Pekin High School - Pekinian Yearbook (Pekin, IL)

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Seniors Class of 19 4 Class Officers ,W- '74 Senior Class Officers Seated Cleft to right! Lois Pothoven, Rob Jespersen. Standing lleft to rightj Jeff Moore, Sue Puhal.

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Seniors . . . at last Senior Terri Perrin may be concentrating on a On the other hand, these seniors seem completely content in acting out a spoof on the pressing world issue that needs solving. western Gunsmoke . This was the senior homecoming skit for '74. August, 1970 marked a turning point in the Class of '74's lifeg that month was the beginning of high school for us. Discovery was the key of the time, for us and the world. In the news, women were starting the long, hard climb to equality. The dress code and open study hall, we fought over both and came out with partial victory. This year of getting lost in the hall and forgetting books came to a close with realizing our position in life. The U.S. was do- ing the same with a Week Against the War. That second year was dead. The government sat idle as the coming inflation appeared. We, meanwhile, sat daydreaming about East and grumbling about West-a very productive system of action. Maybe the people-including us-learned, for we ended the year by taking an interest in the environment. We did our part with cleaning up along the Illinois river. As juniors, Politics was our cause with McGovern and Nixon buttons becoming a common part of school attire. Ecology was with us still with the students planting trees, but the Watergate Scandal and an Energy Crisis made it take a lonely third. We were involved, concern- ed, and vocal to the point of forgetting the goals we started with. But we came out with clearer goals and a more realistic plan for life. Now it's 1974 and we are going to be ending a special time of our life. Impeachment, truth in government, and the ERA are the issues of the day, but only time will tell in the final outcomes. Let's hope what we leave behind for future seniors will be a courage to be themselves, for that is our greatest achievement. Maybe we were not earth-shaking or super-great, maybe we were apathetic and coldg maybe we were a little sarcasticg but we were ourselves. You is wonderful, I is wonderful, We is wonderful, We are ourselves. Blake Allen Hill poem adapted from Jenny Nelson

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Abernathy, Terry Eugene Adams, James William Adolph, Douglas Brain Aimone, Teresa Lynn Anderson, Judy Ann Angle, Mariea Lynn Ansell, Paul Charles Armstrong, Theda Asbell, Stephen Robert Ashley, Lora Beth Avery, Mary Alice Ayres, Lynn Therese