Alton High School - Tatler Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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If) O F (Through the kindness of Mrs. of Alumni published in last year’s CLASS OF ’69. Blanche Dolbee (Mrs. Cole). Charles Sawyer. CLASS OF ’70. Ella Corrington. May Emerson (Mrs. Tribble). Agnes Filley. Emma I loffmeister. Angie Rand (Mrs. Schweppe). CLASS OF 72. Phebe Adams. ‘Til E TATLER. I N T K R E S T T O A L U M N Schweppe, historian of the Alumni Association, Tatler the names of the graduates of ’69, ’70, Kate Broderick. Cora Dolbee (Mrs. Rohland). Lillie Hollister. Mary McClure. Belle Mitchel. Sadie Platt. CLASS OF ’73. Nettie Blair (Mrs. Abbott). George Challacombe. George Davis. Hattie Hardy. Josie Hazzard. 1 . we are enabled to add to the list 2 and '73. ) Sarah Hudson. Mae Kent. Kate Laird (Mrs. Kerran). t Clara Lapp. 1 Lillie Mathews (Mrs. Nesbitt . Lillie Morgan (Mrs. Cuthbert Emma Peters (Mrs. Brenholt 1’belie Peters. Lizzie Sawyer. Mae Rutherford. H Dead.

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“TH E T A 'I T E A C II E KS IN T II K A L I Carrie G. Rich (111. State Normal).. Bertiia VV. Ferguson, A. B...... Helen A. Naylor, A. B........... Carolyn M. Wempen, B. S......... E. Carl Watson, A. B............ J. Horace Kraft, A. B........... E. L. King, A. B. B. S........ Josephine (I. Gilmore, A. B..... Lucille T. Burnail B. S......... Minnie M. Boals................. Katherine Hack.................. LER '5 O N II I ( II SC II OO L. .History and Civics. . Latin and German. .Commercial and Mathematics. . .English and Mathematics. ..Mathematics and Physics. . Biological Science. .English and Mathematics. . English. . Latin and English. .Supervisor of Music. ..Supervisor of Drawing.

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“TH E TATLEK.” 7 T II K MKKT OF 1906. HEN a boy had been doing without pudding or pie and had been quietly sneaking away from his friends to early retirement regularly for a period of some six weeks, it is hardly necessary to state that his face wore a smile and his heart was light, when he saw, on the morning of the climax. May 5th. 190 , that the sun was one of the earliest arrivals and smiled down in approval and that the clouds were unaware that something worth witnessing was to be seen that day. The smile on the face of the hungry but wary looking athlete seemed to be contagious, and soon all the Alton patriots were laughing with the sun and filled to the brim with enthusiasm. As the run rose, the noise increased; the toot of an engine would be heard, then more noise than a dozen toots of as many engines, and the report would be brought by a frightened looking b'rcshie. that the representatives of one of our neighboring villages had arrived, reenforced with rooters, ribbons and banners, and that they appeared to be hungry. I'pon investigation they would be found apparently content, and absorbed in the consumption of a sack of peanuts or a box of popcorn. By nine o'clock enthusiasts from Highland, Madison, Collinsville. Edwardsville and Granite City had arrived at Alton and were on their way to Upper Alton, to settle the question of superiority in the county. After all the ribbons had been pushed and pulled into the Baptist Church and the judges had looked wise for several moments, the intellectual contest began. There were three events, the Declamation, the Oration, and the Essay. Alton won the best of the three by taking first place in Essay, and Miss Alida Bowler was the heroine. Miss Blanche Cartwright made another point for Alton in Declamation and we went out for dinner, feeling in high spirits; we had taken six points, when there were only twenty-seven to divide among seven schools. The strain of the morning had been intense; many a whoop and school veil had been held in onlv with the greatest effort, but all had been instructed to defer noise-making until the church premises had been vacated. When the streets were reached, the horns, having had time to cool off. were