Morgan Park High School - Empehi Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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OUR PLEDGE Tell us not of deeds heroic, Urge us not to Fame's high peakg We search not for wealth and honor, We're not those who glory seek. Tell us of old joys and sorrows, Of our school, dear M. P. High: Tell of '23, and classmates Bound in golden friendship's tie. We go out into the future, Holding thoughts of happy daysg Thoughts of work and play and friendships, To remain with us always. By our mem'ries we'll be strengthened, As we go o'er land and sea: And we trust life will be brightened, By the class of '23. Let us then for aye and ever, Pledge our love to Morgan Park! Pledge to live by her traditions, Pledge for her to make our mark! R. H. -E. K. -M. B. '23 THE HISTCRY OF THE CLASS OF NINETEEN TWENTY-THREE A playlet in one act. Committee: Jessica Price .Alice Courtney Stuart Sinclair Dramatis Personae: Clio, Muse of History, Alice Courtney. Father Time, confidant to Clio, David Gillespie. Scene: A more or less secluded spot in the Garden of the Gods, on Mount Olympus. In the center of the stage is a backless bench of classic designg to the left front is a similar bench. As the curtain rises, Clio is seated on the center bench in an attitude of deep meditation. Father Time enters right and passes back of Clio as if going out left. About to go off stage he glances back at Clio. Noting her attitude he stops, looking at her quizzically. then he comes forward and sits down on the other bench. Father Time: fwith rather elaborate mock-seriousness, Well, Clio. what is on your mind? 27

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MILDRED PUTZ- Milly Member of S. A.: typist E.mpehi sfaffg C-lee Club, Pirates of Penzance, Sylvian: 'Girl Reserves. Milly is a conscientious and capable worlx- er as was shown by her scholastic record ihroughout her course. We wish her the best of luck in her business career. SVEA NORMAN- Sven Mr mber of S. A.: Sve was so busy during lier high school career that she found little 'ime to join in school activities, but we have fcund her agreeable and eager to please. EIZITH LARSON-- Ed Member of S. A. Ed was very accurate and speedy in typewriting and shorthand, which will surely bring her success in the business- world, NOAMI GOGGIN- Doll Member of S. A. Doll is pretty. has fx pleas'ng personality, and is bright and clever. All these were combined in one personality. a credit to the class of February I923. 26

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Clio: ftroubledf lt's the History of the Class of Nineteen Twenty- Three, Morgan Park High School, H043 Hermosa Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, William Schoch, principal. I-I can't do anything with it. I don't seem to be able to go about it properly. Father Time: ffacetiouslyl Why Clio, I though you had a rubber stamp or something of the sort out on these class histories, and used the same thing every year, just changing the names and the dates. Something like this, you know: lt was a terror-stricken group of little green things that timidly entered high school that first bright morning, their knees shaking and their teeth chattering in thefr heads. And as they stood huddled in despon- dent groups .... A ' Clio: fShe listened at firstwwith mild surprise and then broke into sup- pressed laughterj No! No! Father Time. Not this year! Not for this class! This is going to be entirely different, an innovation in the way of class histories. This-why this is an exceptional class, flrather Time grunts skepticallyj a remarkable exceptional class-fshe breaks off with a faraway look in her eyes., Father Time: fSlowly, ponderously, as if delivering an obiter dictum, ln the dark, dim prehistoric past there may have been a class that entered high school with fear and tremblfngn but this class certainly did not. fl-le chuckles reminiscentlyj Why, d' you remember, they were only in school a couple of months when .... Clio: fanticipating hfml Sh-there are some things better left unmen- tioned. Father Time: fdrilyl I suppose so, especially in the record of an ex- ceptional class. But at any rate, I stoutly affirm that this class did not enter high school with fear and trembling. fl-le says this last sentence as if eager to provoke argumentl. Clio: Qplacativelyj Certainly not! This, as we have mentioned before, is an exceptional class. Father Time: fstill argumentative, But Clio, that's not such a new idea in class histories. Every once in a while, in fact, at surprisingly frequent intervals you have recorded the annals of an exceptional class. - Clio: fdoubtfullyj Perhaps, but not like this one. This class admits its own distinctiveness. After due cogitation any member of it will testify, will feel conscientiously called upon to testify to its exceptionality. I myself feel justified in calling it a unique class. Father Time: You tell 'em. I'll bet if you had been on the platform during a class meeting you would have heard the president saying to the secretary, Oh my, what a class! Wlrat a class! Clio: fShe suppressefsta' smile, meditates deeply for a minute and then proceeds in rather an oratorlcal strafnj There wias something about this class, so indefinable, so rarely found elsewhere, that it seems impossible to chronicle it properly. To record that they did thus and sb, that certain people 28