Catholic Central High School - Banner Yearbook (Fort Madison, IA)

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. N 1 X. .- F , Neg.. . -ff 'ff' -.- CLASS WILL State of Iowa County of Lee We, the members of the Senior Class of '28 of the Catholic Central High School in the city of Fort Madison, Lee County, Iowa, having had the privilege of attending said school for the past four years and now finding ourselves forced to depart from its hallowed walls, beqneathe in our last will and testament: To the Juniors our ability to uphold the name of the school, to keep the Class Banner throughout the year, and to be in every way and every day the Model Class of the C. C. H. To the Sophomores our ability to have perfect lessons at all times. To the Freshmen our thirst for higher knowledge and the right to claim re- served places at every school function. To the Rt. Rev. Monsignor, Sister Mary Clara, and the Faculty our sincere gratitude and appreciation for all they have done to make our high-school career at success. Individual Bequests: I, Gilbert Kessler, President of the Class of '28, will my ability to address the students for the purpose of instilling school spirit, to Henry Danley. I, Bernard Krieger, will my prowess as a football player. to Clarence Auge. I, Paul Albers, the class shielt, bestow this great honor on Raymond Pohl- meyer. I, Joseph Heitz, will unto Paul Rose niy honor of reading detective and western stories during school time. I, Carl Super, will my honor of having polite manners in the presence of some girls, especially one Junior, to Raymond Helling. I, Louis Zumbroegel, will my he-n'.an physique to Harman Tuttenhoff. I, George Thinker, will my talent to impersonate the part of a minister in plays to John Richey. I, Norbert Rose, will,my poetic and musical talent to Johanna Vonderhaar. I, Robert Guenther, Will my pre-eminence as a valuable basketball player to Robert Linsenmeyer. I, Robert Williams, will unto John Cullen my ability to captain a basket- ball team. XVe, Adelbert Solheid and William XfVagner, will our ability to take the part of Negroes in plays to Edward Manka. We, the Senior boys, will our power to over-rule all ma-tters of which we are not in favor and that are proposed by the girls, to the Junior boys. I, Margaret Heitz, will my talent of getting to class late to Josephine Phil- lips and Lucille Rose. I, Helen Capwell, will my charming voice which I hope will make me a great singer, to Evelyn Ashby and Mary Einspanjer. I, Geneva Carney, will my habit of blushing when teased about my boy friend to Marie Gockel and Beatrice Childres. I, Elizabeth Kiener, will my talkative disposition outside of class-time to Beatrice Phelan, Adeline Biggs and Irene Starr. I, Louise Kassmeyer, will my brevity of speech and the habit of placing Hand a after nearly every word of a recitation to Lucille Spring, Esther Koellner and Helen Mansheim. 1 ' L, . Q l ' TWENTY-FIVE 1' E

