Timber Township High School - Memories Yearbook (Glasford, IL)

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18 MEMORIES-1925 lllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllIlliillllllIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIlllllIIII!!lIIIIIIlllllllllIIlllllIlIUlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIXIIIIIIIIIIIHIIllllllllllllIllllllllllIllllllllllIIll!!IlllllllllllilllllllllllllilllIlllllllIllllllIIIIIIIIIIlllllI-llllllIHIIIIIIIlllllillllIIIIIIll!!!IllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII a Senior. Our play, it is true, drew one member from the the Senior class. but we were not forced to use a Freshman for our play as the Seniors have done. VVe recognize the fact that your class furnished more bas- ket ball players than did ours but of what force would they have been without that invincible back guard who stopped many a hostile basket. Also for the greater part of the bas- ket ball season a certain forward of ability and fame was a Junior. You say that the only member of the Girl's Athletic Asso- ciation to receive a large letter was a Senior. XVhen the Junior girls have as much training in athletics as said Senior. we, too. may boast of a Junior girl with a large letter of credit. Besides your membership in the Girl's Athletic As- sociation is smaller in number than ours. However we con- sider it unworthy to quibble with you over such matters. Since you have pointed out your glories I will take the privilege to mention a few of ours. Journey in your thoughts to the Assembly Hall, cast thine eyes upon the western wall and behold the magnificent banner bearing. in our beautiful blue and gold class colors, the letters, I-u-n-i-0-r--s. In vain may you search for a Senior banner for no such feat did the Seniors accomplish. Ah, excelled by juniors! In the Timlitso you have but a single representative while we have four. ln the Declamatory contest for this year no Senior's name appears. Three Juniors have engaged in this to uphold the honor of the school. XYe are the Seniors of to-morrow, and as such we extend a cordial invitation to each and every Senior to visit us next year and watch a model Senior class Step out from Timber High upon the street of Life. Despite your many faults it is with sorrow we see you leave our school so receive this Benediction from the Jun- iors. O noble Seniors. Farewell. D.-XLE XYHITMAX. CLASS PROPHECY VVAS sitting at the radio late one night listening in on the evening's program. Bored with the old stations l turned the dials in an effort to locate new ones. In vain: all were ones that I had heard before. At, last in desperation l turned the dials far out of the loud speaker. This is Father Time announcing from Station F-U-T-U-R-Il for the year of 1940. The program tonight will be for the benefit of the graduat- ing classes of 1925, many of whom I hope are listening in. Please stand by for a momentfl 'I was astounded. Here was something new and it bade fair to prove useful as well. In a moment the voice contin- ued. 'tFirst on the program we have the Class of 1925 of Timber Township High School. Margaret Barber's quietness and her ability to write a neat handwriting won for her a position as private secretary to a large business man. a rich Eastern stock broker. It is rumored that she is soon to become more than a secretary to hi1n. Erwin Brougham was noted for his oratorical ability in his history classes. lt was said that he gave the Gettysburg ad- dress better than did Lincoln himself. He studied law for a while and then took up the ministry. He is now a famous evangelist whose sermons daily turn thousands from the primrose path to the straight and narrow way. Theodore Clauson has become a comedian. His ability to

