Barry High School - Yr Rab Yearbook (Barry, IL)

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A WORD ABOUT THE YR-RAB In the year 1919 a group of nine Barry High School Seniors produced the first volume of the Yr-rab. It was sponsored by the senior class. Charles Pad git t was editor-in-chief and Mrs. Edna Fiscus was advisor. The book sold for SI.25. Mf. layo Flick, bu; in .- manager of tin Yr-rab. has solicited thirtv- four pages of advertising. The book i« ready to go to pro»» with the ex- ception of a few picture . Thi» is the first annual ever pub- .shed by the High School and it pro- d os to be a success. The Alumni ’etion is especially interesting. Tiifl W i' »V» »- GRADUATION—1919 The dedication reads: ‘To our graduates who have served and are now serving their country in the war for freedom, the seniors of ' 19 gratefully dedicate this ‘Pioneer' volume of the Yr-rab.' The annual gave a good deal of space to the Alumni Association, which had been organized some years before. It listed all B.ll.S. graduates through 1918, numbering 254. This was the for- tieth year that a class had been graduated. The only years when no classes were graduated were 1881 and 1899. The first Baccalaureate service was held in 1889. Barry High School-1919 ft 23 I eldUD or £ to be followed in the building counH S ”ltirium in the varied counties wh.ch voted in favor of the Proposition at Uat fall’s elee- dtv fT,!?■ ,BeaVer U °°w i» that city in attendance at the meeting. it ig to frs. Ber- of the ‘I go to » t y hfg grand aJlic. VILLE harmed ' baccalaureate services at CHRISTIAN CHURCH Sermon I’rearhed By Rev. Moffet Sunday E renin ft. The Baccalaureate nervicea were held at the Christian church Sun- Alfred ! ht’ Mav “• There was erjury. '3' for ‘he occasion, and court “ , “™on that long be re- belling I r ,,r,‘a 'hwl hy Rev. ily by the Ka,,tist church. •Iibi. Le J ClaSS' 26 in numher, “ PnSent- THe l r B a“ 'i- Pike T W°Uld not hold a of the ! was v.VcPs Wh° W ‘nt l° a,ten l lhe wit- CCS here for re about will be CR VICES. i receive ! he United mittee in t a slight for the idered in ted War leased to formal »ur desire te as a in our 9 citizens here and Largest ('lass in History of the! j School Graduates W ith Honors. ; the --------------------- mil The Commencement Exercises are are to l e held at the coliseum Fri-1 0o1 day night. May 16. 1919. A Quin- Mn cy Orche.sti-a of which Mrs. Georgiaj‘ rj Ellers Morey is leader, will furnish music for the exercises. There are | twenty-six graduates: Sophia Stru- j binger. Mary Ware, Alice Gieker, I; n,i Kuth McKinney, Lula Cook. Lillian Jof x Lippincott. Van.la Potter. Cleo Me-j Owe Caffery. Pansy Davis, Cora Stro- heker, Kuth Nelsbn, Helen Dettle will I will Ella Ismg. Charles Padgitt. Walter Am Ritchie, Thomas Lock, John Torrens, J W'H George Sparrow, John Maddox, Rus-j sel Burdick. Lester Lippincott. Les- i Boyi lie Wamsley, I yo Flick, Carl Wil- bel liams, Ray Gleckler and Louis Aj Chamberlain. This is the largest!0 class that ever graduated from the' M Barry High School. The address will be delivered by,se™ H. H. Schroedcr of the Illinois State O' Normal at Bloomington. ) the