West Salem High School - Hi Lite Yearbook (West Salem, IL)

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Class officers that year were: President----------- Vice-President------ Secretary-Treasurer Sergeant-at-Arms Class Advisor------ John Howard Evelyn Lawrence . Bonnie Mae Giese Clarabel Clodfelter Mrs. Van Horn In September, 1945, we came back to finish our last step of education at the W. S. C. H. S. Iva Lou Knakmuhs joined us from Parkersburg and Linda Sue Mc- Nelly from Newton. Those who discontinued their school work were: LeRoy Clark, Ray Slunaker, Linda Sue McNelly, Camilla Clodfelter, and Gail Stevens. Mary Ann Marx won the D. A. R. award for “Good Citizenship.” One of the Hi-Lites of the school year’s assembly entertainment was the big Minstrel Show put on in the gym by the Seniors. The entire class, in black face, participated. We had a Blue and Red contest on the sale of magazines to get money to help finance the Annuals. The Reds won, so the Blues treated them with a grab-bag Christmas party. We sold ads for the Annual successfully at Mt. Carmel, Olney, Albion, and West Salem. After putting out the Annuals, we had enough money to buy a beautiful elec- tric score board and time clock for the gym. Class officers chosen were: President Evelyn Lawrence Secretary-Treasurer Inez Poynter Sergeant-at-Arms Clarabel Clodfelter Class Advisor Mrs. Bassett Class Flower White Rose Colors Lilac and White Motto In Ourselves, Our Future Lies

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MEET THE AMBITIOUS TWENTY-ONE Stand back while time marches by clutching the hands of twenty-one inexper- ienced Seniors who move forward to take their places among the noted people of the world. Here’s Evelyn, whose personality traits qualified her for the job of being our A-l class president. Not too tall and recently streamlined, this blue-eyed mental top ranker hopes to be a nurse. She should make a good one, for neither hard work nor young men worry her. Even when a would-be suitor “bobs” up in her life, Evelyn refuses to let even that sidetrack her from her ambition. If brains, beauty, and ambition produce a good nurse, she will be one. Along comes Inez, our “shorty gal,” with the snappy eyes and a quick verbal comeback. She wants to go back to the Sunny South where the Longhorn cattle graze and rope one of those handsome cowboys—or an oil Johnny. Snazz says that either one will do for her. Her pet saying seems to be “Oh, my cow!” (Or should it be changed to “Oh, my cowboy!”?) There’s the two tall Marys who have been so closely associated throughout their school years that they have similar ambitions. Mary Marx, the dark-haired, dark-eyed one of the pair, expresses her ambition to be a private secretary and sit on the boss’ knee. Mary Provine, the auburn-haired one with the dark eyes, putting safety first, says that a chair will do for her, being more interested, at the present, in a certain soldier. Roy, the most important point of our athletic star, making sixty-seven points in one game, is the short, dark, and handsome one of our class. He plans to be an electrician and should make a good one because by now, we consider him shock- proof. He gets his fun where he can find it and life is just one funny hum for a trained electrician. If Roy continues his interest in sparking short waves and high lines, he’ll be doing O. K. And Adamae, it seems, is destined to become a school teacher. She must have been offended by her school teachers when she was smaller and now plans to get even one way or another. She is one of our 5 ft. 5 in. students. Her black hair and snappy eyes are quite characteristic of her personality. Big, blonde, blue-eyed Bill has expressed his ambitions to become a renowned radio news commentator. He, being the class orator, seems to have selected an air wave career for himself, and since the waves are out of the navy, Bill should be safe. Harold (Shorty), thinking of his reputation, is vigorously instilled with an ad- venturous career of becoming a member of the scarcer part of the people populating these United States and is eager to launch out with his fellow travelers and obey the call of the open road. Here’s to our hobo Harold!!! John, another of the five points of our star athletes, has revealed his ambition for becoming a coach. John, being envious of the good-looking coaches attracting attention says, “Maybe they’ll ‘a hubba a hubba’ me for a change.” There is no doubt about that either, for John has dark black hair and dark eyes. He’s a Romeo!!!