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

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FLORA MAE MAYER — “If smiling makes the world go round; She surely keeps it turning.” Joke Editor; Student Librarian 1-2-3; Band 1-2. MARJORIE I. McQUEEN “Margie” — “She is just the quiet kind whose nature never varies.” Joke Editor; F. H. A. 1; “Don’t Darken My Door” 3; School Librarian 1-2-3. BARBARA ALICE MOFFETT “Blondie” — “Though she seems shy at first sight, acquaintance brings delight.” Sports Editor; F. H. A. 1-2-4; Vice-President 4. KATHRYN LOUISE RICHARDS “Kay” — “Silence is more eloquent than words.” Activities Editor; F. H. A. 1-2-3-4; Chorus 3-4; Band 1-2; “Don’t Darken My Door” 3; Student Librarian 2-3. LORENE FAYE SCHULTZ “Wiener” — “Of easy temper; naturally good.” Pow-Wow Typists; Student Librarian 1-2-3. ROBERT SIMS “Bob” “You can't keep a good man down.” Entered Windsor Senior year from Mattcon; Track 1-2-3-4; Cross-Country 2-3; Rifle-team 3; F. F. A. 2; R. O. T. C. 1-2-3; Leiterman’s Club 1-2-3; Baseball 4; Chess Club 3. JOHN CARLTON SMITH “J. C.”— “All great men are dead or dying and I don’t feel well myself.” Pow-Wow Editor; “Don’t Darken My Door” 3; Football 2; Band 1-2-3-4; Chorus 2-3-4; Clarinet Quartet 1-2-3-4; Clarinet Solo 2; Saxophone Solo 3-4. CHESTER STILABOWER “Stillo” — “You cannot learn to be a comic — It’s a gift from the Gods.” Chorus 2-3-4; Band 1-2; “Don’t Darken My Door 3; Cheerleader 4; Intramural Track Award 2. LAWRENCE ARNOLD SWINFORD “Sweeny” — “I have a very brilliant mind, but the Faculty doesn’t know it.” Sports Editor; F. F. A. 1-2-3-4; Chorus 2-3; Basketball 3-4; Baseball 4; “Don’t Darken My Door”3; F. F. A. Basketball 1-2. CHARLES JOSEPH TIPTON “Joe” — “I’ll gradually get there if you’ll give me time.” Entered from Bement-Freshman; Chorus 1; Band 1; F. F. A. 1-2-3-4; Treasurer 2; Chorus of W.C.H.S. 2-3-4. EDWIN WELCH “Bud” — “Life’s too short to worry much, about your books and grades and such.” F. F. A. 1-2-3; Vice-President 2; Track 1; T-Football 2; Intramural Track 2; Basketball 1-3-4. BETTY I. WHITLATCH — “She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought.” Pow-Wow Typist; Chorus 4; Student Librarian 4. BEULAH RUTH WILLIAMSON “Booby” — “Nothing is so hard but search will find out.” Pow-Wow Editor; F. H. A. 1-2-3-4; Projects Chairman Section 14; Vice-President F. H. A. 3; President F. H. A. 4; Secretary 1; President 2; Vice-President 3; Secretary 4; Chorus 1-2-3-4; “Don’t Darken My Door” 3; D. A. R. Winner. DALE YOUNG “Abe” — “There is only one woman for me.” Business Manager; F. F. A. 1-2-3-4; F. F. A. Reporter 1; F. F. A. Secretary 3; F. F. A. Treasurer 4; State Farmer Degree 1948; Sectional State Farmer Degree 1948; District Star-State Farmer Degree 1948; Intramural Track Award 2; Judging Team 1-2-3.

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SENIOR PROPHECY Hero is the romance of a group of '49ers who had banded together for four years and on May 27. 1949 found themselves free to stake their claims in the world of tomorrow. Unlike the early ’49ers traveling in covered wagons, fighting Indians and thirsting on the desert the new ’49ers had struck it rich in an age characterized by atomic power, jet planes and world travel. Dominated by the same courageous spirit as the gold rush pioneers, our prospectors set out eagerly to find their respective gold mines. Ten years later we find that this group of twenty-five has panned the stream of opportunities and has found nuggets in different parts of the country. During this time, too, our retired principal, Mr. J. H. Dunscomb, has become an extensive traveler. Let us now go with him as he follows the trail his ’49ers have blazed. Before starting on his trip in 1959 Mr. Dunscomb visited again his Alma Mater. There he found that several of his last graduating class were on the present faculty. After the resignation of Mrs. Gwendolyn Hammer Walters, Flora Mae Mayer was filling the vacancy. Remembering how with a gleam in her eye, Flora used to tease Miss Hammer about Bill we suspected she would prepare herself for the local home economics position. Fortunately on the evening of his visit the final game in the Shelby County Tournament was being played at Windsor. Coach Carter’s quintet of six foot players easily edged out the competing teams and smiling “Brother” accepted the trophy for the school. Mr. Curry, the former coach, who was also among the spectators, seemed very proud of his one-time most outstanding basketball player. As the crowd of fans moved out of the gymnasium Mr. Dunscomb hesitated for a few moments to get another glimpse of the new plastic floor. Then looking up, he spotted a familiar face and knew it to be that of Vivian Kull Moffett. Accompanying Mrs. Moffett were her husband and three little towheads. Vivian explained that she was a very happy housewife and her husband had a good position in Mattoon. While Mr. Dunscomb was talking to the former class president of the ’49ers, who but Iris Hunt Schlechte should come up to greet him. Mrs. Schlechte said that after completing a course in nurse's training, she decided the gold mine of her ambition would be realized in matrimony and life on a farm near Strasburg. Iris and Howard, a former basketball star, are retaining their interest in the game, for they already have two boys that will grow up to be on the local team. Much inspired by the accomplishments these four prospectors had shown in the home town area, Mr. Dunscomb resolved to hit the trail Westward to discover the locations of some of the other ’49ers. His route took him first to St. Louis where he wished to call upon his son and family. Desiring especially to see his grandson of kindergarten age, Mr. Dunscomb visited the “Cox Nursery School.” Here he was very pleased to meet the supervisor, Bertha Cox, and to be conducted on a tour through the school. Bertha had always been fond of children and seemed quite happy in her occupation. As the conversation with Bertha ensued, Mr. Dunscomb learned that it would be possible to include Lorene Schultz in his '59 tour. Knowing her fondness for Wieners, he was not amazed to find that she was a proprietoress of a “Barbecued Wiener” establishment in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The distance between St. Louis and Cheyenne became less in Mr. Dunscomb’s mind as he thought of those juicy, tantalizing Wieners he would taste as he paused in his trail ride. While our hungry traveler was enjoying his special double order, Lorene remarked that oftentimes others in the original '49 group had stopped to patronize her business.

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