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

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of the (Mass nf CLuu'nta-Sum In September of the year 1918, eighty-three brave, bold youngsters, suffering all the agony of self-conscious high school beginners entered upon a course of untoui gioiy. We were called Freshmen and bore the name well, for never haci a greener class entered. We took to high school life as a duckling takes to water, and soon we began to wax strong under the kindly reign of our teachers. Realizing the necessity of a well organized class, and having secured permission from our superintendent, Mr. W. C. Robb, to hold our first meeting, we gathered one evening in the commercial study hall and elected Peter Troy, president, and made plans for a Fresh-men-Sophomore party. The party was a grand success and at the dance which followed, many of us who were as yet unskilled in the noble art, amused ourselves by treading on the feet of the teachers and girls who were brave enough to attempt to teach us how. Soon after, another party followed which was even more successful than the first. The Freshman class won the first place in the interclass basketball tournament, and second place in the track meet. Although none of our boys were on the varsity football team, they played in several scrimmages against the regulars. Our Sophomore year proved fairly uneventful, for after we had given the Freshmen their proper initiation under the showers, and had entertained the Juniors at a scrumptuous party, we settled down to hard work. Quite a number of students were missing from outranks, among them Mae Norberg, one of our most promising students, and Ernest Fegan, who had proved himself a coming star in football and basketball. It was in a track meet held at Lombard College in the spring of this year that Melvin Warnock received a medal when he won the hundred yard dash in an interscholastic contest. Peter Troy was again elected our President. Through his efforts and those of our other class leaders, we thus passed safely on through our second year. We started our Junior year under a new superintendent. Mr. Monroe Melton, a “Hoosier Schoolmaster” of no little executive ability. Under his able supervision we continued our efforts to win a name TWENTY-FOUR

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EDITH V EA RSLE V -“Babe “This tongue can no man tame It is an unruly evil.” Senior Play (4) Basket Ball, Class (l)-(2)-(3) -(4). Dramatic Club (4) AUGUST ZACCAKIA—“Gus “I’m here on a visit; my home is in heaven.” Football. Varsity (1) TWENTY-THREE

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for ourselves. Now that we had reached our Junior year, the members of our class began to take a most prominent part in school activities. We were exceedingly well represented on the football, basketball and track teams, a goodly number of the regulars and the scrubs being members of our class. Several of the girls took part in che Shorthand and Typewriting Contest held at La Salle, and two of them, Elizabeth Mazur and Edith Yearsley, won prizes. Our Junior year was eventful in another way. The publishing of “The Hall Times,” a monthly magazine, and “The Hall Light,” an annual, was undertaken by our school, and to both of these publications, the Juniors contributed many a breezy article and snappy story. It was in the school calendar of “The Hall Light,” that I found the following items standing forth with startling vividness: “Nov. 4, 1920—Ray Fehr and some of the other boys are attempting to raise moustaches just like the Kewanee footbali captain’s.” (It might be well to add that all this effort was of no avail. At this late date, after almost a year and a half of careful cultivation, Melvin Warnock’s is the only one which can be seen without the aid of a microscope.) “Jan. 12, 1921—‘Art’ Bevan is requested to bring a footstool to the Civics class.” “Jan. 17, 1921—Three Junior girls decide to leave home and shift for themselves. However, their plans are interrupted and hence postponed indefinitely. The girls appeared at school very much as per usual.” Toward the end of the Junior year, we gave our Junior Prom. That it was a success was due in large part to the clever planning and the hard work of various committees chosen by our president, Esther Wolf. And now we are Seniors—some of us can hardly realize it—in fact, just the other day, I saw Walter Walker pinch himself to see if he was really awake! And yet it is not strange that our last year in Hall has come and now is almost gone before we have even had time to be aware of the fact, so busy have we been with selecting class pins and rings, with getting measured up for caps and gowns, and with learning our parts for the Senior play, to say nothing of occasionally doing the assignments our teachers shower upon us! Our year has been a full and busy one. The school paper, “The Hall Times,” has made a name for itself in all the exchange lists, our orchestra and band organizations formed but this fall, have made really astonishing progress, and the newly created public speaking department has satisfied a long felt desire for a dramatic Club, an organization which has TWENTY-FIVE