Sherrard High School - Ivy Tower Yearbook (Sherrard, IL)

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As We Grow Older Late in the summer of 1975, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Moffltt were at an ice cream social, being held at their former high school in Sherrard. They began discussing what the members of their graduating class had accom- plished after the graduation of May 26, 1959. They discovered the following about their former classmates; GEORGIA ADAMS is helping her husband run the Foltz Auto-Body Shop in Swedona. BILL ALEXANDER, a bachelor at 26, is president of.the Sherrard Lonely Hearts Club. MARY CAROL ALVIN has taken over as principal of the Preemption Grade School due to her mother's retire ment. JUDITH ANDERSON is chief-cook and bottle-washer at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Matherville. DUANE BAKER has taken over Mayhew's Station in Preemption and converted it into a gambling casino for th( rich farmers of the community. ALBERT CEDERSTROM and the former Miss Claeys have opened the Cederstrom Motel for Ford car owners on Route 46, south of Cable, JANICE CHRISTENSEN is married now to Matherville's most eligible bachelor, who still claims that he was tricked into it. SANDRA CLAEYS is now English teacher and Drama coach at R.M.A., where her husband is basketball man ager. DAVID COLLIER is now president of the Burlington Liar's Club, NAOMI DAVIS is earning her Nurse's credits in the WAVES while accompanying her Navy husband overseas, TERRY ENGHOLM is a highly-paid rocket tester. He made the first successful trip to the Moon. JAMES FOLTZ has given up his Auto Shop and turned to farming. Too bad his wife doesn't like to milk the cows. BARBARA GREGORY is a busy executive at Modem Woodman. She is trying to decide if June or August is the best month for a wedding. CAROL HAYNE has opened the Coyne Center branch of the YACKETY YACK CLUB. GAYLE ANN HUFFMAN is head nurse of the Dogtown Nursing Home for Bachelors. JUDY JONES and her husband and four children have formed their own band, known as the Carrot Tops . They play for all the school dances. JERRY JURAS has just completed his new book, THE EVILS OF OWNING A CLASS RING . He has ded- icated it to Nancy. DAVID LANE and his blond-haired wife are raising Angus cattle on their estate in Preemption. In his spare time DAVID repairs television sets. TWILA LARSON is now hostess on the Arthur Godfrey Show and sings all of the commercials. MICAELA LEMON has reopened Laktas’ Tavern in Matherville and is running a soda fountain. (????????) GAIL LINDBURG has become valedictorian of the University of St. Louis, where her husband, Darryl, is basketball coach. SANDRA LINGAFELTER has finally found her dream man in the IBM Department of the Sherrard Bank. MARTHA MARTENS is receptionist at the Idle Wilde Airport in Swedona. GARY McMANUS has taken over his father's implement store in Preemption and has Installed pool tables, roulette wheels, and pin-ball machines in the back room. CARL MILLER and his wife have opened Carl and Dot’s Drive-In Movie. It's a lot cheaper than going to the Memrl. CRAIG MILLER is now operating his own hotel in Aledo, which is called THE MILLER MANOR. DAYE ANN OLSON is still hostess at the Village Inn, where she is unsuccessfully chasing the boss, Larry. DAVID PEARSON is working on his '49 Mercury in his spare time. The rest of his time is devoted to his wife, Jannie. DOROTHY REDPATH and her husband are living in Reynolds on their chicken and noodle farm. SHIRLEY RIDDELL has just graduated from Harvard and plans to join her husband on his hog farm in Milan. CONNIE SCHUTTE is opening a Beauty Shop next to her husband's Barber Shop in Matherville. PEGGY SIMMON now owns the Pizza and Spaghetti House in Lynn Center. Good food but no parking space. MARSHA SLAVISH is very successful as assistant photographer for Paul's Studio. DICK SUNBECK has Invented a new medicine that will cure toothaches, the common cold, dandruff, and athlete's foot. NANCY TAETS is head Physical Education Teacher at the Air Force Academy in Denver. STEVE TAYLOR owns his own bulldozer and is constructing a super-highway from Dogtown to Cable and Swedona. CHARLOTTE VERBEKE has just announced her engagement to RICKY NELSON. CONGRATULATIONS! BONNIE WHITE has opened a night typing school near Yale University, where her husband is now President. HARRY WILSON has purchased a turkey farm south of Preemption so he can be near Doris while she finishe school. JAMES WITTER has received the U.S. Grand Championship Award for his cross between a Pollen China and Lanrace hog. GEORGE ZEITLER has won the Checkers Championship at the Olympic games that were held in Iceland. JEANETTE ZIEMER and her husband have returned from a three-year honeymoon to operate the Brown Chicken Farm at Preemption.

