Riverside Brookfield High School - Rouser Yearbook (Riverside, IL)

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enior lass The senior class officers in a relaxed mood. ln picture left to right: Ge- nevieve Skilondz, vice-president; Irene Crowe, treasurer; David Aguilar, class president; Pauline Marsh, secretary. As seniors, we can now stand aside and survey the process by which we attained that status through four very eventful years that have been filled with many changes, a . s l both around us and within ourselves. There have been changes in attitudes, opin- q; i jl a .178 7 ho ions, views, and feelings; changes essential to eventual maturity; changes that every l l class that enters high school must experience. l l , , Drawing aside the curtain, we see ourselves as high school :freshmen, new and l A re Young green, learning how to study, possessed with a foolish social inferiority complex, and l pitifully young. So settled and positive about our views, too! Girls thought boys l were queer creatures ; boys thought girls were foolish little chatter-boxes minus 1 brains. No artificiality or affectation marred the horizon of a freshman for he was l wholeheartedly himself with'no attempt at compromise. Tolerance was unheard of! ; And then our sophomore year! A little less shyness, a little more sureness l ' l 3, i came with it. We felt ourselves one of the functioning cogs in a huge mechanism. :3? We went to some of our early dances and parties and began to give more attention to our personal appearance. This was the year when the girls attempted to glam- B! h ourize themselves according to the code of Hollywood. Outrageous hair dresses and notorious make-up characterized the feminine haltc of the class and uncombed hair plus a much too casual air, the masculine. Tolerance was still kept off in the- distance. And then the pride of being an upper-classmanl With a seat in the auditorium from which the stage could actually be seen and the speaker sometimes heard, we faced a different world! Our importance in the mechanism had increased and we now not only belonged to the school, but were the school. Our mental horizons be- gan to broaden, and our sudden discovery that we had minds and could use them astounded us as much as it amused others. e A friendly attitude, a neat appropriate appearance, a new enthusiasm for study, an eagerness to please Personlfled the junior! e Looming up from the darkness of obscurity came the desire to stabilize ' our personalities and to know ourselves and others. t And now we are seniors, ambitious, waiting impatiently to be tried, and hungry I' for life's happiness! Gradually we have slipped into a wider vision of life. We have radical tendencies and our OWn ideas on how the world's most ancient Orld approved institutions should be changed, but fortunately we still see that we do Cl know all though our actions often give the impression we think we do- We have done with the necessary preliminaries and the Gate of gaily in the blossoms of Future, stands open before us with promising W and hope above its door! in Life, decked ords of cheer Page Twenty-four The 1941 Rouser

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, HUWV ; 7 .gr ; . x . 4-:V5felefghti. 1.? ;j3:3qunge;?;?; $333 , lng?:.M-:A!t.:t--.';:' fg...A-m.,','T!'A;.AJ-'-.,14H M; 55; 3?in ?.,...y!.'., 3;: 1,5. , ii Commerce Department and 0mm: Staff As the head of the Commerce department, Ruth M. Cleary supervises the course in Office Practice and handles placement work for the graduating class. This year more graduates have been placed than during any other year. The I; work includes contacting business firms and handling calls f for workers. Miss Cleary received her BA. and her MA. 1 degrees at the University of Michigan and has done further work at New York and Northwestern Universities. 4qal-ww A .i Clarabel Barrick teaches shorthand and typing and is the E' LENKSAS sponsor of the Scribblers Club of the Commerce department. She received her B.E. degree at the Illinois State Normal University. H. W. Hoffman, teacher of Bookkeeping and Commercial Arithmetic, received his BA. degree at the University of Kan- i 505 and has done graduate work at the University of Chicago, is , Campbell College, and Springfield, Missouri, Normal School. 9' in He is sponsor of the Philatelist Club. Wilma Buchholz received her B.E. degree at Illinois State Normal University. She teaches classes in Business Train- ing, Vocational Typing, Personal Typing and Stenography. She is co-sponsor of the Riding Club and Sc'ribblers Club. Under the supervision of the Commerce department and Miss Cleary also fall the school bookstore and the keeping ll- of the Student Activity and cafeteria funds. Miss Elizabeth Lenksas, a graduate of Riverside-Brookfield High School, is bookkeeper and at the head of the clerical force of the book- 5 store. J. THOMPSON Tn -ve In the main office where school records are kept and filed, where school visitors are received, and a central switchboard is operated, arevtound Miss Ethel Curtis, Mrs. Jessie Thomp- son, and Mrs. Minette Mueller. Members of Miss Cleary's office practice classes receive practical experience from work in the office under the supervision of these women. Miss Curtis also servesvas secretary to the Board of Edu- cation and has charge of the keeping of the school's books. 5 She is also a member of the faculty, teaching in the Social ll: Science department. M. MUELLER Page Twenty-three'

