Blend High School - Memories Yearbook (Blend, IL)

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MEMORIES ’25 carried off first honors in the district and state contests. Anne Groziak was acclaimed State Champion Typist of’24 and represented Illinois in an Inter-state Contest at Des Moines, Iowa, where she won fifth place. One of the best social events of the year was the Junior-Senior Banquet which we initiated in the school after giving a “Mock Commencement” to finance the occasion. It was well received and executed with great success. The Senior year found a class of twenty-five including a recruited force of five students. When we organized our Class Club, we chose Robert Cox, President; Olga Homyk, Vice-President; and Mary Flaherty, Secretary-Treasurer. At this time necessity warranted the publishing of a year book to keep abreast with the leading schools in the state. Our class realized this fact and sought to advance with the best, hence this publica- tion. Never before was our class better represented on the athletic fields or to better advantage, and a decided showing was made when we took second place in the first Inter-class Basketball Tournament. Two of our members, Adolph Toigo and Steve Gricewich were named on the All- Central-State Football teams, on the first and second teams respectively. To manage the financial part of our “Annual”, a series of entertainments were given which proved quite profitable and successful especially our class play “A Rustic Romeo”. So in lieu of the above accomplishments and particularly referring to Page Twenty-Jour

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MEMORIES ’25 Senior History T HE Class of ’25 has always appeared to be an extraordinary assemblage of individuals who strove for the betterment of pur school and society. We may safely begin this history of its accomplishments with the Eighth Grade graduating exercises which were ushered in by our class—and close it with the drawn curtain on that eventful night when the first class shall be graduated from the stage of our new gymnasium. In September of ’21 we entered into our High School career, a band of sixty eager and willing students, representing a large percentage of those graduating from the public schools in the district. Our class naturally, like most Freshmen classes, was the largest in the school and occupied over half the entire space in the old Auditorium. After we had settled that eternal question of deciding between Caesar’s native tongue and the annals of history, and the class being divided accordingly, a breathing spell was offered in the form of social parties. These affairs were crowded by our numbers and we seemingly enjoyed ourselves more than the upper class- men whom we envied. Our athletes were very successful and we placed several men on both the football and the basketball teams. That spring we humbled the other classmen by winning the Inter-class Track and Field meet, a feat accomplished by the force of numbers rather than by the special ability of our contestants. When school began session next Fall our ranks were somewhat depleted as only forty-four students returned. The Sophomore year was a dark period of little activity and the only outstanding event was the completion of our new school building which we occupied the latter part of February. When out Junior year began with but twenty eight, we at once felt the importance of being upper classmen—ahem! New iife and new hopes- we were well represented on the champion football and basket ball teams and copped second place in the annual Inter-class track meet. Our athle- tic contestants were very successful and won several medals at various track meets, while James Constable won first place in the themes at Car- lin ville. Our Commercial team won distinction wherever it appeared and Page Twenty-three

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MEMORIES ’25 the introduction of “Memories”, which we consider the highest climb, we challenge the former records of the previous classes and ascribe ourselves: ElizaB eth Frew JuliEtte Guzewich IreNe Doehler DiLizia Zancanaro ADam Chura Steve Gricwich Irene TuriGliatto Katherine KRauss Peter ZErbolio Olga CAppo Berti RoberT Cox AnnE Groziak. JameS Brunetto CaThleen Granger Olga SoSenko Maud Roc;Ers RhyaNie Vercellano AletIsia Negro AdOlph Toigo MaR y Peters Katie Contratto Mary FLaherty OlgA Homyk JameS Constable SuSan Mathias —Peter Zerbolio '25. Page Twenty-five