Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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FOREWORD ' O the Victor — the Victory, but to him who has done his best comes Satisfaction. This engine of ours that we call body is not always functioning at its best; yet somehow, somewhere, is produced the book or painting that is called a masterpiece, a gem among its fellows. We, the staff of 1925, are not claiming this Annual to be a masterpiece, but we have done our best. Always you will find some who love Longfellow and scorn Emerson; some who delight in Mark Twain and repu- diate Dickens. Here a lover of art gathers a great collection of the masterpieces of Rembrandt; another, the paintings of Van Dyke; and still another, the pastorals of Turner — each deeming that he has the gem of great value. In spite of these likes and dislikes of human beings, we have striven to cut, from the unshapen rock of high school activities, a book that will be a book of School Day Memories. If by chance, in the Winter of Life, just before the com- ing of Eternal Spring, this book should release the latch that lets the closed door of youthful memories swing open before someone ' s eyes, then shall our efforts be fully repaid and our purpose achieved. May it ever recall the joys that w ere ours but Yesterday; ours in memory To-day and To-morrow. This book, may it be a Book of Memories. Editor.

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DEDICATION O MISS ALICE S. RUSH, who through her kindly in- fluence as an instructor and friend, has lifted the standards of Rock Island High School, and, who dur- ing her thirty-two years of faithful service here, has won the respect and affection of all her students and co-workers, this, the Watch Tower of 1925 is respect- fully dedicated. Page Fi-ve