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

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TO TT Tg UU CUE Oe Then he proceeded to censure me. Theirs are brilliant futures.’ ‘Look at your classmates. Could he possibly know of my friends of the old days? But I deemed it best to let him proceed without inte “Beryl Matheny, your former football captain, is a decided success in the literary world. A few years ago he published a vol- ume of ‘‘Class Room Etiquette’? from which the famous and inspir- ing quotation— And above all, keep up your self conceit and your behef in the students divine iolit to stall’—is taken. rruption. ‘‘John Rolofson has also become widely known. Winning on a Farm Labor ticket, he was made Governor of Tllinois. Later, after shifting his polities, Tie had become a member of tne United States Senate. There he framed a bill for the annexation of the North Pole. Mis reasoning is very logical, for he thinks we might be able to colleet incomne tax from Santa Claas? Next he metioned Fleta. Quoth the Raven, ‘‘She is ‘Dar- win’s Pride. After a few years of further study, atte opened a musie studio in the Fiji Islands, and is doing’ wonderfil Work charming and sung the natives. | ‘‘Nedra has become the author of a new dictionary. After some years of study at Columbia, she excluded herself from society until she finished the volume. It is of great value. We owe her much. Her success was marked from the time she rushed up to you and exclaimed, ‘Oh, I’ve just discovered the guameflopper is siafisticated.’ fg | The Raven continued. ‘‘Look at Clay Dine. He will be in the millionaire class before long. At present he is working on a contraption to reclaim face powder. A great invention for those dating the flappers! At present he is residing at the Saint Recluse Inn at Chattanooga. Shon Bowden, after a few years, succeeded Professor Cross as Physics instructor. He was very competent. Latley ey, he decided to go to Kurope to visit the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Sevres, France. The liner, fired on by the hostile Jap- anese, was sunk, but Crandall and his arate were rescued by a pass- ing vessel. He still remains in F rance, and doubtlessly will become a great Physicist.’’ me The Raven cleared his throat and vena on. ‘Although Rus- sell Adams has had a hard course in life, he has now risen to fame through the discovery of a perpetual motion machine. He gained his idea from watching some of the Freshmen’s mouths. hoopemagy in that

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MB | HE 1925 ARONOIS iin, a Class Prophecy Marie Lyons ) This incident took place in nineteen thirty five, just ten . after my graduation from M. GC. H. S. It was a terrible day— “Cold and dark and dreary, It rained and the wind was never weary. The vines still clung to the moldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves would fall. My heart was cold and dark and dreary, It ached and the wind was never weary. My hopes were of the by-gone past But the hopes of my youth were still in the blast.”’ I picked out that volume of Poe’s works. It had been neglected for years, for I had never forgotten the night mares that book had given me when a Senior. The book fell open to ‘‘The Pit and the Pendulum.” It had been years since I had read that. I was surprised to find I really enjoyed it. I read on and on deeply engrossed and evidently did not hear the knock, for it came this time with a crash and a threat. | hastily dropped the book. Before me stood a saucy Raven. ] was a tempted to slam the door for I] was angry at being interrupted £0 rudely. But the crow is a noble fellow ‘‘becaws’’ it never shows a | white feather nor complains without ‘‘caws”’, so I refrained from al act so impolite. The Raven flew direetly to an old bust of Poe over the door and perched there. I spoke to the bird and he answered, “T have come to warn you of your future, of the disaster awaiting Ye Al eur life you’ve been a pleasure seeker. You are a complete failure. You have forsaken the things in life that would afford you real oY: 4 Hollywood held nothing for you. The fortune left you by vour uncle has been Squandered in various escapades where you narrowly escay ed death. But your ideas are old and sophisticated What wou! ee noble instructors in M. C. H. S. say if they kriew the run rc. = eee ? You have forsaken all their teachings MUR was angry be (ae finds no place in your Bi. Ise, so I asked, ae me beat but all his statements were | o redemption for myself ?”’ epmoth the Raven, ‘‘Nevermore.”’ =) i) Ar no!

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es ; TMM yl ee iy, ) ‘Andrey Anna Price, your prodigy, is now teaching Fre;,,. a girls sehool in Arkansas. It is rumored that she is engaged +,, ’ mathemeties teacher there. ‘Don Schroeder is a rising young chemist in Powell, [)}j,, He has promised to huild a new school house there when he maj his fame. “Mary Belle Kling finally married a young surveyor w. known to all the class. She will undoubtedly make lim a good wife,” Unable to refrain from speaking any longer, I asked, yji Audrey Anna ever forsake her study?”’ Quoth the Raven, ‘ Nevermore.”’ “Will Mary Belle be happy?’’ Quoth the Raven, ‘‘Bvermore. And Jerry (I had almost for- eotten him) makes pilgrimages each year to Camp Gray, and lives ‘over the summer spent there in nineteen twenty four. His life is not altogether one of bliss, however, for the inevitable had come. “She? had cheated him out of his happiness. A young doctor had eome and in a whirl wind courtship had carried her off. Gerald wa- paralyzed. His faith in women is dead. The incident only helps to strengthen his views against Women’s Suffrage.”’ Oh yes! He used to be bitter on that subject, declaring 4 woman’s place was at home. He was very much displeased when Ma Ferguson became Governor of Texas. All bis writings expres is radical views and he will be happy— Nevermore Ss ‘Paul Thomas has made a name for himself with his cor! You know he was quite musically inclined. He, at present, is first solo c ornetist in Sousa’s Band. His is a brilliant future.’’ — A lump arose in my throat—‘‘and I have come to this.”’ | hastily gathered up my books and left the room. However, I had resolved to do better, to do something of which I might be prow! I, Marie Lyons, was the thirteenth member of the class of twenty Pea” ad | . . ve,—the victim of that mystic, merciless number. jet.