Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. JUNIOR CLASS. MAMIE HALPIN. LAURA KELSEY. EMMA PITTMAN. IRENE BUCKNER FLO YE BROWN. NINA FISH. SERINA JOHNSON. WILL HANSON. PORCH KELSEY. DELBERT RALSTON. FRANK CLEARY. RAY DENNIS. MARGUERITE DURHAM.

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J U N I () It YEAR BOO K GRADUATING EXERCISES . PROGRAMME THEME:—“THE BUILDING OF A NATION. “Thou, too, sail on, O, Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.” MARCH Bessie Bennett INVOCATION Rev. T. C. Eglin MUSIC High School. “THE WORLD IS ROUND” S. J. Garrett “ Thus the perseverance of one man and the enterprise of one woman triumphed over the ignorance and bigotry of the age.” “ DRIVEN FROM HOME ” Virginia C. Tabler “ The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rockbound coast.” MUSIC H. S. GrRLs’ Glee Club “ IN UNITY THERE IS STRENGTH.” Georgia Bennett “ For freedom’s battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Tho’ baffled oft is ever won. “ THE STRUGGLE ” Jessie M. Garrett “ Gentlemen, we have debated and hesitated long enough. The time has come to act.” VIOLIN SOLO Josephine Tiffany “ TH E GREAT CRISIS ” Lola M. Vane “ Six score and nine years ago our fathers brought forth on this con¬ tinent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” “ OUR MARTYRED HEROES ” Stella M. Dwyer “ Tlieir’s was the mighty work that seers foretold; They know not half their glorious toil has won; For this is Heaven’s same battle—joined of old, When Athens fought for us at Marathon.” VOCAL SOLO Lola M. Vane “ PURPOSE ” Hallie Selby “ Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts.” PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS W. L. Clapsadle, Pres, of Bd. of Ed MUSIC High School Girls’ Glee Club PRESENTATION OF CLASS MEMORIAL Lola M. Vane ACCEPTANCE OF CLASS MEMORIAL Frank Cleary, ’06

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JUNIOR YEAR HOOK. JUNIOR PROPECY. By J. Porch Kelsey. I know you will all be interested in a letter I recently received from an old schoolmate of mine. Doubtless most of you remem¬ ber him. He is now a civil engineer in a little town lately sprung up at the mouth of a river in the wilds of South Africa, and is the founder of that town which, for some reason or other, he named “ Burgess. This letter, with many apologies to Rex, I will now read you that the rest may enjoy knowing the fate of the glorious class of ’06 : Burgess, Lulabalo, A. Nov. 1, 1928. f My Dear Dumnergetericks : It was with great pleasure that I received your favor of the 12th ult., but I am surprised that you have lost track of the class¬ mates you mention. Even in this trackless wild I have managed to keep informed of their whereabouts and will do my best to enlighten you. Of course you know that Will Hanson is distributing hymn books to ungrateful savages a few hundred miles from here, but you probably don ' t know that he passed through here lately and supplied me with the latest news concerning your classmates. Serena Johnson, the head deaconess inNiamona recently wrote to Will that she would send him a valuable assistant in the person of Lucille Fish, who after much deliberation, finally decided to join the ranks of those self-sacrificing martyrs who give up all in life for the sake of these ignorant, absolutely untamable savages. I am surprised at the number of your class who have chosen that as their life work, for that forbearing spirit was certainly not evinced in the old days at school. Irene Buckner has followed out the line of that suggested by her repeated election to the leadership of class affairs, and is now president of a young ladies ' seminary in Hoboken, New Jersey. Emma Pittman, much to the surprise of many, has evinced a will of her own and adopted the stage as her profession. Her beautiful voice has been cultivated and she nightly startles thous¬ ands by the magnificence and brilliancy with which she renders that dear old song, “ Any Rags ? Frank Cleary is also a famous member of the musical world, and is celebrated far and wide as a composer. Though the leader of a large orchestra in New York, he finds time for other work, and his compositions bid fair to outrival those of Mozart, Hayden and others with which you and I, as members of Miss Crail ' s music class, are only too familiar. When Mamie Halpin took up the making of stump speeches | in Washington] in the interest of woman suffrage, I was greatly surprised, for I had always supposed that she intended to wash milk bottles as her vocation, notwithstanding the fact that her sisters declare the washing of even one at home was done under protest. (Of course her fate is already known to you.) I am very glad to tell you of the brilliant record which has been made by Delbert Ralston. As good electrical engineers as he are very few, and the fact that he is conducting work in Pan¬ ama in the interests of the United States government, speaks highly to the credit of the old High School. Nina Fish is the Official Stocking Darner in the Momence Orphanage and is said to be kept busy, for the population of Momence is now about sixty thousand. In one of the papers which Will left me I read an account of a wonderful pianist who was then creating a great sensation in London. Audiences were moved to tears by the depth of feeling expressed in her renditions, and she had been invited to play before the Court. The artist was Marguerite Durham. My only sad narration I ' ve kept to the last. The fate of Floye Brown brings sorrow to all our hearts. It seems that under the great strain to which it had been subjected, her mind finally gave way and her days are now spent in the asylum at Kankakee.