Onarga Township High School - Onarquois Yearbook (Onarga, IL)

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WOODROW WILSON WOODIE rounder. IVIILDRED WILSON MILLY - The bright star of our class, Chorus: 3, 4 Library Club: 3, 4 Home Ec. Club: 3, 4 G. A. A.: 3, 4 Narghi News: 3, 4 Annual Staff: 3, 4 - Absence makes the marks ,grow Basketball: 1, 2, 3, 4 Football: 1, 2, 3, 4 Baseball: 1, 2, 3, 4 Track: 2, 3, 4 Thespians: 3, 4 Boys Chorus: 2, 3 ALICE MAE WOODS ALICE 1 What's behind all her quietness? Penny for her thoughts, Home Ec. Club: 1 G. A. A.: 1, 2, 3, 4

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THE '44 ONARQUOIS Class History September 5 cf the year of 1932 was the beginning of an important era in modern history. This particular date, will in time, probably become as famous as July 4, December 25, and many others, for it was on this his- toric date that the graduating class of 1944 began its long itinerary to knowl- edge and fame. On this fateful day, we students, bewildered and just a little bit scared, started to Onarga Grade School. Miss Cain met us at the door, sitting down. At nine o'clock in the morning our sobbing mothers left and we laughing students carried on alone. Roll call was taken and the following people yelled present: Mervin Bewsey, Richard Brewer, William Brown, Robert Dannehl, Betty Dicken- son, Robert Fisher, Donna Fugar, Dorothea Hanson, Ann Hahne, Iris Kee- ver, Harry Kincade, Royal Krause, Aleen Lambert, Stanley Link, Elwood Lambert, Jean Legan, Evelyn Lewis, Claudia Ludwick, Doris McFadden, Leah McQueen, Eileen Neal, Thomas Rodgers, Carl Theesfeld, Roland Til- stra, John Uphoff, Dale French, Mildred Wilson, and Dale Ritz. In the second grade we were blessed with the presence of Wayne Lee, who came in from that famous western school, Ridgeville. Under the guid- ance of Miss Kathleen Artz tMrs. Ray BlackJ we built our postoffice and sent mail all over school. The eighth graders sent their love letters of course but we didn't know about that yet. CLive and learnb. 'We were met in the third grade by higher mathematics and Miss Helen Black tMrs. H. W. Cultraj. We sang songs fwhile Lee and Tom Rodgers sat cn Miss Blackls lapj and Lambert sat in front throwing paper wads at a jar. Lucille Burnett joined us here. We passed right into the fourth grade with a twinkle in our ,eye and a song in our hearts but it took Miss Wand to bring out our musical ability, which she ably did by way of her pet folk songs, and our boogie woogie minstrel show. From here on we climbed the steps regularly, we were now in depart- mental and Miss Clark had many interesting things to tell us about her trip to the west. We worked on puzzles in our spare time but we were bound to run into tougher ones, namely decimals. In the sixth grade we tried our luck as artists. Miss Yaw eternally had us painting water color scenes. But as long as Lee kept her supplied with