Roodhouse Community High School - Railroader Yearbook (Roodhouse, IL)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Four years have passed since the class of '41 entered R.C.H.S. as timid Freshmen. During these four years we have learned much-not only from our textbooks but also from our experiences. Our freshman year was a happy year, and we felt proud to think we were big enough to be in high school and enjoy the privileges given to us as high school students. We started out by electing our class officers for the year: Bill Neal, President, Irene Smith, Vice-President, Marilyn Snead, Secretary, and Ross Tipps, Treasurer. Mr. Barr was our class ad- viser. Many of our class members appeared during the year in football, basketball, track, girhs' chorus, and speech work, besides keeping up the factor of most importance-scholarship. Having finished our freshman term we looked forward to our sopho- more year with a little more confidence in our abilities. We chose Helen Kennedy, President, Keith Northrop, Vice-Presidentg Junior Adams, Sec- retary, and Hortense Young, Treasurer, for our class officers. Mr. Paine was appointed our class adviser. Again this year we went in for many extra-curricular activities. One of our boys made the team that was one of the sweet-sixteen at the State Basketball Tournament at Champaign. Our Junior year was a year of planning for the biggest thrill of a Junior-the Junior-Senior Prom. We sold candy and other refreshments at football games--sometimes freezing and other times melting. We sold chances on a turkey-in fact there were not many ways left, by the time we got through, to make money. We elected class officers as follows: Harry Hannaford, President, Lee Maberry, Vice-President, Maxine Casteel, Secretary, and Bill Neal, Treas- urer. Miss Maras and Mr. Rockenbach served as our class advisers. On the night of May 28, the Juniors presented to the Senior Class their pride and joy --the banquet and prom. Since blue and yellow were the Senior class colors that color scheme was carried out at the banquet with blue and yellow table decorations and yellow tea roses. We chose as the theme for our entertainment and decoration the Pulitizer prize novel and movie hit by Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind . Marilyn Snead acted as toastmistress. The gym was decorated with a canopy which enclosed us and made us feel as though we were dancing outside under the starry heavens. We worked extremely hard, but all of us agreed that it was worth it. We did other things, however, besides arrange for the Prom. We had one member of our class go to the State Speech Meet in Verse, three girls in the sextette, and five boys on the basketball team which went to the Sectional at Springfield. Well, now it comes time to relate our last year in high school. Our senior year, so far has been a lot of fun. We are the oldest ones in high school now and have that feeling of, shall I say, superiority. But don't let anyone ever tell you, you won't have anything to do when you're a Senior because from the moment school begins the whole of the Senior class is in one big turmoil. However, we did take time in between activities to elect our class officers for the year: Lee Maberry, President, Helen Kennedy, Vice-President: Cleotta Smith, Secretary, and Frances Baker, Treasurer. Mr. Barr and Mr. Paine seem to have some curious attraction for our class. Mr. Barr started us out right as Freshmen and Mr. Paine continued with us as Sophomores. Now in our final year they are co- advisgrs of our class. This year we have done pretty well as far as extra- curricular activities are concerned. We have a mixed ensemble and boys' quartet both of which are composed of all Seniors: also five Senior girls in the sextette, tuba solo, high soprano solo, medium soprano solo, and baritone solo all of which were good enough to go to the state meet at West Frankfort. Five boys made the basketball team again this year and succeeded in going to the Sectional meet at Collinsville. Our speech contests have not yet started but we hope we will come out with flyinf! colors in them also. We want to live up to our class motto, We got it done ill '41 - Jo Ann Weinand.

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY The following articles about the Class of '41 of Roodhouse High School were turned into the McGee and McGee Star Times by their ace reporter, Willis Roper, Jr.: Harold George and David Thompson who joined the Northwest Mounted Police immediately after graduating are at the present visiting with home folks. An accident was reported this morning at the intersection of Morse and Palm Streets. A V-8 driven by a hit-run driver struck Junior Adams, throwing him to the pavement causing slight injuries. Adams, now world heavyweight boxing champion, was taken to the Hardy Hospital in Roodhouse where he will be cared for by a special nurse, Maxine Casteel. The driver of the car, C. T. Wilkinson, was captured four hours later by two Indiana State Police, Weldon Brown and Wayne Smock. Detectives Ross Tipps and Floyd Stone, are at present looking for the robbers who stole the priceless jewels of the heiress, Maxine Tiffany. James Williams, who won high honors in school contests playing tuba, is a second Benny Goodman. He is often featured on coast to coast net- work programs. His soloist, Jo Ann Weinand, is holding the country spell- bound by her splendid voice. A new book, The Habits of Other Countries is receiving world-wide acclaim. The author, Hortense Young, has just started on another round- the-world tour to collect more material. Two local boys, Charles Havlin and John McAdams, are new owners of a beauty salon on Clay street. They specialize in permanents for men. Loyd Hunt, Jr., a scientist living in New York, says he has perfected a process which can make automobiles from tinfoil. Lee Maberry has been elected President of the Kroger Grocery Com- pany and Cleotta Smith is his secretary. Our paper wishes to congratulate Keith Northrop, a National Guards- man who won 31,000 in a Lux Soap Contest by writing in 25 words or less- How I Keep My Schoolboy Complexion . Other competitors in the contest were two Harvard men, Harry Hannaford and Wendell Rochester. Our readers will notice an addition to our paper Lonely Hearts, Come Hither . All letters are answered by Betty Day and Margarett Preston. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Neal are expected to return tomorrow from their honeymoon which extended into Canada. The bride, formerly Marilyn Snead, has resigned her position as secretary for H. D. Barr. Her place will be filled by Frances Baker. Bill, will coach the Fighting Irish foot- ball team, beginning next September. Doris Foley, Mary Margaret Waddle and Betty Lee McKown are now hostesses on the big T.W.A. Mainliners between Chicago and Denver. Harry Woodson and Bill Roodhouse, partners in a large dairy west of Chicago are spending a few weeks in Roodhouse. They are looking for two milkmaids is what they hinted to our reporter which could be, we think, Maxine Summers and Mary Jane Morgan. Hazel Riddle will go back to jitterbugging for Hollywood as soon as she receives her freedom in her fourth divorce. Mildred Hoots and Helen Kennedy are now sole owners of the former Famous-Barr Store in St. Louis. Betty Jane Florence has just been appointed supervisor of a group of three orphanages in Michigan. A few of the class became teachers-Irene Smith is Professor of Latin at the University of Illinois, Juanita Barber, shorthand instructor at Gem City Business College, and Dorothy Masters teaches English at Illinois College. Mardell Hicks Blackburn and family are now settled on their new dairy farm which they have completely modernized. Our paper wishes to compliment the whole class on their fine success in the business world and hope that other classes of Roodhouse will be as fortunate. -15-