Clinton High School - Clintonia Yearbook (Clinton, IL)

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said she would be famous as an orator but we never believed it. Goodbye, I must go. Come down and see me. All: Goodbye. Come back to see us again. Ruth: It is time for me to get back to my hotel for a rehearsal. I certainly am glad that I came to see the Home this afternoon. When I retire I think I shall come here to live. But before I go, I want to ask if any of you have heard from Maude Jeffrey. Helen: Why, she became a stenographer and went to Washington, D. C. But the work was too hard for her and she is now on the stage. Ruth: Thanks. I hope we shall meet again soon. Goodbye folks. (Exit Ruth.) Bennie: (Looking through pages of an “Elite”.) Here is a picture of a model in the latest New York styles. It looks like Lacie Brown. She always wore the latest styles in High school. Louise: Yes, and Belle Kirby is a reporter for the Ameri- can. Arc you through, Bill? I am. I’ll take these out to Fay so she can hurry supper. (Exit Louise with potatoes.) Wilfred: If I don’t find a little bit less to do, I’m going to hunt up Bernard Trowbridge and join the I. W. W.’s. He always knew how to get out of any form of labor and is today the greatest living exponent of the I Wont Work’s. Marecce: Uncle Bennie, I think it is time for you to go and take your medicine before supper. Louise is so quick, she and Fay will have it in no time. Louise has ever been a good worker and before she became too old, she was the best aviator’s mechanic in the United States. (Exit Bennie assisted by Cecil. Mareecc turns to Helen.) Mareccc: Helen, you must stay and enjoy one of Fay’s suppers. She is a fine cook. Helen: Thank you very much. I will if you promise not to feed me ground glass so that Harold Pennington will get another case to boost his business. Undertaking is quite an extensive job, you know. (Gong for supper.) Marecce: Supper is ready. Come on, let’s go. (Exit all.) Dalefctctor (Ruth Griffin.) Classmates, Teachers, Parents, and Friends: The four years of our high school life have been wonderful years, but the past year has been especially wonderful. The condition of the world has made this a busy year, one is which we are stronger, nobler, for having lived. We think with joy of the rich experiences of our sojourn in old C. H. S.. and vve should not be normal students if we were not sorry to leave it. Yet wc cannot let this spirit of regret dominate us. For a great work lies before us—a work which needs us, and which will require our best and mightiest efforts. The world always needs young people, but now, when all energy is, or should be, concentrated on “making the world safe for democracy”, there is a double burden for us. At this serious time of great demands for competent workers, we shall find a great opportunity to “Learn to do by doing”. There is something for everyone in he country to do. We are glad to live in this crisis, when each one is put to such a severe test. But the educated person, the one who is more thoroughly trained, can of course do a greater work. For that reason wc are happy that we have had the advantages of this high school education, and are able now to take up something which will help our country and mankind in general; or to go on with our study and equip ourselves still further for the mastery. To you. Mr. Edmunds and the teachers of the Clinton High School, to the members of the Board of Education and to our parents, we are grateful. We now extend to you our sincere thanks for your aid in enabling us to be better citizens and more able to accomplish bigger, more worthwhile things in our course of life. It is our ambition to prove worthy of your splendid example and wc hope that we may never fall short of that ambition. PAGE TWENTY-TWO

