Neoga High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Neoga, IL)

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the Links in Our Lives Are All Around Us

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pages 4-34 Activities, pages 86-93 Ads and Supplement, pages 94-ff The Tomahawk is a link to the past and to the future. It hasn’t always been that. In fact, it hasn’t always been the Tomahawk, at least not until after it had become the Neo-Goian (defined by 1914’s editors as “One who does” and “One who goes”) and had swept into the Flapper-skirt Era as The Breeze. But it was a short-lived Breeze (three years) and for fourteen years, Neoga High had no yearbook. Then, with The Depression behind, 1940 saw a third revival, one that gave the annual its name by contest entries. We’ve kept that name ever since — the Tomahawk. From Neo-Goian to The Breeze to Tomahawk. From the manufactured word to the easy style of the Twenties to the wars of today. Even the annual’s names are links to the times. 3

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They are what keep people going, these links. They could be a big hearty bowl of chili between two tough classes; they might be a memory of better days when a student has only those memories to go on. They are small details accomplished when the big ones get away. Like living cells, they become a part of man. Depending on what we want to know, asking a friend is one way to find it. A few moments of solitude is another way. 5