Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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JUNIOR B. Clarence DuMontelle Gailard Hess Mabel Popejoy Herbert VanSchoyck Georgia Bigoness

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JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. toward us that he was continually feeding us pie (ir) during class time. Then like old Caesar himself he lead us triumphantly through Cisalpine and Trans¬ alpine Gaul and into the very face of the enemy, until at the close of the sec¬ ond year, we could say with Caesar, “I came, I saw, I conquered.’’ Our Junior year was even more remarkable than either of the preceding ones. By this time, our numbers were decreased to fourteen, but we were such models in deportment that the teachers thought that we no longer needed their restraining presence. Consequently a plan of self-government was adopted for us, and we, with the class of ’06, were promoted to the Laboratory. Here peace and harmony reigned supreme, especially when we heard the patter of rubber-soled shoes in the hall. This atmosphere of freedom seemed to be all that was needed for our class to cause the rapid development of several bud s of genius Cartoons were funished free of cost to keep the Freshies and Sophies in good spirits. We also had famous electricians, who kept themselves busy generating electricity with the static machine, and administering shocks to ev¬ eryone in the room. The bell in the belfry above us never needed to be re¬ paired by the janitor, for that matter was carefully attended to by members of our class. Thus, with all these duties, besides that of publishing the Year Book, which yet remains to be equalled, we were kept very busy. Still we had time to prepare our lessons so well, that when the teachers heard one regiment trooping down to class, they sank back with a sigh of relief, and began filling their grade books with tens. The High School Faculty were so well pleased with their scheme of free Democratic government, that, for the benefit of the other classes, they have placed us, eleven in number, in the North Room, as living monuments of correct deportment. Thus we stand today, the ideal class, to whose heights all others are in vain aspiring. It is most fitting that our Class Memorial should be a statue of the Goddess of Liberty, for, like a guiding star, she stands o’er the threshold of the future, beckoning us on to greater victories.

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JUNIOR A. Will Parish Minnie Wilmot Bessie Bennett Axel Hanson Margaret Nelson Josephine Tiffany Will Hayden Margaret McMann Frances Halpin