Westville High School - Janus Yearbook (Westville, IL)

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1 9 JANUS 22 IHIIMIUIIIIIIIIIIHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIilllllHIIIIIIIIIIItlNNWIlHlltlHIlHM CLASS WILL We, the Senior Class of 1922, still being sound in mind and well in body, in order to dispose of all our earthly and cherished possessions before we embark on our voyage of life with the uncertainty of eternity before u:., do ordain, establish, and declare this to be our last will and testament: i. W e, the Senior Class of 1922, will 1. The honor of occupying in a dignified manner our assembly seats. 2. To Mr. Collins we will: 1. The right to use our “hardness” on the Freshmen. 3. To Mr. Sutherd we will: 1. The right to be the idol of the women faculty members, p -o viding George does not object. 4. 5. To Miss Zika we will: 1. The right to crack nuts in the domestic science room, if he does not call on Mr. Tison to help her. To Miss Overman we will: 1. All the good poetry, orations, and stories found in our exseats. 6. To Miss Winkler we bequeath: 1. Our French “lingo” when speaking to the janitor. 7. 8. To Miss Swaim we will: 1. Our melodious and harmonious voices. To Mr. File we leave: 1. Our fighting spirit, never to be used on his wife. 9. To Miss Browne we will: 1. The right to worship “Fuzzy” if she doesn’t do it when the Junior girls are around. 10. To Mrs. Grubb we will: 1. Our “pep” in cheering the football boys, providing she doesn’t overpep and fight the rival rooters. 11. (Swede) Peter Chapausky wills: 1. His ability to bluff the teachers to Sherwood. 12. Naomi Buskirk wills: 1. All her excess knowledge and quiet manner to Snub. 13. (Runt) Charles Bauser wills: 1. His love for Ruby to anyone as handsome as himself. 24

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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

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19 JANUS 22 IIUIUUMillllUIUIIIIIIIIIIlllllMIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINmilUIUIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIHIUIIItlUUIIIINIINIIIlIHUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM “Honest Toil!” Let us ponder on the full meaning of this phrase. Does it mean to do only work that is accepted as honest in the eyes of the world? Or does it mean that if we have not lived to the full limit of our capabilities, have not left our “foot-prints on the sands of time,” we have not been employed in honest toil. The fabric of a successful life would not long survive were we to forget and abandon the ideals and habits formed in a pleasant school enviroment such as we have enjoyed during our four years of high school life. We know we may sometimes fail in our purpose just as others have failed, even when we are trying hardest. But we hope to grow in wisdom and happiness until our most golden dreams shall become realities. “Honor lies in honest toil.” In choosing our life’s work, let us keep in mind this motto, and remember that we will not be found wanting in the eyes of the world if our path has lain in honest toil. “Act well your part, Therein all honor lies.” Naomi Buskirk ‘22. ........................................................................................................Ill....... hduil' 25