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

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,mann-Iu,pq.,,,:,,-,-Q, Bill Frits and Earl Talbot withdrew, reducing Junior class en- rollment to twenty-six. Marty Shannon of Moline entered in Jan- uary raising our number to twenty-seven again. In January, we Juniors ordered our class rings. We expect to re- ceive them in September of next year. In March, Roger Lund moved to Fayette, Iowa, reducing our enroll- ment to twenty ' -six. presented our Junior play, HThey Gave Him a Co-Edu On April 2, we first time the new velvet curtains were used. and it was the of May l5, we Juniors feted the departing Seniors On the evening at a farewell Junior-Senior Banquet and Prom at Blackhawk State Park, Rock Island, with the faculty as guests--very formal invi- tations and menus with an old-fashioned theme of nbicycles-built- for-twon and quaint bicycling costumes-back to the days of handle bar mustachesg candle-lit tables, fresh flower bouquets, toasts to the Seniors, with Junior class-president, Don Wuehle, acting as toast-master and welcoming the Seniors and Rodney Whitesides, president of the Senior class responding, Mr. Hall giving the ad- dress of the evening and Barbara Johnson and Mary Lou Engebretsen the NJunior Farewell to the Seniorsn--a gala affair with the Nwo- menn in the nnew lookn formals and the men in new suits, new ties and new shoes. Everybody happy, yet sad too, for we Juniors knew that this was our Ugood-byen to students who had spent four years en closely associ- know we'll miss them Seniors. But true Horizons.N One mile reached. May new be happy ones, Sen- at Port Byron High and for three years had be ated with us in the school's activities. We next year, as we try to take their places as to their motto they must journey HToward New stone in their long journey of life had been horizons which so alluringly beckon prove to iors. On Sunday night, May 30, Mary Lou Engebretsen, Glee Luecke, Nelda Hollister, and Marilyn Eckelberry, were usherettes at the Senior Baccalaureate Services in the gym. For Class Night on June 2, we Junior girls, following the prece- dent of years past, made and held the flower-entwined arches through which the May King and his Queen with Attendants, Flower Girls, and Crown Bearers passed on their way to the platform. Preceding the King and Queen were the nineteen Senior graduates. To the strains of the Recessional played by Mrs. Harry Speckman, the graduates again passed through our flower-entwined arches on their way out of the gym. We Juniors decorated the stage for the Senior Commencement on June 3, and the same four Junior girls--Mary Lou Engebretsen, Glee Luecke, Nelda Hollister, and Marilyn Eckelberry--ushered. 9