Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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An Outlook I am a poor man bel1eve me And worked on buttons for seventeen years So I th1nk I take a day off And see how the country appe1rs I sat on the h111 11ke the Pres1dent Oy Cy' my heart lt was full The sky was hke expensxve blue satm The clouds hke finest of wool The green grass spread out l1ke a carpet M1t dandelxons spr1nkled all o er I forgot for awhxle I was poor When the day commenced to go bankrupt And the sun 1n the west dxd retlre Just hke a gold ball T111 the waters shown 11ke an elegant fire The moon came out Sllghtly damaged Oh that was an elegant sxght The stars looked 11ke genuxne d1amonds Upon the black flush of the n1ght It cost me two dollars and fifty And seventy tive cents from my pay But the show was worth the whole money, I tell you that nature s O K C H S 1910 Ton Just like gold dollars and greenbacksg

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Ye Clden Tymes Hb. first Annual publlshed by tlus school that of 18J2 had several pagts duotcd to klumm matters Now after an mterwal ol some ughtccn xcars the ed1tors ot the len Annual wxsh to resume the A1umn1 teature and to make thxs book of mtcxest to all former students 111 Rock ford Hxgh School When 1t was declded to publxsh the 1892 Annual there was only one other lngh school 1n the country xssulng a year book as far as was known lhe first edxtors chosen to ploneer the local held were Nlessrs Latlm and banborn 1he1r work was successful but lack of mterest made xt pos slble for succeedxng classes to publxsh only three Annuals before 1897 Smce that date the R H S Annual has be come an estabhshed mstntutxon and IS grow1ng yearly Many former ed1tors have attamed prommence m college lxfe and busmess lhe edxtor of the O8 year book Ray C nual publ1cat1on at the UIIIVCFSIIY of 1ll1no1s Besndes thls Vlr McLarty has also rece1ved other school honors 'lhe edltor of the O9 Annual 1 merson Hmchchff stood fourth hxghest 1n hrs studxes of all the lrreshman Class at Belolt Lollege for the first semester NN ho can tell what honors awamt the edxtor of the len Annual P In complhng these Alunnn pages the most helpful source of mformatxon has been a nle of old Owls datmg back to 1892 'lhe Owl began on Apr1l1:J 1890 as a seml monthly leaflet wrth the edxtors Elmer Bruner An drus Jones and J Vernon Hall Lxke the Annual the Owl has steadxly grown to a respectable s1ze GLEANINGS Neath Ye Sprawhng Chestnut Vme Bxbles were advert1sed mn the Owl of 92 and an under tagcer s ad was placed under that of a bakery m the 96 wl MISS Morse came here 1I'l the Fall of 81 and began by teach mg Enghsh and Mathematlcs Before com1ng here she was p1nc1pal of the Oregon Hlgh School for seven yeals The MISSCS Morse and Waldo are the only present members of the faculty who were here at the t1me of the publlca txon of the first Annual rn 92 Twelve , Y . ' .i L ,, a v i Q X 1 V 1 4 1. 4 , ' - 1 ll x 1 'v . -, ' 9 9 - , . , , N . K . . l , , . , - , I McLarty, was recently elected editor of the 1llini , the an- 1 . ' . ' . , T . . 3 4 ! ' ' Lt . ,Y . . . , ' ' ' st U ' ' A4 7? ' ' . , , .. 'Z , - ' CC 77 I ' ' ! , s . I - . . . ,, .. y , , - 9 ' Q CK Il I ' 9 . . ,