Gibson City High School - Drummer Yearbook (Gibson City, IL)

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THE DRUMMER 1924 CLASS WILL It has been several years since the members of the class of four and twenty departed from the home which they occupied for four years. When they departed they left no trace of a will and it was often wondered by the brother and sister classes if they had been forgotten by their brother. Perhaps a will had been drawn up and signed, then hidden away in some secret place, If this were true, where was this place? The little brothers had sought and searched in every corner imaginable. All this was, as I have said, several years ago. One day not long ago, when the football team was on the field, one of the boys in his falling, kicked the brick fountain. In doing so, he knocked a brick loose, Out of curiosity, he took the brick out and placed his hand in the side of the foun- tain. In the very bottom lay a large package. Upon removing it from its resting place, it proved to be a large envelope containing many well typed papers and doc- uments. One of these papers proved to be the last will of the class of four and twenty. The will read as follows: WE, THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1924, DRUMMER TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL, City of Gibson, County of Ford, andi State of Illinois, being of sound mind, memory and understanding, do make, publish, and declare the following as and for our last will and testamentg that is to say: First, we do direct that our funeral services shall be conducted by our friends and well-Wishers, our superintendent, and his all-wise and ever-capable faculty, who have been our guardians for a long time, only asking, as the last wish of the dying, that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp that our worth, our merits, our attainments, and our positions as Seniors of grave and reverend mien, must certainly have deserved. As to such estate as it has pleased the Fates and our own strong hands and brains to win for us, wel do dispose of the same as follows: We give and bequeath to the faculty, who have been our instructors in all the wisdom of the ages, a sweet and unbroken succession of restful nights and peace- ful dreams. No longer need they lie awake through the long watches of the night. to worry over the uncertainty of whether this one is doing her home work, or that one will have his mathematics in the morning class, or the other one will remem- ber every iron-clad rule of compositionial technique in the preparation of her essay, It has been a hard strain on them, for Seniors are said to be at all times and under all conditions hard to manage. But they have done their duty, and, verily, now shall they have their well-earned reward. We give to our beloved faculty all the amazing knowledge and startling infor- mation that we have furnished them from day to day and on our examination papers. We know that much which we have spoken or written to them must have been en- tirely new to them, as well as to the rest of the students, and have thrown much new light on many hitherto familiar lines of thought, throughout the world of science and learning, even outside the halls and class rooms of Drummer. If the faculty see fit, they are allowed the privilege of giving out to the world such of this information as they may think humanity is ready to receive. We trust that they will feel at lib- erty to make use of all such bits of wisdom and enlightenment for the education of the classes to come after us. This, of course, is left for them to decide. We give and bequeath to the Junior Class all such boys as were not able to keep pace with the brilliant girls that help compose our class, trusting that the Junior girls may be able to hold firmly to them and steer them through the gates of Com- mencement, that they may not share the humiliation that has been ours. Upon the Freshman class that-is-to-be we bestow any overlooked cuds of gum we may have left adhering to the under side of desks, banisters, assembly or class room seats or any other likely or unlikely places. We have sometimes had to rid ourselves of these in too much haste to be able to pick and choose the most desir- able means of disposal, To the Sophomore Class we leave the privilege of going to class every day and reciting with all the brilliancy that they possess. We trust that they, too, will be able to give information to their teachers, as we have done, and, by so doing, help some poor student along the rough and rocky path of life. True eloquence comes from great height.-Dwight McMur1g11. 26

