Nixon Township High School - Nixonia Yearbook (Weldon, IL)

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The Nix o n i a 1924 Laura: “It was 1i!:c an enchanted garden wtih Spring flowers, apple blossoms. roses, and a play-like fountain.” Loraine: The next Fall, we returned to Xixon as Seniors. What a thrill it was! We asked Miss Langdon to he our adviser and started at once on our campaign to raise five hundred dollars for a year lx ok. Didn't that seem a huge task ? Laura: “Our first party was the Kid Party. Eighty guests were entertained at the I fall with every kind of game and race. We started our party with a grand march and Virginia reel. Dr. Marvel read a telegram from Santa Claus to his Xixon lx)vs and girls telling them that they would have to work mighty hard to raise the Xixonia funds. loraine: ”1 rememl er we decorated with corn stalks and made orange j a])er drops for all the lights. The girls brought doughnuts and the Ijoys furnished apples. We were very proud of our first attempt at money-raising.” Laura: “Hut our most successful enterprise was the Christmas Bazaar. The girls each embroidered one piece of fancy work and some donated other ribbon articles, dolls, and home-made goodies. We even had embroidered pieces given to us by outsiders. ()ur mothers came at five o’clock with chicken pies and creamed jx tatos. prepared to help us with the supper. The memliers of the Parent-Teachers' club donated salads and pies for our supper and we were so grateful for their help.” Loraine: They offered to vote on presenting us with a certain gift of money, but we thought the grade lioys and girls needed their assistance more than we.” Laura: “Here is what 1 want most to look at. The wonderful Senior Play! Nineteen of us were in “The End of the Rainbow.” And. Oh. the crowd! Over three hundred came to see our play. We had to go to the church for extra chairs. Some of the Juniors went for us in the emergency. That was such fun to have all nineteen graduates in the play. Loraine: “These are accounts of all the trips we used to take to see our basketball boys play in the tournaments. They were always getting on the all-star teams.” Laura: It would take all night to recount our many achievements in scholarship. music and dramatics. And besides, we have only five minutes to make that rehearsal at the theater.” Loraine: “You take the costumes. I’ll put the Itook away and follow with the light.” ’ »« « 25

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1924 The Nixonia Class History Time: A Night in Spring. 1928. Place: A dark attic f a college dormitory. Characters: Two former girls of '24 searching in a trunk for costumes to Ik used for a college play. They are groping excitedly about hv candle light. I.oraine: “Do you rememlier. Laura. al out five years ago. when we made these dainty, beruffled frocks for the Junior-Senior Banquet hack at Nixon High.' Laura: Yes. 1 do. It was a sweet, old-fashioned party we attended that night. Now we arc going to use our old-fashioned gowns for the big play tomorrow night. We must hurry in order to he at the dress rehearsal in fifteen minutes. I.oraine: “What’s this liook? Well, it is my Nixon High memory Ixjok with pictures and history of our Senior Class of 1( 24.” Laura: “Let’s snatch a minute to peek at the faces of our classmates of ’24. We were the largest graduating class ever leaving those memorable balls. Loraine: “Here it tells of our Freshman year. Thirty of us assembled the first morning of our high school career, not knowing where to go nor what to do. Laura: “Let’s see. Lucilc Hunt was our President; Glenn McConkey, Vice-President; and Altha Rainey, Secretary and Treasurer. Loraine: “This is an account of the April Fools Party. That was a great joke to play on the upi cr classes. We ordered the hamburgers and buns and carried lunch boxes to school that day. Oh! the surprised looks on the Seniors’ countenances. Everyone followed Mrs. Adkins home to get some food. Laura: Shades of old memories! Here are two pictures of our much worshipped heroes, Farlc Hunt and Glenn McConkey. They were the two most famous basket shooters in central Illinois. Loraine: “Sophomore year! Do you rememlier the wonderful forwards we had on the girls’ lwisketball team? That was the year the hoys won the county tournament. Earle won it by making a long shot in the five minutes over-time. Laura: “Glenn McConkey. Frances Galawav, and Marjorie Fullenwider were our Sophomore officers. Mr. Jordan coached the basketball team and acted as our class adviser. Loraine: “Oh. there is the Dramatic Club. Didn’t everyone work hard to he in the club? One of our Sophomores was President.” Laura: “But our fun l egan when we were Juniors. Margaret Miller was in our class then and was President. The Vice-President was Marjorie Fullenwider and the Secretary. Laura Foote. We gave a Junior play that year. It was a spooky affair with those Hallowe’en ghosts and black cats. Loraine: “But how we did plan for the Junior-Senior Banquet. Miss Jones was our adviser. We worked day and night to dress those sixty paper dolls. Could you forget it ?’’ Patft 24

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192 4 The N i x o nia As Wa Shall Be (It is an evening in May. 1944. Senator Lewis Edwards of Washington is endeavoring to tune in on some of his former Xixon classmates. This is the twentieth anniversary of the graduation of the Class of '24. Mr. Arthur Knnis. a noted capitalist and coffee ship| er of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has secured connection with the Senator for the celebration. Likewise Rear Admiral Rov Wilson. I nited States Wavy, from his ship, the Darling Fleet, is prepared to converse with the two former gentlemen regarding old Xixon.) A very lovely voice speaks carefully and slowly: ‘‘And-Peter-Rahhit-ran-after-the-ugly-Duck-ling ! My ! - How-the-feat her s- did-flv-as- Peter - Rabbit-sent-the - Duck- hng-scurrv-ing-be-neath theH arn-yard-fence! Roy: My word! If it isn't Marjie Mattix telling l»ed-time stories! I hear her quite frequently over the radio, broadcasting from station Il-U-X-T. Ah. you there, old Senor Ennis? How's the coffee game and all those South American senoritas? Seems to me you like them pretty well, the way you forget your old friends.” Art: Well. I do owe apologies, hut I exj ect to fix up everything when I get up to the States, which will he within the next two months. Hello. Senator! Can you hear us? The Senator is to he in on this party tonight; I guess 1 told you. ilson, you ought to have the dope on most of the old hunch, having been stationed at Great Lakes last year.” Roy: Dope. I'll say I have. Say, hoys, you surely missed it not lieing with me there in Chicago. Saw Erma Dickey in the Follies of 1944. Her name flashed night after night on the great white way. And say. Art. you stay away from the white way.— with your weakness along that line. You'd lie lost. Earle Hunt has just divorced his third wife and the alimony is a lx ut to break him up. However, he enjoys a large income as official candy taster in the largest candy kitchen in Chicago.” Art: I don’t think I’ll meet the same fate j oor Hunt did. And do you know where Frances Galaway is? I haven’t heard anything of her since ’24.” Lew: Why. yes. I saw her on my last trip to Europe. She is traffic cop on the big bridge.’’ Art: Which one?” Lew: The bridge that Laura Foote built across the Atlantic Ocean. That was a wonderful idea and Laura made a fortune superintending the job. I saw another one of our old classmates in London. Loraine Olson is driving a hearse there. And she is a S| ecdy hearse driver, too. Art: “Say. boys, Marjorie Fullenwider was in Rio de Janeiro last week with a big circus. I nearly died laughing when I saw her as a barehack rider. But. Roy. you ought to know more news than Senator and I.” Page 26