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

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Spanish Club El] Circulo de Espanol—-the Spanish club—under the sponsorship of Miss Mary Jane Mess, is in its second year. The main event of this year was “El Mocambo’’—the Spanish club dance, on January 23. During the festive evening gay caballeros, Stan Boe and Ken Fry, serenaded a lovely senorita, Tillie Alvarado. A dashing toreador, Bill Klee, fought the ferocious bull, composed of Ken and Wen Anderson. Angela Galvan impersonated Carmen Miranda. Los alumnos de Espanol had a picnic at Buffalo Rock in November, and in the spring, and before Christmas they devoted several meetings to work on Christmas cards to be sent to an orphanage in Mexico.

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Art Club Art club members worked to enjoy their organization. During the win- ter months the group, under the guidance of Mrs. Riva Hoff, discussed modern art, types of prints used in making Christmas cards, and painted still life and original compositions. These activities were climaxed with a bobsled party. With the coming of spring the members turned to individual studies, which included outdoor sketches. The club started off with.a bang with the second annual Sadie Hawkins Day dance. This year OHS joined the Chicago Galleries association, which provides the school with a different painting each month. The Art club pays the transportation expenses of these paintings. The club also contributed to- ward the purchase of an original water color by Mrs. Helen Gapen Oehler, former OHS student. At the first meeting the following officers were elected: William Hossack, president ; Dorothy Chase, vice-president; Elaine Richards, treas- urer; Robert Yocum, program chairman.

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Civic Council Every Tuesday afternoon at 3:20 Civic Council members gathered in room 504 to plan a program of improvements for school and students alike. If an inventory of the Council’s activities were taken, a great many worth-while projects would be listed. As in past years, the Council sold war stamps and bonds through the home room representatives. Each room door wore a placard advertising the percentage of war stamps purchased the month previous. On December 11 the Council launched a magazine subscription cam- paign to finance the building of a Pirates’ Den. Not enough funds were garnered for the building of the proposed school recreation center, how- ever, but a coke bar was installed in the rifle room, off the gym, instead. The Council also took charge of introducing the freshmen and their parents to the faculty and student body at the annual freshman tea in the f all. In addition, the Council sponsored several dances, inaugurating the policy of admittance to school dances by activity card in the second semester. The chairmen for the year were John Elzer, Howard Gladfelter, Dick Kichelkraut, Dorothy Swanson, Bill Pierson and Pat Leamy. The secre- taries were Jean Dougherty for the first semester and Rosemary Mitchell, second semester.