Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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FIRST HOW- MASON, PAUL- Transfer from Sycamore, 111., 2; Drama Club 3, 4; Math Club 4. NELSON. CARLEY—A Cappella Choir 4; Rand 1. 2. 3; Ensemble 3; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4. OVERSTREET. WILLIAM—Basketball 4; Class President 1; Junior Play; Math Club 4; Student Council 2; Second Vice-President 3; President 4. REID, JEAN—Blue and Gold 3; Class Treasurer 3; Red Cross 1. PEARSON, WILLIAM— ROBERTSON, BETTY—Band 1, 2; Blue and Gold 1. 2; Class Treasurer 1, 4; Ensemble 1.2; Glee Club 1,2; Junior Play; Student Council 3; Swing Band 1. SECOND HOW PETERSON. JOHN—Aero Club 3; Blue and Gold 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 2, 3, 4; Junior Play; Math Club 4; Hefl«» tor; Student Council 4. SANDERS, CLARICE- Transfer from Fairfield, 111., 2; Drama Club 2, 3, 4. THORSTENSON, JACK—Transfer from Dana. Ind., 2; Band 1, 3, 4; Patrol 1. SHORE, WILMA—Transfer from Armstrong 111., 3; Glee Club 3, 4. WILLIAMS, RAYMOND—Aero Club 3; Band 1, 2, 3. 4. THIRD HOW TERRELL. NORMA—Class secretary 3; Drama Club 2; Student Council 4. WOODWORTH. ELIZABETH—Blue and Gold 4; Drama Club 2; Glee Club 2. 3, 4; Home Nursing 3. WARNER. CATHERINE- Drama Club 1.2; Ensemble 3; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Home Nursing 3; Mixed Chorus 4. VAN SYCKEL, JOAN—Transfer from Tipp City, Ohio, 1; Glee Club 1.

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FIRST ROW HAMMERSTRAND, MARY JEAN—Band 1. 2, 3; Blue and Gold 4; Glee Club 2. HAYES, RONALD—F. F. A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Treasurer 4; Glee Club 3, 4; Mixed Chorus 4. HANSON. LOIS—Band 2, 3; Glee Club 1. 2. 3, 4; Home Nursing 3. INGOLD, HAROLD- -Baseball 3; Class Basketball 2; Class Vice-President 2; F. F. A. 1, 2, 3, 4; President 4; Football 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4. HANSON. OPAL—Glee Club 4. JOHNSON, RAYMOND—Class Basketball 2; F. F. A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Secretary 3; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4. SECOND ROW HOLLISTER. DOROTHY—Transfer Hyde Park. 111., 3. JOHNSON, WARREN—Class Basketball 2; Class President 2. KOFOID, CATHERINE—Transfer from Ludlow, 111., 4. KEEFE, DAN—Transfer from Charleston, 111., 2; Aero Club 3; Blue and Gold 3; Class Basketball 2; Math Club 3, 4; Reflector, Assistant Editor; Student Council 3; Junior Play. LAWHEAD, BETTY—A Cappella Choir 4; Class Secretary 4; Class Treasurer 2; Ensemble 3; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Home Nursing 3; Junior Play. THIRD ROW KENNEY, JACK Blue and Gold 2; Class Basketball 2; Class Vice-President 1; F. F. A. 2, 3; President 3; Football 4; Glee Club 1; Homecoming King 4; Patrol 2; Student Council; First Vice-President 3; Second Vice-President 4. McCLAIN, RUTH—Transfer from Gibson City, 111., 2. LUNDEEN, MERLE- A Cappella Choir 4; Band 1, 2. 3, 4; Drama Club 3, 4; President 3; Football Manager 2, 3; Glee Club 1, 2; Junior Play; Mixed Chorus 1. 2, 4; Reflector; Swing Band 1. 4; Accompanist: Girls’ Chorus 2, Girls’ Ensemble 2, Mixed Chorus 4. McGAULEY, MARY—A Cappella Choir 4; Cheerleader 1, 2; Drama Club 4; President 4; Ensemble 3; Glee Club 1, 3, 4; Home Nursing 3; Junior Play.

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HORRORSCOPE After my commitment to Happydale, a beautiful old brick structure surrounded by large, green, billowy shrubs that concealed the iron fence from us inmates, I was confined to my cell-er, I mean—room; and sitting in an easy chair with my well-tailored jacket to protect me from the balmy breeze, I wondered what had happened to the rest of the class of ’45. Just after I had settled down and made myself quite comfortable, my nurse, Mary McGauley, came in to tighten my long sleeves behind my back. 1 was alone again and immediately set about trying to recall the whereabouts of all my old classmates. As I remembered, with the exception of five or six, most of my fellow graduates had settled in Paxton. Bill Overstreet, through a political pull, was warden of the State Penitentiary. He was very popular with the prisoners because he allowed an afternoon session of pool, and he was the undisputed champ with a cue. Glenn Cook had landed in Arizona and was punching cattle when he wasn’t operating a small movie house in the nearby town of Hotchos Spotchos. Warren Johnson was in the South Seas and had set up a private kingdom on a small island of seventy-five population—no immigrants were allowed unless they were blond and had blue eyes. Barbara Given was singing in one of the many Chicago bright spots that appeared after the war. Jean Reid was in Denver working as a proofreader in a company that printed the “Batman” and “Superman” comic books. Oh, yes, one of the outstanding members of my class was John Peterson, who was trying to bring back vaudeville with his familiar wit and slapstick comedy. Quite a few of this graduating group had found strength in unity. Gustafson and Gustafson were renowned judges of farm animals; and with John Doty as chief barker and general handyman, they organized a traveling fair. Merle Lun-deen played piano for the Flora Dora chorus girl act, and Raymond Williams was a dare-devil driver of obsolete 1942 Packards. When this group stopped at Paxton, Ray Johnson won the hog calling contest, with some of the porkers coming all the way from Thomasboro to hear his breath-taking roars. Gene Allen was now serving as night-cop, and he and Mrs. Allen had quite a police force of their own. Policeman Allen and Jack Thorstenson worked together in this way: Gene shot the bandits; and before rigor mortis set in, Jack had the corpse embalmed and covered with six feet of Paxton sand. It seemed to me that Don Anderson was connected with gasoline in some way—oh, I remember, he had opened a station on Route 9; joined to Don’s gas station was a cafe operated by Catherine Kofoid. Marjorie Gunning was her chief chef, her specialty being chop suey. Since the Middlecoff had enlarged, Opal Hanson was working there as an elevator operator and had set a record by going from the lobby to the twelfth floor in a minute and six seconds! Another one of the girls, Wilma Shore, was in charge of the Hotel’s first-aid station, which did a tremendous business since Jack Kenney took over as official bouncer.