Auburn High School - Trojan / Oracle Yearbook (Auburn, IL)

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Engcrt, assist.” And then J remembered having often heard of Dr. Coeplin during our school days and understood how they had been brought together. Going into the streets a short time later, 1 found an immense crowd gathered round a platform where a hot political debate was going on. To my surprise I found the opponents to be Blanche Snell and Floyd Harris. They were both running for the state legislature, and had planned their campaign just as Lincoln and Douglas had done four score years ago. Blanche was defending the state- ment: “Resolved that the franchise should be taken from men and given to women only.” Her political career had been marked by aggressiveness, while Floyd had been on the “also ran” list for four previous elections. 1 was very interested in the debate, but as I had to fill an appointment I could not hear the end. That night at the Bijou Roof Garden I saw Cecil Crouse play the leading role in a wonderful play, “The Rose of Romany.” I enjoyed it immensely. Between acts Miss Elizabeth Bruuk was introduced as the greatest American toe dancer, which she proved to the audience beyond a doubt. The next day I went to see my old friend George Mehr. lie owned the best chewing gum factory in the world, and bad become very rich. He told me that Harold Williams was a diamond broker in New York and that Teddy Skaggs was a popular ladies’ man at Palm Beach and various other summer resorts. The next night the newspaper bore the news that the president had ap- pointed J. Mervin Foster ambassador to the isle of Yap. The article went on to say it was because of his excellent diplomacy and splendid statesmanship in other national affairs that he had received this appointment, and that great things were expected of him in the future. By checking up I found that I had either seen or heard from all my former class mates and I found that with my own exception, they had all risen in the world. As for the author of this line, he will do as little as possible during the next twenty years and if this prophecy comes true, will go into the fortune telling Parents, Teachers and Friends. The Class of Nineteen Twenty-two ex- tends to you a most cordial welcome. Within a few days we will have reached that goal towards which we have been striving for four long, yet seemingly short years. We must now enter upon the field of greater activity, which lies stretched out before us. Before doing so, we take this opportunity to express our thanks to those who have made it possible for us to advance thus far in educational fields. Our parents, who have sacrificed so much for our benefit, especially, do we wish to welcome to these exercises. We owe them a debt that can never be paid in full, but by persevering and earnest endeavor we shall win success that shall reflect credit on those most dear to us. To our kind and patient teachers, we wish to say that your work has been business. HUBERT R. HATCHER. 23

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that city, I saw another plane similar to mine, swoop down and hover over my machine. A rope ladder was let down and a lithe, leather-clad figure swung down to my own plane. Using the speaking tube from the front cockpit the figure challenged me to a race. Of course I accepted just for the fun of it, for I knew that I had little chance against an aviator who could do such Locklear stunts. The figure then elm-l ed hack up the ladder and 1 gave my machine more gas. But the race was one sided in favor of my opponent. I got a good start, hut that was all, for soon the other plane passed me up as a freight train passes a bum. Soon it was only a speck in the distance. I had been going as fast as I had dared and was now about ready to give up. Suddenly I found that I was running into a storm. The plane ahead had landed and upon nearing the place I circled down also. I stopped near the other machine and the other aviator came toward me, pulling off his helmet—or rather her helmet. For who should it be but Violet Stevens! When Ruth Law had retired in 1922 Violet had decided to become her suc- cessor. By her cool daring she had won even greater renown and now held several records for flying.' She also told me that Minnie Parrish was becoming famous as the words greatest spiritualist. She had started out by hypnotizing her school pupils so that they worked zealously on their lessons, and had ended by puzzling the most learned heads in scientific circles, by her supernatural powers. I was also informed by Violet, that Catherine Regan was a fashion model for an exclusive, fifth avenue, New York shop. This particular line of work did not interest me much, but I was glad to hear that another one of my old class- mates had risen in the world. I returned to Auburn on the hard road, but just after I reached the city limits I was pinched for speeding. 1 was brought before a judge who was none other than Goldie Suydan! 8he smiled when she saw me her victim, and fined me fifteen dollars. I saw at once that she believed in strict impartiality. We afterwards had a friendly talk together. “What has become of Kathryn Clarke and Adella Bigler?” I asked when something of our old class was mentioned. “Oh, they have become wealthy!” she replied, “Quite wealthy! And its just like a story or a fairy tale too. You see, after they graduated, they bought a little shop in a stylish part of town and began raising angle worms for canary food. They started it just for fun, but the high class people were willing to pay fancy prices for this delicate bird food. Now they have a large building and many employees devoted to worm culture, while all they have to do is spend their money.” Of all the professions I had found among my former school mates this was the most delightful, the most original and the most romantic. I spent a part of the next day at their home and found them the least changed of all my old school mates. Happy and carefree, optomistic and genial, interested in their work they were. The next day as I was reading the sport page of an Illinois State Register, a large headline and picture caught my eye. “World’s Champion Woman Skier,” and beneath the picture was the name “Miss Ruth Knox.” The article went on to tell of her prowess in skiing and other winter sports, and that she was one of the best all round athletes this side the Atlantic. When I had finished the sport page I turned to the editorials. A column that attracted my attention was headed “Health Talks” by Drs. Coeplin and Engert. At the end of each article was signed, “Dr. J. C. Coeplin, Dr. Lottie 22

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done well and by your efforts much has been contributed to the proper molding of our young lives. Also, to the Board of Education, a heartfelt greeting is extended. Through your co-operation the will of the community has been executed, and we are per- mitted to enjoy the privileges of a well-organized school. We now go forth as members of a large family, probably to meet no more, but always remembering to honor our Alma Mater. Since Twenty-two has but a few more days to live, let us make tonight, which is our own, the brightest and happiest of our High School career. During the exercises this evening 1 bid you listen to our representatives, as they lay before us the various pictures of our past four years,-as they prophesy, mirthfully, the future, and as they bestow our treasured possessions upon our friends and those next in line. To this Class Day program, the Class of Twenty-two bids its friends welcome. .JOHN MASTERSON. Daledictori] Friends, Teachers and Classmates: There are a number of unwritten but universal laws, as fixed and un- changeable as the laws of the Modes and Persians, that govern in a subtle way the lives of men and kingdoms. Some people live through the entire course of their lives without once waking up to a consciousness of tin existence of these laws. They stumble along blindly, wafted hither and thither by every passing breeze of circumstance, knowing not why they do this, that, or the other, and having no idea why certain experiences should come to them. All the time, however, they are moving in obedience to probably the most powerful and in- vincible of all these laws—the great Law of Compensation—which was first put into words by the holy Man of Nazareth, centuries ago, when He said, “With whatsoever measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you again.” We may not be even dimly conscious of the workings of this great law. We may not have even begun to realize that, for whatever harvest we reap, we our- selves must certainly some time or other have sown the seed. But it is none the less a vital truth in the life of everjr individual, and day by day, hour by hour, as we enjoy the benefits of every passing experience, we are signing our name to life s same old promissory note, “For value received, T promise to pay!” For in those few words, common-place and ordinary as they may seem to us through continual usage, lies the real keynote of all human life. Gentlemen of the Board of Education, we realize that it is your silent in- fluence at work that has laid the foundation for this hour, and has made it pos- sible for us to stand here before you tonight. As we linger upon the threshold of active life, the doors of our school and its educational advantages ready to swing behind us, the question arises in your minds, as well as in ours, “Just what are we going to get out of life anyway?” We feel that you have a right to ask and expect a frank reply. But indeed, there is only the one sure and satisfac- tory answer. We are going to get out of life just exactly what we pay for, just 24