Pekin High School - Pekinian Yearbook (Pekin, IL)

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Page 12 SENIOR EDITION Seniors Relate Happy Times What Is your happiest moment? Would you hesitate to answer? The following seniors gladly cooperated, however, in answering this question. Anita Ricci proudly stated that her happiest moment was when she was told she had a part in the All School Play, while Jeanne Taekenlierg giggled in a child-like fashion, “When I slid down the banisters with no one around. ' Joe Serangie’i replied with joy that his happiest moment was when the debate team won over Lincoln. PAulinc Kenner and Elizalieth McLeod go hand in hand as to their happiest moment. They both enjoyed May 1st because of the pretty corsages they received from the underclassmen. When the bell rang for 3:15 on the last day was Don Gallo-way's most joyous moment. (Shame on you. Don . ..Bob Cralne seemed the happiest when Mildred Taylor accepted his invitation to the prom, and why shouldn't he? There are lots and lots of happy moments, but Jim Bearden thinks his is when he’s not studying. while Leona Faux’s was when she had her first date with Fred Darche. P. C. H. S. Correspondent Flashes Latest Headline and Feature News of Future Hello Mr. and .Mrs. North Freed’s Lovey Lotion is guaraij-Amcriea and all sa| s at sea. This te l to cun headaches, hangnails, is your I . C. H. S. correspondent, GENE SMKDI.KY, bringing you tin latest In-adlim- ami feature news. We go to press. FLASH! It is rumored that Kileen Mines today signed a five-year contract with Twentieth Century Fox. Good Luck, Miss Hines! South Pekin, Illinois. Janie Claris was kidnap| ed yesterday afternoon following a series of threatening notes. Janie is tin lSth daughter of MR. ANI) MRS. JAMES GARLS. and hangovers. Now hack to GENE SMEDLEY with more news. Competition is getting stiffei and stiffer between Podunk Centre Exposition and the Dog-patch Fair. Statisticians, Patricia Conover and Philip Rackes sav this is due partly to the fact that Podunk Centre is featuring the dance of the Seven Veils starring George Herchenroder, while Dog-patch boasts Charleen Selbel’s fan dance. MR. AND MRS. PAUL EVANS are celebrating their 2( th wedding anniversary today. In high school life they were better known as SNORKY EVANS and NORMA DEPPERT. At present they art rearing five little student councilors. Bill Reardon today was promot- j ed to the position of foreman of the W. P. A. Joe Rarick will now be his right hand man. Flash! Today. Federal Bureau of Investigation representatives Sim-oncinl, Klin e, and McDonald raided the spacious salon of the r a m o ii 8 spiritualist, “Swami Sevier. His arrest was made for fraudulent spiritualistic meetings. “Swami will serve his term in “Sang-Sang. It is rumored that MRS. ASTA Is blessed eventing! Incidentally. Mrs. Asia is MARY FABRY’S DOG. A1 “Rubinoff Boltin was denied the $5,000 insurance he hoped to collect for a hangnail that caused him much pain. Mr. Bottin, who is holding first chair in the violin section of the Phil-harmonoc Orchestra. has his valuable hands insured for the tidy sum of $10,000. Senior Celebrities (Continued from page 11, col. 2) who set a record hard to beat, but this MUG is the smallest bit we know—we give you Evans Farr, the new record holder. Please don’t judge his size by his feet. We used his brain. (If 1 received a dollar for every punch in the nose I get. and Evans finds out who wrote this. I’ll be paying income tax in a short time.) For the prize for a Jokehater and a killjoy, we give you Don Ovan Ward, the silliest grouch we can find—he is a little too dippy on the tippy side to set a record, though. Swing It—Kill It—Beat It Out —Hop, you Jitterbugs—Make it hot for. all joking aside, the King and Queen of the Land of Killer Dlllers are here. We give you Anita Ricci and James (gimme a Peoria girl) Unland. Last but not least, we give you a bov who worked too hard—the most studious hoy in the school We nominate Stephen Freed . . Often it is rumored that Helen Ruth Brown wished she had Steve’s ability to concentrate and pass hard tests. (How do you do it. Stephen?) This ends our list and so with many tears in our eyes, you Flat heads, we bid you goodbye. I’ll he haek in a flash with a flash! If you want skin jieople love to touch, the skin that makes MR. JAMES BEARDEN, Pekin’s best and most efficient street cleaner, quit Ills job yesterday. Why? Because he won in the sweepstakes. He bet his bottom dollar (the one he found In the street) on Hlaek Beauty, the winner. t'oarh Rob Horen is again celebrating with his famous Bradley five. Boh has proved very successful as coach since the year 19 45. man’s heart beat FREED’S LOVEY Paris. IDALENE HOFF ar-faster, use rived here today to got the latest j O T I () N. do|N on all the summer styles for Seniors Take Time Out To Think About Plans For Their Future Life A few seniors have taken time out in