Davis High School - Davinois Yearbook (Davis, IL)

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0 . Uhr Baurnura Class of 1926 LUELLA NOTT Rostrum, Basket Ball, Glee Club, Hiking Club, '24, Debate, Doo Funny Family, The Village Photographer, The Path Across the Hill, '25, Davinois Staff, When Smith Stepped Out, Vice President Junior Class, '26, Quiet and serious minded. ARNOLD MEYERS Forum, '24, The Village Photographer, '25, Track, '25 and '26, Junior President, '26, Davinois Business Manager, '26. Life without lmlghing is ll dreary blank. GRACE DeGUNTHER Forum, Basket Ball, Glee Club, Class President, '24, Doo Funny Family, Village Photographer, Stepping Out, Debate, Class President, The Path Across the Hill, '25, Davinois Staff, When Smith Stepped Out, Class Secretary, Literary Society Vice President, '26, I vzefver regret my decisions. RUTH TIELKEMEIER Rostrum, Class Vice President, Hiking Club, Glee Club, Basket Ball, '24, Class Secretary, Doo Funny Family, Stepping Out, The Village Photographer, '25, When Smith Stepped Out, Davinois Staff, President Literary Society, '26. A genial disposition makes its owner many friends. MYRON TIELKEMEIER +R-mx, Forum, Class President, Winner Annual Essay Con- test, '24, Doo Funny Family, '25, Davinois Editor, When Smith Stepped Out, '26. As consistent as a man can be.

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Uhr Eaumnw 1925 QQ' . ...W .WEEW ,,..r..,. . A ,. MW, ., , , ,,.,,,,, , :QQ- . Literary Society The Literary Society of the Davis High School of 1925-26 held its first meeting on September 13. After the opening of the meeting we proceeded to elect officers. The officers chosen were: Dorothy Riche, President, Grace DeGunther, Vice Presi- dent, and Beulah Eberly, Secretary and Treas- urer. We also held the election of officers for the school paper at this time. Then a committee was appointed to arrange a program for the next meeting of September 25. A special program was arranged for the last Friday of each month, in which all the pupils take part. The general outline of the programs are: Instrumentals, readings, talks, solos, songs, dia- logues, jokes, spelling contests, and other special numbers. On November 9th our president, Dorothy Riche, left us and was succeeded by the vice pres- ident, Grace DeGunther. A change of officers was made on November 4th. The new officers were: Ruth Tielkemeier, President, Ruth Eberly, Vice Presidentg and Lu- cile Meier, Secretary and Treasurer. An enjoy- able feature of the programs was the roll call. We respond with a joke, riddle, favorite poem, etc. Much interest is manifested and good gained throrgh the activity. Honor Roll First Period Juniors-Myron Tielkemeier, Grace DeGun- ther. Sophomores-Dorothy Riche. Freshmen-Edwin Gunderson, Alvin DeGun- ther, Jason Afllerbaugh, Lucile Meier. The Period ended October 9th. . Second Period J uniors-Luella Nott, Ruth Tielkemeier. Freshmen--Jason Affierbaugh, Alvin DeGun- ther, Edwin Gunderson, Lucile Meier. The period ended November 20th. Third Period J uniors-Arnold Meyers, Grace DeGunther, Ruth Tielkemeier. Freshmen-Jason Afiierbaugh, Edwin Gun- derson, Alvin DeGunther, Lucile Meier. The period ended December 23rd. PgF Fourth Period J uniors-Arnold Meyers, Myron Tielkemeier, Ruth Tielkemeier. Sophomores-Beulah Eberly. Freshmen-Jason Aflierbaugh, Alvin DeGun- ther. Edwin Gunderson, Lucile Meier. The period ended February 26th. Fifth Period J uniors-Arnold Meyers, Myron Tielkemeier, Grace DeGunther. Freshmen-Alvin DeGunther, Edwin Gun- derson, Jason Afiierbaugh, Lucile Meier. The period ended April 16th. Through the Editor's Eyes There's Edwin, he never won any prizes at beauty contests, but neither did any of the rest of us, so we'll let it go at that. Jason is a mighty fine boy. The only trouble is that he sits too close to Ruth E. and his eyes are becoming weak from too strenuous exercise. Alvin, better known as Dixon, is O. K., only he's a little fresh even for a Freshman. Ruth Eberly should work in a doll factory. She could make the eyes. Beulah is in a class by herself. When we describe Myron we might call him tall but we must leave off the graceful. Arnold doesn't depend upon size to make his presence known. Ruth T. is the wit and near wit of the school. Grace fills the biggest place, nor can any of us contest her in that line. Luella is a country product who isn't green. You can't be a midget if you intend to look down on Viola. Lucile has the sweet pet name of Honey, We guess it was Edwin that originated that name. Only S1 25 per year Order it now Edward DeGunther Editor E E H THE DAVIS LEADER H E ,

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39. lff Uhr Eauinniz -:- 1925 ...QE lr g A sir, Y Ma. t Junior Class History If an artist had been present at the school house at 9:00 o'clock on the morning of Septem- ber 4, 1923, and painted the picture which he saw then, we could' see a canvas of eight freshies, Ruth Tielkeme er, Luella Nott, Grace DeGunther, Margaret Meinert, Floy Hofmeister, Loyal An- drews, Arthur Meyers, Arnold Meyers and Myron Tielkemeier, come stepping timidly into a new en- vironment. It is perhaps as well that no such pic- ture exists as it might provoke smiles, for a Freshman, for some reason always does cause others to smile. A few days later Marie Gunderson joined the class, but as though fate had regretted her gen- erosity in increasing our number we had to lose the companionship of Arthur and Arnold Meyers a short time later. In a class meeting a short time later the class organized choosing Myron Tielkemeier as class President, Ruth Tielkemeier, Vice President, and Floy Hofmeister, Treasurer. Peacock blue and silver were selected as the colors and N ot finish- ed, but the end of Volume I, as the motto. So the class continued until it disbanded for the summer vacation in June. When we met again in the following Septem- ber we found our number to be only six. Marg- aret Meinert had taken up school at Dakota and Marie Gunderson had discontinued her school ca- reer. After a few months we were again joined by our old comrades, Arthur and Arnold Meyers and the old bunch kept plugging on, like a flivver going up a hill-slow but sure. It may be that we were representative of that type of Sophomore who is described as always reaching high into the air when he intends to scratch his head, which is a mild way of saying that perhaps we thought our heads to be much larger than they really were. If so, we were only typical Sophomores. On August 30, 1925, the class set out on the last lap of the trip. This class included Ruth Tiel- kemeier, Luella N ott, Grace DeGunther, Floy Hof- meister, Arthur Meyers, Arnold Meyers, and Myron Tielkemeier. After the first week Floy Hofmeister dropped out and a little later Arthur Meyers. We were sorry to lose them from our number just before our goal was attained. Those remaining soon assembled and organized the Junior class. Arnold Meyers was chosen Presi- dent, Ruth Tielkemeier, Vice President, and Grace DeGunther, Secretary. The Lily of the Valley was picked as our iiower, Maize and Brown as our colors, and With the ropes of the past we shall ring the bells of the future, was selected as our motto. We hope that the companionships of these school days may not be dissolved when our class shall be separated after Commencement time, but that they may remain with us, as pleasant memo- ries and we hope the knowledge acquired through these years may remain with us as a valuable asset. KM. TJ QQ-- , . . , ... ,. BN- Board of Directors ' ' L Edward DeGunther Vernon Keister President B' L' Schmitt Clerk Page Six