Roodhouse Community High School - Railroader Yearbook (Roodhouse, IL)

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r '- LEGEND XMin!un1wnfuQrudluh1zfuQfpA L......, ..... --.....,- , .. --.M ,. , ffm., - HELEN HUTTON - ' DOROTHY BELL- Dot The mildest 'manner and the gcnf- Noi sfcpping over the boundy of lest lzefzfrtv. modesty . Athletic Association '24, '25 Athletic Association '26, we SENIORS Now comes the month of May, And we regret we cannot tell, For it brings soon the day For us to bid our friends farewell Although we must depart From school and our friends so dear, Into the World we start Without a thought of dread or fear We will there do our best At every task which we've begun, And never think of rest Until our work we-'ve truly done. So willingly we leave And try our best to win a crown Which someday we believe Will brightly shine for our home town. -Helen Huffooz, Dorothy Bell Page Twenty-Iwo

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. . 7 L EG EN DE t LOST CLASS IVIATES HEN OUR old bark set out in nineteen hundred twenty-two for a four years voyage on the sea of knowledge we had a crew of seventy-six. It was the largest that had ever attempted to sail this sea. The R. H. S. Gradua- tion was our goalg and our slogan was Row not Drift . That we might reach our gcal with a complete crew was a wish not to be realized for we had merely started when Edith McAndrews was captured by a strong pirate. Isabel Safely, Melvin McMahan, Floyd Lane, Russell Grifiiths, John Scott, and Joe Witworth deserted us at various islands throughout the first year. In the late spring the old vessel pulled up along the coast of vacation. After a brief period of repose and recreation we set sail again with a crew of fifty. Some of our farmer mates had failed to return for the second voyage and a few were ordered to try the first voyage again. The sailing was more difficult than it had been the preceeding year. The following were deserters: Freda Downs, Hazel Lawson, Russel Davis, Lee Strawmatt, Don- ald Elliott, Eugene Crabtree, Jacob Rawlings, Everett Windmiller, William Gilmore, and Dorothy McAdams. Alberta Cooper, Florence Dawdy, and Leta Ruyle had been transferred to another vessel. V On our third trip we had a crew of thirty-six, several repeating the second journey. Mary Mae Peebles, Grace Sieberman, Ira Waltrip, and Walter Thurman had failed to appear for unknown reasons. Olena Cole received orders to go on board a distant ship, Wretha Coffman was captured and Helen Vineyard and Kenneth Roe deserted us. Now we are starting on our fourth voyage. It is hard to realize that this will be our last. Lela Marsh, Alta Gilmore, and Elsie Crabtree did not return to us. Eliza Strang Andras, Helen Smith and Buell Wallis transferr- ed to other crafts. For five months we sailed along undisturbedg then at an unguarded moment Mary Piper was stolen. Our number has diminished to twenty-five. Those of us who had kept our goal in view soon came to the end of our journey. We were sorry for those who had deserted our ranks for we had truly profited by remaining faithful. -M- M- Pugc Twenty-three