the hustle and hustle of the fast month, and given some serious thoughts to what they wanted and could be, for playing is over, and one must settle down to earning a living. Paul Evans is entering the Medical School at Illinois to prepare himself to be a doctor. Norma Deppert, (who isn’t a career woman by the way), is going to work here in town, or maybe she will take a general course at college. Three guesses to which college she will go. Robert Dorcn is going to the University of Southern California, and learn to be a statistician. l»ova Fuller would like to be a journalist or an interior decorator. She hopes she can enroll at Bradley College in Peoria next fall. Louise Strickfaden is also enrolling at Bradley next fall to become a journalist. In a few years we should have some good coaches as Walt Maurer is entering Knox College, while George Kline and Roy Andrews will attend Macomb. James Roll is either going to Bradley or Illinois in the fall and become a chemist. Devon McClain hasn’t made up his mind which college he is going to attend, but he has definitely decided to be a chemist. Shirley Sheridan is going to work as a clerk in one of the stores down town. She hopes she makes a good housewife as well as a good clerk. Dorothy Farmer is looking for a job instead of some college to go to. She would like to find some office work in Pekin. Helen Glulck already has a job waiting for her this summer. She is going to Mt. Pulaski, Illinois, to work at the Central Illinois Light Company. Robert Lee, besides going to the New York World’s Fair, is planning to work this summer. In the fall he is coming home and if he can’t get a Job at one of the factories he will be back for a post-i grad course. Eileen Hines would like to attend the Gregg Business School in Chicago and learn to be a stenographer. (Continued on page 13. col. 1) S. T. GLASF0RD, M. D. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Office, 404 Elizabeth St. Pekin, Illinois STUDENTS You Get Quality at a Saving at the J. C. PENNEY CO. PEKIN, ILLINOIS the ‘Women’s York Times. Page’ of the New And so until next time Lotions of Love. I remain. P. C. H. S. correspondent. with your

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SENIOR EDITION I’age 11 Senior Celebrities Make Final Appearance in Pekinois Featuring lights that burned for four years and are now out as far as we are concerned in this column! It is here that we discuss traits and characteristics that have made the ‘big shots' what they are. Starting out with the one every body picked on, we find the senior class sissy, Roy Andrews, who is a quiet little laddie. ’39‘s gift to the chubby or tubby. whichever way you prefer, brings us to the aviator. Joe Sobo. who wishes he were thin and lanky like Glamour I ants y, George Herchenroder. Now. and all kidding aside, hold your hats, for it is the windiest guy in your class trying to sell something. Anyway, it’s Donny Sevier, who is admired by the speech shy boys like William Reardon and Joseph Francis Rarlck, Esq.. Jr., the 2nd. who are the senior class rowdies. Of course, of course, what would this column be without the PRIZE ATHLETE OF THE CLASS? We give you Albert Rot-tIn, the streamlined athlete, (he's gotta lotta curves.) Maybe he pitches. 39's flirt brings us to that dashing young man. Russell Pat- Tight to some Foo-de-rachi-sacki with a 1-2-3, I want some seafood in foo Cincinnati, Mama), but good old Italian spaghetti. The ‘llttlest man in the class is much smaller than Jimmie Let (Continued on Page 12. Col. 1) LEFT HAM) COLUMN Carolyn Sciortino Quite us sweet a lass as ever looked In a looking glass.’ Assistant. Gene Smedley “God glveth speech to all, song to the few. Quill mid Scroll: Thespian: Nation al Honor Society: Pekinois Staff: president Junior It: Night of Jan unry lti”: Kind Lady : You Can't Take Ii With You”: Student Conn oil: Pirates of Penzance”: Naughty Marietta : The Mikado : “Ithap sody in Black 37-’38. Louise Strickfaden Her Ivory hands on the ivory Strayed in a fitful fantasy. Girls’ Club; Quill and Scroll: kinois Staff: Student Council: Nat ioual Honor Society: Naughty Marietta”: Assistant. Louis Stoiin 1 am as ambitious as Caesar was. hut I haven’t the chance.” Assistant. Alice Solterman She's sympathetic optimistic and happy, too, And she’s always willing to help In whatever the class tries to do. G. A. A.; Band: Girls’ Club: As sistaut. keys Pe- rk;ht hand column ten. | ---- GiGaNtic—StUpEnDoUs— Big George Schantz and Tall! We have found the biggest giant of all—(I’m a Poet) —attention. Mildred Taylor. George Harris, 39’s shyest senior, has nothing to say. (Just ou the side, where did he get his credits?) Busy as a bee with a dose of Carter’s Little Liver Pills is Harold Rutledge, the fastest walking He’s a chip o’ the old block.” Assistant: Hall Cadet. Charleen Seibel She was ever fair and never proud, Always had her tongue at will And yet was never loud. Forensic: Quill and Scroll: Thespian: Pekinois Staff: Kind Lady : You Can't Take It With You : Girls' Club: Naughty Marietta : Rhapsody In Black ‘.IT: National Honor Society: Assistant. Robert Shuler “Every artist is first an amateur. Hall Cadet: National Honor Society. talking senior. He is (his year’s Jeanne Shipley Her friends are many, her foes are few, and as a good senior, we give her her due.” President Freshman A: Student Council: Girls' Club: Assistant: Hall Cadet. Joe Simoncini Joe is an all-around good fellow in most energetic classmate. 