Maroa Forsyth High School - Trojanaire / Maronois Yearbook (Maroa, IL)

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aie | a ma eo oT ey | Ce cee ye! Gs 7 be= = CCS SS LO And Ruth Malone, who lives in the country so far, Most every night the poor child misses her ear (?). After this comes Ella Grady so gentle and sweet, But for Roscoe I think they say she stung Pete. And Verl Stallings, who once giggled in school— Was told it was very unladylike and against the rule; And last but not least, Fleeta Wikoff so still, Was taken home one night much against her will. Next is the faculty, so stately and grand; Say we are the best Seniors in all the land. Some say they don’t mean it, but we know it is true, For haven’t we done everything that our teachers told us to do? Miss Bowman is the head of the school, And to the office you go if you break a rule; But that’s only a small matter—so goes the song— For the rubber hose is just a foot and a half long. Miss Reller, with eyes so snappy and small, Is not very large and not very tall, But she can see you just the same, And it makes no difference what is your game. Last, Mr. Mitchell, the lone bachelor of Maroa High, Has a wide smile, but has been known to sigh. ‘ This is a funny old world,’’ he will often say. We don’t know why he says it, unless he gets mighty poor pay. Nes 2

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Senior Class Poem We Seniors, so solemn and pemned, ) . eC ‘ ) Ye, : es ; ‘ With all our might and cou age rie To outdo the Seniors of ee Sas S, as. . x. S 1S WO.4 ne , yea And leave nothing behind us but sunshine and ¢ Lo ief ipti ‘Il give to you brief description I’ll give to) | Of each of the Seniors and teachers, too; A brilliant class of worldly fame, That has brought to M. H. 8S. a mighty name. First comes William Miller, the fun of the cl If her name is Ruth, then any lass; And Verna Fort so mild and fair, And every two weeks she combs her hair. Next Eva Martinie, s The president of us, And Roy Prather, w Gave the Physics ¢] 0 honored and blest, above all the rest. ho is gallant and tall, ass chewing gum every clay last fall, Then Lucile Shipley, the best But when the teacher’s not loo After this comes Kar] And if you get ahead girl in school, king she will break a rule. Sigler, who surely likes to be boss, of him, he is most awfully eross. Ruth Adams, a shy little saint, ot Scared one day and couldn Our ‘Silas Marnep”? is Otto G t help but faint. “ 8tls look alike ¢ lay, 911m, no matter what they say. MankeRrece aaa rown, tall, lank and lean, ir Dass singer » the best avar hen Esther Sy; ls the er But it’s “Alla Mistake » seen; Id maid, so they say, aS Was shown in the play. Helen nbor reese oroug she |; a ‘O musical, you know, aughs sings the Scale from do to do. 1 such a lone n; So name ‘YS gets t S ; S there just the same, ¢

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Senior Class Prophecy Purgatory something like twenty ¥ +] : més yr paane ; é , , . -al’s f earthly sins, 1 finally reached the ‘ Pearly Gat, to After remaining 1 cleanse MY record of of that “Celestial C And here my curiosity plucked up courage tae celestial record and § low, Reluctantly he it all sunshine. ’’ 3 Glancing down the record, which was in alphabetical form, | en. the name of Ruth Adams, who had been so shy and modest aa High School, and that one day in 1914 she had come to English fn class without her lesson. She was recorded as having come to | III with the translation written out in her book. Worst of all chat a eiven up the idea of teaching school and had gone to Utah and bec - a Mormon, and had married Cyrus Young, who already had re, wives. But Ruth has outlived them all and is still livine—chief | of Mr. Young. 5 08% Next was found the name, Mark Brown, marked with a heavy dark line, and I asked St. Peter to explain the meaning of the line. “ Ah he said, ‘‘I always put that under those for whom we have no hones Read on, please.” And I found that Mark had marri wii young lady of the Senior class, but had lef - Sea 2, Seen girl in the country named Eva ut had left her two years later for a ; ed Kva ——. Afterwards he had deserted her and run on the Progressive ticket for eee ed for pe: ee Mutual Telephone Co, eter Now he wort erna Fort annear to be Misiitodeeee et ee ad the list. Her sins were: Failure lone to parts unknown iT rae and in 1915 elopement with a Mr. Ma- patent medicines, such as ley had later turned up in Australia selling the largest trade es the ee “i rm and bunion cures, and now they have the United Siatea’alans World, for they have ninety million patients i! ry Chen came Ella Grady 7 3 49) to which after some doubt I was iq, -°3” its to I Was admitted so natural on earth) got the best of me asked St. Peter to allow me to look , oo ee how my classmates had fared in the oe, the consented, saying as he did so, ‘‘You’J] ae ( ee Purgatory for a rege the record showed that she had bee! se she had kept tw years for the redemption of her sou! On the edge of a Wo young men (Wakefield and Stoutenborous!! them by Marryino lervous prostration for two ye: abe 1 then foole’ After her or Bernard Me as In the Tyas. © Came + capt he had Pe Agricultural one Gray, who had become a profess” ermManenoy 4 silo and it had ege, but had lost his position em V of Illinois Soi} fallen down, Also his thesis 0” on, , Was too deep for comprehension bY 0