Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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lx xGli'e5ZIrxnu o. IN M EMORIAM. FLORA ELIZABETH LAWSON. DIED MARCH 15 1899

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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--

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CCC' Edith Miller will become a landscape paintei her specialty bein mountains and Cra 1 gs M argaret Wilson will never need to fear the rain, for she will always have her Macintosh with her Lorena Chur brlng to light many old and valuable manuscripts Earl Peterson will become an Arctic Explorer The whereabouts of William joseph Hayes will be known by the Bell which always accom panies him a ' ' ch will become an archmologist and digging in the ancient soil of Greece will Lena Hayes will accept the position of assistant barber at a certain barber shop on South Main street. Elizabeth Corcoran will continue her career as a debater, suiting her subject to the choice of her audience. Mabel Golden will preside over the Domestic Science Department in the new High School. Alma Brown will enter the ministry. - ' Genieve Clark will found a school for miscellaneous criticism. Gerda Nelson will become a model for artists who desire to paint her bonny golden hair. And now we beg every member of the class not to look. with unfriendly eyes upon us for what we have said, but to remember that not we ourselves, but the Fates through us, have revealed these destinieg, - 4 H. P. AND A. B. M 23 -My