Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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Junior Class Proph ecy. “Time rolls its ceaseless course ’ and still there are the yesterdays, the to-days and tomorrows, and it is of the morrows that I am going’ to tell you. The Fates having kindly given me prophetic power, the renowned and illustrous Junior class very naturally designated me as the one to foretell that which is to come; to unravel the future destinies of my fellow students of the class of 1914. The president of this glorious class, Florence Smith, whom you remember in the High School days with her San¬ ders’ Geometry as her most intimate companion, is now reaping the fruits of her labors, as the worthy successor of Mr. Walters, the special teacher of geometry in Momence High School. Hazel McConnell has become head waitress in the Conrad hotel. Her main object, she said, in applying for the position was to undermine the the¬ ory that distance lends enchantment. Again the unexpected has happened, or no doubt, “Ty Cobb ’ felt that way about it, when he must of necessity step into the background of the base ball world and give his place to none other than the Beecher boy Harry Weichen. Who, in days of yore would have mapped out such a course for him ? And there is Leroy Grimes, who always did believe in leaving his foot-prints on the sands of time. When we recall his numerous athletic feats, and how his mother had to dis¬ lodge part of the furniture, from his room to make room for his numerous medals, one would scarcely have con¬ cluded that Leroy would embark his launch upon the field which he has, namely as a Salvation Army leader. And the Daily Progress stated that he had been running oppositional meet¬ ings to Billy Sunday. This was a gre at surprise to Mr. Sunday. Then there was Selma. It is cer¬ tainly a fact to be regretted that the Montessori system of Education had not been adopted when Selma w T as a child, for just think of all those years spent in useless effort trying to find out her real vocation in life, which has finally proven to be selling tickets in the Bijou. Likewise, there was Bessie, studious and practical, who did not surprise her friends in the least when she took up abode at Wellsbey, and started a co¬ operative laundry, actually performing some of the work herself. They say “the unexpected always happens,” so it was in case of Viola Oleson, who is now the physical cul¬ ture and dancing teacher in one of the Exline schools. . The next one in the list, I believe, is Dorothy Nelson, whose gift of speech you remember as somewhat unusual, she, strange to say, is one of the lead¬ ing instructors in the deaf and dumb school at B-. Of Lulu there is little to say, except that quietly and peaceably she lives in Kankakee in a little vine clad cottage built for one, and with her cat and bird she is enjoying spinsterhood in all its glory. The next four names I can group together when I speak of the Crosby, Walker, Brown, and Zahl Concert Co., the scene of their first appearance is vividly before my mind. It was in the town of Hopkins Park, the lights were burning brightly and the whole world seemed to rejoice with them. There was a crowded house to greet them, alas! it would have taken mathe¬ matical knowledge, beyond that pos¬ sessed by the writer, to have “fig¬ ured” out the number. Last, but not least, is Helena, and of her I might say briefly, W hen youthful dreams her fancies told A musician, grand, she’d be, But, Ah, Alas! what came to pass, A suffragette is she. Duwana Rasmussen, ’14. Crawford— u How is it you let your wife have her own wav? Crabshaw—“I once had to stop her. —Life.

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Junior Class Motto : — Colors:— Purple and Gold. Flower:— Pansy. Class Officers. President. Florence Smith. Vice-President.—Bessie Brassard. Secretary.—Helena Hardy Treasurer. Livonia Walker. Historian.—Duwana Rasmusen. Class Roll. Lulu Byerlein. Bessie Brassard. Lucy Brown. Gladys Clark. Robert Crosby Leroy Grimes. Helena Hardy. Selma Johnson. Hazel McConnell. Dorothy Nelson. Viola Oleson. Du wana Rasmusen. Florence Smith. Livonia Walker. Harry Wiechen. Zenaida Zahl. “ His head is as firm as a stone.” Robert Crosby.

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SENIOR CLASS Flower—VIOLET Colors—OLD COLD AND LIGHT BLUE OFFICERS President-ANTHONY PARISH Vice-President--OSCAR HANSEN Secretary—CLARK HOWK Treasurer—AXEL PETERSON Historian EARL TODD Poet—LEONARD GORD1NIER “The Boy with a Musical Hair Cut .”— Paul Nelson. MEMBERS Nora Lynds Oscar Hansen Clark Howk Amanda Johnson Mable Clapsadle Dolly Nelson Axel Peterson Leonard Gordinier Ruby Tuttle Ethel Bradley Charles Tuttle Anthony Parish Earl Todd