Manlius High School - Mirror Devil Yearbook (Manlius, IL)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY We. the class of 1921, entered High School September. 1917, in the old High School building. Our freshmen class was composed of about twenty-five members. We were shy and bashful, but at the same time thought ourselves the most important part of the High School body. We were initiated a little the first day. but were really initiated worse when we elected our officers, chose our motto and our class colors. We chose for our motto Rowing. Not Drifting, and our class colors were )range and Black. When we were in the grades we had eleven subjects and thought it quite easy to have only four: but we soon changed our minds and thought that four subjects required just as much or more preparation than eleven. It was either this change or other things that caused a few of us to receive some low grades. While we were freshies we had a teacher in the assembly room who tried to he very strict. Pins, gum, notes and water guns were much in use. The boys thought that if they took books home they would be called sissies. We poor freshies, how much we had to learn. When we returned to High School. September, 1918, we went back to school with a little different spirit. We became very important, as all sophomores do. We began to take part in athletics. Not many things of importance happened that year. One of our teachers, Miss Thielbar, left fora better position and Miss Mahoney came to take her place. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were with us during our Freshman and Sophomore years. We began our Junior Year with a greater purpose in life than when we had entered two years before. We had two new teachers. D. ( tis Smith and Miss Kilburne, and our faithful teacher, Miss Mahoney. Mr. Smith left because of his health and Mr. H. 1). Holden came to take his place. After becoming acquainted with Mr. Holden we were not grieved over the substitution. ()ur boys developed a real basketball team this year. They won a large silver cup. of which we were all very proud, at the Bureau Township Tournament. The girls organized a girl's glee club, and under the instruction of Mrs. Johnson we were soon singing like birds. Dutch, one of our number, took two firsts at the Bureau County Track meet. At the beginning of our last and most important year of High School, we had three new teachers, Mr. Perry. Miss Perry, Miss Wegener and our old teacher Mr. Holden. The boys having a majority elected Glen Jensen president and changed our class colors to Scarlet and Grey. In November we moved into our new high school building. School seemed like a new job in this pleasant building. Howard Hamilton, one of our most brilliant members, was obliged to quit school for the rest of the year on account of a nervous breakdown. Hoppie is coming back next year and we know he will finish with the best of the class. Thyra Christensen, another of our members, responded to the call of Cupid and after the Christmas holidays we heard that she and Fenner were married. Thyra had often talked of taking Domestic Science. Thyra and Fenner were later entertained in the High School gym. by the entire High School and were presented with a beautiful rocking chair. We wish them much happiness and success. We ten that are left feel quite honored to be the first class to graduate from the new building, and we feel grateful to our parents, teachers and patrons of the school who have made it possible. PACK TWENTY- Martha Anspach.

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 MAXJUAN ■? THE PROPHECY OF THE SENIOR CLASS It is the year of 1932. I have been a missionary for a number of years, so i am now coming home for a year's vacation. When at last 1 have reached Manlius, I find it has changed in a great many ways. Most of my schoolmates are married, while I am an old maid. When I heard that Beva was married and lived on a farm about two miles from town, I decided to visit her. I asked her about all of our schoolmates and soon found out about them. She said that Martha Anspach was a noted writer of short stories. While she was in Chicago she met the Count de Bologna, of Italy, whom site afterward married. Even though she is the Countess de Bologna, she is not a bit stuck up, and even writes short stories yet. Glen Hewitt ran a garage for about four years, but when he proposed to Fern Rudiger she said she wouldn’t marry him unless he had nicer work- So now they are happily married, for he works in the State Bank. Scott Miller is happily married to Oreetha Monson and lives on the farm which is just west of the High School. Clara Hurst is a great dancer—even greater than Irene Castle. She was in Paris for two years, but she is now in New York, where she has an engagement. Alvin Glafka now lives on a large ranche out in the West. He had a contest with a young man from Princeton for the hand of Lucille White, but he won out, after a hard fought battle. Antoinette Smith went to college for four years and has been teaching school ever since she graduated, but she will soon be married to Lester Olofson, who proposed to her about five hundred times before she would say “ yes.” Charles Krager is a preacher of the U. B. church and is married to Fay Nelson. After having courted her for three years, after his graduation, she finally accepted him, saying that a woman could get along with a preacher and that, anyway, Charlie was a dear boy. Bertha McMahon is a movie star. She is famous for her bewitching smile. Over a million men have proposed to her, but she never accepted any of them. William Folk taught school for a year. He quit teaching because, as he said, lie tired himself out licking those blamed idiots that were his pupils. So he joined a small circus that came to Manlius. In a few years he grew to be such a good acrobat that a larger circus hired him. He married Marguerite Eldridge, who was with this circus, and altho they fight most of the time they are not divorced. Glen Jensen is a noted cartoonist, and is working for one of the leading newspapers of New York City. He lives near the city in a very large house and he needs a large one, too, because he married a widow with ten children. Arthur Williams was a doctor for about a year. At last no one would have him for their doctor, and I don’t blame them either: because, once when he was operating on a man he left same of his tools in him. Arthur became discouraged and went into the movies. He is a great star and is called the second Harold Lloyd. People say he is happy and carefree, even though he has been divorced three times and is now engaged to some girl of the movies. PAGE NINETEEN

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