Springfield High School - Capitoline Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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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

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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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And so, in the fall of 1918-we, the Class of Double Nineteen became 'lhlighty Seniors. Every class has to have its officers-quite a number of our class mates realized this and offered themselves as sacrihces to the cause-so likewise did your historian. We accepted as sacrifices Corydon Bradley for Presidenty Sarah White, First Vice President, Helen Hoffman, Second Vice Presidentg Norman Stitt, for Secretary, and Harold Davis, for Treasurer. VVe were most fortunate in having as Faculty Adviser, R111 White, the never regretted choice of any Senior class who have had him. VVe continued our war work with more vim than ever until the armistice was signed on November ll, 1918. VVe collected nut shells by the thousands as they were needed for manufacture of carbon to be used in gas masks. We went IQOZ in Red Cross lvfembership Drive, collected discarded clothes and brought them to swell the piles for the Belgian Relief. Again we became active in Thrift Stamp Campaigihs, and in United War Work. We filled Comfort Kits for the wounded soliders in Hospitals int France, at Christmas time, and then the War being ended, our thoughts turned to lighter things and we gave our class party. Our class placed four men on the first team in Basketball, and awarded class basketball numerals in Senior Assembly to the Senior Basketball team which took second place honors in class basketball games. With Joe Sternamen as Senior Track lXfIanager, our men were trained for the Indoor Track lVIeet. Due to the hard work of Mr. White, Herbert Walton, Norman Stitt, and Corydon Bradley, our electric sign SENIURS which never failed a class yet, was swung over the balcony at promptly 8 o'clock, none the worse for the damages done by our enemies, the Juniors. Inspired by the loyal rooters in the balcony led by their yell leader, Lyman Coe, our class took second place in the Track lVIeet. Our class is more than well represented in the debating and literary societies of the high school. In all, we are proud of the 'fClass of Double Nineteenfl MARJORIE MATLOCK. Page Twenty-Six.