Walnut High School - Walnut Tree Yearbook (Walnut, IL)

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•nj ini 3 10 0 335-10 8 8 8 3$ mending' his clothes. It is to be regretted that (iod denied him a better half. Orville Plum, famous dairy farmer, and his gold medals made a conspicuous appearance in the shape of a yellow cow-slip. A fern with its outstretched and orderly branches showed the power of Clark Hasenyager who is president of the Ferndall Products Company. A fox glove of rare size attested the success of George Fisher who sold gloves made of genuine fox hide (so he says). Perhaps strangest of all. is Carlyle Morton’s invention which I saw in the harebell. This device is epoch making; it consists of an especially designed diving bell to be used in pasturing rabbits on sea weeds. Mary Edson was represented by a water lily which grew by the water's edge. It is a part of history that she swam the English Channel in record time, besides performing other marvelous aquatic feats. A mourning bride which grew in front of me brought with it distracting recollections of Mary Fritz’s unhappy marriage. A tall sun flower attracted my attention to the fact that Lucile Montgomery had become a victim of tuberculosis. She was then spending her time in the sunshine of Arizona. While 1 sat gasping in the wonder and mystery of these flowers, 1 felt something from behind touch my arm. I immediately looked around to see what is was. To my surprise I saw the quiet married life of Eleanor Keigwin embodied in the form.-of a forget-me-not. Beside it, half concealed stood a bleeding heart. In it 1 saw the secluded life that Ruth Schuyf has been leading since her disappointment in love. Arthur Kruse’s pleasant smile shone from a little poppy. He was manufacturing a new grade of pop guaranteed to replace all strong drinks that the eighteenth amendment abolished. Ruth I wig appeared before me next in the form of a sweet william. She had. indeed, been Williams, sweet since their marriage in 1930. A four o’clock opened its flowers, and revealed the face of Mildred Stone. She had been putting on vocal concerts over the radio at four A. M., each morning. Last but not least of this varied collection I saw a beautiful daisy. It brought before me the image of Eleanor Ioder who has been living a useful and consecrated life as nurse in one of Chicago’s largest hospitals. I looked in vain for more flowers, but finally discovered that the squirrel had just left branch number ’26 and was climbing toward one marked ’27. Casting my glance again toward the flowers, 1 was so overwhelmed and lost by the realization that I now saw all my classmates assembled before me that I made a sudden motion as if to draw back. The ultimate result was an even more surprised awakening caused by the falling of my gun upon my head. I opened my eyes to look upon the true world again, but 1 have never yet been able to dismiss from my mind this vision of the class of 1926. Vane twenty-four

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TOP ROW—left to right—Edna Sweetnam, Geo. Stickles, Herbert Whitver, Harold Rudiger, Max Brokow, Adrian Bullington, Herman Nelson, Julia Espel. MIDDLE ROW—Doris Minier, Marian Kiser, Audrey Kiser, Grace Keithahan, Gladys Johnson, Frances Keelin, Mary Carter, Beula Plapp. LOWER ROW—Chas. Brewster, Gladys Nodine. Pearl Burkey, Cyrus Gonigain, Earline McElvanis, Jeanette Espel, Catherine Quilter, Allen Fox.