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in progress? 1 thought I heard them yelling, “Go it, Red, ol' hoy!” Louise: Yes, I saw the boys going out to the diamond as ( came homc.That’s Red Lane’s son. He is just like his father, one of the biggest ball players in the history of Clinton High School. bill: Well, how do you like your new matron? She seems to be as lively as ever. I’.runic: Oh, she's as good for a matron as a toe-dancing chorus girl would be. Ruth, what do you sec outside? Ruth: Look, it’s so funny! There is little Mary Ellen fish- ing in the fountain with a pinhook. She must have inherited that trait from her mother. She was a great Fisher” in the old days, you remember. t Enter Beatrice. Marcccc following). Wilfred: Here’s Beatrice. She’s up at last. Come on. Beachy, and play for Ruth and Bill to sing. Beatrice : Why, hello, Ruth! Hello, Bill! Is it really you? (Shakes hands). Yes, I’ll play if you will only sing. [ Goes over to piano and sits down). I have wanted to hear you two sing again. (Opens music). Song: Ruth. Song: Bill. (Everyone claps and cails, “Encore! Encore!”) Cecil: Oh. don’t you remember that song we used to sing so much when we were Seniors? Let’s see, it went something like this. “Hoc, hoe, hoe your row,” or nearly that. Docs anyone remember it? Beatrice: I do. (Plays opening bars). Louise (Gets up and assumes a Golxc-likc attitude): Already, please. (Waves a knitting needle for time). (All sing, “Hoe, hoc, hoe your row!”) Bennie: My! Those old times! I’ll never forget that Junior-Senior reception. Those Juniors must have thought we Seniors never had anything to cat, the way they fed us. We certainly gave the Seniors a big time the year before with our “baby show.” Clyde: Remember that reception we gave Mr. Walters when he left? And how we wound Mr. Edmunds up in that game? We had some high old times while we were in High Shcool. (Someone outside calls, “Fresh Vegetables! Fresh Vegetables!”) Marecce (Calls through door)- Fay. Fay, go and get some tresh vegetables for supper from Harry! (Turns around) That i« Harry Ford, our vegetable man. He has a truck farm out near Kenney. Wilfred: Here come two ladies up the street. It is Helen Phillips and a tall, slim lady. She’s the minister’s wife. She was Veta Todd. They were married shortly after we were graduated. (Door bell rings. Cecil opens door. Enter Helen Phillips and Veta Todd). Helen: I met Veta down town and she was on her way up here for something; I thought I would come. too. I want to tell you I received a letter from Ruth Griffin today. She says she loves her work so much and is receiving a salary as high as any “movie” star. She is as well known as Marguerite Clark nowadays. Veta' I’m so glad to see so many of you here. I haven't seen some of you for so long. You’ll be glad to know that Twila Shinneman has not forgotten us, even though she is so far away. She’s out in Africa, now, as a missionary to the Hottentots. Wilfred: Have you people read the alumni notes in the last Clintonia? Leone Wampler is now Dean of Women at Yassar College. She has been teaching for a good many years. Rill: We are certainly scattered far and wide since we left the old High. I must leave now, for I have a number of calls to make yet this afternoon. I’m glad to have met so many of you ncrc. Good-bye. (Exit Bill). Ruth: Well, if you had told me Bill Draper would evei be so famous, I should have laughed at you. Look at Clyde there ile ought to be in Bill’s place instead of being here. But if he hadn’t caught such a cold from leaving the windows open too long while he was head draftsman in the Chicago National Bank, he might have been chief janitor there now. (Everyone laughs). Clyde: That’s no worse than some others I might men lion. There is “Tubby” Lowe down at the Illinois cafe. He's been there as head batterman for all these years while 1 am able to stay here in peace. (Exit Clyde angrily). Cecil (Who has been standing by the table, looking through memory-book): Doesn’t this remind you of our Junior picnic? Here’s that picture of John Scott and Glenn Leggett on that billboard out east of town. I can still remember how we sang coming in on the hayrack that night. Wilfred: We had our share of good times when we went to old C. H. S. I can’t believe they have as good a time up there now. Scientific research has done so much for modern schools. (Noise outside .Fay drops a knife before she enters). There comes the cook! I’ll bet she wants something done. You folks make me a general handy man around here. I have a big notion to go back to the sea. Bennie: Yes, Bill, that must have been an awful calamity to you when you were shipwrecked in the Panama Canal. (Enter Fay with a pan of potatoes and several knives.) Fay.: I want these potatoes peeled for supper. Bill, that’s a good job for you. Louise can help you, or Cecil, or Beatrice. Beatrice: Not me. I helped last time. Cecil' When I’m maid I don’t have to peel the potatoes. 'Phis is my week as maid and I’m worked so hard that I have scarcely time to breathe. Louise: Come on Bill. I’ll help you. (Takes pan from Fay and gives Wilfred a knife). Beatrice mustn’t soil her hands) They wili not look nice to play the piano and she wants to make one more Edison record before she dies. Helen: That reminds me. Bernice Davis, who became a great violinist, married her manager Iasi week and they’re going to Maroa on their honeymoon. Fay: Well, don’t be all day peeling those potatoes or you won’t get any supper. (Exit Fay). Beatrice: Fay makes such a fuss over cooking. 1 suppose it’s because she was Domestic Science teacher in the High school for fifteen years. Its too bad she lost her husband but we are lucky to have her choose to come here and cook for us. Helen: Oh, yes, you can’t guess who was in town today! Just guess! I’ll have to tell you. Oma Hartsock. She says that she and Bill have just celebrated their silver anniversary. You know she was the first one married out of the Senior class. Louise: Ha! Ha! I heard Helen Williams telling Irwin Clark today that Lucille Hartsock is travelling with Hagcnbcck and Wallace’s show’ as the living skeleton. Marecce: Well, her old pal. Ara Jenkins, is living out on Vinegar Hill. Her husband struck a vinegar well out there and they have made a nice fortune. Veta: (Rises and starts towards door.) I must be going home and fix supper myself. (Reaches door, then comes back.) Oh, I forgot! I have some tickets for a lecture to be given tomorrow night. 1 brought them up here for I knew some of you would like to go. The lecturer is Miss Aldora Stone and her subject is on Baseball for Women”. Mr. Edmunds always PAGE TWENTY-ONE

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