VIT High School - Vitorian Yearbook (Table Grove, IL)

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Roy Van Fossen Lu Ann Ridenour Bob Smith Shirley Heath Leo Burks Rosalie Belville Gene Rector Lila Shaw Marcus Cox Vada Lou Kost Norman Miller Audrey Bottenb Darrell Lassw Janice Hughes Phil Sexton Sue Mitchell Don Anderson Phyllis France Marvin Reedy Pat Etter Gordon Alvadj Marilyn Easley Marlyn Jones Betty Walters Bill Easley Phyllis Huff Larry Atwater Catherine Weese Harold Hamn Robin Magee

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The Junior class elected their officers for the year and they chose Gordon Alvadj, pres.; Phil Sexton, vice-pres.; Marilyn Easley, sec. ;PatEtter, treas. In school activities the Juniors have been well represented in band, chorus, sports and declamation. LuAnn Ridenour assisted the cheerleading squad this year. A glue factory theme was used for the float they entered in the Homecoming parade. Sue Mitchell and Gordon Alvadj were King and Queen attendants from the Junior class. The class made money from the concession stands at basketball games and also from a paper drive. Brain-Storm” was the name of their class play presented April 5 and 6. The Juniors of V. I. T. held their Prom in honor of the Seniors, April 20. Mr. Payne was the sponsor of the class. J an i o r k c I a S S Kenneth Nobel Diana Payne Shirley Guilliams Clarence Shawgo Eleanor Walton Charles Hunter Shirley Roberts Addie Malott Willard Weese Louise Chenoweth Jim Wickert Marilyn Leonard Lloyd Green Barbara Robertson Ronald Easley Carold R ichardson Delbert Lalicker Sherrill Carrison Ronald McFadden Rosemarie Heaton Richard Hickle Beulah Long Sam Porter

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PRESIDENT: Gordon Alvadj (not in picture) VICE-PRESIDENT Phil Sexton Junior Officers Junior Class Play Brain SECRETARY: Marilyn Easley TREASURER: Pat Etter orm CHARACTERS; Willoughby Adams, 17...........Phil Sexton Inner Willy ..... Chuck Martin, 18.................Leo Burks Johnny Newton, 18 Harvey Downs, 18.............Ronald Easly Ralph Jones, 17... Coach Lloyd, 45..................Bob Smith Hank Johnson, 18. Sally Bishop, 17............Luann Ridenour Aunt Louise, 62 .. Aunt Olga, 60.Vada Lou Kost Aunt Hester, 64 .. Marybelle Tunner........Audrey Bottenberg Lottie, 17....... Marion, 18..............Sherrill Carrison Anna, 16......... Kay, 17.........................Lila Shaw Dorothy, 17...... . Roy Van Fossen ... Don Anderson .. Larry Atwater Darrell Lasswell Catherine Weese .... Diana Payne ... Betty Walters .. Janice Hughes .... Sue Mitchell Director Mrs. Garner Ass. Director Shirley Heath He's here again-that impish Inner Willy whom Author Bettye Knapp delightfully characterized in The Inner Willy. This time he's off to college — relentlessly goading poor Willoughby into becoming a man. Of course Willoughby needs just that sort of character around. Having led a sheltered life with his three maiden aunts, he'd become about as spineless a creature as ever there was. In the college dorm, he's the one who makes the beds and lends the money and clothes (until he hasn't even a pair of trousers to wear when his aunts arrive to visit). That is, until Inner Willy materializes. Then gradually - very gradually and painfully - Willoughby begins to act like a man. Willoughby has the makings of an athlete, a star football player; but he insists that he comes from a long line of .fainters”. And besides, there's always the danger of a smashed nose and broken bones and all. His three aunts agree; they even decide college life is too strenuous for their frail boy and insist that he return to the home town. And he would have gone, too! But there is a certain blonde - a college newspaper reporter, no less - who tries to encourage Willoughby to stay and become a hero. The college rooters, too, put the pressure on him; and of course there's Inner Willy, who twits and tortures the poor fellow with jibes like: Water on the knees, you know. The family tree had weak limbs. Small wonder then that Willoughby finally decides to stand up to his aunts and announce that he's going to stay and play football. Even those doubtful demures are happy when they see how striking Willoughby looks in a football suit. Most wonderful of all is pretty, blonde Sally's reaction - well ... not quite as wonderful as Inner Willy's disappearing act when he sees that the outer Willy has shed his shackles at last! 2B