Danville High School - Medley Yearbook (Danville, IL)

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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

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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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(Hhr filrMni § taff Editor-in-Chief Homer Chapin Wick Business Manager Melvin Leo Hole Assistant Business Managers T. William Conron Grover Ringen Smith Associate Editors Literary Earl Myron Kirkpatrick Estella Marie Popejoy Social Faye Ruth Miller Boys’ Athletics Buell Helmick Snyder Girls’ Athletics Inez Eva Gass Humorous Lewis Robinson French Art Charles Francis Ferris Contributing Artists Carl Douglas, '09 Geo. Webb, '08 14