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

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W THE CARDINAL Class Officers Ill?-5 ifl6'7Lf-I'IOW2Ll'd Young Vice President-Howard Barkman Secretary and Treasurer-Wilma Pace Class History The advent of the class of '26 into old Erie High occurred on a warm September morning in 1922, when the little birdies pent up in Grandfather's clocks were about to give vent to nine cheery cuckoos. We constituted a group of thirty-eight frightened youngsters, seeking solaee in each other in the corridors which offered little shelter from the penetrating glances of the dreaded upper classmen. But after all, the fates treated us kindly and by sundown, with the assistance of the venerable Sophomores who led us airily to our respective stations, we had ac- complished our first great feat to be recorded in the annals of the class. The first rung of the ladder was behind us, for were we not authorized Freshmen of the Erie Community High School? And best of all, no casualties up to date! The gala event of our Sophomore year was the Freshman Initiation. We gave the embarrassed youngsters a merry chase-incidentally treating ourselves to a rip-snortin good time. The savor of this party tided us through the sub- sequent routine of Sophomore requirements, until at length, we were stationed, high and dry, on the second stoop of our- increasingly difHcult climb. Now, if you please, we are looked up to, and down upon, by respective classes as the flighty Juniors, but perhaps someday, not so remote, unless the Adventists' distressing rumor concerning the end of the world be suddenly fulfilled, we shall be mighty and sedate Seniors. Two red-letter days dog-ear the calendar of our Juniorism, the class play, The Farmerette, and the Junior-Senior Prom. With such a record of unmarred bliss behind us, we are about to attempt the ascension of the topmost round of our miniature ladder. -Dorothy Irene Snyder. 27

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THE CARDINAL Does The World Know That+- Dale Arnett thinks the square is a race track? Howard Barkman is not a chiropractorg he's a farmer? Richard Bleitz has such a Ustrongl' vocabulary that he has no use for the dictionary? Florence Campbell is death on Sophomores? Grace DeWeerd gets up at 4:30 to get to school in time? Doran Fadden has avoirdupois enough to flatten out a perfectly good chair in the typewriting room? - John Forth has turned out to be an awful sheik? Marjorie Guthrie doesnlt care whether she gets a note or a receipt? Evelyn James gets so wrapped up in Basketball that she can't see a piano? Esther Keisel has started to eat and grow thin? Clifford Kelly looks awfully shy-ebut on the hard road, You'd be surprised! ? Arlene Lickhard takes lessons in whispering? Guenivere McNeil makes regular trips to Sterling-or Morrison? Blanche Miller whispers once in a while and still gets A? Marjorie Muesse likes to lie in bed and Watch the flames leap 'round her head? Wilma Pace dares not look cross-eyed at her chauffeur? Ruby Quade marcels her hair every night? Ardath Ryan has exceptional ability as a Gentlemen Managern? Dorothy Snyder is mourning over the fact that she can't remember all the words in her beloved dictionary? Russell Skaggs is trying to convince the class that he is runnin' wild ? Paul Stoudt would just dearly love to smoke a pipe but Dassen't ? . Harold Thompson, though fast in walking, is sometimes rather dumb in talking? Vallie Wolever never studies on her way to and from schoolw-she waits until she gets home? Howard Young doesn't believe the earth is round? And that all the Juniors Hhopel' to be Seniors next year? 28