Oakville High School - Tillicum Yearbook (Oakville, WA)

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THE TILLICUM CLASS PROPHECY It was commencement night for the Senior Class of 1930. The class numbered fifty and was one of which to be proud. As the members took their seats, they glanced nervously around in search of the speakers of the evening. At length the superintendent appeared on the platform and in introducing the speaker, he said, You have undoubtedly heard much of this lady as she attended the Oakville High School and started from here on her notable career. At present she is the president of the National Educationl Association and is known thruout the world for her great work. During her term in Congress her enthusiasim and thoroness has won her many true friends. She has never married, as she preferred to give her life to her chosen work. Ladies and Gentlemen, I now introduce to you, Miss Dorothy Paul! Part of Miss Paul's speech is as follows: In order to explain the high merit of the Qakville School, I will tell you something of the class from which Igraduated in 1919. We were an exceptionally small class, but is a good illustration of the part this high school has taken in the lives of several great people. The class, which numbered four, consisted of three girls and one boy. The boy, I will speak of first, as he is a man whom I am never tired of praising. After leaving high school, he took a course in electrical engineering in the University of Washington. Shortly afterwards he married a popular Seattle girl, tho several years his senior has aided him greatly in his work. 'After various minor successes, he received an appointment from the U. S. Government. Everyone probably knows his history from that time on, I speak of Mr. Herbert Fry, who has just completed the subway from Alaska across the Aleutian Islands, connecting Siberia and North America. One of the girls, Martha Menish, promised to become a suc- cessful housewife, as she married shortly after leaving school. Her romance ended quickly, however, as her husband died of heart fail--

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THE TILLICUM F J UNIORS Junior Class All together, Let'er go 1-9-2-O In 1916, the present junior class was composed of eight mem-' bers. Willis Shull, Shannofi White, Stella Williams, Mona Smith, John Austin, Mary Harris, Dorothy Thomas and Sarah Bain. The next year Nellie Griswold and Irving XVatson joined the class, but this year five dropped out. However with the coming of Leona Bailey from Porter, We number six, Mary Harris, Stella Williams, John Austin, Sara Bain, VVillis Shull and Leona Bailey. We are the most fun loving class in school, but also we Work With a will and have edited a weekly paper, The junior Bug dur- ing the last semester. r