Avon High School - Boomerang Yearbook (Avon, IL)

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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.'

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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 Seniors’ Tribute to Underclassmen Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors! lend us your ears. We come to preserve knowledge, not to destroy it. The evil that we do lives after us; The good we do will distinguish us. So let us do our best. Our noble teachers Have told us we are ambitious— If it is so, then it is a generous comment: And joyfully have we accepted it. Here, under the teachers, and above the rest— For we are an ambitious class! So are you all! all ambitious classes! — We come to speak in behalf of our standards. You our fellow students are. faithful and just to us,— But critics say you are ambitious; And they are honorable people. You have brought many praises to our school, Which we most valuably treasure. Did this in you not seem loyal ? Yet we say you were loyal, And you are worthy of your praise! You all have seen, that, at our school. We have tried to gain the highest holds in life.— But many times we have been discouraged,— Yet we survived our great distress; And sure, we are to be honored for it. We speak not to discourage you; But to stimulate your desire for knowledge. You all did love to study once; not for fun; But to gain for yourself the power to think. Why should you o’erlook it now? O education! thou art supreme. Although some have denied it. Bear it to us, for we have not Given our time and energy in vain, But instead, we have given it For the best cause that God Almighty Could create, our supremacy. LUCILLE ROSS ’25 Where there is a will there’s a way.'