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

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Now we began the fourth and final year of our expedition. It was to be the most important year of our lives. Since it was so important we wanted very good officers to lead us. Our choice for Chief Bwana was Mike Pearson. The Head Guide was Fred Juras. The Interpreter this year was Jeanie Docherty, and Richard Jinks was the new Lead Porter. Mike Dawson, last year's Vice-President to the Peace Council, was promoted to President. Margaret Lindburg and Leonard Chard were also chosen to represent our organization. Since our organization was the most prominent and best organized in the territory, the entire population of the area decided that we should choose a king and queen from our membership. We picked the annual celebration and dance as the appropriate time for the coronation. Jeanie Docherty and Denny Dochterman were chosen to be attendants to Dave Slavish and Linda Holland, our first king and queen. This year our decorated raft received a fairly good third place. It was our turn to be the most PROMinent tribe in the region and the peasants honored us with a dance. Then to top off the weekend our whole group took a trip to the river town of Chicago. No one really got into a lot of trouble so it was well worth while. As the sun sank slowly in the North (our compass was broken), we finally arrived at our destination. The huge mountain was now a reality, and we all faced it with our eyes wide open, for we realized that this was to be the most important turning point of our lives. Written by 27

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Plunge Into The Unknown As our safari neared the great river separating the rolling plains of junior high country and the hot, steaming jungles of high school country, a great mountain loomed before our eyes. This great mass of granite and lava from a long extinct volcano seemed to take the shape of a young man and young lady, striding hand in hand toward the distant horizon. These imaginary characters appeared to be draped in long dark robes and flat-brimmed caps with a tassel hanging from each of them. As we stood on the bank of the river, gazing in wonder at this great mountain, we realized that this was to be our goal on this venture into the wilderness. After building a large raft from bamboo stalks and vines, we crossed the mighty stream. As soon as we set foot on the far bank, we were confronted with what we thought were members of the fierce headhunting tribe of that region. However, they turned out to be semi-bloodthirsty hunters of the Senior tribe. They seemed to have great fun in their ceremonial initiation party ; however, we didn't find it quite as amusing as they appeared to. We decided it would be wise to keep a touch of democracy in our encampment, so we held an election. We voted Mike Dawson in as our Chief Bwana (President), Judy Milks as Head Guide (Vice-President), and Eileen Frank as Interpreter (Sec- retary-Treasurer). We realized, however, that these officers would have to be changed at regular intervals. We all agreed that an election every year would be most desirable. We elected two of our members as delegates to the Peace Council (Student Council) formed by the neighboring tribes. They were Sheila Anderson and Fred Juras. The natives of the nearby village began to prepare for the annual celebration (homecoming in our country) which was held over a period of a week and ended in an athletic contest between them and a rival tribe. We selected Eileen Frank and Mike Dawson to represent us at the big ceremonial dance. After many exciting times and a few harrowing experiences, another year came around and along with it election time. This year our Peace Council delegates were Letitia Klingebiel and Leonard Chard. Dennis Frye was chosen to be our Chief Bwana. He was joined by Denny Dochterman as the Head Guide. We wanted to distribute the duties a little bit more this year so we separated the position of Interpreter into two offices. Jennie Lou Sims was chosen as Interpreter (Secretary) along with Eileen Frank, who occupied the new post of Lead Porter (Treasurer). Again this year the big celebration came along, and Judy Simmon and Jack Spengler were chosen to represent our organi- zation. The natives of the area were especially friendly this year because they had obtained another victory in the annual athletic contest. The end of the second year and the midpoint of our adventure was beginning to come into view. The huge mountain became more than just a dream as it appeared to be almost within the grasp of our small group trying so diligently to reach it. The third year was a good year for our safari. We thought the wisest choice for Chief Bwana that we could make would be Mary Carlson. She was helped along the way by our Head Guide, Jim McManus. Also adding to our success was Eileen Frank, the Interpreter this year, and Norm Hultgren, the new Lead Porter. This fine staff of leaders was a valuable asset to our most prosperous year. Linda Holland and Mike Pearson were the delegates to this year's Peace Council, and Mike Dawson was elected to fill the post of Vice-President. This year our representatives to the native celebration were Eileen Frank and Denny Dochterman. The natives were getting friendlier and friendlier because the area natives were victorious again this year. Our raft was chosen for the most decorative theme in the jungle. We had to entertain the most PROMinent tribe in the region this year so we decided tohave a Tropicana dance for them. It was a tremendous success and everyone seemed to have a good time.

