Oneida Community High School - Mohawk Yearbook (Oneida, IL)

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SENIOR ANNUAL—CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED ELEVEN—ONEIDA HIGH SCHOOL MABELLE LETHERMAN j, DESCRIPTION Tall and skinny and very wlhi. chases the boy and maybe smokes cigarette , very noisy and loud a real old-fashioned Tom- boy: write notes to all the boys and ha no more ear for music than a hop-toad. Nationality, Ksklmo. CLASS HISTORY teacher. Ml Conyers, belter known a Mr . Charles Higgins. In this room we labored two years under various difficulties, some of the hardest being Arith- metic and Grammar. Toward the middle of the second year our teacher resigned her position and Mi Boyd filled the va- cancy. I'ruler this teacher’s guiding hand we «pent many happy days. When spring at last arrived we were all sorry to leave the dear old school room, where we had spent so many happy hours. During this year five new members were added to our num- oer. whom we were very glad to have Join our class. The next year we found ourselves under another teacher. Mr. David Struthers. from whom we learned about mother nature, painting, drawing and writing. We also were taught that cleanliness I next to god- liness ami various other thing pertaining to our character. After remaining two years under Mr. Struthers in- struction we were promoted to the fourth room. Hy this time we thought we were growing real old. for our room was situated on the second floor. Our first teacher in thl room was Mr. William White. We worked very hard this term, having taken up Geography and Physiology in addition to our other st udies. DESCRIPTION A bold, bad man. and a reg- ular lady killer; is ambitious to become a sand-heaver in a foundry. A great big. heavy, awkward, clumsy lumrnlx. Na- tionality. probably Scotch-Irish. Photo by Helene Glenn. •»w LESTER WESTLUND

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SENIOR ANNUAL—CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED ELEVEN—ONEIDA HIGH SCHOOL LYNNE ADAMS DESCRIPTION A good little hoy; bashful and particularly afraid of girls. and never writes or receives notes; big and fat and slow as a spav- ined snail; ran scarcely read and write, and converses by signs. Nationality. African, cap- tured In Tlmbuctoo. Photo by lister Westlund. CLASS HISTORY but the greatest one was the last day of school when- each one spoke a piece or sang a song, and after bid- ing our teacher adieu we carried all our books home to enjoy three long months of play. The three months of vacation soon passed and when September came again we found that four members of our class had moved away, but our Jolly Helene started to school this term and as she had already been taught her A H ( s she entered our ( lass. One day shortly after our new member Joined the class she lost her handkerchief and cried as if her heart would break, until Miss Gavin went out on the play ground and brought the lost article to the own- er. The owner looked very much pleased and smil- ing through her tears says. Thank you. We had now entered the second grade and as tin- work was somewhat harder than it had been the previous year, we were all becoming well acquainted and spent many happy hours together. We had pic- nics out in the yard under the maple trees. Hide and go seek, black-man. pom-pom. pull-away were our favorlate games and we had fun besides work. The next September we began to think we were growing pretty old. for we were promoted from the first room into the second. Here we found a new DESCRIPTION A quiet, well-behaved little girl with h shy retiring disposi- tion: would be quite good look- ing if not so awfully skinny; hates lw ys and will have noth- ing to do with them: has no ac- complishments; couldn’t play a grind organ and sings like filing a saw. Nationality. Swedish. Photo by Helene Olenn. J w HELENE GLENN

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SENIOR ANNUAL—CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED ELEVEN—ONEIDA HIGH SCHOOL LULA THORNE DESCRIPTION Pious and demure; rather quiet and dull; likes boys that go t«• Sunday school and repeats the Sunday school lesson with them; captain Kiris' basket ball team, but could not throw a goal »f the room was full of baskets. Nationality. Bohunk. Photo by Helene Glenn. CLASS HISTORY This year two new members were added to our clans. Grace and M a belle. .Music lessons were one of our hard studies this term. We were compelled to take examination In this subject about once a week. As music was very difficult for some of the pupils to understand it was a frequent occurrence to see Helene gilng some of the strugglers aid. We worked hard on our music les- sons and finally succeeded. We envied the pupils In the eighth grade struggling over their lessons and wished that we might enter the High School in the coming September, but little did we know what Joy and mirth was awaiting us in the eighth grade. When school opened in the coming Kail we found ourselves under the Instructions of Mr. Holiday. Arithmetic had now grown to be one of our diffi- cult subjects, it seemd to be imposlble for some of us to understand papering, carpeting, annual interest, compound proposition. prom'jssary notes, plastering, stock and bonds and even to multiply and divide cor- rectly at all occasions. one night after school a Jolly group of Grain mar Room girls were going up town when we met several High School girls. We were told some sad news that Mr. Holliday soon would leave us for he had resigned DESCRIPTION A poor little skinny, starved and cruelly mistreated infant who loves to embroider and crochet things—likes to play with the little girls In the gram- mar room; has serious inten- tions of becoming a minister. Nationality, he is the last of an obscure tribe formerly occupy- ing the Andaman Islands. Photo by te. A. Sundell. J ROYAL SUNDELL