Springfield High School - Capitoline Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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juniors who, at the close of their third yea1', have completed that far all the requirements men- tioned above, will be recommended for election to the honor society at the close of their Senior year and will be elected to membership provided they maintain during that Senior year the necessary record. However, it is possible for Seniors, because of the very high grade of work during their Senior year, to comply with all requirements and to be elected to the honor society, even though they are not mended during the junior year. TCCOITI- To the student who has complied with all the requirements and has been elected, the following recognitions will be given: 1. There will be placed upon his diploma a bronze seal indicating his election to the Scholarship Society with a ribbon indicating the particular department in which he has made high honors, 2. He will be given a certificate from the department in which he has received high honor signed by the instructors with whom he has taken work in that department, 3. He will be given a bronze medal as a permanent recognition of the high esteem which the school places upon his scholarship. ln the Senior Class in the year 1918-19, the following students have completed all requil and have been elected to the scholarship society and will receive special recognition for high work in the following departments: English Kincaid, Faith.. . . . .English Armstrong, lllarian. . . . History ' i h English Nlathenmtlcs Loclcie, Ruth .... Latin Ayers, Vvilht-ma.. . . ..... English Blown., Roland. t I English Dickerson, Helen.. . . . .Commercial blunt 1 X U U History lrerns, Lllzabeth. . . . .English 101108, Lilllfil- - - ' English Finney, ltverett. . . . . .Science Reed, Agnes. A ' h I .English Fowler! Mufwef-' -' -'h'1gl1S'1 Reid, Wan. .... ...Engiiai Haglerf Llmilssm' ' ' ' 'French Smith, Jeannette. . . ....... .Latin Gmsberg' Helene' ' ' Rhlslc Smith, Jesse .... . . .lflathematics Art Ulrich, Gertrude. . . English . 'XValton, Herbert Hill, Rlildred. . . . . .EI1gliSl1 .. , . . .Science Hill, Ruth. ..... .... K lusic Hoffman, Helen .... . . .English ll 41 W i M 25? i 2 Page Twenty-fo ur 'Cll1CIltS honor

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Senior Class History. In 1915 there came to the old red brick high school on the hill, our Freshman Class, 400 and more strong. As a class we have been housed in two buildings, and, unlike most classes, have been favored with the council and advice of two principals, some of us who entered with the February Class, have had three. Our name was f'FreshieH and on the top of the hill we fed our minds. They told us we were welcome, and how they loved to see us comeg but why did they delight in sending us to the fourth Hoor, into the Domestic Science rooms, when we asked where the Nlanual Training department was? Perhaps they were only train- ing us for our Sophomore year, so we would know how to tease the next Freshman class. The year passed somehow, as all Freshman years do, with its joys and its sorrows -and it was with great relief that the fall of l9l6 made of us, Sophomores-and thus endeth our Freshman year. As Sophomores, 300 strong, we entered for Track and the paper contest, de- feated each time by our deadly rivals, the Juniors, but at our renouned Sophomore party we played games and danced on the bumpy Auditorium Hoor-and in these pastimes we excelled. Our boys participated in class basketball, and brought honors to the class-and thus endeth our Sophomore year. The Springfield High School began to sit up and take notice of us as juniors. In October, we left our first Alma lblater and entered the wide and impressive doors of our new high school. Our one regret, there were here no Freshmen to serve for our jokes and teasing, we were separated from the Freshmen by the Junior High System. Our class placed four stars on the first Basketball Team and proud we were of them, but prouder yet were we of the blue stars that shone in our School Service Flag for this was the year of world war with the Huns-and our class gave up five of our boys to fight for their country-Guy Davis, Lee lklaxcy, Robert Hatfield, and Archie Schruyver. And in other ways, as a class, we did our bitgwhich means our best. In Liberty Loans we went Over the Top first, in the Book Drive, collecting magazines and books for the soldiers in cantonments and over seas-we again went 'fOver the Top. Again we excelled in the Thrift Stamp Campaign, and once more went Over the Top with the amount we sold. Thr Soldier Giwx-yozz musf Zuni. was our slogan-and thus endeth our Junior year. Page Twenty ve