Pekin High School - Pekinian Yearbook (Pekin, IL)

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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

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SITTING before an open fire, laying,plans for the future and building castles of an airy nature, I gradually became aware of a presence at-my side. It beckoned me to follow. I seemed to shrink to nothingness, yet paused a moment before leaving and looked at my late self resting comfortably in a large chair. In a remarkably short time I was seated at a library table on which was a crystal-gazing globe or ball. My companion, an elderly woman, asked if I would like to know what my classmates of 1916 were doing in 1936. I replied that I should be delighted to know. She told me that by concentrating my gaze on the crystal ball on the table before me, pictures of my classmates would emerge. I doubted her word and she explained that crystal-gazing w'as known historically to have survived through classical and medieval times and after the Reformation. In all times and countries, the practice was used for purposes of divination. I thought there would be no harm in trying, so looked into the crystal globe, which immediately took on a milky or misty aspect, then it grew black, reflections disappeared, and then the pictures emerged. I saw colored figures of people in motion, then the ball disappeared from view and I found myself looking at the following panorama: The first scene is in a hospital. An immaculate nurse. Nelda Himmel, is bending tenderly over Ned Fehrman, wbo is groaning in agony. She turns sadly to Frances VVoost and asks, “What happened to your husband to so seriously injure him?” “Oh,” cried Mrs. Fehrman, “a train of thought passed through his brain.’ | Now I see Edwin Breaden strutting through a store. Suddenly, without warning, he reaches over and grabs a handful of candy. But the be-painted, be-ribboned girl only smiles, for is lie not the manager of Wool worths? Beatrice Trainer is fanning herself after her great exertions in Barnum and Bailey’s, where she is noted as the greatest fat lady on earth. In another tent, Willis Cooper and Maude, his wife, are freshening the stripes on the zebras. This gives a wonderful opportunity to display their artistic ability. Now, 1 view the famous New High School, and there in the Latin room sits Helen Sipfle superintending a celebration of the Saturnalia. She has imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii