Frankfort Community High School - Red Bird Yearbook (West Frankfort, IL)

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HliNIOR CJLAHS PK( 1M!EC (C'ONTINUEI)I loss person whoso personality cannot be appreciated by any one. Hut people have a mistaken lilea of aviators. They are civilized huuians. sensitive to danger, and deserve our sympathy in every respect. In order to'pass away the time while on my way to the Mexican border line, I amused myself by reading the pages of McClure’s Magazine. I was exhilarated at the sight of the head lines which read as follows: “Vordie Griffin’s New Treatise on Latin.” At once my mind ran back to West Frankfort and the things which we enjoyed. The little, smiling, talkative Miss Veride Griffin, a woman of forethought, soberness and high sense of duty. won the world's champiotiship in “Picking Berries.” She foresaw the real significance and importance of the “Berry Picking” treatJae and declares most emphatically that the treatise is a su parlor one. Her enthusiasm became absolutely uncontrollable and because of her profound interest and love for humanity she has translated, verbatim, both volumes into Latin, and instead of ponderiug over Ceasar, Cicero. Vergil. Tacitus and Horace. Griffin h translation of the “Berry Picking” treatise will be read in the future by the Classics of all leading (.'Diversities. As expected, the Hying machine was perfected by Miss Karnes. She spent months to get a machine of the right order to carry passengers. The best Universities of both the Orient and Occident have employed her to use her machine in carrying Miss Griffin from one institution to another in order to give all the educational centers an opportunity of being in touch with the greatest authority on Latin that ever lived. Sho 1ms introduced the Esperanto style, plus automobile speed and cradle ease, in interpreting and pro-

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY (CONTINUED hand and the tatrVari which arcotap ay it. van suddenly distracted from my work when I seemed to hear the name Nell Karnes spoken by one of my assistants. He and the ones assembled around him seemed deeply interested in something. Just at that time my mind ran back to dear old High School days at West Frankfort about sixteen years ago. and for a moment or so. one thing after another came to my mind at random placiilfe me back in that old room with our dear,,ever-ready and prudent teac.herR standing before us. Hut being very anxious to know how she had been served in those long years. I listened attentively. The conversation ran like this: “I wonder who that Nell Karnes can he. The report says she used to be a pupil at West Frankfort High School in Southern Illinois somewhere. She was very apt and a well balanced, two sided maid who enjoyed the aesthetic as well as i the business side of life, but is now one of the greatest avtatresses in the world. The paper states she has made a ten thousand mile i?:ght without rest; has turned four flipB in midair at once; has flown topsy-turvy for sixty miles; and is preparing to make a flight across the Atlantic. She has won International fame as an aviatress. She. being a natural physicist in her long school career, is ra pable to. and will, make improvements in the air machines that will be highly appreciated by the Wright Brothers and all the French and Germcn aviators. The paper accounts for her selected vocation partly by her being a little topsy-turvy, flippy and flighty while in school hut this is only theoretical. Nevertheless, she has the peculiarity uncoramonness and attractiveness that is present with all aviatresses and is looked upon by the people as a sort of superhuman, unnatp reck-

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SKMOR ( LASS l’ROPMKCV (CONITNUIil)) noiincing Latin words. Her “Berry Picking” treatise whs one classic to lie found in all libraries of note. Turning the pages a little farther 1 saw distinct ly the head lines as follows: “Irene McNamar. the Great Suffragette. Again my mind ran bark to the little school and the pleasant, faculty at West Frankfort. Miss McNumar. always a diligent, studious and persistent girl in school, hut as f was anxious to learn something of my old school mate. I at once began to read. 1 learned that after her High School education at Wear Frankfort, she went to Chicago f’niversity and gaduated there with B s and A B. degrees. She was sent by a commit-t..». t ;nvost)gale the slum districts ami the protection of the working girls. After which she went to Oxford ( Diversity. during which time she became enthused over the suffrage of women and then spent her time In working fpr woman suffrage and met with astounding success. She is now the President of the International Federation of Worn an’s Rights. Thus far I have spoken of the individual members of the (Hass. 1 think it is nothing but proper and fitting to speak of the Class as a whole. Sixteen years had passed since we were initiated into life’s work and without a single exception each member has stood with a firm, unflinching and determined purpose. AII have striven to perform Justly and judiciously all the problems of life. The members were advocates and defenders of honesty, purity, integrity and righteousness, voicing such elements of morality as will help men and women to live a better and richer life. With those stainless lives of womanhood and manhood they will add lustre and glory to the pages of future years, which can never blow' or wash away FINIS.