Adel High School - Scarlet and Black Yearbook (Adel, IA)

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+A - . - .- M- .- .......,. -- H- .f .A -- --A -Psa., .21-,, ifn -vsxf-.ss Letter from Hazel Ferguson ref.,-1.-Gfgaefv, 2,521 -are'-6.5. Miss Elizabeth Storm, Editor l9l6 Scarlet and Black, Adel, Iowa. Dear Miss Storm: The one event which stands out above all others in the history of the class of '07 is the famous class scrap of l906, the year we were Juniors. Contrary to the usual custom, our class and the Senior class were the best of friends, likewise sworn enemies to the two lower classes. On account of this feeling of good fellowship for our Senior brothers and sisters, we decided that the Senior-Junior banquet should be an affair far superior to the banquets our predecessors had offered. We hired the Woodman I-lall, furnished it with all the rugs and rock- ing chairs that our long-suffering mothers would furnish, decorated with plants and pennants, secured the services of the Industrial Society to furnish the eats and sat up nights making hand-painted placecards fto the neglect of lessonsj. Meanwhile the Sophs and Freshies were just as busy making plans of an entirely different nature. The son of the county sheriff was inveigled into furnishing handcuffs and shackles, and a supply of white paint was secured. The evening of the banquet the girls arrived at the hall early. They waited and waited, but no boys. At last sounds of warfare arose from the streets below, and the boys dashed up the stairs, minus coats, hats and collars. bruised and muddy and one dangling a pair of shackles. The Sophs and Freshies had made their plans work. On calling the roll two were found missing and the boys went forth to their rescue, finding one hidden in a coal bin, the other still a captive. By this time the town marshal had been called to quell the riot and peace was once more restored. After thread and needle had mended rent garments, bruises dressed and fresh collars found for the crowd, the banquet proceeded, just an hour behind time. Next morning everything from the standpipe to the big rock at the corner of the schoolhouse yard boasted the '08 and '09 numerals, but what did we care. for in our possession was one pair of shackles, worth some five dollars. for which, in due time, the '08 and '09 classes had to pay. This explains why there was no banquet for the '07's. Of course this was a long time ago and such an affair in this present day and age would be entirely out of place, but-well, the members of the class of '07 still know where those shackles are. HAZEL T. FERGUSON, '07

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discourse on The Modern Daily Newspaper. I am free to confess that they were told more about a newspaper that night than I have learned after working around one for twenty years. It was a grind to get the oration ready and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson both put in some strenuous hours, but the Other Member finally squeezed through and accepted his diploma from President J. B. White as if everything had been carried out in the usual manner. I know this to be a fact, for I was The Other Member. Scorr SNYDER. Perry, Iowa, February I5.

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::f.a:- 'f -:- '- -- -f -- sf -- -- 0- -f -- -- -- .- .- .- .-- -- A- - -4, 1914 Commencement +P- 713:i1?1f1:2Qa0Le22.1:-vas-:rmsfvslfsni:sQ:2i::'-:sxss-v::L::-vs:-:GA-r:A.S1:Q' NOTHER class has been added to the already long list of those leaving Adel High School, and in one sense that of l9l4 was peculiarly prominent among the graduating classes. Their passing from the halls of Adel High School marked an era - ' in Iowa educational affairs. Their graduation was emphasized by the razing of the old home of the Adel schools, the three-story brick build- ing erected some years before. The destruction of the old building revived memories in the minds of many an Adel resident, and touched the hearts of all its graduates. But if any class had been selected by authorities for the particular honor of being the last to graduate from the honored old school house, it could have come no nearer perfection than that class, which by chance was to be thus rewarded, the class of l9l4. So high were the members of this class in scholarship, so valiant in athletics, so effective in their leadership of the school and so successful in their attempts to lift the institution to a higher plane, that their names will stand long in the annals of Adel High School. It is particularly significant, that coincident with the consummation of the class's school career of culture. the outgrown shelter of time-worn bricks that formed the bonds of conservatism should have crumbled to the ground and upon its site sprung a shelter of progress, typifying in its architecture. structure and atmosphere the hone and promise of knowledge and enlightenment. The commencement of I9I4 can be properly said to have begun on the night of May 25, when the annual banquet given by the Junior class was held. Gathered together upon that occasion were the classes of 1914 and l9l5. and the faculty of the year 1913-I4. Professor Lindeman, super- intendent of schools for the past four years, headed the faculty, which was composed of Miss Elsie Axten, principal of the high school then as she is nowg Mrs. R. E.. Joy, the veteran of the faculty: Miss Marcia Wilson, now Mrs. Ralph Hoffman: Miss Carol Conger, now Mrs. Van Storm, and Miss Catherine Alden, now Mrs. Brown, of Lincoln, Neb. Among the mem- bers of the class of l9l4 was Clark Biggs, to whose name a long list of high school titles could be added, a leader of the school for over three years: Lester Chance, supreme athlete for many miles about, and winner of many a victory for the Scarlet and Black. a true sportsman and gentlemang Geneva Wiles, perhaps the most popular young lady and greatest student ever attending Adel High School, at the head of her class and graduating with an extraordi- narily high standingg Ross Smith, noted as a musician of abilityg Mary Celley. who is now training for teaching, and a number of other talented and true young men and women who have matriculated in the school of life. In the class of I9I5 were Ruth Chamberlin. editor-in-chief of the school annual last year: Golden Mitchell and Marv Frances Clark, efficient business mana- gers of the annual, under whose direction the class expenses were cleared away almost before the annual was issued: Mary F ox, toastmistress of the even-