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

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-Judging from the sqeals that came from the auditorium during the showing of Hold That Ghost , those that lugged the required fifteen pounds of paper for the Civic Council's paper drive found their labor worth while. -Cries of f'I,m stuck! resounded from the band room during the TB testing. -Bucs lose to Streator and lose out on the tournament. MARCH -Phyllis Stevenson receives the DAR award. The junior class elects Lewis Olmstead, Duane Palmer, Bev Peterson, Dede God- frey, president, vice-president, secre- tary, and treasurer, respectively. -The musicians brought back fifteen firsts from the music contest in Streator. -OHS joins the speechmakers, sending Virginia Roose, Duane Palmer and Bob Lattimore off to the contests. -Everyone liked the piano player, includ- ing Nan Hutchings and Dot Trent, who interviewed Piero Pierotic and his ac- companist backstage after the perform- ance, and came away with a firm deter- mination to learn to play better bridge. -Of course, just about every girl who had a plaid dress in her wardrobe chose to wear it the day C. E. Jones lectured on girls wearing plaids. -Remember Bobbie Peck's wonderful Rhapsody in Blue at the orchestra- glee club concert? -Former Hi hwa men reun to rovide 7 music for the Art club's Spring dance, after which the Civic council provided a feed for the boys. -The Civic council members knocked off a day to wash walls. Oh, my achin' back! -Girls' in exhibit Something new gy - was added-fifty-one colorful United Nations fiags. APRIL -Don't let us fool you! -A wonderful time was had b all at the Y Senior party, complete with scavenger hunt and food, entertainment and danc- ing later, with even the senior boys taking part in the latter pastime. -Davy Atom Smasher Knutson was in- troduced to OHS-a performer extra- ordinaire! But didn't anyone tell him campaigning wasn't allowed? Other hidden talents were revealedf 'YJ by the black-faced Dick Zuege, Don Clemens, and Duane Palmer. OHS won the Intramural Track meet. -Housing the Milliken university choir and orchestra was no problem for some people, namely, Tom Gerding, and Howie Kosnick, who took a couple of the girls out to the first shelter house. -Staff of the ONE and ONLY '46 Senior announced-Reba Nelson is made the unhappy editor. -A gala affair was the first Military ball held since the war-it even had Eileen Chalus going around in circlesg she made a wrong turn after the ball was over, and went through the wrong door as a result. -And 13th. What was everyone doing at 4 A. M. at the Council convention in Peoria-not sleeping, that is! -Track season opens at Geneseo. -Participating in the VFW parade, the band was drowned out by a professional drum and bugle corps, but OHS fans clapped long and loud in a helpful effort to aid the band. -Picnics were the order of the week end commemorating Easter. Pitchnecks is what we really mean. -Rainmakers Willy and Rotter finally shook the balloons down at the Spring formal. -Who did the dastardly deed-scattered the locker contents all over the fioors in the girls' dressing rooms on GAA Playday? Some fun! MAY -Hang it and run! -More firsts and a smattering of seconds, thirds, and etcs., were brought back from the sectional music contests. The competition was really stiff. Band concert postponed indefinitely be- cause of the coal shortage. But, Mr. Hentrich, some of those boys and gals are used to being in the dark! All the girls on the Buc staH offered to interview Nutchuk, after seeing his picture. -Something new in assemblies was added -the Registration assembly. -It's an ill wind that blows the Idle-wild get it ? -Matters regulatory were forgotten at the Civic council picnic. -The lady behind us at the Military ex- hibit said, Aren't the little tots cute? We gals curbed our impulses to throw pennies, showing our appreciation of the performance. -Everyone was dreamy-eyed at the Jun- ior-Senior prom except Ernie, who had to clean up after. -No more essays, No more books, No more seniors' Wild-eyed looks. JUNE 3, 4, 5-Final exams-days of nightmares. Will that last needed credit be there at diploma time? 6-Two out of twenty dances were enjoyed by OHS couples during the scramble for autographs at the Exam Bust dance. 7-Everyone grabs his diploma and runs before the faculty changes its mind. The doors swing out-and it's So long, OHS .

