Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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1 The Rockford Hlgh School Annual H1St0fy of the Class of 1908 X the f1llofl9o4 Rockford Hrgah School w rs honored bx the entrlnc of the best class that hfls song rt rts hllls of lexrnrrrc l he members of the clrss of OS entered the hrgh school wrth hrgh 1nd loftv rmbrtrons l hese preferments h ue now blossomed rnto flowers of brrghtest hues lhus the present Senror clrss begun rts Uuecr rn thrs rnstrtutron About our mcntrl physrc rl cmd socral rhrhtres, httle w rs known But our 1ppllLltlOll to the duh lessons exhrhrted our mental stmdrng 'md w hcn we tendered our hrst receptron to the upper cllssmen wc prox ed th1t we were good entertuners and showed to them th rt we hld IS prettx gnls 'md IS good lookrng boxs NN rth such progress it the end of the first eventful Vefir wc were able to be crlled Sophmores L p to thrs trme we herd been unable to show our phs src 1l prowess But rn the sprrng of IQO6 when the rthletes of thc drfferent clrsses met rn the lnnuxl tr rck and held meet, ind representrtrx es of OS hx our cl'1ssmcn lhe present bemor class h rs experrenccd 'ill the hqrdshrps of hrgh school hfe llurrng the l reshmen wir the trunts md reers of the upper clcrsses wcre rwnored rs Hophmores we won thc respect of' the unrors md thc homftge of the lrreshmcn IS unrors we prox ed to the Senlors thrt we w erc f'ullv lble to hll therr place, md is Semors wc hrve shown thls to the gIC1fCSf degree VVhenever or wherever the honor of Rockford llrgh School has been at strke the cltss of Ohll1S been lble to defend rt Our rthletes hue helped to exalt the honor of the school s reputstron for clean rthletrcs so that Rockford now stsmds hrbh 'rrnong the schools of the stlte rn 'lthletrcs is well as lesrmng 'Now the trmc hfts come har us to lcfuc ot Rockford llrgoh XX 1 howex er feel conhdent th If we hive fulhllcd our dutres nohlx md we wrsh thrt the ncxt benror clrss mu ltun 18 grcit success r 1klVlIlLlIl5 the stzndard of lx l 5 one step fur er N c, -0 ' . Y ' ' ' ' 1 . s 1 1 , ' 1 1 1 11' 1' 1 1 e 1' 1 1 1 1' l 1 'N ' '13 ' . 1 1 A 1' .' .' ' ' ' 1 '1 I , 1 ' 2 ' ' ' 11' , 'A ' ' 1 ' ' ' 1. 1, ' 1 ' 1 11 I' 1 11' ' ' 1 1 , . 1 ' 1 ' ' . . 1 . ' . , ., 1, . ' . . , ', . ' r ' s 1 11 1 1 c c z 1 1 1 1 I revealed to the upper clzlssmen that the athletic prowess of li. H. S. would be fqurthered to 21 great extent ' ' . . ' ' . 1 1 1 1 1 l 1, s - s ' . A ' ' ' ' f . ' . 2 1 gb ' ' 1 1 Us ' 1 . . ' 1 .1 , .1 ' 1 Q ' 1 1 1' I A 1 1' f ' 1 ' . ' ' ' ' 1 1 , . 1. 1 . 1' ' ' 1 ' '1 ll s 4 f. 7 A ' 1 1 '1 1 ' ' - ' '1 -'1 1 .' ' ' 1 ora' 11' '11 1' ir 1 1 1' r 1 '1 ' ' '. l . A -rh '. N. lf.