University High School - Tower Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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Sometimes classes get pretty interesting, particularly when teachers ask questions and get answers like these: Miss McDavitt: Can anyone tell me what causes trees to become petrified? Bill Benjamin: The wind makes 'em rock. Mr. Poland: What's the formula for water? Don Gresham: H2O. Mr. Poland: Then what's the formula for sea water? Don: C H2O. Mr. Ellwood: Tom, can you tell me where the Red Sea is? Tom Kinder: Yes, it's on the third line of my report card. In every high school there's a freshman class. In fact, we were all freshmen at some time fand tales of our own greenness still embarrass usj. However, we sure owe some tribute to those freshies -7 the largest class in U. High. What about- Frankie Abbott, who already sighs She's short, sweet, and beautiful Betty Baker, who is already an entry in many boys' date books Naomi Ruth Beeler, who already has a Sample of a man picked out for her Barbara Browne, who's got beauty and brains Frances Coan, who really stars at standing on her head in gym classes Bill Bunting, who worked until 8 o'clock on decorations for an all-school Paftl' Don Campbell, who's going to be a second Pee-Wee Reese Clark Cole, who's the boy wonder of Mr. D'Connor's gym classes Franklin Correll, who thinks doors are too low jack Donahue, who was the big political boss of Student Council Nancy Fearheiley, who is the talented artist of the class Freddie Lee Gardner, who has never been seen without his hair combed Ann Gooding, who of all the Freshies is the most interested in athletics Delmar Gottschalk, who seems to have a real basketball future Nellie Gray, who must have had a song named after her Charlene Hamilton, who really attracts those men H Norma jean Hannell, who raises sheep Bill Harsha, who is never seen far from Bill Anderson's Ruth Ann Herrington, who has someone's initials on her socks Bob Hillman, who is famous for his What's up, Doc? Tom jefferson, who will evidently be even more famous than Thomas jack jetton, who is known for his athletic knowledge Milt Kadlac, who shows the upper classmen how to dance Jim Laible, whom the teams couldn't do without Charles Lackowski, who even makes the college players sit up and take notice Patty Martin, who has the sweetest smile in the class Kathleen MacDonald, who really bangs out the Boogie Woogie Patty Taylor, who will probably take over Mrs. Wunderlich's job James Zaleski, who plans to be a chemist with DuPont when he graduates

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And just to contrast the U. High of the 90's with the U. High of the 40's, note the following facts: The N inetier 1. The faculty consisted of a principal and two assistants. 2. Tuition was high. 3. Curricular Offering 21. Foreign languages fEvery student was required to take four years of a foreign lan- guage, b. All other subjects Qhistory, civics, literature, Eng- lish, drawing, mathematics and sciencej were part of the curric- ulum of I. S. N. U. High school students were privileged to en- Housing Conditions A Housing Conditions roll in these classes. Extra-curricular Offerings A a. Literary societies of I. S. N. U. b. Athletics fbasketball and base- ballj c. I. S. N. U. lecture course 21. One room froom 12, N.W. cor- ner, main floor of Old Mainj was provided to accommodate the pupilsof University High School. They used the Normal University gymnasium for ath- letics. The Fortier The faculty consists of a principal and approximately thirty-eight in- structors. No tuition is paid-only an activ- ity fee of 35 a semester. Curricular Offering a. Required Subjects 1. Three years of English. 2. U. S. History. 3. General Science. 4. M unit of Speech. 5. M unit of vocational civics. 6. One unit of P. E. b. Electives chosen from the Gelds of : 1. Agriculture 2. Art 3. Biological Science 4. Physical Science 5. Business Education 6. Foreign language 7. Journalism 8. Home Economics 9. Industrial Arts 10. Mathematics 11. Music 12. Social Science O Extra-curricular Offerings a. Note the many activities pictured and discussed in this book. a. We now have approximately twenty-five class rooms plus a large and well-equipped library. We use the Cook Hall gym and McCormick gym for athletic contests.