Tremont High School - Echo Yearbook (Tremont, IL)

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Industrial Arts Department • • • The year of 1941 saw a great change wrought in the Industrial Arts depart- ment of Tremont Community High School. In that year it was decided to elaborate a little in the equipment and rooms in order to be more able to meet the standards set up by the North Central Association. In that year, an organized class in Me- chanical Drawing, and an excellently equipped and lighted room was added to the department. The partition between the Industrial Arts room and the old mu- sic room was removed and the music room was incorporated as the drawing depart- ment. Five sturdy tables were obtained from the N.Y.A. camp in Bloomington, and a system of fluorescent lighting was installed. William F. Dragalin, formerly of Ed- wardsville High School, was hired to head the department. After a fine start in the fundamentals of drawing and woodwork, Mr. Dragalin left to become a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Naval Re- serve, and is at the present time, in Pan- ama. Mr. C. J. Foli of Morton was then hired to replace Mr. Dragalin and the depart- ment continued to progress. The first project undertaken by the boys in the department was the building of airplane models for the United States Navy to use in instruction of aircraft spotting. About 200 such model planes were accepted. They ranged in overall size from six inches to sixteen inches. At the beginning of the 1942 school year it was decided to further enlarge the equipment of the department. Since model building and the manufacture of small wood projects was to be the principal work, a new band saw, small circular saw, and a jig saw were purchased. Next a need was found for a good drill press, which was then added to the machines. This drill press, capable of being used on steel stock or wood stock, also has a shaper attach- ment for woodworking. By this time, the floor of the shop had become quite crowded. Mr. Foli felt that the huge circular saw and jointer were not only too large for our small shop, but at the same time were too dangerous to be used by the students. So, accordingly, these two machines were sold back to the company and in their stead a small jointer was purchased and a priority order was obtained for a fine new steel lathe, to ex- pand our shop into the field of metal work- ing. Also a sander is to be added to the equipment in the immediate future. There is also a special bench where the students who are interested in gas en- gines may learn the principals of one. He may also learn to operate the model air- plane motors which the school has pur- chased for the airplanes that the pre- flight class has built. Although we have made many projects, too numerous to mention, we shall name a few of the major ones. The main project of the Sophomore class (class of ’45), which the whole school may be proud of, is the garage they built for Mr. Waldon. A full scale model was first constructed and then in one full week’s working time the 14x20 foot garage was completed. As a reward for this the boys had a big sup- per and went to a motion picture at the expense of Mr. Waldon. About Christmas time the boys got together and made their mothers nice trays which will hold glasses. They also bulit the obstacles of our ob- stacle course, they installed a bull-pen for the grade school in the gymnasium, they built bookcases for the library, and a bi- cycle rack for the school yard, and they made a counter for the office of T.C.H.S. Although the boys deserve a lot of credit, as much, if not more, should go to the men who made the Industrial Arts Classes I and II what they are today. C. J. Foli, the person who made the change in the shop and who has supervised the work of the boys this year, is the head of the department. A great amount of Mr. Fob’s time is spent in the new Aeronautics department which was added to the curricular this year. Boys and girls are studying the me- chanics of airplane construction and per- formance. Gasoline engines have been pur- chased, and each student is building a model plane which will, when completed, actually fly. This class is now one of the most im- portant being taught in the school today. Twenty-two

