Collinsville High School - Kahokian Yearbook (Collinsville, IL)

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. .- QF . .,. .. L--L a y i -k vs- 4 easx W ...ari . .c wa For many months Miguel traveled a land called Florida and explored with Ponce de Leon and his men. The Frenchmen were highly unsuccessful in their attempts to locate the Fountain of Youth. But, Miguel, being the wisest of all, did find it. Although, to this day it is still not known how or where he found it, its magic power proved itself. For to this day he still . . . Well, back to that part of the story later. After Miguel's youth returned to him, he began to travel this great .w,D I, land of which Florida was a part. He came upon many greedy men who m ia, ,N were exploring this America for their homeland. Miguel disagreed very. much with this idea. Why, America should be allowed to remain free fromy ,. any foreign power. It should be allowed to grow as it pleased. One explorer - . whose ideas were much the same as Miguel's was a man named DeSoto. v His expedition was intending to travel up a large river known as the Father egg ,.,q... - ii1' l 'i ' A W of Waters but which the Indians called Mississippi, 044 Many weeks of exhausting travel were made bearable to Miguel by the most beautiful scenery that he had ever laid his eyes on. Large, green ,.' f Fifffl trees waved their branches over the water's ed e and extended back for It . miles from the shore. g 1 .:' f ','i if - T ' One day as Miguel was gazing dreamily at the wonderous sights be-' . , Q 1 fore him, the boat on which he was riding ran aground and threw him far i Q Q A upon the banks of the great river. Unconscious for many hours, Miguel Q awoke with a start! The expedition was gone! Well . . . nothing to do but g look around and make the best of what he had. And he did. 6 Further exploration revealed a band of Indians who had a particular Z fondness for great mounds of dirt in which they buried their dead. These Q were scattered for miles around the entire area. Well, thought Miguel, this Q is where I'll build my home and settle down. And he did. Qi 5 lil l Z ..-...,..........,l y . ... f 4, Z 9 f r ld .F 9?

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W s X X ll itts s ix 4 vf iiliifgfb c X fl I EKIH Q QW, R Y - H '- , XX, up .:5' Many, many years passed. Years in which the Indians died away. Years in which Miguel saw his great dream for America come true. The years brought people, too. Wfhite people, who built their homes on Miguels' land and called themselves a town. Collinsville they called it. And a great little town it was! Why, it had the darned nicest people you ever saw. One morning as Miguel sat contentedly eating his breakfast in his little mouse house under the ground, a great commotion began to stir over- head. Huge machines were digging away heaps of dirt from Miguel's field! As the days passed, the hole gradually became a large building. A building whose halls and rooms filled each day with girls and boys. To this building was soon added a large bowl-shaped field and another flat, circular field. But Miguel's favorite was a large, separate building which contained nothing but a large wooden floor with seats on either side. And here on certain nights great hordes of people would fill every seat and as the center of the floor became crowded with young men, the people would shout a word that the Indians had used many years before - Kaholcs! Yes, you have guessed it. Miguel is the only permanent member of Collinsville High School. He is the little guy who goes around living off of the lunches that are carelessly thrown in lockers. He is the reason for many a scream from some startled young Miss. And because he seems to know so much about us, we have chosen him to explain many of the things contained in the 1959 KAHOKIAN. emi - .T --..-.e'- . W.. 3.-13: , f-.:' Zi f'. - --:J , ,.,., l. Il v l f 1 .3 I N 'A L r 1, . rl 1 x . t N i x . i t S5 33 ll Fix liafgk i 'J s Q!gsLB X i ss wx I mx ix 1 i fm qv X 'F W' 235' ni 5 :..:.1:f 5- 4 L, 'Ex ff? Q, fi lla FSE, A '--uf-'E+ , 7 ..-- l 2 1 f.- I ' E Q. Fiifkvi f' S I 7 t' , o A. ff ll if Z 4 Ev ? ,. ivy ' , -cp . X' it .f , i f 'fiff fy -' ' , 5 1' I f I . ' , fa 21 c x A 6 44 V All 5 r. ,t' .fs X L' 2 9- ff ' if X