East Aurora High School - Speculum Yearbook (Aurora, IL)

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JOYCE ANN MARION DORIS LOIS ROBERT BARTLETT BAUGHMAN BAUM BAUM BAUMAN WILLIAM PHYLLIS ELMER MARVIN LOIS BEAR BENDER BENSON BENTLEY BI HLMAYER lulhacfed ,of jfze ,manila of frogs so that we might pass Mr. Davis' Biology tests. Miss Morrison tried her best to clear that haze of spheres, hexagons, and triangles--mysteries that only geometry can bring. Little did we realize that when we took World History from Mr. Day Qknown to us as Rosie',j we would be learning how he won World War I, single handed. NW e sat at typewriters, trying hard to learn, faithfuly typ- ing and retyping frf fff ftf so that we might have 100 budgets. Who would have thought it? There were singers, musicians, artists, writers and even debators in our midst. We joined Drama to learn how to walk with books on our heads. Then without the books, we marched down the athletic field, in South Amer- ican garb, carrying flags of Brazil, Peru, or Vene- zuela for the Pan-American ceremonies. We decked the halls with boughs of hollyn for the Christmas Pageant. We gingerly dipped our fingers in black- face to make up the end-men for the minstrel. We started something new in Girl Reserves. We formed the Freshman-Sophomore club, and appro- priately named it the Beta Chapter. With Maryon Keeley as our first president, we proved that we could have better programs than did the Alpha Chapter. Then, before we knew it, june arrived. One-half of high school was over. The vine was halfway up the ladder. It had sprouted leaves. Its roots were firmly anchored. In September we returned to school as dignified juniors. The Juniors of East High, capable of shouldering responsibility. We no longer read the Bowl first when the Amfowms came out. We were juniors. We glanced at the first page, and then read the Bowl. Some of us even ventured a con- tribution now and then as cub reporters. We voted for class rings and waited, and waited, until that glorious day in May when they at last arrived. Whenever anyone opened his mouth and I TWENTY-SIX 1

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fa. LYDIA ALBERT BETTY JEAN PATRICIA CHRISTOPHER ABEL ADAMS ALEXANDER ANNING ATKINSON ROBERT LOUISE ELLEN MAE FLORENCE AGNES BAB COCK BACH BANKS BANKS BARTHOLOMEW fbaqanfmw Remember that day in September, four years ago when we first came to East High as freshmen? That Age of Freshmen when we had no individu- ality, but each of us was just another person that filled up the halls. Weren't we mousy-looking creatures then? No girl dared wear lipstick, and all of usgthought a pancake was something to eat with maple syrup, not something to smear on our faces. That was the time when the boys wore more than one inch of hair-no synthetic blonds or redheads then. That was the time when shirt tails were worn inside, loafers were lazy people, not comfortable shoes, and anybody could buy a pair of saddle shoes with real red rubber soles. No one ever thought of going down town after school then. We led such narrow lives. We walked home--studied, ate-studied again, and went to bed by nine-thirty. But we learned! Mr. Cravens taught us how to find the unknown We sur- vived that awful Friday morning when we gave our first oral theme. We read about Sir Lancelot and Guinevere in Idylls of the King. We tried to look intelligent when Mr. McAfoos told us about electricity and carburators. We struggled through those first few months of Latin and French so that we might be cultured Dutifully we attended manners classes, secretly wondering if those self- assured seniors really practiced what they preached when they smiling told us to always dance six inches apart. Then it was june. Those green vines had started growing-straight and strong-up the ladder of success! Then came the dawn! As sophomores of East High, we began showing signs of having some kind of personality-some originality-we were indi- viduals! Now we stopped to get an ice cream cone before we went home to do our schoolwork. And we stayed up until ten o'clock. We studied cross sections of earthworms and the circulatory system I TWENTY-FIVE J

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