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

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? gAj v ! V ! r -? '- UV -! UV tV A! IV ! y5$ygy0y$y© y5jyp2$H?i5y? “Ooooohhhhhhhhhh” Don’t be frightened. That was merely a sigh of relief from the teachers. You see, they just happened to think that the Juniors won’t be Juniors very much longer. A Junior has the privilege—or at least he takes it—of doing things which an underclassman doesn’t have the nerve to do. At the same time, very little is below his dignity. Hence the happy feeling when the Waterbury says, “Exit Juniors”. The Freshman class of ’23-24, being the first to start in the new building, was fairly large. What we lost in numbers we made up in ability to create mischief, although the end of the first year found us still hale and hearty. For three short months we ran riot, and then returned to W. H. S., as the unconquerable Sophs. Under the sponsorship of Miss Mason we developed rapidly, and sent forth a large number of warriors—athletic, musical, talkative, and otherwise—who brought back well-earned laurels. Once more w tc P ir JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY

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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.

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-®sy?5!M0y?iiynis But Cathryn and Frances had stopped to play. Jeanette and Julia were also on hand And Adrian and Herman—so wise and so grand. And Cy (please don’t laugh) with so monstrous a stride, That the “Seven League Boots’’ surely lost all their pride. Beulah got out of an Oakland car. Earlene, in an Essex, was coming afar. Doris was hurrying along behind. Yet not the least disturbed in mind. And they were all going to Walnut High —For their Alma Mater to do or to die. Contributed by A1 Fonso.