Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Top ROWePaul Wilson, Dudley Houdeshell, Charles St. John, William Weaver, Charles Troy, Gaylard Hendrick, Robert McCann, Harvey Tyrrell, Donald Peck. Third ROWeJohn Logli, Stanley Coral, LaVerne Rice, William Clark, Roger Sheets, Mr. Annis, Glen Harter, Robert Gibb, Guy Gilbert, W'alter Brown. Second ROWeWilford Calkins, Stella Zielinski, Vera Layng, Helen Strickland, Audrey Showalter, Fern Love, Marion Buchanan, Mary Dombkouski, Anna Naveroski, Lavona Lane, Norman Anderson. First ROWeEdgar Parkhurst, Ethel Gahm, Ethelyn Holzbach, .Felicia Lofquist, Lucile Belknap, Enid Roland, Viva Holmes, Frances Snyder, Jeanne Moore, Virginia Fischer, Forrest Bolton. Absent-Mary Jardine and Joe Haight. 8A Room 312 Live IDires It seems but yesterday that a group of timid strangers gathered in the Auditorium of the new Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School. Their hearts were fired with an ambition to reach a goal that could be dimly seen in the far distance. As they looked, they could see, along the highway leading to the coveted place, other groups of people. Some were traveling slowly and with difficulty. The ones best equipped seemed to be gradually working towards the front and there assuming places of responsibility. With this vision before them, the Class of Y7B-l organized with Mary Dombkouski as president, and chose to be known as the HLive Wires. Becoming familiar with their environment, all timidity vanished; and they began both to break and to make a record. Their ranks have been filled by recruits who have proved themselves worthy members of YSA-l. The first president was succeeded by Lavona Lane, who served most efficiently for two semesters and then relinquished the reins to Robert Gibb. Al- though the members of this class are now traveling together, they are beginning to see that the same goal will not serve for all, but that they all enter into a broad plain and from there each must pursue his own course. Page twenty-nine

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Top ROWMRObeft Eichelberger, Albert Early, Richard Paget. Charles Brown, John Fiduccia, William Rossartz Sherley xValker. Herbert Toleson, Carlisle Perrin, Karl Scharfenstein, Aby Pekarsky, uton 'ukas. Second Row-Ione Startnp, Lucile Bailey, Louise Heiliger, Annetta Breckenridge, Dorothy Miller, Ruth Flanders, Miss C. Scone, Evada Boyle, Ruth Hoifman. Krissie Fraley, Edna Levin, Violet Phillips. First Row;Romana French, Margaret Putnam, Katherine Snow, Helen OtBrien, Helen Sipple, Lillian Reynolds, Chyrell Alberts. Irene Leheau, Catherine Lange, Mildred Palmly, Alice Louise Schrader, Elva Youngberg, Maxine Ollman. Absentelrene Anderson, William Baccus, Nadine Light, Myrtle Stone, Charles Harr. 8A Room 204 The Busy 204's What a scene in the Auditorium on the first day of school in Sep- tember, 1924! We waited anxiously until our names were called and then we foilowed our teacher, Miss Claire Scone, to Room 204. We came from several West Side schools, but it took us only a short time to organize our group. We elected Richard Paget our hrst president, and decided on the name, The Busy 204's? In number the girls fairly over- whelmed the boys, twenty-three to ten. The fact was rather disconcerting at hrst, because scarcity of the supply always increases the demand. In the general shake-up 0f the second year, we lost a few members and acquired about fourteen new ones. Albert Early and William Bossart distinguished themselves in the had contest sponsored by the Student Council. We changed class officers, too, and elected Louise Heiliger for president. ' When we discovered that our attendance record was taking a downward direction, a court was established in our room to try the offenders. A conclusion was reached that being tardy because Hthe clock was slowh was a crime of the first order and should be punished as such. The ttbusy idea in our name was a good one, because we attained the 100170 mark in many activities and enterprises, and were rather well represented on the Honor Roll each quarter. Page twenty-eight

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Top Row-Gonsalo Leon, Frank Cichocki, Robert Schmeling, Mike Barota, David Fitzgerald, James ' Renaldi, Norman Green, Marlow Dodge. Third Row-William Scheerer, Earl Steffa, Stanley Frohmader, Ralph Pettibone, Alphons Urnezis, Arthur Mapes, Clifford Hoglund, John Warren, Frank Shifo, James Wright. Second RoweDorothy Hargraves, Marguerite Roedel, Dorothy Houde, Doris Pressler, Mrs. Mottier, Ar- lene King, Lila Day, Gertrude Matts, Harriett Eaton. First Row-Ruth Atchison, Lois Tobinson, Frances Damon, Josephine Hildebrand, Lucile Hyland, Evelyn Diamond, Florence Peck, Dorothy McClelland, Vitara Brown. Absentelrene Hill, Ella Gelezus, Dorothy Daine. 8A Room 1 14 The Eagles Room 114 is the cooking room for girls, but if you have never seen boys very much at home in such a place, just step in some day during Social Activity. Although it is over a year since we forty-one 713,5 were first assigned to Mrs. Mottier, the boys have not yet lost their initial inquisitivcness and desire to taste those tantalizing foods, the handiwork of the girl members. Nor can we ever forget those noisy stools! Those knives and forks on either side of the cooking desks were far too much for our curiosity. Indeed, you might well fancy for us such a name as Chefsf, But no, we adopted the title, HThe Eagles? How our student council representative worked for our club! Do you know about our big drive for HTeddy,s News and our marvelous success with the Yearbook? And how we eclipsed all other rooms in ads ? Our demerit chart has done much to keep our class well organized. Slackers in every phase of our work were voted out by black marks, but somehow very few have failed to be reinstated. Although we have had a prosperous year, we hope by our many experiences to accomplish still greater things another semester- So that we may e,er look back in many ways To dear old Junior High School days. Page thirty