Plymouth High School - Rock Yearbook (Plymouth, IL)

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Brnpherg EVENING PAPER 1949 DON ALESHIRE RAY KAMM KENNY HAYS BOB COX ELEANOR SIMMONS DOLORES PHILLIPS FORREST STOCKWELL IMOGENE STONEKING EILEEN HANCOX MARY JANE HENDRICKS DENE CLUDRAY MARION SIMMONS ARTHUR ROBERTS BILL BURTON DONNA DOWACTER BETTY KENDALL Bookkeeping Whiz School Character School Romeo Small Time Photo- grapher The Brain Our Merry One A Dependable Black- hawk Guard Home Ec. Worker American History Lover ! Busy Bee Study Hall Pest Indian Giver Man of Few Words Our Beauty of the Class Physics Lover! Best No-Attendance Record GAZING AT THE STARS Western's Basketball Coach Town Character Romeo Millionaire Music Teacher Secretary Athletic Director, Y.M.C.A., Chicago Beauty Operator Nurse at St. Maryfs, Quincy Home Ec. Teacher Traveling Salesman Settled in Indian Territory Farmer Model for Men's Wearing Apparel Pilot Married

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Seniur Hats off to the Seniors So mighty and proud! The first one is Frosty The King of the Crowd. Oh gee, here's Mary Jane Who's smart and mighty sweet She has no eye for any man As a friend, she can't be beat. With a Yeah, rah, rah, And a Fight, team, fight Aleshire's in there winning And using all his might. And here's the genius, Eleanor With an eye for music, too She's really fun to be around So terrific is her I. Q. Now when it comes to having fun I'm sure ,you'll all agree Without our gay and laughing Tip How dull our class would be. Oh see the dark-haired Romeo There's one in every class Since Kenny hates to study so I wonder if he'll pass? Red hair creates sensation In that there is no doubt! For when'er Eileen goes walking There must be men about! Real tall and handsome, too I'm referring to our Bill He also loves the women And bends them to his will. Gllaza Harm g Good-natured Betty, really cute With an eye for only one Quite promising, so says her man And really lots of fun. Tall and blonde, with shoulders broad But meek and sort of shy Arthur's puzzling in most ways I wish I knew, Iwonder why? Although he's lazy, will not study Has lots of time to kill Dene's the guy for playing pool With truly practiced skill. Now when I think of telling jokes Dolores can't be beat I hear her laughter ringing yet It's really quite a feat. With a yen for taking pictures In his slow but steady pace It's Cox, the Camera-Man Blond hair plus smiling face. Winner of the D. A. R. ln the class of '49 Donna rates among the top A gal who's really fine. Always griping o'er his money In this, his senior year Marion S. must watch his income Graduation's drawing near. A loving personality With names so truly keen Although she's called by Bones and Balls She's really Imogene. And so the Seniors bid farewell But memories linger on Of days fun-filled with laughter Though high school days are gone -Anna Mae Normandin

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A Baie with Eeaierhag In the fall of 1945 there gathered in the study hall of Plymouth High School, eighteen green youngsters. At last we were in High School. Our class was made up of ten boys, Donald Aleshire, Billy Burton, Dene Cludray, Robert Cox, Lloyd Dorethy, James Kelly, Arthur Roberts, Harley Speers, Forrest Stockwell and Henry Van Brooker-and eight girls, who were Eloise Corder, Donna Dowacter, Eileen Hancox, Mary Jane Hendricks, Betty Kendall, Do- lores Phillips, Imogene Stoneking, and Eleanor Simmons. Later in the year two new students, Francis Fugate and Kenneth Barth, joined us, making our class roll total twenty. Officers elected for the year were: President, Forrest Stockwell, Vice Presidents, Mary Jane Hendricks and Don Aleshire, Secre- tary, Treasurers, Donna Dowacter and Eileen Hancox, Reporters, Betty Kendall and Billy Burton. Our class advisor was Miss Lela Duncan. We freshmen had scarcely become adjusted to High School life, when the jolly juniors gave us a bang-up initiation. They showed no mercy on us, and We were forced to come to school dressed as farmers, negroes, tramps, old women, and even brides and grooms. As if this wasn't enough, they enter- tained us in the evening, being generous enough to give us refreshments of lemon juice, alum and Cat eyes and also an enjoyable trip through a horror room, where we were privileged to meet a corpse. A Other activities for the year included a Christmas party, held in the gymnasium. In August of 1946 our class consisted of eighteen boys and girls. We had lost Eloise Corder, Lloyd Dorethy, James Kelly, Henry Van Brooker, Francis Fugate, and Kenneth Barth dut were happy to welcome James Gallagher, Adeline Hoppe, Nancy Hopping, and Ray Kamm. Our sponsor was Mr. Leo Osterman. Our first activity was a return party given in honor of the seniors. We treat- ed them to ahay-rack ride and refreshments. Next, Mr. Osterman royally entertained us with a theatre party in Macomb. We also sponsored a skat- ing party which gave us our first real financial start. When the school year of 1947 and 1948 rolled around, we were all back in our places, with the exception of James Gallagher, and we had added two other students-Charles Kimble and Marion Simmons. We soon gained another member, Kennith Hays, who transferred from Brazil, Indiana. Class officers were Betty Kendall as president, Don Aleshire as vice-president, and Imogene Stoneking as reporter. Guy McMinimy was our advisor. In January, Dene Cludray had the misfortune to be seriously injured in an automobile accident and he was forced to discontinue school for the rest of the year.