Danville High School - Medley Yearbook (Danville, IL)

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History of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Six WE originated as members of the Danville High School in 1902 and for four years we have kept our reputation for originality. Our Freshman year passed as all other Freshman years pass—our minds were in a process of absorption. We took in everything that came our way and did the little things well, waiting for the greater things to come to us asking to be done. When in 1903 our second year began, we did an unprecedented thing by organizing our Sophmore Class. With all due solemnity we elected our officers with Helen Wick as president and chose crimson and black to be our standard through the years of strife which lay before us. At first the Seniors and Juniors were inclined to regard us as a joke, but our action was not fruitless, for all Sophmores since have followed our example. We did not attempt much. e were content with a few laurels in the literary and oratorical scope and confined ourselves to conventionalities in a social way. Our garb of timidity fell away from us when we assumed the name of Juniors. We were ready to put forth our best efforts for D. H. S. and 1906. We re-elected Helen Wick to guide us on our uncertain way to Seniordom and glory. The Juniors were represented in almost every form of High School life in foot-ball, basket-ball, base-ball, (where we shone particularly), in tennis and track work, as well as in literary and oratorical contests. We found recreationin picnics, receptions, parties and hayrack and bobsled rides. In the Spring the ’06 Medley Staff was chosen, and in June we vented our artistic temperament in decorations for the 05 Baccalaureate and Commencement. When we again turned our faces toward High School—sadder, wiser Seniors, Si” Supple was exalted to the place of honor among us. We now gave our thoughts to more serious affairs. To raise funds for the Medley, the staff presented Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” which became so popular that it was several times repeated. In athletics, literature and 13

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The Class of Nineteen Hundred and Six COLORS: MOTTO: Crimson and Black. YELL: Boom-a-lacka. Boom-a-lacka, Bow, Wow, Wow. Ching-a-lacka, Ching-a-lacka, Chow, Chow, Chow, Boom-a-lacka, Ching-a-lacka, Sis, Boom, Bah. 1— 9—0—( , Rah! Rah!! Rah!!! SONG: Tune—“The Oranjre anti the Black.” “Though ’07 has always favored The green and the white. And the Class of 11)08 For the gold and blue will fight. We will own the dear old crimson Nor honor shall it lack. While ’06 stands defender of The Crimson and the Black. 12

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society, events took their usual course, anti as the time for graduating grew near we began to regret that the happy reality of High School life must soon be only a memory. We have laid no claims to superiority or pre-eminence, and yet we believe that by some chance the elements have been so mingled in our class that we have attained more than an ordinary degree of success. Our purposes have been earnest and our methods, honorable. We have finished our lessons here, and before each one of us the world lies, enticing in its breadth and freedom. Soon we shall be engrossed in learning other lessons-bitter and sweet-but in the midst of it all what one of us will not gladly hail the memory of dear friends of early times and the crimson and the black of 1906? —S. K. L., Historian. Plays. On the twenty-second of December the Medley Staff presented “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” before seven hundred people. Ten cents was charged for admission, and sixty dollars was cleared. The cast of characters included Helen Wick, Jean Hosford, Clara Knecht, Lucy Edwards, Sue Campbell. Guy Supple, Ralph Davies, Harry Payne, Sara Layton, Cornie Bennett, Earl Ross, Carrie English and Oswald Yeager. The Senior play, “Mr. Bob,” was presented on April the twentieth. The cast included Oswald Yeager, Harry Payne Earl Ross, Jeannette Hill, Jean Hosford, Helen Wick and Nolle Knight. Miss Grant deserves much credit, for she has successfully managed both of these plays. M