Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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ii JK 451 JK 'VINCE kept wgtch over the Sophomore cmd lunior study hcrlls for more thctn titty yegrs, the two old owls symbolize the knowledge for which RHS stctnds. Perched ottop the vine-covered old buildings, the northernmost of which wcts the origincrl Rockford Centrgl high school, they hotve given the school pgper its ngme. ii 4? JK 451 ti

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latest addition to the school huildinq was constructed in order to furnish a link between the Middle and Administration Buildinas. From the Administration Building, the destinies of the Rockford school system are guided, since it is there that the offices of Super- intendent of Schools, Board of Education, and Supervisors are located. Effitr Xtitilriirif

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Photo by Pectsley Editor Robert Ruhl, Mail-Tribune, Medford, Oregon, Winner of a l934 Pulitzer award for jour- nalism, edited the sports section of the 1898 Owl. ft L Na LQTTHANGE, how some things stick in the mind. Although it is over 60 years ago, I remember as if it were yesterday, the day the editor of the Owl asked me if I would contribute an article entitled, Why l prefer to be a lunior, and the pride l felt in that request. lt was my first contribution to that now Venerable pub- lication .... The idea in general was to this effect: The lunior benefits by his experiences as a Freshman and Sophomore, yet un- like those of the Senior year must be clouded by the sense of the close of high school life. This, the lunior period, is the best period of ally one has bene- fited by the Freshman and Sophomoric periods, hasn't reached the final year, and therefore is in a position to get the maximum joy and profit out of life.