Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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...Class of 'o5... HAROLD CLARK, Pres, l'-ANNIE Fnisens, V,-Pres. I-.-xvmiix CJAKES, Sec'y. Homrzwse PIIINNEY, Treas. COLORS: Lavender and Lemon in form of Star. N THE month of September, ISQI, a new class entered the Rockford High School. This had been the custom before, and will no doubt continue to be. This year they graduate. This also has occurred regularly before, and there seems to be no apparent possibility that it will cease to do so. At the same time that this class, the Class of Ninety- five, was performing this operation, thousands of no doubt equally brilliant, equally hopeful and equally youthful persons were doing exactly the same thing There is nothing strange nor remarka however, that we and most other graduat- namely, that the Senior is not an alto- kind, nor is he wholly removed and distinct, HISTOR . in the numberless schools of this broad land. able in this. But it suggests something, ing classes are sometimes apt to forget, gether new and unique species of human except in name, from the other classes of students in his school. Artificial divisions must be made. just as classes are divided so are the years divided, and one is Ninety-live and one Ninety-six, but the sun rises and sets each day regardless, and time rolls on unchanged. It sometimes seems unfortunate that we can not appreciate what we have while we have it, and that things gone must needs seem pleasant, not so much for the actual pleasure derived from them while they were present, but simply because they are gone and we can have them no more. And so, when we look back over our school life here, as we all must do, we regret, perhaps, that things could not have seemed the same to us then that they do now, and we rather vainly wish that there might have been that charm that distance lends without the time and space between. For the Senior has reached, as it were, the first little hill upon his way, and looking back he sees, not the rocks over which he has stumbled, or the S

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