Pekin High School - Pekinian Yearbook (Pekin, IL)

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SENIOR I ION THE PEKINOIS 1 ubllsheri each Friday by students r the senior class. Community High School. Fokin, 111. Subscription rate— one iloiliir a year. Lyle Abbott Youth is wholly experimental. Wrest ling. Marian Bruder •WJint I will, i will and there’s end.” Girls Club; Itliupsody in 37: Assistant. Robert Albertsen The man that loves and must sure do well. “Brewsters’ Millions’'; tin •Mgr.; Football Mgr.; Track Mgr. Baseball Mgr.; Assistant. Marjorie Anderson A sweet attractive kind of grace. A full assurance given by looks! J. A. A.; (Jirls' Club; National Honor Society. Roy Andrews “I know what pathway leads to popularity.” Football Captain Hs. Knit or: .1. Hoff; ItiiHiursM Manuiecrs: Cruse, .1. Traub ;('olumn: J. Fnlntid in L- I - Kvans; Sports: B. Ros iwaeK ell berg. J. Carls, .1. Schwartz, (». 8med- ley. A. Knragianls: KcportliiK Staff: I. . Lobnes, D. Hammer. C. Seibol, L St riekfaden, I». Wilcox. M. Beardsley. laughs I .1 Khrhurdt. J. Rogers, V. J. Filer. M. Hackler. .1. Jib bens, K. Junker, It, Laird. M. Liesebeidt. I». McDonald. K, M ’l.cod. It. Ffanz, l». Pierson, J. Poe-bel. A. Ricci. V. Schroder. M. Snyder, L. Sommer. It. Sutler, J. Taekenberg. U. Walnnian, ». Wilson, it. Zaayanga, II. Zlmnierinaii; Pictures: I. Hoff. L. IttH'kiT, I. Poe bel. M. Llescheidt. L. St riekfaden, I . Pierson. Thank You • Ills final issue of the IV-I kinois is dedicated to you seniors of l C. II. S. j I wish to thank our advertisers, subscribers, and staff | members for contributing to j the stireess of this year’s pai»er. ! I also want to congratulate J the IlMD-’tO staff, and co-edi-I tors, Barbara l.aird and Lilab { holmes. Idalene Hoff, Editor. Phyllis Alfs “Suppress me If you can, I a in a merry Jest.” Pekinois staff: Girls’ Club; Naughty Marietta ; Assistant: Hall Cadet: National Honor Society. Alfred Beharelle “Fvcr looking out on life. Hall Cadet. Vera Allen •’Personality is to a woman what perfume is to a flower. Girls' Club; Student Connell; Hall Cadet. Albert Bottin “He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet potato vine.” Jazz Orchestra: Band: Concert orchestra: National Honor Society: Stu dell! Council: Assistant: Hall Cadet. Norma Arnett “She is a friend, faithful, and just. G. A. A.: Naughty Marietta : dirls' Hub: Hall Cadet. Pekin High Baccalaureate Will Be June Fourth The Baccalaureate service this year will follow much the same plan as that of last year. Students will give the Invocation. Benediction. and the Baccalaureate Oration. The program is its follows: IVolude— ‘!’niversify Grand March” Goldman Class March—“Pomp and ’ircumstance” Elgar Invocation Paul Evans )rolu st ra— I argo — (From Xerxes) ... Handel In A Persian Market” ........... ... .... Ketelbey (Int ermex .o Scene) Oration—“The Soul .Aflame” Joe Rarfck P. C. H. S. A Cappella Choir Selections: Opening Theme—•‘Cherubim Song No. 7” ............... Bortniansky Twenty-Third P s a I m”— Largo” ... Handel Laird=Lohnes Co=Editors of Pekinois Next Year Barbara Laird and Lilab I .oh-ties are the newly elected coeditors of the 1930-40 Pekinois, filling the places of Idalene Hoff and Betty Harrison. The business managers for next year are Jim Schwartz and David Hammer. who. together with Marjorie Hackler. will gather news for the column. Don Wilcox and Angelo Kara-gianis will have an active par in reporting the boys' sports, and Grace Wilson will cover girls’ sports. Proof reading will be done b-Vera Jean Eller and Lois Sommer. and the tynists ar Marjorie Beardsley and Marian Lie-schcidt. Bet tie Sutter will handle the exchanges, and the reporting Staff includes: Jeanne Ehrliardt, Joy Jibhcns, Dorothy Pierson. Rumicce Pfanz. Jackie Pocbel. Joan Rogers, Virginia Schrooder, Marilyn Snyder, Helen Wainman, Betty Zaayenga, and Harriett Zimmerman. Scroll Initiation (Continued from page 1. col. 4) Rosenborg, Lilab Lolines, Walt Maurer, Jim Unland, Louis Vcer-inau, Paul Evans. Burnieee Pfanz. Marjorie Beardsley, Gene Smcd-loy. Barbara Laird, Angelo Kar-agiauls. Grace Wilson, Lois Sommer. Jim Garls, Jack Traub. and Jim Cruse. The faoultv members present will he Miss Falkin. Miss Williams. and Miss Body. DR. R. A. SEIBEL KYK. FAK, NOSK, AM THROAT GLASSES FITTED 343 4 COlRt STREET

