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

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SENIORS

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AlDMINIS'T RATION THE CAR.D!INAL a fairy tale, and it is history. For halfa century I have been writing my thoughts in prose and in verse, history, philosophy, drama, romance, satire, ode and song Q I have tried all. But I feel that I have not said a thousandth part of what is in me. When I go down to the grave I can say like many others: I have finished my day's work. But I cannot say: I have fin- ished my life. My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley, it is a thoroughfare. It closes in the twilight, it opens on the dawn. -Victor Hugo WHAT IS A FRIEND? Two men were talking about friendship, and one of them had praised Emerson's splendid essay. The other said, I don't know what Emerson wrote on friendship, but I am willing to accept for myself the definition of a friend, written by some unknown writer, that I found some- where the other day printed on a little slip of paper. Let me read it to you. What is a friend? he readf. 'I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can go naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better or worse. When you are with him you fell as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocentl. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think so long as it is genuinely you. He understands those con- tradictions in your nature that leads others to misjudge you. With him you breathe free. You can take off your coat and loosen your collar. You can avow your little vanities and envies and hates and vicious sparks, your meanness and absurdities, and in opening them up to him they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty. He under- stands. You do not have to be careful. You can abuse him, neglect him, tolerate him. Best of all, you can keep still with himl It makes no matter. He likes you. He is like fire that purges all you do. He is like water that cleanses all that you say. He is like wine that warms you to the bone. He understands. You can weep with him, laugh with him, sin with him, pray with him. Through and underneath it all he sees, knows and loves you. A friend, I repeat, is one with whom you dare to be yourself. -Thomas Drier

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'DI-IE CARDINAL IS E -N' I O 'R S CLASS OFFICERS President-Gilbert Brenner Vice President-Kenneth Baier Sec. 8a Treasv.-Barbara Verkler Class Flower-Blue Orchid Class Colors-Blue and Silver Class Motto- The Door to Success is Labeled Push CLASS HISTORY On the first of September, 1936, our class of twenty-four members entered C. P. H. S. as a happy group of Freshmen. We encountered many embarrassing moments before gaining the hospitality of our upper-class- men. Our sophomore year was begun with the same number of students, twenty-four. We were now Sophomores so began taking a greater part in the activities of our High School. Donovan Reutter dropped out but his vacancy was filled by Florence Fields, who came to this school from Pen- field High School. The Junior year found our class numbering only seventeen. Carol Barth, Ardena Hasselbring, Clarence Tyler, and Irene Frankum left this school and attended other schools, John Morton and Althea Clements, drop- ped school work, and Ella Bauer, by carrying six subjects, was graduated. Our Junior year was a happy and successful one. At last, we are honorably looked upon as Seniors. Only sixteen of our classmates are left, Lois Denniston having moved away. We have been well represented in the school activities, and glee clubs and as we ,turn away, we hope that our class has proved to the future graduates that our high school career has helped to shape destinies. We shall soon be gone but pleasant memories of our high school days will cling to us forever.