Waukegan High School - Annual W Yearbook (Waukegan, IL)

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And now, most clearly of all can I read my own fate. With a diploma for a pillow, I will soon be laid to rest in a long grave at Oakwood The mental strains of this prophecy, and the ire of my classmates over its contents will soon place me where we hope to 'find caps and gowns exchanged for more shin- ing robes. I, ,Jw -' K LL f Y I , X 5 f Stl 4 , . . 'Q ' ' -:es f 41: r x yfqy, f. , f I' X? -xxx lillll. 3' if X, . all ,iv lx --A I' -iyy ,,,-if' VA 'I ' x .x 'R 1? WA -., 1, - ,f. '- age Y ', 'fl J ' 5113 . 4- E ff 'fs'-Ui :fi rg' 8

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tinel' so sublimely can appreciate how well Htted he is for this distinction. Grace Yeomen will share the laurels of the the- atrical world as a favorite chorus girl in light opera. We can all easily imagine her Hitting about the stage in pink tarletan ballot skirts and spangled slippers. Nellie Williams will become a Quakeress. Her horror of laughter and merriment will grow as the years slip by, and she will finally don a grey gown, and devote herself altogether to prayer and repentance. In one of the world's renowned universities, Lilian Her- man will be known throughout the state as one of Chicago's most fashionable undertakers. She will be ably aided in her trade by Mamie Connolly who will establish a large automobile factory, and yearly provide thousands of innocent citizens with an easy means of destruction. Florence Wood and Josephine Porter will elaborate in the writing and revising of school text books. Through their ef- forts, education will be made as easy for all mankind as it for' merly was for them. Their publications will be sold through- out the country by the capable and persuasive agent Emily Miller, who Hrst displayed her ability in this direction when selling tickets for High School concerts. Roy Lake will become familiar to all magazine readers as a pastoral poet of no small note, who frequently favors the long suffering public with verse which is blank in more ways than one. Early specimens of his genius will be preserved with pride by the Ovid and Literature class of Waukeg:in's High School. Far fiom the maddening crowd Milton Dunn will live as a solitary hermit spending his lonely days in the perusal of his favorite holding, Parliamentary Law. Hazel Sells will become the successful proprietor of the llfashburn and Moen Wire lVorks, a position for which she showed herself well qualihed during the days of senior orations. The horror or all peace loving citizens will be Helen Wat- rous who will place in jeopardy all lawful institutions as the leader of a powerful band of anarchists. These tendencies of hers were long ago displayed in the days when she defied all the rules and regulations of Waukc-gan's educational system. 7

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STATISTIGS .0F THE GLASS 0F l904. EVA ESTY I sing of brains, and those lirst heroes, Who to the High School came, Much were they tossed about, By the pride of the Seniors and the unrelenting wrath of the faculty. N a hot day in September, 1900, thirty-six awkward youths and fifty-five bashful maidens entered the High School for the first time. Tonight six young gentlemen and eighteen young ladies, about one fourth of the original class, are here to greet you. It would seem, sometimes, that when we are gone, we shall hardly be missed, for another very promising class is ready to to take our place, yet we know that we shall be missed, for what class has ever displayed such intellectual powers as ours? Surely there has never been a greater class. As to originality, none can excel us, the teachers of English Literature and Arithmetic can vouch for this. We are noted for our quiet and orderly class meetings, brillaint essays, orations and debates, made more forcible by being dramatized. No class has ever been so well supplied with musicians, elocutionists, orators, actors, actresses and poets. One of our number has made his Mark ever since he entered the first grade and is now coming to the front as a noted journalist. We alone, can boast both of a second Milton and a second Burke, though the latter might feel out of place were they in the presence of our class orator and class poet. We certainly have no need of reference books, for we have a walking ency- clopedia and dictionary with us all the time. We also have 9