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-Eyes popped when Dot Chase and Adele Barron turned up at the Retailers party with two former Dixon athletes. -The week before Christmas was very gay, except for those victims of the flu epidemic and the Christmas extras who were all dragged out. Among the fes- tive touches were the Art clubys Christ- mas window in the front door, and the Christmas assembly, at which the glee clubs sang and Chaplain Merrill Powers spoke. -Our first peacetime Christmas in four years. JANUARY -The floor was slickg the music was goodg the decorations were Ucute at the Senior dance, but too many must have been recuperating from the Sub-Deb and other New Year's Eve parties the night before. -Afraid to miss the science trip to Chi- cago, twenty-five boys almost trampled the nine girls in their hasty attempt to get on the bus. -No test in physiography. Marilyn Weise, Cheryl Barton, and Gloris Atkinson really made the Strea- tor fans gasp with their acrobatics be- tween the halves of the basketball game. -The football boys felt themselves amply rewarded after the Lions club banquet. The yearbook staff' finally managed to sponsor the first all-school dance of the year. EXAMS-need we say more. And with the beginning of the second semester the Navy returns Mr. McKay and the Army gives back Mr. Propps to OHS service. -The seniors want to know where the freshman girls got that professional technique as demonstrated at the Hori- zon club's Hanwacipi dance. FEBRUARY Batavia, a newcomer to the OHS basket- ball schedule, takes an easy one from the Bucs. The Speech club returns to existence under Miss Heidingerls direction, and work is begun on contestants for the speech contests. If Mexico is as Chuck Ingold, Virginia Roose and Colleen Reilly demonstrated it in their Hoor show at the Ningun Chicle dance, no wonder Miss Mess re- turns to Mexico periodically. -With Kirby Todd as ringmaster , the Civic Council's t'Hard Times party real- ly went over with a bang. Why? Even the male walliiowers got away from the wall. -No school, thanks to Mr. Lincoln. The basketball squad played on empty tummies at De Kalb, due to a delay en route-blowout, to you.

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HE theme of this book is The Circus . To ancient Romans this word meant an arena, or oval t1'ack, where great crowds could see feats of horsemanship at the chariot races, could watch gladiators strike their opponents to the ground, and savage beasts tear Christian prisoners to bits. These exhibits trained the soldiers and tempered the citizenry for the life of that day. To us the word suggests a great tent, animals, freaks, music, noise, daring acts, and fun. The circus program runs the scale of human feelings. Frivolity is there, gruesomeness is displayed, skills of the highest order and feats of courage are exhibited. Some laugh, some scream, others refuse to look at the too- daring. So it is with life, some will laugh, some scream, others will run away when they see the task before them. To this extent life and school are like a circus. The analogy must not be carried too far. You cannot expect every- thing to be set in place for you, with seats and a midway just around each corner. You must become a performer and accept the responsibility for what is to come. The circus of life today finds man at another crossroad. One road leads to an undreamed era of comfort, achievement, and peace, the other to strife and destruction so characteristic of the Roman amusement. The school has endeavored to have you see today life in its realities, and to lift before you a vision of service and peace for all mankind. You must be willing to work for this achievement. You must know and act on truth and not be confused by the shrewd propaganda of the greedy and the selfish. Whether we have the democracy and free society we vision depends upon each individualis integrity and willingness to sacrifice and to share comforts with others. Your eagerness to make democracy work is important. Being a good citizen is not paying your admission at the entrance to the tent and taking in all you can see or get. You must give more than cash. You must give yourself. Horace Mann suggested that one should be ashamed to die until he has made a contribution to his com- munity and to humanity. I have faith that you will be good performers. H. D. ANDERSON. EJ