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

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JUNIOR MEMOIRS We Juniors, twenty-seven strong, tripped gaily back to school on September 2. We missed Eugene Saunders, William Penning- ton, and Joyce Grumadas, whom we had known as Sophomores. Two new members, Gleda Howard from Boseclare, and Bailey Knorr from Voline, joined our ranks, raising our enrollment to thir- ty, but Joan Schauland, Tom Stebbins, Norma Lesner, and Archie Baff, withdrew reducing the number to twenty-six. We met early for a class meeting and elected officers for the year. We went Hall outn for boys, choosing Walt Bull, presi- dent, Bob Dailey, vice-president, Tom Stebbins, secretaryg Don Earhart, treasurer. We selected for Student Council: Lloyd Dailey, Dick Strandgard, and Wayne Skelton. Miss Marion Boardman, the Home Ec teacher, was our Sponsor this year. On October 4, our class went to Noline to see NThe Courage of Lassien. As is the custom, we entertained the whole school at a costume Hallowefen Farty on October 29. It was definitely the spook- iest event of the year. The ghost walk through the woods was just what we intended it to be--replete with ghosts, witches, and strange dark, shadowy objects which sent many a shudder down many a spine. . Throughout the basketball season, the members of our class took turns selling pop and popcorn to earn money for our Jun- ior-Senior Banquet. We girls entered the G.A.A. Inter-class Tournament, winning second nlace. . We enjoyed another theater party on March 21 in Koline. Our group was divided, part preferring to see NThe Jolson Storyn and others attending HThe Beginning of the Endu. On Varch EB, we presented our Junior Play, NBolts and Nutsu, to a crowded house. It was a fun-packed mystery thriller and we gave the audience a night of phobias with Joan Ecker's fear of contamination, Elinor Larson's dislike of closed doors, and Bob Dailey's fear of cats. Nancy Zwolanek made 2 most effic- ient pronrietor of a mental sanitarium to which these phobia- ridden patients came for treatment. At the end uf tw: hours of riotous Hgoings-on', the patients lost their phobias, the leg- acy for which everyone was searching was found, the nen marr- ied the gals they wanted, and the evening ended happily for young ind old alike.

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We Juniors had a hand in Hricingu our Sponsor, Miss Boardman, when she became the bride of Charles Hamilton on April 17, in a beautiful candle-light ceremony at the Fairfield Methodist Church. We met at the high school and then drove to the church where we assembled with other students whose hands and pockets were full of rice. It was a nrice showeru and Miss Boardman had to nduckn to escape a deluge. On Nay 10, our Junior Class gave the departing Seniors the traditional Junior-Senior Banquet at Watchtower Inn, Black Hawk State Park, Rock Island. The tables were tastily decor- ated with soring flowers and royal blue and white tapers, carrying out the Senior class colors, were placed at intervals. Hand-decorated place cards, by which each guest found his place at the tables, were used, also, theblue and white combination of colors. As the class flower is the white carnation, this flower anoeared in white with the name of the guest written in blue. Tomato cocktail and wafers were served as the entree. The dinner course consisted of baked sugar cured ham, potato croquets, spring vegetables, and sa1ad.- French apple pie with coffee was served as the dessert course. The program for the evening follows: Invocation--Varvin Wuehle Welcome to the Seniors--Walter Bull, Junior class pres. Response--Larry Atkinson, Senior class president Address--Principal C.S. Hall ' Nusic--Charles Hoff Farewell to the Seniors--Joan Ecker Committees on arrangement were: programs--Joan Ecker Decorations--Beverly Mose Invitations--Donna J. Schmoll Dinner-JHalter Bull Vusic--Carl Orr At the Prom, which followed the dinner, music for dancing was furnished by Billy Anderson's Band of East Moline. Dancing was scheduled for 9 o'clock and the strains of HHome, Sweet Homou were played at midnight--a fitting farewell to a fine group of Seniors-twenty-six in all-our close friends and companions through three years of high school life at Port Byron. Not a good-bye, Seniors-only Adios! Nay hapoiness and success be yours. We Junior girls, following a precedent of years past, made the flower entwined arches, through which the Seniors passed on their way to the platform on Class Night. We give due credit to the Junior boys for helping us gather the flowers from . neighboring gardens. Not only did we make the arches but held them at Class Night as well.