Sullivan High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Sullivan, IL)

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Darrell, Bill, and Gary, frontg Laura, and Judy, jump in with Joth feet to build freshman shoe. Which girl do you think will get it? I think she is the prettiest, don't you? This window is sure to win first place. It's beautiful and so original. Seniors chose 3's a Charm for their theme and won third place with it. Our Lucky Clover, Marilyn Slover won first place for the juniors. For the sophomores, She's a Dream, She's Our Queen did very well and won them second place. Lynda,Squawof the Redskins was the theme of the freshman window. Before time to go to work on floats on Homecoming Eve, the cheerleaders and band ledahilarious snake dance around the square. The band was playing the school song, Hail, Red and Black, the people were yelling, and the siren of the fire truck that the football boys rode on was screeching as loud as it possibly could. f J unior's four-leaf clover idea holds true to bring them luck with first-place window. Tired, but still full of school spirit, the crowd :nded up at the football field for a very boisterous pep neeting. Yelling and laughter all died down when two lullivan gridiron boys brought in the player from Cerro iordo to burn in effigy. Finally the big day arrived. School let out at noon to that everyone could attend the parade. What a picture 0 see! The band majorette blew her whistle and every- hing started off. Sunshine reflected off the band instru- aents and was blinding to the eye. All the floats took Jeir places for the drive down Hamilton Street, around ie square, and down Main Street back to the high school. lach queen looked lovely as she sat on her float of tinsel, repe paper, and streamers. Building a float requires stoking the inner man, Philip, Barbara, and Robert find out. I3

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Marilyn Slover Junior Lynda Maxedon Freshman Homecoming, 1957, Sullivan High School's most glamorous event of the year, started off like those of ev- ery other year, with class meetings and queen nominations. All the beauty and personality in each class was looked over before the final decision was made. When the word finally came out who each candidate was, we saw that it was going to be a hard choice to make again this year. 12 Janet Whitaker Senior 1957 Homecoming Barbara Smith Sophomore 0 t Y Just because the nominations were over didn't mea that the excitement had died down. Homecoming Man ager still had to be elected by the student body. He he a lot of work to do and he claims the first dance with th newly crowned queen. We must be careful of our choice so we finally decided on Jack Buxton to manage th 1957 Homecoming. Practically everything else was forgotten during th Homecoming period. Window and float committees me in secret to decide on the theme that was best suited I their candidate. She must have the best representatio possible, and then some. Work on the windows was hard and fast in order I get them open by the deadline. Noon Saturday, Septern ber 21, finally caught up with the classes. They'r open! How beautiful! ! Nobody walked past ther without looking at the gorgeous queen and her magnificei window. Comments and questions were floating all ove town.

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1 RIGHT: Mr. Marrs and Barry roll out the white carpet. UPPER LEFT: Gloria, Jean, Phyllis, Rose Mary and Ka prepare to make a big noise. LEFT MIDDLE: Stanley Richard, Bob, Danny, Dick, and Tom turn to the fir chief profession. LOWER LEFT: Wanda, Pat, Gary, an Janet solve a float puzzle. It was a chilly night, but the stands were packed o both sides. Floats were at the south end of the field fo everyone to admire their beauty. Gridiron boys of th- team of 1932, the last Redskin team to win the Okaw Valle Conference championship, were honored guests at the foot ball game. Members of that team were Harmon Baggett John Ballinger, Richard Barclay, Harold Bathe, Williar Briscoe, Capt., Guy D. Carnine, Wayne Carnine, Loyli Davis, William Dwyer, Elmer Dunscomb, Richard Duns comb, John English, Hugh Grote, Ray Hollonbeck, Wilbe Hancock, Everett Keyes, Clyde Lilly, Pearl S. Lanum Howard Poland, George Poland, Richard Poland, Jac Poland, Thomas Pound, Joe McLaughlin, William Kinsel James Smith, Paul Wiley, PaulMcDavid, WilliamRichard Son, and Talmadge Reeser. Their coach that year wa, Clark Dennis. This year marked the 25th anniversary c that victorious season. The record for that year was the best Sullivan ha, seen in quite a few years. There were only three team, who scored against the Redskins that year, and they wer. Bethany, 7, Oakland, 65 and Bement, 7. Right before the game got underway, the queens wer driven onto the field in new convertibles. At last the tw teams made their entrance, and every man, woman, an child yelled at the top of his lungs. Both teams were doin their best to come out the winner of this 1957 Sulliva Homecoming game. Cerro Gordo was fighting hard, bi Sullivan was just too much for them. We finished vic torious, 19-0.