Hononegah High School - Mack Yearbook (Rockton, IL)

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Dark Ages Dost It sound dreary and welrd to t:hou'P Perhaps It mayst be cons1d emed. Just that but ln a broader sense of spelakmgl wie could callefth lt a br1g'ht Dark Age for lt IS the startmg pomt for all and what 1s better than a good start for a successful e1n:1ung'P It IS the hamdest penod m whwb we passctih through Wlulst 1n th1s pecrlovd tihfe Knaves mrust serveth Others but there 1S no one to serve them efnce They must taketh all the sa:rcast1c remarks that chance to go theur way P-earhuaps not the hardest tasks are left to tzhem but the tasks most dxshked by others falleth to the Knaves of the Dark Age Here at our castle much effort IS put forth by all to see that all of the crusaduers 1n the Dark Age receweth an equal chance but as ln all other phases of 11fe there are some that because of harder work arnd a greater sacnfmce towards a hrgh goal reacheth the Mecheval Age and Renmssanee mruch better prepared than otibers They hath made the best of the vmam-nous obstacles wluch hath nsenn m thelr chmb upfwualrd If thlefne were mme who :reahzed tihzs dunnrg the Dark Age our Medleval Age and ResnJa1ssa.nsce would be a greater success 28- .N Y K, , 7, . . . . , V . l 1 It is their druty to seerveth, amd whilst serving, they mrust learnt by experi- ' ' W H U. . . , . u 4 . 4. ,, X We . l

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Pages Beg1n Med1eva1 Age In 1942 there come-st to our Castle 50 Knaves who shofweth great sp1r1t m then' class For leadnershxp they choseth Russell Bennett Presndent Margaret Fxsher as v1ce PBS1dJEDt Kenneth Pfaff as Secre tary and Treasurer and Lady Lafhn as thexr sponsor They were very green bust dwweth gre-at s'portsfmansh.1p on mmatlon mght They pre senteth to the school a new fad by bemg the sponsors of two roller skatmg partxes at the Paramount Roller Rmk Wlth thls recard they Thls year therr leadlers were Ralph Vument Presndent Jo Ann Bxrkett Vue Presldent Ahce Platt Secretary and Treasurer and then' same sponsor Pages shouldeth lrutxate the new Knaves but Slth the magazme con best tummeth out as lt dwd, they were mltnated by the Knaves They had a dlance and receweth a large turn out We knoweth that the Pages w111 carry on thxs good work next year 27 I O . . . . U . - as . 1 , . . A . y , - s ' l - were promoted to Pages. . . 1 . s . 3 . , L . 5 . . , , , . , . q , -

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Knaves Begin Their Trend Through The Dark Ages Whzen the upperclassmen come ts our pavlhon on the first day of school we found a large grourp of Knaves to contend wlth Thcse Knaves woulsdst be gomg th1s way and that frvmg to reach then- destma uons wlhlch after a fashron they wouldst usually get there After these Knaves hand been m our pavuon a week or so they be-gan to get acquaxnt ed Wlth the place and! got so that thev couldst get from one pllace to an other w1t.h httle or no trouole at all 'Ilhene were slxty fofur Knaves at our pavlhon and Lafdy Storey was appomted as therr class sponsor Our Knaves elected Robert Dixon for p esldent Fred Gummow for v1ce pfresldent Betty Stenberg secretary and B1ll1e Kalk for treasurer These offxcers had' the Job of leadmg then' fellow Knaves wp that long and narrow path w'h1ch woulldst pro mote them to the grade of Pages 'Dhle Knaves sold candy and had class dues of fifty cents W41'llCh accounts for the suzteen dollars and forty two cents whlch the Knaves have m then- treasury After lwe have had' the Knaves .around us for almost a year nova we feel that we w1l1 be leavmg the school to a time bunch of Pages and that when the tune comes for them to become Klllghts at our pav1hon that they wlllst have helped to keep Ho lonegah the fine school that lt IS Clerks A1d Needy Durmg the past term the hbrary ham progresseth and hath been a very valuable asset to the Court Under the supervlsxozn and dxrectlon of hath afforded an ever lastmg supply of mlformatron throughout the year The youth and mmdens of the Court flndseth any or almost any rnfor matlon desued whether xt be reference work or pleasure readmg There have been several addrtlons to the library U1 the past: year all of w1h11ch. have added greatly to 1ts valu the first berng' the d1fTex'ent ways of hstmg avallable books There hath been hfung at dufferent places m the hbrarv small booklets whllch contameth the 11st of books whxch are on the hbcrary shelves Of course, as usual a great number of new books hlarve been pur chlaseth to gzrve a wxder selectxon of reaxlmg materlal There hath been a new set of World Book encyclopedua added L our supply of reference mamelnal brmgnngw the ava1lable materxal more up to-dxate The school also purohaseth ezght years of old Natzonal Geographmc magazmes had them bound' mto classliled artxcles and p-lacefth them m the hbraary for our engoymlent Thl re have been several popular SCIGIIIUHC and educatxonal mage zmes for use durmg our spare tlme This llbrary 'hath been very effectlvely managed by Lady Northrop wxth help and cooperatlon of the student hbwrarrans who have dlone a good Job at keepmg order and ln c-heckmg books m and out 29 1 1 ' ' , , u W 1 : K 0 Dad? N0'1'ffh1'0P,, 810418 With her of -stuldenrt. assistants, the library 1 I ' KS ' . UI ' ' . 0 1 ' n U ' - vy . , . . . , , Q , . . , 1 . 1 - 5 4 , I 5 .K , X .