Tuscola High School - Tuscolian Yearbook (Tuscola, IL)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Our class started the year of ’43 with sixty nine members, which soon diminished to sixty four. We fell back to our old grade school chums for officers and elected for President, Bruce Hayden; Vice-President, Raymond Owen; Secretary-Treasurer, Georganna Jones; Student Council Member, Patty Kennedy. We chose Miss Deer and Miss Frantz for our class advisers. Taking on at once the responsibility of club activities, we placed representatives In almost every branch of school Ilfe,including sports,music and dramatics. We thought that we should pass our class offices around, so this year we turned the President’s job over to John Rice; Vice-President, Miriam Lewis; Secretary-Treasurer, Betty Carrell; end Student Council Member, Betty Perkins and later, Tom Harlan. We took a liking to the male side of the faculty and chose Mr. Reuter and Mr. Cox as class advisers. We saw club membership increase considerably,and also we kept up our exceptionally good athletic ability, with many showing great possibilities in football and In basketball. Entering the year of the reception,we electod John Rice again as our President. To help in the year ahead, we chose John Logan, Vice-President; Robert Stonger,Secretary-Treasurer, Patty Konnedy, Student Council Member and our class advisors were Miss Grumbles and Mr. Router. Club membership increased by loaps and bounds. Several of the boys ployed on the first team in football and two ployed on the first team in basketball. We presentod the Junior Ploy, Double Exposure . Our reception was a hugo success with Bon Bradleyb orchostra and the gym docoratod in a Chincso design. And now comos the closing chaptor with another Senior Class graduating from T. C. H. S. To finish our high school ycor3, with the publishing of this annual, wo elected Glenna Jo Corley, President; Betty Carrell, Vice-President; Robort Stongcr, Secretory-Treasurer; Roy Owen, Student Council Member,and our class advisers,Miss Mcgnusson and Miss Sluss. During our lost yoar the class wont nil out for club activities. Wo sow new additions from the Senior Class in all activities ranging from Press and Debate Club to the Sports field. Our Senior Play, And Came The Spring,’ fitted right -in with the time of year ns well rs the antics that this day and age produces. In our yoars hero we have seen a greet wer comc and go v ith many of our classmates serving in the armed forcos. Wo hove scon many now ideas and inventions come into being for use in war and tho bettorment of the world in peace. Lot us hope that as wo go out into this war-weary world, that wo will be ablo to contribute to tho forward moving of mankind In tho years to come. John Logan