Plymouth High School - Rock Yearbook (Plymouth, IL)

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it Quiz Miha Gllama 1-Iiatnrg SEPTEMBER 1946 -At the opening of school in 1946, thirty-four green, frightened freshmen gathered from the Plymouth area to take up their new studies in Plymouth High School. Our class consisted of twenty-three boys, Richard Clark, Bill Roberts, Bill Phelps, Wendell Loy, Ronnie Vail, Edward Mecum, Gene Wilson, Bill Waddell, Jim Robinson, Howard Roberts, Max Hopping, Merlin Daniels, John Kelly, Darrell Boos, Howard Williams, Ronnie Loy, Lee Lovell, Tony Fugate, Loren Wickert, Harry Lee Rash, James Kelly, and Ross Sargent, and eleven girls, Earleen Creasey, Bonnie Alex- ander, Joan Martin, Marjorie McGinnis, Pat Downing, Irma Jean Ware, Betty I-Iillyer, Pat McCutchan, Joan Aleshire, Anna Mae Normandin, and Avis Jean McCutchan. Later Becky Murfin joined us for a short time and we lost Edward Mecum. - On the second Friday after school started, the juniors gave us our initia- tion into high school. We came to school dressed in short pants and short dresses. In the evening we were given a fine party by the juniors, the re- freshments consisting of alum, raw eggs, and green persimmons, and the en- tainment running up and down the cinder path barefoot, jumping into tubs of water, and other such tricks. Everyone took it in good humor. Other activities during the year consisted of a hayrack ride, a coasting party, and bake sales. Class officers for the year were Darrell Boos and Joan Martin, Presi- dents, Harry Lee Rash and Pat Downing, Vice-Presidents, Avis Jean Mc- Cutchan and Anna Mae Normandin, Secretary-Treasurers. Mr. John Lee- dom was our class sponsor. SEPTEMBER 1947-On September 2, twenty-seven boys and girls returned to Plymouth High as sophomores. We had lost Gene Wilson, Tony Fugate, Marjorie McGinnis, and Richard Clark, and had been joined by Pat Kepner and Ronnie Quaife. Soon after school started we had an election of officers. The officers for the year were Harry Lee Rash, President, Pat McCutchan and Betty Hill- yer, Vice-Presidents, Anna Mae Normandin and Pat Downing, Secretary- Treasurers. Our sponsor was Coach Roger Schieferdecker. On October 3 we gave the seniors a hayrack ride in return for the party they had given us our freshman year. Other activities included bake sales to' raise money. SEPTEMBER 1948-Here we were, Jolly Juniors, coming back up the walk to the little red schoolhouse on September 7, the first day of school in 1948. Our class had shrunk a little more, leaving only twenty-four members. We