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THE DRUMMER 1924 CLASS HISTORY While out riding one Sunday, I noticed a house made of many differ- ent kinds of wood. When I mentioned this fact to my companion, she said, Why! don't you remember? Part of that house is made from the old frame building where we first started our school life. I recollect very well the first year we started in quest of education. We, as a class, had many happy and sad incidents during our sojourn in the grade school, but thirty of us survived. On the first Monday in the month of September, 1920, we entered the portals of D. T. H. S., joined by fifty of our country cousins, making a total of eighty green freshies. The faculty and upper-classmen were awed by our ability to rank so high in scholarship, even though we were green in appearance. We owe a great deal of our success to our Freshman class advisor, Miss Nicholson, who guided and encouraged us through our first year. When we acquired the title of Sophomores, we were so busy entering into the social game that we didn't have time for other things. In our Junior year we shone forth in all our glory, and no other class was arrayed like ours. In the beginning of the year we chose Robert Yoder as president and William Barrow for vice-president. After the semester examinations were over, we selected our play for the Junior X. Everybody said Clarence was a decided success, and we know it was a success fi- nancially. On May 11, 1923, we gave our Junior-Senior reception. The gym was beautifully decorated in green and white, the colors of both classes. Some of the Seniors said that it was prettier than the reception they gave the year before. The terrible flood of rain prevented many from coming, but those who did enjoyed themselves fully. As for our last year, we seemed to have grown older and were better fitted for the many responsibilities of the Senior year. Early in the first semester we chose Elmer Stein president. I must not forget to mention that we contributed three men to the winning basket ball team of 1923, and many participated in football and baseball. In our four years in Drummer we have tried to live up to the high standards of our Alma Mater. It is our wish that, when we are gone from Drummer, we may leave precedents worthy of adoption by the lower-class- men. We shall then feel that, in some respects, we have partly paid our debt of gratitude to D. T. H. S. -Gay Ella Wakefield, 24. We are foolsfthose who did not 171411 fl Drunmrer. 25

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THE DRUMMER 1924 The personal bequests, though they may seem trifling, are as follows: Lee Kerchenfaut's freckles and red hair to anybody desiring the same. Chalmer Kerchenfaut's good looks to anybody who needs them. Come early to avoid the rush. Lloyd Sawyer wills his ability to play fullback to Lawrence Vork. Edmund Cameron and Kathryn Fitzhenry bestow their blissful happiness to Helen Wilson and John Heckens. Floyd Troyer leaves his bashfulness around the girls to John Woolley, Claude Nelson gives Judith to no one, but he gives his vocabulary of well chos- en Ui words to any one. Bill Phares gives his high school career and the many colored slips to Edward Prince. Valla Parker's fair complexion and vamping eyes to her Freshman sister, Martha McBride. Violetta Osborn's prospects as a manager of a chain of tea-rooms to Cleona Crowe, Evelyn Dueringer's fondness for talking to the faculty advisor of the Maroon and White to Doris Dever. Grace Dueringer's oratorical ability to Charline Preston. Edith Shellman leaves her ability to resist the winning ways of the male stu- dents of Drummer to Josephine Gilmore. Marion Huston's charming manners and her ability to get to school at the last minute to Alice Leenerman, ior Hazel Ehresman's baby eyes and baby ways to George Gilmore. George Stolz leaves his backwardness and standing with three girls of the Jun- Class to Leslie Bonnen. John Noble's gum chewing habit to anyone who thinks he can chew it as grace- fully as John does. the ent Everett Wright wills his bright and cheerful ways to Bennie Reiners, Lorene Johnson's methods of getting high grades to anybody who cares for same. Margretha Rasmussen wills her position on the Staff and also her musical tal- to Bernice Smith. Dollie Riblet's knowledge of books and other things of this world to Dorothy Zimmerman. Margaret Thorson bequeaths her privilege of getting married before she left school to Pearl Duvall. Julian Johnson's position on the basket ball team to Eugene Whetzel. Arthur Hedlund's immaculate looks to Russell Cornwell. Edythe Koehler's text books to Mildred Erickson for future use, Clarence Conrad's strut to Stanhope Foster. Bernadine Swanson leaves Tubby in care of some innocent Freshman girl. Gay Ella bequeaths her now-you-see-them and now-you-dont dimples to Doris Anderson. the Elmer Stein makes vacant his position as President of the Senior Class so that young men of the coming Senior Class may have something to argue about, Evan Speers' vamping ways to Clyde Ashley. Orris Poplett wills his charming manners to Elmer Bradford. Edna Wright leaves her capturing ways to Edith Gragg. Love Alene Fasking bequeaths her methods of making such bewitchin m'l g s ies to Della Smith, Alfred Bunting's seven league boots to Maurice Cameron. Owen Crowe wills his idea of ia good time to any one who considers himself worthy of the same. ' ' Wilbur Parker's fondness for studying to Hilda Vehrs Howard Pfoff's nicely combed hair and his wonderful hair groom to Orville Rasor Constan H k - ce ec ens gives to her brother John that wonderful habit of getting up and coming to school on time, at least once a week Robert Yoder's ample ability of bluffing and getting by with it to Mildred E i k- son and Frank Hunt. rc There is no one like ber, but there are many imilaiions.-K Logan. 27