Ottawa Township High School - Senior Yearbook (Ottawa, IL)

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g t A They ve started on the yealbook already Norma Gordon d1d a good 1ob of mak1ng ap polntments fo1 the semors to have the1r plc tu1es taken by Mr Ge1d1ng These photos hay e to be at the engray er s by December 15 so that s the reason for all the rush M1ss B1 adford last year s adylsor has been help 1ng MISS Keach the new sponsor get started Flfteen senlors were appomted to the staff th1s vyeek and I see by the last Buc that they chose Bob PIQFSOH for edltor Mary Belle Peck IS h1s asslstant and Janet F1sher IS busmess manager Ill send you a copv of the book when It s out The first dance of the year yy as October 1 As usual the CIVIC Councll sayy that everv one had a good t1me Frank1e Pvzner s or chestra furmshed the muslc and Katle Mltchell Margery Claggett and John Clegg sang The n W CIVIC COLl1lC1l members take turns selllng cokes taklng tlckets etc But I should tell you about the yy ork lt IS to put on a dance Mxlltary IS really somethlng th1s fall Ill tell you more about It late1 but the othe1 day 1X of the cadet officers and Mr Scott the new fa ulty sponsor V1S1t9d Camp Grant The OHS fellows haye dr1ll eyery Mondav and Tuesday then on Wednesdays the oflicers study and practlce the next yy eek s lesson so they can teach It to the boys The Pep Squad gaye an assemblv last yy eek It yyas pretty cute Kat1e sang The Pep Squad gaye beautlfully yyrapped g1fts to the team They turned out to be boxes of Pep' fPep Squad Pep COIHCX eh j Ey ery thlng got off to a good stalt thls yeal These new teachers are syy ell they re not nz uch older than yye are and yye haye loads of fun yy 1th them MISS N011lS IS l1ttler than Mary Gelger lf you can lmaglne Wfen you come home she d bettel run you ll plobably step rlght on hel yy1th those SIZE tyy ely es and not ey en not1ce lt' That remlnds me when do you get to come home ' We can barely yy alt to see you 1n all you1 glory NIISS Baldyy 1n st1ll expects you to be at least a senator she asks about you all the tlme Well here lt IS Monday agam I Just ney er can get to vyork on Mondays Knot 1ust Mon davs but Monday 15 worse or IS 1t Tuesday' or Wednesday' or Thursday' or Fr1day'J Ho hum study l'all IS oy 61 vy1th Chff Tholpe has moved up tyyo seats he always does that I guess he has ty o studles a day l and I must move on to typmg Dld you take ty plng So far I can type and I quote rfrf 1u1u The fur IS far from here 1uJu frfr late agam Wrlte soon Sllormg 1 1 , I V I - I n A W u A u Y ' V v . ' ' v I l .X ' v v . A I v 1 I I . 1 Aw v 7, . I , I I ,' , ,I 4 . v . . V I . gf ' s , , Y 9 f .V s K 1 . I 1 Y . 1 V. . 1 - - A v V 1 V . l . I I - I 1 I V 5 ig 1. , , L V . I A L I V K A T 7 ' I I I I V - . . . . 7 W , I . I I 1 1 - , 41 K . ' I 1 I ' 1 1 ' 1 . 6 v I , I I , I l I . 1 1 . 1 I 4 V. I . I . . . , , I A I I a Y . I 1 - 1 , . I 4 I Q I 'V . I ' '- I . - 9 , xc t' 4 , . , . . . - - ,, . . 1 - ' . 1 ' I - . . ' - 1 1 - - Phe guzzlmg gas station gang: Matt Koster, Karl Schott, Ken Edllcatlonilt S Wgndgrful, Im golng' t0 be Stan eland, John Wolslegel, Don Ober a, l Ham. Karl and . ' Ken seem to be dying of thirst. , 1 , 1 I . . . . L, . 1 . X . . - I I I 1 . 1 1 LI 1 1 ' 1 , . I I . - 1 ' 1' - , I I I , I I I , I , I . . . . Y I I I ' 1 , I I , I I I I , I, I ' 9 T u be V - 1 I I A' WY Y sv 4 I , I 7 L ' . . , u s ' I I , 7 7 I T. 13 I I I I , I , . Y V . .Y I . , . . . I . , , I I I . 0 I, . Y 9 . ,J . , 0 . . I, I , I . 7 l V 2 I 'I , . -. 7 , - 1 - I I I I .