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12'; TL :A .., .4 , .u H AsmoNnJ .4, alluA-n' Q h... u n... oLAu a nu v ACT ONE. The first curtain of the four-act production went up in September to see each of the players excel in his own role, some rising to stardom on the gridiron, others in the dra- matic, music, or art departments, and others in the scholastic or other possible fields. The first act took place on a very crowded stage. Instead of everyone's coming and going at the same time, the limited classroom and hall space made it necessary for the students to come in shifts. lt fell to the lot of the freshmen to start at 10:15 and stay until 4:15. To relieve the congestion on the stairs, the Student Council devised the plan of one-way stairways and put it into practice. In this act, Fred Welborn was elected president; Robert Frazier vice- president; Mary Louise Rowland, secretary; and Bob Negele, treasurer. The senior class took over Johnnie Smithson for a short time to play the young David Copperfield in the senior class play. The Frantic Physicianf' was the operetta presented that year, in which several of our members took part. The cheer leading section was led by members of the freshman class. At the end of the act, we were all full-fledged members of R-B and looked forward eagerly to the next act. ACT TWO. The curtain rose on a somewhat more eventful second act with fourteen new classrooms, new Iavatories, and more spacious halls. Students were no longer jostled in halls and on stairs, and the entire school could be present at one time. The cast in this act had an opportunity to display its talent in a sophomore assembly in a skit directed by Mr. Haas and with piano solos and readings. These were all excellent indications of much future ability. This was our first year to send representatives to the Honor Society, and they were: Dorothy Hendel, Genevieve Skilondz, Robert Frazier, and Fred Welborn. The class executives for the freshman year were held over for the sophomore year. More and more of the clubs were taken over by our class, and a larger number of our members took part in Melodic Moods, the music department's annual production. Several of the members of the cast dropped their roles at the end of the act; among them were Bob Frazier and Fred Welborn, who took up new roles at the University of Chicago High School after having won two com- petitive scholarships. ACT THREE. There was a definite change in tempo in the third act of our drama as the cast went forward with even greater success than in the previous acts. Under the direction of the junior Sharclub Senate members, the second annual freshman party was given and proclaimed to be a great success. On the basketball floor, the lightweights went through the conference season undefeated; and they also won the district championship. The junior assembly put the class even more to the fore, as Charles Tinny Sauers highlighted it with the now famous Russian Boogie Woogie. It was this year that the Off Beat Room became famous with Lynden de Young and his trombone. The climax to the record-breaking sale of tickets, re- sulting in a special matinee performance for the first time in the history of the school, was the ; junior class play, Growing Pains. Bob Allen and Claudine Barrett brought renown to the J class with their excellent performances in the leading roles, and the other supporting actors' r and actresses helped. We sent six members to the Honor Society this time: Sylvia Koral, t 2 . Marjorie Sorensen, Lynn Alford, Bob Negele, John Wendell, and Charles Sauers. Several of ' l the leading parts in the Operetta were taken over by juniors, who helped make The Chimes I of Normandy a rousing success. The annual prom, The Southern Swing, sponsored by the ,R junior class, found the upperclassmen dancing in the atmosphere of an old Southern garden. kit It was the most successful prom R-B had yet had. The officers for this year were: Bob Ne- w gele, president; John Turner, vice-president; Doris Drazil, secretary; Lynn Alford, treasurer. ' This year we aiso really began to put forth our best on the field of sports. Henry Sordell, Ray Trinko, Ed Nelson, Roy Ferrette, and Earl Fleming were gaining fame on the gridiron, and Henry Bethke, Charles Sauers, Henry Sordell, and Ed Fregan on the basketball floor. The senior Hi-Y, with many of the juniors leading, put on a Christmas dance, while junior Sharclub . Senate members assumed their share of leadership in making the first annual Sharclub dance a success. ACT FOUR. The fourth and last act opened with all the actors and actresses displaying great enthusiasm. John Turner became president of the Student Council and captain of the light- weight football team; Ray Trinko was president of the Pep Club and captain of'the heavy- weight football team; Art Mancl captained the track team; Harriet Evans was preSIdent of the Sharclub; Joe Nicoletti, president of the Hi-Y. The class officers were: Dave Agudar, presr- dent; Genevieve Skilondz, vice-president; Pauline Marsh, secretary; and Irene Crowe, treasurer. In the journalism field, Dorothy Hendel and Chuck Zirzow were co-editolrs of the 'ROUSER; Shirley Siedenstrang and Sylvia Koral, co-editors of the Clarion. The Big-bittle Sister idea was carried out successfully under the leadership of seniors, the climax of which was the first annual Big-Little Sister Tea. The senior play, The Novel Princess, popularly accepted by all showed the histrionic talent of Dawn Coghlan, John Turner, and the rest of the cast. Seniors in most of the leading roles of the annual Operetta, A.Waltz Dream, helped make this Operetta the most popular in many seasons. Genevieve Skilondz. was chosen as the R.'B representative to the D.A.R. convention for her qualities of dependability, serVIce, leadership, and patriotism. In the scholastic field, Dorothy Hendel rose above all anci was ,chosen vale- dictorian. Sylvia Koral was the salutatorian. Our last class representatives to the Honor Society were Ottilie Sangtinette, Elaine Biskup, Dick Goldsteln, and Hans Wormser. Dorothy Hendel was president of the Honor Society and GeneVieve Skilondz was. secretary. . The last curtain went down in June, 1941, leaving only memories behind; but from this cost that left such a remarkable imprint upon all the school life and activities, will rise the future citizens of the United States. If they serve their country. as they have served their school, our government can yet have faith in the younger generation. 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