Ames High School - Spirit Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Page 28 The Spirit Annual ring around a rosy to dro]) the handkcrehief. We also had .wme good music. Mis.s Thornburg and Fern gave .some pepi.y readings. Y t ’ tie green flags for favors. 1 nearly forgot to tell you that siteffev chaperones. We invited all the sophomore teachers but Mr. and Mrs. .At , Miss tllarke and Miss ' I ' hornbnrg were the only ones that appeared. e tiat to break up at !) :3(). (If we ever get old maybe we wont have to go to with the chickens.) Things went on same old routine day after day. Three-tourths ot t nearlv flunked Geometry and Ancient History. When Uncle Sam’s first call for men came lots ot our sophomores joined the coast artillery, others National guards and two the navy. (1 guess we re no such babies as the upiier classmen think we are.) Oh I musn’t forget to tell you about the new cour.se, ‘How to Study. thing is a bore it is. And to think that we sophomores have to take it. e hd e learned how to study long ago. We all started out the new year by being late to school, and a lot of ns had to go to Miss Fickle’s English class. Me went in with fear and trembling and she proceeded to tell us just what us. I believe Gen. Persh ing’s knees would shake if he went into Miss h ickle s Well that’s about all that has happened of imiiortance this year. Just think we’ll be upper classmen next year. We ' ll at least be nearer the seniors than the preps. JUNIOR Here we are dignified juniors. Wouldn’t it be fierce to be a sophomore again? My, they are so stuck up ' . They think they’re just it. Ah me! fooling children. Wait ’till they grow older and get a little more experience in life. Our class cer¬ tainly fills the requirement of being dignified. Our class is slowly diminishing. There are nineteen boys and forty-four girls. Lucky boys, they sure can have their pick About the first thing we did this year was to have a class meeting and elect the following officers: • 3 .l Waldo McDowell.. • Pr ' Sident Pern Grover. President Florence Godard .- • cretarv Harriet Tilden.. • • ... • • Reporter The first social event of the year was a picnic September ‘ 2 o. iMiss Miller and Miss Thornburg helped chaperone and a job it was too. They’re on to all our tricks, (evidently from experience.) We’d had lots more fun if our boys weren’t so shy and backward. All the boys went off in a group to eat and the girls in another. We had a big Red Cross campaign and ot course the Junior (. lass won; there¬ fore, it was up to us to publish the next Spirit. It came out February 13, and 1 guess we showed the school what hidden talents the Junior Class had. I’ll bet we can put out an Annual when we’re Seniors that will be worth looking at. We had our second class party IMay 1, in the gym., and everybody had a good time and oodles to eat. But the big event of the year was the Junior-Senior Reception at the Country (dub. It was some elaborate affair. Party dresses and everything. Some of the kids started to danee but Mr. Stelfey put an end to it all. (Just think of high school jieople dancing!!! Mercy that could never be.) We felt quite import¬ ant as we had a special car at 1:30 to bring us back to the fair city. Hurrah! next week is vacation. Three months and we’ll be noble seniors.

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The Spirit Annual Page 27 EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF THE ( LASS OF 1919 FRESHMAN Well hero we are PREPS they call us, (I’ll admit it ain’t a very dignified name for such swell folks) My diary is sort of mixed np so I ' ll go through it and tell yon some of the most important events that has happened this year. We come into high school with the motto, “Green but Growing.” Why the seniors treated ns perfectly awful, especially doe Wilkinson and Dorothy Proc¬ tor. That first morning will never be forgotten (now don’t that sound literary?) The first morning all the kids that lived at the college came down on the 7 o’clock car so as to not to be late and also avoid the rush. How those horrid seniors would stroll down the hall and we j)oor excited freshmen frantically hunting room 20. Those awful .senior boys actually made our prep boys get down on their knees and dig dandelions. So it went for two weeks and finallv Mr. Caldwell comes to one of us and .savs, “Why don ' t you freshmen get some pep behind you and .start out the year right by having a cla.ss meeting?” Goodness we ' d nevei thought of that. So he up and says in assembly, “The freshmen will have a class meeting” and everybody looked at us and sort of smiled. (Just wait ’till I’m a senior.) So we had our ela.ss meeting and elected the following officers: President. Gifford Terry Vice President.Warren Rinehart Secretary and Treasurer.Priscilla Dodds Class Reporter... Eleanor Murray We also decided to have a swell picnic the next Saturday. The boys promised that they