Springfield High School - Capitoline Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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lDIllJllDlGl DFCDIL lDllE'l2llEl SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Gordon Kelly, Francis Hessei' Secretary Second Vice-President Porter Butts, President Gladys Black, William Kress, First Vice-President 'I'1'easurer - CLASS, MOTTO ' H'l'o strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. CLASS FLOWEYR Blue Violet 1- 3 fall lu::r'ji'lQ?21lUIf:::lu llilm Page fwvnfy-two

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ll31ll .l1lli:1lQ 1l'fI'flDl:l:,,HlHlE'lt:1llL'.:-..illcJl SENIOR CLASS D0 'S HE CLASS of 1920 graduates! With it go the last fond memor- ies of the good old spirit that reigned in the old building. During our four years' of work, we have used two buildings A and had the counsel of three principals. We have, indeed, left 9 a good record in all school activities which few classes could excel. Every class has to have its beginning-and so with us. In the f , fall of 1916, our class assembled for the first time in the old building :PX and began its Freshman year. Like all Freshmen we were mostly seen and not heard Chardly seenl. In that event of events-the lndoor Track Meet-we took fourth place, thus fulfilling all expectations. The next year, as Sophomores in the nexv building, we forced the sehool to take no- tice of us. Our elass placed one man on the football team and one on the basketball team. We came second in the lnterelass Basket Ball tournament, and with ease won the outdoor and ran a close second in the indoor track meets. Later we were proclaimed class base- ball ehampions. The athletics of our class S'l0YVCCl up well individually. ln the lndivid- ual Track Meet, Sophs placed first and third. Then came the greatest year of alll As Juniors we did not know defeat. Our first vic- tory camc in the war work campaigns. A War Work Pennant was our reward for excell- ing the other classes. Six men represented the Juniors on the football squad and four made the basketball team. Four Juniors on the varsity track team won points for the school. By hard fighting, the Junior basketball team was able to walk away with the class basketball championship. Then came the crowning victory. The event of the year -the Indoor Track Meet-came and we, the Reds, won. In our third year we turned to fields other than athletics. And here again we overwhelmed all comcrs. A call came for debaters. Three Juniors oHered themselves and were accepted. A new event in class contests was originated-the Extemporaneous Speaking Contestvand here we won first and second places. One great achievement, by which the class will be long rc- menibered, was the introduction of a school pin. Then, at last-we became Seniors. This year the class placed six men o11 the foot- ball team, four on the basketball team, and five on the debate team. The Faculty chal- lenged the Seniors to the annual Senior-Faculty basketball game, the Seniors accepted, the teams met in deadly comical combat, and the older and more experienced basketecrs won. Stringent rules were made to govern interclass athletics, which seriously hampered the Senior teams. With only four men winning points, the Green and White took third place in the Indoor Track meet, losing second to the Juniors by one point. Again, this year, the class has sought other fields of activity. Many social events have been given, chief among them the Senior-Junior Dance, musical assemblies, and the Senior Party. The Senior Class issued a challenge and made all arrangements for an Extemp. Speaking Contest. ln that contest the Seniors repeated their victory of the year before, winning first and second places and leaving no doubt as to their oratorieal supremacy. M And so these-in the shell of a nut-have been our Class D0's. 0 1- . As Byron might have said, Great have been the deeds and noble the record of this-the Class of 1920. GORDON KELLY. X ' QM :ill mac: llilm Page twenty-one

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lmlln'.l-1llmlCC' H1TflDH,HlIIlE'Imll::::unmI SENIOR COMMITTEES ANNOUNCEM l+1N'1'S Ethel O'l3rien, C'lmirnnn1 llnlph Vressey Sarah Shepherd John llergstrc-sser Gertrude Bartel SOCIAL Willizun Kress, Clmirnlaii Dollar Kikeudall Russell Fredericks Gordon Kelly Bessie Rnekel CLASS PLAY Harold Engonuir, Cl1ai1'nm11 Dorles Stutzlnau Theodore Thomas Martha Hazell Dorothea Adams PIN Floyd Gray, Chairman Leslie Cllilllfiy Gladys Black Herman Helmle FLOWER AND MOTTO Nannette Ginnaven, Chairman Buhrmau Fisher Adelaide Henkes Arthur Legg Catherine Reesor CAP AND GOVVN Roy llzlnney, f'll2lll'lll2ll1 hlury llraufu Nickvy Robert Ott Wesley Uorson llelen England ill ali: GIIIITIM Page fwvnty-three