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

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1920 T R A X SC E N D E NT A LI ST 1920 He just smiles and wins them all. Erich always comes up smiling, All day long his face is bright. Never studies, never worries, Things will always turn out right. Miriam wants to go to college; No one knows just where or when. A degree is her ambition. It may be an M. A. N. Mabel, too, we must remember. Adds a sunbeam to our ray. Whether she will be a teacher, It is not for us to say. Charlie helps us with our annuals; He has done it for four years. And he ridicules the teachers With long noses and huge ears. We must not forget our Florence Who goes ’long bluffing every day— Sometimes peevish, most times smiling— Things just seem to go her way. Bermadyne is always smiling, Though as quiet as can be; Never causes teacher trouble, But she’s jolly, you can see. Next comes Ernest, who will some day Be a pharmacist, I know, And when ’midst his tubes and bottles He is anything but slow. They call him “Chuck” and he sure slings it When helping “dad” down at The Star. His ambition is to travel, See tbe world both near and far. Nona is a quiet girl, Very much so when she’s peeved. Still she knows a thing or two, So be sure you’re not decieved. Alma came to us this year, She is business through and through; As a typist she’s a wonder, At dictation “beat” by few. Elda, tall, sedate and stately. Came to us from Ohlman town, No matter what may be her life work She is sure to win renown. Now I have this poem finished; 13

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1920 T R A NSCE N DEN TA LI ST 1920 To Bertha Strater, so that she may have something to match her hair, Miriam Hertzler bequeaths her red middy. To Margaret Pick, Elda Zimmermann bequeaths her slender stature. To Adela Kravanya, Freda Kirkland bequeaths her knowledge of how to appear beautiful after having visited the drug store. To Gilbert Maxeiner, George McClure gives his ability to argue in class meetings. To next year’s Physics Class we give the privilege of doing experiments with the apparatus which we had the pleasure of dusting and transferring from the old South High School. To Carl Brackenhoff we give all our “ponies” which have served 11s so faithfully for four years, feeling sure that he will want them. Fourth—We hereby nominate and appoint Mr. W. P. Thacker executor of this our last will and testament. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hand and seal this twenty-eighth day of May, A. D. 1920. “1920” THE CLASS OF 1920, Elda Zimmermann, Class Attorney. To the Class of nineteen-twenty I will write, but if I blunder Don’t be peeved. Now let me say We are seventeen in number. In the front seat sits our Lloyd, And lovingly he looks at “Billie”; Now really he is very sober Though Miss Duncan says he’s silly. Next I’ll eulogize Miss Kirkland. Blessed is she with many graces. Everybody laughed in cooking When she “pulled” those funny faces. Beaman Randles likes to argue Pretty well in English IV. Every day Miss Ream just asks him “Foolish questions” by the score. When school started last September From Webster Groves came George McClure. He wanted Virgil, Mathematics, But lie’s satisfied. I’m sure. Then there’s Lydia, our physics shark, Who says, when studies clash With Ernie’s date on Sunday night: “Let studies go to smash!” Howard Case they say is lazy. But he can play basket-ball, While revealing ideas hazy 12

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1920 T R A X SC E N DI •: X T A LIST 1920 Isn’t it a sad, sad sight? They told me that we had” to have one. Here it is. But what a fright! For Information Concerning How to hit forty down main street, ride with Florence Herzog. Dancing the shimmy, see or inquire of Beaman Randles. How to catch a steady beau, consult Lydia Reincke. The method of sliding thru High School, watch Ernest Pope. How to disagree in a class meeting, attend a meeting with George McClure. The art of passing a Physics Exam, without studying, see Freda Kirkland. How to catch a Shark (ey), ask Mabel Sperry. How to climb straw stacks, inquire of anyone who attended the Senior wiener roast liOfSitoir'te'f -ifMM.tr -cnis above an —to own sei