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

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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

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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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Class Prophecy Ennis Pease While looking over some old books the other day when I should have been studying, I came across one entitled “Mysticism Made Easy,” by Pamponelli. While perusing this antiquated volume my mind began to wander. I fell to thinking of my classmates in the Warrensburg Community High School, from whom I should soon be separated, and wondered what destiny had in store for them; what mark each would make to prove himself a true son of Warrensburg High School. Falling deeper in my reverie, I felt a veil enveloping my mind like a silver mist. The years stole by like moments, until they stopped in 1953, leaving me in Washington, visiting Congress. Hearing a familiar voice invoking divine guidance for the session, I looked up and saw a tall, slim man, his bowed head covered with black hair, slightly tinged with gray. Could it be possible that Lawrence Albert was now chaplain of the House of Representatives? While musing over this, I felt my surroundings gradually, but unmistakably change, leaving me in the drawing room of a fashionable residence of the same city. “What is going on, and in whose house am I?” I asked the person nearest me. “Why, don’t you know?” he replied with astonishment. “Senator Dickerson’s reception is the talk of all Washington.” I then recognized the eminent senator, who was the center of attraction, but could only attribute my ignorance of his holding the high office to his unnatural aversion to photographers, which had probably kept his likeness out of the papers. Arising to greet the illustrious solon, I found myself walking down Wall Street. I suddenly descried a sign which read: “S. B. COTTON CO., BANKERS.” “Why,” I exclaimed aloud, “I thought this was Morgan’s location.” “What,” said a familiar voice at my elbow, “haven’t you heard about my buying out Morgan? Come in. I think you will recognize another member of my firm.” Following him, I was soon shaking hands with Erma Rau, his junior partner in the business. “What has become of your old friend, Georgia Emrick?” I asked Erma. “Oh, she has been quite successful teaching school back at Warrensburg. This is her third consecutive year, it being said that no other teacher ever stayed there that long before,” was the reply. My next stop was on a farm which, I could see at a glance, was an unusually well-kept one. Seeing a hand nearby, I approached him and asked whose farm it was. “Harold Wickline’s,” he replied. “He is in Springfield today telling the legislature about the needs of agriculture. He is going to stay in to see “Love’s Labor Lost,” in which Beulah Haywood is starring.”