Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Gieglnnu 0-l ' j , I I Ethel Pearl Dullam, together with her soldier lad, will live in the wild and woolly VVest. 5 Fanny Tyler will greatly strengthen the German department of the R. H. S. by returning next year as assistant to her U dear friend Herr Stedinger. an A Mildred Birch will put her last name to good advantage on her pupils in a country school. Bessie Pearl Knapp all her friends adore, Of admirers she has many a score, Ch Butstill she ever will be true To the lad from Kilburn Avenue. Maud and Amy johnson will decrease the number of Johnsons in the city by changing their names with a marriage license. V4 Samuel Edward Andrews will die of a broken heart caused by an early Frosttedj love. til Louise Mathilde Eibach will become a court stenographer. 5 . Margaret Beatson will take charge of a Mission Sunday School. OL Arthur jay Lawton will break all the girls hearts by entering a monastery. L, Robert Gibbony will become the funny man' of the Holden Comedy Co. 1 Frank Woodruff will continue to attend all the College receptions and make himself agreeable li E to the poor girls. Frank Dobson will become Edison's assistant electrician. George Vanhorne will drive a funeral car. l Eouise Morrow will 'obtain the lucrative employment of chaperoning youthful parties to pic- nics, sleigh-rides, etc. Gertrude Crill will give her hand 1, To Mr. Frank A. Hildebrand. - QQ - ' .N 1

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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-

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D 3 O C awp cccc' CLASS PROPHESY 'oo e4 sl h HE wrltlng of a Class Prophesy IS not I an easy task, for the Fates reveal the future but slowly, and wrth long 1nterrupt1ons However, after many hours of weary warting, we have been per- 1n1tted to set forth for our class of Iooo the f ll , y o owrng br1ll1ant future, the truth of whlch we hope no one w1ll be so sceptrcal as to doubt . Burtrs Thayer Ioslln w1ll start up a sugar refrnery at K1ng's statlon, the sugar be1ng especrally htted for sweetenlng tempers. Mary Magdalene Salstrom w1ll follow the vocat1on wh1ch beflts her name and salntly a1r and become a nun Albert Ch l ar es Penfreld w1ll r1se 1n ll1S newspaper work to be bUS1IlCSS edltor of the Regzlvfezf- Gczzeife Grace Hough w1ll W111 great renown as an opera 1C star LOUIS Lrndloff w1ll start an orchestra 111 whrch he w1ll be the proprretor, the leader and sole performer , c ' Q M1nn1e Irons profrtmg by Mlss M orse s 1nstruct1on, w1ll accept the cha1r of Advanced Mathe- matrcs at Cornell Un1vers1ty Whlle at the Par1s EXpOS1t1OH a nobleman w1ll become so entranced by the sweet face and charmrng manner of Lola Barnrngham that she w1ll become Countess Bl k an john V1ncer, renowned for hrs excellent k wor on the R H S foot-ball team, w1ll act as coach for the Harvard team ' C -19-