, a hamburger our boys on the first five of boys went out for basketball M C H S from Taylorville and several social events which included fry, and a food sale We had one of the basketball team Several other At this time Dick Norris entered wa put into the Sophomore class In our Junior year, we bestowed the honor of Class Advisor to Miss Estes, who has remained with us for our Senior year W elected Donald President, and our songbirds, Nadine Jenkins with Maryalice Walker as President, Bernard Gleespen as Vice Ruth Harmon as Secretary Treasurer We lost two of Rosemary Gauer and Alice Sloman to Springfield and Donald Walker were elected cheerleaders, which Coy, made all the cheerleaders from our class presented the play 'Happy Landings' to a very large audience on the evening of April 2, 19h3 We sponsored, also a Halloween Party, which was very hilarious and very profitable, and the traditional Prom and Banquet for the departing Seniors At the end of the year, Ie had a nice little sum of money in the treasury to start our Sen or year The Senior year was started by giving a dance Our officers elected for the year were as follows President, Kenneth Rosenthal, Vice President, Betty Jo Howard, Secretary Treasurer, Lyle Harmon In October we gave a very successful Carnival, at which we started something new boxing matches, contestants taken from the Senior Class Then along came December and the Senior play, 'It's Papa Who Pays,' starring some talented members of our class The Sen iors traveled to Springfield to have their pictures taken good pictures too' Then came the biggest job we have yet undertaken that of publishing a bigger, better annual than ever before We hope you enjoyed it as much as we have enjoyed putting it together Last but not least, our Senior picnic on May 26 ended a very happy four years at M C H S Virginia Smothers NMR O O O I , I O e e - U O 1 I 0 O C C U ' o O O e - e Q e 0 e 0 O 0 0 I 9 0 . B ' nn Q - ' I . W! O O Q I e e e Q an ' 0 0 f on 0 . 9 no . 0- C C e 0 0 0 on