Sullivan High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Sullivan, IL)

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kana.os,asg RUSSELL G. FREEMON Argument is the spice of life. Student Council 4g Football 2, 3, 43 Track 3. ROBERT CARTER True, brave, and downright honest. Agorian 1. ELTA OPAL COLLINS When she tackles a job, she tackles .L vigorously. Debating club 25 Okaw Valley Book- keeping 2. OPAL BURCHAM Studies, not men, have always been my mark. Gays 1, 23 Aeolian 33 Okaw Valley Shorthand 3. MABEL JEFFERS Speech is silver, silence is golden.

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EVERETT DREW lf you don't have a good opinion of yourself, who will? Agorian lg Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4, Band 1, 2, 3, 45 Operetta 23 Agriculture Club 2, 3, 4, Basketball 3. ELDA WALLACE Life without her would be very dull. Vice-President 3, 45 Student Council 33 Home Economics Club 4, Vice-President. ALBERTA MONROE Her air is so modest, her aspects so meek, so simple, so sweet are her charms Thalian lg Home Economics Club 1, 2. CLAUDIA M. YARNELL Not that I like studies less, but I like fun more. Snapshot Editor of Retrospect, Aeolian 1, 2, 3, Glee Club 43 Cantata 45 School Play 43 Operetta 45 County Glee Club 4, Okaw Valley Glee Club 4. LETHA LEDBETTER A person who is known for her warm heart. Agorian 1, 2, Home Economics Club 3, 4 WALLACE RITCHEY Clever men are good but they are not the best. Orchestra 2, 3, 4, Band 1, 2, 3 43 School Play 45 Operetta 4, Okaw Valley Boy's Glee Club 4.

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CLASS HISTORY In late August of the year 1924, a hundred and four young freshies in various states of confusion and betraying slight traces of greenness, reported to the Sullivan Township High School to register for their work during the coming school term. All of them were caught in the deadly snares of English and Algebra and some of the un- wary forfeited what freedom of thought that was left to them by adding Latin as one of the electives. The following Monday, we QI say we because I was one of this mot- ley groupj all came back to school for business. Bebore the bell rang we all stood around in the halls futily trying to appear at ease like the Sophomores and in our fail- ure acting all the more like Freshmen. The bell soon rang calling us to the assembly where we listened to a talk by Mr. Brown, the principal. There being nothing in our heads to stop this speech. it went in one ear and out the other. Ten minute classes were held that morning and every teacher assigned us a lesson. This was a supreme shock- the overwhelming blow, in all our experience we had never been forced to start work so abruptly. The next day our seats and coat hooks were assigned to us, and since all the time-taking preliminaries were over we got down to work in earnest. Another good reason for this was that the teachers were forcing us. That first year was somewhat quiet after the first few days as far as we were concerned. Our only accomplishment of note was that we furnished first string men for the football and basketball teams. The next year seventy-five of us came back with that cockshure and secure feeling that is so characteristic of Sophomores. During the first few weeks of school, we spent so much time in seeing that this year's Freshmen were properly house broke that we almost lost out ourselves. At the end of the first semester, our good friend, Mr. Brown, who had so ably led us this far in our career, resigned his position. Mr. Tice took his place and, although he was handicapped by starting in at this time of the year, the school has continued to improve under his successful administration. This year of our high school life came to a quiet close and we left one bright day in May with visions of coming back next year as Juniors. At the beginning of our Junior year, forty-seven had dropped by the way-side, fifty-seven now being the number on our class roll. This year we were really import- ant. We were an organized class having class officers. Early in the first semester we gave the play, Agatha's Aunt. Our big affair this year was the throwing of a ban- quet for the Seniors. Now we are Seniors. A little less than fifty have come back this year. The grad- uation exercises that will take place in a few months will mark the end of the history of the class and will also bring to an end one of the happiest and most instructive periods of our lives. -Mac Grigsby CLASS WILL We, the members of the class of 1928 of the Sullivan Township High School of the city of Sullivan, County of Moultrie, State of Illinois, being of sound and disposing mind and memory do declare this our last will and testament hereby revoking all other wills made by us. To the Juniors, we give and bequeath all our castles in Spain, to be inhabited by