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

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Top Row, left to right» Dale Exner, Verner H. Birkey, Richard L. Brewer, Raymond Ross, Ormond Gerbitz, Gorden Norden, Ivan G. Peach, Thomas Downs, Arthur Gallentine. Second Row—Harry O. Whitver, I. Donald Langford, Stanley S. Sorrenscn, Dick C. Ross, Clarence Tornow, Melvin Huseman, Alden Mungor, William E. Ohda, Mr. Fagan. Third Row—Imogene M. Ross, Gineth N. Glafka, Eva Dell Anderson, Alene Rose Strouss, Grace A. Britt, Ovanda Cook, Alice D. Parsons, Alice L. Keithahn, Valda E. Epperson. Lower Row- Jane E. Birkey. Bernice A. Black. Mildred Pearle Parlier, Inez M. Langford, Edith Mae Fordham, Edna Mildred Wallace, Ethel A. Kruse.

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-- Ml The Walnut Tree jSk- - Mi EDITH IRENE ANDERSON, A. B„ English Iowa State Teachers’ College J. R. INGELS, B. S., Science, Athletics Eureka College ESTHER STROUSS, B. M„ Music Illinois State Teachers’ College, Knox Conservatory, Bush Conservatory CURTIS FAGAN, A. B„ A. M„ Social Sciences Knox College, University of Illinois, Columbia University ty- 1 9 3 0 W -= Page thirteen

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zd§k The Walnut Tree E Senior Class History “Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy love-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine out grown shell by life’s unresting sea! —“The Chambered Nautilus” by Holmes ARL in the fall of 1926 thirty-three timid freshmen who were merely chambered nautili groping their way in the vast sea of life entered the Walnut Community High School. These sea animals were very small and inexperienced but soon with their tentacles they began to grasp fragments of Latin, English, Algebra and other things; these served as food and material from which their pearly shells might be built. From the number Dick Ross was chosen to keep the blindly swimming band out of mischief. After a year’s growth when the group of mollusks reassembled to organize again it was found that several had been lost in the waves of the “briny deep” but this did not keep the survivors from progressing steadily onward. Alene Strouss assumed the responsibilities of leadership of these nautili to their ultimate aim, graduation. Great strides of progress were made this year in the pearly shells of the nautili and recognition was gained in Athletics, Music and Academics. J When these mollusks started the third year of building their pearly chambers they were joined by another small band of sea animals who had lost their way. Ivan Peach led the band of nautili this year and a remarkable growth in the chambers of all took place. The tiny tentacles had now grown greater and they were busy all the time grasping food to satisfy the ever hungry sea animals. 1 The last year of the career of the chambered nautili in High School was entered upon in a fine manner under Harry Whitver. The group of mollusks successfully put on a Mardi Gras, won great Athletic, Dramatic, Musical and Scholastic honors, and published an Annual recording their deeds. At the close of the year each of the thirty-one chambered nautili had a great number of closed chambers recording its past, some containing pleasant memories and others sad. The class left the Walnut High School just as it had come—merely chambered nautili groping their way in the vast sea of life. ty— 1 9 3 0 Page fifteen