Westville High School - Janus Yearbook (Westville, IL)

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19 JANUS 22 CLASS HISTORY It was only four short years ago when we, the Senior Class of 1922, entered the Westville High School. We had already been in the building while in the eighth grade so that we did not have to go thru the customary agony experienced by other freshmen in getting rid of greenness. True to form we led the average toilsome life of a freshman. The next year we began to climb the Ladder to Success. We made a record for ourselves of which anyone should be proud being prominent in athletics and social events. We had five men on the first team in football and three in basketball. After much hard fighting, the Sophomores nosed out the Seniors for first place in the Interclass Basketball Tournament. A Beautiful pennant was awarded the class for this championship, and it was hung up in the assembly as a fitting remembrance of the battle. During the year we gave the “Follies of ‘22” which was a decided success. Many of us took part in the play “Sylvia”. The greatest event of the year was the elaborate banquet given by the Sophomore Class in honor of the champion basket ball team. Our third year, we mounted several rungs up the Ladder. We were well represented in all athletics. In track, Cecil Simpson and Fred Dudley Starred. Cecil broke the Paris, 111., record in the discus throw and Fred won first place in the high jump at Charleston, this being the first time a first place was ever won by a Westville man there. They were also the high point getters ’ in other meets. e gave a party during the year and in May the magnificent Junior-Senior IIop was held in the auditorium of the Westville Township High School. Now we are finishing our fourth year, the last lap of our journey thru high school. We do not mean to stop here but to climb higher on the ladder to success. This has been our banner year. We had seven men on the football team all of whom made a creditable showing. There were five men on the basketball squad and track lacked no support of the Senior class. The annual this year is one of which the school and the town of Westville should be proud. All the members have worked hard on this book and it will be seen that the work has not been in vain. The permanent name “Janus” was chosen by a vote of the entire school. We bid Westville adieu with many regrets and sorrows but with staunch hearts. We are entering the bigger and better life made possible for us by the inspiration received during our past four years of experience. May our High School have reason proudly to claim us as members of its alumni. Joe Chromis ‘22. 22 iiiiiiiiiiitMiiini

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19 JANUS 22 M!limiJIIII!IIIIIIIIIIHWMIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIHIIIIIItlltllllllllll1llllllllllllllllfllllH1IIIIIIIHIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIillllll!llllll SENIORS When our High School days are over, And we may no longer stay, When our hearts are sad and lonely, Then our thoughts will backward stray. We will see again a picture, Tho a tear may dim our eye, Of the years when we were happy, In the dear old Westville High. Through each hour we’ll fondly wander, Every class-mate we’ll recall, Hear again their merry voices, In the large assembly hall. See again our glorious banners, Won on football field and track, And rejoice that we were loyal, To the “Orange and the Black.” We will thank once more our teachers, And recall that they were true. Thank them for their kindness, To the Class of ’22. Through all the years of High School On the incidents we’ll dwell; And at last with sadness linger O’er the time we said “Farewell!” Elizabeth McDonald, Class of ‘22. iiiHiRninHifniiiiiHiHiHiHuiiiiiiiiHniiHiiiuiimiiiiiiiu)uuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNiM 21

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19 JANUS 22 lUimiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiuiiintnuiiiiiiiiiitiiiiitiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiMHiiiiiHiiiiiuinNiHiHiHiiiiniiiHiiniiiHiiiHiHmiinii CLASS ORATION “Honor lies in Honest Toil” Class Day, Commencement, and then the real beginning of our lives, After four short years of honest toil, we are about to leave our High School, with the same determination to win success in our life’s work as we had when we entered high school in 1918. As we began at the bottom on entering W. H. S., so does this commencement mean the beginning of our work. “Begin at the beginning, For where else can we begin In shaping lives and honors, The best results to win?” In our school life, we have found that we must cooperate with one another Each for all, and all for each.” Such a spirit must continue to prevail if we are to remain true to the traditions of dear old W. T. H. S. Education is the principle means of broadening our minds. The past four years have enlarged our visions and awakened within us the longing to live up to the splendid ideals of high school life which, by the faithful efforts of our instructors, have been instilled in our hearts and minds. In this day and age, it is very important that young people get an education if they are successfully to meet the problems of the future. The possibilities of tomorrow demand careful preparation by the people of our generation. More than ever in this present day must we take an interest in the duties of civic and national life if we would live to our greatest capacity, and bring to fulfillment a life so full of love of our work that there is little room for anything else. In an ignorant state, man is content to know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, and consequently, be nothing, but the boy or girl w hose every faculty has been developed, desires to achieve, and loves his work. Though our work may lie within certain narrow limits, let us remember that scope is not ab solutely necessary to success, for some of the most beautiful tunes have been played on one string of a violin. Anyone who cannot figure the love of his work as half his pay, has the wrong job. The end and object of our existence should be work, or the legitimate employment of all our faculties, Work for God, for man, work in whatever position we are placed. If we can follow honest toil as a first principle, we will find how satisfyingly all pleasures group themselves about. We have chosen, Honor lies in Honest Toil,” to pilot us. If we can but live up to this motto and achieve our honors by it, we shall not only have the admiration of the world, but the greatest of all honors our own self respect. 23