Sparta High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Sparta, IL)

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CLASS PRESIDENTS. FRESHMEN. Sorllumcuu. JUNIOR. SENIOR

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SESYNCIOGRS. OFFICERS. PRESIDENT ................... . Moody l-lausmann. VICE PRESIDENT ........... .. Bertha Stephenson. SECRETARY .... ,.......... ........... A n na Reid. TREASURER. ..,.. .............. F rank McKelvey. COLORS--White and Gold. MOTTO--Pete rinem. Seek the finish. YELL. Zip! Zip! Ziperty! Zap! Senior year is not a snap! But nevertheless we will get through! And be the class of 1902. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day for another Senior class, and ere we depart we will write our history. Four years ago we entered theFreshman class and our trials as High School students began, but what others thought difficult was soon conquered by us and we came off victorious. In the Sopho- more year two of our studies were Zoology and Botany. YVe were required to get a collection of bugs and one of flowers, but in our Botany expe- ditions our professor never once had to reprimand us for making Hgoo-goo eyes, as he did the pres- ent Junior class, the fact of which they boast. The third year we organized with seventeen members, calling ourselves the S. S. S. J., but would not tell the name for which these letters stood. The other classes know a good exam- ple when they see it, and now they all have or- ganized, with letters for their name, but neither will they tell the meaning of these letters. Our Senior class numbers fifteen, five boys and ten girls, five from the Grammar room, nine from the country, and one from another city who join- ed us in our Sophomore year. We cannot boast of great numbers or size but the best is not al- ways the most plentiful or the largest, as may be seen by the few following facts: In the High School foot ball team three of the best players are Seniors, two of our class represented the High