Assumption High School - Comet Yearbook (Assumption, IL)

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Elyzlarunahgmi , , . , .,...1 - ., This year we started krlEiw1edgeein'Au,g'ust. and were termed as U . . , , . ,, . ., - -., -' .- W- -'L-'2' ---.. . , 1 - Digmfied Seniors, alth Hgh some of our boys were seated with F1 eshles and Qfbphs L 1 V l' 4- ' w . '1' ' 1 . H - L n 1 , , , 1 . . -- 1 A .. L -W We had two additions this year, Floyd Crow and Juanita Havertield. Our 1ifrst.i1neeting'we chosesas Council Leader, Miss4Rymlangi Business Counsel, Mr. Cherry, Heap Big Chief,vHolland 'Seybertg War-flllaiicer Virgil Linder, and VVampum Dstributor, Floyd Crow who resigned before heientered Findlay lligh School and Edward Delgoug is his successor. l Our first social' gathering of the year was the hamburger fry with the faculty, at the school. Margaret and Chas. LaCharite gave a party for the Senior Class January 22 in honor of Gwendolyn a11d Floyd who were leaving for Bloomington and Findlay, irespectively, i Our efforts are all put into the Tacusahan Year Book which is small, but valuable articles are for and- con- tained in small packages. Our Class Play was given January 21 at the new Gym and in Blue Mound January 27. This was a French production entitled The Thirteenth Chair,', and was ably coached by Miss Ryman and assisted by J. B. Austinand Paul Robb of Decatur. Mr. Cherry has shown untiring workyon the Year Book and Miss Ryman on the social functions, along with the rest ofthe faculty.. Our four years will soon be ended and we 'wish everyone a. happy future. , y rifle Pride is the height of manners. Above everything else a person should be careful of what he does or says. This I would class as Pride. It is nothing of which to be ashamed, rather, it is a quality of which to be proud. Have Pride in your domestic life. Have Pride in your worldly and social life. People judge you by the Way you appear outwardly and if you are proud of yourself or want peoplel to have a good impression of you, take pride in how you look, think and execute. 'T - -fl l A l ' Clean'lfiness is -nextfto Godliness- Take pride in how your home5'1bliks'. Take Prilde in how you dresstf-1Taike Pride in how you treat your friends. Treat your eneftnles ta2s'you1tl.o ydurlfriends. 'I ' ,-- .gf . X ' !w,i.IlJC ' tl ' -'i II1'l'll'l8I109'H?1S afgreat deal to do with this generation. Be in a group of peoplel1who'l'do+-notftcare how they act orilook, who care not what the public thinks of tfliem,'and, you will eventually 'follow in their footsteps. But enter into the association of those who do care how they look and act and eventually you yourself will do the very same thing. Mockery, it might be called-but iffthat is mockery, it should never be dovvntrodden. Rather, more people should mock. if it is the-kindthat: develops pride. T A All I ask is that you leave me alone-Willoween. 1?