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MEMORIES--1925 17 IIIIIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllIIHIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIKllllllllllllllllllllll What kind of a team would there have been if it were not for the Class of '25? You can boast of having one man on the team, which is a great honor. I also want to impress upon your mind the importance of the Seniors in the girls athletic association. VVhat will you do when the present Senior girls leave high school? The of- ficers are members of the Senior Class. One of the Senior girls received a large letter, the only one given out during the year. She will also receive the only gold pin presented for having the required number of points. Juniors, these things which I have mentioned are only a few of the many which we have accomplished, but from them you can determine our high standing in the school. Now if the member of the junior Class will please come forward, I hope you will accept these valuable suggestions. Take them to your classmates and urge them to uphold the high stan- dard we are leaving. Do not let these things discourage you, but use them as an example to guide you. In order that you will not forget this advice, I take the pleasure of presenting to you this gavel, to remind you of the Senior Class of l925. JESSE NUHN '25. JUNIOR RESPONSE ACCEPT this gavel for the junior Class as an emblem of honor, merit and loyalty. Your exceeding kindness in pointing out our mistakes we will accept without taking offense for we fully realize that from the innumerable mis- takes which so conspicuously adorn your High School ca- reer, you speak from bitter experience. O, honorable Seniors, you claim a flawless standing. Yes, there has never been anything you would not undertake. VVe recall vividly several times when certain of the Seniors undertook to go to class without their lessons. The conse- quences you well know. The same results came from other of your undertakings. As to the honor roll standing, that can easily be explained. Recall that the one junior whom you speak so lightly of, had the highest average of the whole school. This tends to prove that the juniors are hrst in everything and upholds our motto, Quality Before Quantity. Vile shall not dwell long- er on this charge for I have no doubt that you are willing to acknowledge the juniors' superiority in scholastic stand- ing. You say our conduct must be changed if we are ever to become lofty Seniors. A junior has been accused of skipping exams. to go duck hunting. Perhaps you were not aware that the season for ducks is not open all the year round. Now I ask you, O Seniors, without sarcasm, if you would have had the said junior wait until the fourth of July to hunt wild ducks? I believe I can also explain why another Junior stayed out of school to gather nuts. The day preceding this Junior's absence I particularly observed him studying in his Zoology text the habits of the squirrel. Here was divulged the industry of squirrels in gathering the winter's food sup- ply. Fearing to be forestalled by these forest workers: af- ter due consideration in the matter he decided upon the course which you have condemned. So you see that hastily and without understanding you have made unjust accusa- tions. Characters for the plays this year have been drawn from the Junior class as well as from the Senior class. In the school play there were two Juniors and two Seniors. In ad- dition to this the entertainer between acts was a junior, not

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MEMORIES--1925 19 llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlUIIIIlIIIIIIIKlllllllllllllillllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllIUIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllllllllllllllllIIIKlllllIIIlllllilllllllllllIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIllIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIllIIIlIIllIIIIIlIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllnllllllll provoke mirth in his High School days, especially in physics laboratory was not allowed to be wasted. Great crowds gather nightly to hear him crack old jokes which were pop- ular when he was a boy. Ozella Clifford worked in the bakery so long that she be- came attracted to the business and is now owner of the fam- ous chain of Home Bakeries scattered over the United States. Glen Clinebell who always looked Hdown in the mouth about examination time has become a dentist. His ofhce is on the tenth floor of the Peoria Life Building at Peoria. Hazel Haller studied to be an English teacher but her de- votion to politics soon absorbed all of her time. She is a contributor to many of the current magazines and her lat- est books, How to Revive the Democratic Party, and VVhy livery Man Should Vote the Democratic Ticketl' are just off the press. jess Nuhn took up coaching and a few years ago returned to his Alma Mater. His team won three state champion- ships in succession and he is spoken of as the Coach Haugh- ton of the basket ball world. Marion Romine's love for History. especially map books. led him to take a degree in that subject and he is now head of the History department of the New Modern Timber Town- ship High School. Gladys Schoon took up applied Domestic Science soon after leaving High School and she and her husband still live at Glasford. Ruby Shryock was a surprise to all of her classmates. It was discovered that she had a wonderful voice and she is now an opera singer. Bernice Tindall went 1Vest and there became enamored with a young ranchman whom she later married. She now has him so well trained that he does the house work while she spends her time in the open. The next thing on our program this evening will be--crash- bang-spt-az-emh. l turned the dials in an effort to cut out the static and in doing so lost the station, nor have I been able to locate it again. However, 1 am greatly indebted to it for the information I received that night. MARION ROMINE. CLASS WILL E, Tl-IE Class of 1925, do hereby wish good luck, God speed, peace and prosperity to the prospective Senior Class of 1926. Therefore we do hereby will to them our hon- ored seats in the Assembly room fnotj because they can ever grace them as did the Class of 1925, but because they are next in line to occupy them. NVe also leave to the Class of 1926 our powerful and in- tellectual facial expression which we have gained during this, our last year of High School experience. This is a great leg- acy and none but those of experience along these lines can ever appreciate the magnitude of our generosity. For you, the Class of 1926, we save you excruciating laborg we also save for you what we fear you will never gain-intellectual facial expression. To the Faculty we will our appreciation for the help they have given us, that we might reach the goal toward which we have been struggling for four long years. To the Board of Education and members of the community who have made our school what it is today. we give our thanks for having the privilege of graduating from such a school. To the underclassmen we will and bequeath: First, to the