Atwood Hammond High School - Post Yearbook (Atwood, IL)

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CI.ASS DAY ESSAYS. SA LUTATORV M RDA F. ( ROKK j CLASSMATES, Ladies and fientlemen: The class of ’06 extends to you a most cordial welcome. Within a day we will have reached that goal towards which we have lieen striving for four long1, yet seemingly short, years. To the more fortunate of our number this merely means leaving the d »ors of our High School to enter those of some chosen college; yet to the most of us it means the entering upon the greater lield of life which lies stretched out before us. We must cast awaymir school privileges and pleasures only to hold them within the firm grasp of our memories, and assume t bse graver burdens which beset us as we leave school. Our equipment is good. The class of ’Oti has the honor of being the first class to complete the four years course. We are also proud of the fact that we are completing the work since the school has been accredited. As our last efforts are now almost spent, we urge to greater effort those we leave behind, so that when another class shall leave the school they will leave it fully accredited. To- morrow' u'e leave school as undergraduates, but will return in future years as alumni to recount the never-to-be-forgotten lessons acquired on the athletic field and in the cjass room. The time is now at hand when it is necessary for us. as a class, to part, but we can defy those circumstances to arise which can weaken these ties of friendship so dearly formed by us during our school life. In future years in both prosperity and disaster, they can be but a source of the greatest pleasure and comfort to us. Let confidence and truth abide with us forevermore. We go forth as members of a class, to meet again when occasion offers, always ready to help one another, and always cherishing fondest memories of the old school days. f et today l e the brightest and happiest of our school life, and although nought six has but one more day to live, we will be of good cheer and enjoy these last few hours while we still have them with us. During tin exercises of tonight, I hid you listen to each member as he projects before us the various pictures of our high school career or prophesies into the far-distant future. And this night as we are gathered to be entertained with joke and satire, to chide one another, you must remember that good friendship and kindly feelings are the motives. We’ll sacrifice our own mistakes and follies to enjoy those of others. To such scenes the class of 06 bids its friends welcome.

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their prognostications and they have decided that on Friday, May the eighteenth. Nought six must die. Mv client wishes me to state that, owing to a lightness in the head, caused by its gradual swelling during the last four years, and a heaviness in the heart and other organs, caused by thoughts of parting and over feasting, respectively, she may have been mistaken in her inventory, but such as she thinks she has she gives to you, praying that you may not believe that it is only because she cannot keep her goods that she is generous. THE WILL: WV. the class of Nought six, being about to leave this sphere, in full possession of a sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this, our last w ill and testament, hereby invoking and making void all former wills by us at any time heretofore made. First, we do direct that our funeral services shall be conducted by our friends and well wishers, the faculty, only enjoining that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp our situation in the high school has merited. As to such estate as it has pleased the fates and our own strong arms to give us, we do dispose of the same as follows, via: Item: Wo give and bequeath to the Hoard of Edu- cation restful nights and peaceful dreams. We promise them a rest from “Naughty six's petitions. No more will we be called upon to bend our haughty knee to supplicate; no more will they be pained to refuse. It has been hard to have our fondest hopes thwarted; it must have been hard for them to refuse so fair a pleader. They have done their duty, and they have their reward. Hut oh! how much easier it would have been for them and for us if they had said “Yes. Item: We give and bequeath to the high school, as a whole, the two songs, “The Orange and the Rlack” and Our Class Song. These songs to become the posses- sion of the high school on condition that she hold them in trust as a nucleus to which, each year, others shall be added, until she has a collection to be proud of. Also, we give and bequeath to the high school the remainder of the piano debt, one hundred ten dollars. We have worked hard and have done all we could to lessen this debt. We sincerely hope that you may well succeed as we have succeeded. Item: We give and bequeath to our best beloved and cherished sister, Nought eight, all the wealth of love and blessing she may desire. She seems to get everything else unaided. May our mantle fall completely on her shoulders. We will waste no time in giving to one who seems very able to get. Item: The subjoined list will be recognized as entailed estates, to which we do declare the class of Nought seven the real and rightful successors. First, Senior dignity which is always handed over to the new made lords of the high school world. We are afraid this will be a strain upon the nerves and muscles of the gay and debonair Juniors, but all hope they will rise to the occasion, as they sometimes can. Second, The Senior seats in assembly to which as Juniors Nought-seven has not been unknown. May she be as fond of the front row next year as she has been this. Let every member show his gratitude for the gift by l eing promptly in his seat each morning. Perhaps Hie most valuable of this list will be found to be Senior Dramatic genius. Nought-six has enjoyed the excitement on the hoards , at least we have enjoyed the board of Control on its account. How the list lengthens; next come Senior priv iliges—with the professor's permission—too well understood to be detailed. Last comes the one thing hard for us to part with. To our successors we must give our course in Senior Ethics—and let me say that Ethics is a study where you learn that lots of things you once knew are not so. My