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

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SENIUR GLASS PRUPHEGY. ALTHEA WARREN. N these practical, twentieth century days, when prompt- ness and accuracy are the chief qualities necessary to success, it is no longer safe for a class prophetess to de- pend on dreams or visions as the only authorities for her statxa- ments, and I have therefore steered clear of oracles, haunted nooks, and Sibyl's caves and merely drawn my conclusions as to the facts of the seniors from a careful observation of their individual tastes and talents. If, in the coming years, any of you enter a. side-show in one of our large cirouses, I think you will recognize Adella Bastian in the courageous snake charmer, smiling upon the crowds of spectators as she strokes the head of her pet eo bra. This fondness for reptiles, is not entirely a new development, but, you will remember, found its beginning in Literature class during our senior year at the High Sehool. Speaking of Adella naturally brings me next to Will Dal- ziel. His youthful talent for impromptu oralory will, of course, lead him to a political career, while his inborn horror of all parlumentary rules and regulations will just as surely carry him to Congress. He will become a portly, much-respected senator, wearingastove pipe hat, and satin waistcoat whom we will all speak of proudly as a close friend and former class- mate. Through his untiring and powerful influence, Mary Polme- teer will gain her greatest distinction. Her marked executine ability, and genius for Management will lift her to the envi- able position of lVaukega.n's first female mayor. Then shall ws see some municipal reforms! No longer will our public of- tiees be held by untutored incompetentfs, but the street sweep- ers will scan Ovid with ease, and every newsboy will be able to debate with you concerning Hamletas insanity. 5

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r by one student is shown by his rendering of Lowell's beau- tiful lines:- , And hard how clear bold Chandelier Warmed with the new wine of the year, Tells all in his lusty crowning! To which reading Miss Primrose replied, That's not the way my Samuel of Boston pronounces it. The crowning event of our senior year was the play, The Co-eds. The general success speaks well for pupils and teachers. It is an achievement which every one may recall with pride and pleasure. This class has enjoyed many advantages and we appreci- ated this most when the school heartily welcomed thereturn of Miss Besley, who, we hope may long remain that others may have the benefit of her influence as a teacher and as- sociate. Nor was the social side lacking in our senior year. Three times we enjoyed the hospitality of our genial principal, Mr. Stebbins. loften wonder if it was not the good angel who whis- pered into the ears of twenty-four ambitious young people just four years ago as they entered the High School, Let not him who putteth his hand to the plough look backwards. These plough shares have brought us to the thresholds of wider fields of learning and usefulness. Through struggles and disappointments, almost rivalling those of our pilgrim fa- thers, surely the good angel must have guided our feet pre- venting us from looking backwards. We are proud to know that the past few years have been spent in a worthy manner and we he ve all learned to say Our High School, as we never could have said it four years ago when we stood as eager freshmen entering into a wild and un- explored country. We wish to thank the Waukegan patrons of learning, the school-board, and last but not least the teachers for their un. tiring effort and support. As we leave we trust that our High School life 'has given us a field for wider achievement, more glorious successes, and better lives because, we, who have put our hands to the plough have not looked backwards. 4

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Leslie George will make his name as chief civil engineer for a railroad, yet unthought of, which he will lay from Wau- kegan to Gurnee. His ability in this direction has often been noted by many in the American History class, while we all know that nothing could be more congenial to his personal tastes than making easy the road to Gurnee. At first his pro- ject will be slightly interfered with by the plans of an enter- prising and long fought rival who will attempt to run an elec- tric line to the same point. This design will finally be aban- doned for want of public encouragement, and the seniors and sanctimenious Mark Rose will find an outlet for his fervid re- ligious enthusiasm and strict Puntanical principles in the city of Zion. Here he will rise to the position of Dowie's succes- sor, and will rule severely for many years, a terror to all pleas- ure lovers, and evil doers. We will have to search the dim corriders of a nunnery to find the solemn, saintly face of Reita Maxon, while, on the other hand, Eva Esty will live a gay and giddy life, as a leader in New York's Four Hundredw. Margaret Dady will take to teaching Mathamaties. This is perhaps a slight surprise to some of the Solid Geometry class who remember that she used to join us sometimes when we moaned over cylindrical surfaces and parabolas. But the in- fluence of certain friends will awaken her interest in these ab- struse subjects andlshe will arrive at the conclusion that she has a. natural affinity for those who are mathematically in- clined. Margaret Frank, a world-renowned chemist, will com- pound a wonderful tablet which contains all the ncceesary brain food elements, and which school children all over America will eat for breakfast that they may not need oiher nourishment dur- ing the day. How well we all remember her hatred of eating during study hours! A prim little white cottage in some quiet New England town, where no man has ever been known to enter, will be the home of the two confirmed spinsters Alice Morstadt and Edith Dunakin, Maidens withering on the stalk. Harry Pamment will take Edonward de Raszkils place in the German Opera. We who have heard him sing Cleman- 6