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had visions of becoming great men and women. Their hopes and aspirations were partially realized, when because of their whole-hearted enthusiasm and co-opera- tion in behalf of the Banner fund, they were named the champion booster class of the C. C. H. Additional honor was theirs when the trophy for inter-class basketball was awarded them. Still cherishing the thought of becoming leaders, sixteen of their number re- turned as Seniors. The class sincerely felt the loss of two of its promising mem- bers, Francis Resch, who moved to Milwaukee, and Annette Helling, who entered the convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame in St. Louis. But the arrival of a new Senior, Gilbert Kessler, raised their spirits. His untiring efforts in behalf of the school and its activities, and his personal interest in his fellow-classmates have clone much to raise the standard of the class of '28. His presence was ever an in- spiration for what is good and noble and uplifting. As all Senior years, the year '28 too was a full year in the truest sence of the word. Athletics occupied more time than in previous years, as also did Dramatics and Public Speaking. The latter was a deviation from the course generally offer- ed, for it presented the Public Speaker in practical life, in the Forum, on the Platform, on the Eleetioneer's Stand, and as a Guest in social and literary circles. Only too swiftly did the days pass during this the most momentous of high- school years! But in spite of an overfilled program, the cherished work of the class, their own High-School Annual, received more than its usual share of atten- tion. A better and a bigger Annual had been their slogan, and it proved to be so. The successful Senior year drew to its close with the Class Picnic in Crapo Park, Burlington, the Class Play, Class Day, and the long-looked for Class Ban- quet and Dance, foreshadowing the glories that were to come on Commencement Day. This was their golden day in the truest sense of the word, and was ushered i11 by a Pontifical High Mass celebrated by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor in St. Mary of the Assumption Church, which all tlfe students attended in a body and at which they received Holy Communion. After the Mass the Baccalaureate Sermon was delivered and the Solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament imparted as the Lord's own Godspeed to the young men and women about to start on life's rough way. Breakfast was served the Seniors in the High-School Library, after which the Senior pictures in graduates' tap and gown were taken. A wonderful eveningg a festively decorated auditorium, a dense crowd of eager relatives and friends, smiling, happy Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors, sedate Seniorsg the Grand March, the Address, the well-deserved Honors, and the coveted Diploma-this spells Graduation Day and closes forever the happy high- school course of the Class of 1928. -JOSEPH HEITZ, 28. -MARGARET HEITZ, 28. rs. .f:,,, TWENTY-FOUR

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VVe, the girls of the Senior Class, will to the Junior girls our great honor of always having the last word. VVILLIAM WAGNER. We, the undersigned, do hereby witness this as the final testament and will of the Senior Class of '28, Given at C. C. H. S. GILBERT KESSLER Fort Madison, Iowa, Signed BERNARD KRIEGER This 22d day of March, IQ28. CARL SUPER BLUEBIRD FOR I-IAPPIN ESS THE SENIOR-CLASS BANQUET Happiness, word with which to conjure, little word of deepest meaning! Hap- piness had unlocked for us the portals of our dear C. C. H. Happiness closed for us the portals of our Alma Mater, when on Class Day the little bluebirds of hap- piness greeted us at the Senior Class Banquet. How appropriate! How full of meaning! How portentous of what we would want our lives to he, of what we hoped our future would be. The dear old familiaiflibrary had been converted into a bower where fairies might have loved to dwell. Tender trailing vines covered the delicate lattice-work that lined the walls, and little azure-colored songsters were perched everywhere-on the table among the flowers, on our place-cards and menu-cards. They flitted among the delicately shaded lightsg they perched on the bubbling fountain, they nestled on the heads of the azure-gowned Juniors, who so gracefully served the delicious banquet to the happy class of IQ28. Little bird of happiness, your sweet warbling was heard even in the demure words of the toastmaster, in the earnest response of the guests. Sweet link of the past and future, remain ever near us! Let us hear your cheerful twitter in the days to come when youth's garden will have changed into life's rough, unhewn way. Teach our hearts to sing ever grateful, happy notes though skies be dark, and life be drear, for happiness has been the keynote of our school days, why then should it not be our soul's song for life, of which they were but the happy prelude? PLANTIN G OF THE SENIOR CLASS TREE JUNE 5 Dear little elm that we plant today, VVhat will you be when we're old and gray? Was that not the thought whcih passed through the minds of the Class of 1928 as they silently stood about the space reserved for the graceful Elm, the first class-tree ever planted by a Senior Class of C. C. H. Slender and tall, full of young life, it stood., so typical of the youthful, hopeful class whom, in years to come, it was to commemorate. We name this tree the Newman Literary Elm, were the words Of the Class President that rang out on the quiet air of that happy june day, and we dedicate it to the Class of 1928 May it be for us ever a reminder of what the elm-tree signifies. To be pliant, yet true, though bowed by rude winds, to rise ever anew. . Lord of the earth and sea, Prosper our planted tree, Save with Thy might. Save us from sin's false charm, Protect our souls from harm, And us Thy children dear, Lead e'er aright! TWENTY-SIX