Pana Township High School - My Diary Yearbook (Pana, IL)

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7 7 Leading the Senior Class Kenneth Klein ,.,, Ronald Staples fames McDerrnitl1 lflr. Kemp ...,. ,. Donald Cathern . Ioe and Dcm dlscipulr Curr. Summa laude SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Vice-President . . . .Treasurer . ,Secretary Class Sponsor , . President

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.,,,.k,.,. Seniors at last- A Senior Remembers September, 1945 . . . full-fledged Panthers at last . . . new places . . . new faces . . . beginning four exciting years of football, bas- ketball, and track . . . everyone dragging out his best manners for the athletic banquets . . . gay parties and dances . . . Homecoming, such as 1947 when the orchestra was late . . . the annual Christmas Vespers . . . the eagerly- awaited Christmas vacations, highlighted by the Centralia Holiday Tournaments . . , 1948 Class Play with amateur actors filling their roles like true Thespians in A Little Honey . . . working tirelessly into the wee small hours on the 1949 Gold Rush . . . those cherished Wednesday assemblies .,... The Class of 1950 has seen many new and better things come into the school and its life . . . the consolidation of the Oconee, Rosamond, and Pana schools in 1948 . . . the gay festivity of the 1949 Spring Carnival with receipts invest- ed in new band uniforms and choir robes . . . students of P. H. S. can rightly be proud of their athletic field-now rated as one of the best high school fields in the state, since the addi- tion of the new lighting system and the perman- Q182 ent bleachers . . . the addition of the machine shop, the agriculture department, the driver's training course- Oh gad, these women driv- ersll' '... and at last we can keep informed on current happenings around P. H. S. - THE PANA PACER is successfully established . . . Time flies, as the sages say . . . seniors crowding into a few short months their favorite last-time events . . . our rings arrive . . . the exciting finality of the 13-O defeat over Taylor- ville on Armistice Day . . . our own Home- coming - The Passing Years . . . beginning our fourth and final basketball season . . . Christmastime, with Vespers, Holiday Tourna- ment and parties . . . New Year's - complete with resolutions . . . everyone settling down for exams - the last for us Cwe hopel . . . National Honor students chosen . . . Apple Blossom Time - a dream of springtime provided by the Iuniors . . . our dramatic success, Best Foot Forward . . . and finally Commencement . . . leaving the gymnasium with the coveted diplo- ma in hand , . . plans and dreams of the future now are close to realization. 1 and here's the proof'

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'Q an 'll'- ihu 5 1 x liv- in-val Glen R. Alexander William D. Bailey Delmar Beeson KZOD in ,L , My 1 Carl Allen Shirley lean Barber Rose Marie Benthaus Barbara Anderson Mabel Bartow Ronald D. Beyers