Tuscola High School - Tuscolian Yearbook (Tuscola, IL)

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22 THE TUSCOLIAN .. ».... mill.........mm.mm.....mi «..... Rooms to Let. The annual Junior-Senior banquet wa sheld May the sixth and was quite a success. In a short time we were having the semester exams; then came the close of school. Only twenty-eight of our original number of fifty-nine remained in the Senior class in September 1921. We elected John Bruhn president and Harold Lincoln vice-president. At the next class meeting we decided to publish the annual again this year. We elected the staff officers, who, at once, began to plan for a better annual than that of last year. In September we held the first party of the year in the gym. During the second week of December, the Seniors went to Champaign to have their pictures taken for the annual. On the fifteenth of December, we were invited to a birthday party at the home of Reeta Ross, where we all had a good time. John Bruhn, Earl Smiley, and Harold Lincoln played football and John and Everett Stallsworth played basketball. I he four long years of high school have passed swiftly and soon we will be saying good-bye to Tuscola High School forever. F. W. ’22. IlillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllMIIIIUIIM

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THE TUSCOLI AN 21 lllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIUIIIIIIIlIHlIltlllllllinillllllili- HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1922 One very rainy day in September 1918, fifty-nine pupils entered Tuscola high school ways. We elected Orville Roderick, president, but he left our entering this temple of learning for the first time; hut they soon learned the high school ways. We elected Orville Roderick, President, hut he left our class at the end of the first semester, and Godwin Conrad was elected to fill his place. Several of our number left before school had been in session long. We were represented in football this year by Earl Smiley and Godwin Conrad. We had our first party the ninth of February 1919. This was a Valentine party and was held in the old high school building. When spring arrived, we had a picnic in Armstrong’s woods. Every one had a good time; even those who had the misfortune of falling into the creek. When school opened in 1919, we had gained the rank of Sophomores and were quite wise in the knowledge of high school affairs. Virginia Jones was chosen class president and John Bruhn was elected vice-president. We had more representatives in athletics this year: Donald Carrothers, Earl Smiley, and Godwin Conrad played football, and Smiley. Carrothers, and Harold Lincoln were on the track team. In December we joined with the Freshmen and gave a farewell party for Godwin Conrad. In February, we gave another farewell party for Dale Dill-man. who was moving to Mahomet. Emil Hanson, Cora and Lester Van Winkle also left the class this year. In May, we Sophomores went to the Romine woods where we had a marshmallow roast. While we were there. Miss Boyd had the misfortune to fall into a small.brook. On the last day of school we had a picnic at Patterson’s Springs. In September 1920, about forty of us entered high school as Juniors. We chose Doris Romine president and John Rruhn vice-president. Donald Carrothers and Earl Smiley played football and Carrothers. Everett Stallsworth and William Read played basketball. In October after a pep meeting we gave a party to the entire school and the Faculty. On November twenty-second, we gave a Thanksgiving party in the gym. In December we held a market in the Watnsley Store and raised a nice sum of money. One the twenty-second of April, we presented the Junior Hi-Jinx. which consisted in a farce on the play Romeo and Juliet, and a one act play

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THE TUSCOLIAN 23 ll|llllllllllllllllllllllllllllill llll lll inillllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllHlllilllllllllllllllltllllll!llllilillllll!lllllltllilillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllllllll:i)llll!!l!llllllllllllllllliHl'MiP lillllllllllll'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIlinWIIIIIItllilliCv THE SENIOR PROPHECY Tuscola, 111., March 15, 1936. Dear William, Well, Bill, how is Paris? I suppose you are very busy, at present, with vour scientific experiments. I hear you are teaching the French all about radium. How is Blanche? Since your marriage, I don’t suppose that she has a very good opportunity to tell those Frenchmen the correct pronouncia-tion of their own language. The object of my letter is to let you know how the States are. and to tell you about myself. I have been enjoying myself at a game of checkers. It keeps my mind away from politics. 1 have been more successful in winning medals at my favorite pastime than in winning offices, for an honest man has little chance in obtaining an office as a statesman. In my recent tour of the United States 1 saw or heard from every member of our old class of 1922. Everett is living on a farm near Atwood. He has married Carmoleta Romine. This lovely couple is respected throughout Douglas County, and fortune has favored the Stallsworths on every hand. It is whispered about that at the next election Stally is to be made a member of the Board of Supervisors. I am sure of his success, for he is the most aggressive young farmer in that section of the corn belt. Carmoleta informed me that Doris was an architect in Chicago, and I did not lose the opportunity of calling on her. She is very prominent, and one of the best known women in her line of business. I met Frances Wolever in Urbana where she is an English teacher in the U. of 1. I must confess, William, that I was quite taken away with her beauty but to marry her would he quite out of the question; she has a splendid, active career before her. lohn Bruhn has escaped the ties of matrimony so far, but he has built a beautiful home in East St. Louis where he made a fortune from a new improvement on cue tips. I found out that Ruth Monger was in that vicinity; but you know all about that affair. It’s too bad she has decided to die an old maid. There is some hope for John, however, which he keeps burning in a correspondence with the beautiful Helen lleacock. At present, Helen is finishing her greatest movie play, “Why Turn Out the Light?” She found time a few weeks ago to write to John from Los Angeles, and the poor man’s heart has been in a flutter ever since. Anna Smith is sharing the honors which Earl Smiley has received from his reckless driving and record-breaking stunts on the Indiana race tracks.