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

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THE DRUMMER 1924 To Evelyn Jones is left Sarepta. Bane's ability as a good cook. Edna Swallow leaves her merry laugh and carefree ways to Hazel Bitters, John Hatteberg leaves his ticket andi seat on the L. E. W. train to Kelly Hill, Verner Frykman gives his non-skid specs to John Fox for future use. Francis Bryant leaves his seat in English Four to Harold Cameron and he may also obtain Francis' book by asking for it. The book is as good as new. William Barrow leaves his standing among the girls of Drummer to anyone who is able to qualify for the same. Ruth Powell's varied Ways and manners to Ethel Cline. Chester Hickerson's position as yell leader to any one who can stand the fussg his standing with the girls to no one. Cleo Pruitt leaves his sheikish ways and his ability as a natural born, oratorf?J to Wilbur Shilts To our Freshman brother Soupy Paxton is left the struggle of attaining the height of Dwight McMurray, Ramona Phares wills her privilege of attending every basket ball game and all other games to Alice Phillips. ' Gladys Leonard leaves her privilege of cheering for the Bookkeeping team tc Goldie Pruitt. The subjoined list will be recognized as entailed estates, to which we do declare the Class of 1925 the real and rightful successors: First, our seats in the assembly and class rooms. May the future Seniors en- deavor to fill them as advantageously, as promptly, and as faithfully as we have done. Our seats in the assembly hall may be taken by whomsoever is able to grab them first, Second, our Senior dignity. May the class of '25 uphold it forever, with all seri- ousness and gravity, endeavoring to realize its vast importance in spite of their natural lightmindedness and irresponsibility. Third, any stubs of pencils, erasers, or scraps of paper that we may leave behind us in the excitement and haste of gathering up our beloved treasures for the last time. May our heirs feel free to use these relics and perhaps derive therefrom our great knowledge. Fourth, next comes the one thing hard for us to part with. To the class of 1925 we leave our places in the hearts and thoughts of our Principal and Teachers. The faculty will love these students, unworthy as we feel they are, even as they have loved usg they will show the same tender kindness and attention that they have bestowed upon us, they will feel the same interest in attempts and successg the same sorrow in failure. We trust that the class of 1925 will appreciate all this as deeply as we have doneg that it may be their most precious possession, although they have many, and the one that we are most loath to hand over to them. Lastly, we bequeath to the leading paper of our city, The Courier , and to the talented editor thereof, all the events of our lives, past, present and to come, with all the wonders. sensations, hair-breadth escapes, glorious attainments, and other deserved or undeserved notoriety and fame with which we may have been, or may' hereafter be associated, trusting that they may furnish plenty of material for news items and some brilliant editorials for ages yet to come, and serve as an inspiration for those younger students who so naturally look to us for example. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at my residence in the City of Gibson, this sixth day of June, in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four. tSea1l GLADYS LEONARD. On this sixth day of June in the year one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-four, Gladys Leonard, the above testator, in our presence and in the presence of each of us, signed and sealed the foregoing instrument and published and declared the same to be the last will and testament, of the Class of 1924, and we thereupon at their request, in their presence, and in the presence of each other, hereunto subscribed our names and residences as attesting witnesses. Glenn M- Kilby, residing at Gibson City, Illinois Louise Lesch, residing at Gibson City, Illinois. 0' silence is golden, she is 24 carat. -Edna Wright. 28

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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

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THE DRUMMER 1924 CLASS CPR OPHEC Y iGypsy girl in a bright red dress, spangled with tinselg black bodice laced at waistg hair flowing: red silk kerchief knotted around her head. Sits alone at desk, turning over the leaves of a book and crooning in weird monotone.J Double, double, toil and troubleg Life is but an empty bubble! From the past we've all come from To the ages yet to come. Life is but a fleeting dream, Things are never what they seem! Double, double, toil and trouble! Life is but an empty bubble! CClass president knocks. Gypsy jumps up suddenly.J Enter, I pray, whoe'er thou art. fClass president enters. She looks relieved and resumes seat.J What seekest thou, youth? Thy need impart! Class President: Fair and wise prophetess, guardian of the unseen things-to-be, the Class of 1924 of Drummer Township High School is about to pass forever out of school life into life's school. Roll back the curtain of the future, I beseech you, and prophesy unto me, as their President, what the future of each of the fair young wo- men and brave young men is to be. They tell me that by mere contact with person- al belongings of individuals you are able to read their future and accurately foretell coming events. With this in mind, I have brought you these fifty handkerchiefs, fra- grant with the personalities of these fifty graduates of whom I speak. Do you, then, look into the years to come and relieve our anxious hearts of the worry that weights them down because we cannot guess what is in store for us. Prophetess: Take thou a seat. 'tHe sitsl Thou art indeed brave to dare to look down the vista of Things-to-be. Knowest thou not that a glance into the future is never a pleasure unmixed with pain? Knowest thou not, 0 aspiring youth. that to know what the future holds may be to thee but a never ending curse, shutting thy- self out from the joys of the present in the contemplation of things that are to come? But as thou hast spoken, as thou hast dared to tempt the gods by thus challenging their relevations of thyself and thy classmates, listen and it shall be prophesied unto thee, even as thou hast said, and by these tokens I will discover unto thee the future of those from whom they have come. CTakes first handkerchief--a silk one-holds it to forehead a secondl. Ah! thirty, forty years hence I see a rich man-a banker-riding in his aeroplane, count- ing out his money-wearing his diamonds. Who is it? His name? O, yes, I see now --VERNER FRYKMANJ' QTakes second, a red bandannal. A strong breeze and a whiff of far, far prair- les. A girl of the plains, a pioneer of distant wildncss and vastness, riding bare- backed over broad spaces-RUTH POWELL. lTakes third, large linenl. A school of learning, and a noble professor before his class. They look at him in reverence of the vast learning he acquired at Drum- mer Township High School. Why, what is that they call him as they bow in hom- age before him? PROFESSOR ORRIS POPLETTJ' fFourth and fifth, plain Whitey. Two more handkerchiefs, and as they seem to cling together I take them up at once and see two happy wives making sunshine and music within their walls. I see them exchanging confidences over the fence as to this or that domestic difficulty, and see how, even in their marriage, could never be divided the girls who were so inseparable as BERNADINE SWANSON a.nd GAY- ELLA WAKEFIELD. CSixth, small embroideredl. Now, I see an immense billboard, and what does it say? A second Melba-greatest opera singer of the day-LORENE JOHNSON. iSeventh, lavender handkerchiefl. In the largest newspaper office of New York City, I see a small person behind a large desk sorting out letters from an enor- mous heap. On the door under the word 'Private' I see a name-EVELYN DUERIN- GER, Editor-in-Chief. fEighth, large tan handkerchiefl. A band playing in the Chicago Theatre-3 the audience is applauding it: the bandmaster bows smilingly. His name? It ig FRANCIS BRYANT. Absence makes the hear! grow fonder-of some one else.-juditb Wright. 4 29