Rochelle Township High School - Tatler Yearbook (Rochelle, IL)

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Foreword lf you can dream, yet not let dreams be master - - -. Kipling stated this condition as one measure of adulthood. If a group ot students 50 years ago had not dreamed of a yearbook for their high school and it they had not implemented their dream, we would not this year be celebrating the TatIer's Golden Anniversary. To the students of Rochelle Township High School, especially to the seniors, we dedicate this book. May their accomplishments be proportionate to their dreams. Table of Contents Administrators and School Staff ....... ,,,,,. 5 -12 Classes ........................,...,.......... ,..... l 3-38 Organizations ...,. ...... 3 9-62 Athletics ............. ...... 6 3-76 Classroom Activities ....... ...... 7 7-88 Supplement ...... ....., 8 9-96 Editorial Staff Editorial Board-Judy Dyer, Janis Gilmore, Virginia Gove, Linda Lux, Tonya Swanson. Art-Eunice Cox, George Dicus, Sue Frye, Dick Mitchell, Janice Pest, Shirley Spencer, and Joan Gruben icover designl, Director of Publications-Rosalia Stotmeister. Photography-Webber Studio, Rochelle, Illinois, Rochelle News and Rochelle Leader. Lithography-Printing-Semco Color Press, Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 3

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28-29 26-30 23 -24 Calendar SEPTEMBER 4-School begins. l3-- First football game. Sycamore-Here. 24-J unior Tests. OCTOBER I 8-End of first six weeks. 22- 25-No schooll I.E.A. meeting at Dixon. NOVEMBER I I-No schooll Veterans' Day. I2-G.A.A. Night with the Stars I5-Jesters present Seventeenth Summer I6-Music Festival at Ottawa. 27-End of second six weeks. 3 9 -Thanksgiving vacation. DECEMBER -Football banquet. Speaker: Bob King of U. of I. -F.T.A. family night. I7-Christmas music concert. 2l-F..H.A. Winter Formal, Tinsel Twilight. -DeKalb Holiday Tournament. JANUARY 6-School resumes. 22 - Snow school. -Final exams. End of third six weeks. 27-Second semester begins. National Merit Scholarship Test. 7 FEBRUARY -No schooll County Institute at Oregon. -No schooll Lincoln's birthday. -Freshman l.Q, tests. MARCH I-District Music Contest. Regional basketball tournament -Sectional speech contest IO-F.H.A. Ma, Pa, me, and ? I4-End of fourth six weeks. I5-Mississippi Valley Orchestra Festival at Kewanie. 28-Basketba ll Banquet. Speaker: Frank Gardner, President of l.C.A.A. APRIL I-F.F.A. Banquet. Easter vacation. I I-Senior play, Best Foot Forward. State Music Contest. 25-End of fifth six weeks. MAY 3-District tennis tournament. Junior-Senior Prom,- Don Adams orchestra. 30-No schooll Memorial Day. JUNE I-F.H.A. Senior Breakfast. Baccalaureate. Final semester exams. End of sixth six weeks. Commencement exercises.

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v,.ff,sar,,m.W,, N Rochelle Township High School's original building and the addition completed in l955 are clearly visible from U. S. High- 1908 Class President Describes Beginning of Tatler way5l. George Simons, now living in Florida, was the president of the l908 class and editor-in-chief af the first annual. Here are excerpts from his letter describing the origin of the Tatler: Far a considerable time I had envisioned an annual for our high school. Vivid is the day in l907 when on the north yard of the old school l outlined the plan to a group of l908 classmates. The response was sufficiently encouraging for me to explore and expand the idea further. Sycamore had published an annual pre- viously, so one Saturday Art Guest and I boarded the old Sterling passenger for Sycamore where we picked up considerable information. After that visit we went home determined to proceed. Our second step was to explore cost and probable sources of revenue. We were just a bunch of kids-all minors, who would stake us on a project that might run into several hundred dol- lars? During our investigation someone told us about a printing establishment at Mount Morris run by twin brothers. So on the next Saturday Art Guest and l boarded the Q Train to see the twins. The Kable Brothers listened to our story and without inquiring into our financial responsibility, said they would be glad to do the job at S150 per pagel Next the job of soliciting advertisers had to be undertaken. That was a long arduous job done after school hours. Kable brothers prepared a 'dummy and helped to determine 'space' prices. With this we trudged from store to store. Not many of the firms are now in Rochelle, but they were a wonderful group of merchants. 'Copy' had to be prepared but here again the bays and girls of all the classes pitched in. I lived right down in the center of town with my Grandmother. She gave us a roam over Barker and Sullivan's store to use as headquarters. A name had to be selected. Somehow or other the name 'Tatler' came to me one day, and the rest of the staff approved it. In our English class we had been reading excerpts from the old English classic 'The Tatler,' During the days of production Art Guest and l made weekly trips to Mount Morris to confer with the Kable Brothers, read proof, and deliver new copy. lt was hard work, but it was also fun. ln those days a trip to Mount Morris was not an easy one of a few minutes, we had to go by train and that meant the sacrifice ofa lot of Saturdays. This adds some of the 'behind the scenes' story-the intimate side in which I am sure many of our generation will be interested, Too few peo- ple today appreciate the historic background on which our faith and heritage are established. One thing can be said for that first bunch of explorers. Through it all they were on their own. We had to feel our way without precedent. We had no teacher advisors, supervisors, or counselers-we were obliged to do it alone. And what pleases me, more than words can express, and l am sure the others too, is the revelation each successive year of another 'Tatler' Little had we dreamed that our idea conceived in the old north yard of the school would come down through fifty years as an institution. Thank God that some of us have been spared to see not only its progress but the great growth and development of our beloved Rachelle High School.