Hall High School - Hall Light Yearbook (Spring Valley, IL)

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FAREWELL I pray ye all give me your audience, and here this mater with reverence; it is the summons to every Senior; the mater is precious, wondrous and sweet. The story sayeth: The freshman class is the beginning. Look well, and take heed not to “flunk”, and not be too gay or the end causeth grief. Here shall ye see, ye untried children, that the freshman, sophomores, and juniors will leave thee in thy greatest need, when ye seniors are and have to go out into the worlde. Seniors Enter. World. Stande Styll, whyder arte ye going? Seniors. Why askest thou? Wouldest thou know? World. I am sent to tell thee of a longe journeye ye must take; therefore thy diplomas with thee bringe, and look, ye be sure of thy knowledge. Sen. And we must leave school never to returne as seniors! And must we leave our places to others? World. Into the world must ye go! It avayleth not to weep, crye, or praye. Sen. Now have we no manner of company to accompany us? We praye you that the freshmen may bare us company. Fresh. Seniors, good marowe! Why look ye so sad? If anything be amise, we pray ye tell us. Seniors. Yes, good freshmen, we are in great nede. Fresh, Tell us youre nedes, we have pity to see ye in distress. Sen. Ye young and blessed angels, we shalle tell ye what it is: We are to go on a longe pilgrimage, hard and dangerous, wherefore we beg ye bare us company. Fresh. We have promised to here ye company but PAGE TWENTY-THREE

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NELLO BONAUITI Salutatorian ’16; Senior Play ’16. GERTRUDE YEARSLEY Teacher in Lincoln School. THOMAS FLETCHER Janitor. PAGE TWENTY-TWO

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ye said, we are never to returne, so we will not go along. Sen. Ye said, ye wolde nevere forsake us! Fresh. So we said, but yf we would accompany ye, we wolde miss school, and we are afraid we could aid thee not, good seinors, we are but children. We bid thee “Farewell”. Sen. Dear Freshmen, help us in our necessyte. Freshmen. Farewell seniors, we must depart for our mothers wolde not allow it. Sen. The freshmen have us forsaken, now to the sophomores. We will truly implore them to help us. Sophs. Seniors, we thought, we hearde ye call us. Here be we at your commande. Sen. Friends, now shalle we shewe ye the grefe in our minds. We are commanded by the world to take a longe journeye which we do not desire to go on alone. Sophs. But we cannot helpe ye, and arte just beginning to enjoy school. We are full of busvnesse both good and evil. This school would cease to flourishe without us. Sen. All our worke, must we shew, how we learned and our ability to use it, there fore go thvder with us, and make our accounte valuable. Sophs. It does us sorrowe to leave thee, but we cannot leave this place in which we have grown so greate. Sen. Forsaken we are by the sophomores. We are deceived, that maketh us grefe. To the juniors will we go. Jun. Who calleth us! Sen. Come Juniors, in haste for something have we to tell thee. Jun. Is there a daunce or a weenie roast! Sen. Is that all ye have to thinke of—daunces and PAGE TWENTY-FOTJR