Tremont High School - Echo Yearbook (Tremont, IL)

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C f) c £ti)o , 1925 Our i cU) £s djool Puilbing Last February, our many patrons, by a vote of nearly three to one, cast the ballots that will add a thirty thousand dollar addition to our present crowded quarters. When this is completed we shall have reached our long desired goal, the privilege of having our graduates enter all high institutions of learning without taking entrance examinations. This addition, as designed by Architect Arthur L. Pillsbury, will be added to the west of the present structure. The upper floor will provide a study hall for I 10 students and a beautiful library. From this an entrance will lead into the present eighth grade room which is to be converted into a splendid place for sewing and cooking. On the ground floor will be arranged the high school recitation rooms. Four of these will be provided, all amply large to seat the full number of students that may be in any class. In the basement besides the boiler and fuel rooms, a large room for mechanical training, a mechanical drawing room, and a chemistry laboratory will be provided. With these splendid features, the work in our high school will have ample facilities to provide excellent courses in all subjects that the school may desire to o The contract for this additional feature is to be let on Wednesday, May twenti- eth. The present class will hardly be graduated before the work for the new structure is started on its way to completion. The structure is to be fully modern in every respect. The stairways are to be of steel construction to provide fireproof escapes. The lighting of the rooms will be ample to meet all requirements and is to be only from the left of the student at work. The laboratories will be provided with water and electrical advantages—the chemistry room to be provided with the usual fume chamber. The study hall may be converted into an auditorium with the library as a stage. This stage will then have all the lighting facilities required for staging such productions and plays as the students may desire to present to the public. Our community certainly may well be proud of its school building when these new features are added. The school heartily appreciates this action from its patrons and shall be greatly pleased to have its graduates enter into the higher institutions on an equal basis with any from the larger high schools. • i EIGHTEEN

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IE I) c € c I) o , 1025 Hast 3i)ill anb Testament of tfje Unitor Class of 1025 We, the Seniors of Tremont Community High School, City of Tremont, County of Tazewell, State of Illinois, realizing that we are nearing the end of our high school career, being in our sound mind and having the use of judgment do hereby declare this to be our last will and testament. To this end we have hereunto set our hands, in witness thereof, this twenty-fifth day of February, Nineteen hundred twenty-five. FIRST. We as a class bequeath to the Juniors our ability to manage successfully a High School Annual. SECOND We as a class, do will to the Freshmen our example as a loyal and industrious class and our sincere hope for their attainment of the same. THIRD. We, as a class, bequeath our love and our sympathy, to the Faculty in their loss of such an all-star class, which has always been a source of pride to them. The following personal virtues (?) are also willed: 1, Raymond Blue, do hereby will my executive abilities to Clyde McQueen. I, Florence Staker, do bequeath my sweet temper and ever happy smile to Nadena Morgenthaler. I, Lillian Pflederer, give and bequeath my pedagogic success to Josephine Kinsey. . 1, Chester Becker, do hereby leave to Bennie Miller my singing voice and place in the Boys’ Quartette. I, Ben Koch, from the generosity of my heart, do bequeath to Clyde Coddington, my curly, black hair. I, Lewis Brenkman, do hereby bequeath to Pearl Riggs my ability to think of some answer in English class. 1, Ben Sauder, do hereby leave to Glenn Becker my dignified and quiet manners. 1, Wayne Hodgson, give and bequeath to my brother, Raymond, my speed and accuracy on the basket ball team. I, Carl Woerner, leave unto Albert Stuber my ability as an elocutionist. I, Clarice Barton, with best wishes give unto Edna Ropp, my position as baby of the class, with all the attending privileges. 1, Naomi Green, leave and bequeath to Lois Hoffman my permanent wave. 1. Mildred Becker, do hereby will my love for the teachers to Mildred Moser. .... j. L Verna Getz, hereby give and bequeath to Lillis Hinman, my quiet dis- position and studious habits. L Verla Hodgson, do hereby will to Alice Hinman my ability to manage an automobile. I, Irene Weeks, do hereby bequeath my position as yell leader to Eunice Stuber. iii I, Caroline Strunk, do hereby will my (naturally! rosy cheeks to Louise Rapp (Better accept them Louise, it would save a great amount of troubled. 1, Hazel Roberson, do hereby will my arguments for Woman Suffrage to anyone wishing to take up the subject the coming year. I, Merwin Stegner, do hereby bequeath to W ill is Diffenbaugh my popularity with the girls. ( t .. „ I, Frank Hinman, do hereby will my ‘‘bluff and good natured smile to Raymond Thomas. THE SENIORS. Signed, sealed, published and witnessed this 25th day of February, I )25. JOHN WALDEN. Janitor SEVENTEEN

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