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■4 iot TLhc Ipehtnoi volume 14 PEKIN, ILL.. MAY 29. 1939 NUMBER 24 Present Graduating Class Exceeds All Records In History of Pekin High Totaling 20 7. the class of '39 j has the honor of being the largest one to depart from the doors of Pekin High. Besides having that all-around friendliness so admired hv everyone. the seniors also have the quality of industry, and have been ' engaged in many outside activi-1 ties. This year’s Pekinois editor. Itlalene Hoff, and the first semester co-editor.Betty Harrison, have industriously worked with the | help of the other members of ’.ho I staff to give us a “tup-notch” pa-J per. Among the boys excelling ih Graduating Senior Officers And School Leaders Of 1939 In Review baseball, football, track, and basketball are ltoj Andrews. Bob Boren, Evans Parr, Jim Garls. George Heivlieiiroder. Walt Maurer, and a score of others. The excellent production, “You I Can't Take It With You.” brings I much credit to the seniors. Paul Evans. Muriel Galbraith. Gear Kmedley, Evelyn Holland. Chnr-leen Seibel, .lack Traub. and Jim Cruse have done outstanding work in dramatics, while .lot Rar-iek and Bill Reardon successfully represented the speech department. Leading the student body as president of the student council. Norma Deppert. with the rest of the council, has also done a creditable piece of work. The junior-senior prom on June 2 begins Commencement week festivities, being followed by the baccalaureate service on June 1, and then the senior picnic, June 6. The graduates make their filial appearance In tlielr caps and gowns on Commencement night. Concluding the week’s festivities is the alumni banquet. June 9. Jim Garls is president of this year's graduating class, Eileen Jim Garls Girls 7 Bah!” Pekinois Staff: Student Council: Boys' Club: Football Mgr.: Truck: Captain of Baseball: Assistant: Hall Cadet: Secretary-Treasurer Freshman 11: Vice-President Junior 11: President Senior A : National Honor So clety: Quill and St-roll. Norma Deppert “Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.” Thespian; President Sophomore B: President Junior A: Big Hearted Herbert”: President of student Council: Girls' dub: Assistant: National Honor Soeiety. Eileen Hines So fair, she takes the breath of men away. Vice-President Senior A: Girls’ Club. Bernard Rosenberg Never do today what win be done tomorrow. Forensic; Quill and Scroll; Thespian : Pekinois Staff: Sophomore President: Big Hearted Herbert”: Night of January 16”: Student Council: Basketball Mgr.: Football Mgr.: Baseball Mgr.: Golf Mgr.: Assistant: Debate: National Honor Society. John Ferguson “He Is a man of deeds, not words. President Senior It: Secretary Senior A: You Can’t Take It With You : Student Council; Hall Cadet: Thespian. Idalene Hoff “The observed of all observers. Fditor of Pekinois: Thespian: Quill and Scroll: President of Post Graduates; Night of January 16 : Student Council: Girls' Club; Naughty Marietta’’: Assistant: Library Cadet: Hall Cadet: National Honor Society. vi Hines, vice-president, and John Ferguson secretary-treasurer. Advisers for the class Include Miss j Falk in, Miss Balcke. Miss Cooper. Miss Stout enborough, Mr. Nelson, and Mr. Btinnan. Fall Enrollment To Increase v “On to a better P. C. H. S.” It looks as if we shall have a better and bigger P. C. H. S. this fall with approximately 250 incoming freshmen. There will be 191 students from Junior High. 14 from Homewood, 11 from rural schools, and 30 from South Pekin. There are 207 graduates this June as compared with 199 in ’38. while our present enrollment is in round numbers. 