Stockton High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Stockton, IL)

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Education is the key to the future. Introduction As students of Stockton High School we are gaining knowledge to help us through our life. As rockets and space flights become more impor- tant, so does our education. As the adults of the future, we must be prepared for whatever comes. Before you open this book of extra curricular activities, stop and think of the teachers and their devotion toward . . your education. The Contents members of the Faculty.................................... 12 Annual Staff hope Seniors.................................... 20 yOU will join us in Underclassmen .............................. 36 .. appreciation of what Sports .................................. 46 ........................................... 64 our teachers are do- Activities................................. 76 ing for us. They are Special.................................... 32 giving us our own Calendar....................................1®2 Advertisements..............................118 personal key to the future.

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American Field Service The idea of AFS in Stockton was conceived by Terry Neebel’s Student Council of 1961-62, carried on by last year's Council, and brought to reality by a central committee composed of Dr. Rachuy, Mr. Orin Arnold, Mrs. Harold Nagel, Mrs. Robert Taylor, faculty members Mrs. Thomas and Mr. Bretl, and student representative Bobbi Curry. Exchange student Winie de Veyra from the Philippines and com- munity host family, the Eugene Borsdorfs, provided ideal subjects by which to ensure an initial successful year. Winie was quickly incorporated into the student body and, after two semesters, left behind a con- siderably enlightened population. Contacts sincjj an overwhelming number of opporti communities. About mid-summer a bus 1 hosted by thirty-four Stockton f: goals. The exchange student: opposed to the artificial Hoi especially its host families And exchange students le; the Guatemalan). Mr. Harold Pa] as treasurer, Mrs. from the high schd return to the Philippines indicate that Winie has had re ytogJF merican experiences with several Filipino [esenting twenty different nations was st three-directional in terms of AFS ca as represented by Stockton (as ng people arrive). Stockton, and srent workings, of foreigners. Turk, the South African and publicity, and Mrs. Robert Taylor—Americ Mr. Bretl coordinating rs. H. C. Feltmeyer— mundThomases have graciously opened their home as AFS host family and Sabra Raza.of coursers charmingly filling the post labeled foreign exchange student. Sabra has been a benefit in the classroom, and will, before June, have attended some thirty informative community forums revolving about interest in India. Her alert, absorbing mind is molding a much more realistic and complimentary picture of an American of which she admittedly had formed an immensely distorted image. There is little doubt that we as a nation, though far from Utopian, have lost much in the translation. Foreign students, without exception, find us a considerably more human, more understanding, more un- selfish, and less power-hungry lot than our world-wide publicity would have us. We think Winie and dozens like her are correcting that condition in the Philippines. We expect that Sabra and the seventy-five others visiting from India will return to a similar task. In fact a total of 2288 young students from fifty-nine nations now representing the AFS program in America will next year be performing person to person magic all over the world, the ultimate goal always being international understanding. With the continuation of this goal in mind, new local officers have been chosen: President, Mrs. Eugene Borsdorf; Treasurer, Mr. Jim Creagen; Americans Abroad, Mrs. Omer Neebel; Student Repre- sentatives, Darlene VanDeWeerd and Arnie Finks. These new officers, together with the hold-overs from other standing committees, ensure AFS Stockton continued enthusiastic leadership for a third year in a longevity that will hopefully encompass years adequate in number to mitigate appreciably this old planet's awesome suspicions and hostilities. Peace, dear friend. World Peace. Americans Abroad--1964-65 Understanding, of course, is a two-directional. And so is AFS. We're becoming well accustomed to the exchange program bringing foreign students to the United States. We're less familiar with the Americans Abroad facet of AFS, even though Dick Neebel was chosen to represent Stockton in the Netherlands last year. This phase of the program is less familiar because a matter of stark economics makes it less feasible. Many nations represented in AFS are young and underdeveloped by contemporary U.S. standards, and host families are understandably more difficult to come by. But moving ahead optimistically, though with an awareness of the unfavorable odds stacked against their selection (since the number of finalists must necessarily be so few), five students applied for consideration. An Americans Abroad committee of eleven chose Ann Thomas and Darlene Van De Weerd as candidates for New York office appraisal. Ann expressed a special interest in the full school year program and Darlene indicated a special interest in the summer program. Neither girl stipulated any geographical restrictions. We hope that fate again smiles brightly over Stockton, permitting one of its two competent young candidates to actively participate in world understanding, person to person style.