Roanoke Benson High School - Ro Vic Yearbook (Roanoke, IL)

Page 78 text:

'L ECHO 7 Game at Minonk. Got beat. Third Number of Lecture Course. The best ever! Sleepy bunch of students, we wonder why? Played Averyville. Lost by one point. Good Game? You bet. Vile wonder Where the girls got their country complexions. Virginia Heppard and Lucille Wagner pay us a visit. NVe beat ElPaso there. Freshman girls are all dolled up with rouge. February Mr. Milligan gives the Physics class a lecture. The Seniors started the museum. V Played Washington here. Their game, but Oh boy! welve got some team too. Last number of Lecture Course. f'Big success. First day of county tournament at Wlashburn. VVe played Washburn. Who Won??? Washburn-17, Roanoke-19. Six points in less than a minute. No school on Saturday but we can win a tournament just the same. WE played Minonk and beat them two points. Have we a team? VVell I guess. Oh! boy! Some pep meeting. Real celebration. Faculty sings Doodle Doo Doo in honor of victory. Seniors and Faculty give Basket Ball boys a banquet. Joint program given by the Societies. Wle played East Peoria. Junior Class play. Great success. We played Eureka. Test for alcohol in Chemistry. Senior boys have a treat. Washburn game here. March Lois' birthday. Andy 's birthday. District tournament at Eureka. We lost our game but Andy made second all star team. A lesson on courtesy in Civics class. Alumni play. Juanita Fischer plays school teacher. Alumni vs. H. S. Special between halves. The shield arrives. Operetta, The Gypsy Rover. Quiz in Chem. Interclass tournament Won by Seniors. Holiday. Bright sayings in Bookkeeping class. Physics class take a trip to the telephone office Where Mr. Wheelwright explains the telephone system. The boys certainly enjoyed the trip

Page 77 text:

R. V. H. S. 63 eat on the table. First Basket Ball game, Hip! Hooray! We lost, but we 've got some team, believe me! Thanksgiving Day. We 're thankful for our vacation. Basket ball game. Athens' victory but our team is O. K. December Shorthand and Stenography courses started. Another intelligence test. We got our trial balances in bookkeeping. Second number of the lecture course. Game at Averyville. Our boys treated pretty rough. Even if we lost, we haven 't lost our contidence. Assembly singing for opening exercise. Ten more days of school and only twenty four hours long. The last intelligence test in English was given today. They will soon know how much we know. Juniors decide on play. To be or not be. That is the question in English 4. Elsie again asks for snaps. Intelligence test in Am. History. Miss Bullock and State inspector here. Mr. Castelo gave us a lecture. Sr. girls make fudge. Sr. Home Ec. girls treat the Physics boys to ice cream. Physics Class very dull, too much pleasure yesterday. Victorian Program. Teachers warn us of some exams after vacation. Our motto is Don't cross a bridge till you come to it. 'Won our game with Metamora. January In place of a Happy New Year greeting we are given the Semester Exams. Sounds like it might mean some work. Casey became too bright for the bookkeeping class so made his exit. Played Eureka there, we Cthe fans! lost the game but our team did their stuif. The teachers had a sleighing party and went to Eureka. Miss Dorsey is all here, so they didn't mob her last night. We beat Minonk here. g All very studious getting ready for exams. Every one goes to bed with the chix. Tomorrow Exams! Beware! 14 16 E-xcruciating moments for students with X-yloid-like heads a-nd plenty of low m-arks for those who did not s-tudy. 14 Beat Metamora at M. T. H. S. 16 Play Washington there. Got beat. No wonder. We have such loyal students. 19 New Semester. i

Page 79 text:

R. V. H. S. 65 and thank Mr. Wheelwright for his trouble. We let the contract for printing of Echo. This is the day before Saturday. Quiz in English. Some grades, believe me! April April Fool. Girls, Beware. Debate in Civics. Fritz 's birthday. Civics class goes to the town meeting. Teachers went to Peoria to see Ivan Ho. It rained. Isabelle Ruble and Margaret Mitchell visit school. End of second six weeks. Second Semester. Dorothy Husseman visits school. Mary 's birthday. The civics class goes to Eureka to visit Court. The case is postponed. Nice ride. Baseball game at ElPaso. We won. Pretty good start. Track meet at Washburn. Juanita and Leona 's birthday. Base ball game with Minonk here. Track Meet at Gridley. Baseball game at Minonk. Casey 's birthday. Junior Senior Banquet. MW Baseball game with E1Paso, here. County Meet at ElPaso. Senior play Welcome Home Jimmy. Big Success!!!!! Track meet at Bradley. Baccalaureate service. J Graduation exercises.