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

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THOMAS DOWNS LOIS K. GUITHER “Life without sports is not life.” Dramatic Club 3, 4; Agriculture Club 3, 4; Junior Entertainment 3; Football 4; Basketball 4; Track 4; Senior Play 4; Annual Staff 4. MARGARET M. BAUMGARTNER “My heart is true as steel.” Class President 1; Girls’ Athletic Association 1; Home Economic Club 1; Musical Concert 1, 3; Operetta 1, 3, 4; Orchestra 3, 4; Girls’ Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4; Mixed Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4; Annual Staff 4. ELEANOR POPE “One who says little but takes in everything.” Home Economics Club 1, 2; Mixed Chorus 1, 3, 4; Operetta 1, 3, 4; Junior Play 3; Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Girls’ Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4. LOYAL WALLACE “I never trouble trouble until trouble troubles me.” Judging Team 1, 2, 3; Inter-Class Track 2, 3; Basketball 3, 4; Football 4; Agriculture Club 1, 2, 3, 4. “Thou art a person of good respect.” Concert 1, 3; High School Play 2; Class President 2; Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Girls’ Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4; Operetta 1, 2, 3, 4; Mixed Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4; Pianist of Boys’ Chorus 4; Senior Play 4. OWEN A. FORDHAM “Every man is the architect of his own future.” Agriculture Club 1, 2, 3; Junior Play 3; Football 1, 2, 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4 (Captain 4); Senior Play 4; Secretary of F. F. A.. 4; 4-H Club Vice President 4; Annual Staff 4; National Athletic Honor Society. GRACE HUNTER “Hearts were her favorite suite.” Home Economics Club 1, 2; Dramatic Club 1, 2; Girls’ Athletic Association 2; High School Play 2; Junior Play 3; Girls’ Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4; Annual Staff 4. 19 3 1 Page thirteen

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“A studious mind is ever evident ’ Concert 1, 3; Operetta 2, 3; Class Vice President 3; Junior Play 3; Dramatic Club 3, 4; Senior Play 4; Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4. HARRY T. STEWART “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Football 1, 2, 3, 4 (Captain 4); High School Play 2; Junior Play 3; Senior Play 4; Track 3, 4; Vice President 1, 4; Agriculture Club 3, 4; Annual Staff 4. “Nothing is impossible to a willing hand ' Literary Contest 1; Dramatic Club 1. 2; Girls’ Athletic Association 2; Orchestra 1. 2, 3; Blue and White Staff 3; Junior Play 3; Junior Entertainment 3; Senior Play 4; Annual Staff 4. CULLEN McGONIGLE “When love and duty clash, let duty go to smash.” Agriculture Club 1, 2, 3; Operetta 1. 2. 3; Band 3, 4; Football 1, 2, 4; Boys’ Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4; Dramatic Club 4. ALICE M. GRAMER “Various of mood, she keeps one guessing.” Musical Concert 1, 3; Mixed Chorus 2, 3; Operetta 2, 3; Junior Play 3; Girls’ Athletic Association 1, 4; Blue and White Staff 2, 3, 4; Senior Play 4; Oratorical Contest 3, 4; Girls’ Chorus 1, 2, 3,4 ; Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Dramatic Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Declamatory Contest 1, 2, 3, 4 VIRGINIA L. KEIGWIN “You know I just say what I think and nothing more or less.” Home Economics Club 1, 2; High School Play 2; Vice President of class 2; Girls’ C horus 2, 3; Concert 3; Operetta 3; Secretary-Treasurer of Class 3; Dramatic Glub 3, 4; Band 3, 4; Junior Play 3; Orchestra 4; Senior Play 4; Class President 4; Annual Staff 4. Page twelve 1 9 3 1

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PROPHECY OF CLASS OF ’31 Growing rather weary of my duties in the chemical laboratories, I decided to take a drive into the country. Seating myself in my roadster I started out for my destination to rid myself of city life for a few hours. It was midsummer; bees were humming, birds were singing, and the wonders of nature were displayed at every turn. 1 finally came to a crystallike, murmuring stream. Overhanging this stream, with its grass and flower covered banks were stately trees. Oh, what an entrancing spot in which to rest. Leaving my car 1 lay down in the shade of the trees in order to further put myself under the spell of nature. The trilling of the birds, the murmuring of the brook and the fragrance of the flowers gradually forced me into dreamland. Lo and behold! A fairy stood before me. “Name the thing which you desire most in the world and you shall have it,” she said. “Oh!” I exclaimed. “there is one thing 1 desire above all others and that is a reunion with the class of ’31.” Hardly had 1 expressed my desire, when, after two magical waves of her hand, she disappeared. Above the horizon appeared a rapidly moving cloud, approaching me with great rapidity. Slowly it descended to my feet and the portals of the cloud opened, revealing the class of '31. Words cannot express the joyful reunion which we had. Then, wondering what the members of the class had been doing since graduation we had everyone tel! his life story. I he first to tell his was Loyal Wallace. With the adoring eyes of Alice Gramer upon him he began his story. Loyal had taken up law at college and was now one of the leading Democratic senators of Illinois. Alice had been his secretary for some time and they were soon to be married. Tommy Downs was the next to give his narrative and he started out by singing, “I’m a Stern Old Bachelor”, with the same old abandon which he used to display in high school. Tommy is now a famous radio star, broadcasting over all of the principal stations of the National Broadcasting chain. He gained his fame by singing mountain ballads accompanied by his guitar. His radio audience appreciate him just as much as his High School audience used to. Lois Guither is now with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra company, rising to those heights by her art of playing the violin. After being graduated from Walnut High she went to a music school where thev. seeing the art she possessed, advised her to study in Europe, which she 1 id for four years. After returning she was advanced to her present position. Iwilla Otto is still back in Walnut High but she is there now in the role of a Latin teacher. Continuing her interest in Latin from high school she gained such efficiency that she has been employed to teach at her old Alma Mater. ’ , Elton Conley had been in poor health so he went to California for a different climate. Here he has purchased a large fruit farm and is becoming one of the best known and well liked men of his state. 19 3 1 Page fourteen