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

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THE '44 ONARQUOIS popcorn she was in a good humor. Our traditional salt maps turned out rather well. We went into a new building to start out the seventh grade and had our first men teachers. Mr. Bevins and Mr. Wright did admirably well, and here Mr. Bevins was setting the foundation for our great Onarga Indians. Four years of high school may be four years we will always remember but those 8 years of grade school will be right down memory lane. As eighth graders we now realized regretfully that we would never again be walking those halls, playing marbles in back, or fighting over the swings or ocean wave. We were growing up and were proud of it, though we realized that our foundation was the best ever and we hated to leave old O. G. S. We graduated in May, Ann as Valedictorian, Donna, Salutatorian, and the Le- gion awards were presented to Wayne Lee and Eileen Neal. As usual we had a rainstorm the night of graduation. On September 3, 1940, 45 shaking Freshmen crawled into this strange building that we had heard so much about. We elected our class officers. President, B. Dannehlg Vice-President, W. Lee, Secretary, C. Theesfeld, and Treasurer, S. Link. To add to our class this year we had Elaine Kohler, Janice Colebank, Stanley Link, Christine Peters, Jackie Watchorn, Woodrow Wilson, Don Schumers, Lucille Theesfeld, and oh yes, Elwood Lambert joined us again. We were proud of our class because they took an outstanding part in athletics, dramatics, and music. We were under the able sponsorship of Miss Agnes Hansen. Now well on our way through this supposedly four year course we started out with 35 Sophomores. It looks as though we lost a few of our classmates. This year we were under the sponsorship of Miss Boone, alias Mrs. McMillan. Our class officers were President, W. Lee, Vice--President, B. Dannehlg Secretary, C. Theesfeld, and Treasurer, E. Neal. Our class made an exceptional showing by having two of its members steal the honor of being crowned King and Queen at the Mid-Winter carni- val. The Queen - Leah McQueen. King - Stanley Link. This year we showed our ambitions by the girls entering music contest and the boys taking leading parts in athletics. Bernice Bower was a new classmate. This year, our Junior year, we lost three members, Bernice Bower, Dale French, and Jean Legan, and gained two members, Jack Tadlock and Mildred Wilson.

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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

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THE '44 ONARQUOIS With Miss Dryden as our sponsor this made a very promising year. Our class officers were President, B. Dannehlg Vice-President, W. Lee, fsame old storyj, Treasurer, S. Link, and Secretary, A. Hahne. This year was really a boorn', in athletics, and our Junior boys deserve a lot of credit. Our Junior play, Footloose , proved to be one of the best plays ever presented at O. T. H. S. Our class had the honor of having our candidates crowned King and Queen at the carnival, these two being Eileen Neal and Wayne Lee. This year a great many of our Juniors went to state play contest in Champaign. The play in which they showed their acting ability was Pro- logue to Glory. Any extra time this year was spent in trying to make money for our annual Banquet and Prom. We mustn't forget to mention our class program which we presented at Christmas time. It was a repetition of a Xmas program given in the little old red school house in the days of yoref' Our Jr. - Sr. Banquet and Prom was done in the theme of the Armed Forces. It went over with a Bang . We started out our final year with Mr. Reed as our Senior class sponsor. Our officers being President, W. Lee, Vice-President, Glen Finkg Secre- tary, C. Theesfeldg Treasurer, S. Link. As Stanley went to the Army Carl Theesfeld took over his duties as Treasurer. Five of our members failed to support us in our Senior year leaving us with 29 members. Ever since our Freshman year we had looked forward to the time when we could conduct initiation. We received this honor in October, 1943. Ever since we have been in High School our class bovs had made a fine showing in athletics. This year was no exception. The first team in bas- ketball was almost completely made up of Seniors. As Seniors, we wanted to leave a gift to the school so we sold magazine subscriptions for the Curtis Magazine Co. This money was used to buy a placque for graduates in service. We ended Senior year with three important occasions. The Jr.-Sr. Banquet and Prom on May 10, Baccalaureate on May 14 and Commence- ment on May 18. We have finally come to the end of our 12 years of school and education. There is not a single member of the class that would take anything for its many experiences and pleasures.