Elmwood Community High School - Ulmus Yearbook (Elmwood, IL)

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THE ULMUQS I7 Senior Class History From a land where day was one of endless play, where games and toys were our instruments of living, we came to open the door of the kingdom of knowledge. We were a carefree band, mirthful and gay, for to us life was oinly play and we were the conquerors of play. O-ur chief, a short stocky fellow full of everlasting fun, the mightiest warrior of ovur realm of playland, called' our small band together and said, Vile have come to the place where we must conquer this kingdom of knowledge or cease to advance. It is hindering our pirogress. We have done every- thing within our realm that can be done. We must add this new field of knowledge to our field, or cease to wa.lk the path of life, With that he ordered us to arms and gave the command to charge. Among those war- riors that entered were Della Brown, Mary Demick, Willard DQFO1-d, Wil- liam Schenck and Millard Day. We were somewhat awed at first by the magnitude of this kingdom. We not merely met one army, but many, each after the other, and the O-ne last conquered seemed to invite another and stronger one to cope with our gained experience. We slowly gained victory after victory and time seemed our only check. The liquid voice of our mother tongue was a for- midable foe in itself, but we learned her ways. The great mathematical figure with his army was so thorough in his .systematic ways that it seemed,,complicating to us. But we gradually learned many of his meth- ods. The general with his army who knew every river and cliff on the globe led us into many new lands until we too became acquainted with the globe and became his equal. So each army made its defense. Each year of victory paved the way to another until we had been in the conquest eight years and were ready to enter High School., During this time we had gradually changed from a band into a class and had increased greatly in numbers. Those that had'been added were Earline Weeks, Margaret Seltzer, Irma Cald- well, Lucile Flint, Freda Bohrer, Elsie Manuel, Walter Dalton, William Jaques, Wesley Dawson, Harold Whitten, Cornelius Kemp and Harry Stotler. . On entering High School we were further strengthened in our forces by Margaret Ekstrand, Elva Wolford, Pearl Clinch, Leah Maher, Kathryn Cusack, Everett Epley, Paul Miles, john Vohland, John Cullings, Donald Schultes, Cecil Coon, Lester Turl, Floyd Brown and Robert Myers. During our stay in High School we gathered Doris Colvin, Dorotha Young, Edith Stevens, Donna Kirkbride and Ralph Melville. Thus strengthened, we felt fully equipped to enter our last four years of con- quest. The first year we finished with a triumphant victory. Every mem- ber of the class received unusually high grades and the faculty was amazed at our progress. The upper classes looked upon us with admira- tion for our courage in the confii-ct. The second year, we began to take