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THE KEWANITE 1937 - Kewanee Public Library District

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JUNIORS<br />

<strong>1937</strong> Prom<br />

Time ... 8:00 P. M. ... place . . . Armory . . . what<br />

. . . the <strong>1937</strong> Prom ... a huge success . . . gorgeous scenery<br />

. . . bright colors . . . subdued lights . . . beautiful dance<br />

music . . . Joie Livek and his orchestra . . . <strong>1937</strong> prom will<br />

be hard to beat in future years in <strong>Kewanee</strong> High school . . .<br />

about equal to that successful prom of 1936 . . . Holland<br />

was the theme used this year . . . along the walls were<br />

placed panels on which were painted life-size portraits of<br />

Hollanders and Holland scenes . . . quaint milkmaids . . .<br />

Dutch windmills . . . tulips of every hue . . . green meadows<br />

. . . winding canals . . . immaculate cottages and street<br />

scenes . . . dikes ... a dike separating the spectators from<br />

the dancers . . . gray in color with a white swinging door<br />

in the center admitting the dancers to the floor . . . blue<br />

and white streamers from the ceiling . . . peak in the center<br />

. . . screen of streamers hiding spectators from jubilant<br />

juniors and dignified seniors . . . real shrubbery placed between<br />

panels . . . real tulips placed around the dance floor<br />

. . . beautiful revolving crystal ball . . . mellow subdued<br />

lights . . . ushers dressed in old-fashioned Dutch costumes<br />

. . . both girls and boys used as ushers this year . . . modernistic<br />

furniture in which weary dancers could sit and<br />

watch the others whirl past them for a dance or two . . .<br />

marvelous program during intermission . . . semi-classical<br />

songs by Crystal Van Hefte . . . popular songs by Sumner<br />

Mason . . . Donald Hepner and Madolyn Bengston tap<br />

danced . . . punch was served in a real windmill built in one<br />

corner of the floor . . . another big social event of the year<br />

closed . . . the last party of high school for many graduating<br />

seniors . . . and a fitting climax to their high school<br />

careers.<br />

Arvel<br />

Petty<br />

Ralph<br />

Rashid<br />

Grace<br />

Saunders<br />

Charles<br />

Schneider<br />

Jean Marie<br />

Utz<br />

Lyla<br />

Whitmore<br />

John<br />

Pillars<br />

Donald<br />

Reed<br />

Dorothy<br />

Shiltz<br />

Agnes<br />

Stahl<br />

Donald<br />

Wager<br />

Vera<br />

Winquist

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