Olney Area High School - Olnean Yearbook (Olney, IL)

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AHLFIELD, PETE I ACOB Pete especially enjoys hunting and fishing, and eating cherry pie runs a close second. He is interested in business and would like to attend Lockyear Business College. AN DERSON. IDA RUTH Claremont: Glee Culb 37 Year Book 37 Plays 2, 3, President Glee Club 3. Ruth loves to play tennis and go bike riding, and she thinks her most exciting experience was commencement week at Claremont High School last year. BANGERT, BOB LEE Bang FFA 2. Bang says he's had no exciting experience so far, but he'd like to meet Veronica Lake, His hobby is fishing, and he's ine terested in engineering. BENNETT. IVAN LEE Dundas: Basketball l, 2, 3. Olney: Basketball 4, Football 4, Senior Play. lvan really did ci swell job on the football team this year, and he was in there plugging for the basketball team, too. His favor- ite iood is milk, his favorite topic of conversation is sports. BENTON. VIRGINIA LOU lin Home Ec. 4, Library Club 4, Olnean 4. lin thinks being a member of the bookkeeping team was about her most exciting exper- ience while in school. Sl1e'd like to meet Mickey Rooney and likes Glenn Miller's orchestra. GERALD BOWERS Gerald says He'll Never For- get his Senior year at O.T.H.S. He was president of the Senior class and Student Council, and a co-editor of the Olnean. Twenty AN DERSON. THEODORE MARSHALL Band 3, 4. Marshall's hobby is dancing, but he does enjoy eating ham- burgers, too. Kay Kyser is his favorite orchestra. BAILEY, RUBY LUCILLE G.A.A. l, 2, 3, 4, Home EC. Club 1, 2, 3. Ruby plans to go on with her secretarial work and would like to attend Sanford-Brown's in St. Louis. She's crazy about eat- ing lettuce and carrots, and she likes Alveno Ray's orchestra. BAUMGARTNER. WILLIAM SIMON Bummie F.F.A. l, 2, 3, 4, Band 1, 2, 3, 4. Bill likes to read Popular Mechanics and talk about the war. He likes to watch basket- ball games but would rather play baseball. BENNETT. WANDA RUTH Wanda received the Balfour Award at Dundas High School, which she attended before com- ing here. She likes to eat chicken, and Blondie is her favorite comic strip. BERRY. HELEN LEE Home Ec. Club l, 2, 3, 47 Library Club 47 Olnean 4. Helen is interested in office work and would like to attend MacMurray College. She likes to go horseback riding and roller skating. BLACKFORD, MARY ELLEN Mary was on the bookkeep- ing team last year, and she-'s in- terested in stenography. She thinks that nothing can beat Mothers cherry pie.

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Senlor sponsors Mr Shva M1ss Towery Mxss Hovey Mr Bower MISS Erwm recently' appolnted one of Olll' SPOHSOTS We Graduate Vanety 1S the Splce ot Lrte and our class of 1942 detlnttely has vanety all good' No two personahtles of thls class are s1m1lar except for thelr pleaslng quahtres At our flrst meetlng We nom1nated candrdates tor our three class ottrces pres1dent v1ce presldent and secretary The resultant ballotmg awarded the otflces to Gerald Bowers Herman Davenport and Neal Hudson respec t1vely Early ln the tall we presented an assembly program wh1ch was to represent a typlcal home room A fortunate thlrty attended the Senlor Conterence held Apr1l l4 1n Charleston Ill1no1s The purpose of thls meet 1ng was to enable graduates to select college mayors The three act comedy You re Young Gnly Twlce was a great success under the guldance ot Mlss Arlene Hovey Nmeteen Othcers Herman Davenport G rald Bowers Neal Hudson t l l I ' T at least We think so. , , , - V I - 7 . , I ' T , , . Z , 0

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BLANK, IOYCE MAXINE Glee Club 3. loyce likes Ian Garber's orches- tra and enjoys bowling very much. Her hobbies are draw- ing and cooking and her favor- ite food is chili. BOATMAN, IEAN ROBERT Band l, 2, 3, 4, Debate l, 2, Secretary 2, Rifle Club 4. lean thinks there's nothing like T-Bone steaks or Pelty's draw- ings. He likes all sports, espe- cially tennis, and pings around at it almost all summer. BOLEY, BETTY Home Ec. Club 2, 3, 4, Sec. 37 Olnean 4. Almost everyone knows Betty's hobby is knitting, but she also enjoys reading murder mys- teries. She would like to meet Eleanor Roosevelt some day. BOWER, RALPH EDWARD Bookwomi Thespians 2, 3, 45 Library 4. Ralph thinks the third-hour Senior English class is pretty exciting and would rather argue than eat pie-and that's saying a lot. BRACY, MARY-IO Iodie Orange and Black 2, 4, Asst Editor 2: Olnean 3, 4, Ass't Co-Editor 4: Thespians 3, 4, Vice-President 45 Senior Play. Mary-lo soloed in the National Music Contest and also played in a quartet there. Her favorite sport is swimming, and she cer- tainly does enjoy eating ice cream. BRINKLEY, MARION E. Marion is interested in agricul- ture and would like to attend lowa State. I-le's really inter- ested in baseball, too, and would rather talk about it than any- thing else. BOATMAN. CARL WILLIAM FFA 4, Ass't Secretary 4. Carl was a member of the ap- ple judging team, and he was also on the EFA soft ball team. He would like to be an under- taker, he thinks. BOHREN. NAOMI LEE Naomi would rather eat Italian Spaghetti than almost anything else. Her hobby is playing the piano, and she enioys reading the American magazine. BOOKER, ANNA MAE Annie Dundas: Editor of school pa- per 2, 3. Annie's another of those match folder collectors and Spanish rice eaters, and Glenn Miller ians. BOWERS, GERALD LEE lei-ry Orange and Black l, 25 Olne- an 3, 4, Co-Editor Olriean 47 NFL l, 2, 3, 4, vice-president 4, Student Council 4, presidentq Band l, 2, 3, 45 Class Presi- dent ly Class Vice-President 37 Class President 4. Gerald's favorite magazine, like so many other boys', is Esquire. He would like to attend Yale and take up commercial art, and he certainly can make malted milks disappear in a hurry. BRINKLEY. 'CALEB FREDERICK Caleb is interested in aviation, fried chicken, sports, Hitler, and Smiling lack. BARBARA GASSMANN Vilhen Barbara says l Give You My Word she really means it. Thafs the l,ig reason why she's tops as a co-editor for the Olnean. She was also chosen most athletic Senior girl. Twenty-one