West High School - EOS Yearbook (Aurora, IL)

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T51 I wp,-,-T vi 2 rf yzaaenlal yzaalicllpallian . . . The ParenT-Teacher AssociaTion oT WesT l-ligh School had six meeTings This year To promoTe The welTare oT children and youTh in home, school, church, and communiTy. All These meeT- ings had excellenT aTTendance as The programs were exTremely beneTicial. The main purpose oT The P. T. A. is To develop beTween educaTors and The general public such uniTed eTTorTs as will se- cure Tor every child The highesT advanTages in physical, menTal, social, and spiriTual educaTion. The oTTicers Tor This school year were: Mrs. Clark P. Currier, presidenT: Mrs. MilTon E. Weil, TirsT vice-presidenT: Mrs. AlberT Thurow, second vice-presidenT: Mrs. Daniel VolinTine, secreTary: and Mr. A. C. Ridinger, Treasurer. l-lead oT 'he program commiTTee was Mr. Edgar Newman unTil his ,enTrace inTo..The Navy.. Mrs. MilTon Weil Then Took over The iob as chairman. Mrs. Thurow was chairman oT The membership com- miTTee, and Mrs. l-larshbarger was chairman oT puloliciTy. AT The TirsT meeTing oT The year Mrs., MilTon Weil secured Miss DoroThy Andrews, sTaTT as- sisTanT oT The American Red Cross, as The guesT speaker. Miss Andrews was presenT as an eye wiTness aT The bombing OT Pearl l-larbor. l-ler Topic was The Red Cross in AcTion aT Pearl Harbor . The second meeTing was TiTled EducaTion on The l-lome FronT . Leonard ApplequisT gave an inTeresTing speech on Aurora's DeTense ET- TorTs . The ChrisTmas Program, held December I5Th, was presenTed by The High School Music De- parTmenT. The A Capella Choir, direcTed by William PeTerman, and The WesT High Orches- Tra, direcTed by Warren FelTs, gave a brillianT concerT. The January l9Th program was posTponed because oT The severe weaTher condiTions and was held March I6Th insTead. Dr. T. P. STephens, presidenT oT The .Aurora College spoke on Higher EducaTion in War Time . On February I6Th The P. T. A. collaboraTed wiTh The band and sponsored The All School WinTer-Carnival. lT was a greaT success and The proceeds were used To pay currenT expenses. The lasT meeTing OT The year, April 2OTh, was cenTered abouT EducaTion Through ExTra Cur- ricular AcTiviTies . Mr. R. M. Bergman, principal oT WesT T-ligh, was The chairman oT The acTiv' iTies. Paaeai- 7eacfzeA 1444 'n LefT To righT: Mrs. MilTon Weil, TirsT vice-presiclenT: Mrs. Daniel VolinTine, secreTary: Mr. A. C. Ridinger, Treasurer: Mrs. Clark Currier, presidenT: and Mrs. Al- berT Thurow, second vice-president One oT The ouTsTanding acTiviTies OT The P. T. A. was The sponsoring oT The Co-I-li dances, which came inTo exisTence Tour years ago. Special crediT should be given To Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Powell, chairmen oT The Co-l-li com- miTTee, and To all The chaperons, who assisTed in making These evenTs possible. These dances have been successTul in providing supervised recre- aTion ThroughouT The year Tor large numbers oT sTudenTs. General commiTTees This year were Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Bacon, Tinance: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph l-lipp: Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Gibson: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Spurgeon: Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Schroeder, hospiTaliTy: Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Mar- kel: Mr. and Mrs. KenneTh Foulke: Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Cavins, welTare: Dr. and Mrs. Leland Anderson, healTh: Mr. Sam A. Lilley, legislaTion: Mr. and Mrs. l-l. L. Nicholls, paTrioTic deTense: Mrs. GerTrude SCOTT SmiTh, sTudenT aid: and Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Kaser, music. PAGE I5

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iaauzfm., ' ' cf Leff To righT, Tirsf row: Raymond E. Thorp, C. L. Valenfine, Helen Leigh, W. L. Gesler, Mrs. Emma C. Rice, Presideni' Frank C. Paull. Second row: Principal Ross M. Bergman, Samuel A. Lilley, W. M. WilleTT, Jr., Superinfendenl' Carl E. Larson, J. Allison Binford, Lyle H. Wilson, and E. Wallace Gibson. The Board oT EducaTion, always ready and willing To serve The comrnuniTy wiThouT any cornpensaTion excepT ThaT oT The saTisTacTion TelT in a job well done, is aT The head oT WesT Aurora's school adminisTraTive sysTem. Led This year by Mr. Frank C. Pauli, presi- denTg Mr. Wendell L. Gesler, presidenT pro PAGE I4 Tern: and Miss l-lelen L. Leigh, secreTary, The board iTselT, as is The cusTom, was elecTed by The ciTizens oT The communiTy. Theirs is The greaT responsibiliTy oT providing ildren and uphold- proper school TaciliTies Tor ch ing The high educaTional 1 sTandards They have seT Tor WesT Aurora. The Board oT EducaTion is composed oT Three main commiTTees - The educa- Tional, The Tinance, and The building and grounds corn- miTTees. The commiTTees supervise The employing OT Teachers, purchasing oT sup- plies, and Tixing oT Tax raTes and amounTs oT money needed To operaTe The schools Them- selves. This group oT people should be commended and Thanlced Tor underTalcing The greaTly re- sponsible Taslc To which They so unselTishly have devoTed Their Time and eTTorT. DoroThy Oliapal Recognized as a progressive educaTor, Superinfendeni' Carl E. Larson's primary concern is molding curriculum and Teaching meThods To achieve developmenT of every sTudenT's Talenis.

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Wwfaanal Jlanaa Same I'1eI::'so c s' ' s' o ' g mbe of H1 Class of N 'o IH BARBARA ANDERSON DAVID ARMSTRONG ROBERT BUTTREY KENNETH CAUGHEY BETTY CONES RUTH CURRIER FLORENCE DE BARTOLO ELIZABETH DEUCHLER ELAINE KOZLOSKI BETTY McVlCKER MORGAN MEYER KATHLEEN POTTEIGER JAMES RICE PHILIP RUBY JOSEPH SANTELLI UH llllllllllll a I On I' asl f S I'1oIar Iup, CIIBFBCIGT, Service and Leader hip, 'The foII wm me rs e l943 won membership ln +I'1e ah na onor Soclefy ANTOINETTE SCARPINO CARLEEN GORMSEN JOSEPH SKOM ANTHONY GREENE DONNA FAE HIPP BLANCHE SMHH JOANNE HURD NEAL A. SPRAGUE RUTH JANDA RICHARD VERBIC RQBERT JQNES JUNELLA VONCK BETTY KEARNEY LAWRENCE YELLIN PAGE I6