Nixon Township High School - Nixonia Yearbook (Weldon, IL)

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educate us. They have worked with us, used their influence to correct our faults, and have always been willing to lend us a helping hand. We also wish to thank the members of the Board of Education for their interest and support in our scholastic activities. Above all. we sincerely thank our parents for making our education possible. They have sacrificed much so that we may outer the school of life as fully prepared as our education here permits. Now, parents, we hope that in years to come your efforts shall not have been in vain and that we shall bring the honor and the respect due you. rnderclasMiien, we fully appreciate the loyal support and co-operation which you have given us. By doing this you have made our great year in X. T. H. S. very pleasant. Personally, I am grateful to my classmates for bestowing upon me the honor as President of our class, 1 thank you for the hearty co-operation which you have given, and I think our loyal class spirit has been remarkabe. Although our close associations with each other and with the school are abruptly severed at this time. I trust that we shall always remain friends and keep alive forever the memories of Nixon High. —I). K. H., ’28 CLASS HISTORY In the fall of nineteen hundred twenty-four, twenty freshmen started to high school. We felt very dignified and thought we knew all there was to know, hut after struggling with Latin and Algebra, we decided differently. At our first class meeting, we elected Denzil Halcom, president: Mary Conover, vice president: Harriet Roseman. treasurer: Lela Rainey, secretary, and Miss Long, class advisor. In October we had a wiener roast at Weldon Springs, after which we went to the movie “America” at Clinton. This was the tiixe twelve of 11 s went in one car. In our freshman year we proved our efficiency as salesmen by winning the Christmas seal contest. At the end of our first year, four of our jolly group left us. During the summer months we had a pleasant vacation and entered high school dcteiminevT to work harder ami make this a brilliant year in our career. We elected the following officers : Donald Lisenby, president: Martha Turner, vice president: Pauline (token, secretary; Denzil Halcom, treasurer, and Miss Balsley. class advisor. When we assembled again in our Junior year, we had a new member. Florence Shaw, hut had lost three of our old members, namely, Mary Conover, who decided to become a nurse: John Ennis, who was transferred to Champaign High School, and Elijah Rhodes, to Decatur High School. This left our membership the lucky number, thirteen. We elected these officers: Lela Rainey, president; Denzil Halcom. vi c presi- dent: Martha Turner, secretary; Donald Lisenby, treasurer, and Miss Langford, class advisor. Our class flower was narcissus; class colors, green and white; motto, “T T p to the Door, Over the Threshhold and Into the World.” We presented on December seventh and eighteenth, a three-act play, “Patty Makes Things Hum.” The semester He has hard work who has nothing to d o. — Loren Richardson. 11

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SALUTATORIAN ADDRESS Friends, Teachers and Parents: Upon this, the completion of our high school course, we realize how impossible it would have been to obtain our diplomas by our efforts alone. Thus, we feed an immense debt of gratitude, first, to our friends and under-classmen for the helping hand, the pleasant smile, and the hearty words of encouragement which they have given us from time to time; second, to the teachers for their untiring efforts to build for us a founda- tion for future success: third, to the community as a whole for any way in which it may have co-operated with us in our efforts: fourth and greatest, to our parents for their immeasurable sacrifices in making our high school training possible. But we realise that we cannot discharge this debt with a mere “thank you. You have helped us “up to the door and over the threshhohl,” but now we must go “into the world.” alone. Undoubtedly you have, in making these sacrifices for us, at the same time builded hopes and expectations for our future. You have looked forward when we were to become useful, self-supporting citizens. In so far as we gratify these hopes and expeeta- tions and make a success of our lives, only can we measure our appreciation for your efforts. Fellow classmen, let us realize this great responsibility and by virtue of our own manhood and womanhood let us attain a position “out in the world” of which our school and community may justly he proud. — L. R. PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS This week of graduating exercises marks the end of one of the greatest epochs in our lives. We, the (Mass of ’28, can sincerely say that, now at the close of our high school career, our hearts are saddened with the thought of leaving this cherished institution. These four years in N. T. H. S. halve passed so quickly that it’s hard to realize now that we shall soon he Alumni. During these formative years we have developed not only our intellect hut our charac- ter as well. These two features aire the basic principles of our future life, and we shall he doubly thankful in later years to our Alma Mater for offering us these splendid opportunities. Time alone is able to reveal what the world has in store for us, hut man has always looked into the future with great hopes and high ideals — thus it is with the Class of ’28. Now we deem it a privilege to thank the faculty for their untiring efforts to help — Tuck me to sleep in my old Kentucky home. — Louise Jamison. 10

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examinations over, we began to think alnnit our Junior-Senior Banquet. Cmler the on pa hie direction of Miss Langford, the affair was a great success. After we had seen the seniors graduate, we started our vacation feeling proud of the fact that we were now seniors. On September 5th, nineteen hundred twenty-seven, twelve seniors made their way up the stairs to the Assembly Hall. At our first class meeting we elected the following officers: Denali Hu loom, president: Louise Jamison, vice president; Martha Turner, sec- retary: Lela Rainey, treasurer; Superintendent Krnest Dickey, class advisor. At the end of the first semester, Bernice Olson decided to leave us. All four years we supplied members for the Glee Clubs, Orchestra and Athletics. This year “Don” was made captain of the ltasket hall team. Cecil, Denzil and Max were fi rst team meml ers, also. We shall leave X. T. H. S. feeling that we are indeed up to the door ; over the threshold ami ready to go out into the world. — Pauline Goken. CLASS WILL We. the Seniors of X. T. H. S.. County of DeWitt, State of Illinois, Iteing of sound mind and memory, do make, publish and declare this to lie our last will and testament : that is to say: We give, devise an 1 bequeath to our parents. Board of Education, and the faculty, our sincere thanks for the many contributions they have given us in mnkiug our educa- tion |K ssible. To the freshmen we leave our courtesy towards the faculty : our industrious and quiet habits in class rooms, and our fairness in acquiring good grades. To the sophomores we leave our reeonl of i»erfect attendance for the last four years. To the juniors we leave our physics manuals and notebooks so that they might liecowe learned physicists. Max Hoken leaves his ability as a bluffer in fifty-seven varieties to Wayne Reeser. Louise Jamison bequeaths her coy and shy manners to Thelma Wilson; her glasses to Irene Marsh. Donald Lisenby wills his fastidiousness in dress to Randall Sims: his tine tenor voice to Andrew Allan. Pauline (token leaves her ability to “vampVm” to Inez Roberts ami Grace Baker. Cecil Peacock l equeaths his immaculately groomed hair to Clarence Perkins ; his ability as liasket IkiII player to Paul King. Harriet Roseman bequeaths her ability to keep a “steady” to Beruice McBride ; her “giggles” to Ethel Turner. James Baker wills his cough to Retina Do aldson ; his seriousness to laiwrence Meredith. Lela Rainey bequeaths her slender and graceful figure to Esther Baker: her “special permit” to sleep the first period after dinner to Ralph Donaklson. l m just as jolly as 1 can he.- Krsa FollowelL 12