Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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JUNIOR nytusic. The Momence schools are keeping up with the times in this line of work as well as others, being the only town in Kankakee county employing a Supervisor of Music. The work was introduced in 1902. The Board of Education wisely adopted the “National Course,’ published by the American Book Co. It is proving in every way satisfact¬ ory to teachers and pupils. Rapid progress is being made in all grades. The popular Cantata, “The Coronation of the Rose” was given by the High School in January 1904 with Miss Vi¬ ola Chipman and Mr. Leigh Kelsey as leading characters. The work in High School consists principally of chorus work and a study of composers, such as Mendellsohn, Mo¬ zart, and Abt, It is not uncommon for people more or less intelligent to speak of music and drawing as merely ornamental branches as distinguished from other studies. In looking the world over, what branches do we find more useful or more practical than music? Into the pleasure of social life, what branch enters so largely as music? It the objective point of education is refinement, what agent or influence is more potent? “The memory of song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite and lets us for moments gaze out into that.”—Carlyle. BOOK Autumn. First Prize for Poem.— by Helen G. Gray. A ling’ring presence seems to hover o’er us all; The Spirit of forgotten happy days,— The sadd’ning thought of all-to-soon decay Of life—a leaping flame so soon put out. ’Tis like a doomed one’s last short days on earth; How he conspires to do for each some act To leave with all the thought, “How good he was” To keep his mem’ry bright in future days. These golden tints are but a mockery Assumed to hide the dismal shroud beneath: The sleepy haze keeps from our eyes the grave Wherein these happy days so soon must die.

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JUNIOR YEAR BOOK, Richard Selby. The subject of this sketch was born at an early period of his existence in Moultrie county, Illinois, on a farm near the borders of the Okaw, a branch of the Kaskaskia. His parents died when he was yet a mere child, but he remained on a farm with relatives until he was fourteen years old, when he entered the Livingston, Illinois, schools from which he graduated, being one of its first graduating class. His early education was further gained in the Indianapolis high school, Central Normal college and DePauw University. His career as a teacher began in 1885 and has been continuous except a year spent at the Illinois State Normal University from which institution he graduated with the class of 1902. In addition to the preparation for teaching already mentioned, Mr. Selby has taken special courses in biology, and school organization and management at the University of Illinois. In 1897 he was one of three successful applicants out of a class of 55, to receive a life state certificate. He occupied several important positions as principal of schools in Central Illinois, and from 1894 to 1900 was principal of the Manteno schools. In 1901, he was chosen superintendent of the Onarga, Illinois, schools by the unanimous vote of the board of education, was unanimously re-elected in 1902, and again in 1903; but was called to a wider field of labor, as superintendent of the Momence Union Schools by the unanimous vote of the Board of Education of that city. R. E. SELBY, Supt.