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

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Senior ffisfary, wut. This time we sent Calvin Hubbell, Karl Leach, and Nyla Mueller to the council, As other crews lose members so did we, We lost Shirley Johnson and David Nelson To begin the second half of our trip we chose new officers. Karl Leach was elected captain and Arnold Wilkens first mate Nyla Mueller kept the log up-to-date and Betty Kunce recorded our pieces of eight Our council representatives were Karl Leach Lona Snyder and Philip Starr As Karl Leach was captured by the Hoopeston fleet his duties were taken over by first mate Arnold Wilkens and Ted Erghner was chosen as new first mate As Karl was also a member of the council we replaced him with Arnold We had a great deal of trouble keeping our crew SIHCC Arnold preferred the land to the sea we had to have another captain Ted was promoted from first mate to captain and Martin Clementz filled the first mate vacancy For the replacement 1n the council we elected Ted The fourth quarter of our voyage was begun with 23 buccaneers A few days after starting we lost Grace Troxel who found the sea life too hard but to fill that vacancy Andy Hartman Joined the crew We re elected Ted Erghner as captain and chose Ed Frrchtl as first mate Betty Kunce kept the log and Marjorie recorded the pieces of e t Our council representatives for this last quarter of our trip were Winifred Mall man Martin Clementz and Ted Erghner The crew was kept very busy this quarter since we had to publish a paper every thref weeks and prepare a book of memories of the four ships of the fleet Later in the quarter we attended a dance and banquet in our honor sponsored by the crew which was to take over the leadership of the fleet As we now felt certain of reaching our goal we took a vacation to experience t e life of a landlubber After we retumed to the ship a ceremony was held which ended our first search for education x fm All-we N' 'Mm' X Ylffhijlv L ,se xl.,- igh I ,, . . . . . . - . . ' . . h Qlivki .,.f ' ' Q --1 M eil: N A ' : - Lb. y A. I . L' xhrff P

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amor History ln the year 1950 the GOODFELLOW youngest of a fleet of four pirate ships, set out to capture the treasures of education We had a crew of 27 members They were Ronald Barker Neal Clark Martin Clementz Kathym Diskln Theodore Eighner Richard Finley Nancy Foster Edward Frichtl Calvin Hubbell Loren Irvin Shirley Johnson Stanley Krng, Betty Kunce Winlfred Mallrnan, Donald Martin Nyla Mueller Beverly Nease David Nelson Beverly Obenland Mary Lou Osbom, Terry Sloan Marjorie Smethurst Lona Snyder Ronald Snyder Philip Starr Grace Troxel and Ioan Whrtley As this would be a long and tedious voyage we decided that it would be a good idea to choose new offlcers at the beginning of each quarter of the trip For the first quarter Ted Exghner was elected captain and Philip Starr first mate Nyla Mueller was chosen to keep the log up to date and to record our pieces of eight Also we chose Ronald Snyder Betty Kunce and Nyla Mueller to represent our ship in the council which was made up of three representatives from each ship in the fleet However before we were really accepted ln the fleet our crew wa initiated This was qutte an experience as we had to do practically everything but walk the plank With Ted ln com graduation tn 1954 We were very lucky not to lose any crew members and sttll be able to have many memorable treasures that quarter when we began our second quarter we dtscovered the loss of a buccaneer Ronald Barker but we signed up three new seamen Wayne Lynch, Karl Leach and Arnold Wllkens For our cap tam this quarter we chose Nyla Mueller with Beverly Nease as first mate Phlllp Starr made the entnes in the log and saw to tt that our pieces of eight were recorded I I I I I I I l I I I O I I . I I U 5 U 1 U I I I I I U I I ' I ' - - sv In I I I I I I I I mand, we set sail for , fl O , , ' . , v 1 v 3 V1 ' - , - - i I 'vt t

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