Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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x66-eomnhu otl To tell of all the honors showered uponiour junior year is impossible. Members of our class won irst and second place in the Oratorical Contest held in Rockford. For the first time in the h1s- tory of the school the silver cup was won in the State Oratorical Contest, and that by a member of our class. Another member won first place in the Chicago Declamation Contest, thus gaining a scholarship in the University of Chicago. We were the first junior class entrusted with the manage- ment of the QWL, and the first within memory to make it a financial success. Disdaining to be any- thing but original, we gave the Seniors a boat ride as a farewell instead of the usual formal At Home, held in the school. This proved to be a delightful change. During our third year we were saddened by the death of our classmate Miss Flora Lawson. Great sorrow was felt by every one, for Flora was loved and respected by all. ' As Seniors our deeds are too well known to require mention. The boys of 'oo at the head of the foot-ball team gathered funds for a coach, which was a novelty in Rockford, and developed a team which tied the score with the champions of Illinois. We revived the Literary society and brought it into a flourishing condition, and the lower classmen appreciating our good example also started a society. Again in our Senior year we proved our worth and extended our worldly fame by winning all honors in the Oratorical Contest for the year Iooo. A But do not receive the impression that our worth is only skin deep and compare us to an empty bubble, for although we have held such an honorable and conspicuous part in the outside world of Oratorical, Literary, Athletic and Social Life, never has our scholarship failed to be the pride of the faculty and the admiration of all lower classmen. F p . C., 'oo.

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VVHEAT CLASS OF NAUGHTY NAUGHT

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981 'ZDCC'C'C'f HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF NAUGHTY NAUGHT. 44 NEVER has the High School prospered to such an extent as during the four years reign of the Cl ' A A ass of oo. Scholars, Poets, Orators and Athletes all appear among our members. The time is drawing near when our l A V p ace must become vacant to the great sorrow of the faculty, ourselves and our loyal underclassmen. On a notable September morning in 1896, the boys were escorted by numerous admirers who knew our worth th h i ' ' ' ' , roug two Hles of laths and received 1nto the waiting arms of the old High S h l g c oo. No sooner had we entered than our quality and talents were recognized. Naturally jolly, we danced and san for the a - ' g musement of any upper classmen who requested it That we are generous to a fault 1S -proved by our allowing the Seniors to eat dinner under the light while we ate in a dark corner We also san man th 'll' J g y ri mg songs for our own amusement, A Farmer Boy was Hoeing Corn, and I Johnnie Sands, were particularly favorite airs. Of course our X + y and Gallia est omnis devisia were excellently learned. The reception tendered us in Unity Hall will long be remembered. We ll t a urned out, but being guests, and not wishing to intrude, the girls, most ladylike, gathered around the teachers, while the boys enjoyed the merriment from the opposite corner of the hall. The Class of , . . . . . . oo originated the 1dea of giving a return reception, thus establishing an custom which all lower classes have followed. As test. We also outrivaled all previous records of sociability, giving the first R. H. S. party in Men- delssohn Hall. Sophomores we caused the mighty Seniors to tremble before us in the Class Athletic con- -17-