Trivoli Community High School - Memoir Yearbook (Trivoli, IL)

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Senior Class History In the Year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred Twenty, eighteen noisy, bashful, freckled-faced freshmen thronged to the halls of Trivoli Com- munity high School to seek further knowledge. The entire class consisted of: Chester Anderson Mildred H.iQggs Laura Perkins Edna Baird Verna Holt Ralph Pettow Elma Brooks Charles Hovenden Raymond Pettow Russell Haller Mabel Kimzey Mildred Pillman Velma Harper Junius McCreight Caroline Ramshaw Harley Haynes Letha McKeever Merle Williams Our instructors were C. J. Keel, Principal, and Miss Helen Cornel- ius, Teacher. During the second week of school we organized with Chester And- erson, Pres., Elma Brooks, Vice-Pres., Charles Hovenden, Sec., and Vel- ma Harper, Treas. We chose, Forward Ever, Backward Never, as our class motto: and the Pink Carnation as our class iiower. At the end of the first semester, Ralph and Raymond Pettow and Junius McCreight discontinued school. After New Years, Mary Opie joined us, making an enrollment of sixteen. In the spring Russell Haller and Harley Haynes ceased coming. Thus ended our first year as freshmen in T. C. H. S. CHAPTER II In the second year of our glorious educational career, only eleven freshmen returned to T. C. H. S. as sophomores, Edna Baird, Caroline Ramshaw and Letha McKeever not returning. Our instructors this year were Merrill Stephen, Principal, Miss Helen Cornelius and Russell Peters, teachers. Our class organization this year consisted of: Chester Anderson, Pres., Elma Brooks, Vice-Pres., Velma Harper, Sec.-Treas., and Miss Helen Cornelius, Class Adviser. On Hallowe'en, we entertained at a jolly little initiation party, the freshman class of sixteen members. CHAPTER III All the Sophomores of '21 and '22 returned to T. C. H. S. to cast their lot as the Junior Class of l22 and '23, Our class organized with Chester Anderson, Pres., Elma Brooks, Vice-Pres., Laura Perkins, Sec., Velma Harper, Treas., and Mr. Cletus German, Class Adviser. Our instructors this year were Victor Nutter, Principal, Mrs. Glenn Griggs Render, Miss Helen Cornelius, Cletus German and Arthur M. Wells, teachersg also Raymond Allen, Coach and Physical Director. Page Nineteen

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Page Eighteen To the Class Mates of '24 Four years have rounded life's fair bend, On time's untiring pinions, Since first we met as friend to friend, Gave o'er our heart's dominions. The road before seemed clear and bright, Who ever thought of trouble? We shuffled on from left to right, Thinking life was just a bubble. Three years roll by and on we pass From curiosity to wonderg We journey on like any class Though oft' our efforts blunder. When one had luck ,we all were glad And laughed at Fortune's frowningg When one had sorrow, all were sad, All oppositions drowning. Disputes we had, and bitter hours Which threaten friendship rending, But these were brief like summer showers, In firmer union ending. But now this path that stretched so bright, To many a road's just startingg The cry rings out, To Left! To Right! And this is friendship's parting. We know not to what foreign strand These many paths may reach, But we move out with that glorious band To fields that wait for each. We can't take, in this tide of life, Our class flower and colors everg But our Motto's good for any strife, Forward Ever, Backward Never. Relentless Fate cannot alone These many friendships sever, If each holds place within the heart, We'll still fare on together. E. M. B., Class '24.

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----- --We ---------- - During the basket-ball season we operated a hot-dog, candy, pop- corn and soda-pop stand with the profits of which we gave a royal cel- ebration, namely the Junior-Senior reception. This ended our Junior year with planning by day and dreaming by night of the mighty things we should do when we were Seniors-we the Class of '24. CHAPTER IV Are we Seniors? Yes! Yes! Seniors of the Class of '24. This year our enrollment is very small, only eight, while four years ago, when we first came to T. C. H. S. to cast our lot among those enrolled in this school, we were eighteen in number-what a change in only four short, but ltappy school years! But those years were not all pleasrre and fun. We, too, had our hardships and trials. Was it not worth it? It certainly was. For now we, the Senior Class of '24, are better equipped for the hardships and trials of the future. Someday out in the world, we will look back upon our high school days and think of our friendships, companionships and our comrades throughout those four years of school, under the sheltering wings of dear of T. C. H. S. We will also think of those who made it possible that we might at- tend this school. We will look back with a thanksgiving in our hearts to those teachers who strove to pass on to us their knowledge, and to those teachers who explained patiently that which we could not clear- ly understand. All these things we will think of and probably appreci- ate more highly in later life. Our entire class enrollment this year is: Chester Anderson E'ma Brooks Velma Harper Mildred Higgs Charles Hovenden Mabel Kimzey Mildred Pillman Merle Williams Our class organization consists of: Chester Anderson, Pres., Mabel Kimzey, Vice-Pres., Elma Brooks, Sec., Velma Harper, Treas., and Mr. A. M. Wells, Class Adviser. 'Our instructors this year are A. M. Wells, Principal, Miss Helen Cornelius, Miss Olive Harding and Russell Peters, teachers. We have always tried to live up to our motto: Forward Ever, Backward Never. If we have failed, it has not been through inten- tion. We have done our best. We are grieved to leave this school-the only high school we have ever attended and probably the only one we will ever attend as students. We have made many friends and learned many lessons, however dear the cost, and now we must say Au revoir! A M. M. K., Class of ,24. Fug: Twenty