Sparland High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Sparland, IL)

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After our eighth grade graduation, the class be- gan to look forward to the day when, as seniors, we would be graduated from high school. We took the first step along the road toward that destination when we met in the fall of '44 as the greenest of the green freshies in the halls of S. H. S. High school life proved to be quite different from that of the grades. The first few days, we seemed always to be in the wrong classroom at the wrong time, but with the help of our sponsor, Mrs. Lockie Calhoun, we got straightened out and really began to enjoy ourselves. Our class in the freshman year was enlarged by seven, in that, although we had lost four friends in Betty Bertrang, Emory Dav- is, George Jarrad, and Doris Perons, we gained twelve new ones in Lavern Bogner, Emery Herridge, Herschel Furrh, Virginia Kimble, Aletta Lewis, Andrew Pringle, Delbert Streitmatter, Boyd Ward, Mary Lou Webber,Homer Lauderbach, Dean Hodge, and Rita Bogner. The next year, as sophomores, we enjoyed as much as that of our freshman year. With Mr. Harold Jones as our sponsor, we had several class parties and en- joyed some all-school parties also. The class that year consisted of twenty-four pu- pils: Luther Allison, Kathryn Appel, Lavern Bogner, Rita Bogner, Marilyn Brown, Mary Helen Brown, Donald Buck, Lewis Campbell, Earl Davis, Lillian Gibbs,Phy- llis Hawksworth, Emery Herridge, Dean Hodge, Homer Lauderback, Robert Jury, Virginia Kimble, Marie Belle Klingelhofer, Aletta Lewis, Alice Metzger, Andrew Pr- ingle, Delbert Streitmatter, Mary Lou Webber, and one new member, Darlene Hancher. The next year of our schooling was really a big one. What with working to raise money for the Chicago trip and the coming of the class rings, we were a very busy group. But with Hr. Merrill Dunn acting as our sponsor, we saw it through, successfully. As we entered the halls of S. H. S. the fall of 1947, we had at last earned the long awaited title of HSeniorsH. The year has been a very busy year. Grad- uation pictures taken, Chicago trip, basketball games, Commencement, etc. The class numbered nineteen.

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Then came the day of days! We passed from the fourth grade into the fifth, which meant going Uup- stairsui As we met our new teacher,Miss Fern Frank, there were in our group eighteen pupils including Luther Allison, Marilyn Brown, Lewis Campbell,Doro- thy Davis, Earl Davis, Emory Davis, Phyllis Dewalt, Eugene Ely, Joyce Goodale, Phyllis Hawksworth,Robert Jury, Elmer Lopeman, William Nighsonger, Edward Pear- son, and Robert Reginold. At the beginning of the 1941-42 school year, we again met Miss Frank, but this time as sixth graders. We were only fifteen strong that year, having lost Harold Brown, Joyce Goodale, William Nighsonger,E1mer Lopeman, and Robert Reginold, but we had also won two new friends in Mary Helen Brown and Robert Smith. When we again met, it was as seventh graders, in the grammar room with Miss Eleanor Bussell as our teacher. At that time, our group included Luther Al- lison, Kathryn Appel, Earl Davis, Emory Davis,Lillian Gibbs, Phyllis Hawksworth, Marilyn Brown, Mary Helen Brown, Donald Buck, Lewis Campbell, Margaret Hodge , George Jarrad, Robert Jury, Marie Belle Klingelhofer, Doris Perona, Robert Reginold, and James Sargent. Then the year of years! The term '45 - '44 saw us as dignified eighth graders and we began more than ever to look forward to graduation. When that night came, there were twenty young ladies and gentlemen on the platform. The class of '44 was as follows:Luther Allison, Kathryn Appel, Betty Bertrang, Marilyn Brown, Mary Helen Brown, Donald Buck, Lewis Campbell, Earl Davis, Emory Davis, Phyllis Hawksworth, Margaret Hodge, Robert Jury, Marie Belle Klingelhofer, Robert Reginald, Nona Snyder, Alice Metzger, George Jarrad,and Lillian Gibbs.

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Those to be graduated from S. H. S. in 1948 are Luther Allison, Lavern Bogner, Mary Helen Brown, Mari- lyn Brown, Donald Buck, Lewis Campbell, Earl Davis , Lillian Gibbs, Darlene Hancher, Phyllis Hawksworth, Dean Hodge, Emery Herridge, Robert Jury, Virginia Kim- ble, Marie Belle Klingelhofer, Aletta Lewi-s,Earl Oltman, and Delbert Streitmatter.