Walnut High School - Walnut Tree Yearbook (Walnut, IL)

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Lee Buzzard, Cecil Britt, William Epperson, Loren Hoge, Mr. Kofoed. Virden Kerchner, Clyde Conley, Charles Stone, Ver- non Hoffman, Edwin Wilson. John Foss, Pearl Plumb, Grealdine Bowen, Edna Johnson, Darlene Miller, Evelyn Gallentine, LaVonne Johnson, Fern Ackerson, Beulah Parker, Ramona Mungor, Carl Miller. . Carl Golden, Homer Hopkins, Margaret Schuyf, Pearl Tornow, Wilda Tornow, Berneil Hasenyager, Viola Dimming, Marian Borop, Alvin Birkey.

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CLASS HISTORY In the Fall of ’24 nearly half a hundred green Freshies entered W. H. S., for indeed there were forty-seven of us. We were full of pep and vim and surged along, boys and girls, gentle and simple, fair and foul, rich and poor, merry and sad—all hurrying, bustling, scrambling, we knew not where. The strong pushing aside the weak, the cunning creeping past the foolish; those behind elbowing those before; those in front kicking those behind. Here and there could be seen those who had stopped to get on in the World,” letting everybody pass him as he stumbled along with his eyes on the book. Here another weakling panting for breath gazing wistfully back at the sunny grammar school that he never again will see, and still another youth, with a noble face stands, hesitating as he looks from the distant goal to the difficulties which surround him completely. Some running, some walking, but, all hastening, all eager in the feverish race, all straining life and limb to reach the ever-receding horizon of success. Evidently when the following September came, some of us had welcomed vacation too strongly for there were only thirty-eight who enrolled. This year, instead of walking as we had done before, each of us obtained a good horse and an air cushion with which to ride over the plains of the Sophomore country. During this period we were never long without an ideal for now we knew that brains were what counted. We shined it athletics during ’25 and ’26 too, for letters were earned in each of the major sports by some well groomed members of the class. The girls also did their share in other activities. We had the honor cast upon us of winning the Inter Class Basketball Tournament. We began to realize that true greatness is not accidental so we set our minds and hearts to get an education and insisted upon living a different life. We no longer carried a bound volume containing a memorandum of our sins for the day because indeed we had nothing to put in it. We were gaining knowledge from all angles and began to wonder what more there was to know when we became upper classmen. The following year we registered as full fledged Juniors with an earnest desire to accomplish what we had passed by in the years before. Many of us became engaged in athletics, others taking part in the or- 19 2 7 Page twenty-six