Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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One summer day in the year 1935, as I alighted on the top of a Chicago department store, I noticed in another aeroplane my friend, Lucy Hayden. She had just started down stairs when I overtook her. I had not seen her for several years, and she told me that she was now living on the North Side, along the Lake Shore, as a companion to an old lady. She had just returned home from Europe. We went down stairs and came upon Edith Bradley, who was up from her large and prosperous farm near Grant, for a day’s shopping. She told us that her brother How¬ ard, was editor of the Press-Reporter, in Momence. Then we naturally started talking about the members of the Class of ’18. During our talk, I learned that Gladys and Belle were running the politics of Momence; Walter had made the Kankakee river famous by his poetry; Eva D. conducts a large pleasure resort a little distance up the river; Law¬ rence Benjamin had married “a small Momence maid,” and is a noted artist; Evelyn F. was living up the river with her cats in a pretty little cottage. Florence S. and Ida T. had a beauty parlor on Court street in Kankakee. Stanley and Edward had a second¬ hand store next door. Vera was playing in the theatre there, also. Wilhelmina was a school teacher and looked very se¬ verely over her glasses at her pupils. Dorothy Smith, having had very good practice presiding over the Fresh¬ man class, was President of the U. S. Federation of Wo¬ man’s Clubs. Henry S. was a noted cartoonist for the Chicago Herald. Edith Lamport was writing jokes for the Ladies’ Home Journal. Several of our class were in Europe. Wilma was in Paris learning to design Paris gowns, and Beulah was there learning fashionable dressmaking. Harold was in Paris also. Pearl M. was making woman’s suffrage speeches in England, and was a very popular speaker. Ida K. had lately developed a wonderful voice, and was in Italy studying for the Grand Opera. I do not think that we fully appreciated the fine talent for acting we had in our class. Lawrence R. was taking the part of Tom Thumb in a series of fairy tale plays. Rose was a motion picture actress. Willabelle was on the stage, and played many leading parts. Dorothy N. was a snake charmer. Grace, Norma and Ruth were touring the country as a concert company. People go miles to hear and see them. John C. was a great politician, and was making speeches all over the country. Robert was a professor of Physiol¬ ogy in Harvard. Helen was teaching Latin in Grant, which is now a large town. Lura is superintendent there. Ev¬ elyn M. is a physical culture teacher in St. Anne. A little later in the day, as we went down the street, a newsboy approached us selling papers. I bought one and the head¬ lines announced Verne to be the inventor of an excellent dishwasher and wiper. F. Tomas Co. will manufacture them.

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M I—I Parent-Teacher Association. By O. BIGELOW. The association during the current year has fully main¬ tained the interest and enthusiasm which was manifested during 1914. The programs for the year have been of an exceptionally high character. The entertainment fea¬ ture alone was very fine for each meeting, and should more than repay anyone for attendance. While no re¬ grets for a lack of attendance can be consistently made, it should be impressed upon the minds of the parents of this city that by staying away from the Parent-Teacher meetings they are missing a liberal education in the very able papers which have been presented at these meetings, during the past, and which there is every reason to be¬ lieve will continue to be presented in the future. If the foregoing reasons for attending these meetings do not appeal to all, there are others of higher and more vital importance, which should influence any parent, or, all parents. One of these is the fact that the Parent- Teacher association is a modern institution, and came in¬ to existence for the reason that there was a real need for such an organization, to the end that the parents could help carry some of the burden of educating the children and not, after paying their taxes, throw the entire respon¬ sibility onto the teachers. To the association is largely due the credit of the pas¬ sage of the bond issue of $25,000.00 for the erection of a new building which was badly needed. Vocational train¬ ing is the next problem. And unless the parents of this city are willing to see their children handicapped in the struggle for existence they must get behind this move¬ ment and insist that vocational training be adopted in the quickest possible time in the schools of Momence. List of Superintendents. The following is a list of the superintendents who have served in the schools since the organization of the High school. The list may be incomplete, and in some instances incorrect, but it was the best that we could get. G. H. White 1875-1877 L. C. Fuller. 1877-1878 H. C. Paddock 1878-1879 Miss M. C. Wilcott 1879-1880 R. A. Beebe 1880-1883 Miss M. C. Wilcott 1883-1884 L. S. Rowell 1884-1886 I. W. Evans 1887-1889 H. P. Little 1889-1903 R. E. Selby 1903-1909 B. A. Winans 1909-1911 R. J. Walters 1911-1914 T. R. Johnston... 1914-

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Freshman Class Roll. Lawrence Benjamin Edith Bradley Howard Bradley Vera Burns Edward Bydalek Vern Cantway Stanley Chandler Wilma Clark John Condon Eva DuFrain Evelyn Faucher Wilhelmina Fedde Officers. President Dorothy Smith Vice-President Willabelle Wiltse Secretary.-1 Rose Hyrup Treasurer--Wilhelmina Fedde Historian ... Marian Styles Student Council John Condon Motto—Strive ' to Succeed. Colors—Blue and Gold. Flower—Forget-Me-Not. Members. Harold Graves Lucy Hayden Rose Hyrup Ida Kurtz Belle Lunt Edith Lamport Pearl Munyon Dorothy ' Newsam Lura Nelson Robert Nichols Beulah Peterson Ruth Porter Lawrence Renstrom Henry Seavey Helen Sharkey Norma Smith Grace Styles Marian Styles Walter Shannon Florence Stetson Ida Timm Frank Thomas Willabelle Wiltse Gladys Younglove