Bement High School - BIM Yearbook (Bement, IL)

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n E T o RAYMOND MORELAND “Catfish” Delphian ’24; Football ’23; Basketball ’22, ’23; Baseball ’22. BERNICE WHITE “Berny” Entered from Champaign ’23; Delphian ’24; Glee Club ’22. HELEN WALL Philomathean ’24; Typewriting Award ’24; Accountancy Award ’22, ’23. HILDA WALL Delphian ’24; Typewriting Award ’24; Accountancy Award ’22, ’23. RUSSEL SEITZ Delphian ’24; Football ’22, ’23, ’24; Basketball ’24; Track ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24. Page Tiventy three

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B E T O H 1 BERNADINE TABAKA Delphian ’24; Operetta ’24; Class Play ’23. VIRGIL SMITH “Babe Delphian ’24. EDNA SHEPHERD “Eddie Delnhian ’24; State Typing Contest ’23; State Shorthand Contest ’23; Typewriting Awards ’23, ’24. EVERETT VAN VLEET “Van Delphian ’24; Glee Club ’23; Operetta ’23; Football ’23, ’24, Numeral ’23, Letter ’24; Baseball ’22. ’23, Numeral ’23; Typewriting Awards ’24. ILAZEL HADDEN “Haz” Delphian ’24; Typewriting Awards ’23,’24; State Typing Contest ’23. Page Twenty-tivo

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B E T O H I 24 19 SENIOR HISTORY The high school days of this class are drawing to a close. As we are about to go forth from beneath these portals which have sheltered us for four short years, we can but linger a few moments in passing to recall a part of our life spent here. The freshman class, four shoi’t years ago, was the largest one that had ever entered the B.T.H.S. and we are about to depart as seniors with that same record. This largest class began its high school career with fifty-eight members. Out of this number ten had passed the first eight years of their schooling side by side in the Bement schools, namely: Mary Wilkinson, Mary Kerns, Marguerite Malkus, Jack Barnett, Vance Parker, Jack Thompson, Wayne Body, Judson Poundstone, Virgil Smith, and Donald Pitts. Of this number we have lost by the wayside eighteen, and have added to our ranks thirteen. At this period in our high school career we often thought of how nearly the seniors had completed their high school work, and, though we were somewhat bashful, we resolved to do our best. As the time sped on we assembled all our strength and courage and have at last attained that lofty position for which we have been struggling. When we began the second lap of that steep hill, on whose summit is graduation, Napoleon Jackson, Helga Larson, Gertrude McMillan, and John Sheppard had taken other paths, while Wayne Bauman joined us on our upward trend. This year several began a very promising athletic career which has ended successfully for the most of them. As we mounted to the third stretch of this journey, Clarence Comer-lord, Clyde Dare, Leonard Leavitt, Lester Peterson, Hazel Phillips, Emmet Rogers, Blanche Sams, and Aafke Sebens were summoned from our throng to find success and happiness elsewhere. We welcomed Leo Hanna, Joseph Voightritter, Bernice White, and Harry Kelley as companions on our lofty climb to the top of that hill, where our dreams are materialized in graduation. When we had reached the fourth and last course of this knowledgeseeking expedition, during which we had so diligently labored that we might, as seniors, experience that feeling of self-satisfaction and gratification of desire which follows a successfully accomplished task, we were forsaken by Leo Eaton, Clemons Fogle, Catherine Miller, Olive Norris, and Alice Webb. Our happiness was marred by the death of our faithful and loyal classmate, Florence Gardner. Our number was enlarged by Opal Durst, Vivian Hoyt, Nellie Burnett, Russell Bodamer, Glenn Smith, John South, Carleton Smith, and Orval England through the last upward climb to the fulfillment of our ambition here. We hope that as we continue our journey through life, traveling divided paths, we may each realize the success that we as a class have here attained. Edith Fristoe. Page Twenty-four