Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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As I sit down to write this, the obituary it almost seems, of dear old Ninety-two, strangely enough my heart is not filled with sadness nor is my spirit oppressed with the funereal trappings which surround me 5 my thoughts turn to the remembrances of some mischievous prank of our rollicking Junior days, rather than to any exemplary feat of studiousness upon which one might pronounce an eulogium. But why should we speak in this way? Ninety- two is not dead. Ninety-two is proud of old Rockford and Rockford is proud of Ninety-two, and so long as such conditions exist Ninety-two will never die. But to my history :-Wie entered some sixty strong and it always seemed to me providential that we were no stronger, else that august tribunal and generous giver of Field Days, the school board, would have been com- pelled to build for us a Temple nobler than the last. Shutting' us from liffaven with a dome more vast in which our rapidly expanding brains might grow on unhampered. Most of our experiences as Freshmen were exceedingly pleasant, most of them I said, for sometimes in my dreams memories of a Fishy Zoological smell haunt me, and even now it urges me to pass on to our Sopho- more year. Here an incident, the forcible ejection of one of our band from the 'tgymw by a hated Senior caused a sudden is