Shelbyville High School - Okawwako Yearbook (Shelbyville, IL)

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. . . an! ix term I we we many experiences of your school days will return, bringing with them memories of old friendships and happy associations. I have attended all the school affairs of this year. I know all of your classmates. I experienced the same anxiety over grades that you did. I held my breath as the basketball poised on the very rim and cheered myself hoarse at the tournaments. I know your teachers, and I thought them a pretty good sort most of the time. My knees shook when I appeared before the assembly, and I was scared stiff before the curtain went upn for the play. I also played on all your teams. Every club in our school listed me as a member, and I blew hard on my horn and sang lustily with the chorus. I am not only your friend, but I am, in a sense, you.

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QA y gli.. fax.. in zlzfll-f ...W I am a representative Shelby-High student. I have no definite substance, but I'm made up of the best qualities of all of you in the student body. I've never been seen as a single person, but I am representative of all. Perhaps I should be called the ideal Shelby- High student. Yet, I am not an angel, for who Wants to be an angel-yet? I think much as you think, and I feel as you feel. I have the same emotions and the same thoughts. My mind is no better than yours at its best. CI have tried to keep it above yours at its worstlj I am recording my thoughts and musings for you in this book. Sometimes I may speak as a girl might, at others as a boy. I shall try to make of this a friendly little book, so that when-in the future-you look through its pages, these

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FACULTY FOR SUPI:RlNThNDhNT xl. A. MANN Go-between for us on one side and public on other . . . Constant committee meet- ern . . . Fluent and frequent speaker . . . Chief substitute for missing high school teach- ers . . . Cvenial and steadying influence for school . . . Man of affairs. nderson, that man among menu . . . a take it or leave it personality. . . . Still losing hair! Goodness! . . . Is one swell fellow and a bang-up Coach. . .Batch- elder, our answer to a maiden's prayer . . . Tall, blonde, and handsome . . . Science and math lost him to Uncle Sam and the Navy . . . Battershell, our three wise monkeysl' . . . Knows all, sees all, tells all . . . Knows animals and soil and plants . . . Bedell, our principal . . . Firm believer in discipline . . . Respected and admired by those who know him . . . Miss Corley, inter- preter of English Qand all points Westj . . . Senior money, senior stand, senior pictures Marguerite Stienke Ruzl- Corley Bt-rnus li. liarrcrslie Marie Sliuck ,Inlm cifL'lgl1lllI1