'Tis sad, ’tis sad, this dumbest creature is so bad! Dumbness should have been his middle name. He’s first and last. Gene Smedley, the third. Suffering from stage fright and hating the stage are Muriel Galbraith and Paul Evans. They wouldn't appear on the stage for anything in the world. Only Dean Ration and Norma Deppert, respectively. would do that. Olt and Wys, such names! These two. Alfred and Anna, have the longest names In the class. For the shortest name we searched far and near, and Arthur Lichtenberger wins the prize. For the simplest name no teacher should mispronounce we have indeed a rare specimen. Take your place, Tina IVsmglia. Food! Food! They used to feed babies milk, but now they feed them R. C. Cola fa nonpaid advertisement bv an old alumni)! We give you the top notch cook. Effort Serangeli. His favorite dish is not FISH, (like Holding an athletics and all. President Junior B: “You can't Take It With You”: Assistant; Baseball: Football: Student Council: Rah Cadet: National Honor Society. Jewelry of Distinction at Moderate Prices R. Me CL INTICK IN STYLE SHOP Camera Shy Seniors Mary Breaden She has done it herself. She 1ms not left it to others. Girls’ Club: Hall Cadet. Eleanor Davis A pretty girl is always hi demand.” Hall Cadet: Assistant: Naughty Marietta : Girls' Club: Concert Orchestra. Steve Freed I wish the fellow who invented work had finished it. Fencing, Wrestling. Thomas Livingstone is there any Scotchman without charm ?” Pekinois Staff: “Night f January Id : Student Council; Track: Assistant. Richard Zimmerman SileiK-e is a friend that never betrays. Concert Orchestra. A-H-A ■H AAA I IIW aa h aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa A A

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SENIOR EDITION Page 13 Future Plans (Continued from Page 12, Col. 4) I .a ma .May Johan lies hasn't any plans for the future except that she wants to he a private secretary. Philip Itarkes is going to take an apprenticeship course at the Caterpillar Tractor Company to become a machine shop mechanic. Patricia Conover is going to study liberal arts at Illinois in the fall. Verla Dunkel is going into a field that greatly interests her. that of nursing. She is going into training at St. Francis Hospital in Peoria, and prepare to be an ex-ray nurse. Louis Schaff will attend Western State Teachers College at Macomb, Illinois, in the fall to study to be a certified public accountant. Bernard Hosenlicrg, who Is interested in medicine, will go to the University of Illinois or the University of Chicago. rharlceii Hciliel is going to Greencastle, Indiana, to De Pauw University and just take a general course. Vivian I Possa will be looking for stenographic or office work in Chicago this summer. If she can’t find a position, she will take a post-grad course next year. Jeanne Tackenberg chooses something different for her life's work, ns she wants to be a police woman. To start her preparation, she is going to a law school in Chicago this summer. James Inland is going to Illinois where he will study commerce, while Louis Vocnnan will attend Bradley or Illnois. Trackmen Enjoy Successful Season Tnder Wallace Coach Murray Wallace has certainly succeeded in turning out a winning track team in his first attempt at P. C. H. S. The Pekin thlnlles. led by Captain Evans Farr, defeated such formidable opponents as Manual, Lincoln, Normal University High, and Canton. Peoria Central was the only team to defeat Pekin in a dual meet. In this meet. Walt Maurer set a new record in tossing the discus 129 feet and 7 inches. At the district meet held in Peoria, the Celestial relay team, made up of Ca ptain Evans Farr. Harry Zimmerman, Carl Switzer, and John Caster clipped off 2 seconds from the record time. Carl Switzer also took second place in the low hurdles. Both the relay team and Carl competed at the state meet held at Champaign, while tomorrow the track team will compete at the Big 12 Meet at Danville. 