Polo High School - Cycle Yearbook (Polo, IL)

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11- The Cycle -LIT- test with our junior class carrying away the greatest honors. Many of us bought class rings and our class play Jonesy was a huge success! We held our Junior-Senior banquet in the gym and, in keeping with the times, the gym was appropriately decorated along the fashion of Snow NVhite and the Seven Dwarfs. Vile left this successful year looking forward anxiously to becoming seniors. Our final year arrived at last. NVe elected James Schryver to guide us and he did this very eiiciently, although the senior year is the hardest for a president of the class. Our class practically furnished a championship bas- ketball team and also a large number on the honor roll. Writing news items for the Hi-Lites for the last semester and having pictures taken and write-ups for the Cycle kept us busy for the entire year. Our mysterious play AS THE CLOCK STRIKES was voted a tremendous success. Finally we received our diplomas and became very refined and dignified. Now we can turn our backs to the high school and proudly say, I have an educa- tion. Believe it or not! High School Days Our high school days are ended, And they've been lots of fung But the many friendships started NVQ: hope have just begun. Four years of happy memories Are now at our command, And they will all come back to us lYhenever we demand. As the door is closed behind us, XVe all should realize That we have been granted A good and worthwhile prize. Powell Cunningham. 1 9 3 9

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---1 The Cycle Tl The First Twelve are the Hardest 1927! This date will linger eternally in the history of aviation, but to a certain number of us, composing the class of '39, it likewise brings memories of our first school days. In September, 1927, as lively, ambitious little lads and lasses, we began our weary toils and struggles for an education. In June, 1939, sixty-three of us wrote finis to our high school education by receiving our diplomas cer- tifying that we are learned men and women. Fourteen of us began the quest for knowledge at the local grade school and were classmates and pals for all twelve years. The future Senior Class of '39 made many acquaintances and enrolled many more I-will-be-Presidents on the eight-year stretch of grade school. Then we began to imagine that we should shoulder some of the responsibili- ties of life, so we began to grow up. One bright September morning in the fall of '35 a record-breaking class of ninety young freshies entered the Halls of Higher Learning. We could eas- ily be identified by the tell-tale locker keys dangling from key rings, for, yes, we kept our valuable books locked safely in our lockers. Being a large class, we felt privileged Cand even talked back to the SENIORSD until this was taken out of us by an official initiation and Mr. Richard Vlleaver displayed his ability as a photographer. Nevertheless, we elected Lloyd NVoodruif to keep up our morale as a very faithful president and our class had some good prospective athletes and scholars. Our second year we came back with vim, vigor, and vitality and helped initiate the lowly freshiesf' Dwight Pierce was chosen president of our class and we settled down to a year with diligent application of the brain cells, having an unusually large number on the honor roll. Some of the brighter pupils even learned how many parts All Gaul was divided into. Every student greatly missed Melvin Hicks, our classmate who became ill with infantile paralysis. Our third year was full of events! Robert Slifer fulfilled his office of president very capably. The entire school entered in a magazine sales con- 1939

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i- The Cycle iT Activities DOLORES ALDRICH: Asst. Librarian 35 Band 2, 3, 43 Class Play 3, 43 Class Sec.- Treas. 23 Dramatics Club 35 G. A. A. 1, 2, 3, Vice-Pres. 45 Girls' Chorus 1, 25 Glee Club 45 Hi-Y 3, Treas. 45 Music Council 2, 45 Operetta 1, 25 Pep Club 3, 45 Student Council 1, 45 Annual Staff 4. HELEN ANDERSON: Annual Staff Asst. 45 Band 3, 45 Cheerleader 43 Class Play 35 Dramatics Club 15 F. H. A. 1, 23 G. A. A. 1, 2, 3, 45 Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 43 Hi-Y Vice-Pres. 35 Librarian 35 Mixed Chorus 1, 2, 3, 45 Operetta 1, 2, 35 Or- chestra 3, 45 Pep Band 45 Pep Club 3. DOROTHY BAILEY: Dramatics Club 15 Glee Club 1, 2, 35 Hi-Y 3, 45 Mixed Chorus 1, 2, 33 Operetta 1, 2, 3. KENNETH BECK: Band 1, 2, 3, 45 Basketball 2, 45 Football 45 Operetta 35 OI'- chestra 1, 2, 3, 4. VERJEAN BEGEMAN: Milledgeville High School 1, 2, 35 Band 4. RAYMOND BOWERS: Football 2, 3, 45 Track 3, 4. WAYNE BRANTNER: Annual Staff Asst. 4: Asst. Librarian 35 Basketball 45 F. F. A. 45 Pep Club 35 Track 4. LYLE BROWN: Basketball 3, 45 F. F. A. 1, 2, 3, Pres. 45 Judging Teams 1, 2, 35 Track 4. MARY CAROLINE COMPTON: Asst. Librarian 35 Dramatics Club 35 Girls' Chorus 1, 2, 3, 45 Hi-Y 3, 45 Operetta 1. POVVELL CUNNINGHAM: Band 2, 3 ,43 F. F. A. 1, Pres. 2, Reporter 3, 45 Foot- ball 3, 45 Glee Club 2, 3, 45 Judging Team 35 Librarian 43 Mixed Chorus 45 Op- eretta 2, 35 Orchestra 3, 45 Track 2, 3, 4. WILLTS CUNNINGHAM: Annual Staff 45 Class Play 45 F. F. A. 1, 2, 3, Treas. 45 Glee Club 2, 35 Judging Team 25 Mixed Chorus 13 Operetta 2, 33 Student Council 3. ELWIN DEUTH: F. F. A. 1, 2, 3, 43 Track 4. LEON DONALDSON: Band 3, 45 Class Play 35 F. F. A. 1, 2, 3, Vice-Pres. 45 Foot- ball 45 Judging Team 1, 2, 35 Track 4. MARJORIE DUSING: Girls' Chorus 1, 2, 35 Operetta 3. DOROTHY FINKLE: G, A. A. 1, 2, 45 Girls' Chorus 1, 2, 35 Hi-Y 3, 45 Librarian 43 Operetta 1, 2, 35 Pep Club 4. ROBERT GALOR: Basketball 2, 3, 45 Football 2, 3, 45 Golf 2, 3, 45 Pep Club 1.