Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Sophomores Yo ho and a bottle of ink, cried a large group of students, incidentally they were Sophof mores, as they danced around on the deck of their good ship, Success, in an ecstacy of joy. The reason for their celebrating in such a vociferous manner was very apparent. They had just completed a most successful cruise of piracy, making huge inf roads upon knowledge and endeavor. . They were a careffree group, recognizing no leader, under the sway of no captain, ruled alone by the suggestions of the advisors, their teachers. They had been compelled to run the gauntlet with their good ship in more than one great battle. While they event' ually came out victorious, it was hard fighting while it lasted. The most important of these many battles were rnidfyear and june Finals Minor battles, mere skirmishes were the Quarterlies. A few brave pirates fell by their posts, but they lived in the mem' ories of their comrades, and inspired them on to higher deeds of bravery. It was with the wild, reckless abanf don of youth that they danced and then, when their excitement had cooled somewhat, they called on var' ious members of the gallant crew for l short speeches. These members were pirates of renown in some branch of the service, and because of their valor they had been advanced from the ranks, Ice cream sodas were passed out to all, and then when all were comfortable, the chosen sailors advanced and spun their wild, weird yarns. VIVARTTAS The troop prided themselves very highly on their most efficient band of minstrels. Said minstrels were treated very well and were regarded as artists. It was the job of the minstrels to play the war song, ' ' the song of victory, the death song, - besides playing at all ceremonial oc' casions. Edward Haight, Truesdale Smith, Ralph Zahm, Keith Fisk, Chester Snyder, Robert Page, and Cassius Zuck pranced forward and played a wonderful song about the victories and honors of the Sophomore class, their good advisors, in fact, almost everything that was fine and noble. Then they played a song of the traditions of past classes as a spur to more brave and noble things. SAVAGE+PARKFR Music was not enough to portray the victories, too numerous to name, which had fallen to the lot of the class. Paul Cassidy, of Owl staff fame, coming from the ranks of the assembled pirates, sketched scenes from the great battles of the class, the brave deeds of some of the crew. His was an art of which the ' crew never tired. Sketch upon sketch came from his marvelous ingenuity and it was long before the crew would allow him to quit. G. KRITKFR Some of the crew, formerly associated with journalism, had put some of the thrilling ad' ventures into print and as a result of the experiment, a weekly newspaper was being pub' lished. The staff consisted of several people: Anne Kendall, Grace Goff, Virginia Wise, U03