Danville High School - Medley Yearbook (Danville, IL)

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iFarultij ora Mayo Smith, for two years principal of our high school, has in that short length of time gained a position in the hearts and minds of the student body which has never been accorded to any man before him. His untiring energy, which has characterized his work in the D. H. S., has been a constant companion throughout his whole life. In 1896 he entered De Pauw Academy, and by 1898 he had finished the four years’ course, despite the fact that he was working his way through college. The next fall, he entered the De Pauw University, was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and editor-in-chief of the De Pauw Mirage in his senior year. By virtue of his craving of hard work, and lots of it, he secured the Bachelor of Arts degree in three years. Throughout his college career, he established a record for being one of the most conscientious and consistent workers, and this trait has remained with him, an ever present factor in his daily life. His deep insight of human nature and squareness have won the love and respect of till the students. Mary D. Hawkin’s resignation from the faculty has deprived the school of the -services of the most thorough instructor in mathematics who has ever taught in D. H. S. It was her thoroughness and energy which proved her undoing, for in the latter part of March, 1907, her eyes began to fail and she was compelled to abandon her school work and take a long-delayed rest. During her fifteen years of faithful service, she has worked for the best interests of the students, teachers and school. In Samuel C. Sayers, the Danville High School has one of the best science teachers in this part of Illinois. Mr. Sayers received the Bachelor of Science degree from De Pauw University, and after graduating, came direct to this city. His excellent method of teaching chemistry and physics has made the sciences much more easily understood and instructive to the student than ever before. Clara Louise Ross is a graduate of Mt. Vernon High School, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and of the Lake Forest University. As instructor in higher Latin, she has been careful and painstaking in every detail, and has put her whole heart into the advancement of that “anciente ande goode studyie of Latyn.” Further broadened by a trip in Europe, last summer, she has mixed the old and the new in such porportions as to fully maintain, to her honor, the prestige of Latin over all languages d' ad or alive. 11

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Flavilla Grant,— Confidante of the Seniors, god-mother to the Freshmen,” has the confidence and respect of every student of the Danville High School. Perhaps no one in the faculty has done as much as she, in shaping the lives and ambitions of the pupils, as they have entered as Freshmen, and continuing until they have graduated. Miss Grant is an alumnus of the Danville High School and Fort Worth University. In giving so much of her time to assist the Senior classes— in drilling their plays and chaperoning the invariably rainy picnics—she has the love and good-fellowship of the '07 class and all those before it. Roscoe Myrl Ihrig, in spite of his unimpeachable German pronunciation and his German jokes is a native of Ohio. He graduated from the University of Worcester in ’( 1, with the Ph. B. degree. As an instructor in the German language, he has been connected with D. H. S. since the fall of ’03. Possessing considerable musical talent, he has successfully organized and conducted the various mandolin clubs, orchestras and bands, of the past four years, and has assisted with the ’05 and ‘07 minstrel shows. Miss Anne Chester came to Danville three years ago, as an alumnus of Champaign High School and the University of Illinois. Her value was quickly recognized in the grade schools and she was given the higher English classes in the Danville High School. Through her zealous efforts, the English course has become more popular than ever. Miss Edna White, who has charge of the Domestic Science department— the prep, school of matrimony,” is a graduate in the Domestic Science course from the University of Illinois. After a few years’ work in the southern part of the state, she came to Danville, where she has done wonders in making Domestic Science one of the most interesting of the selective studies. 12