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

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□ THE '45 ONARQ U O I S □ Sophomore Class □ □ Let us make ourselves known to you, i.e., Marge “Million Dollar Baby” Homer, Paul “Taking A Chance On Love” Fryer, Neil “Freckleface” Talbert, Sam “Pretty Boy” Henegar, Warren “Shiek of Araby” Peters, Charleen “I’m Looking For A Guy” Stephens, Betty “Don’t Sweetheart Me” Henry, Betty “I’ve Been Working—” Price, Eddie “Zig Me Baby With A Gentle Zag” Forrest, Ronald “Where Am I?” Decker, Mardelle “All or Nothing At All” Wilson, Peggy “Dream” Til-stra, Wilma “Time Waits For No One” Wulff. First row, left to right: Warren Peters, Marge Homer, Sam Heneger, Wilma Wulff, Ronald Decker, Betty Lou Price, Sponsor, Mrs. Cox. Second row: Neil Talbert, Charleen Stevens, Eddy Forrest, Mardelle Wilson, Paul Fryer and Betty Henry.

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□ THE ’45 O N A R Q U O I S □ JUNIOR JARGON □ □ Look up to us, all ye who would attain the position as seniors! Okay, so we’re still juniors this year. But we’ll be seniors, come September 1945. Wanta take a peek back over our shoulders with us? Here goes — we started our third year in O. T. H, S. under the able guidance of Mr. Wendell E. Seaney, sponsor, and Mrs. Carolyn Pease, assistant sponsor. To guide our “tender” feet (pretty well hardened after two years of high school) we elected four class officers — June Hahne, prexy, “Moe” Harris, vice-prexy, Bev Russell, secretary, and Leo Kanosky, treasurer. (“Leave it to Leo”, we say, speaking of our bank account). Top goal for the year was to earn ample funds with which to present the “Honor” members of our high school a banquet and prom — I believe they are known as seniors???? And we worked — but definitely — diligently — and unceasingly, selling pop, hot dogs, and popcorn during the basketball and football seasons. To boost our rising bank account we sold pencils stamped with the basketball schedule at 10c per. We’re proud of our junior play, “All Gummed Up”, directed by Miss White. The audience was the largest to gather in the O. T. H. S. gym for some years. 'Course we still don’t equal the “Barrymore family of the theatre”, but we uncovered some talent which will come in handy on our senior productions. If you happened into the O. T. H. S. stud hall around Santy Claus time you’d have seen our bee-oo-ti-ful Xmas tree. We juniors added this bit of cheer during the holiday season to lift the spirits of our fellow classmates. Sorry to say we lost one of our members, Norma Templeton, during the first semester, but La-Verne Reiter of Woodland joined us the second semester, and now there are seventeen again. With this relating of our memoirs, we bow out of our unforgettable junior year, with a, “Thanks a lot”, to Mr. Seaney and Mrs. Pease.

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□ THE '45 ONARQUOIS □ SOPHOMORE SAGACITY □ □ Yep, here we are for the second time. We haven’t changed much except, perhaps we don’t shake in our boots when a senior walks by; we leave that for the freshmen. This year’s Sophomore class elected the following officers: Paul Fryer, president; Marge Homer, vice president; Warren Peters, secretary-treasurer. Soon after the “election day” we did the customary thing by giving our reception for the Freshman Class. Entertainment was nice, food was grand, and everybody enjoyed himself. It might have seemed that the Sophomores were idle, but oh! no. They contributed members to band, Glee clubs, sports, paper and annual staffs. Then just before Christmas some of us had the opportunity to display our acting ability, with the cooperation of a few Freshmen and Miss White. We gave a production for the student body and a few parents, entitled “Luncheon For Six”. After Christmas vacation the Sophomores came back with plenty of pep, zip, and what have you. Semester exams were staring us in the face. But never fear, we all came through this ordeal with “flying colors.” Our second stage production, again in cooperation with the Freshmen was none other than, “Elmer”. We’re stage veterans now. Carnival time soon rolled around and we went to work with the aid of our sponsor and erected three booths. Our candidates for King and Queen were Paul Fryer and Marge Homer. (Note: We had the biggest sign in the gym). With the Carnival off our minds we went back to the classrooms and settled down to study to finish another year of school. We Sophomores have enjoyed this year of school, and a thanks to Mrs. Cox, our sponsor, who helped us make it so.