St Thomas High School - Thomist Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Q JUNIOR Class History There are so many original class his- tories that we are not going to try to be original but shall write one of the old fashioned kind. Most histories start out by telling how frightened a group of Freshmen were when they entered the portals of the be- loved school. Of course, a few of the girls are timid, but not enough to bother telling about. Then they name the class president. Ours was Francis Close. The next year, as tradition has it, we breeze back to the old Alma Mater with the cloak of fear magically thrown aside and replaced by a shield of brass. We always become quite ruffled when forget- ful upper classmen ref.er to us as Freshies. Sophs have presidents, too. Paul Fitzpatrick led us through our sec- ond year. , The typical high school record next shows us a year later as dignified, yea, supercilious Juniors. We look down upon everyone, including Seniors, and openly admit we have the best class in the school. Of course this cannot be true of every Junior class because ours is the only one that excels in everything that it attempts. VVe have tried to blaze the trail in every- thing from football to selling lace hand- kerchiefs, and we generally have succeed- ed. Now then, if we lead St. Thomas classes, it stands to reason that we lead all classes, because opposition furnished at St. Thomas High is greater than any- where else. It took capable leadership to get us so high up in the school world, and we had it in Leonard Condon, our President, Paul O'lVlalley, our Vice President, Mar- ion Lynch, our Secretary, and Clement Gallagher, our Treasurer. To follow out tradition and because we really care, we intend to return next year as sedate Seniors and give our best to the last year of our high school careers. joseph Petritz, '28 I44

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