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June 22, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE had· a substitute who had never taught school before, a fact which most of the c~ildren in the room took advantage of. Edna Stiles sat in back of John Hellmllth and one · dJlY that wee~ she discC)yered she could vel'Y easily pin signs on John's' back, so she decided to experiment. ~he pinned the words "Kick Me" on John's back and in a few minutes he found it necessary to go up to the froQt of the room and was quite surprised to be greeted with a large number of kicks from the various children in the row, and still mo.re surprised when the substitute grabbed hlm by the ear and requested that he please leave the room. lt didn't make much difference if he pleased or not because he was s\loved out . before he knew what was happening. In sixth grade we added long division to our increasing lmowledge and also the first lights dawned on nouns and pronouns. "\Vhen we entered seventh grade we thgught tha.t we were getting on in the world and had started Junior high school. For the first half of the year, Mrs. Groves' class occupied the school cafeteria. The reason for this arrangement being that a new addition · was being built on · to the scho()l for the seventh grades and was not completed until January. 'Vhen we did move in the things that interested us ·most were the lockers. The majority of the girls discovered that the air holes were just about the right size to put notes through. Soon a regular postal service was started. However, as one of the girls had prophesied, the day came when Mrs. Groves revealed to us the fact that she certainly felt sorry for anyone whom she saw nassing a note. One thing we became i!lterested in durI before we could graduate from GramPen Class History mar school. In fourth grade with :vrs. Meye-r as Iour for Graduates of teacher, who was Miss Freeze in the third grade, we were foreell to move twice. The first was made in the early the Howard School fall when it became known that the Eight years have passed since that b1·ight September morning in 1920 when we, holding tightly on· to mamma's hand, stood timidly facing our first grade teacher. Then perhaps ' we were conducted to our de~k where we sat staring with amazement at the other children, some of whom we recognized as our playmates in kindergarten, as our eyes wandered around the room they might perchance fall on the cloak room where, 1 doubt if this entered our minds then, a number of us would spend a few mornings of isolation during the year. Suddenly our meditations were interrupted because we became aware that mother was going home and a few of us let out wails of protest at the thought of having to stay a whole morning at school wit~out evep seeing mother on·..!e. Soon we learned that our teacher became !:! reliance and friend. How happy we were when we walked proudly home to tell mother that we )lad accomplished the great achievement of being able to say the abc's almost perfectly and could count up to 25 almost as fast as big brother could, omitting the errors. By the tim~ we reached grade two we had gained more self confidence and had accomplished the art of putting a few syllables together to form words, though I doubt whether many of them could have been found in the dictionary. Perhaps some Qf us do not remember when we dreaded to return to school to find Miss Holstien always ready to give us o.u r weekly spelling test of 20 words and if we missed any our desks were willingly reserved for us after school when some of ns grieved because of having to write our errors five times each. When we arrived in the third grade we were still on the upward road of learning. I believe a great number of us thought that we had suddenly grown about ten years older when mothe r or dad commented on our first 1 ;eport cards. However our growth was soon stunted when · we realized that those ta..ll dignified lookin~ individuals who seemed to know everything were eighth graders and that we would have to assume the ~.:~me amount of knowledge and · ~ig-nifiean(·e ~ogan school was crowded ~o we were forced to continue schooling in the lately abandoned cafeteria., situated at 11th and Central. It was evident that the CO()k did not choose to fumigate the cafeteria before leaving because sometimes I do believe that the lovely odors of grease (goodness knows what brand she used) and hot dogs still linger in the atmosphere althoy~h four years have passed ::;ince that time. I know no grade i~ all these eight years wherein we had more music than our half year at the cafe. for mingled with our lessons t))ere was always the strains of music from the gracious Columbia School of Music which held its sway on the floor above. We were also accompanied by the buzz of the flies, insects which proved to give a great deal of amusement to little boys who imprisoned them in ca~es or slyly dro_pped one into a fussy little girl's inkwell, and finding out the fact she immed~ately told the teacher, wailing t,hat the fly had completely ruined her compositio!:l paper, so the culprit stood for one painful hour in the corner the target of n!lschievous boys with paper wads. We felt delighted when we had the honor of being the first grade in the ::;chool which in a few days we will leave fore\'e r. The room which we then occupied is now the kindergarten room. Then we did not grieve over the fact that we had spent the first half year in cafe because we were well repaid. T~~ fifth grade class had been divided as our classes have been ever since. One section was taken by Mrs. Meyer and the other by Miss Van Horne. There we learned or endeavored to learn fundamentals of arithmetic. We were quite interested in dramatics that year if I remtmber correctly and gave a number of historical plays in which Miss Van Horne assist~d us so greatly. When we reached sixth grade we suddt-nly woke up to the fact that we were out of the primary grades and we also r alized that in two years our first race would be ended. That year our teachers were Miss Larson and Miss Corcoran, who are still amon~ our teachers in Howard. During part of the month of March Miss Larson was ill therefore we I lng the spring of our seventh · 8Cifool year was the · Memorial Day Essay Contest. This contest had been carried on for a good many years but as it was opened to only seventh and eighth grade pupils this was the. first year we were permitted to enter. Aboat one-fourttr of the pupils wrote essays and none w . prizes. , And no\V we have at last reached that high and mighty position of an "eighth grader." We would like to make a good tmpre~~ion on the pupils of the lower grades, just as we were impressed by last year's class. All of us are making the most of this last year in grammar school because we know that next year we will be but mere babies in · the eyes of the more experienced students at high school. Our eighth year has ru11 pretty smoothly. Under the guidance of our teachers our subjects have been quite interesting. Our only new study this year has been social science which we have liked quit~ well. Elizabeth Fowler and Janet McConnaughey. WIJ.. }IETTE ICE WINS On Sunday, June 3, I went to a baseball game at the Howard school. The teams ~hat played were Wilmette Ice company and Edgewater Coal compaqy. lVilmette Ice company won, the score was eight to four.- Emil A. Anderson, Jr., 5B- Central. 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