Nokomis High School - Old Nokomis Yearbook (Nokomis, IL)

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1919 TRANSCENDENTALIST 1919 In the hustle and the bustle of a business man’s life, Carl Krumm works to earn a fortune that will help support a wife. From the back seat in the South row, Hazel sees with gleaming eyes How the teachers trap the students, how she to those tricks “got wise.” Alma Mayer in her silence, when the teachers questions ask Is more graceful in reciting than an artist at his task. Emery Meier! do be careful! quit that playing during school! Lest some watchful teacher catch you and expel you from her rule. She is smiling in the morning, she seems merry until late; It is Bea of tvhom I’m speaking, who leaves many to their fate. From the West on every morning, from her home a mile away Helen Randall cometh daily on her lessons here to prey. Helen Satterlee our student of vocabulary great Could if she should take a notion in the Latin language prate. Tall and stately our Miss Tammen in our halls does move about Of her kindness and sincerity there is but little doubt. Next in row we have our “Shorty”, Miss Leona Umpleby Short in stature, tall in knowledge. How can such a contrast be! Last of all our boys to mention Joe is placed into the light; Though the girls lack his attention, all agree that he is bright. Lois in her art of bluffing teachers with her shocking knowledge Makes instructors settle down and review their work from college. Mercy works as hard as any taking home her books at night; We don’t know how much she studies, but her knowledge has some height. Short and stately as a “Douglas” through the coiridors she walks; Consuela holds the teachers with her interesting talks. Through four years of education, through four years of honest strife. Twenty-three of us have started, started on the grind of life. —W. BEST. They were discussing Scotch songs written by Burns—“Auld Lang Syne”, Sweet Afton and several others had been mentioned. “Swanee River” volunteered Charles Turzak. Miss Ellington (explaining the structure of the stem) “Now this is a grape vine.” Charles—“It looks more like a weed to me.” Miss E. “O I’m sure its a grape vine for I found it under a grape arbor.” PAGE NINETEEN

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JUNIOR CLASS ROLL. First Row—Freda Kirklin, Herbert Hines, Florence Herzog, Charles Turzak, Lydia Reineke. Second Row—-Ernest Pope, Mabel Sperry, Howard Case, Elda Zimmerman, Lloyd Davis, Edward Schaefer. Third Row—Loyd Hulbert, Miriam Hertzler, Erich Kravanya, Nona Grabbe, Beaman Randles, Bermadyne Vest. Elda (reading in Hamlet) “ ‘I’ll cut him in the church’. What part of his anatomy is that?” Discussing fisheries in Com. Geog. Herbert—“Is it true, Miss Ream, that if a fisherman cusses he can’t catch anything?” Carstens—“He musn’t cuss loud enough for the fish to hear him.” Miss Ream—“What is the Royal Society?” Mabel S.—“Why that’s a brand of clirochet thread.” Frances Evans wants to know what Pa. stands for. Herbert (in Com. Geog.) “Do they really make leather out of tanbark?” PAGE TWENTY-ONE