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

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FIRST ROW : Carol Gromoll, Delores Haerr, Albert Harris, Lucille Harris, Alara Hilden-brand, Ronald Lyons. SECOND ROW: Janice Orr, Dale Pool, Delores Poprawski, Ronald Redenius, Wilma Reiter, Robert Talbert. THIRD ROW: John Tilstra, William Whitlow, Joyce Wilson, Robert Wulff. Freshmen, Sophomores, and now we’re Juniors! We started the year with thirty members in the class, but by the end of the first semester we had lost three members. The Junior Class has been well represented in the musical and dramatic fields as well as in athletics. We have had members belonging to all the choruses, have had vocal soloists, had several members in the band, were represented in the Thespians, and can even boast a State winner in speech work! At most of the home football and basketball games, you could find Juniors popping popcorn, selling cold drinks, coffee, and sandwiches, peddling pencils--anything to make a few extra dollars for that big spring Prom. On May 19, 1950, around 7:00 P. M. many of the homes in Onarga were filled with excitement and anticipation. And no wonder, for boys and girls were getting ready for the Junior-Senior Prom! The boys were fussing with their ties and the girls making sure every curl was in place. Then as they came'to the High School and stepped into the gym, they were transported into a gypsy land--the place of mystery and romance. The outer edge of the gym was transformed with candlelit tables attractively set and attended by boys and girls in gypsy costumes. At one end of the gym there was a mysterious looking tent which was occupied by an old gypsy fortune teller and was visited by nearly everyone present. The walls of the gym, usually bare and uninviting, were attractively decorated with murals of gypsy scenes drawn by the artists of the Junior Class. The music furnished by Tod Cyrus’ Band made the evening even more enchanting. This evening of fun and excitement will long be remembered by all who attended. This has been our busiest year in high school but we have enjoyed it immensely and are looking forward to being Seniors some day! 21

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J unior Officers SITTING, Lett to Right: Ronald Redenius, Secretary; Paul Bailey, Treasurer; Bob Talbert, Vice-President. STANDING, Left to Right: Norman Bottorff, President; Mr. William Chase, Co-Sponsor; Miss Anne Hieronymus, Co-Sponsor. Charles Bailey Paul Bailey Phyllis Balding Joan Bird Norman Bottorff Charles Brewer Leo Colebank Doris Conn Valda Dillon Joyce Fink Ed Greiner Joyce Grohler

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LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! As the curtain fell on the Junior class presentation of ‘‘Aunt Cathie’s Cat”, the cast and their director, Miss Edna Snider, dropped with it. The evening began as all play nights do: exciting, full of suspense; the audience wondering what kind of a play it is, the director hoping it can be called a play,- the audience wondering when the curtain will go up, the director wondering if she can leave town before it goes up! Back stage we find our little group of dramatists casting reproachful glances at a determined young woman busily slinging gooey, stickey, make-up (which comes off very easily with a mixture of gasoline and turpentine) on the face of some protesting It , H actor . Here we catch our cast in all sorts of differentmoods; some are pacing the floor, repeating their lines and munching nerve pills or heart pills and sometimes-both! Still others appear to be quite calm and collected, lounging around, smiling with confidence and trying to look bored and worldly. Then--house lights dim, the curtain sways open and the plan is on! It seems that two refined maiden ladies, Miss Jane Trimble (Joyce Fink) and Miss Cathie Trimble (Alara Hildenbrand), their two attractive nieces Margaret and Dorothy (Carol Gromoll and Delores Haerr) and a dumb-dora (Joyce Wilson) decide to rent an old mansion with all the trimmings--deserted, dark, dreadful, and not too pleasant in general. As the real estate agent, Bill Pryor (Bill Whitlow) is displaying the charms of the old mansion to his prospective customers, two men are seen dashing across the sta e carrying the limp, bloody body of a man. The ladies move in at once and pandemonium breaks out. Of course, everything works out beautifully in the end. The audience is delighted, the cast is proud, the director (between fainting spells) is thrilled and the great event is finished for another year. Drop in next year, same time, same place, and thrill to the performances of the present Juniors in their Senior Play. 22