Roxana High School - Rox Yearbook (Roxana, IL)

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Seated—Phyllis Venable. Susanne Ruskin. Elizabeth Rothe. Berna Dean Vincent, Norma Williams, June Southard. Beity Reed. Second Row—Bill Robinson. James Toner, Ivan Parrott, John Willeford, Clinton Pierson, Arthur Westerhold. Third Row—Dorothy Shattuck. Helen Sutton, Kenny Rethorn, Charles Wade. Joan Potter. Joyce Snow. Seated—Margaret Cutting. Ramona Franklin, Betty Bledsoe, Nell Ruth Bartlett, Norma Gilbert. Delores Frcezeland Second Row—Bill Denby. Bob Hay. Carl Foster. Rudolph Bland. Thomas Dona. Donald Becker, Denzil Dyer. Third Row—Dorothy Bartels, Dair Chapman, Hugh Baker, Roy Colyar, Paul Johnson Collins, Delores Franke, Irene foutch. Fifteen

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CLASS OF ’48 The Sophomores started the year with a light air of assurance, knowing that they had passed the ordeal of being Freshmen. They were ready to treat the Freshmen as they had been treated—lower classmen. During the year, they elected Norvel Mills as President. Francis Hunter as Vice-President, and Dorothy Bartels as Secretary. They didn't accomplish much in the way of outside activities this year, but have big plans for their Junior year. However, on March 8, they gave a Freshmen-Sophomore prrty, which was really a success. ★ ★ Seated—Lela Ruth Helmkamp, Shirley Longman, Loretta Lansford, Helen Miller. Doris Hay, Jean Hamilton. Margaret Howe. Second Row—Norvel Mills. Virgil Parker. Clarence Heffner. Wayne McBride. Everett Hay. Third Row—Dorothy McGill. Thomas McLain, Francis Hunter. Herbert McVey. Robert Knipping. Ima Jean Hubbartt. Fourteen

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CLASS OF ’49 The Freshmen—green as a bean, scared as they dared, giggly as they’re wiggly and as dumb as they come. These are the thoughts of the upper classmen. Of course, they were never Freshmen. Nobody ever forgets his first day in High School—their uncertain smiles and self conscious actions, the familiar awkwardness, and the anxious stares of the upper classmen. The complicated locker combinations seemed so unnecessary and trying” to the brain when one compared them to grade school desks. The halls were just too long to make it to classes on time, and the teachers seemed “so - - -so different.” Somehow they pull through, trying as high school may seem at first. Most of the boys turned out for football, basketball, and track, and pictured themselves as “stars of R. C. H. S. within the next years. Girls joined all of the organizations possible to get in the swing of high school activities and in favor of the teachers. Alas! Next year the Freshmen will be looked to as Sophomores by the new class. Firs! Row—Wilma Dwyer. Shirley Callison, Sally Gilbert. Rosella Crocker, Faye Franklin. Mary Ann Clarey. Joyce Dochterinan. Jane Frisby. Lois Ducrr. Second Row—Dick Dillow. Don Bean. Tom Avromovich, Lloyd Bishop. Dick Bland, Jim Davis. Jim Anderson. Bob Cutting. Third Row—Shirley Exton. Norma Acklin. Ron Bedwell. Joe Coburn, George Bakan. Lester Buford. Anna Buford. Melva Franke. Sixteen