Pekin High School - Pekinian Yearbook (Pekin, IL)

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iilllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Mill III II llllllllllllllll Mil Mill III lilllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllnillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllltlllllllllltllllllliu LEST YE FORGET THE CLASS OF T6—Concluded. party held at the Park. I must not omit that for it was there that the Juniors and Seniors became acquainted. I have now come to our last and most precious year in High School. What things we have planned and carried out! How industriously we have all worked to make this year a crowning one! And we didn’t laugh (?) at the “Freshies” either. This year ushered in a new principal, Mr. Morgan; also a new History teacher, Mr. Coons; and a new commercial teacher, = Miss Falk. Early in September we cast aside cares for a hayrack party to Mapleton. We arrived home in the “wee sma’ hours”—nuff said. Then came the Hallowe’en party at Soldwedel’s Bungalow. The spirits and ghosts were surely alive and working that night. The next party we held at the High School. I think this one will be remembered for its “mock wedding.” Then came the good time at Martha Schurman’s home. Hurrah for Martha! The first member of T6 to entertain the class. The good time we had can not be expressed in words. Since this is Leap Year, of course we girls entertained the boys of the class. Where? At the Elks’ Hall on February 11, 1916. To be sure, we called for the boys. No, we didn’t take them home, they took us home. Of course we danced, and we had several very I entertaining games, also. | Well, this is the last party up to the time of writing this. Did someone mention a Junior-Senior party and a Junior Banquet? The Baccalaureate Sermon, graduation exercises will close the history of the largest class that has ever entered P. H. S. and the largest class that has ever departed from it. Hurrah for T6! Farewell, dear teachers. We appreciate your kindness to us through all these years. It is through your never-tiring efforts that we have gained the knowledge that we hope will cause us to bring honor to our school. Adieu, P. H. S. nllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllll iliiiliilliilllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiillllliillllliililillllllllllllilllllllilllliiiiiillillllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllililllllllllllllr?

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 ItllllllttlilllllllltllllllllllllllllltlllllllltlllllllllllMlltMlllltlllllllllllltllllllMlllltltllllKllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllll! Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Lest Te Forget Class of ’16 Berdine Haake. X H, DEAR, my High School days arc almost ended. Whatever shall I do, separated from this dear Class of 1916? How well I can remember that third day of September in 1912. I entered High School with nine-! ty-ninc other green freshies, ’ and how I ever survived through that day is a 1 mystery to me. The Seniors, although they pitied us for our ignorance of High School life, laughed at our mistakes. But we got through many such 1 days and were none the worse for it. I think it was in October that we had | our first class meeting. How proud we felt after we had elected our officers. But we were rather timid and backv ml and just a little bit awed by the “dignity of the Seniors.” We enjoyed only one party our first year, a valentine box social, but such a time as we did have! What pleasant thoughts come to me as I recall that first party to the Class of T6! There were only fifty-seven of the one hundred Freshmen to enter the Sophomore class. But we clung together and made ourselves noticeable | anyway. We began to take more interest in High School affairs since we were no longer green’ and were not the laughing stock of the upper class-men. We enjoyed several parties that year. We lost our Principal. Mr. Shirley, and gained a new one, Mr. G. E. True, History and English teachers were also renewed; Miss Hartford took the place of Miss Toland in English, and Miss Rider and Miss Chapman took the place of Miss Baldwin in History. Then in our Junior year we lost a few more of our beloved teachers— Mr. Crosby resigned and Mr. Smith took his place as Superintendent. Miss Chapman was replaced by Mr. Lawrence, and Miss Hartford by Mr. R. Y. Allison. The latter, we forty-two Juniors chose as our class adviser. He has led us through two years of English study and two years of pleasure, combined with much hard work. But if he has enjoyed himself as much as we have ourselves, I am sure he has been duly compensated for his labor. We bad our first party in the latter part of September. It was a hayrack party. The thoughts of that wonderful Indian dance around the dying embers where we roasted weiners and toasted marshmallows, set my spirit on fire. How we enjoyed ourselves! Then followed the long debate over that little article—class pin. R»t it was a big subject for us, and after much discussion we decided upon i.ie dearest little pin one could imagine. We were always an energetic class, so we gave a bakery sale and a box social to pay for our pins. In March we enjoyed another party at the High School Yes, we almost froze. It’s a pity the Juniors could not have had a fire to keep us warm! And we had a cake stolen, too! The most wonderful event of all, though, was the Junior Class play, The Girl From Porto Rico, ’ given on May 6th and 7th, 1915. That was a grand success and we are proud of the class, the characters, and, most of all, our class teacher, for the efforts used to make it the success it was. I Yes, we made enough money and more, too, to give the Seniors a banquet three weeks later at Hackler’s Hall. How7 we Juniors eagerly awaited that all important event, and how much wc regretted that it was over. We gave the Seniors and ourselves a “royal good time.” I, and surely the rest of ’16, left the Junior Class with a sorrowing pang and pleasant memories which will linger with us always. Ah, I almost forgot the Junior-Senior llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUI llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllll Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihiiiiimimi... minnm.urn..... limn....

