Arriba High School - Ace Yearbook (Arriba, CO)

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CLASS HISTORY Class of 1937 Chapter I NOW THE HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF '37, OF THE HIGH SCHOOL OF THE TOWN OF ARRIBA, COUNTY OF LINCOLN, STATE OF COLORADO, IS IN THIS WISE: IN 1933 THERE ENTERED INTO THIS SCHOOL OF LEARN- ING, ELEVEN SEEKERS OF KNOWLEDGE AS FOLLOWS: MARINE MARQUIS, RUTH MURRAY, ARDITH GERTSCH, HELEN KEMP, EDITH SUTHERLAND, GUY BARNHART, MAC DRISKILL, ROBERT ASHTON, WILLIAM DAYIS, LIONELVANDERHOOF, AND RUSSELL HOLISTER. ON EN'1'ER1.NG'1'HIS SCHOOL, WE WERE RECEIVED WITH WILD WELCOMINGS AND REJOICINGS BY UPPER CLASSMEN, AND MOST OF ALL BY Tl-IE SENIORS. BECAUSE OF THEIR LIBERTY FOR INITIATION, DID BOUNCE UPON US, AND CAUSED US END- LIiSSTORMEN'1'. BUT SOON, AS FRESHMEN, WE BECAME ACCUS- TOIVIED TO THE UNNATURAI. SURROUNDINGS, AND BECAME ONE 'AMONGEST THE REST. ' ' AT THE D OF THE YEAR EVERYONE DECIDED THAT A. H. S. NVAS THE PLACE TO GAIN GREAT KNOVVLEDGE. Chapter 2 AT TIIE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND TERM, THE CLASS OF '37, REMEMBERING IN OUR DIGNITY, THE DAYS OF OUR GREENESS, GAVE UNTO THE CLASS OF '38 TIVO-FOLD OF THE TORTURE THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN US. IN THE COURSE OF EVENTS, THE CLASS LOST RUSSELL I-IOLISTER AND GAINED TONY GOODRICIFLAND AVON SAFFER.. LEAVING- US AGAIN WITH TWELVE TO TOIL ON.

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050 CLASS WILL To our parents we leave the pleasant mem here, made happier by your interest and ory of many happy school days we have had assistance in what we have been doing. We leave thanks to you for enriching our livesby providing a good high school where we have been taught the history of the,American people. sibilities of the future for us, and a basic As we look back over our four years of ground are the impressions we have gained of us. Those great characters at one time Perhaps as they graduated from their respective ones who were destined to become great or our own Senior Class of 1937 who in their small in the eyes of the world we all leave metals, precious stones, land or government one. It is our hope that these items of senti received well and in the spirit in which we In closing it seems opportune that I read the development of our great nation, the pos- education upon which to build our lives. high school it seems that always in the fore- of great Americans who have gone on ahead stood at the same period in life as we. are now. high schools there was no way to mark the famous. Likewise there may be members of renown. Great or may be the noble of useful service to importance to some- mental value which we leave for you will he have given them. time will become world behind us something. It bonds. It may be a life mankind. Whatever the things are which we leave behind they are of for you two verses ot a favorite poem by the great American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream, For the soul is dead that slumbers And things are not what they seem Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime-, And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.' u U

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4' Chapter III 4 U IT HAPPENED THAT THERE CAME INTO A.H.S. TO BE JUNIORS SIX STUDENTS, THEY HAD LOST ONLY GUY BARN- HART, MAXINE MARQUIS, TONY GOODRICH, IQIONELVANDER- HOOE, LYDIA HOHEELD AND BILL DAVIS q Y I' ' I A THEY HAD GAINED FOR 'TI-IEMSELVES PREVIOUSIQY AN HONORABLE TITLE AND I,IvED ' CUP TO- IT DILIOENTLY. WE PREPARED BEFORE TH E SENIORS A BANQUET,WHICH WAS THE CIJSTOM, AND OA'ifEUNTO THEM FLOWERS. ALSO WE GAVE A GREAT JUNIOR PLAY, THE ROSE OF EI. MONTE, WHICH WAS HIGHLY SIICESSEUL. TH E PRIDE OF TH E CLASS HAVING IVAXED WE DECID- ED TO ADOPT FOR OURSELVITS A SEAL WHICH WAS SET IN A RING- THUS VVE CONTINITED. CIIIEIDIACI' IV I NOW THIS, Tl-IE FOURTH YEAR, IN THE HISTORY OF TIIIS GREAT AND WONDERFUL CLASS OF ,37, HAS ONE OF HARD LABOR AN D WITH LITTLE RESTIN G BY THE WAYSIDE. NOW IT CAME TO PASS THAT THESE SENIORS GAVE A VVONDERFUI, PLAY, THE GENTLEMAN FROM HONG KONG, FOR WHICH VUE 'WERE HIGHLY PRAISED. FROM THEIR SMALL NUMBER WAS CHOSEN GREAT ONES TO ENTER LITERARY AND OTHER CONTESTS. AT TI-IE END OF OUR JOURNEY YVE XVISH TO THANK FIRST OF ALL THE 'TEACHERS VVHO HAVE LABORED DILIGENT- LY TOVVARD OUR LEARNING AND NEXT TO THE IUNIORS WHO SO SUCCESSFULLY GAVE US A BANQUET.