1939 m m i UNE « m 1939 SUN MON. TUI WCD THU FBI SAT ! n » » 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 » Junr t—Junlor-Srniur From Jline 4—BiUTMluurral -June 3—Kn«I of IK Week •lone 3—Srninr Cla Day .lime 5-rt— S« nir ter Kfvlftt June «—Jhk Orrhmtra—I pp r « ! •»•••«-•» June 9—Alumni Hitniiuet ( oolmiin—( Impel June a—Honor Aaaemlily June “—Semester examination June K—School ili»uil»»e l June M—Commencement June »— Student , call for report card June D -Clowe of School ('hupel L • THE ROUND HEADS • Sorta looks as if things are coming to a close around here. Old man time has trucked right along, and another year is almost over at P. C. H. S. The other night we got out the old crying towel and had a weep over the past Issues of the Pekinois. It seems that this has been quite a j year as far as sports are concerned. Here are some of the high-i lights: We noticed in the first issue of the paper that Lefty” Schlie-man copped the frosh-soph tennis tournament. In the third issue. Coach Hauss-ler announced the basketball schedule for the coming season which included such teams as Clinton. Coal City, and Hillsboro | in addition to the regular load of tough teams. The sixth Issue will probably go down in the annals of history, for it was then that the Round-heads” was born. In addition to that, the entire paper was dedicated to the football team. The write up of the wrestling team’s debut appeared in the ninth issue. The grapplers got off to a flying start by trouncing Normal. In issue number ten. it was announced that Captain Bob Horen, who had been injured in basketball practice, would be forced to remain on the side lines for some time. Needless to say. things looked black. The 1939 grid schedule was released in the succeeding issue. Two new names, Pana and Dan- RIGGER AND BETTER SANDWICH SHOP GEM l N E TKXDERLOIN BAR B Q - HAMBURGERS FOUNTAIN 8FRVICK ftth anti Willow Phone »?9-4 ville, were added to the already stiff schedule. Three new intra-mural basketball champs. Illinois. Fordham. and Dartmouth, were crowned in the next issue, and preparations for a new group of teams were being made. Possibly the high point of the vear. as far as sports publicity is concerned, was the fourteenth Pekinois. an eight page Regional Tourney edition. In this issue ap peared information about each of the regional teams as well as all the other dope on the tournament. During the next few issues, while the sports staff was struggling with an acute attack of the spring fever, the track, baseball, tennis, and golf teams were dusting off their equipment and starting practice. From here on out. things happened too fast and furiously to single out and mention so we just wrung out the erving towel, wiped our eyes, and put the papers back in the file. YVETTE'S Pekin’s Finest Women’s Store Soothsayer Prophesies Activities Ot Senior Athletes 10 Years Hence Being quite a prophet, I have run into no end of trouble in the past five weeks. Many of the graduating seniors are coming to me to find out what their friends on the athletic teams will be doing about ten years from now. I’ve told those students exactly where they would be, and what they would be doing, and so I guessed that you’d like to get in on my ace predictions, but don’t quote me. As I see it. Don Miscellaneous” Mahle will be on the boards. His charming quiet style has been to his advantage, for he is now playing the part of Ferdinand the Bull” in a home talent show at Tremont. George Herclienrodcr’s occupation is very unique. Due to his physical make-up. Hereby has finally landed'a position at A. O. Spaulding's, modeling for a new style football. James Little Aetna Unlaml has two pastimes. He is still In the Celestial City doing some high-pressured life insurance selling. and also hanging around the high school's new tennis courts, trying for his first tennis win. In New York City, one can always find Ettore Babe Seran-gell. He has hought out Thompson’s and Child’s chain restaurants. and has installed his new line of Italian specialties. (In one of his places. Mason Grigsby is head cook and bottle washer.) In Santa Boop. Mexico. Jim Gnrls is working as ace sports announcer for the Aztec Broadcasting Company. Jim’s work is improving. and it Is possible the government will let him back into the U. S. soon. The last days of the old movie pictures are coming to an end. No. television hasn’t caused their downfall: instead Ixmis “Louie ’ Veerman has recently signed a contract with M. O. M. to play the part of Rhett Butler in the production Gone With The Wind.” which is finally going to be produced. Walt Maurer has gone off and got married to Harriet Winkel. (Back in 1939 we sorta expected it.) They have twelve kids, but Walt is sore because they are all girls. (P. S.) In order not to get Walt to angry, we might mention that he is also a multi-millionaire Down in the deepest part of the African jungle. Commander Robert Horen Is leading an important game hunting expedition. It is rumored that he is also looking for the extinct species of bug life, the jitterbug.” The new craze of 1949 is just a return of an old fad. Evans Evie Farr, former P. C. H. S. athlete. s now attempting to beat Shipwreck” Kelly's existing flag pole slttln Tecord. Ev” had to turn to something besides track. When he ran the lftft yard dash (Continued on page 16. col. 1.)