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

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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.

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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 Will I, Ann Air Corpsl' Hahne will to my sister June the ability to be the first one to school every morning. l, Robert Bob Dannehl will to Sam Brantley my ability to skip school Without being caught. I, Lucille t'Lou Burnett Will to Beverly Sumrall my position at Cor- ner Cafe so she can see all of the cadets. I, Doris Shorty McFaddin will to Marilyn Blue Eyes Davis my abil- ity to find a Way to all basketball games no matter how!!! I, Wayne Sing Lee will my ability to go with the girls and still han- dle a basketball to Glea Thorne. I, Stanley Earl,' Link will to Paul Pete Schnurr all my Women in near-by towns. I, Phyllis Gad-About Morgan will all my flirting ability to Charleen Stephens. I, Claudia Conk Ludwick will my three year's cheerleading ability to Margie Homer. I, Eileen Leener Neal will to Blanche Lindsay my ability to go with basketball boys during the week and not get caught. I, Rebecca Coast Guardl' Orr will all my interest in the Navy to Bev- erly Russell. I, Rolland Butch Tilstra will to the Home Ec. Club my ability to pay all my bills on time. I, Woodrow Woodie Wilson will to Wilma Krause my house across the street in order that she may get to school by 8:45 every morning. I, John Johnnie Uphoff Will to Kenneth Sterrenberg my ability to go with the girls and still play on the second team. I, William Jackl' Tadlock Will to Robert Bob Hockersmith my abil- ity to Wreck cars. I, Donald Mousie', Schumers will my position as chief wolf of O. T. H. S. to Bob Rutledge.