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

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The A arm Page Seventeen Prophecy of the Seniors T . HEN I came back to Manlius after ten years abroad, 1 found the city and its people somewhat changed. The High School that I had left in June 1924, was back among some very large trees, almost shut off from the road. A large base-ball diamond and two tennis courts were on the west side of the building where a meadow previously had been. I went down town and to my amazement found that a new theater and Post Office had been erected during my absence. As I was going into the Post Office I saw John Smith distributing the mail with the assistance of his wife, who had formerly been Blanche Blackmer. Blanche invited me to tea. While we were visiting she told me the fate of the class of '24. Virden Caskey and Arleta were living on a farm just east of Manlius and had three of the dearest children. Eleanor Jenkins had fought fiercely against Arleta but after a hard fought battle, Arleta came out victorious because Virden said he didn't like actresses. Harold Dablcr and Oreetha Monson Dabler were teaching in a High School in Rockford. Oreetha was an English teacher and Hap was the Ag teacher. They were very well liked because they had a contract with the school to stay eight years. Ernest Lebahn and Blanche Hansen were in the Klondykes digging gold. They went up there on their honeymoon and never came back. They were so happy they decided to stay. Ike had become a great artist and lived in Florida so he could paint the picturesque scenes there. He married a Palm Beach Beauty and they found Florida an ideal place for their love nest. Ruth Shepard went to Glasford to secure a job in an office, but her work didn’t last long—Bill Wilson changed her mind. Pete Glafka and Harold Anderson were teaching in the West. Pete had been jilted and then decided to leave the places that brought back memories, taking with him his old class-mate Harold for a companion. Gladys Dabler was married but was teaching school west of New Bedford. Since her husband was a teacher she also took up the profession. Lucille White was living in Dove Cottage, Lovers’ Lane, a suburb of Milwaukee. She said she certainly enjoyed working in a meat market. Mr. and Mrs. Oloffson were living on a farm south-east of Manlius. Lester said Antionette made a dandy little house-wife. Hazlle Gudgell was the only one left and I wondered what her fate might be, so I asked Blanche where she was. Blanche said the last heard from her she was living in Oneida where her husband ran Frank Grampp’s Poultry House, he was boss at the Poultry House, but believe me, she was boss at home. —V. P. '24

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Page Sixteen The A arm JOHN SMITH “Jack” What I will. 1 will, ami there's an end. Delphian Football 1-2-3-4 Basketball 2-3 Basketball Manager 4 Plays 3-4 Secretary of Delphian 4 Alarm .I« k«- Editor 4 LUCILLE WHITE “Lucy” A light heart lives long. Phllomathean Play 1-3-4 Minstrel 1 Basket ball 1-2 Student Council 3 Alarm . Calendar Editor 4 uOh my gosh!

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Page Eighteen The A arm IDith Apologies to Lincoln OURSCCRE minus seventy-one years ago our School Board brought forth on West Main Street a new High School, conceived in loyalty and dedicated to the proposition that all students are equal. Now we are engaged in a four-year course, testing whether that course or any course will ever do us any harm. We are met by the teachers at the ninth hour. We have come to dedicate our never-dying fame as an inspiration for those who come later, that our High School might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that the Freshmen should know this. But, in a larger sense, it is hard to leave, we cannot leave, but we must leave—this school. Our brave class-mates, flunking and passing, who have struggled here, have made grades far above our Faculty’s power to add or to substract. The world will little note nor long remember what we have accomplished here, but it can never forget that we were here. It is for us the passing, rather to graduate here and leave no unfinished work which we have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task set before us—that from these honored graduates we are taking increased interest, for the cause for which they gave their last full measure of spirit; that we here highly resolve that these graduates shall not have graduated in vain; that this school under the Faculty, shall have another graduating class and that the spirit of the students, by the students, for the students shall cause M .H. S. not to perish from the earth. —The Seniors Thanatipsis So live, that when thou must kick the bucket” Thou shall not have a sore “toe forever. And walk to that mysterious bar where each shall take To his chamber in the noisy hall of (Hinkey Dinks) (Two mugs of Edelwiese) saloon Thou go not, like a soldier but like a drunken fool To thy gutter to lay down, like one adorned with hoof prints of a mule Wraps his battle-ladden coat around him. And enjoys the starry dreams. —Smith-Isaacson