Westville High School - Janus Yearbook (Westville, IL)

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19 MEMOIRS 21 Editorial Staff Editor-in-chief ....... Associate Editor Business Manager Advertising Manager Boys’ Athletics ....... Girls’ Athletics ...... Society Editor......... Joke Editor ........... Art Editor ............ Literary Editor ....... Calendar .............. Dramatics ............. Photographer .......... News from School Paper Alumni ................ Department News ....... .... Lena Slazas Arpad Matkocsik Julius Matkocsik Agatha Yurgutis Fred Brown Parthenia Evans Mildred Ord . . Toney Redulis ...Jess Warnagis Paul Giacone Ruth Stark . Nettie McGinzy Anna Ludwig Barthel Williams Anna Ludwig ........ Faculty Class Officers President ..........................Arpad Matkocsik Vice-President .............. — Mildred Ord Secretary and Treasurer............ Barthel Williams Class Prophet.....................................Toney Redulis Class Will.............................. Lena Slazas Historian .............................. f au Giacone » -v

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19 MEMOIRS 21 Senior Class History In the year of 1917, we the Senior Class of ’21, entered the portals of knowledge at W. T. H. S. We were twenty-seven in number and perhaps as green as Freshies usually are. But the “greenness” soon wore off ard we showed the upperclassmen a few points in the art of making high averages in the different studies. The class as a whole took a decided interest in several phases of Athletic and Dramatic events. We started twenty-two strong in our second round of battle for education. We were now quite a bit dignified because we could look upon the Freshmen as the Sophomores had looked upon us. As the year progressed along, we were unfortunately handicapped by losing Petronella Yurgutis and Leo Henderson and we were compelled to finish our second year of high school life with twenty, which we did with a creditable showing. Our third lap of the journey commenced with Lena Slazas as our president. We engulfed ourselves into Athletics both boys and girls. Jess Warnagis played as Right End on our Wonderful Black Orange Eleven while Julius Matkocsik, Toney Redulis and Fred Dudley were subs. In Basketball, Fred Brown made Forward on our quintet with Julius Matkocsik and Fred Dudley subs. In the Girls’ basketball Lena Slazas was forward on the girl’s team and Nettie McGenzey was sub-center. A majority of our Junior class were on the newspaper staff. We also had several members of our class who featured in Dramatics. When Track season rolled around the whole class with the exception of a few small ones went out. One of our number, Fred Dudley, was elected Captain. In the County two of our class placed while one was nosed out at the finish. Fred Dudley winning the hurdles, tying for second place in running high jump and third place in running broad jump, while Paul Giacone won second place in the mile run. Three out of four track members that went to Charleston and State meets were members of our class. In the inter-class track which took place in June we won by a comfortable majority being sixteen points ahead of our nearest competitor Cecil Simpson who represented the Sophomore class. This year was the best of the preceeding years of high school activities, studies, athletics, both boys and girls, dramatics and oratory. Now that we are Seniors we continued our home stretch of our eventful journey with Arpad Matkocsik at the helm of the ship. In football all the boys earned a “W” and nearly all the girls were on the basket-ball squad. Basket-ball took two of our class while the rest of the boys with a few exceptions were on the second team. When the era for track comes we hope to make a fine showing for W. T. H. S. A great deal of our spare time has been occupied because we are putting out an annual this year which is to be known as “Westville Memoirs” —an annual which will speak for itself. Polo ’21