Watseka High School - Watchekee Yearbook (Watseka, IL)

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F. H. A. Back row---left to right: Pat Nichols, Margaret Jo Nolly, Mary Norder, Jane Hess, Sharon Wolfe, Joyce Peters, Shirley Kohl, Shirley Spring, Barbara Ehrhordt, Lou Ann Ahlden, Gloria Gerber, Alice Collins, Shelby Varvel. Third row---Violet Floriant, Beverly Milar, Jane Davis, Carol Harrison, Phyllis Siebring, Cora Norder, Martha White, Marlene Garfield, Shirley Behrens, Phyllis Grice, Charlene Kuhn, Barbara Hamilton, Peggy Stone, Norma Luehrsen. Second row---Carole Graeber, Annabelle Thomas, Linda Hessing, Patricia Kissack, Mariorie Sweeney, Norma Graeber, Mary Ellen Prater, Gloria Howard, Diane Anderson, Dorothy Kaufmann, Nancy Cushman, Donna Vreeland, Helen Strean. First row-Miss Wilma Cluver, Betty Focken, Nora Starkey, Shirley Peters, Lois Watts, Bonnie Morecraft, Edna Marie Tincher, Sharon Eckstein, Jean Atwood, Delores Hoover, Janet Schaumburg, Caroldean Miller, Wilma Kaufmann, Pat Wall, Darlene Stone. Ever since I was iust a little papoose in my tribe I always wondered iust exactly howa squaw learned to do the work of a squaw. I was delighted therefore when I was invited to visit an F. H. A. meeting one day. You see, F. H. A. means Future Homemakers of America and I was sure I would get to see iust exactly how an Indian Maiden learns to keep house. Guess what? I was disillusioned again, for when I got to the meeting I found that the F. H. A. does much more than teach maidens how to keep house. The F. H. A. is one of the largest clubs in the school. lt has a total of 55 people comprising its membership. The club holds its meetings every third Friday of the month. Each year the F. H. A. chooses a theme upon which to build that year's work. This year their theme is Learning to Co-operate By Helping Others. They also adopted a club motto Toward New Horizons. The F. H. A. is planning a trip for its members in May. They are raising the necessary funds for this trip by selling taffy apples at basketball and football games. They also sold Household Guides for this proiect. In addition to its many other activities the club has a party every month. Some ofthe parties planned for this year are: A Little Kid's Party, A Christmas Caroling Party, Initiation Party, A Valentine Dance, and A Mother and Daughter Pot Luck. Miss Wilma Cluver acts as the advisor for the organization, and Mrs. Carl Gerber is the Chapter Mother for the F. H. A. 64 1-d

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Left to Right-- Standing---Mr. Orson Craxton, Mr. George Sprau, Jerry Nichols, Earl Garfield, John Weidert, Ralph Davis, Dale Davis, Jack Voigt, Wayne Meyer, George Warner, Charles St. Germain, Mr. Ralph Dodson, Mr. Robert Grant. Seated--Mi ss Wilma Harrington, Barbara Mason, Gayle Flesher, Gloria Gerber, Margaret Fay Esther Prange, Sally Brommer, Carol Roberts, Ellen Eastburn, Ruth Ellen Prevo. Omittecl--Howard Gordon. N.H. . While looking over the calendar of slated club meetings one day, l discovered that a pow-wow was held the first Monday in each month by the N. H. S. Now l had heard a lot about the N. H. S. but not enough to satisfy my information-consuming curiosity, therefore I made a mental note to attend the meeting. Finally, the hour of the big pow-wow arrived and at last I was seated around the council tables of the N. H. S. N. H. S., l soon learned, stands for National Honor Society. l learned that the National Honor Society is one of the most honorable organizations in the school. One must have a high scholastic average to belong to it but contrary to popular belief the qualification ofa high scholastic record ol one does not make you eligible to be in this society. No, there are four basic qualifications upon which the eligibility of a person is based. They are: character, scholarship, leadership and service. He must also have attended W. C. H. S. for one full year. The members of the N. H. S. are chosen by the faculty and instated after the end of the first semester of each year. The faculty makes its decision after judging the members which must be either iuniors or seniors on the four basic qualifications. Mr. George Sprau acts as an advisor to the orgmization. 63

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Om Left to Raghf-- - I Back Row---Edward Wesel, John Ash, Tom Davis, Bill McGill, Dick Milar, Bill Ash, Tom Qulllen, Clark Wockner, Dean Reichert. 3rd Flow---Jack Eighnor, Bob Strean, Carl Janssen, Bob Seggebruch, Cecil Minord, Varis Purkalitis, Phil Boekhoff, James Thomas, Tom Cavitt. 2nd Ro,w---Owen Zeigler, Donald Slater, Dale St. Peter, Jerry Minard, Alvin Bruns, Sam Foster, Francis Roberts, Glen Hoyer, Alan Weidert, Bob Tuttle. lst Row---Floyd Lankenau, Bill McTaggart, John Weidert, Weldon Bohlman, Ray Tuttle, Mr. Sprau, Wayne Neyer, Jerry Noonan, Eimo Norder, Lyle Wessels. F. F. A. FFA! Would you believe that three little letters like that could tickle a little lndian's curiosity bone? Well, believe it or not--they sure added an element of curiosity to this Little lniun Joe . l'm sure l would have died of sheer curiosity about those three letters if l hadn't finally discovered that they stood for Future Farmers of America. ' This discovery only served as an appetizer for me, however, because I then wanted to find out what this organization did. So what did I do? Naturally, l went to the F.F.A. advisor, Mr. George Sprau, and got some information on it. Now iust to satisfy your curiosity l'll tell you about it. One of the main aims of the Future Farmers of America is to help farm boys become estab- lished in farming and to train them to be useful citizens. ln order to help boys achieve this goal the F.F.A. sets up degrees of membership, which aid in measuring a boy's growth towards es- tablishment in farming and in becoming a useful citizen in his community and his country. The F.F.A. also sponsors public-speaking contests and parliamentary procedure contests, which help to train for leadership which is necessary in our democratic way of life. The Watseka F.F.A. Chapter centers its work around the activities of eight standing commit- tees are as follows: Supervised Farming, Community Service, Co-operative Activities, Scholar- ship, Recreation, Earnings and Savings, and Conduct of Meetings. The Watseka Chapter of the F.F.A. has 37 members. It has adopted as its motto this saying: Learning to do, doing to learn, Earning to living, Living to serve. 65