Elgin High School - Maroon Yearbook (Elgin, IL)

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1917 ELGIN HIGH SCHOOL 1917 IVIOTTO2 Be Not Simply Good, Be Good For Something. COLO RS: Red and Blue FLOWEI R2 Daisy 26

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1917 ELGIN HIGH SCHOOL 1917 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1917 OUR years ago the Elgin High School was enriched by the addition of about two hundred and eighty innocent children. At first we seemed absolutely hopeless, but very soon we began to show signs of intelligence. Before the end of the year our girls showed what they were made of by winning the indoor baseball tournament. After many report cards had rolled around we lost our greenness entirely and were initiated into the ,mysteries of second Hoof life. VVe celebrated this event by a Farmer's Party. Then the boys woke up and displayed the spirit of '17 by winning the Spillard basketball tournament, the Interclass track meet, and coming in second in the Interclass basketball tournament. Many of our num- ber began to show signs of dramatic ability in the Comedy Concert. In the beginning of our Junior year we organized and elected Lester Mc- Kinstry for our president. Then we chose our colors, navy blue and scarlet, and our motto, Be not simply good, be good for something. This we have all lived up to to the best of our ability. Soon our pennant, the finest in the land, was hanging on the wall of 311, and our self satisfaction was unimpeachable. This same pennant became involved in a never-to-be-forgotten flag war against the Seniors. This year our members were to be found in every activity of the school. To the football men we gave a very successful reception in the form of a masquerade. VV e showed the public what we could do in our Junior play Shakespeare's Sweethearts. Our musical ability was brought out in the Egyptian Princess, and Melusina in which the seventeeners were conspicuous. This time we really won the Interclass basketball tournament. An unusual opportunity wa.s presented to our boys to take two weeks mili- tary training at Culver Military academy. Needless to say several took advan- tage of it, and later became officers in the cadet corps to which our class was the first to belong. At tl1e end of the year we entertained the Seniors at a picnic at the Country Club. Even they said they enjoyed it and it was one of the most successful events of commencement. And then we were absolutely prepared to dominate the school in our lordly position as the Senior Class of 1917. Many classes have come and gone, but never such a one as we were. After much meditation and cogitation we elected Nellis Clark to steer our bark fship of statej to commencement, Leroy Spillard was elected vice president, and Esther Tuthill secretary. VVishing to distinguish ourselves from inferiors we designed red and blue ties and sweaters. Our invincible girls came to the front again and won the Volley ball, and Indoor baseball tournaments. XV e were the first class to have a volley ball tourna- ment and we surely grasped our opportunity. After the faculty had entertained us with a delightful theater party, we paid them back with an original Allied Bazaar. A11 of the allies surely ought to be famous after being represented in that party. Our class play, Pomander VValk was extremely successful both from a financial and dramatic standpoint. Princess Bonnie, too, will long be remem- bered as one of the successes of the class of '17 for all of the soloists were Sen- iors. Oli! we nearly forgot the chocolate bars by which we earned part of the money for this Annual. How many indigestious feasts we had behind our books. Ever anxious to be good for something, our boys have been the first to enlist to serve their country. Surely they are helping make the history of the nation as well as the class. So here's to the class of '17, the best class in the land. 27