Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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testimonials, signed and sealed, that we are still steadily improving. And now let us glance for a moment at the possibilities of the future. We can not all become great artists, authors, musicians, politicians, or Presidents, but perhaps in after years when boys are women and girls are men, some old-fashioned person among you may be heard to inquire: XVho are these, in highest station, Ruling with such manly power, In the halls of legislation, Solving problems of the hour? In the pulpit, pointing heaven, Equal to the lawyer's task? Who? Our girls of 97. Is the answer, when you ask Who are these among the masses, Always filling menial place? See them in the cooking classes, Stirring mush, with anxious face? Or at home, in cap and apron Quieting the baby's noise, In the absence of the matron? These are l977S boys. But let us turn aside from such a gloomy picture, and wish all of the members of the class of '97 a happy home and a useful life, each in his or her appointed sphere. E.F. ,97. -,,..,-- ,,.,.,.-. . ,,. --,7 . -- .. ,,-.,,::-.:4- .- 5' :-5--Vfgf far: '1-ef 37 :2Q'i?i: Qf:,g1rfff1lL5--- - -refs: ' ,zggjf ---..Q fa or fs:-'fi e 'fl 'r 4?-if , fiesin Q 'e' ia Q - L -,Liza -- f e- ' Q i rff ff ' Q 2 , -i ' 1: I. lillwszasfie r',--Jiasfe' fe:-+114 ff .- i all aiisilzf f - . jg,L77',gf'! ,e i pb' QEZL., iff , :yW ifJH!i1: v' - U! - 7 - Lf!! 1 ' 'nfs' I ' 1 pa LW - X ., f,. 11 ' if llffff-lx OU 'N' SMA. QXQQ Q,

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Geometry has taught us that, In solving these dreadful originals. XVe know not where to begin, For there's nothing original in us, Except original sin. We have found physiology another interesting study, especially if one is fond of neatly carved cats and dogs, or wants any bones to pick. But perhaps the most delightful of all is botany. We have spent many happy hours in the Physics Room and elsewhere, sketching leaves, Howers and twigs, and I can assure you that most of the sketches resembled the flowers in at least one respect-they were fearfully and wonderfully made. But our trips to the woods in search of specimens were still more enjoyable, although our method of classification would probably have scandalized Asa Gray and other eminent botanists. Our worst foe is rhetoric, it is our Nemesisg on it should be engraved, All hope abandon, ye who enter here. for there are Columns to right of us, Periods to left of ns, Colons in front of us, Rhetorical wonders! Ours not to do and dic, Ours but to question, ' Wh-yf' And as the year goes by Get F for our blunders. During the winter months, in order to secure a needed rest and give the gray matter in our brains time to recuperate, we planned a sleigh-ride, which proved a great success. We are strong in our loyalty to the school and the names of many Sophomores are to be found on the roll of the Literary Society. The Boys of ,Q7 are well represented in the Debating Club and Athletic Associations, and although we girls have heretofore been excluded from both, in April the Athletic Association opened its doors to us, giving us for the paltry sum of twenty-five cents, full membership in that organization. Some evil-minded persons have been heard to remark that the financial deficiency of the Association was a strong argument in favor of our admittance, but we indignantly refute this accusation. We have, as a class, gained an enviable reputation by our diligence and attention to duty, and we can bring you 14-

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1,L,V Qjt li 'J im' EDw1N gi 1 . Y Q , ' X ' 'tw 5. , N , Mist N i if ...Class of '98... ARMs'rRoNG, Pres. NELSON Moizizow, Sec'y 8: Treas. COLORS: Purple and White. FRESHMEN U Freshmen we are, not unduly industrious. But destined, we know, to become most illustrious R YEAR as Freshmen is fast drawing to its close, and I shall endeavor to give you as correct an account of our diligent work We salute you, and ask you to lend us an ear and wonderfully rapid progress as is con- NVhilewe tell the events of our inodcsl career. sistent with my own natural modesty, and that of the entire class, for we are all very much averse to anything that seems like self praiseg and indeed we do not need to resort to that, for we have continually heard our praises sung by others ever since that September morning of '94, when we made our grand triumphal entry as freshmen in the R. H. S. As we filed in on that eventful morning, with a not unnatural feeling of some importance, we detected or fancied we did in the faces of the Sophomores a look of assumed indifference blended with a little scorn and a large amount of curiosity that look seemed to deepen into one of genuine astonishment as we continued to file on and on unceasingly Soon the luniors and even the Seniors deigned to turn their attention to us and the faculty also were becoming deeply interested Admiration was not all we read in their countenances but a shade of anxiety was there Eagerly they glanced from the few remaining vacant seats to the still inpourlng hosts then anxiously back again to the fast disappearing seats and in despair crying and still they come Hitherto the Rockford High School building, the just pride of our fair city, has been more than amply sutiicient to accommodate comfortably all former classes, but somehow it looked very small with the Freshman class of '94 in ity and it 16