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 ................................ mini...................................... mini........... Class Will Louise Wilkinson. TV7E, the Senior Class of nineteen hundred and sixteen, finding that we W have not much more time to spend in the Pekin High School, do, in our sound mind, voluntarily make our last will and testament. Those not abiding exactly by the following shall be cut off entirely from the benefits of this, our will. We bequeath: 1. To the faculty, the pleasure of giving our good grades in deportment td the sub-seniors. 2. To the student body, the pleasure and glory of the “long-v. ished-for” new High School. 3. To the Juniors, the honor and dignity, the disgraces and frivolities we have acquired during our senior year. 4. To the Sophs, our unassuming and quiet manner of conducting ourselves while going to and from classes. 5. To the Freshies, hours of freedom from teasing to be used in the pursuit of knowledge. 6. To the School Board, the privilege of selecting suitable teachers. 7. To the Superintendent, our heartfelt sympathy while settling controversies resulting over credits. 8. To the Public, the honorable, upright citizens we will make, resulting from our lour years of training in the P. H. S. In addition to the foregoing, we also have some individual bequests: 9. John Albers to Louise Pratt, his ability as a musician. 10. John Aydelott to Roscoe Weaver, his perfect deportment. 11. To Arthur Masterson, Ike Bowers wills his great athletic ability. 12. Edwin Breaden to Elmon Waltmire, his wonderful inventing power. Take it, Elmon, and perchance you may win a gold medal. 13. Howard Brooking to Oscar Hill, his ambitious nature. 14. Hertha Burg bestows her graceful walk upon Margaret Bailey 15. Paul Conaghan to Carl Soldwedel, his gentlemanlike qualities. 16. Willis Cooper gives his natural artistic taste in the line of Pekinian drawings to his successor. (We wonder who it will be.) 17. Alice Drohan to Monetta Riley, her ladylike manner. 18. Helen Egger to Doretta Petrie, her beloved curl. 19. To some of the Freshies, Ruth Epkens gives her artistic advice in the line of waist making. (Take this advice, Freshies, we think you need it.) 20. Ned Fehrman to William Nordhoff, his striking appearance. 21. Manilla Fogelmark and Bertha Helfenstein, to Cornelia Soldwedel, their dislike for the opposite sex. (This ought to be sufficient). 22. John Goar, his fame as a debater to Bruce Crosby. 23. Berdine Haake to Amelia Kraeger, her freedom of speech. 24. Miriam Sipfle to Catherine Rollins, her wonderful intellect. Take it, Catherine, and avoid flunking. 25. Jessie Juffman gives to anyone who can best use it, her beautiful golden hair. 26. Mary Mott to John Pfanz, her beloved hair ribbon. 27. Paul Lohmann, his captivating smile to Louise Hornish. I I = = = = illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll