Pekin High School - Pekinian Yearbook (Pekin, IL)

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SENIOR EDITION Pekin through the Ohinks incident baptism and Loi It seems that the drama class has been predicting the future of its members. Joe Rarick and Mildred Greger-son were to be • married and an was related about the of the Reif twins. Bob Jr. s Evalyn were so eute! M—P—M Prom worries have begun to fade just “begun” tho! Mickle McBride has agreed to tread a measure with Jim Unland. Then too, Lenore Sheppert had only 8 bids. She chose Seggerman. I age, Fred Heisel, and Gene Smedley. M—P—M A likely candidate for the prom is Charlie McCarthy. M—P—M Since these are the last bits of dust, dirt, mud, and debris we will ever gather together, we wish to say au revoir and thanks for the sand. It made good filler. We hope we haven’t broken any hearts or ruined any reputations as our “friend” Hapenny seems to think we have. We have found that mud-slinging is fun but dangerous. Best of luck to the new dirt-eds. May you ever be dirty! M—P—M It is better to have halitosis than no breath at all! (Such humor.) M—P—M LEFT HAND COLUMN Alice Staker Hall Cadet. 4. Louie Veerman has a new flame! Guess who—Jackie Poeble. M—P—M Bob Meinen sits in the theater with a different girl every night— it has been said. M—P—M Minnie Arnold and Edward Allen are the most playful individuals—particularly in choir. M—P—M Jim Swartz is a goin steady— Ann Glasford is the lucky gal! M—P—M Betty Wolgamott and Faith Kincaid are both after the one and only Maquet—May the best girl win—(Watch out for the little Ricci girl tho; gals.) M—P—M Flash l’rofessor Walker has an heiress! Chemistry II students were so excited they each brought her a toy. M—P—M A probable couple to the Prom are James Cruse and Kate Root. We wonder now what Bob Doren will do. It is rumored that Helen Psinas is willing to be her “stand in”—(so are ten million others) M—P—M Did you know that IjoIs Mc-Clintick invited Tommy Lucera to a scavenger hunt? Wonder what they found? M—P—M Olive Walters seems to have deserted Jerry Seeyle for Fred Darche. M—P—M It must Ik great to be able to pay your money and take your choice. Charleen Seibel had three bids to the Prom. Bruce Rrnin- Lois Knieriem Girl Reserves 1: Girls' Club 1. 2. 3. 4; Personal Appearance 2, 3: Growing Pains : Pimtes of Penaance : Usher 3: Thespians: Hall Cadet 4: Pckinois Staff: Choir 3. 4: “Night of January 16. Irvin Seelye German Club. 2. 3: Football. 2: Band. 1. 2. 3. 4: Orchestra. 4: Big Twelve. 4. Elizabeth Guile Girls' Club, 2, 3. 4. Maxine Prose Girls' Club. 1. 2. 3. 4: Girl Reserves. l; Kthiuette Club. 2: Hall Cadet. RIGHT HAND COLUMN Rov Sorenson Fencing 1: Usher 3: Orchestra 1. 2. 3. 4: Choir, 4; Big 12. 4. Richard Sheppard Fencing. 1; Cross Country, 2. 3,; Track. 3: Stagecraft. 3. Frank Watts Thespian: Tennis 4: Photography 4: Stage Crew. 4. Robert England Hall Cadet 4: President Post Grads: Naughty Marietta ; Band 1: Choir 4; Big 12. 4: Orchestra 1. 2. 3. 4. Robert Hofreiter Vice Pres. Soph B: Radio Club, 1: Junior B Pres.; Soph. A Vice-President: Student Council; Vice President Junior A: Usher. 3: National Honor Society. Forensic Club Makes Plans For Speech Tournament Plans are being made by the Forsenic Club for the Intra-mural Speech Tournament to be held early next fall. Decisions as to what events will be sponsored have not been made, but debate, extempore speaking, oratorical declamation, and original oratory are all being considered. Anyone who wishes, except varsity debaters and speakers, may enter as many events as he wishes. Debate teams will he formed so as to have a freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior team, and possibly teams representing social science classes. The Speech department hopes to find new material through this channel, so students should not stay away just because they haven't experience—that’s what this tournament is for. Page 13 Little Star Cleaners 105 N. 5TH ST. One block north of Court Str-et Phone 850 We Call and Deliver Martin B. Lohmann Co. INSURANCE urt St. IMione 746

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Page 12 SENIOR EDITION I-i I s DO YOU K SCHOOL PRINTIN'(» LOHNES PRINT SHOP Phono ■ JACK FURST i)l SOTO PLYMOUTH Seniors Look Forward With Eagerness To Holiday As Underclassmen Expect Busy Week Of Exams The last week of school always seems to be chuck full of activities especially for the seniors. This year is no exception, for the week of June 3-10 is quite well-filled, ending with a bang the graduates’ careers in Pekin High. LEFT HAND COLUMN Ruth Tyler ('o-Kdltor, Pekinois ; Girls' Club, 1; Music Club, 1; Girl Reserves, 1. 2; Rig Twelve. 1. 2, 3. 4: Forensic. 2 3; National Honor Society: Quill ami Scroll: Choir, 3: orchestra 1. 2. 3. 4: Jaiz Orchestra. 4. Frances Witkosky Personal Appearance Club, 1: Girls’ Club, 1, 2. 3, 4: Hall Cadet, 3. 4. Grace Jurgens Girl Reserves 1, 2. 3, 4: (tirin' Club 1. 2. 3. 4: Personal Appearance 2: Secretary-Treasurer Junior B: Na- tional Honor Society; Pekinois Staff: Quill and Scroll: Chorus 1. 2. Virginia Sheppard (ilrl Reserves. 1; Girls Club. 1, 2. 3, 4: Hall Cadet, 4: Choir. 4. Winifred Shipley Girls' Club, 1, 2; Orchestra. 1, 2, 3. 4: Big 12. 4. RIGHT HAND COLUMN Paul Schmidgall Photography, 1, 2, 3; Pekinois Staff. Arthur Mefford Football 2. 3. Bruce Bramlage Rhapsody in Black 1. 2: Thespians: Brewsters Millions : Forensic: Debate 2: Growing Pains”; Death Takes a Holiday.” Albino Delmastro Latin Club, 1. 2: “Rhapsody in Black. 2. 4: Pirates of Penzance; Naughty Marietta: Choir. 3. 4. Jeannot Leuthard Big 12 1. 2. 3. 4: Red Mill : Rhap- sody in Black 1. 2. 4: Photography 2: Chocolate Soldier : Jazz Orchestra 3. 4: Concert Orchestra 1. 3. 4: Band 1. 2. 3. 4. By Friday, June 3, seniors at least will be carefree and able to enjoy the Prom because their exams will be over. As usual, the Junior-Senior Prom will be held at the Country Club. Sunday afternoon, June 5, the final rehearsal for seniors will be held, and caps and gowns distributed. In the evening the Baccalaureate service will be held in the high school auditorium. As a result of a senior vote, the entire service will be given by members of the class, assisted by the A ca-pella choir and orchestra. Monday and Tuesday. June 6-7, will be the last days for underclassmen to review, while seniors take a vacation. Tuesday is also Senior class day featuring the senior class picnic. Wednesday, June 8, the exams will be held for underclassmen. The schedule will follow the regular class routine. On Thursday, June 9, everyone will have a day of vacation—except (maybe) the teachers. They have the entire day to complete reports and finish their work. Commencement exercises will be held in the evening with approximately 202 graduating seniors. Friday morning, June 10, the last chapel program will be held at 8:30, when letter awards and other honors will be given. Following the program, students may get their final reports before school is dismissed for the summer. Friday night the seniors will be guests at the annual Alumni Banquet. a topping event to complete a week of fun and frolic. Future Farmers Of America, National Agriculture Club, Has Interesting Membership Requirements One of the interesting organizations around school, that many students do not know about, is the Future Farmers of America, vocational agricultural society. It is more popularly known as the F. F. A. Any boy, who is able to carry on a farming project may belong to the club. But if he wishes to work up in the organization, he must prove his worth by fulfilling satisfactory requirements for advancement through the four grades of membership. These include (1) green hand; (2) Future Farmer; (3) State Farmer; (4) American Farmer. To be a Future Farmer, one must have fulfilled several requirements, one being that of earning and depositing in a bank, or productively investing, at least $25. For the State Farmer degree, this amount is raised to $250. The State Farmer must also represent the school on a judging team; show marked attainment in scholarship; and possess qualities of leadership and responsibility. At present, the Pekin High club has in its membership of 35 one State Farmer, Warren Freidinger. Morse Boyd is on the candidate list, however, and will probably be elected to the honor at the state convention to be held in June. The motto of the organization is: Learning to do, Doing to learn; Earning to live. Living to serve. The F. F. A. emblem is made up of five symbols—the owl, symbolic of wisdom; the plow, of labor and soil tillage; and the rising sun, of the dawn of progress—set within the cross section of an ear of corn surmounted by an American Eagle. The aim of the organization is, of course, to encourage love for farming and to inspire American rural young people to carry on. Mr. Dowell is adviser for the Pekin Chapter. Times 1 i t()2 COURT STREET

