Avon High School - Boomerang Yearbook (Avon, IL)

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THE BOOMERANG Raymond Rattison Avon Public Schools. '21 ; Platonian Society, '24, ‘25; “The Lion and the Mouse, '25. Doris Marvel Staggs Avon Public Schools, '21 ; “The Early Bird, '23; “The Dream That Caine True,” '24: Glee Club, '21, '22; Emersonian Society, '24, '25. John Ransom Wall Avon Public Schools, '21; Platonian Society, '24, '25; “The Dream That Came True, '24; The Lion and the Mouse,” '25. ‘We learn through trial.' 13

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THE BOOMERANG Dono von Speer Myers Avon Public Schools, '21 : Plutonian Literary Society, '23, '25; Orchestra, '23, '24, '25; Track. '23, '24, '25; Basket Ball, '22, '23, '24, '25; Captain '25: President of Class, '22, '23. '24, '25: Business Manager, The Boomerang, '25; The Dream That Came True,” '23; “The Lion and the Mouse, '25. Doris Yeoman Hollister Hatch School, '21; Emersonian Lit- erary Society, '24, '25; Glee Club, '22; The Dream That Came True,” '24; Calendar Editor, “The Boomerang,” '25; “The Lion and the Mouse,” '25. Kenneth Weldon Schrodt Council Corner School, '21 ; Track, '22, '23; Emersonian Society, '24, '25; Dream That Came True, '24; “The Lion and the Mouse, '25. Martha Dolores Conkev Bandinsville Public School. '21; Blan- dinsville High School, '22, '23, ’24; Avon High School, '25; Glee Club, ’24; Debate Council, '24; The New Poor,” '24; “The Lion and the Mouse, '25; Oratory: Military Tract, '25. “Truth is truth, how e’er it strike.”

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THE BOOMERANG i iTii a niain ■Tii'alti,aiirsiiiTaTn • ii ■in aliiiaTiilalii aTiraTiiiBTii bTii?bUiIbIiiJbIii ■riiTaTiiTaTiiTaTirariiiailliBiii.Biii aiiraii Ye Olde School Days FOUR years ago we Freshmen came forth into a new field conceived in study, and in- itiated to the proposition that all students are treated equal. Now we are engaged in a great educational strife, testing whether our class, or any other class so studious and ambitious, coidd long endure under our difficulties. We all met at Shoo 1'ly for a battle with weiners one evening in May. We have come to dedicate another portion of our school activities as an inspiration for those who come after us that this school may live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should mention two of our girls who won first in declamatory and vocal con- tests. The year closed with a picnic at Lincoln Park, Galesburg. Some of the picnic?» broke rules and went to the Orpheum. Mr. Reeve resolved “no more picnics for Sophs and Juniors.” As Juniors we proudly mounted the third step in our struggle for a diploma. We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot praise too highly our athletes, our Junior-Senior Banquet, and our “Dream That Came True.” The students, living and married, who have struggled in A. H. S. have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The school will little note, nor long remember, what we have said here, but it can never forget what we did here. It is rather for us as Seniors to here dedicate ourselves to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored heads we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave their last full measure of devotion—that we here have highly resolved that our school life shall not have been in vain—that this school under God, shall have a new loyalty and that the loyalty of the school, by tbe school, and for the school shall not perish from the earth. (Apologies to our beloved Illinois debater and national President.) BERNICE MINGS '25 “The Dream That Came True” Once upon a sunny da}-, we forgot to run and play With the playthings we had stored long, long ago, But with our little books, we just crossed the hills and brooks And came upon a building , so admired for looks A. H. S. and her nooks. In this building, we aspired to arduous learning And four years our teachers have been yearning To train us for a later life and problems that may follow. Until today, we felt those wished for dreams were coming like a swallow From the hollow. And with each short day, the swallow slowly wends his way To our hearts and long dreamed wishes on the bay. Now that our time is short, and the bird is near our port We must say goodbye to others, and use our best efforts In the world which wc import. LUCILLE ROSS ’25 Look before ye leap.'