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

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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.

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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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