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Page 14 SENIOR EDITION ABTS FUNERAL HOME SIXTH ANI) BROADWAY SAVE AT CARPS Mr. |rv John Afots Pekin's Live Wire Department Store LEFT HAND COLUMN Helen Gauger G. A. A.. 1. 2. 3: Girls’ Club. 1. 2, 3. 4; Personal Appearance. 4; Choir. 4: Big Twelve. 4. Mary Jane Breaden Girls’ Club 1. 2. 3, 4; Yarncraft 3. 4. Thelma Cogdal Girls’ club 1. 2. 3. 4: Girl Reserves 1. 2. 4; Yarncraft 3: “Naughty Marietta ; Choir 4; Big 12 Musical Festival 4. Jane Coons Library, 1. 2; Girls’ Hub, 1. 2. 3: Hall Cadet. 4. Loretta Helmig Girls’ Club 1, 2. 4: Big 12, 1. 3; Yarncraft. 2. 3. 4; “Rhapsody in Black” 2: Chorus 1. 2. RIGHT HAND COLOIN Edwin Michael Photography. 2. 3. 4: “Rhapsody in Black” 4: Naughty Marietta”; Chorus, 1. 2, 3, 4. Alvin Lautenschlager Fencing 1: Latin Club 1; Cheer Leader 2. 3. 4: Pekinois Staff: Photography 4; Wrestling 4: Golf 4. Morse Boyd Ag. Club: Future Farmers: Hall Cadet. 4: Naughty Marietta:” F. F. A. Judging Team. 4: F. F. A. Speech Contest. 4. Wilfred Beeney Usher. 4. Julian Botello Sophomore A Vice President: Secretary Treasurer Junior A Class: President Junior B: Student Couuell 3: Baseball. 3. 4: Basket!.all. 3. 4: Gym Cadet. 4: Hall Cadet, 4. Lady Rats are Intelligent In Class Experiment Are the females more intelligent than the males? Well, maybe not in P. C. H. S. but judging from the maze experiment performed with the white rats in Mr. Snyder’s psychology class, the “little women”, learned much more rapidly than did those of the opposite sex. A rat maze was built by members of the class Into which food w’as placed at one end of the cage and the rata put into the other end. The object was to see which rats found the food first. The female rats went directly to the food, while the males roamed around. However, (for Mr. Snyder’s benefit) the male rats actually ate the food when they finally found it! Announce Baccalaureate Program For June Fifth The following have been chosen as services for this year’s Baccalaureate on Sunday, June fifth. I'REMDK: “University Grand March” CLASS MARCH: “Pomp «n«l Circumstance” INVOCATION OKCIIKMTKA : Song of the Bayou”—Bloom Show Boat Selections—Kern ORATION A CAPPKLLA CHOIR: Openlnx Theme |j»rgo —Handel Prayer”—Kountz “Gloria In Kzcellu Deo”—Bach Hear Me Pray”—Bron-AVrlght “In These Delightful Groves”— Purcell .Music Of Life”—Rain Closing Theme BKNKDICTION CLAMS MARCH: Pomp and Circumstance POMTLUDK Spring Sports To Wind Up Successful Season With Numerous Meets, Tourney TRACK Coach Bob Grleve’s boys entered the District Track Tournament at Manual last Saturday. Those who placed there will enter the state tourney at Champaign tomorrow. On May 28, they will participate in the Big 12 meet, also to be on the New Manual field. TENNIS Coach “Daddy” Walker hopes to see his “netters” cannon-ball to victory in the three meets that lie ahead of them. Lincoln and Spalding are yet to be conquered before the Bib 12 Conference tilt on May 28. GOLF After playing Lincoln on their own links, Pekin High golfers are preparing for the Big 12 clash at Manual, May 28, and another match at Lincoln before the close of another successful season under the sponsorship of Mr. Jenkins, golf coach. BASEBALL Pekin baseball fans had their last opportunity to see Coach Lewis’ fellows in action on their home field last week when they met Central. However, there are still four more clubs that they will have to humble, before the suits are put into mothballs for another year. Normal, Spalding, Manual, and Central yet remain on the calendar. DAFFY DRIVERS •Y NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL A TURN FOR THE WORSE Well, well, it certainly looks like dirty work al the cross roads.” And all because Jittery Jim was in such a hurry lie couldn’t slow down to take tile turn. He'll be taking bis turn at tlie hospital in a little while now and he’ll have plenty of time to re-flect on the time-worn adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pouud of cure. No, brother. Intersections nre uol pliable and curbstones and lamp posts just won't give an Inch. Take your time when you take your corners. Compliments of SOLDWEDEL DAIRY PRODUCTS ICE CREAM, MILK, AND BUTTER