Danville High School - Medley Yearbook (Danville, IL)

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THE MEDLEY FREEMAN BEYER KING BREN DERG AST MATTHEWS SENIOR OFFICERS President. Frank A. King Vice-President Frances Freeman Secretary-Treasurer. .. Margaret Matthews Historian Bessie Beyer Chairman Social Committee Marie PrendergasT CLASS COLORS Green and White 20

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THE MEDLEY 19

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□ THE MEDLEY HISTORY OF CLASS OF 1911 HE EARTH ceased not in its motion —life paused not in its labor as some four years ago, seventy-five or a hundred youths and maidens of tender age entered the portals of Danville High School. Great as may have seemed to us the crisis in our lives when we were transformed from “children in the grades” to “students in high school,” yet the outside world took little notice of us, and to the upper classmen we were nothing more than “an extra large and green bunch of Freshmen with which to have some fun.” What a fall from our lofty hopes of making an impression! Several days were required to adjust us and to restore our equilibrium, but soon we became aroused and resolved no longer to remain nonentities. Accordingly on September 27, 1907, we met and organized, and from that time (not boasting) we have never again been nonentities. As Freshmen we made excellent records in the student, athletic and social worlds, all of which proved prophetic of our future years in high school. As Sophomores, aided by the wisdom and small degree of common sense acquired when Freshmen, we again distinquished ourselves as members of society, as athletes and as students. Though many of our number, either being unable to maintain the high standards upheld by our class or for nobler though rather mercenary reasons, dropped back or out, yet we entered the Junior year with a fairly large class of the very best quality. And now, feeling that we must prepare ourselves to become the finest class that ever graduated, we, as Juniors, centered all our labors on acquiring knowledge and in making scholarship and literary records, indulging in but one social affair, the memorable Junior-Senior. Finally, as Seniors, our last year in high school is quickly passing by, and soon we will be Alumni. Under the faithful and excellent leadership of Frank King, we are striving—and with good results—to make this the best year of our lives. We have endeavored not to allow the necessarily increased business of Seniors to lower our standing in scholarship, but expect to maintain that untarnished to the end. In athletics we realize that we are taking with us some of the “stars, ” and while we are sorry that they cannot help in maintaining our high school records in the succeeding years, yet we are proud to have them as members of our class. Now the time that will write “finis” to our high school days has almost come. Earnestly we have endeavored to improve our time and yet to make these days our pleasantest. Though our class does not equal the preceding one in size, we have striven to make up in quality what we lacked in quantity. With this preparation we are leaving—some to battle with the world and some to battle still longer with school books; but we hope ever to remember, as we have tried to do in high school, that— “Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us foot prints in the sands of time.” 21