Rantoul Township High School - Eaglet Yearbook (Rantoul, IL)

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24 PURPLE AND GOLD and Treasurer. We had a few more additions this year: Robert Clark, Jesse Menefee, Vera Menefee, Mylla Taylo, Anna Schroeder, Marion Welles and Howard Odell. Of course the Seniors have predominated in every- thing this year and when we leave we hope that the other three classes will try to fill up the space that We have filled almost entirely. We also hope that this year's Juniors will have an all Senior basketball squad as we did this year. Several big events have gone on and we were well represented. Our time is full for the rest of the year, and we have no time for idleness and play in order to get through with our colors flying. As time is growing short and our departure is very near, we want to extend our sincere thanks to the faculty for their care and kind assist- ance in helping us in the preparation for the road of life. To the Juniors we give this last premonition. May you cherish the name of Seniors as we have done and carry it as far on the ladder of fame as you may ever go, although we know you can never reach the height obtained by the Class of '26. We will soon be ready to bid R. T. H. S. farewell and join the ranks of the Alumni. So-long Everybody. Doris Brown, James Hampel, Don Green, Clark Webber.

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PURPLE AND GOLD Q 23 presenting the play A Night in Dreamland , Newt being our king. This was the last year in grade school and we tried our best to make everything count. Soon we graduated and were set forth on the stormy sea of High School. It was on a certain balmy day in September of 1922 that a very greatly, bewildered group of small girls and boys entered for the first time the portals of old R. H. S., perhaps we were the greenest of the green, but who is here to deny that we are now the wisest of the wise? We accomplished great things in our first year, some of them being :- Keith Drennan, Cyril Duke, Agness During, Faye Evans, Mae Murrell, Raymond Starkey, Wayne Stout, and Lee Smedley. Many of the green Freshmen took part in the Operetta however, and also Various athletic and literary events. We even had a spark of wisdom in those days which we demonstrated by choosing Miss Fuller for class advisor, Doris Brown for Class President, and Mae McCain as Secretary and Treasurer. We had three good old parties while we were Freshmeng yes we all remem- ber them. Thus ended our first year in good old R. H. S. As Sophomores we started to make the upper classmen sit up and take notice. We elected Merrill as President and Myrle Menely as Sec- retary and Treasurer, but Merrill went South, and Myrle quit school so we chose Ida as President, Doris as Secretary and Gertrude as Treasurer to finish out the year. That was the term that we showed our ability by stepping out and winning the literary stunt banner from the other three classes-showing them that we were among the best. We had several parties and one good old sleigh-ride and party combined. Evelyn Carr was the only one to join us, but she left in the Senior year to go to Paxton High School. Miss Fuller still served us faithfully as class. advisor. We entered our Junior year high-spirited as upper classmen. We started the year out right by electing Wayne as President and Charles Condit as Secretary and Treasurer and by letting Olena Cole, Charles Condit, Dwight Leonard, Lee Sheuring and Ruth White help us out by joining in our line. Pauline Swearingen joined us also, but left at the end of the year to move to Champaign. We all went in for everything we could and had ,several contestants in literary, athletic and musical events. The big event of the year was the Junior-Senior Banquet. Noth- ing could be had any nicer or better than this Junior-Senior Banquet: fine weather, good eats, nice decorations Qetc.J and all went over grand and gloriously. It was the one big reception dependent upon us alone and it could not have been done better by anyone. The year was closed by a big picnic at the Sangamon. The Senior year started with a rush for the dignified Seniors. Miss Fuller who had been our class advisor for three years, changed places with Mr. Condit, who is now our advisor. Charles Condit is our President, Merrill Ainsworth is our Vice-President, and Ida Zander is our Secretary

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SENIOR CLASS