Belleville Township High School - Bellevinois Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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THE BELLEVINOIS 1917 RUTH HARDING She's witty, and she's jocularg She's pretty, and shc's popular. President Household Science 145: Dramatic Club 443. A perfect example of 'tdon't worry! -it isn't good for your appearance. Her main object in life is to have a good time, but why blame her, oh studious one, she is not really original in the object. Ruth, however, has taken a step farther than merely leis- urely enjoying herself. She has, by long practice, acquired the ability of looking very busy, but we are not fool- ed. Our heroine also possesses a good voice, and on quiet summer evenings she loves to rouse the neighborhood from seeming apathy. Hiiisten, Kid! LILBERT MOLLMAN- ' Lib, Prof., Gus Why muse you, sir? 'Tis dinner time. f Shakespeare. They say best men are molded out of faults. f Shakespeare. Chorus 445: Debating Club 145: Business Manager of Bellevinois: Chorus. The original of this picture hailed from Millstadt in our Soph. year. He soon got used to the ways of a big city, and now you canit even startle him with a street car or sprinkling wagon. In his Senior year he took to glasses and the cultivation of the terpsichorean art. The glasses added the ennobling touch of intellectuality to his features, which gained him the name of Professor, and the dancing would have added grace to his form had it not been that it took so long for the brain to send an impulse way down to his feet. As the business manager of the Bellevinois he is a complete success. MILDRED WOELKf-Mil Prosperity to the man who ventures most to please her. -Ciber. Mil is the social butterHy of the class and one of the Faithful Four. It is said that in one day she has gone to as many as two parties. She also tortures the family piano and it is believed that she would play other musical instruments, too, if she knew how. But despite the fact that she stays up until the unheard-of hour of 7:30 p. m. every night and 8:30 p. m. on Saturday, she was always brilliant in class and able to get her copy in on time, and this was more than some folks we know, could do. When she became a Pitiful Gadabout, she ceased straining her mind and this accounts for any lack of thoughtful expression in her picture. I'm going to St. Louis tomorrow. '

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THE BELLEVINOIS DORIS NEUHAUS- Dodo, Snooks I remember there is a proper dignity to be ob- served in every performance of every act of life. Dramatic Club 141: Athletic Association 147. Snooks is one of our most noted lovers of books-reads everything written, including street car ads and movie magazines. The stock of English material having become in- sufficient to supply her great desire for knowledge, she has taken to Latin and now, after a year of that difficult study, she can repeat the fourth book of Virgil as easily as you, dear reader, can repeat Pilgrim's Progress. At the time of this writing she was mak- ing a scientific reading of Baron Muenchausen and, when she finishes, will doubtless undertake some other deep book. I am able to discuss that lucidly, having read six volumes on the subject. JAMES RICHARDSON- Jimmie, Isador, Imp-ecile That boy with the grave, mathematical look. -Holmes. Dramatic Club 143: Debating Club 141: Athletic Association 145: Class President 11, 2, 3, 43. Jimmie is a model studentg he loves his job and his teachers. The straight and narrow path had been his, until external infiuence in the form of his comrades put his books on the shelf and led him out into the world of pleasure. Here he became entangled in an AHaire de amoure in the eternal triangle-two men and a girl. Jimmie is also a member of the Vigilance Committee, which is made up of all of the '17 boys. His work in this secret society is to find all of- fending Freshmen and justly punish their offenses by seating them on hot radiators. Habla usted Espana. Well, how can I help it that I got Harvey's ring. FLORENCE PARO-Pebbles She's pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on. -Suckling. Dramatic Club 147. The rarest specimen of good-hearted liveliness in captivity. She enjoys herself immensely all of the time, even when called on to recite in history, filling up pauses in recitations with giggles, coughs or sneezes, thus fool- ing the teachers completely. Having joined the ranks of the pitiful gad- abouts in February, she has done her best to live up to the name. Pebbles has never been accused of learning her lessons by heart, or reciting with- out external stimulus, and rejoices in a well-developed faculty for bluiing. Why sure, I studied my history. 1917

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THE BELLEVINOIS 1917 PETRONILLA PUDERER- Pet, Bill, Pedro Why should not then we women act alone? Or whence are men so necessary grown? - ,D d . ry en Athletic Association Q-lj: President Dramatic Club 445. A Bellevillean of suffragettic ten- dencies, who is never so ilattered as when told that she reminds one of Sylvia Pankhurst. She is able, upon occasion, to produce a laugh in which there are great possibilities. It is as catching as measles, when near, and can be heard for a distance of 600 feet on a clear day, when the temperature is 63 F, and there is a barometric pressure of 759 mm. Pet is one of the inseparable four-Doris, Mil- dred, Marjorie and Petronilla-who have stuck together like poor relations during the four years, registering only 1,962,737 differences of opinions during that time. Go on! Tell me what happened. No, I w0n't tell. WALTER DAGNE-Duke Thou a merry devil Didst rob us of some taste of tediousnessf' -Shakespeare. , His face with smile eternal drest, Just like the landlord to his guest, fBurns. Dramatic Club 143: Athletic Association 145: Debating Club Q4Jg Chorus. Duke is the main attraction in the Senior Side Show. As the original infvxersonator of Charlie Chaplin he deceived so many people that for a time there was real doubt as to who was which. Tremble not, gentle read- er, all is now well. We know that Charlie is not Duke. This is not his only attraction. He is wise as well as witty, for he has devised ways and means of sliding through Physics. Who dares to say that this does not take brains? Though most indulging to friends, he is a very bitter enemy, having been known to even crack jokes about them. Beware! Listen to Jimmy and I play our ukelelesf' ADELHEID BRANDEN- BURGER Oh happy living thing, no tongue Their beauty might declare. -Coleridge. Something between a hinderance and a help. -- -Wordsworth. Dramatic Club 145: Athletic Association 145. Adelheid, Miss Brandenburger, for short, started life at an early age, and at this time is the youngest in years in the Class of '17. This is consider- ed quite a distinction, and especially so in her case, for here the verdant years of youth and the wonderful mind of age go hand in hand. Her special art is piano playing, which at present is far from nerve racking. A time there was, however, in the dim past when neighbors tried to sleep without ventilation, and their windows were not closed through fear of burglars. Wrote and composed the class song, in X Sharp, D' you know your Spanish Y 4 1 3 1