University of Illinois High School - U and I Yearbook (Urbana, IL)

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SENIOR CLASS POEM COMMENCEMENT The door opens. Beyond-infinite sky, And a green, rutted meadow road climbing To the horizon where the sunbeams lie With shining promise there-a cloud's white wing Touching the hill with shadow-and the shade Creeping along the valley path. The light, Drawn clearer by the gloom, mounts unafraid And lays a shining mantle on the height. Within the doorway stand an eager throng, Suddenly quiet, suddenly hesitant, Uncertain how to go, loath to prolong The going, but held in sudden wonderment At this first glimpse of the ascending way. Their laughter hushed-each heart a little afraid, Secretly, silently-they all delay A moment on the step, looking from shade To shining height and wondering what fate The winding road will bring to them in time. Then slowly, one by one, they separate, Step out upon the road, begin the climb, And looking backward at the friendly place That gave them strength for mounting this long height, They set out on the path with braver pace And travel slowly up into the light. IOAN PARRISH 21 SENIORS

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1939 U AND I , Words of the Prophets In the year 2500 A. D. archeologists uncovered the ancient city of Urbana. Found in a large stone edifice, believed to he the University High School, was an ancient manuscript. I read from this document: And it came to pass in the days of Sanford the First and Goodson the Last in the City of Urbana on the banlqs of the River Bone near the Lalqe of Crystal a guileless class was graduated from the U nizfersity Experimental Laboratory lqnown as U niuersity High School. And it was foretold by the class prophets, Bee the Burt, Lou the Little, and Bob the Dexter, that the following should come to pass: Iohn the Hunter doth still get to run things. He is a street car conductor. Robert, son of Edgar, and Margaret, daughter of Crandell, do malqe a go of it on Margaret's farm in Pennsylvania. Bob raiseth bulls, and Margaret raiseth cane and rolling pins. Richard of the Castle, understud y of Robert Taylor, now starreth opposite Mary Elaudow in Twenty Glamour Girls and a Man. If it should come to pass that you should chance to see a bedraggled old woman with long white hair standing patiently outside lllrs. Hagan's door, don't be alarmed. it is only Lou the Little. She still tryeth to balance the accounts of the U and I. Carnzelita the Lowry hath recently performed the miracle of the century-an operation on the upside down brain of David Kraehenbuehl. When lllrs. Everett Herman, nee loan Parrish, heard that Mrs. Lindbergh had married an ace,' Jblrs. Simpson, a lqingg and Mrs. Mussolini, a duce,' she hath replied, I married the dummy. Frances, one of the Iones girls, instructor in the Steal-A-March Academy for Girls, doth conduct a course on How to Get Your Man and Hold Him. Nellie Sturts doth nurse Mrs. Hess, who is now in the U -Ketclz-Em-We-Kiir-Enz I-Iospital for the Mentally Unbalanced. Eudora the Schnebly, women's wrestling champ, did recently appear in Urbana. We wonder where she hath acquired her slqilll Forsalqen in love, Priscilla the Colby, who is-a lqindergarten teacher, hath adopted one of her pupils. Bee the Burt is still trying to sell U and I's. She hath aslqed us to tell you to buy your U and l now and sazfej the price is going up. Francis the Savage did lqnoclq out the heiwyweight champion, loc Louis, after only twenty seconds of fighting. Those sorority teas to which Francis hath been inuited must have helped him after all. Isabel the Case, proudly referred to by her former classmates as Izzy, after twenty years of extensive study at the Sorbonne in Paris, worlqeth cheerily at designing tombstones. Lila Oifermyer is still a musician. She playetlz second hddle to Milton Shedd. Helen the Card, eminent poetess of Bent Neclg, Arizona, hath had published a volume entitled Sonnets on a Cactus. Do you get the point? The great actor, Carl Seligman, hath recently boasted, Wl2en I played Hamlet, 22 + 2'l xf 1 . '4 .- 1