Kankakee High School - Kankakeean Yearbook (Kankakee, IL)

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Summer page two 11 lt is a sultry day: the sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass' There is no rustling in the lofty elm That canopres my dwellrng and rts shade Scarce cools me All 1S srlent save the farnt And rnterrupted murmur of th bee Settrng on the srck flower and then agarn Instantly on the wrng W1ll1am Cullen Bryant 1n Summer Wrnd Iune 1947 Once more the school year had come to a close and groups of rollrckrng boys and g1rls strolled down the treelmed boulevards drscussmg therr summer plans They were a lrttle sad realrzmg they mlght not see each other agam unt1l fall but hardly able to suppress thelr loy at the thought of three months lersure Prcnrcs at Rock Creek trlps to vacatron cottages summer Ialrs days frlled wlth tenrus golf and sw1mm1ng lazy days spent loung1ng rn the sun all these gradu lly produced a change Fellows and g1rls tanned and carefree as Aug ust came drrfted slowly back to town and gathered rn the local drug stores After summer act1v1t1es and romances had been thoroughly recounted thoughts and conversatron turned to September and school 'liars 5 r Three Wxse Golfers Tootsl 1 1 - 1 ' c V 1 S1 - 11 1 - 1 - 1 . . . . I 1 , . T 1 1 1 1 1 1 W LX - 1 1 ' 1 1 ,.' fl 1. vl- , u ' 1 , 1 g I 5 X - x ' w f 1 1 ' A I ' f 4 'K' . h ' -- ,I Q M I . ...Wu -1 1 :fmt Av I 6. 1 T . , 1. .911

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Hutumn page four Bend1ng above the sp1cy woods wh1ch blaze Arch Sk1eS so blue they flash and hold the sun Immeasurably far the waters run Too slow so frelghted are the rlverways W1th gold of elms and blrches from the maze Ot forests Helen Hunt 1n October Then came autumn A few weeks before the operung day of school the a1r seemed to become statlc W1th a certam qulckenlng excrtement Glrls 1nvaded dress shops and department stores 1n search of gay sloppy yoes and Sk11 lS that boasted that new look Even the fellows seemed to sense that another new year was about to begm and eager to make a good 1mpress1on they were gullty of buyrng new shlrts or corduroy slacks Football men reported to the coach late rn August and farthfully worked out each day learnmg the 1ntr1cac1es of the T format1on blocklng and other essent1als to prepare for league contests Tenslon mounted unt1l the long awa1ted day crnved the hrst day of school The day before school the crowd gathers to dxscu s summer achvxtxes over a coke' Holz practices pre season puntmq on the qrldlron 11 . . . 1 1 1 1 11 ' - 11 - 11 - 1 11 11 . . . 1 1 . . . . 11 11 . . 1 1 1 1 R . . . 11 1 . : .