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Uhr Earulalpan Gllaas Jllistnrg e Early in September 1923, forty boys and girls from town and country heeded the call of the bell of the Assumption Township High School- The life of this school was new to ns and we staggered and stammered until we learned our place in the building . In 'two weeks we held our first mass meeting, to become a Freshman Class and elected. our executive force. Miss Shipley was Chief Justice ,Gwendolyn Pedrette, Speaker of the House, Jua- nita Seifert, Vice-President and Margaret LaCharite was Watchdog of the Treasury. This year our first social gathering was a weiner roast at Helen Clark's, then we had a Halloween Party at Gwendolyn Pedrett's and two or Three picnics in the spring. We started a rainy day fund by having sand- wich sales in the corridor. Bill Lash earned a letter in football. In 1924 during the golden month of September only thirty-three boys and girls were present at the Sophomore Class meeting 'and again we decided to enter politics. Our political boss was Miss Bjurstramg City Precinct Boss, Bill Lash: Ward Boss, George Storey, Money Boss, Phil Vilmure. Vile began our work by sending a few boys out for Athletics, and presented a movie. We had the weiner 'roast at George Storey's, Halloween party at Hershel Picker's and the usual picnics at Pana and elsewhere. One of our members, Marguerite Cisna left us this year by death and we find it 'appropriate to repeat Longfellow: She is not dead-the child of our affection But gone unto that school Vilhere she no longer needs our poor protection And Christ himself doth rule. At the end of the year we realized a nice little interest-drawing nest-egg for the rainy day fund. The Junior Class of all schools or at least Assumption are real hustlers. We weren't exceptions. Miss White was Chairman, Edward DeLong, toast- master, Margaret Duncan, Editorial Manager, Bill Lash, Cub Reporter and Ilershel Picker, Financier. We had parties this year and also made lots of money off of our movie and the exceedingly well produced play The Prince Chap. Our class was very small numbering twenty-four but our motto was Quality not Quantity. We made our coming out, which was the Junior-Senior Festival May 21st at Hotel Philip, a success- This was put on under the direction of Miss White, General Chairman with Helen Clark as the Reception Committee Chairman, assisted by Dutch Seybert, Fat La- Charite and Willoweene Snell and other members of the Junior Class. Special musical numbers were given by the boys' quartette. Toasts were given by faculty members and Senior members in the form of newspaper features. Junior boys and girls were ushers at the Senior graduating exercises which were held in the new Gym. A special meeting was held late in the month of May to eleet Editor-in- Chief and Business Managen for our Annual to be published in the Senior year. Hershel Picker and Edward DeLong were chosen. Our happy' year was ended after a picnic at Nelson Park on May 27, 1926. VVe had a party at Rleulec-ke's which might have been termed A Watermelon Feed. A very good time was shown us. Silence is virtue-Evelyn Long. 1 1

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A ' Uhr Ilarusahan Gllaaz igrnpherg It was very dark as I entered the subways of Chicago January 17, 1947. I' had entered at one end of the street car and being of the curious type walked to the front of the car. There seemed something familiar about the face of the motorman and after some study I recognized it as Hap Garvin, I knew that Hap had been fond of the dark but why he should work in it was a mystery to me. Hollis told me that Hershel Picker and Harold Long were now in the Hardware and Undertaking business. At the end of the line, whom should I meet farce to face but Paul Riley who informed me that Evelyn Eversole and he had tied a knot with their tongues that they could not pick open with their teeth. From Chicago, I went to New York and the first sight that confronted me was a large electrical advertisement reading, Mr, Everette Jacobs, Pianist and Organist -hear him at Leonard Brown's Theatre-Prices 32.50 and Sii5.00. I decided to hear my former class mate once more- He did splendidly. Later in the evening to my utter surprise, George and Philip Vilmure featured in a Greek Classic entitled, I'm Low On Coal, -this was indeed very pathetic but, Ah I, how true to life. After leaving the theater and while standing on the corner of Madison and Jefferson streets, I looked to the north and whom should I spy but Dutch Seybert and Wayne Stewart joint owners in a vege- table, and sissors sharpening cart. They were doing well for they had hired Eleanor Reulecke as their bookkeeper and assistant grinder. I left New York and went to Denver and upon visiting a University I learned that Gwendolyn Pedrette and Willoweene Snell were deans of the athletic departments. I learned from them that Juanita Havertield was a nun, of course, that was to be expected, she was such a man hater. I left the college and ventured down the street and I overtook an old lady whom I recognized as Helen Clark. She told me she had married Claire Dun- can and between her sobs and tears told me of the Murder of Duncan. VVhile in Salt Lake City, Utah, I thought it would be great sport to visit a Morman church and upon entering I found Floyd Crow as the minister. He truly was faithful to his seven wives. He said that the last he had heard of Evelyn Long was that she had married Bill' Lash and that they were now in the laundry business. While in the lobby of the hotel that evening I picked up a paper and in the classified ads I read, Paul Schahrer and Edward De- Long, Soap Wizarcls. ' ' The next day I went to Reno, Nevada and here I saw Margaret LaCharite who was a nurse maid and she told me that Charles had signed up a contract to sell one hundred barrels of chicken dip- At last I knew of the whereabouts of all my classmates except Virgil Lin- der. Later I learned that he was in the Hawaiian Islands in the Sugar Plant industry. He was always fond of sweet thngs. I returned home the next dav. Although we are separated from one another we are still united in thought.- A little lsnowledgeilg Q dangerous thing-Paul Riley. '13