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

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ANT LEARNED ELLEN PA C' I . 1 ROBERT BRY N President Vice President Secretary Tre They Worked Their Way Through Keeping the voracious appetites of basketball rooters satisfied, and providing a salty substance to enhance sales of junior pop peddlers, seniors sold 31,150 worth of popcorn at nine home games and at the Gene Autry show. Shivering football fans found the senior coffee stand a source of comfort last fall, when the fourth-year s a l e s m e n dispensed almost 3600 worth of java and taffy apples. Stanley White guided the destinies of the Class of 954. An autmun picnic at 1llini Park was an early highlight of the school year. A potluck, break- fast and all-senior assembly, held May 13, cli- maxed the upperclassmen's year - that is, until June 11. On that date, the Class of '54 marched down the aisle, heard a few well-chosen words of advice and faded forever from the scholastic scene at OHS. 11

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This Happened in 1954 It was the school year, 1953-1954. Headlining the national scene was the first revelation of a successful series of hydrogen bomb explosions. Dwight D. Eisenhower, hero-general of World War H, occupied the White House in a turbulent era. At home, a Wisconsin senator named Joseph M cCarthy was carrying on a personal fight with officers of the U. S. Army. Abroad, the stale- mated Korean War was enjoying an uneasy peace while anxious eyes were focused on Indo- China, where Vietminh Communist forces encir- cled the beleaguered French. Locally, Ottawans were preparing to vote on an issue designed to pave the way for a badly needed new elementary school. The city was com- pleting its one-hundred-first birthday as an in- corporated town, and OHS, after a gigantic sev- enty-fifth birthday celebration in 1953, was marching along in the xspirit of 9762. 10

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ALICE ANN ALIKOTNIS Hobby-Having fung FHA, 1-2-3-4, President, 3, Sec- tional Projects Chairman, 43 GAA, 2-33 Pep Squad, 2-33 Craft Club, 1-23 Future Teachers' Club, 4, Presi- dent, 43 Square Dancing Club, 33 Social Dancing Club, 1-23 Biology Club, 23 Buccaneer, 3-43 Yearbook Club, 43 Majorette, 23 Girls' Basketball, 1-2-3-43 Double Date . JEROME R. ALLEMAN JERRY Mixed Chorus, 13 Crafts Club, 23 Dancing Club, 23 Fishing Club, 33 Ensemble Club, 43 Band, 1-2-3-43 Intramurals, 1-2-3-43 The Past Comes to Life . PEARL E. ALSVIG BUBBLES Hobby-Driving other people's cars: Swimming Club, 1-33 Music Appreciation Club, 1-33 Foreign Corre- spondence Club, 1-23 Social Dancing Club, 1-233 In- terior Decorating Club, 43 The Past Comes to Life . JACK ANDERSON HORSE Hobby-Fishing and camping3 Civic Council, li Ofii- cers' Club, 3-43 Military, 2-3-4, Sergeant, 3, 2nd Lieu- tenant, 43 Football, 1-2-3-4, J. V. CaDtain, 2, Co- captain, 43 Basketball 1-2-3-43 Track, 2-3-43 Sorry, Wrong Numbern. ALAN D. BALL A-BALL Hobby-Music3 Galena transfer, 23 Executive Council, 43 Civic Council, 2-33 Radio Club, 23 Art Club, 3: Photography Club, 33 Officers' Club, 43 Scholarship Club. 43 Thespian Club, 43 A Cappella Choir, 3-43 Madrigal Singers, 3-43 Military, 2-3-4, Platoon Ser- geant, 43 Track, 23 Voted Most Likely to Succeed , 43 The Knave of Hearts 3 The Roman Kid . ROBERT E. BATISTINI BUSTY Hobby-Roller skating and bowling3 Swimming Club, 2-3-43 Square Dancing Club, 23 BAA, 33 Assistant Woorlslaop Teacher, 3-43 A Cappella Choir, 43 Military, 2-3-43 Intramurals, 2-3-41 Football, 2. MELVIN BEARD 4 .FI-FI, , Hobby-Girls Cone girlj 3 Sportsman's Club, 13 Swim- ming Club, 13 Military, 2-3-43 Intramurals, 2-3-4. MARIANNE R. BECKER BECK Hobby-Skating: GAA, 3-43 Pep Squad, 1-41 Library Club, 33 Swimming Club, 1-2: Social Dancing Club, 13 Square Dancing Club, 13 Buccaneer, 33 Library Assist- ant, 1-2. MABEL EILEEN BEGUIN FRENCHlE Hobby-TWirling3 Executive Council, 13 Mixed Cho- rus, 13 Drum Majorette, 1-2-3-43 Highwaymen, 13 Glee Club, 1-23 A Cappella Choir, 4. LORETTA M. BENNER Hobby-Dramatics3 Pep Squad, 1-2-3-4, Secretary, 23 Thespian Club, 2-3-4, Secretary, 3, President, 43 Indian Lore and Pageantry Club, President, 43 Dra- matics Club, 1-2-3, President, 33 Latin Club, 1-23 Mixed Chorus, 23 Show' Business Club, 43 Civic Coun- cil, 23 Buccaneer, 3-43 Yearbook Club, 3-41 Highway- men, 33 Streator Exchange Assembly, 1-2-33 Yearbook Assembly, 3-43 Dramatic Assembly, 1-2: Play Reading Cseriousj, District, Sectional, 2-33 Men Are Like Streetcarsn, 23 Contest Plays, State, Antic Spring , 33 Sorry, Wrong Number , 43 Green Valley , 33 Enter the Hero , 43 Annie Get Your Gun , 4, 12