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

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- ------- --aa ------- Senior Class Prophecy Early in September in the year of 1934, I decided to go back to my old home town after touring in the west. I found that many improvements had been made, the improvement that attracted my attention most and perhaps the greatest, was a new high school building. I learned that there was an enrollment of about two hundred and fifty students. Having been a teacher myself, I was much interested in school workg so I decided to visit the school. Upon doing so, I found one ot my old classmates, Elma Brooks, teaching the English courseg she said she had been teaching there for three years. Of course I was anxious to know just where all of the other members of the class of '24 were, so I asked her if she knew where they were. I learned that Chester Anderson was practicing law and was mak- ing a great success, Merle Williams was a broker for the Peoria Board of Trade and was considered the best in the corporation. Elma said she had talked to Mabel Kimsey a few weeks before, and that she was teaching the primary department in Chillicothe. She said she had not heard of Charles Hovenden nor the rest of the mem- bers of our class. I had talked to Charles while I was in California the preceding monthg he was overseer of an orange grove, had a beau- tiful home and had married a girl who was a wonderful helpmate. After spending a few days in Trivoli, I went to Peoria. Going down Main street, I noticed a sign bearing the name, i'Madam Higgs, Beauty Parlor . I wondered if this might not be my former classmate Mildredg so I went in and found that it was. She had gone to Chicago, specialized in the Beauty Culture, and had a very good business in the city of Peoria. Mabel Kimsey, having heard that I was in Peoria, wrote me a letter, saying that she was enjoying her work very muchg from her letter I learned that Mildred Pillman was working with the telephone exchange in one of the offices in Chicago. I realized that I knew where all my classmates were and that they were all doing well. I, too, decided to go back to work: so I took up a position with the Western Union oflice. V. P. H., '24. Page Twenty-one

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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

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Page Twenty-two Senior Class Poem First in the list, First in class, But last in the moonlight With a Junior Lass. -Chester. Short, good natured With jokes so vast, Fond of work If it doesn't last. -Charlie. Quite graceful, But Watch that eye. She's watching the Star Of the Alumni. -Mildred Higgs. From east to the west, O'er the nation vast, There isn't a gentleman That she lets past. -Velma. Enthusiastic, jolly, Envious of none, Ready and Watching To have some fun. -Mabel. Down in the crowd, Stretching to see If any one's lost, It won't be me. -Merle. Studious and tiny, No time for fun, Could argue from morn To the set of sun. -Mildred Pillman. Good for nothing, Yet used for allg On hand for the mischief, Everything but small. -Elma.