Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Freshmen Here is the story of my experiences and thoughts before I entered Rockford High School and afterward: Before-I have recently graduated from grade school and will go to R.H.S. in September. I am quite sure that I will cut a figure over there. I will probably ' be captain of the lightweight football team and well known throughout the state. I don't want to seem conceited but I cerf tainly feel that not less than onefthird of the fair inhabitants of R.H.S. will be at my feet inside of a year, I am going to start in training for the football team right away. I want to be well up on the ine points of the game when I start in. Also I am going to practice on the saxaphone. Wheri I am not playing football I will be in the band. I feel quite confident that I will be the drumfmajor for a semester at least. Afterward-My first day was full of exciting moments. I think I was lost at least ten times. Once I wandered into the auditorium. I certainly felt simple when, as I walked down a long aisle a titter ran over the room. Werit out of that room much faster than I went into it. - L I was hurt more than once on the ANNA BICIIR subject of my smallness in size. I didn't think I was very small, but many, many people over there seemed to think so. Of course I was a regular moving locker at first. Ch! The pangs I suffered as I walked down the hall amid many remarks such as, Did you forget your key? Whcm took your locker away from you? and Say, Bill, look at the Freshief' At lunch time when I ran for the lunchroom and dinner, I knocked several people down who, of course, didn't act as though they had just received an invitation for a picnic. I tried to push through the flocks of people on my way to classes and on every side I heard, Look at the Freshie, thinks he's in a burning JACK THORNE building, See the greenhornf' and other remarks such as these. Another boy and I were having just all kinds of fun sliding down the runway over and over again, before a hooting audience of students made us wish we had the power to go up in smoke. Of course the timefworn joke about the elevator was tried on me to see if I would bite, the one where the little freshie goes up to the big Senior and asks him how to get to a certain classroom, then the Senior directs him to the office where he will find the elevatorf man. Of course, later I was enlightened on the point of this moss' backed joke. This ended my experiences for that day. Qne day I was sick and couldn't go to school. I almost drove my mother frantic by asking her not less than fifty times during - A the day if she thought high school could get along without me for a day or so. As the days passed I didn't seem to become as bright and shining a light in the many asso' ciations as I had expected to. I guess the biggest reason for this was because I didn't exert myself enough. HONOR STUDENTS f14I