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

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Females Achieve Girls State and DAR Four students, Mary Jo Boynton, Down Detwiler, Greg Gillette and Tom Chappell were chosen by the Class of 1967 to serve as Junior Marshals for gradua¬ tion activities. Twenty-nine juniors had been nominated by the counselors to be candidates for the honor. Sixteen junior girls were screened by a representa¬ tive committee from the Daughters of the American Rev¬ olution to select Rocky ' s delegate to Illinois Girls ' State which was held at MacMurry College in Jacksonville dur¬ ing June, 1967. Dawn Detwiler was chosen on the basis of outstanding leadership ability, honesty, scholastic achievement, personality and character. Betsy Erb was selected as alternate if Dawn could not have attended. Mary Jo Boynton was elected to receive the DAR Good Citizenship Award by the senior class. All single senior girls were eligible for this honor. GIRL ' S STATE REPRESENTATIVE, Dee Dee Detwiler, and her alternate, Betsy Erb, sit by the symbol of government. MARY JO BOYNTON, DAR award winner, finds five minutes between classes enough time to go to her locker. UPS AND DOWNS at Rock Island Senior High School are exemplified by the seemingly endless stairwells.

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LAST YEAR ' S JUNIOR Marshals, Tom Chappell, Greg Gillette, Dee Dee Detwiler, Mary DEBBIE BRASIER SPENDS a great deal of her time Jo Boynton, plan on marching again this year as graduating Seniors in the gradua- behind a typewriter fulfilling the role of Rocky ' s tion exercises. Times-Democrat correspondent. FIREMEN ATTEMPT TO extinguish the blaze which destroyed 47-year old Clinton High School on January 6th, Rocky Senate donated $250. to aid in CHS restoration; meanwhile, CHS students attend junior high schools on a split-shift program.

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1968 Homecoming Royalty Mary Jo Boynton Following a tradition started in 1938, Mary Jo Boynton was named Rock Island High Schoors 30th Homecoming Queen on October 6, 1967. Her court consisted of Dawn Detwiler, Elizabeth Eagle, Dianne Eckhart, and Nancy Epperson. Petitions were taken out for forty-three Senior girls who desired to be a part of 1967 Homecoming Court. The names of twelve girls whose petitions received the required twenty-five signatures were placed on a ballot to be voted on by the Senior class. The royalty was then chosen from the ten remaining girls by the Junior and Senior classes. Mary Jo and her court received many honors from their fellow classmates. Class presidents Tom Chappell, Rick Miers and Susan Bundy presented the Royalty with the traditional gifts of roses, engraved charm bracelets and color portraits from Hains Studio. The Girls ' Athletic Asso¬ ciation also presented each girl with a corsage. Dawn Detwiler 18