Macomb High School - Spiderweb Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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mfmimwu. inmwum- THE SPIDER WEB- 1931 -E109 - self-M I o 0 Our School Building I HAPPENED to hear a couple of men arguing the other day about the need of a new high school building in Macomb. One of the men insisted that we needed a new buildingg the other insisted that we did not because it had not been many years ago since the present building had been considered a fine one. I wish that I might have invited the latter to visit our school some day when we had an assembly. I would like for him to see the grand rush for a seat in the assembly. I would like for him to see them sitting there with three crowded into the space intended for two. Perhaps that man would change his opinion if he could see one of our fire drills with everyone pushing to get through the doors first. He might understand, then, how hard it would be to get out of the building quickly in case we did have a fire. A visit to our laboratory rooms with their inconvenience might convince him that we need new equipment and more room. An observation of the reading table would probably impress upon him our need of a new library. Then a visit to the gymnasium. while a basketball game was in progress, would show him how inadequate our gym is, The students of the high school all realize the need of a new building and I believe, if all the people could observe the crowded conditions in the building, they would be willing to support the reection of a new high school. -Eva Waller. .il - . Q- fu! fm-X, - ' f , ,. Il I 'gE' .'w.et'5i:Ma 1 jp. NL., . ',, gf.-friqi 5 'fAa,--wig, '22 was wifi- -' 'S1: :. ' .- , 1 I Tf:.'!'i1i4g u, H? :Midi iv , -it ,M-gggyrf. I 'L :A -c -nzimldnzlu , 5' M ggtir 77:2 gg-'ir' gr.'f' 1a dfqlylp .. ,. , --with IS' 25 -'Rt :BH-

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M+mnw,wur mwum- THE SPIDER ,WEB- 1931 n 10 UJ QB9I1w Bossed by an Older Sister GH, what a lovely world this would be, if there were no older sisters in it! This morning, of course, I had to feed my rabbits and that made me a little late for breakf fast. Nobody would have noticed my tardiness, if Sis hadn't said, Well! You are late for breakfast again. Then mother had to scold me a little. The minute she got through, Sis began, Look at your dirty hands, and such a tousled head! When did you last comb your hair? I had to leave the table and clean up a bit. I was in a hurry to play a game of marbles and naturally had to eat faster to make up for that lost time I spent in washing my hands. Sis socn noticed this and made me eat slower. just as I was leaving the table she had to pipe up and say, Mother, don't you think Tom .needs a clean shirt today? lviother as usual agreed and my shirt had to be changed, although it looked perfectly clean to me. School is bad on these pretty spring days but it, at least, gives me a rest from that big sister of mine. At noon, everything I did was wrong. I ate with the wrong fork, ate too fast, didn't use my napkin, and upset a glass of water on the tablecloth. The worst was yet to come. Sis noticed my bare feet and said, Mother, isn't Tom too old to go bare footed to school? What makes your pockets stick out so dreadfully, Tom? All I had in my pockets were string, marbles, rubber bands, two pencils, knife, chalk, top, whistles, and just a few other little things. Everything had to be emptied out and shoes put on my feet. I With such a noon, how could a fellow be expected to study that afternoon? Well, I couldn't and I didn't, and the teacher punished nie. At the supper table, Sis had to say, Tom, why did you get a whipping at school this afternoon? This broke the news to father and I received my second whipping and was sent to bed. That night my sister's beau came to take her for a ride. He brought her a three pound box of chocolates, which she left cn the table. After they had gone, I slipped from my room, emptied the chocolates into a box of my own and substituted a toad. It was my pet toad and I hated to part with it, but it was the one thing that my sister feared most. Here was hoping that the toad did its duty and gave her many warts. . 4Bwrbara jean Rost. K T I ---o-isa ' ISE? 24 r-Q-ESI :SSH-W

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--0-it Iwi'-26 -il --o-len Gmulif- THE SPIDER WEB - 1931 -+R! A Memory CWith due apologies to Alice Caryl Among the much loved pictures Treasured in Memory's Book, Is one of Dear Old High School At which we love to look. Not for its desks of study, Handfcarved and spotted with ink, 'Not for the faces ruddy, Who sometimes paused on the brink Of deep disgrace and disaster, When the grades were given out. Not for its laboratories, Biology, Physics, and Chem., Nor for the rooms we'd recite in- We do not treasure them. But ah! for the great assembly Where we met for cheer and for pepg We've a feeling of love and longing, We'd like to be lingering there yet. When the cheer leader, arms wildly waving Would urge us to Put on more steam, We'd yell till the windovvs rattled, Disturbing the good students? dream Of a stolen few moments for lessons, So he'd get better grades than the rest. This picture above all the others, Is the one that We love the best. -Elizabeth Boyle. ICBUUIQ4' ii-4'