Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Giemnnu otl 4 I Arthur Simpson and his little gray pony will try cowboy life out West. ,George Tulloclc will join Barnum's circus as the giant boy. john Green and Mabelle Jeanette Miller will open a store with Cupid as head salesman. r The wi' stock will consist of bows and arrows, spoons, etc. ,Mae Stewart will take a course in Kindergarten work in Chicago. if bri Mayme Vincer will win great renown by writing a book entitled, How to Cultivate Slen- dernessf' y Fred Kilburn Carrico, who has always been noted for his devotion to the fair sex, will at last pan tire of flirting and take a Qlijnapp forever. Emma Lundberg willgo to the Phillipines to teach German to the natives. Maj Czarina Josephine Giddings' will bring credit upon herself by ably conducting in a large daily, ' the department devoted to dress and its influence upon beauty. V her Bessie McMahon will become matron of an orphan asylum., S Mattie Nancy Bull will teach school, and prove to her scholars that she is not as fierce as her name would seem to indicate. Florence Edna Marsh will take a position in a girls finishing school to teach the young ladies new and most effective methods of flirting. Margaret Ryan will get LvnchQedj. we ,T Florence Edna Zoller will, in the future as now, make her home the rendezvous for her many deqtf masculine admirers, especially lawyers and clerks in hardware stores. K 1 ' ' ' ' ' h f ther's candy store thus adding to his stock of sweet things. Ethel Hixson will take a position in er a , .. 22 ,.

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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-

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2 ?B4 DC'C'CC' , I Lillie Mathilde Sundberg will act as organist in the Zion Lutheran Church. Birdseye Blakeman Pierpont will continue to devote himself to the Works which engrossed his attention at High School. . - Lulu Edwards will be the first presidential candidate on the Woman's Suffrage ticket. Leroy Green will become a valuable member of the city police force, because of his training as chief of the H. S. force. Mable Wright will never go wrong. Elenor Pierpoint will devote herself to charity work in the slums of Chicago. ' Since music hath charms to sooth the savage, rend a rock and split a cabbage, Efhe Lynn will try her musical powers on the inhabitants of Central Africa. Among the statues of the world's famous orators at Memorial Hall, Harvard, will be found that of Leah Hare. Leila Pauline 'King will go to Paris to perfect her talent for painting, and there will lose the bloom of her innocence by Joslin up against the world. f H Roderic Clark will write a book entitled, The Beauties of Silence, describing his own experiences. Hilda Marie Gustafson will rival Mrs. Browning as a poet. Clarence Hamilton West will become leader of the Salvation Army. Sanford Campfield will take a post graduate course at the R. H. S. in order that he may still hear the Dickey-bird sing. Mable White will take a course as a trained nurse at the hospital, and be a second Clara Barton in whatever Wars may occur in her generation. -21--