would furnish the ice cream and hayracks. So we all got ready to go and here it went and rained and we never went. Later in the year we finally did succeed in having a masquerade party. Say there were some swell co.stumes there. There were grand prizes given too, only I didn’t get one. The boys all sat on one side of the room and the girls on the other. The boys are such manly looking fellows, Bernard Moreland and Waldo Mc¬ Dowell are the only boys that wear long trousers. This is about all that has happened this year. You know children are better seen and not heard. Just wait ’till next year, then we’ll make the prejjs step around. SOPHCJMORE Ah! we’re sophomores at last and didn’t we make the preps dig dandelions? My, I don’t believe 1 ever was (juite as green as .some of the freshmen this j ar. Some of the upper cla.ssmeii look on us as if to .say, “Poor Sophs, don’t they think they’re ju.st it?” Well, I gue.ss we are the best class in school. No one tells us .so but we voted on it at our first class meeting this year. Gh yes we also elected some class officers: Waldo McDowell . President Lydia Tilden. Vice President Robert Potter.Secretary and Treasurer Florence Godard . CMass Reporter Oh, I nearly forgot to tell you about our St. Patrick’s Day party. We had it in the high school gym. Um, we had a swell time. We |)layed everything from

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Page 29 The Spirit Annual SENIOR I matriculated this morning. Now at last I can feel that 1 am far past tlio e d ] a t m liigh seliool career. As T look back over the annals of this lit¬ tle book, I am amazed and petrified at the ignorance of my former days. To think that I, a dignified and well-behaved senior, could have written it. Ah me! Our annual class meeting was held in the hall where lackadaisical freshmen, .sophomores, juniors, and studious seniors are wont to sit. Well, as I said, or was about to say, Gertrude Reis was nominated, or rather elected, or both, presi¬ dent. It gave me great pleasure to have it .so, although I had really planned to have the position. Oh yes, Priscilla Dodds is vice president, and Rn.ssel Parker, secretary and treasurer. We really have most brilliant officers—the kind that befit such a class as ours. The sad but notable fact was thru.st upon me that we have a history teacher. I proera.stinated la.st night, and so my heart was chilled to the bone this morn¬ ing when I was asked to relate something that I remembered not. Oh, what a fall for my pride! How can I bear up under it? It will be a scar that will .sear my soul. It will rend my heart in twain. Oh, peace and joy! Can I ever again know them ? I went to the senior picnic today. It was rather sparsely attended but I was there. It really recalled my freshman days. Nevertheless a most enjoyable time was proclaimed by all. The freshmen’s idle chatter is becoming most obnoxious to me. They are the most obstreperous! It’s mo.st galling!!!!! Every noon now, we are allowed to ‘‘trip the light fanta.stic toe.” It is most kind and considerate of our dear teachers. I often conclude that we don’t fullv ft- appreciate them. Ah! At last someone recognizes the importance of the seniors. The girls rest room is to be given over to the senior girls to supervise. kSucIi honor! Such distinction! Indeed ’tis justly due such a remarkable class. Many of our brave and virile l)oys have returned home from the world war, and are still intact. Indeed we can rejoice for the fact that they do not seem to be contaminated by their contact with the vile Hun. They deserve to be drenched with honor. Here are five precious dollars that I am wearing on my little finger. Isn’t it beautiful? Oh little band of gold, how you glitter in the lamp light! How 1 have waited and longed for you, and at last you have come. Can anything meaij more to me than my senior ring? Oh Christopher Columbus, George Washington-Why didn’t I perceive of the fact that I should have gone to our own dear class ])arty. Ah, cruel world, grue.some fate-games, confetti, eats, and everything! And I missed it. To think I should ever have lived to be so dishonored. I really think that my teachers are most inconsiderate of us seniors. They surely must realize how inconsistent it is for us to work to such a degree. Why realCv, today I felt most exhausted. Their a.ssignments are terrific; only with a Herculean effort can 1 succeed in keeping rny head above water. I often dream that I am drowning. How despicable that I never learned to swim!!!!!! ‘‘Needles and Pins.” How intoxicating it sounds. It would have been such an honor to have been in it; I must bear up for others’ sake. Perhaps, it will turn out for the best. Ah, here it is cla.ss day night, and now I must bid farewell to my happy high school days. After all there arc no days like onr yesterdays. Tomorrow I shall be cast out into the world. Fate be kind to me. I repent of all my former sins.