• Class Size: 598
• Top 10% made 4.1 or better grade average.
• Top 25% made 3.7 or better grade average.
• Baccalaureate Service: 6/3/62
• EHS's 91st Commencement: 6/8/62 - White Cap & Gown rental $4.90

• Colors: Gold and White
• Mascot: Raccoon (How could you forget?)
• Motto: Obstacles are things to be overcome
• Flower: Carnation
• Class Sponsers: Mrs. Hackmand and Mr. Mahnke

Prom Title: Stairway to the Stars

Prom Costs

• Tux $10
• Formal Dress $20
• Ticket $3
• Post Prom Ticket $4
• Corsage $5

Post Prom Title: Flight 62

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Read Tom's reviews in the Washington Post

First job was with radio station WRMN, in Elgin, at the age of 18. Ffilled the station's airwaves as disc jockey, local news reporter, writer and announcer. He later worked with Voice of America as a producer of broadcasts to the Far East.

Worked as Entertainment Editor at the Washington Examiner from 1968-1971. He joined The Washington Post as a writer in the Style section in 1972, was named chief television critic in July 1977, and was appointed TV Editor in June 1979. The Washington Post Writers Group has syndicated his column since 1979.

Has written for the Washington Post newspaper for several decades, and is generally credited for popularizing the idea of treating TV as seriously as theater or film from a critic's point of view.

During 1998-1999, was a frequent film critic for Morning Edition on National Public Radio. He was twice a guest co-host on the television show Roger Ebert & the Movies after the death of Gene Siskel.

Books

• On the Air! (1982). New York: Summit Books, a division of Simon & Schuster
• Legends: Remembering America's Greatest Stars (1989). New York: Random House
• Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live (2002), co-authored with James Andrew Miller. New York: Little, Brown and Co.

Received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1988, for his work at The Washington Post.

In August 2005, won Senior Stroke Play Championship Play at Shadow Hills GC.

Won the Colorado and Arizona State Senior Championships and qualified twice for the US Senior Championship.

How to be a Great Camp Counselor

This comprehensive, step-by-step counselor's manual includes great ideas: working with children, encouraging cooperation, and being an effective leader. This manual tells counselors exactly what to do and what to say within 3 minutes of encountering common camp problems.

Inventor/Co-inventor of 19 U.S. Patents

Society has changed since Al and Mike Odell grew up in the 40's and 50's. Old values, standards, technology, legalities, families, security, transportation, and life styles have evolved, many significantly so. As these changes continue at an increasingly rapid pace, it is intriguing to compare our past and present. In Brother Mine, Mike Odell explores his brother's life, and his own. Their personalitites, their work and their lives were different, but some things held them together - childhood lessons and childhood interests. From the beginning, they embraced technology, especially anything to do with wheels. From wagons, to bicycles, to cars - great cars, they found a common bond for life.

Author Mike Odell graduated from the University of Illinois with an MBA and retired after a 35-year career as an IT professional. Over the years he has written a number of professional publications and contributed to professional references. He has published articles in Victory Lane, the vintage and historic racing news magazine, and he has also written for Road Racers Magazine. His wife, Cindy, provided the illustrations for this book. The author lives with his family in Pennsylvania.

Mayhaven Publishing
ISBN 1-932278-03-6

Al Odell's widow, Linda Odell, formerly Linda Lang, graduated from EHS in 1962. Al graduated in 1959 and Myron “Mike” Odell graduated in 1961.

Bio

All works are either transparent watercolor on cold pressed paper or egg tempera (egg yolk and pigment) on masonite. I am comfortable with the materials used.

I am familiar with the methods and development of hues, contrast and composition. However, the final results are known only after completion.

Painting is my way of rediscovering the world - a learning process involving the ability to see, which is much more than looking with the eye.

Recent Awards/Exhibitions

2011:

• Award for Excellence; Art Fair on the Square, Belleville (St. Louis)
• Edgar A Whitney Award; American Watercolor Society, Salmagundi Club, New York

2010:

• Ed Karasek Award for best Illnois Artist; Art on the Square, Belleville, IL
• 57th Street Art Fair, Hyde Park (Chicago) IL. Nellie Hart Award for Painting and Sculpture
• First Place in Painting Greenwich Art Fair, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL

2009:

• Best of Painting: Riverwalk Art Fair, Naperville, IL
• Best of Watercolor: St Charles Fine Art Fair, Naperville, IL
• Award; National Honor Watercolor Society, Springfield Art Museum. Springfield, IL
• Fine Art Paper Award; Northeast Watercolor Society Exhbition, Kent, CT

2007:

• Finalist; Artist Magazine - Experimental Category
• Honorable Mention, Riverwalk Fine Art Festival

2006:

• Finalist; Artist Magazine - Landscape and Still Life Category
• Winner; Honorable Mention - Experimental Category
• Old Forge Hardware Award, Adirondacks Natl Watercolor Exhib., NY
• Lestor J Norris Memorial Award, Norris Cultural Arts Ctr
• Ed L Karasek Award, Art on the Square, Belleville, IL
• 1st Place Painting, Riverwalk Art Fair, Naperville, IL
• 1st Place, Art In Your Eye Art Festival, Batavia, IL
• 1st Place, Drawing, Plaza Arts Competition, Chicago
• Newcomer Award, 57th Street Art Fair, Chicago

2005:

• 1st Place Painting, Hinsdale Fine Art Festival, Hinsdale, IL
• Award of Excellence, Geneva Fine Arts Fair, Geneva, IL
• Finalist; Artist Magazine - Still Life Category
• Signature Status: National Watercolor Society
• Signature Status: Missouri Watercolor Society

Recent Collections:

• Dellora A Norris Art Galley, St. Charles, IL
• City of Elgin
• City of Belleville, IL
• Hemmens Auditorium
• Kenyon Bros Co.
• Elgin Cultural Arts Commission
• LECG LLC, Chicago, IL

Visit Dean's web site at www.hdeanwillis.com

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