Sycamore High School - Leaves Yearbook (Sycamore, IL)

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Lea Banks, winner of Science Award, 1943. lean Arison, winner of D.A.R. Good Citizenship award. ' Henry Stevens, another winner of Science Award, 1943. Our capable caretakers. Miss Paterson and the Magazine Cor test winners. Welll What's the matter, Ed? Now, Dr. Einsteinl Leaves Concert ushers.

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY replied, No, he has a life insurance policy. Continuing my tour of the village I almost fell over LaVice Grissinger who was sitting in the pathway with a ouiegie board. She was calling it names because it wouldn't tell her when her husband would be home. I never knew LaVice had such a temper. Along this same path there were trees lay- ing across the way. Directly ahead I saw a man powerfully swinging an axe against a tree trunk. The large muscular man was Carl Swanberg. He explained that he was the vil- lage carpenter, but that at present he was cutting down trees for exercise only. Before I had a chance to leave, a woman came down the road with a huge basket, bulging with food for Carl's lunch. No wonder he was such a husky man with a good wife like Mary Roberts to cook for him. As a hobby Mary did por- trait paintings. Later I came upon a group of laborers, who were ardently at work leaning on their picks and shovels. I saw the letters S. I. L. on their shirts, and as I drew nearer I found that these ditch diggers were Russ Taylor, Doug McLain, and Iohn Wellander. The S. I. L. stood for the organization of ditch diggers known as the Sniff Island Loafers . As we talked a woman in blue jeansapproached shouting, You men get to work there. What do you think this is, a kindergarten? To my astonishment the boss of the laborerswas Evelyn Scoot. I guess she is still ruling men with an iron hand. I went on my way. Eleanor Wolfe, her mouth full of pins, hurried by without seeing me. She was the dressmaker in the village and received much business after Ruth Town- send started the vogue for grass skirts. Ruthie began most of the vogues - the good and the bad. While the mothers were having new clothes fitted by Eleanor, they left their babies with Ruth Buzzell. Ruth was willing to take care of all children from the ages of one to twenty-five. Of course, she preferred the older ones. She was often hired by Alvina McAdams and Vera Angel, who were both married and had families of their own. For some time I had noticed small scraps of paper lying here and there on the ground. Picking one up I saw that it was covered with figures. These slips finally led me to one of the huts, in which Helen Taylor and Alice Giltner sat, scratching their heads over a pile of papers laying on the table in front of them. They paused to tell me that they worked day and night figuring out the income tax of the islanders. They were having no end of trouble. In desperation they consulted Beta Penrod's library, but as yet Evadine Benson, had not written a book on taxes. Beta Pen- rod, Evadine Benson, and Marjorie Westlake had worked up a profitable business together. Evadine wrote books, Marjorie illustrated them, and Beta ran the rental library. All books published by these girls had been read by lean Arison, now a profound thinker and philosopher. She could often be seen walking around in a trance reciting Moth- er Goose rhymes to herself. Outside of the settlement I came to the Hairless Monkey Farm owned by Elbert Scott and Donald Packard of F.F.A. fame. Elbert distracted the monkeys by pulling their tails and throwing water in their faces, while Don cautiously removed their hair with tweezers. These hair-ridden monkeys brought extremely high prices from zoos. Making my way back to the ship I saw a delapitated hut near a rippling stream. On the bank of the stream sat a bearded old her- mit, leisurely fishing and uttering the words, I hate women . After talking to him for a while he informed me that he was Bob Allen. It seems that after Marilyn had become a priestess, he decided to take up the life of a hermit just to spite her. As I left him there by the stream I could still hear him muttering, I hate women . Toward evening I reached the beach and saw a large sailing vessel anchored. Marye Faye Skelly and Blanche Hughes were on board. They were the proprietors of the Dive and Grab Pearl Company . They had found one of the largest pearls known to man, but had thrown it back into the sea because they could think of no logical way to divide it. After conversing with these two friends, I boarded the ship. I took one last look at the island. I wondered if the people of Sychoin- skidinski would ever leave this carefree life to retum to civilization.

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ROW l: James Ioslyn, Raymond Howe, Ruth Coan, Donna Brotcke, Dorothy Bleifuss, Miss Hulbert, Jean Chambers, Ieanne Denby, Thomas Fenwick, Paul Dunning. ROW 2: Wesley Iohnson, Grace Holt, Ioan Hoffman, Sonia Iohnson, Rose Hoffman, Sally Ellis, Peggy Geithman, Gloria Gregory, Doris Hamm, Pauline Hoffman, Robert Eklund, George Halsted. . ROW 3: Russell Iespersen, Albert Harris, Edward Cook, Watson Bennett, Dale Gustafson, Fred Iansen, William Giltner, Robert Bickford, William Binkley, Frank Carter, Calvin Doty, Donald Delsz. JUNIOR CLASS To add a somber note of dignity to the old alma mater, the Iunior class voted for dark brown sweaters with white letters. After a very long delay, the prized sweaters finally did arrive here, in spite of some people's morbid expectations that the factory had burned clown and no one would ever get them. The Iuniors are not all dignity as can be proved by the Iunior-Senior Prom, which was held on May 6. As the top social event of the year, the prom lived up to everyone's expectations, and much credit is due to the hard working committees and the able supervision of Miss Hulbert. Also on the bright side are the Iuniors who keep up the school spirit as a cheerleader, Nadine Randolph, baton twirler, Sally Ellis: flag twirler, Merrie Peterson: and members of the band who are as follows: Edward Cook, Ieanne Denby, Bill Giltner, Dale Gustafson, Fred Iansen, Keith Michael, Mildred Miner, Janet Pearson and Ruth lean Whitman. I The class is not lacking in athletic-minded persons either, and is proud to have such athletes as Wes Iohnson, Floyd Kocher, Ioe Minnihan, Carlton Whitney, Jimmy Roush, Watson Bennet, Bill Giltner, Bill Milligan, and others.