University High School - Clarion Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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fi' 1- qs: in ..., ,.. ,o THE ENTHUSlASTlC audience at an all-school party laughs and applauds long and loud after some seemingly funny entertainment. FUN Best Describes All-School Parties Part of the fun of going to U. High is the social aspect. Even the most studious pupils find an all-school party now and then to be a big riot ltranslation: a lot of funl. Entertainment at the parties ranged from dancing to readings, from songs to leg and hula- hoop contests, from skits to iust talking. A party at Cook Hall Cot coursel to acquaint new students with the typical U. High dance, began the informal social year. The Basket Ball, Underwater Fantasia, and a party at which Student Council election results were announced fiust before everyone went to Biloxil all came oft successfully. A May dance and the Class Night dance ended the year. ,v CHIP MCKNIGHT, king hula hooper, and Bob Spry watch as Nancy Wilson shows her talent. JOHN ACKLAND, master of ceremonies, laughs at the antics of Fred Lewis and Bob Spry. THE BERMUDA-clad group of Ellen Remsburg, Susan Landgraf, and Sherry Shirley performs.

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Griffith Receives Top Award DR. LOVELASS congratulates Chip McKnight as Chip receives the coveted David Gipson Award. Freshman Day, held May 14, began with registration in the lounge and an introduction to Dr. Lovelass and the Student Council officers for i959-60. Then representatives of U. High clubs told of their groups' activities and plans. U. High musicians entertained the visitors before lunch. ln the afternoon, National Honor Society members took the prospective freshmen on a tour of the campus and to the Awards Assembly. At the assembly Joan Griffith was announced as valedictorian and Karen Efford as salutatorian. Chip McKnight received the David W. Gipson, American Legion, and SAR awards. The Legion, Science, and French awards went to Judy Vetter. Judy Turpin was named DAR winner. Thespians elected Blake Leach Thespian of the year. The Whitehouse Cup for business education achievement was presented to Carole Gimmestad. Don Thompson received the Monroe Dodge Award for outstanding shop work. ln the field of creative writing, Ellen Rems- burg was selected from the Junior Class for the Williams Cup. Bob Brown, for his high score on the national contest, received the Math Award. U. High representatives to Boys' and Girls' State were Art Bonds, Jon Cummings, Tom Doman, Jes'sie Piper, and Marilyn Koepke. Memberships in Quill and Scroll, national society for high school journalists, went to Karen Efford, Diana Ritchie, and Judys Turpin, Vetter, and Walker. MR. BELL presents the Monroe Dodge Industrial NEW STUDENT Council officers, Art Bonds, Randy Rust, Arts Award to Don Thompson as Miss Huggins and Sue Myers, and Shirley Neeley, prepare name tags for all Miss Sailors check notes in the background. the eighth grade visitors. 16 1 9 W Q A.-.4 1 I A'

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Dancers in Clouds at 'Dreams Adrift' RIGHT: Rick Gutierrez dances with Susan Abbey to a number while an audience looks on. ABOVE: A group of dancers stops to admire the center attraction, a pond. . iv ,mga I ! ABOVE: Dignitaries of the Prom overlook banqueters. BELOW: Prom-goers are seen enioying the dinner Wayne McCormick gave the invocation which opened the 1959 Banquet and Prom. Bob Curry, master of ceremonies, introduced Junior Class President Tom Doman, who gave the welcoming speech. Joe Gauss, Senior Class President, replied for the seniors. After the banquet of fish or meat fProm was on Fridayll, Glenn Leonard played a drum solo and Dr. C. A. White, head of the ISNU speech department, spoke. Then at nine o'clock, Prom began! Dreams Adrift, the theme for the dance was carried out by paper seahorses, fish netting, and a green- haired mermaid gazing into a goldfish filled pond. Committee chairmen for the Prom were Jim Wilson, Bob Curry, Lynne Johnson, Nan Anderson, Arlene Gillett, Ellen Remsburg, and Martha Hunter. After the Prom, Junior Class Sponsor Mr. Almy stated, lt didn't surprise me that the best iunior class in the history of U. High put on the best Prom. This is a bit biased, perhaps, but l959 Prom-goers agree that Dreams Adrift was a wonderful Prom.