Pekin High School - Pekinian Yearbook (Pekin, IL)

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SENIOR EDITION Page 9 Lost—Many Good Chinks from Numerous Pekin High Activities Through Coming Graduation in June Going-gone! Another outstanding senior class—among the group active participants in Pekin High activities. There is not a department that will not lose active talented members. Leaving from Student Council Brown Nolle Fabry Oilman Hieser Petri Gainer Woodall Pckinois Staff Tyler Zehr ! owraau Garing Jurgeus McBride Kden Woodall Ha pcniiey Puekett Henterseher Loomis Irby 1 ••■lining Hawk Walters Ailts Kahn Borsch Hieser Helser McMullen bnutenschlager Athletics buft Gainer Botello Sherman Lancaster Maquet Wilson Becker Faux Rossi Seel.ve Neuman Bliss C. Smith Filer Brecber Hoi Iyer Bussert llclf Ripper Fabry Plecony Library Cadets I . Weghorst Hull Future Farmers Allard Brecber 11.1 sol Woodall Oilman It rain lad Woodall Wargo Williams Munge Keif Krpan Trimble Itaiikin Robison E. Maquet McCUntlck Irby M. Deppert V. Sheppard Bennett N. Sheppard Wilson Saunders Moehring Not .lo- ll. Brown Eden Borsch L. Sheppert Garing Irby Brooking Fritz Jurgens Walters Petri wtnkel Parkin Hentersehor Ileiser Byrd Hall Haller Horn .Toerger Lnyne Brookings Hentersehor Lut Heppcrt Boyd Debate Puekett Drama II. Brown Gainer Kincaid II. Spears Melneu bowman Nolle Pullen Knieriem MacNaugbton Deuker Hall Cadets butz Thompson Psinas Pribble Coons Cliiado Dunn bayue II. Faux 7a-h r Staker Fabry Girls’ Club McCllntlck Parker N. Sheppard I oren Janssen Saunders Smith Walker Witkosky Harding Hleaer Kincaid Maxwell Moehring Pinos V. Sheppard Gauger Riley St rope Mends Weghorst G. A. A. I rby Williamson Horen Hand and Orchestra Ailts McNaught Bliss Nfolte Betzelberger Rosenberg Carroll Iteif Henning Sorenson Eden Seelye Griffiths Seggerman Hardt Shipley Hudson Sheppert beutbard Tyler Maxwell William Chorus Boldann Chiado Denker Cogdal England Cullen Garing Eden. J. Hellyer Eden. M. Janssen Haller bayne bowman Mahoney McBride Preston Rosenberg Rupp Sheppert Steging St rope Walters Welland Wolfer Ailts Borsch Hard! Helmig Kincaid bam pi It Lancaster Maxwell Moore Psinas Spears, J. Spears, 11. Tindall Vnnderwater Williams Wtnkel Wolgnmott LEFT HAND COLUMN Velda Copelen Girls’ Club. 1. 2. 3; Girl Reserves, 1. 2; Soph. B Sec-Treasurer: Rhapsody in Black. 2; Chocolate Soldier;” I 'slier. 3: Hull Cadet. 4. Margaret Williamson Personal Appearance, 1; G. A. A. 1. 2. 3. 4; Girls’ Club. 1, 2. Louise Byrd National Honor Society; Girls’ Club 4: Chorus 3. Joan Smith Sec.-Treas. Freshman B; Girls' Club. 1. 2, 8; Girl Reserves, 1, 4. Gertrude Helmig Photography 4: Naughty Marietta; Choir. 3. 4: Big 12. 4; Yarn craft 1; Library Cadet. 2: Girls Club. 1; Debate. 2: Art Needle cruft. 3: Pirates of Penzance. RIGHT HAND COLUMN Norman Rasmussen Nature Club. 1: Radio Club, 2. 3; Photography. 2. 3. Harvey Petri Photography 2: Track 3: National Honor Society. Kenneth Wallinger Fencing 1; Hall cadet 4; chorus 2. 3: photography 2. Donald Luft Photo 2; Radio 3; Track 3. +: Orchestra 1. 2. Willis Lutz Ag Club 1. 2, 3, 4; F. F. A.; Stage Craft 3; Hall Cadet. 4. An Ode to a Titian (With apologies to the popular ditty!) There are ten pretty girls who are senior queens. Picture ten senior girls who are in their teens; Short and fat, tall and slim, sweet and pert, cute and keen, And in dear Pekin High they all are seen. Now five are blondes (Ailts, Hen-terseher. Moehring, Walters, and Winkle— They wash their hair until it must twinkle.) And four brunettets (Lowman, Sciortino, Walker, and Pinos Their hair is their pride which is plus—not minus). And now comes the saucy little redhead. Which will complete our story; Because Charlotte Irby’s auburn red Is the class' “head” glory. To an end comes our ditty; Oh dear—ain’t it a pity? That such a little bitty Should be such a “hitty! B. and F. CAFE CONFECTIONERY We are always glad to serve you PEKIN THEATRE BLDG. Henry Birkenbusch Sol I H K PEKIN JEWELERS Impairing a Specialty 420 Court St.

