United Township High School - Skyline Yearbook (East Moline, IL)

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FCIREWURD Each school year brings a few changes to alter the traditional pattern of school life. Five hundred freshmen brought the enrollment to a record high of fifteen hundred students. This year's freshmen class will be the first class to graduate from the new building which the citizens of the district voted for in the fall. U.T.H.S. was not overlooked by the Asian Hu last fall. The deans were very busy for a few days writing absence excuses. Another unusual event was the snow storm which caused a traffic jam on the steps as several hundred students inched their way down to the busses waiting at the bottom of the hill. The Alleman football game and the basketball game with Moline were perhaps the most memorable victories of the sports year. The band students brought back twenty-seven first place awards from the district music contest. Platter Party on WOC-T.V. found many of our students dancing to and evaluating new rock and roll records. Rock and roll was still popular as evidenced by some of the records played at the after game dances: Wake Up Little Susie, Lollipop, The Stroll, Kinda Cute, and 26 Miles. The launching of the first sputnik was to some the biggest news story of the year and was a topic of conversation to some extent. The sack dress caused comment among those in- terested in the feminine fashions, but few appeared in school to take the place of the skirt and sweater. The Ivy Leagues for boys were popular. The Big Record seemed to be a favorite television program. No review of this year would be complete without mentioning Zorro who made his mark in our hearts and also on several blackboards and daily assignments. The staff hopes the 1958 annual has given a balanced and true picture of U.T.H.S. and that these pages will be memory pictures for years to come.

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L. O. DAWSON Principal GREETINGS TO THE STUDENTS OF U.T.H.S.: This year has been a good one at United Town- ship High School. Progress has been made toward the development of good work habits and scholarly attitudes generally within the school, School spirit and morals have been improved. The cooperative efforts of the teachers and students have produced a feeling of harmony and goodwill that make a good environment for learning, which is the busi- ness of the school. I congratulate all of you who have devoted your- selves diligently to the serious business of getting an education, and who have performed .your work with enthusiasm, with sincerity and with a sense of personal responsibility, whether the work was in the field of learning from books, or from people, or from the activities of the school. The staff of the Skyline, has in a very commend- able way, left for all of us, here within the covers of this annual, a record of what we have done this year. I am sure that this record will be of inesti- mable value and interest to all throughout the years to come. May it be a reminder to you of a happy, an interesting, and a prohtable year.

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