Danville High School - Medley Yearbook (Danville, IL)

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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

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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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Frances Pearson Meeks is a graduate of Danville High School, Illinois Wesleyan University, Michigan State Normal and Cornell University. Her broad training and broad-minded views have made of her an ideal rhetoric and history teacher. Mrs. Mocks has been a potent factor in keeping up the standard of the school, along literary and historical lines. Rhue Myrtle Miller, like Miss McFarland, is a graduate of Danville High School and Chicago University. She made an extensive tour in F.urope and took post-graduate work in the University of Berlin. Her congeniality and sympathetic nature have gained her a warm spot in the heart of every student, Teutonic or otherwise. Elizabeth Mace McFarland came direct from Chicago University in nineteen hundred and five, to take charge of the mathematics department at Danville High School. Her new life and vigor have brought out the brighter side of algebra and geometry, to the relief of the struggling student. As chaperon at parties, she is resourceful and jolly. She had charge of staging the '07 Senior play. Miss Fleda Cooper—To fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Miss Hawkins, Miss Fleda Cooper was chosen, by virtue of her work in D. H. S. during the fall semester. She graduated from De Pauw University with honors in '05, and has been connected with Danville schools since that time. She has charge at present, of beginning English and algebra; during last fall, of physiology and physiography. 13