1300. Subtracting the graduates, and adding the freshmen to that total, we shall have almost 1350 students this fall. % JP --------------- A Priceless Something Young men and young women by the hundreds have graduated from the Pekin Community High School. All of them have taken a “priceless something’’ with them. I like to think that this “priceless something” is a certain sense of pride in having achieved a worthwhile goal. To those underclassmen who read this, may we say, “It is our hope that some day you too will take with you that ‘priceless something.’ ” As a parting word to Seniors. 1 call their attention to th“ PCHS Creed and their pledge to ‘‘cherish her memory forever. P. M. Paterson, Principal Just a few short days and tne four years of high school will be past. With it goes the close contact with friends who have endeavored to make your high school more enjoyable, and the association of teachers and administrators who have tried to offer something worthwhile. You now see the world from a very different angle for you are “on your own and only the benefit and profit of the past four years will now be of value to you. Remember to “Give to the World -the Best You Have That the Best May Come Back ’o You.” Edith Grainllch, Bean of Girls. “Pay up, play up, and shut up. Be not only good, but good for something.” My acquaintance with the graduating class of 1939 has been too short. Just because you have completed your high school career is no reason why we cannot become better acquainted. Mason Grigsby, Bean of Boys Quill And Scroll Initiates Neophytes On June 1 “Oh my legs! I’m so sore from sitting on my imagination that I won’t be able to sit on anything real for a week, let alone be in condition for the prom tomorrow night. So it will sound at the Quill and Scroll informal initiation on Thursday. June 1. which will be coached by Joe Rarick and Bernard Rosenberg. Although there will be some of the usual initiation “punishment.” most of it will he in keeping with the journalistic spirit and will not be as hard as a regular tiling in.” Those who will be initiated are Charleen Seibel, Marjorie Hnek-ler, Louise Striekfaden, Ale on Page 2, Col.., 1

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SENIOR EDITION Page 3 h Graduating Seniors Have Interesting Days Ahead Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! Weary seniors are busy practicing for Baccalaureate a n d Commencement services. To take the monotony out of practice, however, graduating seniors had the privilege or attending a matinee dance in their honor on May 19. On the evening of June 2, soft blended colors will be seen as the couples dance to the delightful music of Hank Messer’s Swing-sters. Many of Pekin High’s jitterbug dancers will be there having the time of their lives. On June 6 the seniors will be off for a glorious day of fun and plenty of delicious food. They will leave the building at 9:00 for Glen Oak Park in Peoria, where there will be games, contests, boat riding, and fun for everyone. They will probably return to Pekin wishing the day had just begun. At Commencement the same type of pageant as was given last year, the “History of Pekin. will be presented. In it will be related the growth of the Celestial City. Some seniors, with graduation days over, will continue their study in various colleges, while others will have seen the last of their school days. Good luck to all of you. seniors. •I- 1-1- -I- •!