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 Athletic Department • • • Tremont’s baseball record for 1942 ended in three wins and four losses. Seven games in all were played. The team did their training this season under a new coach, Mr. Schoenfeld. In the opening game, Tremont began the base- ball season by beating Hopedale with a 6-5 score. The game was played on our diamond. Our next two games, with Delavan and Minier, were both defeats. Delavan beat with a 4-2 score and the score in the Minier game was 12-4. In the game with Armington on our diamond, we were once again victors, this time with a score of 3-2. We next played Morton on their diamond. We were defeated. Mackinaw also beat us with a score of 9-2. This game was an out of town game. Tremont staged a comeback in their last game of the season by defeating Green Valley in an exciting game that ended with a score of 8-7. Green Valley was one of the strongest teams in the county. The scores for the baseball season for 1942-43 are as follows: SEASON RECORD Hopedale............5 Tremont.............6 Delavan............ 4 Tremont.............2 Minier.............12 Tremont............I Armington...........2 Tremont.............3 Morton.............14 Tremont.............6 Mackinaw............9 Tremont.............2 Green Valley .... 7 Tremont..................S Season's Record Won 3, I ost 4. Percentage of Games Won — .4288 The basketball team of Tremont Community High School this year not only won eighteen games out of twenty-seven, but also succeeded in pulling some spectacular stunts such as defeating Minier, who was beaten only four times in the Tazma League and two times in the Mackinaw Valley League. The team was well backed this year by its fans, as gas rationing turned out to be less a drawback than had been expected. At our return game with Minier, here in Tremont. a larger crowd pressed into our old gym than has ever before been seen. Roth teams fairly shook the rafters with their yells. Coach Schoenfeld put Hellemann, Capt. Jim Benson, McMakin, Cal Benson, and Stuber on the first team and they were ably supported by Rog- ers, Gardner, Hendershott, Koch, and Huette. These boys turned out a record we can be justly proud of. Tremont won fourth place in the County Tournament and would have probably gone farth- er had they not been handicapped by the loss of Cal Benson, who couldn’t play because of a bad knee. He was unable to play the rest of the season. In the Regional Tournament, we played in the semi-finals against Peoria Spalding because of our win over Mackinaw in the first night of the tournament. The high point in our 1942-43 season was when we were proud possessors of the cowbell and hatchet. We won it from Minier in one of the surprise games of the year for little did we know that we were to be the first to deal defeat to a strong Minier team. After winning the cowbell and hatchet, we beat Hopedale in a game on our own floor. Morton was our next opponent and they w ere defeated by a score of 25-19. We played Morton again during the Christ- mas holidays and once again beat them, this time with a score of 34-28. We then thoroughly wal- loped Green Valley in payment for the defeat they handed us at the beginning of the season. The score was 46-27. We came out victors in our next game, which was with Deer Creek, 42-25. It was the next game that gave the cowbell and hatchet back to Minier and left the whole county wondering if the game should have been an overtime or not. Minier won, however, with a score of 34-32. We sadly watched them carry off the much-prized cowbell and hatchet. In the Regional Tournament we played Mack- inaw and Spalding on the Pekin floor. In the first game with Mackinaw, we won with a score of 38-31. When Spalding beat us in the semi-finals the season was ended for the 1942-43 basketball squad. SEASON RECORD Waynesvllle . . . Tremont . . ... 57 •Green Valley . . . . 20 Tremont . . ... 15 Pekin . . 19 Tremont . . ... 23 •Mackinaw .... Tremont . . ... 17 •Delavan . . . . , Tremont . . ... 40 •Minier . . 2S Tremont . . . . . 29 •Hopedale .... . . 20 Tremont . . •Morton . . 19 Tremont . . . . . 25 Morton . . 28 Tremont . . ... 34 •Green Valley . . Tremont . . ... 46 •Deer Creek . . . . . 25 Tremont . . ... 42 •Minier Tremont . . •Hopedale .... Tremont . . Danvers . . . . . . 34 Tremont . . ... 47 •Armington . . . . . . 28 Tremont . . G las ford . . 23 Tremont . . ... 47 •Morton . . 37 Tremont . . Deer Creek . . . Tremont . . Washington . . . . 40 Tremont . . . . . 26 Green Valley . . . . 33 Tremont . . . . . 30 •Deer Creek . . . . . 27 Tremont . . •Mackinaw .... . . 14 Tremont . . . . . 34 •Delavan , . 34 Tremont . . •Armington . . . . . 17 Tremont . . ... 61 Atlanta Tremont . . Mackinaw ... . . 31 Tremont . . Peoria Spalding . . 44 'Demont . . 750 936 •Conference Games Average Points per Game......................34.67 Opponents' Average Points per Game . . 27.73 Percentage of Games Won — .667 Season Record — Won 18. Ix st 9. Tremont’s fans were led in their cheers this year by five girls. The team included three sen- iors. Virginia Schwinn, Lorraine Unsicker and Norma Fluegel; and two sophomores, Evelyn Schwinn and Frances Fluegel. Four of the girls wore maroon jumpers and white blouses. The center girl wore a white jumper and a maroon blouse. They were one of the only teams in Taze- well county to include acrobatics in their routine. When Norma Fluegel was unable to continue as a part of the team, Gladys Lockhart, a junior, took her place for the rest of the season. Twenty-four