Westville High School - Janus Yearbook (Westville, IL)

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JANUS 24 19 CLASS HISTORY In the fall of 1921, we entered the Westville Township High School, a Freshmen class of twenty-eight. However, most of us were not as green as Freshies usually are as we had attended the seventh and eighth grade in the High School building. We organized our class, electing Helen Williams, president. The class as a whole took a real interest in athletics, and it is. perhaps, due to that early interest which has made it possible for our class to produce some of the best athletes Westville High School has ever had. Our Freshmen athletes were members of the football and basket ball squads and track team. The Freshmen girls organized their basketball team and started out early in the year. Socially we did not star. yet. we made an excellent record. As we progressed along we entered our Sophomore year, which proved more successful as we had passed that somewhat green stage. ()ur class became smaller as we lost six of our original number. Wesley Hickman was elected our class president. Our class was represented by three girls in semi-chorus, two boys in dramatics and in athletics we took a prominent place. Then we became proud Juniors with John Hissong for our class president. Vre decided to continue the publication of the Westville High, a newspaper begun by the class of the preceding year. With Wesley Hickman editor-in-chief, the paper became rapidly a great factor in our High School life. We were especially proud of our Junior boys, who met with great success in athletics. Seven of the Junior boys received letters in football and five of them received medals at the close of the basket ball season. Our girls together with the Seniors of '23 won the Girls’ Basketball Tournament. Two of our girls won places in semi-chorus and we distinguished ourselves in dramatics and in scholarship as well. Though it seems but a month, it was nine months ago we entered High School as Seniors. In preparation for the activities we expected to take up, we again elected John Hissong our class president and made Wesley Hickman the editor-in-chief-of our annual. With nine of our boys on the football squad Westville High won the Vermillion County County Football pennant. Such stars as Tony Balser. George Kedulis. Kldwine Jones and Charles Simpson, on our basketball team, won their way to fame, while Mary I.ietard and Anna Mellen cheered them on. )ur girls have had their athletic teams as well. In dramatics, orchestra and literary contests, members of our class could be found doing their share for Westville High. Our scholarship has been high, seven of our members making the Honor Roll It is therefore with regret that we leave behind us this High School where we have found both pleasure and scholastic advancement possible. But with the knowledge we have acquired here, as a stepping stone toward higher things, we feel that, “The future we may face now we have proved the past. —Jessie Slazas, ’24 iiuitiiHiilHiiiiMiiiiintiitiunroniiiiwiinnitmMUvnM

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19 JANUS 24 CLASS O R A T I () N When we entered Westville Township High School, in nineteen hundred and twenty, we were just beginning to face a few of the difficulties of life. In the grades our courses were outlined for us but when we came here we had to decide definitely what course we wished to pursue. We wandered about the building as all green Presides do. trying to find which room to go to, and which class was next. It was hard for us to get a foot-bold, but we braved the hardships with a smile and were soon over our greenness. We went about our new work cheerfully. It was a gradual uphill battle, but we had come here with the determination to get an education. We were proud of the building with which the school board and patrons had tarnished us. and took an interest in the school and its activities. Now we are about to reap that which we have sown. We have been given the elementary principals of an education. It is now for us to decide whether or not we will proceed onward and obtain a higher education which will make us more able to compete with the trials and hardships of life, and more competent to discharge our duties. Those, who plan to continue their education will find that they will repeatedly receive advantage over the individual who chooses or is forced to stop his education before coming to, or during the four years in High School. ()n the other hand, some may prefer, or may be compelled to go to work now. Although they are not able to obtain any further education, they can earn a better living with their twelve years of learning, than those with less. We realize, to the fullest measure, that we have received the best our High School had to offer through the kindness of our families and friends and with sincere gratitude to them we turn toward the future. Let us hope that we will go about our life work smiling as we did these four years in High School. Let us hope that we will do all in our power to become dedesirable citizens and help make this country a better place in which to live. And so throughout the time that we are facing the problems and performing the duties of our daily lives, we should never lose sight of the fact that, as our class motto asserts. “Toil conquers all things. —John Hissong, ’24. ■ ■ ♦ Janus am 1; oldest of potentates; Forward 1 look, and backward, and below 1 count, as god of avenues and gates. The years that through my portals come and go. I block the roads and drift the fields with snow. I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen ; My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow ; My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men. —LONG FPL LOW. iinn;imrinuui iimiiiiiiHiiiHMUHiKininiiiiiUiimiiMiimr