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

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nual, Echo. The Stdff of both publications found in Jacque- line n good lender and to her initiative and untiring efforts much of the success of the 1947 publications is due. Jac, as she is affectionately called, has gained a wide popularity among students and Faculty alike and is n loyal supporter of her school and teechers. The Faculty found her cooperative, willing, capable, able to essume responsibility, possessing initintive, resourcefulness, end dependability. She was an excellent student mvinteining 1 high scholastic average throughout the four yenrs of high school life. In selecting hor as the recipient of the 1963 Fnculty.Awnrd, tho Faculty felt she best exemplified n good all-round school citizen, possessing those commendable traits of character which under- lie good citizenship anywhere. R.

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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-

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.,.. Ji, ,,.,, ,,,,n, , , - .,,,,,h,,m,,,-Q , 1 Y-1 --- v- --------rim!-lr Uaughters of the American Revolution From the three Seniors selected by vote of the Senior Class as most deserving of the Good Citizenship Award given annu- ally by the Tary Little Deere foline Chapter of the Daugh- ters of the American Qevolution to Port Byron, East Voline, and Woline High Schools, Dolores Skelton received the major- ity vote of the Faculty. This award is given on the basis of dependability, leadership, patriotism and service--four super ior Qualities which underlie good citizenship. Dolores has always been very prominent in school activities. When a Freshman, she was active in band. years of high school ior and Senior years more year and was in of the Home Ec. Club was elected treasurer of her class and She served on the Echo Staff all four and on the Ink Spot Staff during her Jun- She sang in the Glee Club in her Sopho Band all four years. She was a member the first three years of high school and continued in FFA during her Senior year. She belonged to GAA all four years and served as president in her Senior year. She served as Treasurer of both her Sophomore and Junior classes and Secretary of the Senior Class. She had a promi- nent part in both the Junior and Senior Class a cheer leader and President of the Pep Club and Senior years. She was co-captain of the team in her Junior year and captain when she her Senior year she assisted Ur. Hall in the plays. She was during her Junior girls' basketball was a Senior. In office two period a day. time received a In 1940 Port Byron High School for the first DAR award. The receipient that year was Earbara Jean Skeltong in 1941 Anita Snenceg in 1942 Evelyn Hose, in 1943 Norma Ander song in 1944 Vary Jo Hermesg in 1945 Janice Skelton, in 1946 Kathleen Thompson. On February 15 award winners from Yoline, East Moline, and Por Byron were entertained at a luncheon at the LeClaire Top Hat in Moline. Each winner was presented with an award pin on which is inscribed the four qualities which are the basis of good citizenship: dependability, leadership, patriotism, and service. On March 21 award winners from all high schools in the state were guests of the State DAR at its annual meeting in Chicago, and this organization will finance a four-day trip of one award winner, chosen by lot, to Washington D. C. in Way, while the National Convention of the DAR is in session. FT' S t