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

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pow-wow r Senior Class h|istory On September third in the year ninteen hundred and thirty eight a group of very nervous and anxious boys and girls started on a long aeroplane trip over Fresh-land. Our crew consisted of Gene Glasscock as pilot, Isaac Walden, co-pilot, Irene Ashbrook in charge of the records, Howard Hamilton in charge of finances, Mary Maxine Bence in charge of the “ship’s log” and Miss Ridgley as stewardess. In a few days we landed for the all school party, which was really our initiation, but we survived and were soon on the “beam again.” It was not long before we encountered some “soupy” weather which proved to consist of Algebra, Latin, History, Agriculture, Geography and English. However these were not so difficult as we had thought and we fared our trip very well. In 1939, just a year later we again took up the pursuit of education as a group of forty-six with Mr. Turner as our advisor. The rest of bur officers were President, Junior Ethridge, Vice President, Emma J. Elliott, Secretary and Treasurer, Pauline Edwards and Historian, Lois Jean Bartley. Several of our students had moved away and others had come to join us. We were still the largest class in school and had more members in the Band than any other class. We were very proud that year to have our candidate, Mary Maxine Bence, elected for school queen. The next year at the same time we started on the third lap of our journey, aboard the clipper “Junior.” “Wild Bill From Science Hill” Bennett was our overseer with aviatrix Lois Jean Bartley as pilot, Irene Ashbrook co-pilot, Gene Glasscock in charge of reports on finances and Eileen Kercheval as the recorder of events. That year several students entered the district solo contest at Matoon. We put on a play that year entitled “Everybody’s Getting Married.” We all enjoyed presenting it with the help of our capable director Miss Midgett. The cast consisted of as follows: Gene Glasscock, Ross Bell, Pauline Edwards, Eugene Hughes, Eugene Ryherd, Lois Jean Bartley, Rose Marie Edwards, Margaret Ferguson, Maxine Lofland, Helen Spencer, Marjorie Butcher, William Antrim, William Edward Peadro and Warren Trigg. That spring we all enjoyed giving the Seniors a banquet at the Hotel U. S. Grant in Mattoon. We were very sorry to lose one of our classmates and vice president, Irene Ashbrook, that spring. She moved to Stewardson. In the year of ninteen hundred and forty one on September the third we embarked on the “Senior” Clipper to again take up the journey of education. We chose as our instructor and advisor Mr. Curry our basketball coach. The rest of our crew consisted of Eugene Ryherd, pilot, Harold Minor, co-pilot, Maxine Lofland in charge of finances and Gene Glasscock as “keeper of the lay.” Mr. Hall was chosen as Pow Wow advisor and Miss Ridgley as play advisor. We all sensed much excitement with the arrival of our pictures and rings. We were all saddened at the departure of several of our teachers this year but are glad that they are helping Uncle Sam. Mr. Hamer is in the Marines and Mr. Stark at Rantoul, Illinois, as civilian instructor in science. We are now looking eagerly toward the approaching opportunity of proving what we have learned but are saddened by the thoughts of leaving our friends. —Gene Glasscock, Historian WCHS = 1942