Le Roy High School - Melting Pot Yearbook (Le Roy, IL)

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I 'TPYE D1EHTPIfiG'P01' I I I AN EXTRACT fF1'0ll1 the Dodo Stock Farm Reviewb Do you remember way back when Caesar telegraphed the Queen of Siberia and asked her for a date to the movies? lf you do. probably you also remember that anxious day when we lirst took seats on the right hand side of the old Assembly Hall in the Washington school in the fall of 1920. How many of the boys in our class wore knee pants? Guilty. says one. That year it seemed that the Sophomores were unusually big and healthy, incident- ally, if you'll pardon the expression, according to Mr. Kirby, much shoe leather was worn out unnecessarily. Most of us took General Science and enjoyed ourselves imlnelisely under Miss Hindle, while extracting the adenoids from the stray cat which entered through an open window during class. We also learned the fine points about craw daddies. as well as studying electricity and chemistry. The Junior Stunt Show was originated that year depicting faithfully: The Son Set on the Rindf' The Great Red Bat flu-it-kj. Strong man Bledsoe carrying to five hundred pound weights weighing four ounces. also they had 'iBlue Beard and Cave of Horrors, a comedy in six flats. The school also voted on a name for the Annual. Our Freshmen Class did not shine much in athletics but the day was yet to come when we wo11ld produce real chalnpions. However E. T. H. S. won its county wide invitation track meet which was not then an official county meet. We have continued the practice ever since. We had fair success in football and basket ball, but the exciting game of Teakettle always reigned as favorite sport of our class for that year. .ht last most of our original color faded and we began next year as higl1 and mighty Sophs in the new building. We thought we were some pumpkins but we were still small potatoes when it came to class functions and responsibilities. Nevertheless we were duly exercised and trained by chasing butterflies and flowers out the railroad tracks or accompanying the Roman Army on wild goose chases ill Ulll' minds under the direction of Miss Metcalf. In the Junior year we found out what real work was, so far as putting o11 enter- filll1llllJlllS. banquets and raising money were concerned. By this time we were far above anything like playing Teakettle in the English Classg instead we preferred to listen to Miss Stinson read us all about the adventures of B1-er Rabbit. Mr. Huddle read us all of the latest dope o11 swearing in Kentucky Mountain dialect, as well as what to do when the bottle of nitric acid falls to the floor a11d breaks. Our class ended up that year with the satisfaction of having put on the best Stunt Show yet rllld an equally LIIJOII .lunior-Senior Banquet, thanks to our much loved adviser. Miss Ruth Thomas. How we rave! How we tear our hair! In our Senior year we have an unbeaten football team, b11t that doesn't let us escape from the multitudes of duties that belong exclusively with full hot air privileges to the Seniors. A jolly heart lightens any burden so we should worry. our shoulders are broad. Someday. perhaps all this will 11ot be so real to us. but let us not forget President Bridgenian, who has borne much respon- sibility for our class for the last three years. v I - -192,4 I E191

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THB MEBTIN8 POT -- I ALLEN WILLIG- Uncle Al Manager Football TOIIIII, 4 Literary. 2. 3 Buys Glvo Club. 2. 4 Stunt Show, 3 A wise old 'Al' is he. l SENIOR CLASS POEM In checkered fields that lie beneath the season's sun And in the town that's known our sorrows and our fun, There is a charm that holds the thought on joys of home 'Twill cheer us as we toil and call us as we roam. And as we think of these may mem'ries rise of school Of many happy hours as well as those in ruleg May all be cherished in our hearts and there be kept Feelings of reverence, great in their depth. And as we think of these many mem'ries of our school, Will call to mind again hours that happily pass Into the future now, in pages of this book May all recall the hours and backward look. I I ------192,4 - --as an s E181 '

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1-as menmne Par SENIOR CLASS WILL We, the Senior Class of 1924, still being sound in mind and well in body, in order to dispose of all our earthly and cherished possessions do ordain, establish and declare this to be our last will and testament. 1-We do hereby give and bequeath -to the Juniors the joy UD of publishing 1925 Melting: Pot. Wie do bequeath the following specific legacies and bequests: 1-To Miss Gordon we will all the good poetry, orations and essays found in our lockers. 2-To Mrs. Youngblood: our inelodious and harmonious voices. 3-Al leaves his ability to bluff the teacher to Bill Poindexter. 4--Yula H. all her excess knowledge and quiet. manners to Hank Rees. 5-Chester S. his love for pretty girls to anyone as handsome as himself. 6-Rosy S. to Harris D. his ability to become ai second hand Harold Lloyd. 7-Dean Bishop to George G. his deaconly ways. S-Flo W. to Helen S. her improved way of making love. 9-Lefty Ford to Ivan A. the task of amusing the End period assembly. 10-Mnurine T. to Rachel B. the duties and salaries of pianist. 11-Lelia H. to Jack H. her intense interest in her st-hool works 12-Harry B. to Har1'is D. his quiet ways. 13-ililllllfll' Moore to Burl Walden the right to wear long pants. 1-l-Zeke. his peroxide hair to Red Bailey. 15-Morrell wills his dramatic ability to Betty Joiner. 16-Dean B., 17-Pearl D., 18-Rosy S. flirtatious manner to Marvin Dean. her naturally eurly hair to Mary Tudor. wills his Sunday school star to Jaek H. In witness thereof, we have hereunto set our handhand seal to this our last will incl testament, on this i5th day of April, 1924, A. D. SENIORS. By Mildred Cain 19 2.4 I T201