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

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ANNA PIZZA5TELI0 Basketball (3). Literary Society (1). Her gurgling giggle is contagious. H T H S '•»“ .J 7 1 iL

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LYLE SITTERLY “Boots” Football (2)-(3)-(4). Greater ability hath none, but as for using it HAZEL SHERHARD Glee Club (l)-(2)-(3)-(4). Drcnv-t'c Society (3) Declamatory Contest (3). Literary S. (1). Annual Staff (4). Basketball (l)-(2). •’And still the wonder grew that one small head could carry all she knew.” ROBERT VAN TRESS “Bob Debating Society (l)-(2). Basketball (3)-(4). Class Vice-President (1). Football (3). Track (3)-(4). Annual Staff. Dramatics (l)-(2). MaRYZAND Basketball (2)-(3). Literary Society (1). I'm not here for my health.”

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(Ctjrmttclcs of tl]£ (Class af ’21 In the beginning, in the twentieth century, and in the seventeenth year thereof, in the ninth month, and on the first day of the month, there entered into this Land of Learning eighty sojourners seeking-knowledge. Some there were from the land of Spring Valley; others came from the far countries of Ladd and Cherry; some were green and fresh from the farms where they had been tillers of the soil. And it came to pass, as this Class of ’21 did enter the land, that they were received with wild welcoming and rejoicings by those who it was decreed should henceforth lead them up the slippery by-ways of knowledge. Likewise it came also to pass that they were received with malicious glee by a certain oand of wild beings who were called Sopno-mores, and who, because of their fierce taste for Freshman blood, did pounce upon them daily and nightly, and did cause them to suffer great things, and to say in their hearts: “Behold, blessed be the name of Education, for because of it we have endured great torments, both of the body and of the mind. Verily have we been martyrs to its great and noble cause!” And as they dwelt long in the land, they came to form a truce with this fierce band of bophomores, and grew to know the ways of the other two tribes who dwelt in this Land of Learning, the Juniors and Seniors. Now when they had gathered in the Court of Authority, it was said unto them, “Thou shalt choose a leader,” and so it was done. They selected from among their number, Anthony of the House of L aletti. Also did it come to pass that all the dwellers in this Land of Learning were aroused from their slumbers one night and did hear what sounded to them like screams of horror, and so were they much terrified and did make haste to go to the Court of Authority. In frightened tones did they ask who was being murdered. Then was it said unto them that it was only the Class of ’21 practising for the play called “Polished Pebbles.” And it happened that after nine months in the Land of Learning, judgment was passed upon the members of this band of sojourners, by means of fierce trials known as final examinations. When this test 26.