Princeton High School - Tiger Yearbook (Princeton, IL)

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Uur class president, Howard Stevenson, has led us with a fast, yet a sure pace. From the very first an Annual was talked of. and early in the year we decided to publish one. From then on there has been no need of wrinkled brow on the part of the faculty, about giving' us plenty to do, for with Burke, debates, and chemistry, besides Annual meetings, we are certainly Working. ln spite of that we have stood ready to enter into whatever contests or tasks the faculty has suggested. Nineteen-eleven is the First class that has taken up the debating contest in the llig Eight League. At the debate here with Kewanee, the latter won, but Princeton won in the debate held at liewanee. The faculty has been quick to recognize our reliability and has. therefore. left the library partially in our hands, during school hours. Nineteen-eleven has had its share in large undertakings and events, but it also has been true in the smaller things which count either for or against a class. V QQ? Page Twenty Five on at e

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Our Freshman class was even larger than our Preparatory one, owing to the large number of tuition pupils. Imagine our feeling of import- ance at our first class meeting, when we chose Charles Borop as president. Toward the end of the year we engaged in numerous debates with the Preps and though we grant that they acquitted themselves creditably in being able to make the score tie with their powerful opponents, nevertheless no request for a renewal of the contest has ever come from their lips. The Sophomore year was an uneventful one, full of drudgery and grind which even the dauntless spirit of 1911 could not entirely surmount. That year we were serious rivals with the Seniors for the Silver Cup at the Inter Class Track Meet. Our first great event was the Sophomore Sight Reading Contest in which Amanda Kaar a11d Raymond Thulean won first places and Eula Linnard and Holmes Ferris second. VVe began our junior year emphasizing good times. A masquerade Hallowe'en party at Ruth S21lll101'1'S,SfE11'l1Ctl the fun. The Junior girls raised enough money by a candy sale to equip the magazine table with reading material which had been provided in other years, from a fund given by the whole school. Our junior Declamatory Contest was a great success, the best ever given at the P. H. S. On the morning of Junior Day, just as the roll was bein taken. two doves with long black and gold streamers were released from the pockets of two Junior boys, amid the thundering applause of the school. In the evening contest, Ina Bradley and Holmes Ferris won first honors, Amanda Kaar and Rodger Greene, second. The eventful day of the Inter-Class Track llfleet came again. This year the Seniors and Juniors were equally confident of winning. lllhen the Seniors gave their yells at noon, the Juniors, not to be outdone. answered them with a shower of lemons. But it seems destined by the Fates that every Senior Class shall win the cup, and so, of course, they did that year. In the Spring the Juniors gave the Seniors a masquerade party and the Seniors returned it with a banquet and dance at the K. of P. Hall. The trip to Lake Senachwine was the last event of the year. Our Senior year has come at last in fulfillment of all the hopes and aspirations of our high school course. NVe resolved to make the class of 1911 stand out clearly as a spirited, upright, fun-loving, yet a responsible class. Page Twenty Four

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age Twenty HOXVARD STEVENSON President. HA little nonsense now and then Is rehshecl by the best of men. RODGER GREENE Vice President. A busy, bustling, beardlcss boy. HATTIE PETERSON Secretary and Treasurer. An honest girl and truef, GRACE STEVENSON Tall, brown-eyed and slender, True, stead-fast and tender. 4