Port Byron High School - Echo Yearbook (Port Byron, IL)

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.M . '-,. - 5-avr - en-1. '55, S , 'xx ig- 1-:Q '5ns..,. ' -.- SENIOR HONORS' The Valedictorian of the l947 graduating class is Dolores Skel- ton who maintained the highest scholastic average over a period of four years at high school. Dolores entered the Community High School from the grade school where he did outstanding work also. She has always taken a keen interest in high school af- fairs parti cipating actively in clubs, publications, glee club, band, and class plays, and supporting all forms of athletics. In the past one of four uted in no two years she has served as a class officer and was cheer leaders whose loyalty and enthusiams contrib- small measure to the success of the athletic program during '46-7. Dolores was co-captain of the girls' basketball team in her Junior year and captain when she was a Senior. In her Senior year she assisted Hr. Hall in the office two periods a day. De is very popular among the student body and is a loy- al supporter of the school and its teaching staff. The Salutat orian of the 1947 graduating class is Frances Gilberi who maintained the second highest scholastic average over a peru iod of four years at high school. Frances, also, has always taken a keen interest and an actfve part in life at Community High School . She entered high school from the Port Byron Grade School and became a member of the Glee Club, GAA, and Pep Club, and was an active member of the Home Bc Club. She was in the cast of both the Junior and Senior plays, having a prominent part in the Book Staff, campaign in great part, Frances had latter. Frances served on the Ink Spot and Year acting as subscription salesman during the Ink Spot the fall of 1946 and to her efforts was due, in- the record of 1001 in subscriptions for that year. a host of friends among the student body and has supported whole heartedly all school activities. From the three Seniors selected by vote of the Senior Class as most deserving of the Good Citizenship Award given annually by the Mary Little Deere HolinerChepter of the D ughters of the American Revolutionito Port Byron, East Moline, and Moline High Schools, Dolores Skelton received the majority vite of the Fac- ulty. This award is given on the basis of dependability, lead- ership, patriotism and service--four superior qualities which under lie g ood citizenship. This year Jacqueline Kerr was the recipient of the Award re- ceiving the majority vote of Faculty members as the most out- standing student in all four classes of high school in School citizenship . Jac possesses initiative, dependability, is co- operative, assumes responsibility and leadership, is an unus- ually good studcnt having maintained a high scholastic average over a period of four years, is a loyal supporter of her school

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FACULTY AWARDS The custom of giving a Faculty award dates back to 1943. That year the members of the teaching force selected by majority vote one student from among all four high school classes whom they all felt was the most outstanding school citizen, Jane En land now residin in East Moline a Senior seemed to mem- E 7 1 D bers of the Faculty to possess outstanding qualities of coop- eration, initiative, scholarship school spirit, loyalty, de- pendability, and Jane was presented with Faculty Award at the Class Night Txercises in May. - In 1944, Isabel Boardman also a Senior, now Hrs. Riewerts and residing in Coe Township, received the award. In addition to the outstanding qualities which made for good school citizen- ship, Isabel possessed the added virtues of punctuality and regularity, having been neither absent nor tardy during her four years of her high school life. In 1945, the Faculty by vote chose Barbara Hathes, now Mrs. Gaston and a resident of HcAllen, Texas, a graduate of that year, as most deserving of the award. Barbara received a sil- ver bracelet with connecting links inscribed with the names of the qualities of scholarship, cooperation, leadership, loy- alty, and school spriit.. Kenneth Murphy, a Senior, now a student at Macomb, received the award for 1946. Kenneth was outstanding in the qualities which make for good citizenship. The Faculty found him co- operative, loyal, depandable, and his scholastic average over a period of four years sufficiently high to give him the honor of being the class salutatorian. Jacqueline Kerr, a Senior, was the recipient of the l947 Fac- ulty Award. She enrolled as a Freshman from Fairfield Grade School in the fall of 1943. In her Sophomore year, she be- came active in school affairs joining the Home Ec and Drama- tic Clubs. During her Junior she continued her membership in these clubs, joined the Pep Club and GAA and served on the Ink Spot and Echo Staffs and had a part in the Junior play. As a Senior, she continued to take an active part in all Pep Club and GAA activities and became a loyal and enthusiastic supporter of the school's athletic program. She was an active member of the FHA, the new school organization which recently absorbed the Home Ec Clubs throughout the state. She was cho- sen by the Senior class as their representative on the Student Council and had a part in the Senior play. She continued to serve on the Staff of the school publications and was chosen Editor of the monthly Ink Spot and Co-editor of the Senior an-