Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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. . . . . We can inalee our lives sublinie And, departing, leave belzind us Footprints on tlze sands of time,- Footprinls, tlzat perlzaps anotlier, Sailing o'er 1ife's solemn nzain, A forlorn and sliipzcirecleed lnrotlzer, Seeing, slzall talee lzeart again, LONG!-AELLOW Page 12 - 5 ' lllrs. Annie Ferguson, who lias uglit in the Reels Island Higli Sclzool for 22 years, is now retiring. Thousands of students lzazfe benefited from Zllrs. Ferguson's influence. Slze has taught tlzein how to use their natifzze tongue better. Slie has inspired tlzein with a lofoe of good literature. She has through her direct efforts and through the example of her own lovely and gracious character and personality inade inany boys and girls jine cultured, soundly clzaractered people. Rock lsland has been very fortunate to have lllrs. Ferguson serve its youtlz. lt will be a treinendous taslc to replace her. Gen- uine lozfe of liter fornier students and tlze deepest affection of her colleagues go liorne with lier on retireinent. We all of us say, God bless you and give you many happy, peaceful years at lzoinef'-E. H. HANSON Mrs. Ferguson has been nz-ore than a splendid instructor. Slze has been a noble cgvanz-ple and an inspiration to the pupils she has served-a true builder of character.-GEORGE BRIGGS '37

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First Row fLeft t0 Riizhfb ULDEANE SMITH Advertising Manager DON LEE Business Manager SY LVIA ST RUM Editor-in-Chief BLANCHE KIRKHAM Associate Editor XVILLIS LEONHARDI Circulation Manager ELLEN BRANBERG Art Editor Third Row DOROTHY MULLINS Features BETTY CLARK Typist RUTH ALB RECHT Photographer MARJORIE FORT Organizations Fifth Row DORIS QUIST Advertising EDVVIN ROSENBERG Advertising MARILYNN MINTEER Advertising BETTY GREENLEAF Advertising JOHN BRAGDON Sports Editor MILDRED MARCUS Advertising AN N UAL STAFF Second Row MARGARET MCCAULEY Cartoonist JOHN BONINO Assistant Business Manager CORA L. STODDARD Faculty Supervisor SARAH. MCELHINNEY Art Supervisor RAYMOND SALSTROM Humor BERNICE WHEELER Calendar Fourth Row VIRGINIA MORAN Seniors MARION VVILLHOUSE Seniors AUDREY GREGORY Seniors CATILIERINE BAILEY Organizations Sixth Row MILDRED DE MEYER Advertising JOHN POLZIN Advertising I I Page I I

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Barbara Ahl Bertha Aims Ruth Albrecht Katheryn Allbritton Rosemary Anderson Vivian Anderson John Bacom Cathrine Bailey -13 Charles Barton John Bauersfeld Mary Jane Becker Allan Beckstrom f-Q, 41' 0.455 ii? Phillip Alonzi Harold Anderson James Anderson Junior Anderson Dorothy Anne Barker Dick Barnett Kathryn Barnett Don Barth Fred Behnken Marian Behrens Glenn Beinke Anna Bell Page I3