Pittsfield High School - Saukee Yearbook (Pittsfield, IL)

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OUR PURPOSE To keep alive the memories of our pleasant years in P.C.H.S., we present to you who have yet to graduate a pictorial review of this school year. May our design of life serve as an inspiration. Trusting that everyone will overlook all weak- nesses of this yearbook, and think of days at P.C.H.S. as one grand time, we, the Senior Class of ’49, present The Saukee.” 2

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THE SAUKEE VOLUME ELEVEN 1949 PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF PITTSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL PITTSFIELD, ILLINOIS Barbara Kerr, Editor-in-Chief David McClintock, Associate Editor

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If you heard of someone at P.C.H.5. being on the warpath it was probably Beverly Lee. But joking aside, Beverly has added a great deal to our football games by doing the Saukee war-dance. You did a good job, Beverly. Thanks! No! That's not a real Indian, that’s Rozella Winter. But Rosie did look like an Indian when she rode horseback in the Homecoming Parade. Thanks, Minnie Ha! Ha! History of The Saukees The term Saukee is derived from the native Indian name, Sauk, borne by a tribe of Indians who still tarried in considerable numbers along some of Pike County’s streams when the first white settlers came. Black Hawk, a noted Sauk chief, often visited his tribesmen who were encamped along the Sny after the settlement of Atlas, first village in the county. The Sauk and Foxes sometimes held their war dances on the Sny when expeditions halted there, enroute to battle with enemy tribes to the south. The Sauk, except for some petty thieving, were seldom troublesome in the early days of the county. Later, in 1832, Black Hawk led his people in the Black Hawk War. (This article was taken from 1939 Saukee.) 3