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Page 8 SENIOR EDITION PHONE 274 DE KEUSTER CLEANERS and SHOE REPAIRER Free Deli ery—10 N. Capitol t Pekin. 111. The Eisie Goar Dress Shop | parel ol Distinction i nr Smart Women” I’I.'Mi.- Lift An Building LEFT HAND COLUMN Mardella Haller Joyfully, Blushingly Seniors Relate Happiest Moments In Respective Private Lives Girl Reserves, 1, 2, 4; Girls' Club, 1, 2, 4; Library Cadet. 2: German Club. 3: Quill and Scroll; Naughty Marietta ; Choir, 4. Thelma Tucker Girl Reserves. 1. 2. 3; Girls' Club 1, 2. 3; Personal Appearance 2. Marjorie Pinos Art Needle Craft: Girls’ Club 1. 2. 4: Girl Reserves 1. 2, 3. 4. Marjorie Walker (.iris’ Club 1. 2. 3. 4; Personal Appearance, 3; Naughty Marietta ; ChOlr 4: Rig 12, 4. Grace Riley Girl Reserves. 3. 4; Varncraft, 3; Naughty Marietta ; Girls’ nub. 4: Choir. 4: Rig 12, 4. RIGHT HAND COLUMN Carter Rankin Science Club. 1; Tennis 2. 3; “Growing Pains; Thespians. Jack Pratt Photography. 3. 4: Chorus, l. 2. Wilbur Brecher Hall Cadet, 4; Baseball. 4; German Club 4. William Conkel Photography 1: Golf 3; Strident Council. Roland Faux Baseball 2, 3; Football 1. 2. 3, 4; Basketball 2. 3; Hall Cadet 4; Co-Captain football 4. Oh Joy! Oh rapture! Oh ecstasy! These flowery cliches issued forth from Jim Chiado’s melodic throat when he proclaimed his happiest moment as being the time “she” said she would go steady. Whoever “she is. is lucky, don’t ’cha think, (or don’t ’cha.) But Italo Rossi’s thrilling moment didn’t have anything to do with gals. No sir. It was when he kicked-off (the ball) at the Central football game last fall. Jim Hapenney was happy about the whole thing when Dean Snyder got the mumps. But he was just kiddin.’ Maybe, huh? Toward the more serious side, Shirley Zelir went into hysterics when she received her invitation from National Honor Society. She said she felt like a different person. With a “hip. hip hurray’’ and “rah, rah, rah,” John Gainer announces that his happiest moment came when he found he was elected cheer leader. As a fitting and proper close. Julian “Sissy-pants” Botello blushingly mumbled that when B. Falk-ln agreed to swing-out with him at the Prom created great fervor and happiness in his soul. (But she can dance.) Efficient Office Staff Toils Steadily Through Heat Of Summer As Students Desert Celestial Halls Motor trips and sailing ships and fishing poles and fun—how lovely it is! Thus goes that persistent little ditty (round and round) in the heads of lethargic students. Thoughts of a lazy vacation tantalize each overworked Pekinite. Soon all will pursue their idea of the perfect holiday. Yet through the suffocating heat of warm summer days hanging heavy in vault-like deserted Pekin High corridors, will be heard the stacatto doggeral of a typewriter In action. Phantomlike, the sharp contact of the metal keys will beat upon the hushed air, only to fall back, a hollow echo. Surely old style echoes of ambitious typing classes is not yet reverberating in the halls. No, just two lonely workers are spending their vacations in routine office tasks for the sake of a smoother 1938-39 year. These two energetic workers are the efficient office force, namely Fern Lally and Dorothy Bellville. Fern, with only a two weeks’ vacation, works steadily on, although Dorothy spends only about a month over typewriter and filing cabinet. Many and varied are the tasks which these two accomplish. Completing senior permanent record cards, recording 1938 grades, crediting the year’s activities—all these must be done for the filing cabinet. As Fern checks orders for maps of Yugoslavia and fifteen jars of super-deluxe paste, most students will investigate the shady banks of Spring Lake, or spend a lazy morning in bed. Fern’s tasks include all ordering and checking of equipment, as well as the small (?) Items of inventory and outlines for the coming year to be completed. In spare time, instructions to be handed out on the opening day of school are prepared, and preparations are made for registration of incoming freshman during the latter part of the vacation months. Efficiently, the janitors clean the buildings and put them in top condition, for they, too, must be ready for fall. After this motley array of chores is done, there is time for vacation for the summer gaug— they hope! ROLLER SKATES • DELUXE 500 MILE SKATES $1.98 AND $2.49 OTHERS AT 1.49 AND 98o Tennis Rackets BRAND NEW RACKETS AT PRICES TO PLEASE ALL Central Book Toy Store 345 COURT STREET

