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

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he sighted the two girl sports reporters from the Mendota high school paper. Another point for woman suffrage! -Johnny Suehr elected captain of the '46 football squad. -Remember the day the Home Ec club initiates romped around the cafeteria in pigtails tied with green ribbons, sans makeup? They were formally received into the club at a picnic at Buffalo Rock in the evening. NOVEMBER -The Junior Red Cross began its annual membership drive. One of the JRC projects that occasioned much student interest was the afghan knitted by the students in Mrs. Hen- trich's home room. The Mooseheart game was called off be- cause of the polio threat. -The Civic Council reorganizes under the supervision of Mr. Willy. At the football picnic Mac , Pork , and Weisbrock-three babes in the woods-got lost. Mr. Hankenson ended up with a Charley horse, which every- body maintains was inflicted by the cheerleaders who were showing the varsity how to play football. -During National Education week many downtown store windows featured ex- hibits from OHS clubs and classes. We chose the history exhibit picture as a reminder that this school year saw the publication of Mr. Burke's book, The Ladder of History , written in collabo- ration with Upton Close. All the freshmen were on their best be- havior at the Council tea. The first time the student body has ever left the auditorium in anything less than a stampede was when Otto Schacht asked them to. Gilbert Love appointed head basketball coach. The Hep Squad commences-too bad they had such a short life. We noted Jack Armstrong's promotion to captain in the play There's One in Every Company . Other members of the cast included Mike Balint, now of the U.S.N., Ralph Hoyt, Bill Ullrich, Bob Lattimore, Louis Ohlendorf and Clarion Johnson. A three-part comedy, Will You Marry Me? , demonstrating the differences in proposals during different periods, was ably cast. The 1800's were pictured by Evaline Lewis, Margaret Ulrich, Ed- ward Smalley and Doris Madden. The Victorians were Ruth Bradish, Reba Nelson, Francis Withrow and Blanche Gagliardo. The moderns included Grace Coffey, Darlene Clark, and Felix Norman. The third play put on by Mrs. Dorothy Rotter's senior English classes was 'tEverything Nice , and the cast con- tained Wayne Harvey, Jean McLean, Helen Bennington, Virginia Roose, Mar- jorie Werner, Lorraine Corcoran, and John Highland.

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SEPTEMBER The doors swing in! -Freshmen buying elevator tickets like mad. -Everybody was feeling exuberant at the first pep assembly, at which the cheer- leaders and team were introduced to the student body. Jack Mohler played a boogie-woogie version of Caledonia , and, for once, it sounded good. Mary Lou Moran, Reba Nelson, and Colleen Reilly were forced to fiee their broken-down bus and take refuge in the bus with the varsity after the L-P football game. Drums and bugles mushroom within the band as the band makes it first appear- ance of the year. The fleet's in! Or rather, the LST 512 dropped anchor, and a duck dropped sailors and marines onto King field for a king-sized game of baseball. Hubba, hubba! And then there was Miss Irene Brewley, mountain monologist. -The first Buc made its appearance. Journalism class members were happy, anyhow. Oh, boy, it was murder! The Spring Valley football game, that is! OCTOBER GAA reorganizes. -The Pep Squad went wild as Johnny Suehr ran 76 yards to make Ottawa's only score against Dixon. Wump is welcomed back to the Buc. Who made off with the candy, cookies, and etc., from the Pep Squad picnic? Red Letter Day-no school! Many took advantage of the long week end to go places and do things-thereby missing the band's clock formation between the halves at the De Kalb game. -Where did the Anderson car o on the ' g way to the Spanish club picnic? At any rate, everybody raced back. -Remember the sly look on Mr. Ritzen- tha1er's face as he appeared and re-ap- peared, each time with a different in- strument 'Y -Edna Means should have been an all- school assembly-really amusin'. And for days after the posture check- ups, Bev Peterson went around saying very emphatically, I do not have a crooked spine! -The O club reorganizes. All mem- bers enjoy watching Dave Knutson's volleyball team trouncing Coach Hank's. -After the football game, at which a handful of Ottawa rooters out-cheered a stadium full of Sterling fans, a dance, which was enjoyed by the pool players, was held at the local Y. -The Trojan horse, which made its first appearance at the Latin club dance two years ago, reappeared from the recesses back stage at the pep assembly staged before the Mendota game. At the game that night Lee Grude got all tangled up in his microphone when

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The Early Worm was the play chosen by Miss Ruth Corley's class. Included in the cast were James Kirkman, Phyl- lis Kling, Mary Thorson, Bill Vezain, Richard Shute, and Rosalie Gambo. Thanksgiving recess-and the turkeys wer'n't the only things stuffed by the 26th. What we were wondering was where all those identical vases came from in the play UNellie McNabb , which starred Mary Ann Gass, Patte Burr, Isabelle Irrgang, Ken Anderson and LeMoyne Grude. Hear tell the cast practiced right up to curtain time. All the boys ate lipstick that night. And didn't Patte Burr's cigarette make a lot of smoke backstage? A'Slip Ahoy , another of Miss Isabelle Sanders, plays, called for uniforms, as it took place in a barracks at Great Lakes. An all-male cast composed of Dale Rowlee, Dick Eichelkraut, Norman Sampson, Earl Riebe, Glenn Wiley, Vernon Drews, Dick Knott, Harold Mc- Cormick, Bill Shaw, Wen Anderson, Fred Johnson, Fred Tress, John Baietto, Dick Zuege, Bill Pierson, Ken Anderson, Jack Armstrong, George Chandellier, Bob Donahue, LeMoyne Grude, Paul Sheedy, Harry Troup, Don Clemens, and Darrell Shawback put on a realistic performance. To compensate, ten girls put on 'tWhat are You Going to Wear?,', a completely feminine play. In a variety of costumes were Joyce Pyle, Adele Barron, Marge Hilpipre, Mary Lou Moran, Shirley Brun- dage, Elda Johnson, Phyllis, Stevenson, Mary O'Connell, Peggy Pool, and Jean Cavanaugh, who gave out with a light bit of comedy. Peggy Pool, by the way, received an 'topening night telegram . Sugar and Spice , just like its title, was both sweet and tart. Taking the parts were Jane Gay, Jack Baietto, Hildegarde Fosse, Barbara Peck, and Bill Pierson. One of the most unusual plays of the evening was The Boor , starring Glen Wiley, Dick Eichelkraut, and Virginia Roose, all of whom did an excellent piece of acting. DECEMBER -The band came back from the festival at Dixon singing Three O'clock in the Morning , thanks to two blowouts. -Opening of the basketball season with La Salle here. Remember the sudden and unexpected appearance of the benches in the pas- sageway? They are conducive to study -but what kind? -Pointers for conduct on the road were given out by Sgt. Berlin, of the state police, and for days after the stock reply of the humorists was, I'm a fence post . -Seniors elect Clem Clemens, presi- dent, Phyl Stevenson, vice-president, Bill Pierson, secretary, and Dick Zuege, treasurer.