Streator Township High School - Hardscrabble Yearbook (Streator, IL)

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p Wll G ll y RyB W gRo t LtR40yD 1 Thd V t K Y Btt My hb Vg Hk Rag Na ywhlttr The National Honor Society Vlce Presldent Vlfglnla Harker Secretary Russell Fleldlng Treasurer Wllham Koemg The Streator chapter of the Natlonal Honor Socxety was organlzed ln 1934 Each year the faculty of Streator Township Hlgh School awards the honor of membershlp ln th1S society to approxlmately fifteen per cent of the graduatlng class Membershlp 1n thls soclety IS based on character scholarshlp leadershlp and servlce To be ellglble for electlon to the soclety a student must be ln the hlghest thlrd of hls class Although the group was organlzed late ln the year It has done much to JUSt1fy 1tS exlstence under the capable guidance of Mlss Mlldred Moynlhan Regular meetlngs were held after school on the first Monday of each month The first meetmg was devoted to the electlon of officers and the readlng of the constltutlon of the Nat1onal Honor Soclety The presldent appolnted George Powers Roy Brown and Paul1ne Melsenhelder on the Act1v1ty Commlttee Helen Whltlng Roy Dakm and Roberta L1st on the Fmanclal Commlttee Jean Bundy Ruth Scrogglns Vlrglnla Murray and Alice Armstrong on the Soclal Committee Ardelle Larlmer Nancy Wh1tt1er and Elleen Carpenter on the Publlcxty Commit tee The first mentloned ln each case was the commlttee chalrman The soclety sponsored a very successful dance on March 25 whlch d1d much to llghten the worrles of the Fmanclal Commlttee Bryant Brown chaxrman of the commlttee ln charge of the dance was ably asslsted by June Ranger and James Brown The members enjoyed the educatlonal games and travel talks at the spr1ng meetlngs A number of the group mterested ln dramatlcs pre sented late ln the year an orlgmal movle and several clever skxts ln the assembly Us Koenig, eorge Powers, Arde e Larimer, Br ant Brown, o rown, James Brown. Al Armstrong. ilbert Stevenson, Russell Fieldin , ber a is , ak'n. Murray, Jean Bund , Helen Whi ing. Pauline Meisenhelder, Eileen Carpenter. 0 nihan. Rut 'croggins, ir inia ar er, June n er, nc ' ie . I I President ......,............................... Wilbert Stevenson . . . . . . I , 1 , , . 1 . 1 1 . , . s 1 u 1 u , 1 1 , 1 0 u u u : , , 0 1 1 1 1 5 1 y 1' , - , 1 a 1 c 1 s 0 , 1 ,1 u 1 - ! 1 , , 1 . 1 a 1 , I I, -

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'77 SENIORS BRYANT BROWN ROY DAKIN President Vice-President ' 1' - f7f 1 ,IL , ,I V ,J JUNE RAINGER GEORGE NELSON Secretai y Treasurer MR SNOW MISS PURLELL Adviser Adviser The Memories of a Class Draw your chairs close to the fireside class of 38 Lets talk about the good old days when we were in high school Just as our fathers remember how they dipped our mothers braids in mkwells we too had special thlngs happen to us that have the individual flavor of our generation and of our own dear Streator High School As the fire brightens and we clear the smoke of time from our mlnds a plcture emerges from our dreams It is our freshmen dance embarrasslngly called a kids party We are surprised to see how small we are and how hard we are trvlng to look sophisticated We are dancing as though we really knew how Some of us are even trylng that daring new tep called the hop Now the music changes from Believe it Beloved to Lost in a Fog and our dream fades When the mists reassemble it is our Junior year We see in quick succession the processes of tearing down the older part of our hlgh school and erectlng the new with its proud auditorium and its convenient classrooms orchestras play swing music the dancers are swinging it and the girls wear swmg sklrts We wander on ln our dreams of the past and as always distance lends enchant ment Now we see our Junior Prom which seems like the best ever given It is a reflection of our era too a penthouse the Manhattan skyline There are more Jumor Prom memorles but our minds race on to our senlor year In the scenes that pass before our minds vse notlce that we are beginning to come into our own as we complete our high school work We have more act1v1 tles and we are more mature We see in pleasant dreams the arbor of vsistarla that is the background for the prom and agalnst It we see our friends ln their lovely clothes What happy days we are thinking At last the scene changes to our commencement the last occaslonl The memory of the solemn gray robed figures makes us want to laugh and cry too We see on each others faces the dawning reallzation of our newly acquired adult hood and it seems strange and new to us Nancy Whittier M If , . . 1 V I ' ' v 1 K4 !7 ' ' , . K! ' ,' Li, u ' s ,, 1 . , n ' . - Q u n . ' C6 ' ' 7! CK M' 77 . , , . . . , . It is now the age of swing, We can visualize the dances at which the Cl ' 97 ' CK ' ' ' 79 ' , KK ' YI ' , , L . i , i . , , i , 5 - . 0 .', , S. 1- L KI 'v ,y n u a u . , . I ' '

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