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THEBES TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL
1944 THEBIAN Alexander County Illinois Genealogy Trails Contributed by J. C. McNelly    DEDICATION To OUR GOLD STAR ALUMNI WILLIAM SHIELDS AND GEORGE KING, whose devotion to duty and loyalty to the highest American ideals, have placed upon us an everlasting obligation, we humbly dedicate this Thebian of 1944.
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YEARBOOK STAFF
Snapshots.................................................................................................Billy Ray WilsonEditor-in-chief...........................................................................................Connie Lee Brown
Associate Editor........................................................................................Claire Hoover Administration...........................................................................................Mary Hancock Senior Activities........................................................................................Mary Hoover Senior History, Senior Will and Senior Prophecy.......................................Senior English Class Junior Editor.............................................................................................Carlton Brown Sophomore Editor....................................................................................Wilma Jordan Freshman Editors......................................................................................Imogene & Irene Wilson Athletics....................................................................................................Mr. Marvin J. McDaniel Jokes........................................................................................................Betty Wilson & Peggy Robinson Calendar..................................................................................................Charles Swanner & Claire Hoover Art Editors................................................................................................Mary Hancock & Mary Hoover Typists......................................................................................................Mary Hoover & Claire Hoover Mimeographists.........................................................................................Mary Hoover & Nelle Smiddy Student Business Manager.........................................................................Mary Hoover Faculty Business Manager..........................................................................Mr. H. V. Lundgren Sponsor.....................................................................................................Mrs. Ruth T. Bing SCHOOL BOARD AND FACULTY  SCHOOL BOARD W. H. Clutts, Geo. Johnson, H. Cotner, G. W. Cartner, Bert Jordan FACULTY Mr. Harold V. Lundgren, Supt. Mrs. Lucille Busenhart, Mrs. Edna Walker Maisie Creech, Stella King, Alma Sutton, Myrtle E. Booth Marvin McDaniel Laura Rixman, Lulu Clutts, Ruth T. Bing, Marie Pott, Georgia Timmons Hobbs ADMINISTRATION Mr. Harold V. Lundgren, Thebes, Illinois B. S., commerce and Finance, James Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois M. S., Economics and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Social Science, University of Iowa Principal, Social Science Department Experience: 12 years. Miss Stella King, Thebes, Illinois Southern Illinois Normal University, Carbondale, Illnois Chicago University, Chicago, Illinois Pestalozzi Froebel College, Primary Training, Chicago, Illinois First Grade Teacher Experience: 32 years. Mrs. Georgia Timmons Hobbs, Thebes, Illinois Junior College Graduate, Carbondale, Illinois Additional work toward B. Ed., Southern Illinois Normal University, Carbondale, Illinois Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri Second Grade Teacher Experience: 25 years. Miss Myrtle Booth, Thebes, Illinois Junior College Graduate, Carbondale, Illinois Additional work, Correspondence courses, Kansas City, Missouri Third Grade Teacher Experience: 21 years. Mrs. Maisie E. Creech, Thebes, Illinois Southern Illinois Normal University, Carbondale, Illinois Fourth Grade Teacher Experience: 26 years. Mrs. Laura Mulford Rixman, Cape Girardeau, Missouri A. B., DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana Mathematics and Science Departments Experience: 4 years. Mrs. Edna Bagley Walker, Thebes, Illinois Southern Illinois Normal University, Carbondale, Illinois Music Department Experience: 1 year. Mrs. Alma Barnes Sutton, Cape Girardeau, Missouri Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri Fifth Grade Teacher Experience: 3 years. Miss Lulu G. Clutts, Thebes, Illinois Southern Illinois Normal University, Carbondale, Illinois Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri Junior High Teacher Experience: 26 years. Mr. Marvin J. McDaniel, Tamms, Illinois Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, Cape Girardeau Junior High Teacher Experience: 3 years. Mrs. Ruth Thomas Bing, Cape Girardeau, Missouri A. B., Kearney State Teachers College, Kearney, Nebraska University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Stout Institute, Menomonie, Wisconsin Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, Cape Girardeau Commerce Department Experience: 6 years. Mrs. Lucille Dillow Busenhart, Carbondale, Illinois B. Ed., Southern Illinois Normal University, Carbondale, Illinois English Department Experience: 1 year. Miss Marie Pott, Cape Girardeau, Missouri B. S., Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri University of Chicago University of Illinois Home Economics Department Experience: 17 years. SENIORS  Deryl Halbin, Mary Hoover, Frances Wilson, Val Jean Hudgens  Melle L. Smiddy Rose Mary Jordan  Roy Glenn Hopkins Mary C. Calvert William H. Burns  Franklin Bledsoe, Mary Hancock, Winston Wehmeyer, Charles Swanner JUNIOR CLASS  BACK ROW: Nadine Hood, Roy Bledsoe, Paul Gendron, Juanita Bennett, Violet Nemmo, Claire Hoover, Connie Lee Brown, Helen Jolley FRONT ROW: Jack Crain, Billy Ray Wilson, Herbert Bedwell, Norman Hopkins, Mr. Lundgren, Sponsor SOPHOMORE CLASS  BACK ROW: James McIntyre, Archie Ray Guess, Chester Lee Calvert, Eugene Monahan, Herbert Lovell, Simon Hancock, Bobby Bedwell CENTER ROW: Carl Underwood, Peggy Robison, Betty Wilson, Lucille Tinsley, Louanna Williams, Cletus Bedwell, Mrs. Edna Walker, Sponsor FRONT ROW: Rosemary Billingsley, Wilma Jordan, Delma Jones, Evelyn Caldwell, Catherine McIntyre, Virginia Burns. FRESHMAN CLASS  BACK ROW: Charles Wilson, Earl Wilmoth, Bobby Robertson, Ray Fisher, Walter Pedigo, Eugene Simpson, Eugene Brown CENTER ROW: Eugene Roseman, Leila Goski, Edna Dunn, Blanche Bledsoe, Elsie Marie Denton, Pearl Thompson, Mary Jo Simpson, Davey Lee Rothrock. FRONT ROW: Cecile Hopkins, Pansy Bailey, Virginia Wilson, Tommy Jean Simpson, Juanita Burns, Irene Wilson, Imogene Wilson, Eleanor Cossiboom, Helen Foutch. NEXT PAGE |
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