Springfield High School - Capitoline Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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THE CAPITOLINE Page 5 News is just what Karl Stockdale filled his department with. The ' editor always has to hustle to keep his department alive NEWS and we are glad to say that this department has been very lively under Stockdale's management. I The art department of the school has been of c invaluable as- - sistance to the paper. They have never failed to ART DEPARTMENT respond to our wishes and we thank them sincerely for all favors. P ' This department is always the backbone of the paper. Although V handicapped by a scarcity of writers TYPEWRITING DEPARTMENT this semester they have worked 'over- time to have our stories andydepart- ments ready for the press. To the instructor, Mss Hale, we tender our heartiest thanks. Special mention should be given the cartoons that have appeared monthly in our paper. They show a great deal of OUR CARTOONIST thought and pains by their author, Raymond Knotts, and we thank him most heartily for these enlivening contributions. The time approaches for the February class of ,OQ to step out of these old halls forever. VVe are grieved to leave the old school with its toils and pleasures. VVVe shall become weaned away from the old spirit that bade us cheer at the athletic games and rejoice as a part of the school. The Capitoline now passes for the next five months into the hands of the june class. They have our sincere hopes for success and may they make the paper bigger and better and a credit to the school. f I VVith this we relinquish the editorial pen and vacate the editorial chair with a feeling of pride that the paper has not been below its high standard under our control and a feeling of regret that we could not make it better. A VVe now bid you a most fond farewell. - Presidenti's Address , In the name of the Senior Class of 1909 I welcome you to our class day exercises. I preside for the last time over the meetings of the Mid-Year Class of 1909. Today the minion's knock of my gavel is heard for the last time. e To my classmates I would say that I thank you for the honor you ,have conferred on me in electing me, as you did. without a single dis- senting vote as the president of your class. e I have endeavored to fulfill the obligation which I owe you to the best of my ability. I trust that you have not been disappointed nor felt that your confidence was misplaced. Even if my policy was at times mistaken and my perceptions some times blunt nevertheless my aim was to serve not myself but my class and my school. Pope has said :- 9 E To err is human, to forgive divine. So I feel that though the