Macomb High School - Spiderweb Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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gPIDER WEB. MACOMB HIGH .SCI DOL. MACOMB. II.LINC)! Pa»re Twenty-two - s RAY MURPHY “Babf.” Varsity Football, ’13, ’14, '15; Captain 16; Varsity Basketball, ’14-15, ’15-’16. I6-’I7; Varsity Track. 15, ’16; Vice President Class '17; Class Play. • »- 0 MARGUERITE GRAFTON Class Basketball; Oxford Literary Society. , ALFRED RUSH “Spud” Varsity Debate; Class Play; Vice President Wattonian Literary Society. GEORGIA JOHNSON Washington, Iowa High School, ’14, ’15; Oxford Literary Society.

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gPIDER WEB. MACOMB HIGH SCHOOL. MACOMB, ILLINOIg Pajre Twenty-one MABEL RUDDELL Wattonian Literary Society; Class Basketball. -uLcM.iO '? WILLIAM McGRAW “Bill” Wattonian Literary Society; Scrub Basketball ’17. ? J f. i ++ I ' 7j A. - i VADA LEGG Skinny” Oxford Literary Society. 7r 4. '( CARRIE WILLEY “Happy Wattonian Literary Society. Ui. . ■' . .‘ l

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s PIPER WEB. MACOMB HIGH SCHOOL. MACOMB. ILLINOI - Patre Twenty-three S Senior Class Officers Howard Turner ........................................President Ray Murphy ......................................Vice President Ward Ingram ..........................................Secretary John Leander..........................................Treasurer A. D. Eby .......................................Class Advisor Class Colors—Lavender and White Class Flower—Violet Class Motto—“The elevator to success is broken; take the stairs Class History The Class of ’I 7 is the only graduating class of our time that did not have to resort to some twelve year old boy stunt to bring themselves to the attention of the school and community. We have never found it necessary to liberate a bird in the assembly hall with our colors attached to bring us into recognition, nor is that the sort of fame we have sought during our four years stay in high school. Were you to ask us what we have done for Macomb High we would point to our record in school activities both athletic and literary and ask who can beat it? If the statement oft made by our principal that, “we get out of high school only what we put into it”, is true, then you must join with us in saying that the Class of I 7 must have put in a great deal. Yet we realize that any attempt on our part to repay Macomb High School and the community for the benefits we have derived would be paltry indeed. It is a debt that is beyond the reckonings of dollars and cents. When we entered high school four years ago at the old high school building conditions and customs were very different from what they are now in the new building and with the Junior High School. T here is a great difference even in the way a student enters high school. Under the present system the change from an eighth grader to a freshman is imperceptible, but when the Class of 1 7 entered high school the transition was very abrupt indeed. With all due ceremony the upper classmen gave us a tonic from the well of learning at the back of the building which prepared us for the store of knowledge we were to absorb during high school. Although we resented the ordeal at first we feel now that it was all for the best. I his