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Page 10 SENIOR EDITION LEFT HAM) COLUMN Bertha Petri ilrl Reserves, 1. 2. 3, 4: Girls’ Club, 1, 2. 3, 4; President Sophomore A ('lass: Student Council: C’liolr, 3. Charlotte Irby Girls’ (’lull 1, 2. 3, 4: Girl Reserves, 1: Library Cadet. 2; G. A. A. I. 2, 3. 4: Usher. 3; Yarncraft, 2: National Honor Club: Hall Cadet. 4: Peklnois Staff. Evamae Rupp Girls’ Club, 1. 2. 3: Etiquette Club. 1. 2: Yarneraft, 2. 4: l’ersonal Appearance, 3: Naughty Marietta:” Girl Reserves, 4: Choir, 4. Ruth McElhoe Girl Reserves 1. 3, 4: Girls’ Club i, 2. 3, 4; Art Needle (’raft 2: Photography 2; Yarncraft 4. Doris Doren Girl Reserves 1: Girls’ Club 1. 2. 4: G. A. A. 1. 2. 3. 4: Usher 3. RIGHT HAM) COLUMN Charles Micheletti Fencing. 1: photography. 3. James Meinen Thespians; Rand. 1. 2: Stagecraft. 2. 3. 4. Thomas Lucera ltaschall. 1. 3, 4: Football 2. 3, 4: Co-Captain—Football. 4; Chorus. 2. James Ketchani Rig 12: Choir, 1: Treasurer Sophomore R: Red Mill”: Rhapsody in Itlack” 1, 2.: Golf 2, 3: President Junior A: Student Council. Albert Montgomery Fencing 1; Rasketball 2, 3: Pasc- hal! 2, 3. Opera Cast, Choir Picnic With spring in the air, the opera cast and the choir took to the roads (Broadway) and hiked to the picnic grounds (Mineral Springs) yesterday. June Lowman was chairman of the affair with Mildren Eden, Laura Mae Johonnes, Lois Jean Becker, Katherine Root, Ryan Lancaster, and Jim Lewis assisting her. Reserves Have Breakfast The Junior A Girl Reserves went on a “walk out breakfast” last week. An Indian theme was carried throughout the program as the group was divided into four tribes. After the prayer, which was given by Louise Strickfaden. and breakfast, the Girl Reserves enjoyed a bit of entertainment called Shooting Indians.” The result w’as a number of camera pictures of the group. Back Pekinois Advertisers “The Store For Students” SCHIPPER BLOCK CO. TOP-NOTCH BREAD IT’S A REAL LOAF A E BAKERY Pekin. Illinois Princess Candy Kitchen HOME MADE YDIE8—ICE ( REAM— LIGHT LUNCHES 402 COURT See the new “Carole King” FROCKS in Junior sizes—11, 13, 15, 17 Traub’s Spelling Supremacy To Be Challenged On Last English Program Of Year The champion speller of the school—Jack Traub—will be challenged on May 26 by eleven contestants taken from the English classes. The program w ill be the last of the series of radio presentations given by the English department under the direction of Misses Brainard and Williams and their English 6 classes. Jack’s supremacy is being challenged by Wilbur Brecher, English 8; Pat Conover, English 7; Jack Traub, English 6; Alene Rosenberg, English 5; Lois Sommers. English 4; Shirley Dennis or Lenore Ert-ipode, English 3; Dorothy Ober-le. English 2; and someone from English 1. Other challengers are Louise Roberson and Joe Rarick. The contest will be conducted by Louis Schaff and Laura Mae Johannes. At the end of the contest, each person will be given a score depending on the number of words, that were spelled correctly. The words will be of more than average difficulty. The contestants will have no preparation in advance, except what they, themselves study. The winner will be most stupendous, most elegant, most—well, anyway the best speller in P. C. H. S. These programs have been given to stimulate interest in new words and then spelling! Select Students For Next Year’s Voice Instruction Mr. Miller lent an ear to approximately one hundred voices last week in his search for the best ones to make up his voice instruction class next year. Although 111 signed up for auditions, a few were “scared-out.” Mr. Miller listed those students whom he thought best and then submitted it to Miss Todd and Mr. Stowe. The list was in order of preference and the first twenty will probably be chosen. The selection of numbers to be sung was varied. Mr. Miller reported that he found three exceptionally good girls’ voices. The boys also came through w’ith two having better than average voices.