Arlington High School - Stillaguamish Trail Yearbook (Arlington, WA)

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- JEhr £tUlauuami»h Irati - SENIOR HISTORY—Continued fifth Prom held by the school. Various members of the class worked diligently under the direction of Mr. Boyer in decorating the pavilion. T he Prom was a huge success socially as well as financially. We were also as usual engaged in other outside activities. 1 he one in which we were strongest was baseball; this was proved by the fact that oui team decisively defeated a team composed of the best players the other three classes could furnish. The days flew by one by one and when our Junior year drew to a close we were found to have successfully kept all the traditions handed down to us by preceding classes. We are now in our Senior year and there are but a few more days left until we shall leave this school. This, our last year, will upon its comple- tion be put down as the most successful one of our high school life. We have been, as usual, well represented in outside activities. We held our own in football, and the Seniors won both the boy s and girl s interclass basketball championship. We also placed second in the interclass track meet. The ma- jority of the cast of the all-school play which was presented last fall was made up of Seniors. Another event of importance was the Senior play. It was full of laughs from start to finish and is a splendid example of what the Class of 26 can do. We have now the Senior Sneak Day to look forward to, and planning for it will somewhat ease our every-day burdens. In a short while we shall be leaving this dear old school and shall be going out into new and larger fields of learning. We have before us all the golden opportunities and promises. It is for us to take those opportunities and make the best use possible of them; by so doing all the promises will materialize. We have spent four years in Hi and in return for our toil we have received knowledge and ideals which will enable us to live straightforward lives hence- forth. With our class motto. Vim, Virtue and Victory, fresh in our minds and those lines Count that day lost whose low descending sun Has seen by thy hand no worthy action done, ever lingering in our memory, we are setting out in life leaving behind us as a fragrant memory dear old Arlington High. —Gottfrid Holmstrom

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===== tEljr « ttllaiuuimiBh (Trail ■ SENIOR CLASS HISTORY When looking back upon the four years we have now spent in this deai old school, we can’t help thinking that our high school careers have been suc- cessful in every way. We entered this school in the fall of 1922 and from the beginning we took to our work with a relish. Never before had there been such an industrious class, and the upper-classmen were struck by the earnestness and zeal with which we did our work. Tradition has decreed that the Freshman class be the goat; however, we bore our troubles stoically, and though the upper-classmen did their best to torment us, they found it hard to do so. Soon after taking up our school duties we organized the class and elected class officers. We chose for a motto Vim, Virtue, and Victory. This motto has characterized the Class of ’26 in everything which it has undertaken to do. The first event of importance to us was the Freshman mixer. After going through that ordeal we felt fully initiated into whatever mysteries of student life there are. Soon afterwards we gave the Sophomores a party which was a great success. Flowever, we were not only successful socially, but we had al- ready become well established in athletics, for some of the boys in our class were on the county championship football and baseball teams of that year. The days flew swiftly by and we soon found ourselves at the end of our Freshman year. Upon coming back for the second year of our high school careers we found our old seats taken by a new crop of Freshmen while we occupied the seats which had been used by the sophomores of the year before. Our class had now lost several of its first-year members, but this proved to be no drawback, for we were far more successful in everything than we had been in our Fresh- man year. We were well represented in every school activity. Some of our boys were on the football team which battled its way to the Western Washington cham- pionship; others were on the basketball and baseball teams. We were also strongly represented in debate, the negative team being made up entirely of sophomores; one member of the affirmative team was also of our class. Four of our members were in the orchestra, several in the glee club, and three of our members were on the Arlington High School News Staff. However, it must not be construed that we engaged only in the various outside activities. We worked diligently on our lessons, and as a result a large number of our members was on the honor roll. The time sped onward in its flight and we soon found ourselves starting out upon our Junior year. Our first two years at Hi had been successful in every respect, but our Junior year eclipsed them both.. As Juniors it was our duty to publish the Annual. This was no small task, but as always before we remembered our class motto and did our work well. We chose George Starlund for editor and John Wendell for business manager. These two proved to be efficient in their work; the result was that the Annual was pronounced the best ever. The outstanding event of the year was the Junior Prom. This was the

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■ (The l tillaiutaminh tLruil ■ 1 — LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of 1926, of Arlington High School, Snohomish County, Washington, being, as we think, of sound and receptive minds and memories (the Faculty thinks otherwise) ana acting without compulsion, do hereby make, ordain, publish and declare this to be the Last Will and Testa- ment of said class, hereby revoking any and all other and formal wills by us made, in manner following, that is to say: FIRST: We do jointly and severally give, devise and bequeath: I. Mabel Bloxham’s vocal talents to Cornelia Santeford; 2, Howard Palmer’s Jewish traits to Lawrence Sessoms; 3, Ralph Montroy’s ability to hurry through high school to Doc Reinseth; 4, to Mr. Bowman the latest and most humorous joke book to be thoroughly digested, in order to prevent fur- ther repetition of the same old jokes in his future classes; 5, we do hereby be- queath a sufficient sum to establish for benefit of Miss Harris an elevator run- ning from her room to Mr. Bowman’s office; 6. tc Miss Payne a school of un- ruly girls, where, by her influence, they will all become “simple, sweet and girl- ish;” 7, for Miss Rokskopf all bugs, worms and snakes within a radius of 300 miles to use as biological specimens; 8, to Miss Rodell we willingly give all the gum to be found on desks, radiators, and seats, to be used as she sees fit, preferably to establish a gum factory; 9, to Mr Boyer, power to retain his ever-present patience with the Seniors; 10, to Miss Noonan a free course in a correspondence school, maintained for the purpose of improving dispositions; I |, to Miss Bostic a complete Royal Baking Powder Cook Book for her use next year, instead of Webster and Well’s Algebra; 12, to Pauline and Fern Cohoon, those slender wisps, a portion of the extra avoirdupois of Nellie Bur- nett and Flora York; 13, Viva Ferrell’s jazz-playing fingers to William An- derson (Viva says he may have her whole hand) ; 1 4, to Louise Shannon and Grace King, Pernella Hansen’s and Ruth Thorsen’s quiet and unsophisticated manners; 13, all the right, title and interest of Lena Hollingsworth in and to the male sex, to Ingaborg Olsen; 16, June Marsh’s violin to Mr. Kimmel as a convenient chin-rest. SECOND: We do hereby appoint the Future to be the Executor of this, our Last Will and Testament, and reposing trust and confidence in our said Executor, desire that no bond be given and that this V ill shall be probated in the Court of Human Experience. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set out hands and seals by Novelle Nettles, our attorney, thereunto (1)awfully authorized this 2nd day of June, A. D.. 1926. NOVELLE NETTLES. In the presence of: SEAL. Paul Verd ) Evelyn Stout ss. Carl Olson ATTESTATION CLAUSE The foregoing instrument consisting of one page was at its date, by Novel- le Nettles, testatrix, declared and published, as the Last Will and Testament of the Senior Class of the Arlington High School tor the year 1926 and was by her. in our presence and in the presence of each of us duly signed and sealed and we each, thereupon at her request and in her presence and in the presence of each other subscribed our names thereto as witnesses, and at which time the entire Senior class being personally present, and examinations approaching said class appeared to us to resemble a collection of sponges—about to be soaked.