Rankin Township High School - Mirror Yearbook (Rankin, IL)

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SENIOR H 'ETC RY In 1948 we were just a green gang of cowgtrls and cowboys rxdrng up from the west to start as freshmen ln good old R. T H S The senlors soon knocked us off our buckrng broncs wtth Freshmen ln1t1at1on As soon as our sponsors could get us corralled we chose loan Holqurst as head foreman Bonnre Olson as her assrstant Wendell Starr bookkeeper and Allen Watson paymaster Two of our cowpokes couldn t keep pace so they dropped off the crew leavrng us shorthanded wtth only twenty four hands After havlng our summer vacauon rn the west at Dully s Dumb Dude Ranch we started back to school tn 1949 w1th nrneteen podners Thrs berng our Sophomore year we were now one year older and could no longer be called tenderfeet Our leaders for thts year were soon elected Carl Schaeffer foreman B111 Cox asstst ant foreman Marvln Hofer bookkeeper and Allen Watson treasurer Th1s year we lost four and gatned two After takmg a very short vacatxon rn the Lone Star State we entered the bunkhouse wrth elghteen Jumor cowpokes on our payroll Mrs Hurt and Mr Schwartz were our Donna Jo Swanson clerk and Ioan Holqurst paymaster Four of our hands left the ranch leavlng the gang shorthanded agam wlth only srxteen Later 1n the year Ellen Hoveln from Armstrong Jomed us and Phylhs Lynch was trans ferred from the Loda crew makrng the gang seventeen Our socral BCIIVIIICS cltmaxed when we threw a bxg shtndtg at Champalgn for the Semors You tenderfeet would call rt the Iunror Senror Prom Thls year work was started on our new ranch bu1ld1ng a modern bunkhouse w1th four teen rooms and a large gymnastum The latest rumor of course was that perhaps our graduatron exercrses next year could be held rn the new audrtorrum Our last year of bemg corralled fwe hopej was one chucked full of work and act1v1t1es Our bosses were Mrss Morgan and Mr McCarty Th1s year we chose as our head fore man Marllyn Nelson Ruby Maskal asslstant Ellen Hoveln bookkeeper and Barbara Padgett paymaster Carl Schaeffer headed the student councll as presxdent w1th Nancy Behrens and Allen Watson as representattves bosses. Carl Schaeffer served again as our head foreman, Wendell Starr, assistant,