Ames High School - Spirit Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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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.

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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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Page 30 The Spirit Annual SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Moscow, Russia, June 10, 1934. Mv dear Verna: . p . t i Since this is the fifteenth anniversary of our graduation School, I have been thinking about the members ot our class and about what t j “ ' ' ihnv ' is v.nu- new ,,harmacy in Ames progressing? I hope by this time that vovi have finishe.l with good results your exi.eriment m T had such an interesting experience here yester lay that 1 . it Since I am still travelling the universe trying to hnd a suita.hle position with which 1 can be satisfied, 1 often have many interesting other evening when I attended the theatre here, whica is said to be one of th best in the world I found that Lyle Griffith was the manager. And I was still more surprised to find Dorothy Gruwell and Robert Rotter acting the leadii roles in the play that evening. Ye four siient an evening together and enjoyed ourselves ;ith remmiscences. Since some of us had travelled a good deal we had seen and heard ot n anN of the members of our high school class and were all interested in finding out about them. I know vou will be interested in some of them too. When I was in Egypt not long ago, 1 found that Margaret Slo.ss was the lester for the ruler and while there she told me about Ava Kulow, liiinie Lindauer, and Elizabeth Gleason who are now m issionaries in the wdds of Africa. Later, I learned about the sad death of Elizabeth who was killed by wild beasts who infest the region near their mission. Dorothy and Bob, while in England, found that Eleanor Murray who now lives in that country, had been appointed poet laureate on account ot the great literary work she has given to the world and liumaniD. We heard, too, about the interesting campaign that is now being conducted there in Iowa. Who ever would have thought that Richard Beckman would be running for Governor of Iowa? I understand that Zoe Van IMetcT and Lillian Brendeland are two of Iowa’s leading surt ' ragettes and are conducting Richard s campaign. . , , • tt i I recently learned that Neva Snook is the coach of men s athletics at Harvard. Her sister Florence is travelling with a Chautauqua bureau lecturing against the teaching of American History in high school. Jeanette Beyer and Edith Sunderliii are running a nursery for the children of the working women of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Julia Arrasmith and Olive Husted are now rivalling Galli Curci and are fast winning over the music loving public. Dan McCarthy is an extremely prominent Physics and American History pro¬ fessor in Lelami Stanford University. He has also won much fame by his text books written on those subjects. It is said that they are comprehensible even to the dullest high school or grade children. Gladys Myers and Donald Crooks are famous Russian ballet dancers and are conducting a vaudeville together. It is said that they are always hoping for the public to become endowed with enough aesthetic taste to enable them to eke out an existence. Of Russell Barker, who is editor of the New York Yribune, it is said that he has become very corrupt in his politics, always yielding to money instead of up¬ holding the right. Who would have tliought it of Russell? We also have another journalist among our number. Harriett Tilden lias