Erie Community High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Erie, IL)

Page 24 text:

THE CARDINAL Class Will Ladies and Gentlemen, having been asked to serve as chief executor of the last will and testament of the Class of 1925, of the Erie Community High School, I have called you together upon this solemn occasion to listen, and to accept the gifts we have to bestow. We have tried to be fair and just, and hope that the fruits of our efforts will be dutifully accepted and efficiently put to use. We leave to the members of our dear faculty, all our past failings and deep- rooted affection, to be stored away as the most precious of treasures. To our dear old High we leave all the honors we have won. We also leave to the future annuals, room for the cut of a new schoolhouse. Upon the Junior Class we bestow our dignity, intelligence, and our extreme popularity. To the Sophomores we donate larger containers for their swelling brains, as well as our good standing with the teachers. To the Freshmen we leave our empty ink bottles, stub pencils, and discarded fountain pens. And now a few gifts remain to be turned over as personal keep-sakes. We hope that their value, trifling as it may seem, will be fully appreciated. First: Robert LaRue leaves to Kenneth James his great wisdom and excellent conduct. Second: To Austin McMahon, Suart Blean bequeaths his popularity with the girls, and hopes that Austin will take advantage of this golden opportunity. Third: Harold Pierson leaves his athletic abilities to William Hudson. Fourth: Ruth James resigns her position as yell leader to Arnold Hayen. Fifth: Pauline Lawrence leaves a few spare pounds to Esther Keisel. Sixth: Robert Pfundstein designates his extra credits to Dale Arnett's record sheet, and appoints Doran Fadden as guardian over Ruby Turner. Seventh: Alberta Turner entrusts Howard Barkman to Helen Adams. Eighth: Lyla Doll wishes her vocal accomplishments upon Hazel Weber. Ninth: Myrtle Hadaway leaves her sweet disposition to Guinevere McNeill, Tenth: Hugh Perkins passes on to Arden Reisenbigler a cure for smoking along with a package of cigarettes. Eleventh: To future class presidents Lysle Echelbarger leaves his presi- dential success. Twelfth: Ada Slaymaker bequeaths her cuds of gum to Thelma Adams. 20

Page 23 text:

THE CARDINAL Senior Class History In 1921 thirty-two pupils labeled Freshmen entered Erie High School, resolved to fight or perish in the attempt to capture that fort called higher education. But we are sorry to say that during the first two years, seven persons deciding the fight not worth while, dropped out of school, one by one. During the second year, however, three new people enrolled, but two of these removed to another school and the third did not return to graduate, thus we are a class of twenty-five gradu- ating in 1925. Can you associate the picture of the awed, bedazzled group of longhaired girls and knicker-bockered boys, who entered High back in 1921, with that of the dignified class of bobbed haired ladies and long-trousered gentlemen who will receive their diplomas in June? The most memorable occasion of our term as greenies was the Initiation Party given us by the Sophs, in which we were duly shown our places. Numerous other parties of lesser importance took place in succession during that year. But the year was not exclusively a round of pleasures. We worked very hard on our subjects, completely petrified by thoughts of our first semester exams. One instance of that year I particularly remember: all Freshmen thought it their duty to whisper once or twice each period, which feat they performed regularly until it was abolished by the faculty. The next two years passed by with lightning rapidity. During our Sophomore year we initiated the Freshmen so that they have'been able to tag one lap behind us these last three years. We also built Caeser's bridge, but thc high water was too much for this structure of amateurs, and it is no more. In our Junior year the most notable event was the Junior-Senior Banquet, which under capable management, was permitted to be classed as a success. During our stay in High School, our class has contributed to the various departments of school activities to the best of its ability. In the Music Depart- ment we have helped to put on operettas and programs, and have aided in the organization of an orchestra. Sports, also, have been advanced by the '25 class. For the past two years our class has furnished the greatest number of men on the Basket-ball team, which has won many games to the honor of the school. The girls also have had a team for two years and have lassoed many games. In scholastic standing we rank, on the whole, very well. In special branches, especially in commercial work, we have gained honors. Pins and other trophies have been awarded to our shorthand and typing classes. Now as our last year in school ends, we are preparing to be banqueted, preached to, congratulated, and sent on in the world to win such honors as we may capture along with a niche on the shelf of civilization. ' -Jean Allen. 19

Page 25 text:

THE CARDINAL - Thirteenth: Nettie Dobers submits her incurable Tee Hee's, to moderate Howard Riordon's obstreperous Haw Haw's. Fourteenth: Dorothea Finnicum leaves her drawing pencils to Effie Graham, and her matronly poise to Ruth Slaymaker. Fifteenth: Harland Bleitz leaves his butler costume to Russell Skaggs with the hope that the latter will find it a perfect fit. Sixteenth: Lucy Mahlstedt bequeaths her staid outer bearing to Marjorie Schryver, and her rippling inner self to Robert Wheelock. Seventeenth: Lucille Kelley leaves her Irishness and her preference of ruly horses to willful Fords, to Audrey Bleitz. Eighteenth: Grace Matson shoves off her Thcodoric desires to be grown-up to Do1'othy Skaggs. Nineteenth: Mary Hudson's breathless interrogations are left behind to be perfected by her young brother, William. Twentieth: Margaret Finnicum leaves her average of 97-to the school as a reminder of the class of '25. Twenty-first: Jean Allen will, upon application, return to teach Ardath Ryan how to blush. Twenty-second: Olive Greth and Gwendolyn Kellogg join forces and leave to Lenore Terry, a packet of faded love-letters, several well-worn vanity cases, and a pair of broken hearts. Twenty-third: Everett Housenga, the sheik, surrenders his hypnotic powers to John Forth. Twenty-fourth: Marcia Lodge wills her mountain-maiden innocencen to Marguerite Bacon. All remaining property will go toward paying our funeral expenses. Thus, we the Senior Class of the Eric Community High School, do set Olll' hands and seal this last will and testament on the eighth day of April in the year nineteen-hundred twenty-five. HARLAND BLEITZ. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Senior Class, as and for their last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at their request, in their presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as attesting witnesses to said instrument. PHILLIP ROOS MYRTLE ADAMS 21