Tremont High School - Echo Yearbook (Tremont, IL)

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The Faculty • • • LYDIA E. KOCH (1930) Commercial Subjects Illinois State Normal University. JOHN A. GERSTNER (1933) Science Bradley University. University of Illinois. B.S. DOROTHY HELLEMANN (1933) Latin, Social Science, Girls’ Physical Education Knox College. B.A. Illinois State Normal University. University of Colorado. Colorado State University. N. NOBLE VANCE (1940) Music University of Illinois. Illinois Wesleyan University, B. Mus. C. J. FOLI (1942) Manual Arts. Aeronautics. Illinois Wesleyan University. B.A. Illinois State Normal University. American School of Aviation. ELOISE SCHNEIDER (1942) English, Dramatics. Illinois Wesleyan University, B.A. WALTER F. P. SCHOENFELD (1942) Mathematics, Athletics. LaCrosse Teachers’ College, B.S. WILLIAM F. DRAGALIN (1941) Faculty Member-on-Leave Bradley College. B.S. U.S.N.R. Eight

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HARRY E. STONE (1941) Principal, on I eave of Absence. State Teachers College, Valley City. B.A. 1’niv. of Illinois M.A. U.S.N.R. L. GORDON STONE (1942) Principal. History. State Teachers College. Valley City. B.A. Northwestern Univ. M.A New York I’niv., Ph.D. The Guiding Influence • • • Pictured on this page is the administration of our school. In the upper left is Mr. Harry Stone, the principal for the school year 1941 42. who is now on leave of absence serving in the United States Navy as Lieutenant j.g. Dr. L. Gordon Stone, upper right, has come to us from Illinois State Normal Uni- versity to act as administrator of the school and successor of his brother, Mr. Harry E. Stone. Our Progressive Board of Education has. during the last few years, added new equipment and ideas to T. C. H. S. They helped immeasurably in maintaining Tremont Community High School status as a school fully accredited by the North Central Asso- ciation and the University of Illinois. Not only has this standard been maintained but these men have given their time and ability to make our school a better and more en- joyable place to acquire the educational training so necessary today. One of the most important items in progressive education is the procurement of proper equipment with which to work. You will find before you have finished reading “The Echo” for 1943 that all of the departments of T. C. H. S. have received this year vital equipment which has made our school one of the most outstanding in this terri- tory. This equipment includes many pieces of machinery for the shop, new suits for the basketball team, several hundred dollars worth of musical instruments, great num- bers of books, reference material, maps, and charts, not to mention the stoker in the gymnasium and the filters in the high school heating plant. The faculty, student body, and patrons wish to express their thanks and apprecia- tion for the work done by the Board of Education. BOARD OF EDUCATION Reading, left to right: George Storrer. Elmer Hlld. Principal Dr. Stone, I r. J. P. Blumenschein, John Huette, Mike Beyer. Seven

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• • • Seniors Introduced to the student body as the on- coming amateurs of intellectual development, we, the class of 1943, have advanced to our present status of the social and educational dignitaries of the T. C. H. S. Overcoming the difficulties of primary school in the spring of 1939, we entered the folds of a more accelerated type of education in the form of the above named school, in the fall of the same year. For an unknown reason, unless for the green and innocent expression on our faces, we were not put through the cus- tomary embarrassment and indignities of a public initiation. Electing Paul Koch, alias “Goat”, as our first president, we were led by the same to a more enlightened and progressive form of life, which marked the advent of the peak of our adolescent period. Including the invitational wiener roast given the Freshmen by the Soph- omores. and the customary return party in favor of the latter, climaxed by the all-school picnic at the end of the year, we were the par- ticipants in common of many delightful events. With an unconquerable headstrong atti- tude, we entered our Sophomore year with full confidence in our ability of taking every ad- vantage of our dominating position over the seemingly inexperienced condition of the new Freshman group. Jim Benson’s electioneering and diplo- matic abilities won for him the much coveted position of Sophomore president. Jim was also a member of our baseball and basketball squads. With a great deal of success we experienced two parties, a wiener roast and a skating party, with the Freshmen during the beginning weeks of school. Following these, the class took part in a school dance and party led by the tactful and jovial Mr. Hull from Washington. Although weakened considerably, both men- tally and physically by the mid-term exams, the class, as a whole, withstood quite well, an epidemic of measles which caught numerous students in its grasp during the closing months of the school term. Accompanying our social activities was a growing interest in Sports. With two class members acquiring positions on the baseball team and several more having an overwhelm- ing desire to show their “manly” chests to the audience at the basketball games, the Sophomore class of 1940-41 will be well repre- sented in the sports annals of our school. Lorraine Unsicker was bestowed with the Presidential honors for our Junior year. With the customary class parties in the opening days of the year, we began our third year with fly- ing colors. In spite of the ever-increasing weight of our academic subjects, we managed, with a mini- mum of difficulty, to take part in the social activities of a school which had taken a de- cided turn to the more serious aspects of life, as our country had been drawn into the war. Marking the peak of our third year of high school was the play, “Christopher Bean.” given by the Junior class during the fall of the year. Looking forward to what was to be our most successful year of all, we closed our Junior year with the Junior-Senior class banquet, held at the Jefferson Hotel in Peoria, and the all- school picnic in May of 1942. Elnora Hofstetter came out on the high end of our election ballot at the beginning of our all-important Senior year. Given the whole- hearted support of our class, she led us uner- ringly through the greatest number of activ- ities ever experienced by the group. We had no difficulty in recognizing the hand- icaps of our meager class membership when we came out on the losing end of a rummage sale, although faring a great deal better on a scrap drive, in which our school surpassed its quota by a substantial margin. Advancing swiftly to a more permanent po- sition in life, and functioning more as a unit with every passing day. the class went through its remaining activities, including the Senior play, entitled “Claudia”, several all-school par- ties, the Junior-Senior Prom, and the all-school picnic, in a manner which foretold of the ad- vent of mental maturity. Two new members arrived in the ranks of the class of ’43 just prior to graduation. Rich- ard Van Horn and Joan Blumenschein, both juniors in T. C. H. S.. found that by complet- ing one credit in summer school this summer they will have the required units for gradua- tion and college entrance. By virtue of this fact, therefore, they graduated with the class of 1943. RICHARD VAN HORN (Dick) A Cappella Choir 1-2-3. Chorus 1-2-3. Photography Club 2-3, Soloist (voice) 2-3, Band 1-2-3, Junior Play 3, Stu- dent Council 2-3. Contest Chorus 2-3, News Reporter 3. Echo Staff 3. JOAN BLUMENSCHEIN (Doc) A Cappella Choir 1-2-3. Band 3. G.A.A. 1-2. Class Pres- ident 2-3, Photography Club 3, Junior Play 3, Hi Crier 1-2-3, Junior Editor 3, Contest Chorus 2-3. Nine