Warrensburg Latham High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Warrensburg, IL)

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Class History Flossie C. Hayivood In September of 1918, there entered into various school of the community, pupils who later became the first graduates of the War-rensburg Community High School. Few, if any, thot of becoming graduates of a high school in Warrensburg. But owing to various conditions, these pupils registered as juniors of the Warrensburg Community High School in September of 1920. The various schools which these pupils represented are as follows: Warrensburg grades, Major, Lake View, North Rolling, and Mazon Township High. Maude Williams, Erma Rau, Ennis Pease, and Russell Dickerson entered the Warrensburg grade school in September, 1918, as freshmen. During this period they were taught by Mary E. Dunn of Effingham. These pupils participated, with all the others, in the spelling contest and final exams held during the term. After an elapse of a four months’ vacation, they returned to the same school as sophomores. Their class consisted of five members, with Joseph Hursh as sole instructor. After they had passed the final exams for the year, a very solemn affair was held in honor of them. The chief features of the evening were addresses by Rev. Dando and Maude Williams. Georgia Emrick and Lawrence Albert composed the freshman class of the Lake View school in September, 1918, being taught by Miss Weiler. Christmas programs and afternoon socials were the chief diversions in which these young people participated. In September, 1919, they entered their sophomore year in the same school, with Miss Edith Logan, as teacher. However, during the last month of the term they attended the Warrensburg grade school. In September of 1918, Harold Wickline, with two other classmates, entered the Major school as freshman. As the year advanced, the other students dropped out, leaving Harold as sole member of the class. He continued thus until he had finished his sophomore year. Miss Lucile Shelley was his teacher during his sophomore term, and this term proved to be a greater success than the preceding one. Pie and box socials were given by the school. Sidney Cotton has a more complicated history of his freshman and sophomore years than the rest of us. He also enjoyed the benefit of attending a regular high school rather than a country school. He, with one hundred and fifty classmates, entered as freshmen of the Princetown High School in September of 1918. During his sophomore term, which he took in the Mazon Township High School, his class was composed of fourteen members. “Do You Know?” was one of the plays in which Sidney took a leading part. He was also a member of the first baseball and second basketball teams. He also acted as captain of the volleyball team. Beulah Haywood, Flossie Haywood, and Forrest Wentworth, with three other classmates, composed the freshman class of the North Rolling school in September, 1918. Miss Verona Montgomery was teacher. Hot lunches were served by various committees, consisting 15

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Now place your gaze on Ennis Pease, He is an ambitious youth; He aspires to be a senator, And may be yet, forsooth; For his talents are many and varied, Depend upon one who speaks the truth. And now please meet Harold Wickline, He has a cheerful face. With his versatile accomplishments, He’ll surely win a high place. His nature, one can see, Is neither false nor base. There is yet one more in the class, I speak of Forrest Wentworth; And such boys as he, Are the salt of this green old earth. You never see him sulking, He is a lad of mirth. When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your own mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. . . The past cannot be cnanged. The future is yet in your power. The inner side of every cloud Is bright and shining; Therefore turn your clouds about, And always wear them inside out, To show the lining. —Foivler. Resolve to see the world on the sunny side, and you have almost won the battle of life at the outset. That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened. —Emerson. We do not know how cheap the seeds of happiness are, or we should scatter them oftener. —Franklin. ’Tis more to be good than be great, To be happy is better than wise; You’ll find if you smile at the world The world will smile back in your eyes. —Lowell. 14

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of the school students. In September, 1919, this same class entered the same school as sophomores, Miss Montgomery continuing as teacher. During the two years, 1918-1920, these pupils enjoyed the benefits of a new modern building. Box socials, oyster suppers, and closing festivals were given by the school. At such times entertainments consisting of plays, drills, and declamations were given by the pupils. Beulah Haywood, Flossie Haywood and Forrest Wentworth took the prominent parts in these entertainments. “Cinderella” was perhaps the best play given. On June 5, 1920, the pupils from all the schools in Macon county, who had passed successfully the final exams of the four preceding years, gathered in the auditorium of the Decatur High School. It was Graduation Day. After the exercises, graduation diplomas were presented to eighty-one pupils. The junior class of the Warrensburg Community High School in September, 1920, consisted of twelve members, namely: Maude Williams, Alta Janvrin, Erma Rau, Beulah Haywood, Georgia Emrick, Flossie Haywood, Ennis Pease, Forrest Wentworth, Russell Dicker-son, Sidney Cotton, Lawrence Albert and Harold Wickline. Mr. C. G. Bickel was principal of the school. The Delphic Literary Society, an organization formed by the students of the school, gave programs every Wednesday afternoon. At the close of the year an entertainment was given by the sophomore and junior classes. It consisted of two plays, “The Builders of Democracy,” presented by the sophomores, and “A Perplexing Situation,” by the juniors. The entertainment was a success, and was followed by a banquet. In September, 1921, the same group, with the exception of Alta Janvrin, composed the senior class, with Mr. Guy Ireland as principal of the school. The officers of this class are as follows: Ennis Pease, president; Sidney Cotton, vice-president, and Georgia Emrick, secretary and treasurer. A reception wajs given by the freshmen and sophomores on February 15th, in honor of the seniors. The seniors gave a class play entitled “Deacon Dubbs.” We feel that our school training has been a success, and that we owe a debt of gratitude to our teachers for the knowledge we have attained, and the pleasures we have had during our school days. A man can never be happy unless his first objects are outside of himself. Trollope. The habit of viewing things cheerfully, and of thinking about life hopefully, may be made to grow up in us like any other habit. —Smilea. A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. —Longfelloiv. ic