Nokomis High School - Old Nokomis Yearbook (Nokomis, IL)

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1936 v OLD NOKOMIS The Junior Class History CAST: The Junior Class. ACT I. SCENE: N. T. H. S., Fall 1933—Freshman Year. FRESHMEN: I guess we're all living up to our name green . I'll be ! ! ! I can't find that English class room. Now where did they say Latin was? Oh well. I don't care if I ever find English. I don't like it anyway. Say, pal , have you heard that.we're going to have election of officers? You know who would be good? Miles Hubbard, president; Herman Lehenbauer. vice president; Isaac Russ, secretary-treasurer; Miss Ronchetti. class sponsor. Well I'll be— I 1 ! if they didn't elect the ones I named. A good fortune teller, eh? Seventy-five of us green Freshmen ought to put some pep into the school, including the organizations, such as G. A. A.. Hi-Tri, Chorus. F. F. A., football, and basketball. What ??? rumors that the Sophomores will give us a wiener roast and Hallowe'en party. Oh boy, that’s swell, they'll supply the eats and will we eat! ACT II. SCENE: Same as Act I. Fall of 1934—Sophomore Year. SOPHOMORE: Now I'm a sophisticated Sophomore! ! ! Watch me have some fun out of the Freshmen as they did out of us. My, how our class has decreased! Only sixty-six members now. The following were elected as officers: Steve Popovich, president; Bruno Rossi, vice-president; Billie Kessler, secretary-treasurer; Mr. Stumm, sponsor. We may be little, but Oh my! ! ! We invited the Freshmen to a wiener roast and about eighty came with forty Sophomores. It took the Sophomores to handle them. ACT III. SCENE: Same as Acts I and II. Fall of 1935—Junior Year. JUNIOR: My, hasn't school changed this year. Just think! Our class enrollment is down to forty-three but that's no reflection on our competent officers: Dominick Tonelli, president; Ruth Wieneke. vice-president; Anita Vercellone. secretary-treasurer; Miss O'Donnell and Mr. Myers, sponsors. On October the twenty-fifth, we gave a very successful class play, The Tin Hero . At Christmas, the Seniors gave us a party. During the latter part of our Junior year we gave the Seniors a farewell banquet and waited on them hand and foot during the closing festivities of their high school days. —R. W. Class Motto: To Strive, to Seek, to Find, and Not to Yield. Class Colors: Silver and Blue. Class Flower: Tea Rose. Students on Honor Roll eleven successive quarters: Florence Hoffman; Anita Vercellone; Mary Gent. SOPHOMORE CLASS HISTORY In the fall of 1934. one hundred twenty-one of us, as green Freshmen, entered N. T. H. S., prepared to receive further education. Our number was reduced to one hundred during the year. At a class meeting we elected Mr. Myers os our sponsor, and the following officers: president, Jack Hill; vice-president, Marjorie Miller; secretory. Yolande Tarter; treasurer, James Maretti; business manager, Kirk Isbell. Many members of the class helped the various organizations to succeed. The following year we felt a wee bit braver upon being called Sophomores. We now numbered eighty-nine. At our first meeting, we elected Mr. Funkhouser as our sponsor; Florence Pallai, president; Lester Smith, vice-president; Ray Brueckner, secretary; Ruth Brockman, treasurer. In September we invited the Juniors to a wiener roast and in October we enjoyed a Hallowe en party with the Freshies . Much credit goes to our sponsors who have guided us so faithfully and we appreciate their interests and efforts with us. O. A. Class Motto: The door to success is labeled Push' . Class Colors: Blue and White. Class Flower: White Rose. Students on Honor Roll seven successive quarters: Orlieu Adden; Pauline Schrempp; Yolande Tarter. Seventeen

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OLD NOKOMIS 1936 Juniors TOP ROW—Miss E. O'Donnell (Sponsor), Walter Abrolat, Kathryn E. Bosonetto, Mary K. Brockman, Ralph L. Digman, Ruth Engelman, Andy Furimsky, Kathryn Gipson, Mr. L. P. Myers (Sponsor). SECOND ROW—Cletus Hamlin, Justine Hauptmann, Florence E. Hoffman, Wm. Holmes, Geo. Jackovich, Leo J. Keller, Billie Kessler, Mary E. Kettelkamp, Julia Kramer. THIRD ROW—Angeline Krisman, James E. Lane, Steve Lapshansky, Bruno W. Lehenbauer, Herman C. Lehenbauer, Marguerite Middleton, Walter Mitchell, Walter Monti, Raymond Moos. FOURTH ROW—Charles W. Nicol, Bette Lou Peters (Song Leader), Steve Popovich, Rena Prevedel, Bruno Rossi (Cheer Leader), Orlo Ruppert, Isaac Russ, Ira Staples, Lawrence H. Stivers. FIFTH ROW—Andy Strazar, Helen Sims, Alice V. Smalley, Rosemary Tossi, Dominick J. Tonelli (Pres.), Anita Vercellone (Sec.-Treas.), Ruth Wieneke (V. Pres.), Bernardine Wilson, Carl C. Zepp. Sixteen

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OLD NOKOMIS 1936 Sophomores FIRST GROUP—TOP ROW—Arthur Michelman, Woyne Braye, Eugene Moore. Clarence Crow, Jr.. Vern Meier, Louis Androskaut, Jr., Louis Golitko. Norman Merrell, Jimmy Maretti, Louie Bartels, Harold Barringer. Hubert Compton. SECOND ROW—Marjorie Hand. Phyllis Y. Bowers. Miles Hubbard. Joseph Lenzi, Loyal Bauman, Jack Hill, Lyle R. Jostes, Roy Gruen, Harold Croon (Cheer Leader), B. Kirk Isbell. THIRD ROW— Mr. S. Funkhouser, (Sponsor), Frances Kudynowska. Georgette Boulord, Georgina Boulard, Helen Fetsko, Marjorie Miller. Anna Christian, Evelyn Gray, Eleanor K. Buchholz, Velma Howell, Lois Grote. Dorothy Colonius, Florence Engelman. FOURTH ROW—Pauline Cibulka, Mary E. Fullerton, Elaine Roberts, Vivian Schneider, Leona Schneider, Mary J. Thomas. Ethel Hortsock, Leona Johnson, Eunice Meyer, Dorothy Goesman. Orlieu Adden. SECOND GROUP—TOP ROW—Oliver C. Waters, John Wadzita. Jack Wyld, Paul A Woltmann, Barnard Woltmonn, Robert Pilgrim. Steve Vansock, Lloyd Seats. SECOND ROW—Billy Sworbrick, Madeline Varda, Delores Reed. Orville Travis. Melvin Rosche. Bruno Vighi, James J. Tosetti. Leslie E. Sperry, Henry Rock. THIRD ROW—Mr. S. Funkhouser (Sponsor), Geno Paesani, Yolande E. Tarter (Song Leader), Evelyn Stivers. Josephine Singler, Pauline Schrempp, Mildred Van Over, Sally Sneddon, Anno M. Strarar. Agnes Pintor, Margaret A. Schaefer, Marjorie Pieper. FOURTH ROW—Ann O'Bregar, Bertha A. Pechnik, Jennie Vcrnetti, Ruth Brockman (Treas.), Florence Pallai (Pres.), Lester Smith (V. Pres.), Ray Brueckner (Sec.), Erma L. Workman, Lucille Rhodes. Gladys Schrempp, Alberta Wolters. Eighteen