Waukegan High School - Annual W Yearbook (Waukegan, IL)

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F.t7',ii,gk., of 'A I . .. . ' I 1, I I -5 Top picture: FIRST SEMESTER PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Front Row: Astere Claeyssens, Jack Van Sickle, Norman Schwartz. Back row: Ernie Dickinson, Mr. Hurd, Pat Alex. Anita Lewis. Middle picture: SECOND SEMESTER PROGRAM COMMIT- TEE: Bill Thayer, Caroline Perry, Phyllis Voelpel, Nancy Doo- little. Mr. Hurd. Kermit Kramer, Io Anne Kirkham, Carolyn McKean. Bottom picture: AMATEUR NITE COMMITTEE: Seated: Pearl Stewart. Virginia Reed. Standing: Bob Tornquist, Rol- and McMinn, Charlotte Mix, Suzanne Johnson, Billy Holmquist. pumpkins as they played in a make-believe barn. Committee chairmen were: Betty Petti- clair, tickets, Loretta Nellans, decorations: Dorothy Winters, publicity, Ethel Bensen, music, and Lorraine Diebler, chairman of the chaperones committee. ll SPONSOR PRUTH MCFARLIN - For the Christmas program the club in- vited Pruth Mcljarlin, a colored tenor from Piney VVoods school in Mississippi, to give his renditions of favorite songs. Mr. Mclvarlin was so well received that he was invited to return in May for another appearance. Instead of the annual breakfast hike, this spring the club forgot tradition and trudged their way to the Bowen country club for a supper hike! After filling that cavern located below the lungs, with all kinds of goodies from hot dogs to hot chocolate, these ramb- lers, daring the sharp breezes, danced at the club house. What could have been more appropriate than a Pan-American theme for the twelfth annual banquet! Under the chairmanship of Florence Martin, the theme was carried out to perfection with gay serapes and som- breros, colorful posters, maps, pamphlets, offi- cial letters, and even products from our South American neighbors in the form of mangan- ese, tonka beans, tapioca, graphite, coffee, and many more. Interest for the evening was woven about the imaginary tour which left Chicago on a Clipper plane, went over New Orleans, fol- lowed the east coast of South America to Montevideo, then over to Santiago. The re- turn trip was up the west coast, through Cen- tral America, to Los Angeles, and home. Anita Perry introduced several distin- guished out-of-town guests, including the Argentian consul of Chicago, Senor Alfredo I. Ambrosini, accompanied by Senor Miguel G. Calderon, Mexican Consul-General in Chi- cago, and Mrs. Harriet Shanks Platt, president of the Pan-AmericanCouncil in Chicago. After the dinner in the cafeteria, over which toast- master Norman Schwartz presided, all guests went to the Iunior assembly where a movie, Flying Down to Rio, was shown as a fea- ture of an interesting program. Mrs. Platt enthralled the audience with an interesting account of some of her Latin American experiences. Last on the program was the dancing to popular strains in lr. 330. I-lennie Anderson was chairman of the corres- pondence committeeg chairman of the enter- tainment was Nancy Doolittle. Other commit- tees were Marian Elsbury, favors, Norman Schwartz, decorations, Vieno Sompii, invita- tionsg lack Van Sickle, programg and last, but far from least, Rose Yellen's menu committee.

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Passing Glimpses From History Club's Activities 1. Us on a Bus 2. Hail, The Gang's all here for is ii?j 3. All right. Eddie! So whcxi's the score? 4. All Aboard!! 5. Scared of the girls, Mr. Hurd? 6. Peek-a-boo. Marian. 7. Having a little trouble, boys? 8. He's lost the knack! lll

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RIGHT THIS WAY - On March 9, and again on March 23, tho club sponsored a refreshment stand in the lunior building lower corridors, selling hot dogs, hamburgers, and pop for benefit of the band. lean Cannon had charge of this under- taking when the district band contest was held at Waukegan on the two dates men- tioned above. Step down! was the familiar phrase heard during the week of March 29th, for at Iudge Beecher Gavels Night Court, contes- tants presented their cases and were tried for the Amateur Nite Prizes. Louis Molback, the chattering cartoonist, won first prize in the dramatic entrees with his sketchy line, and Lorraine Dunn won first prize in the Musical section when she tripped lightly up and down the scales in a light opera aria. Charlotte Mix, general chairman of this super-colossal event, had as helping committee chairmen, Billy I-lolmquist, program, Roland Mclvlinn, tickets, Virginia Reed, publicity, Suzanne lohnson, make-up, Pearl Stewart, judges, and Bob Tornquist, head of the stage crew. As a decorative note, girl ushers directed traffic while garbed in authentic policeman uni- forms. It was truly a whizz of a production! An assembly program was sponsored jointly by the History and Spanish clubs in the latter part of April. Miss ludith Lopez Diaz, born in Porto Rico and now a student of the Chicago Normal School, did the real thing when she offered two Spanish dances as her part in the program. Nancy Doolittle, chairman of this Pan American Day assembly, introduced the program with a short talk on the origin of this day. Committees worked diligently when they planned for the last two activities of the sem- ester, the spring trip and the spring dance. Gorial Douthitt, chairman of the trip, planned a rollicking itinerary and Lois Anderson, not to be outdone, swung the dance with all the vim and vigor that it takes! Top pis:lu'e: PIJXNNING FOR AKIATELIR NITE: Front run: Roland M:Minn, Billy Holmquist, Mackie Bcuman, Richard Turner, Pearl Stewart, Charlotte Mix. Caroline Perry, Suzanne Johnznn, Nancy Doolittle. Virginia XVI'-ritson. Second picture: TRIP COMMITTEE: Seated: Sir. Hurd. Katherine Homer. Carol Vlack. Charlotte Broun. Milo O'Dcll. Standing: Gloria Douthitt, Lauana Connell, Ken Kcllner. Inset: TICKET COMMITTEE: Roland McMinn, Laurell Piper, Virginia DeVoll-Q. Bottom picture: DANCE COMMITTEE: Betty Christe-nsun. Lois Anderson, Betty Ncwenham. Rosalie Levin. Betty Meukins. 113