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In the tall we returned as a small class of forty-two members. This was quite a reduction from the sixty-eight green freshmen who entered the doors of Sherrard Hlgfr School in 1955. By this time, we were considered old timers . Our patience and industry had resulted in a large bank roll, an excellent educational background for the future, and the happiness that comes only from high-school years. The experience of hard work had almost completed our building. Only a few blocks remained. This final year was to be the last year of school for many of us; for the rest, it would be the foundation for college. The Senior year was really our year. To begin with, we were no longer second. We were first in all. We maintained a wonderful attendance record, we had a high number of students on the honor roll, and we were the leaders of school life. We set the pattern for other classes. We all learned by trial and error. We hoped that our last year would be of some inspiration to the future senior classes of Sherrard. Homecoming was a won- derful time this year. We were no longer attendants. Georgia Adams and Carl Miller were our Queen and King. The student council president was from our class. The Future Homemakers of America elected a Senior as president. We didn't wish to be boastful, but we were proud of ourselves. We worked and studied long and hard for what we had. We felt that dais was our reward for our building. It was almost completed and it deserved some praise. Some of our other activities this year included our play, Clementine, directed by Mrs. Trotter. It brought in a fine sum to our treasury. The magazine sales were also fun and exciting for both teams. Our class raised more money than last year's teams, and we are proud of the record. It seemed as if we attended all the games, all the dances, and got better grades than before. We did almost all we could to cram everything possible that was fine and constructive into our last year. Senior pictures were exchanged, collect- ed, and given to friends and relatives. At the end of the first semester we were aware of the closeness of May. Our building was finished—only the finishing touches remained. The Prom was a time of honor for us. The Juniors worked hard and provided a gay and happy time for us one Friday evening after our return from a wonderful trip. All the waiting and planning was well worth while. The trip was a success. Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Birkhead, for going with us. We then Pegan the weeks of finishing our studies, searching for gifts for graduation, purchasing new clothes, and remembering our high school life. Finally, May 26 was here. As the march played, we proudly walked up the aisle to the stage. We listened carefully to the advice and encouragement we were given from Mr. King and Mr. Trotter. Our guest speaker told us to face the future unafraid and to make our building accomplish its goal. A few tears were shed, hands were shaken, and happy hearts were filled with warmth and happiness as we left the ivy-covered towers of Sherrard High School for the final time. This has been our history, the record of the Class of 1959. We are proud of our accomplishments, grateful for the help and understanding from all the teachers and advisors we have had; and in our hearts and memories, we will forever hold the thoughts of the four wonderful years at our school—Sherrard High School. Recorded by Jeanette Ziemer

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Juniors Sponsor Junior - Senior Prom Nancy Smith When I Think I Speak.“ Dorothy Holcomb Talented in mis- chief making. John Hebbeln A finished gentle- man from top to toe. Cliff Gauley A woman like a cat-has nine lives. Elaine Myers Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Elaine Anderson Variety is the spice of life. Jim Neumann All great men are dead - I don’t feel well myself. Dave Miller A man after his own heart. Nina Rhodenbaugh Nothing is imposs ble. I Bette Doonan' All that blushes is not shy. Patty Lingafelter Wayne Wadsworth I have caught a Each man for him- heavenly jewel. self.” Ruth Davis Rolland Johnson It's past the size Men of few words of dreaming. are the best men. Jean Holtz Good night, sweet gentlemen,good night.” Ruthann Beaver I have my rea- sons. Ronnie Flynn A lad of quiet intellect! Sue Starcevich Et tu Brute Don Ray Brown Two is company. Connie Claeys My candle burns at both ends.