Cissna High School - Review Yearbook (Cissna Park, IL)

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Q. lllD. GB. lltlll. S. M' CLASS WILL We, the class of 1929, of the Cissna Park Community High School, having accumulated many personal talents and properties, and wishing to lessen our burdens, do call you, our friends and readers, to the reading of this our last will and testament. We do hereby bequeath the following to our dear successors: To the board of education and faculty We bequeath our thanks for their kind help in supplying the things necessary in our many courses. The Senior Class bequeath to their fellow students their ability to strive ahead to a better goal. I, Walter Barth, do will and bequeath my sex appeal to Fred Huebener. I, Joe Beebe, do will and bequeath my promptness to Avanell Hilt. I, Earl Brenner, do will and bequeath my hyena laugh to Wilma Brown. hI, William Beer, do will and bequeath my ability in physics to Orin Ric oz. K II, Ruby King, do will and bequeath my incessant speech to Arthur es er. I, Carl Berg, do will and bequeath my increasing height to Bea Steele. I, Roma Dryden, do will and bequeath my musical ability to Dixie Schmidt. I, Dale Zbinden, do will and bequeath my singing ability to Mike Yergler. I, Ruth Zbinden, do will and bequeath my faithful old Ford to the Landes Sisters. . I, Chester Hofman, do will and bequeath my good times to Leroy Morton. I, George King, do will and bequeath my ability to smoke cigars to Delbert Pendergrast. I, Velma Freidinger, do will and bequeath my good disposition to Freda Rudin. I, Ralph Schmidt, do will and bequeath my independence to Lester Kogler. I, Lucy King, do will and bequeath my typewriting ability to Aubrey Morton. I, Wilbur Cluver, do will and bequeath my majestic bearing to Ernest Reutter. I, Nellie Sites, do will and bequeath my ability to play a saxophone to any promising artist. In witness whereof we hereunto set our hands and seal this fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty- nine. fSignedJ CLASS OF 1929. Witnesses: Bill Farnsworth Olga Laubscher E171 9 QEVIIXE

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QB. MU. 112. lltill. SENIOR CLASS HISTORY The Freshman year for nineteen young students of Cissna Park started September 7, 1925, in the Assembly Hall of the Cissna Park Community High School. As Freshmen we felt quite strange among so many other pupils in a new environment. However, this strange feeling soon left us when we saw the hospitality of our elder classmen, and we soon adapted ourselves to the new conditions, being eager to take part in the activities of our school. Thus the first year's work was carried on with much success under the supervision of Miss Chappell. At the end of the year we were all quite pleased to see that no one had dropped out throughout the year. Our Sophomore year was begun with seventeen members in the class, three, namely, Marie Boers, Lorena McCray and Edgar Sebring, having dropped out. One absence, however, was filled by a student from the East Lynn High School, Carl Berg. In April another of our classmates, Orin Aeschliman, dropped out, much to the regret of all, for this reduced our number to sixteen. Under the direction of Brooks Courtright, the class advisor, the school year was a very happy and prosperous one. The class at the beginning of the Junior year again numbered nine- teen, two, Ruth Steiner and Corrine Ward, having dropped out, the latter moving to Buckley. Four students, namely, Chester Hofman, Dale Zbinden, George King and Elsie Stocker, entered the class. Chester Hofman came from Rossville High School, and George King, by carrying five subjects a year, was considered a Junior. Elsie Stocker, however, did not stay with us throughout the year, for in January she left our high school to attend Brown's Business College at Danville, Illinois. With Miss Brown as class advisor we were well represented in the school activities and able to carry on our work successfully. The Senior year found our class numbering sixteen, Walter Harwegger and Earl Walders having dropped out. This year the Seniors were well represented in school activities. Ruby King represented our school in Extemporaneous speaking, Roma Dryden in Violin Solo, and Earl Brenner in Oration. The Cissna Park Glee Clubs and Chorus also had a large repre- sentation from the Senior Class. Members of the Senior Class were prom- inent in the Basketball, Baseball, and Tennis teams, and the ofiicers of the Students Council were all members of the Senior Class. It is hardly believable that those students who entered high school only four years ago as green freshies are now the dignified Seniors. May these Seniors be an everlasting light for the Cissna Park Community High School, and the future Seniors, and may they be as successful and active as citizens of our Community and Nation as they have been as students of C. P. C. H. S. The Senior Class leaves the Cissna Park Community High School hoping that those abilities received and developed through the four happy years spent in High School may be so intelligently applied to the various phases of life as to make a successful and happy future for each of the 1929 graduates. EVHEWQQ U61

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GB. ID. IB. ltill. CLASS PROPHECY While I was returning from India on the liner Luxuria to take care of some business affairs, I conceived the idea of visiting Cissna Park. I engaged a speedy airplane at New York and was soon sailing for Cissna and all it held dear. At the very moment we were ready to land, the astounding realization forced itself upon me! My pilot was none other than Earl Brenner, that glorious pestilence of my High School days, who forever kept repeating the calm statement, Sa-ay, ya know you're good-lookin'? As I stepped out I said, Hello, Dupg do you know me ? Sure, he replied, knew you all along. Sa-ay, ya know you're good- lookin'? I stuck my nose in the air and set off for the filling station where a man was pumping gasoline. A certain mannerism, a certain twist of the head brought me to earth. Why that was Joe Beebel Hello, Joe, I said, do you know me ? For a moment hes.was astounded. Then: For the luvva mike! Who'dda thought it? How is everyone at Cissna ? I asked. Still kickin'5 but you aren't goin' there I hope? Why, I could tell you enough in two minutes to send you away for the rest of your life. All right. G0 to it. ' Well, he began, you remember George King g lives in Greenlandg makes his livin' sellin' lawnmowers to the Eskimos. Goolie Barth-that little sawed-off shrimp-married Nellie Sites. They live on a farm. You remember how goofy Roma was over him, I s'pose? Well, when he got married she broke down-just completely looney, plays her violin all the time. 'Oh, I wondered why she never wrote. Go on. Let's see-oh, yes! Ruth Zbinden became a trained nurse. Well, she married one of her elderly patients several years ago. She's just waitin' for him to kick off so she can get his money and marry Carl Berg, who's just pining away for love of her. You've probably heard of Wilbur? He's United States Prime Minister to the Chinks. Velma Freidinger is his wife. Guess they spend most of their time givin' receptions. Some life, that! What about the others ? Ralph Schmidt is a contractor and an architect. He just finished a building for the insane. It's pretty modernistic and just to look at it you'd think he'd soon land there himself. Chet Hofman? What about him 7 Chet? Why, he's manager of the Cissna baseball team. Last year they won the world's series. Wouldn't thought it, would you ? You've probably heard of Dale, too. He sings baritone in the Metro- politan Opera Company. Bill Beer just got a patent from the government for his perpetual motion machine and some other contraption he's rigged up. He'll make something out of himself if he doesn't look out. What about Lucy ? Lucy, the hardest-boiled school ma'am in the United States l You're right, Joe, I said, 'Tm disappointed in Cissna Park. .I up- held a great future for it. I'm going back to India where I can write m peace. And so saying, I climbed into my plane and departed. E HEWQQQ ml