Windsor High School - Pow Wow Yearbook (Windsor, IL)

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-- lDOWrllm0W Senior Class History 'Twas May 31, 1979, in the town of Windsor, Illinois. There was an air of festivity over all, and large, imported cars and airplanes were arriving continually, bearing a stream of distinguished men and women. All were flocking to a small, buff-colored. beautiful, old brick building set back in a lovely green lawn. This building had not been in use for fifteen years and on the front was a placard saying Purchased in 1964 by the Senior Class of 1939 for their class reunions. Inside the dim old halls, 30 successful middle-aged men and women, the entire class, and by a wonderful miracle, the ten faculty members of their Senior year, were happily walking about glancing at the rooms and trophies, all of which remained the same, and wistfully reminiscing. Do you remember, asked one, how queer we all felt in the fall of 1935, when we assembled at the old high school to become the last Freshman class there? I can even re- member our first class officers-Paul Ellis, Ruby Veech, Ruth Ramsey, Anna Fay Her- ron, and Mary Munson. Miss Sutter was our able class advisor. We didn't have any hand until our Junior year, but I recall that Mary Munson, Jay Garvin, Eleanor Garvin, Betty Storm, Emma Hudson, and Anna Fay Herron were all in the school orchestra. Will you ever forget eagerly asked another elderly lady as she examined the rusty lockers, all the inconveniences of our Soph year, which was the year we started in this building. School began on September 21, but even so, the building' was unfinish- ed. There were only 31 of us that September, as compared with the 37 of our first year, and only three more dropped out during the year. Mr. Johnson was our wise choice for advisor and for officers we chose: Ruby Veech, Emma Hudson, Peggy Gordon, and Ruth Ramsey. WCHS was on the air over WDZ that year, and remember how excited we were! Several of our teachers left that year-Miss Sutter, Mr. Gibson, Miss Lilly and Miss Hood, and we were sorry to see them go. But how glad we were to see the last day of school which didn't arrive until June 11. We really began enjoying High School our Junior year, tho, didn't we? We had several new teachers that year-Crescy Turner, Gwendolyn Hammer, Mary Ann Gar- vin, and Russell Curry. Mr. Curry was our class .advisor and Miss Garvin coached our play, Find The Woman. Our officers were: Doris Hampton, Peggy Gordon, Louise McVay, and Ruth Ramsey. The newly organized WCHS band placed third in a contest at Greenville. Doris Hampton went to the All-State Orchestra at Champaign: and Anna Fay received first place in a piano solo contest at Normal and thus got to enter the State Contest. One of the group then inquired from their former teacher, the ex-Miss Garvin, if she remembered what a time they had in giving the Junior and Senior Banquet in 1938. This inquiry brought forth a volley of memories and each recounted their recollections led by the Peggy Gordon of school days, who began Well, I for one, certainly do. I happened to be on the committee who, with Mr. Curry's invaluable aid, saw to the arrangements. We held it at the U. S. Grant Hotel in Mattoon. Remember how excited we were to think that the event which we had so long awaited had at last arrived! Miss Ridgely was our only new teacher the next year and she took the place which Miss Walker had left the spring before, much to our sorrow. The group was silent for a few minutes as to the minds of each came the memory of the first day of school that year, with its sadness over the death of one of their well- liked classmate, Dwight Richardson, who had been with them from the first grade. In hushed tones, the elderly men and women, with their high school teachers, recalled the many qualities of that friend. 1939 Eleven