Granite City High School - Warrior Yearbook (Granite City, IL)

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School” proved a great success. The Senior Play is also proving a success with the good coaching of Miss Thomas. Also, Edgar Lewis helped win in debate over East St. Louis in 1915. The class has planned to present a picture of the entire class to the High School. Booklets containing interesting facts about the Senior Class are being prepared with ( ' has Watson as editor. Everyone take Mr. Coolidge’s advice and get your receipts for your pictures. The Seniors have many class meetings for their important business. Erma Smith keeps the meetings in motion as everything must be explained before she votes. Holland Y r aughn has shown himself to be a capable president, this being his second term. We have been greatly envied by the lower class-men especially the Juniors, because of our many social events. The first one of importance was the Halloween party given by the Juniors. Max Bramer in his splendid skeleton disguise was awarded first prize. A watch party was given at the home of Zella Bandy on Dec. 31. All arrived there late in the evening and danced until early in the morning. The Senior Girls entertained the boys at the home of Gertrude Fleishman, in honor of the Basket Ball Team’s splendid victory at Centralia. Two weeks later we gave the Juniors their return party. All dressed like “kids” even the chaperons. Mr. Hunter and Mr. Nelson greatly enjoyed themselves by rolling around on the floor. The twelve Senior girls were entertained April 25 by Martha Evans and Zella Bandy. The two girls proved charming entertainers. As the students return to school next September and the Seniors of T6 are absent, will things go on as smoothly as they have been? How can the faculty stay with such a class as this missing ? Surely the clocks will not be able to resume their daily work after the Seniors leave in May. FOURTEEN

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HISTORY OF CLASS OF ’16. Carrie Kogel, Class Historian. In September, 1912, we entered the High School with an enrollment ol forty-six. During this year we were very timid as we were teased very much by the upper-classmen. Edgar Lewis was elected presi- dent at our first class meeting. During the final examinations there was great excitement, everyone wish- ing to find out whether or not he passed. On our. return the next year we were better acquainted. We had learned to be late to classes and how to bluff so as to get thru our subjects with little study. Ask Katie and Max it it isn t tun, for they have made quite a practice of it in Com’l Geography. Our first social function was a hay ride. The wagon was quite crowded, so Miss Robbins and Miss Martin had a hard time watching every one. The long ride into the country proved delightful and on our return, all went to the home of Zella Bandy and enjoyed ourselves, playing many interesting games As Juniors, our class was still more depleted in number. This year passed rapidly with many good times. First of all we hail a Hallowe’en party, given in the gymnasium. The room gave a creepy feeling as the ghosts wandered around without uttering a sound. At a late hour everything became gay, for a went upstairs to luncheon. , . Another great event was the St. Valentine party. Miss Martin, one of the chaperones, gave a talk on her early love affairs. Hundreds of hearts, cupids and kewpies of all sizes were suspended Irom the ceiling and formed curtains to secluded corners. , , fto On March 18. the Senior Girl’s Basket Ball Team entertained the Junior Team. ( andy of all kind was made. The Seniors were charming entertainers, but still w r e, the Juniors could boast ot being the vie or- The Junior-Senior banquet was the greatest event of the year. After many days planning the day arrived and was gone before we knew it. A speech was made by the “Kaiser on Why sunshine makes Our Senior Year came all too soon. On looking over the class roll we had only twenty in number. We as a class have shone brilliantly in athletics and intellectual contests. The Senior class of 16 lurnished the “Basket Ball Five,” “Duke,” Oozy, “Holy,” “Jerry,” and “Dutch.” Cozy was chosen as the captain i of the All-Star-Team of the Southern Illinois District. The class track meet has been taken n i } T6 for three successive years. THIRTEEN

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PROPHECY. Virgie Holmes. One night I lay thinking of the Senior Class and how soon we would be separated. And a feeling of regret came over me that this should be so. The thought worried me not a little and I lay awake for a long times At last I fell into a troubled sleep. I do not know how long a time passed before I was at- tracted by the sound of music and many marching footsteps. I looked in the direction from w ' hich the sound came and seemed to be gazing into space save for a gray mist that drifted thru the sky. They wore the uniform and emblem of Germany. At the rear followed a gilded chariot in which sat a man wearing a jeweled crown. By his side sat a woman whom I decided was his wife. Upon looking more closely I recognized my old friend Wm. Krautheim, w ' ho had gone back to his native land and been made Kaiser. The woman by his side was the former Gertrude Fleishman, w r ho had suc cumbed to his suit after many years of ardent wooing. As the procession passed on. I continued to gaze into the vague distance looking for the next picture which happened to be of a stage in one of the largest and most beautiful theaters New York afforded. The leading lady in the cast seemed to hold the audience spellbound. At first I did not recognize her, but at last it dawned upon me that it was no other than Mildred Ryrie, the actress of the class of ’16. In strange contrast to the former picture appeared a large and magnificent church. In the pulpit stood a short slender man preaching an eloquent sermon. When he had finished, he w r alked dow r n the aisle and took the arm of a woman, evidently his wife. When I read the words on the door of the par- sonage which they entered I recognized in the Reverend and his wife, my old classmates, John Shaddrick and Dorothy Doering. I had scarcely recovered from the shock of this scene, when I beheld a room in a large college. On the door was the inscription, Latin, and the teacher in charge was instructing a class in Latin prose. This was the most highly honored member of our class, Muriel Morgan. As this disappeared in the distance, I saw ' a garden scene in Italy. A man and a woman were strolling along the edge of a clear, sparkling lake, gazing down into its mirror depths. As I too looked at the reflection of the tall, athletic figure of the man and and the dark beauty of the woman, I saw Charles Watson and the former Katie Williams, who altho they had been married for many years, were still liv- ing in the Garden of Romance. FIFTEEN