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

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, .322 'J 2 M. gs x..2,,E,,: V , BELYEA, BELYEA, BENGSTON, ROXANNE THOMAS JOANNE BIERMAN, BIRKEL, BLUME, BARBARA BARBARA ELEANOR Taber as vice-president and Robert Hendrick- son as secretary. This Was the first postwar year and everyone was working to establish a state of normalcy in school as Well as in the business world. Most of us were busy keeping up our grades ..1:- - -fEL.5f,- f . f 2 Y J J, -.:.:i:' f . at ' A . 3:1 ua' lr 'Q igii -H-2:-1:': F-T2 sbt 1 5 A BOORAS, BOQUIST, BOYD, PASCAL DONALD ALICE BRENNAN, BRINN, BROWN, MARY PATRICIA JOAN ..,,,., X I , . I . ., ...,. T 1 it we I 'J -. .. eq, ,. , V Q 2: .' :we .X .A 3542 W' X4 Q isis, I - :zwrv -I-il 7 , 4, W. ,Ls ,R ,pr BENNETT, BENTLEY, BERRENSON, MARY JOAN ALAN BOELENS, BOLDT, BOLT, BETTY ROBERT CLIFFORD but some of our boys were active in the field of athletics. John Evans represented us on the Wrestling team and Merle Hood made the var- sity football team. The varsity basketball squad had three sophomores With them, Carl Hodson, Edward Taber, and Carl Sutterman. M X1 NT- + 1: z, ,7..,hy f ,N 5:55 je f H A .X .- Q 42 z BOYER, BRADLEY, BREITENSTEIN JEAN NOLA LOMA BULENS, BURGESS, BURKERT, DONALD JOAN NORMA V Q

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..,,..... .. ., M 45.4.5 fs N 1 2 iff S 5, i Z 3 P 2:25 -'-' 1 4521: F -fx? 'Z f i A . 5 Y , K Q 4 E s 'Q ,fit 3 'N' r, ji Jkt my :Ig 1 ik , A3 E, 5 www, ,QE J BURWELL, BUSH, GORDON VERLA CLANTON, CLARK, RUTH ANN HARTLEY wb , , , -, CAMPBELL, JACK CLARK, JUNE That Was the year the CYC opened. It has continued to be a meeting place of the gang on Wednesday night and after the games ever since. Upon our return to school in the fall of 1946, Jerald Hart, Elizabeth Criswell, and David Lund .15 - Q 5, . W M Q if rf ' 3 .fe r, 1 'K l 4 6 mi f'3i ' si F ' ' by f, ......... , , Wi X COKE, JACK COX, JAMES COLEMAN, EUGENE CRISWELL, ELIZABETH i, , i, ,, A 'S - ,,, ., .,,,, if ,rm- fa X Q y .,., , zil ,,,1 . , COLPERT, MARY CUTLER, CAROLYN i, N--', M-am . ' , 'I' I aj --,A E - Y , ,QM A gi 1 H ---.- is A T .'-a. ..... ,i a.. J CANIPBELL, CARTER, CHERRY, JOHN VV. DORIS ROBERT CLAUSSEN, CLOVV, COFFLER, RONALD LUELLA NANCY were selected as our junior class officers. Remember when June Haver came to school and led cheers in the assembly as she had always Wanted to do? That was in our junior year. The Dramatic club play I Remember Mama included in its cast three juniors who an, COONS, COOPER, CORDRAY, PATRICIA BEEBE BARBARA DE FAUW, DEMOU, DENNISON, EDITH SAM GLORIA QW Ma W-f I As'