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Senior Class Will We, the SENIORS of Sherrard High School, being of sound mind, do hereby individually bequeath the following: I, SHEILA ANDERSON, will my ability in shorthand to BARBARA MACK and PATTIE NIMRICK. Good luck girls! I, RONALD AYERS, will my ability to have a different car every week to DeWAYNE FLYNN. I, RAYMOND BARNUM, will my knowledge of big words to DAVID and STEVEN ZWICKER, who never say much of anything. I, NATALIE CAMERON, will my pleasant disposition to SHERRY WHAN, MARY McMANUS, and ROSE FOSTER. I, MARY CARLSON, will my shy, innocent looks to ALENE THOMPSON. I, LEONARD CHARD, will my ability to be a leader to TOM SPENGLER and JAMES MUELLER. Don't let the school down. I, SHARON CLAEYS, will my ability to bring in profits and boost the school spirit by selling sweatshirts to LYNN CHARD. I, JOHN COLE, will my Woody Woodpecker laugh to DONNA KIRKLAND. I, MIKE DAWSON, will my position on Student Council to JERRY PARCHERT. Good luck, Jerry! I, DARIA DHAEMERS, will my ability to meet annual deadlines to SUSANNE SOMMERS. I, JEANIE DOCHERTY, will my ability to yell at basketball games to WANDA IVERSON, who never says much of anything. I, DENNIS DOCHTERMAN, will my blush to MIKE ANDERSON and GARY CAMERON, who are pretty good at it now. I, KAREN FOSTER, will my slender figure to LINDA CATHER and KATHY ANDERSON. I, EILEEN FRANK, will my cheerleading ability to ALICE KNESS. Keep up the good work, Alice. I, DENNIS FRYE, will my success in basketball to my nephew RICK BASALA and classmate JOE DOCHERTY, who don’t need it. I, CONNIE GRANT, will my ability to act up in classes to KAY KOESTER and CAROL RHODENBAUGH. WE, DAVID GOULET and VINCE HEBBELN, will our vast intelligence to JEFF LANGSTON and ROBERT LEWIS. I, EMMA HOLEVOET, will my Metrecal wafers to CHERYL SHEPHERD and WAYNE WARDLOW. I. LINDA HOLLAND, will my ability to stay off detention for four years to CRAIG AFELD, who is in dire need of it. I, JOYCE HUGHES, will my ability to get bawled out in English class to GALE SWINFORD, who never says a word. We, NORMAN HULTGREN and GREG ANDERSON, will our height to PAUL FRANK and JOHN ROBB. I, RICHARD JINKS, will my blonde hair to MARVIN PACE and DON McSPARIN. I, NANCY JOHNSON, will my decorative hairbands to SANDY ISAACSON. Don’t you think they will look attractive? I, JERRY JOHANSEN, will my ability in band to JANE CLARKE. Let’s see if you can advance next year. I, RICHARD JOHNSTON, will my friendship with Mr. Kenney to EUGENE PEARSON and BOB DeGREVE. I, FRED JURAS, will my perfect lab experiments to MARIAN MILLER. I, BILL KALE, will my heavy build to GARY RAATZ and JOHN HAJOSTEK. You better start eating boys! I, GARY KRAHL, will my light hair and complexion to RICHARD WEIHLER. I, RODNEY KRAHL, will my good looks to JOHN HOFFMAN and DICK ASH. I. LINDA LEANO, will ten free lessons on behavior to HARRY STROM. I, SHARON LEE, will my proprietorship of the Hastee-Tastee to DAMARIS MAYNARD. I. MARGARET LINDBURG, will my 4’ 10” to JANET ROBB, who could use a few more. I, JAMES McMANUS, will my freckles to GARY ADAMS and VICTOR MILLER to go with their red hair. I, HAROLD MARTENS, will my pretty eyes to BECKY McLAUGHLIN. I, MARILYN MEHALL, will my ability to get embarrassed easily to EDDIE ERICKSON. I, JUDY MILKS, will my ability to change hair colors to KATHY WHITLEY. I, DENNIS MUELLER, will my scientific mind to LINN KREBS. I, CHARLES MYERS, will my dimples to CAROL SCHMIDT and JAMES KOESTER. I, MIKE PEARSON, will my can of Right Guard to TOM McGUIRE, who will probably never need it. I, MARY PITMAN, will my neat clothes to SANDY OLSON. She already has a closet full. I, DON PLANK, will my ability to give hair-raising demonstrations in English class to CLIFFORD HARKER. I. HARLAN RHODENBAUGH, will my car to JUDY SCOVIL so Skip won’t have to hitchhike. I, KIRBY SCHMIDT, will my agriculture ability to JOHNNY and ROBERT WHITE, who don't need it. I, JUDY SIMMON, will my chain of supermarkets to DELPHA ANDERSON and LINDA MEARS so they can be Swedona mil- lionaires too. We, JENNIE SIMS and BUD WATSON, will ourselves to each other. I, DAVE SLAVISH, will my funny actions to MAURICE DEBACKERE so he can carry on next year. I. TOM SLAVISH, will my quiet drawl to SUZAN LAKTAS and SUSAN LAUGHLIN. They can really use it. I. SANDY SLEEZER, wiU my FHA ambitions to IONA HERGERT. I, JACK SPENGLER, will my love of younger girls to RON SCHNOWSKE and JERRY VOGLER who prefer them their own age. I, DIAN THORNBURG, will my athletic ability to LINDA BORST. I. GARY TINDALL, will my long dark hair to MARION KIRKLAND and ROGER FRANCK. What do you think they will look like girls? We, JIM WHAN and NORRIS YOUNGBERG will our ability to rattle on about nothing to SHARON BORST, who has everything clearly thought out. I, CHESTER WYNN, will my basketball suit to TERRY WHITE to make sure he has good luck next year. I, BILL ZIEMER, will my fine football record to JOHN MEISTER and BOB COLE. This will has been duly authorized and witnessed by: 'jM'rujL' ’.l