Downers Grove North High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Downers Grove, IL)

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The hero was great and the heroine couldn’t be beaten Unless performed at a professional meetin’ And the football team, if you happened to observe Consisted of fellows with lots of nerve And those you’ll find in our Senior Class. The basket ball team is still on the list If that Hinsdale game you happened to miss You’d better count up on those Senior boys And you’ll find that they made most of the noise. We haven’t finished the year as yet There’ll be more doing, you can bet And the Class of Nineteen Twenty-three Will be the leaders of the revelry Why even tonite there’s a jamboree Given for the Juniors and the Class of ’2 3 Maybe some of our fellows can’t dance But before this year’s over they’ll have their chance And they’ll outshine all the rest Just to show you they’ve done their best If the Juniors can beat us when it comes to pep They’ll have to go some, and still keep their reps We hope that the classes yet to come Will turn out as well as we have done. And I hope that you’ll wish for us the best We’ll probably need it like all the rest And so the Class of ’2 3 Leaves to you all their frivolity And tho you try to fill our place There’ll always be an empty space And so in turn, we wish you luck Keep up your courage and don’t lose your pluck And tho we’ll leave you with a sigh We’re rather glad to say “Good by.” Edith Wells, Class of '23. Page in cnl f-lhrcc

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m. The Class of '23 Sixty-two green freshmen entered the halls of fame Sixty two freshmen lived up to their name For several months they kept getting lost For several months they consented to be bossed But finally with a burst of pride Their greenness they did endeavor to hide. 1 hey took part in athletics, socials and things And at last the halls with their laughter rang As the upper-classmen crawled into their holes For they couldn’t beat those freshies, to save their souls. 2 A smaller bunch of Sophies started out the second year. They didn’t resemble those freshies, for they’d lost all their fears The girls had the Seniors beat a mile When it came to playing basket-ball in style And the fellows filled the empty spaces When the Juniors and Seniors lost the races Here’s to the Sophies, they couldn’t be beat Not even when prizes were given for the biggest feet. 3 And the next year they were Juniors And believe me they were boomers For the dance thev gave was a grand success And even the faculty had to confess We weren’t so bad after all The Junior-Senior banquet was next in line The supper—the dance, it was all just fine The lights, the confetti and the rest of the mess Made a delightful job for the janitor I guess Tho we managed to get gyped out of our play We made up our minds we’d have one next year—if we had our say And so the year ended with one more thrill The honor of ushering added a frill To the Senior graduation which filled our hearts with anticipation And so the year was brot to a close With a joy that only a Junior knows. 4 The Seniors gay and mighty Began their fourth year rather flighty hirst of all they gave their play The cast was chosen and started on the way They worked hard and long everyday Page twenty-lwo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------M

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Class Will WE, THE CLASS OF 192 3, of the Downer s Grove High School, being of a sound mind and body, but realizing that we can no longer resist the efforts of the faculty to infect us with germs of knowledge, and realizing also that we must soon succumb to the dread disease “graduationitis,” do hereby make, declare, and publish this to be our last will and testament. First: We order all our just debts to be paid; namely, (I) to the faculty, in payment of our debt of gratitude, our invaluable opinions as to how the school should be run, (2) in payment of our debt to the community for establishing a community high school district, the remains of high school. (3) to the concerns involved in publishing the Cauldron, we leave our reputation for always having paid our debts during our lifetime. Second: (a) We leave to the Junior class the illustrious name of Senior with all rights and privileges attached thereto. (b) We leave to the Sophomores the inestimable privilege of attending Miss Bradbury’s English classes. (c) We leave to the Freshmen the surplus of intelligence in the departing Senior class. (Now Frosh, you ought to ertablish a teachers' training class for the Faculty.) Third: Pat Barr leaves to John Cooper his happy faculty of keeping his love affair, within class limits. Bill Boon leaves his commutation ticket to Hinsdale to Polly Ogren. Lvman Dum bequeaths to next year’s football team his avoirdupois to be divided equally among the members of the squad—share and share alike. They’ll need it. John Edwards and Lilly Borman leave their grades to anyone who wants them, in fact, they are willing to pay you to cart them away. Alice Conley leaves to Margaret S»ough a plush covered copy of “ I he Girl of Mv Dreams. and a propensity for blushing. Kathryn Deegan bequeaths her assorted set of nicknames to Beatrice Hanchctt. Jack Fisher leaves to Jeanette Phelps his perpetual and much lamented absence from everything. Eugene Foster leaves his massive eyebrows to Ruth Geissert. Vernon Fuller leaves to Mr. Vernon and Mr. Reed his eternal grin, Mr. Vernon to have full possession in the morning, and Mr. Reed in the afternoon. Martin Herring beoueaths to Samuel Dum his owlish expression. Butch Klein bequeaths his curling iron to Don Gallup. (Now Don, you won’t have to go around looking like Von Hindenburg.) Bridget Leibunguth leaves his plaid shirt to Sam Hurley. Helen Lewis leaves her angel'C di«nosit:r»o to Marietta Stoops. To Marietta’s brother. John, Franklin McNally leaves his sheik hair cut and his toreador trousers. Nclleeta Miskelly bequeaths to Eleanor Waplcs her slim height. lames Mitchell leaves two bottles of concentrated bluff to the first Junior to get A on an English theme next year. Bill O’Neil leaves to Mr. Brown his position as dancing master. It ought to be a great help in organizing the girls’ track meets. Bill Pape bequeaths the realism of his stage kisses to Herbie Hawkins. (Treasure this ability. Herbie. Bill is going to miss it.) Harry Putnam leaves his agility in getting in and out of trouble to Lucille Heintz. Clifford Sedwick leaves his collection of radio bugs and wireless bacteria to Richard Henderson. Antoinette Smith leaves her copyright on roles with an Henglish Haccent” to Eva Pollack. Margaret Smith leaves the canary quality of her voice to Betty Mahoney. You can easily get rid of canaries with chloroform or rat poison. Betty. Doyle Moore leaves his Seniority to whoever can make the best use of it next year. Theodore Speir leaves his chewing gum plantation in Westmont to Thomas Tizzard. l age ln cnl ;-four