Pekin High School - Pekinian Yearbook (Pekin, IL)

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A Dream of the Future ’Twas just as the sun was setting, and I was weary getting Over many a puzzling question which my eyes refused to see— While I dreamed, softly sighing, half reclining and half lying, Suddenly I saw a vision of a pantisocracy. “ ’Tis a splendid one,” I murmured, “built by 1909’s, I see. Surely this does interest me.” Ah, plainly I could see it, it was built beside the sea; And each separate little cottage had been planned by Henerie. Dreamily I gazed and wondered; — then suddenly I saw a hundred Streaming toward the little chapel by the sea, To hear the Reverend Russell preach his sermon pleasingly: Surely this did interest me. Mr. Herr, the jolly lawyer, with his smiles and hearty laughter, . Followed in the winding pathway leading just beside the sea; And behind him, gaily tripping, and so blithely, came the skipping Of the newly wedded couple, Lym. and Dora, full of glee. Then the trained nurse, patient Laura, joined the crowd quite merrily: All this, too, did interest me. Far into the background glancing, long I looked at sights entrancing, For things were entirely different than they always used to be; Wandering by the shore was “Happy” gathering salt for chemistry, And not far off, in a doorway, stood Louise admiringly. All this I saw, and was quite willing for some more to see, Because it did so interest me. Now, into the church door peeping, I discovered Harry sleeping. After plowing all day before, as hard as hard could be. There was Claribel singing sweetly, and Elizabeth playing neatly; And in another chair sat George — oh, a famous singer he! Still a real good friend of Karl, who now owned a grocery. This looked very nice to me.

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Seniors WHITFIELD, MINNIE . German Deutscher Verein (3) (4), Girls’ A. A. (3) (4) Basketball (3) WOOD, ELIZABETH . German Philo (4), Deutscher Verein (3) (4), Girls’ A. A. (3) (4), Basketball (3), H. S. Play (2). Tune: “The Grand Old Flag” ‘Tis the red and the white That to us are all right, And victorious above may it wave. 'Tis the emblem of the school we love And its honor we strive to save. Every heart beats right for the red and the white, And we hope that youll show your might. Shall old acquaintance be forgot, Keep your eye on the red and white. Tune: “Harvard ” Pekin, Pekin High School, It’s all the same, Winning or loosing we’re alway game. No other school can endeavor, Pekin, Pekin High! “At football I certainly am a star. In the run, the slide, the fall, My heart’s in the game, My eye’s on the ball.” —“Duffy” Huffman.

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A Dream of the Future Continued Majorie caused quiet laughter, by strolling in a good bit after All the rest had settled down to listen quite contentedly. Then she was followed by another: Grace, who came in with her mother; And the English teacher, Celia, walked in just behind these three. Last but not least, entered Linda — a music teacher now was she, Likewise this looked good to me. But Miss Sarah, sitting lonely, in her little cottage homely, Thought of but the one thing only, how her next stage dress should be, Olive, too, sat near the doorway, writing quickly a short story. Which, you know in former days, she always, wrote so charmingly. Minnie, Nellie and a milliner, all strolled along beside the sea. I saw all this to interest me. And this village, never dying, still is lying Along the picturesque shore of that little inland sea; And the strangers always sigh, and remark as they pass by That as long as they do live, they shall never hope to see A more beautiful little village, than this pantisocracy. Which will always interest me. —Daisy Jaeckel, '09 “Nature hath formed strange fellows in her day.”—Joe Flynn. “Freshest of the fresh, though not a freshman.”—‘‘Bill” Fuller.