Byron Area High School - By Hi Yearbook (Byron, IL)

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8 THE BY RON IAN Louis Vane Johnson President Senior Class 1915 Track '14, ’15 Basket Ball '15 Senior Play ’15 I va Lucretia Hanger Secretary of Senior Class 1915 President of Tennis Club 1915 Senior Play ’15 Valedictorian ’15 Everett II. Cooper Class President ’14 Track ’13, ’14, ’15 Basket Ball ’13, '14, ’15. Captain ’15 President of Athletic Ass’n ’15 Manager Senior Play Etiiee Mae Champion Class Secretary ’14 Class Treasurer ’15 Senior Play ’15 Monte David Healey Class President ’12. Track ’13, ’14, ’15 Basket Ball ’15 Secretary Athletic Ass’n ’15 Oratorical Contest Second Place Senior Play ’15

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THE BY RON IAN 7 Seniors OFFICERS Louis Johnson.......................................................President Iva Hanger.........................‘..................Secretary and Treasurer Class Colors Cream and Green CLASS HISTORY When we became Freshmen of the Byron High School in the fall of 1911. we were a grand bunch, numbering 23 in membersbH and many of us were healthy farmer lads and girls. The first thing of much importance that our class (lid was to elect our President and other officers, and also to choose “class colors.” It was a hard-fought strife to decide which the colors would he. Green and cream was the cry of all the boys, while pink and yellow or blue was the cry of the girls. This was a case of the survival of the fitte st and ended in a victory to the boys. Thus cream and green were the waving colors of the Freshmen of 1911. We, like all Freshmen, were made fun of by the other classes in school, at the beginning of the year, and our choosing these colors did not help matters much. In the following winter we were scheduled for a game of basket ball with the 8th graders, as a preliminary to a game given between the first team and another town. The Green and Cream came out victorious. Now we were ready to compete with any Freshman team in the state. We thought ourselves really powerful and arranged a game with the neighboring village of Stillman Valley. The day of the game at last arrived. A good crowd of representatives from the Freshman class and other classes went to the town in the morning and wandered around the small burg until elaik. It was a strenuous day and when the game was called we could hardly find ourselves. But never- theless we went into the game strong and came out victorious again with a score of 2-1. We did little in track that year and not much more the next, hut we still kept holding our own in class meets. Our class became very small in the Sopho- more and Junior years and little was accomplished, hut we always had a member or two in all athletics. We were noted for our long distance runners. We were peaceable in our class meetings; we were loyal to our fellow students in time of misfortune or sickness. In the Junior year, being ambitious, we signed for an Entertainment Course which we would give in our Senior year. We worked hard and advertised extensively. The result was, we paid for our course and. much to the surprise of other people, we had a few dollars left. We were strong in athletics in our last year of high school, having taken into our membership two or three good athletes. We would challenge the whole remainder of the school in a meet. We had four men in the first team in basket ball and could arrange a good Senior team ourselves. We obtained our class rings and invitations without any argument and, unlike other classes, our members all stayed to our class meetings. If the girls did have less votes at our meeting than the boys they seldom disagreed or dis- approved of their doings. Thus our well organized class steamed through high school and is always looked up to as a good example of class spirit and school patriotism. M. II. 15.

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THE BY RON I AN 9 Florence Madgalexe Leary Senior Play 15 Amzi Armstrong Johnston Class Vice President '13, 14, 15 Track '14, 15 Basket Ball 15 Senior Play 15 Sherman Earl Wickwire Basket Ball 15 Track 15 Salutatorian 15 Senior Play 15 Delmar Lyman Sherman Senior Play 15 Ex. 1915 Mildred Chessman-Cornish .. Belvidere Leo Erickson.....................Byron Augustus Galloway-Spickler.......Byron Watson Helsdon...................Byron Earl Hetrick ....................Byron Ethel Jackson....................Byron Ernest McNeal....................Byron Bertha Shearer...........DeKalb Normal Roland Smith......................Iowa