—I •!• -I -I- •!—!-!- !- !- -I- -I- ! -I- !- v v LEFT HAND COLUMN Paul Bitner A cheerful lad, of self uulte still. Yet we know he can do a thing and will. Hand: !•'. !•'. A. Willadean Bailey Worry and Willadenn are far apart, and to keep tilings going, with her is quite an art.” 'Rhapsody In Black. '.'Ml and 17: Hall Cadet; Girls' (Hub. James Cruse I have a reasonable good ear in music.” Jazz Orchestra; Hand: Concert Orchestra: Quill and Scroll: Thespian: I'ekinois Staff; President Senior B; “Night of January Hi”; Big Hearted Herbert”: Kind Iauly”: “You Can't Take it With You : Student Council: Football: Tennis: Business Manager of IVkiiiols: Assistant. Lois Becker “A helping hand she'll always lend. Girls' Club: Naughty .Marietta”; The Mikado : Assistant: Hall Cadet. Albert Danelutti “A studious deciliter of honors and titles. RIGHT HAND COLUMN Cynthia Bale Happy am I. from care I'm free, why can't you all be contented like uir . Girls' Club; Hall Cadet. Junior Carrington “Anything for the quiet life. Cross Country: F. F. A. Helen Ruth Brown ‘There's only one method, and that is hard labor.” Hand: Concert Orchestra: National Honor Society: Girls' Club; Assistant. Lyle Dams “A man who blushes Is not quite a brute. Virginia Braden “The tasks of every day. she meets in a quiet way. G. A. A.: Assistant; Hall Cadet: Girls' Club. Patronize Our Advertisers Pekin High Graduating Seniors Will and Bequeath Their Possessions and Talents to Underclassmen We, the graduating seniors, do hereby will and bequeath our most cherished possessions and talents to the underclassmen vainly struggling along behind us. I. Evelyn Holland, will my red hair to anyone who can stand it. I. George KJine. will my two -extra credits (small cover! to Jerry Mahoney and Pidge Williams. I. I.aura May Johannes, hereby bequeath my brown eyes to all those who have wished for them at some time or other. I. Nonna Deppert, leave my position as Student Council President to Harry Zimmerman. I. Louie Veennan. will my tennis shorts, shoes, etc., to “little” Bill Luttlcken. I. Louise Strickfaden, leave my chemistry book with answers filled in (small fee of 50c) to anyone who needs it. 1. Jim Unland, leave the remaining Corn Huskers to Dave Hammer. (So help him!) T. Dorothy Martens, can’t leave anything. (Evans Farr graduates, too.) I. Eileen Hines, will my peaches and cream complexion to all P. C. H. S. girls who want It. I. Paul (Snorky) Evans, will mv acting ability to Gaylord Lancaster. the wandering roineo of Pekin High. T. Rob I Wen, will mv flashing smtle along with mv basketball ability to “Spud Grossweiler. 1. Jack Traub, will my Russian but accent to Warren Venters, confidentially it stinks. I. Anita Ricci, will my truck in.? technique to Barbara Laird. I. Kloise Junker, would will Donald Eve to some promising junior, but I found out Don is finally graduating, too. I. Lois Becker, leave the responsibility of the choir vestments to Dorothy Pierson and Johann Walking ton. I. Roy Andrews, will my position as left hand “mob to anybody enough to take it. I. Betty Kern, am willing my glasses to no special person, but will someone please take them from me. because I sure want to get rid of them. man who on the is man I. Ruth Court right, will my sea £ between Jack Traub and Bob Dor f like it. but Jack and Bob are T en in English to Dorothy Lawson. Too bad. Dorothy, we know you’d graduating; still you may be able to have the seat. I. Tina Peseaglia, am more than willing to give my shiny nose to Marcella Faux. I. Norman Reardon, will my golf ball, the one and only one that I have left, to Melvin “Babe” Becker. I, Grace Hawkins, will mv place in the South Pekin bus to Lois Laurent. I Fred Darehe, will my seat in (Continued on page 4. col. 1)