Frankfort Community High School - Red Bird Yearbook (West Frankfort, IL)

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CALVAG GILLESPIE DOROTHY JACOBS MARGARET LEPONIS LEON HENSON GRACE LAMKIN EDITH BEAUFORD RUBY WILDERMAN RALPH HINCKLE LELIA MARTIN- AURA RUSHING ARTY MARTIN NOBLE RAINS NANNIE JONES DAISY INGRAM FRANK JACOBS LESLIE McFADDIN ELM A WISE MAURICE KAISER VIVIAN KNIGHT

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HELEN WILLMORE PEARL MURPHY DON HENSON THOMAS BLAKE BESS PITCH FORD ' ETTA KELLY BLANCHE NORMAN MARIE ODLE WINIFRED KELLY LOUISE ARNOLD LILLIAN GROSSE SUSIE MARS WILLIAM MONTI RUBY WILDERMAN ANNA MAY CONNELY PAULINE HUNTER CLOYD THOMPSON LUKE GLADDERS VETO KREVIENAS

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3)uninr (Elasa Ifetnnt In September ninteen hundred and eighteen the class of twenty-two entered high school as verdant Freshmen. Forty entered the West Frankfort high school and twenty enrolled in the Heights school. Of course we endured the giggles of the upper classmen and small embarrassments such as entering the wrong classrooms, as bravely as any Freshmen could. We, being exceptionally bright Freshies, soon mastered the queer ways of high school, also the secrets of the mysterious algebraic A’s and X’s. During the second semester the West Frankfort school engaged in a contest between the two English classes . Section A won and was entertained by section B by a theatre party. The play “Les Miserables” was enjoyed by every one present. At the Heights we had a real sure enough class party the second week of school. Early in the term the schools were closed on account of influenza, which was raging at that time. After school was resumed we had little time for amusements, as we were compelled to work hard to make up for lost time during the epidemic. In the golden Autumn of nineteen-twenty we were enrolled as Sophomores in the Frankfort Community High School. We numbered forty-nine, having lost some of the members of the preceding year. We began the year by showing the Freshies how superior we were to them in every way possible. In the first semester we gave a party. Owing to the fact that the guards did not do their duty, some bandits succeeded in stealing our ice cream. It was promptly rescued and was none the worse except for being melted. Both cur boys’ and girls’ teams won pennants in the basket baH tournament of the classes. The regular high school team consisted mainly of our Sophomore boys. In April we gave a banquet in honor of our basket ball teams. In the Fall of nineteen-twenty, thirty-six Juniors entered the high school. Our numl er had decreased by thirteen but we were still the “live wires” of high school life. Our first social affair was a weiner roast. We met at the band stand and walked to the Little White Church. We told ghost stories, roasted marshmallows and weiners. Everyone present had a very good time. In January we gave a class party. The teachers were invited so we might have a letter chance to get better acquainted with our new instructors, to whom we owe so much. Our class is even more brilliant this year than last. Our boys lead in athletics and our basket ball rnd foot ball teams are all the better because of them. We, the class of twenty-two, are destined to make our high school prouder of us in the years to come.