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

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The Search Begins Concerned Citizens asked the head honcho. I think I ' ve heard quite enough ' I said. (Flashback to meeting: So, let ' s discuss the cookie sale. ) Even though I already had valid suspicions about some people, I still had to check out other leads. One of these leads was the cooks. They were first suspicious to me because they were always rolling in the dough. And I had heard from some anonymous students that some of the cooks made pastries. Very significant. My next group of suspects were the janitors. Police Commissioner I suspected that they not only cleaned the school, but had also cleaned out some banks in their time. They were obviously pros. Next on my list was the mechanic. The students had been observ¬ ing him for some time and the few times they had seen him, he was lurking around suspiciously behind the schools. I had also overheard a conversation about high-jacking planes. Very in¬ teresting ... The next group under scrutiny were the so-called bus drivers. Indeed, they did drive buses. Chief of Police but was it a front for kidnapping? Every day after school, these people would load unsuspecting, innocent kids onto their buses, drive off, and return a few hours later ... with no kids. It ' s time to tell you about my first big clue. A ribbon from a diploma was found sticking out of locker no. 335. I ran down to the office to find out whose locker it was. It turned out to be Kathrin Eckhart ' s, the German exchange student. I was catching up to this German fiend. You might think that I would become This page courtesy of Lake Fork Grain Co.

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Do You Know Who He Is? I decided it would be a good idea to talk to the Concerned Citizens (school board) first because they are very involved in what goes on at the school. The citizens (school board) had already o rganized themselves and elected a spokeswoman, Brenda Stubblefield. Some of the other leaders were (pg. 4 pic. 1) Kenneth Offer, Laverne Malone, Glen Morgan, David Braden, Bryant Austin, and Ed Orr. Through my informants, I discovered that the citizens (school board) were meeting that evening at the school. As I approached the door to the room in which they were meeting, I heard loud voices. Fearing that something might be wrong, I broke the door down, and all heads turned to me. Why, Mr. Wrench! What are you doing here? asked one man. I replied that I had come to ask some questions. Then he asked, why did you break the door down? I heard loud voices and I feared that someone might have been in danger, I replied. The man said, Thank you for your concern, but we are all quite fine. I ' m afraid we can ' t answer your questions right now because we are in the middle of a meeting, but if you will wait, we will be glad to speak with you later. So, I took a seat and proceeded to listen to their discussion, and this is what followed: Where are we getting the dough? That ' s all taken care of. Don ' t worry about a thing. When are we going to do this? The date isn ' t set for sure yet, but I should have all the details drawn up by the next board meeting. Right about then, I decided to leave. Mr. Wrench, where are you going? This page courtesy of Autohous Fortense, Inc. 3

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Key Suspects A Trap more than a little discouraged with the case, seeing as there were so many suspects and so few clues to go on. But I didn ' t. Being the talented and in¬ genious (traits that have made me famous the world over) detective that I am, I con¬ tinued on, undaunted, looking for clues. I concluded that unless I wanted to continue going nowhere fast on this case, I was going to need some help. I needed more inside informa¬ tion than what the students were giving me, but I didn ' t really know who could be trusted. I knew I had to ask some responsible, logical people. Well, I asked the teachers anyway. Because of the nature of the word informant, I expected these people to inform me on important happenings around the school. Was I ever mistaken. All they wanted to do was to discuss such things as quadratic equations, adver¬ bial clauses, the mole and Avagadro ' s number. Why should I care how many avocados a little furry creature can eat? I decided to make it known that there were five diplomas that were in the principal ' s desk, not in the safe. This page courtesy of Pershing National Bank