Brimfield High School - Spectator Yearbook (Brimfield, IL)

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1939 Senior Class history At the top of Graduation Peak, we thirty Seniors look back upon the four STRENUOUS BUT HAPPY YEARS WE HAVE SPENT CLIMBING B, H, S, MOUNTAIN, WE STARTED WITH AN EXTREMELY ENERGETIC PARTY OF FORTY LADS AND LASSIES ON A RAINY DAY IN SEPTMEBER OF 1935, For OUR CHIEF GUIDE, WE CHOSE RUTH REED, AND FOR ASSISTANTS WE SELECTED BETTE DOUBET, JOE BLUNDY, AND DONALD HAMILTON, MISS TRACY WAS OUR ADVISOR, WE CRAWLED TOO NEAR SOPHOMORE CRAG AND WERE THOROUGHLY INITIATED INTO THE BUSINESS OF MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, SOON AFTER THIS LESSON, WE STOPPED FOR A WIENER ROA5T AT FINNEGAN POINT, A LITTLE LATER, AFTER SOME SUCCESSFUL CLIMBING, WE SPONSORED A CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR THE OTHER CLIMBERS ON B, H, S, MOUNTAIN, WE WERE PROUD TO BE THE LARGEST CLASS IN SCHOOL, Resting for three months after that first expedition, our party continued TO CLIMB THE MOUNTAI , Fl DING THAT WE NEEDED TWO COUNSELORS, TO GIVE US ADVICE, WE CHOSE MISS CORA AND MISS LOHMAN, DEWITT WyCOFF WAS CHOSEN AS OUR CHIEF guide. Helpers were Mary Lou Speck and Marna Dean kiddoo. Looking tack upon THE PATH JUST TRAVELED, WE SPIED A NEW PARTY STARTING UP THE MOUNTAI . PROMPTLY HALTING THE EXPEDITION, WE SHOWED THESE NEW TRAVELERS THE WAYS OF RlMFIELD, ONE CHILLY EVENING, WE ROASTED WIENERS AND MARSHMALLOWS BY A LARGE FIRE, IN THE SPRING, WE CALLED A HALT TO THE MONOTONY OF CLIMBING, AND SPONSORED A SKATING PARTY FOR ALL THE BRAWNY .’OUNTA INEERS, Following a short pause for recreation, thirty-three of us took up the CLIMB WHERE WE HAD LEFT IT JUST THREE MONTHS BEFORE, V E FOUND OUR CHIEF GUIDE IN THE PERSON OF MARNA DEANE KIDDOO, AS ASSlTANTS, WE CHOSE JOE BLUNDY AND Mary Lou Speck. Our advisors were Miss Cora and Mr, ? althers. Along the path, Y E STOPPED FOR OUR ANNUAL WIENER ROAST, IN MAY, WE FaOE FAREWELL TO THE SENIORS FOR A RECEPTION HELD AT HOTEL CUSTER, GALESBURC, In September, J938, we thirty seniors started on the last lap of our journey, Finding Wycoff an efficient guide, again we chose him for that position. For advisor, we chose Mr, Erasmer; and during this last climb, we published the Spectator, The Juniors honored us with a reception, Bacclaureate Sunday fell on May 2«i, and eight days later we went Over the Top of b. h. mountain, trying to visualize what lies ahead of US IN this great land of freedom and opportunity.