Westervelt High School - Westerian Yearbook (Westervelt, IL)

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J U N I O R C L A S S H I S T O R Y Early in the fall of 1942, as seventeen green Freshmen, we started on our journey of education, in an old farm wagon decorated with the class colors of red-white-blue. As we came to a turn in the road, three of our members got off and lagged behind. The trip ended and we had a short vaca- tion during the summer months, hoping to meet again the com- ing fall. In the fall of 1945, we once again journeyed through the rugged educational path. Some were walking and some were riding bicycles. - After we had gone several miles we stopped and had a party, with a treasure hunt for entertain- ment. Again we returned on our road of life. After we had passed the required' tests, we were pretty tired, so we stopped for another vacation. A cloud of dust, a puff of steam--with a bang--around the curve of WSuccess' came a group of adventure seeking Juniors In an old 'Model Tu in the year of 1944. we were crowded but we d1dn't care because we knew there was a striking future. 1 As we chugged along we decided to elect a few officers. Jo Ann took the wheel as president, Dick lent a helping hand as secretary, and Mary kept the paper well informed of our progress. To keep gloom away we chose a song, 'Swinging on a Star,n to be patriotic, A motto WA11 out for V1ctory,n and for a bit of beauty we chose the NGladol1a' as our flower. ' ' As we jagged along we met a peddler with some rings. We decided on a design and each purchased one for a souvenir As we strive for' success we get a bit tired and choose to rest. In the fell of 1945, we hope to meet for our last journey as a class.

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JUNIOR CLASSA PLAY The Junior Class play, 'I'm In The Army Now,W was pre- sented on November 30, The play was about an average Ameri- can family. Bronson, who was twenty years old, had to re- gister for the Army. All his life he had been his mother's pet and she was determined that he would not go to the Army. She did every thing in her power to get him deferred, but in spite of all, Bronson finally did go to camp. In the meantime, Pa Robertson had lost'a large sum of money, and was forced to go back to manuel labor. Ma Robert son and her daughter, Deanna, thought this was a terrible disgrace to the family. Then Bronson came home on furlough. He was astonished that his family was in such a predicament. He then decided to draft the whole family into a nprivate armyu of his own. Before he went back to camp, each one was doing some useful Job and enjoying it. Young Toby's actions and Granny's re- marks along with the rest of the cast made it a very enjoy- able play.