Flanagan High School - Syllabus Yearbook (Flanagan, IL)

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THE SYLLABUS Doris Horrzl'-Class statistiean. Alumni eclitor. Her natural bent is niusic. She doesnlt like proh- lems in oornpound proportion. She is a very fleeitl- ed person in her ways, although she is not great of stature. Sl1e intends to teaeh school. is not rough enough. Jessie Carrrzon-Class prophet. Calendar etlitor. A stately air of benign grace and an ever present smile are her ehief eharaeteristies. Jess is a jewel, and perhaps the most popular' member of the senior class. She is tl1e tallest fvirl in the class anml the O only one that wears glasses. If you ClOl1,t know her, you shoulil cultivate her acquaintance. Ralph Jfonl'-Class l11sto1 1 111 Xthlctu fflltfll X near Napoleon. lI'.' 1w11te s llf x 1111111 1l llistory. He has har ots ot Tltllll le 11 itll tht lu e against, Wliispc-ring. 1 t1xo11t1 ex11tss1111 1s Oh lv 1 1 l X111 lw f l l II , - He ist. Ambition: Jan IXlllKlllx Xt pl lX1ll 111-te hall he is a wihl eat. Ile th e ll t 1 e tot 51

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10 THE SYLLABUS Cllifforzl Lefznznn-limlitoi'-i11-C'hief of Annual. President of the Senior Class. President of the Athletic Captain Most of auto. Il tions in He is a Wonder how we will get along without him. Association. Captain of foot hall team. of basket hall team. He plays the Cornet. his spare time is employed in clriving an as a proelivity for attending social fune- Graymont. llis favorite study is Latin. great hlutfer. Xotwitlistanrling this, we Ada ltfzils-Coeeditfor of Class lVill. Editor of lVit, Humor and Laughter. She. is very proficient in her studies. She is a 4'rehel . Likes to have her own way. llas a special antipathy for literature. Once liked Aclvaneefl Arithmetic, hut cloes not care for it now. She is quite a singer. tiller every step hath music in it. as she cometh up the stairf' She expects to be a school teaeher. Xv21lGillCTlil'l2ll1. l'il'1'rfn I!flI'L'IN'S.S'-ClHSS priet. .Xrl erliter. .X win- some, wee lass of Swezlish cleseent. She is very tilkative anrl recites in a way that is interesting to all. She lilies literature aml mathematics. lfier 21111- lritiou is Art. She mafle 21 wonzlerful reeoirl rluring the seeonml semester of her junior year in Plane Geometry. She enjoys 21 gfzofl jolse hut, at times, is somewliat IC11glisl1',. Salutatnrian.

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12 'THE SYLLABUS CLASS HISTORY. It was on a bright September morning in the year 1910, that a number of boys and girls could be seen going to the high school building in Flanagan. They were a merry and self-important looking crowd, for they had re- ceived their eighth grade diplomas the year before and were going to enter F. H. S. as freshmen. . This class consisted of eighteen boys and girls from the city of Flanagan and the surrounding county, and they were all anxious to take up their school duties. The teachers for that year were H. G. Barnhart, principal, and Bliss Henieksman, assistant principal, both of whom the scholars were proud. Our course of study that year consisted of German, English. Literature, Algebra and Economics. The latter study proved to be a diliicult subject for most of the students, as was shown in the semester examination. Xllheu we returned to school in 1911, as sophomores, our number had de- creased from eighteen to ten. This year we had a new principal in the place of Mr. llarnhart, his name, as we soon learned, was W. Il. Hill. Another new arrival, who soon became uoteil for her attentiveneas during recitation periods, for her name was Hark-ness, joined our class that year. It was during our soplloinore year that Clifford became greatly excited over the slavery question. In fact, he went as far as to go to t'l'ncle Tours Cabin when it came to ilflanagan. XVhen we returned to school as juniors our class was reduced to eight mein- bers. lt was as juniors that we studied Plane Gerinietry and were compelled to explain fully to Mr. Tlill why a eirele was rrund and ether propositions similar to it. - After the first week we began to like Geometry, and soon were able to give the propositions almost as rapidly as our instructor, and he was not very slow. During our junior year our class lost two of its members. Une left his school work to take up important affairs in the outside world, and the other, who was one of our brightest students, was called by the 4'Death Angelw. This re- duced our class to oneethird of its original number, only six reinaining. Tn the month of September, 1913, these six hard-working students be- came Seniors in the Flanagan High School, and they are the ones that will be dealth with,in the remainder of this history. Our studies for the Senior year were the same as usual, that is, we had Caesar and were permitted to study the biographies of famous American Writers and learn some of their best writings. 1Ve studied about men such as Alexander and King John, who were dead before the discovery of America, and who, as far as l know, are still dead. YX'hen we took possession of the seats that the seniors of the previous year had left us, we felt happy indeed, for we were seniors, and as such were superior to all other students. However, as time went. by and the school year drew near its close, we discovered that things are nct always what they seemv. There were numerous things that caused us to arrive at this conclusion.