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The Pep Squad officers declded that this year the Pep Squad ers vyere go1ng to have a sectlon of the bleachers for their own So for the Streator game they carefully roped off the mlddle sect1on ln our bleachers and gaye all of the glrls l1ttle badges that had been carefully made of bottle caps and red and yyhlte rlbbon On the back of the bottle cap yyas a red 1nk stlck doll They were aw fullv cute But l1ke everythlng else lt dldn t work After much shifting around and cllmblng oy er the back of the stands there were more boys than glrls IH the reseryed section It yy as a yy onderful nlght Wet but Wonderful llng Well that yy as a good game but they yvon 6 to 0 Cllff Thorpe threyy beautlful passes but no go The only score yyas made in the Hrst quarter About two dozen OHS fans managed to get to the game and they made more noise than all of Sterllng put to gether Sterling seems to l1ke concentrated sllence durlng a game that yyould drlye an OHS er crazy I As it yy as the OHS ers droye the Sterllng 1tes crazy We yyon agaln the next yyeek fyye re the home loymg ty pej I guess yye didnt really yy1n but yye yyon as much as Hall d1d We tied em 12 to 12 Steyle made all of oul scores He s qu1te a runnel I guess yye felt a llttle stlange at Dixon Any yy ay yye let them yy1n 7 to 0 'No score LMV at all was made during the first half It was beginning to look l1ke no score was going to be made when bingo we lost Pete Fer racu+1 yyas the only brlght spot on our team that nlght We re playlng DeKalb here Friday night October 29 It ll probably be a rough game It sure yyas last year We didnt vy1n then Gollv do we hope We do th1s tlme Next yyeek the lntramural football cham p1onsh1p yy 1ll be declded The first platoon of Company B and the third platoon of Companv A are ahead rlght noyy Steyie Stey enson and George Kapas helped Coach Hank set up the program ACI oss the street Remember the m1ll1ons of people that used to pack in' Well as you can see they re st1ll doing It Mrs H06 IS runmng a mmor black market Wlth Mr Men ton She buys as much as four cents yyorth of gas yy1thout stamps oy er there ey ery once 1n a yyhlle for the art loom By the vyay did you knoyy Nliss Sanders IS an artist' She has a painting called SanJz1an in a Chlcago exhiblt noyy She painted It last summer yy hen she yy as in MGXICCJ I guess The Junior Red Cross has begun to get under yyay 'ylrs MCNIIIISH had Mary Belle Peck and Ken Fry make an appeal to the k1ds ln assembly to Joln Then the next yy eek home room representatly es yy ere elected and they are golng to elect the oflicers V i Y i l Rush hour in the office. You can see Miss Hill's and Miss Woud's hxir and Miss I-Iam. Miss e a, is at the desk in the background. L . L . Q I , W W L c - U V x V . x Y ' K . K1 , . Y ' , 1 , ' . - 1 I I ' . ' . Y xx Y . ' , 7' . V L . K . . Uv - D , .L . L . Y . Q . . , Y . - t ' ' 1 ' I I - 1 .I ' . yn l A ' A V . ' Yu v' Y A ' 1 1 ' A' . . . . , . f 1 The following Friday we played in Ster- I'y'e enclosed a shot of the Texaco station . , v L 1 uv I 1 Lwkv Lv . I K , . I 1 . , VI y 1 y 1 , 1 1' 1 ' ' ' ' . , . N . . . , . . . . 1 1 1 1 1 17 1 . , . . . I . ' . r L' S . . I v . 1 ' ' . . W I Y I I 7, I A 'ff n I .I '. - V1 I .1 1 3, - L1 1 I . . V 7 1 r ' 1 , 1 7 , 1 1 1 1 ' ' ' 1 O . . 1 , . . . V. Y 1 v Y . , I v . Y v v '1 'l , ' ' .' I l . ' L'. L I . V' ' 7 3 v' 1 .' 1 , 1 . ' . ' 1 1 ' . 7 -Y - 1 V 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 ' A . . ' 1 , 1 , 1 . , . . . , I I Y, I 'I L' . xv 1' tv K ' .'. U

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Typlng Room Dec 4 1940 Dear Jlm I was golng to start out by g1x1ng you a pageful of excuses but that seems l1ke a vsaste of paper a crime 1n these tlmes I know you d be more lnterested 1n th1S year s football team I suppose youve heard about the first part of the season already Mary sald she had vyrltten you about your great love But lf I know her It turned out to be a report of who was w1th yy ho and what thev wore lnstead of a letter about football As a season our team showed an odorlfer ous record of one win two tles and four SIX polnt losses Because of 1nel1g1b1l1ty lack of 1nterest and draftlng of nearly all of last Vear s backiield stars the football squad to taled only fifteen varslty players when the l1ne Lamble Poulakl and Hank Skoflanc are starrlng 1n the Nayy now lnstead of ln our backfield Sam Creed probablv would have been on the Varslty thlg year he was darned good on the Jayy ee team last year but he Jolned the Navy too Seems as lf Im determlned to make ex cuses but our record sort of needs It Coach Hankenson had h1s worst season IH Ottawa but hlS Plrates never were defeated by more than a touchdown and they showed a great amount of fight ln playlng a tough schedule Jlm my bov I smcerely thought we would beat La Salle Peru after golng down deep 1nto L P terrltory unt1l that old Jlnx popped up agaln Th1s tlme an L P end mtercepted a partlally blocked pass and went 70 vards for the only score of the game' PPRRACUTI KAPAS HAAS PPACE SCHOTT GPRDIBG PARKINS STEVENSON PETERSON 0 ' Y S u I c L' u ll L' . . , .7 S ' V , . . y . L . , . . . V , v 7 V I I . . . 3 ' . Y I Y 7 ' v V Y . V ' L s I , K . ' 1 s ' . ' , , 3 . 1 ' Pirates appeared in the season's finale at Mo- . . 7 V . . 7 ...- , Y . . , . , . . . 9 y , 7 v 7 ' I- . . , . .. I V . 11