Cheraw High School - Cherado Yearbook (Cheraw, CO)

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THE CHERADO-1924 Senior Class History Marshall Pitney .... ................ P resident Margaret Reeder .................................... Sec'y and Treas. Class Motto: Love, Labor and Laugh. Class Flower: Aster. It was, perhaps, one of the greenest sights ever presented to the ocular vision, when, in the fall of 1919, We now dignified Seniors, but then feeble and abashed Freshmen, presented ourselves for regis- tration. We do not now deny the greenness of our countenances then, for we know that by now all those rough edges have been smoothed over, and are quite unnoticeable. During that, our Fresh- man year, six of our number dropped out. However. only two of that number quit school-Eva Mclntosh and Wilbur Lance. Dorothy Heminger graduates from the high school in Lincoln, Kansasg Robert Tingley is attending college in Fort Collinsg Walter Thomas is in the Fowler high schoolg Maurine Van Winkle is now married, and Allen Ebersole is a Junior in La Junta high. In our Sophomore year we gained two new members. Thelma and Verda Riley, who had attended Rocky Ford high school during their Freshman year, joined us. We gained, and then lost, later. an- other member, Edwina Tingley. Claude Matthews left us about the middle of the term. He, too, graduates from a high school in Pueblo. At the beginning of our Junior year we suffered the loss of four of our members but we gained one new one. Josephine Bartholomew left us for La Junta, where she graduates this year: Vera Burr is now in Chicago, Curt Headrick and Hazel Switser had both secured out- side positions. Our new addition was Grace Morehead, from Rocky Ford. Later in the year, 'Arthur Thomas gave us the slip and landed in Fowler, where he graduates this year. In our last year, in which we partook of the dignified characters of Seniors, we were joined by two others, who wished to share our joys and sorrows. These two, who will complete a high school course in three years, are Oscar Unruh and Ralph Conder. Although we have lost many members during these eventful four years, we console ourselves with the thought of what good material these other schools are gaining. We have shared to the best of our ability in all the activities of our school. We had this last year six girls on the basketball team. while three of our boys held positions on the boys' first team. We have participated in the Dramatic line, having given a Junior class play with great success. We have been represented on the Breeze staff every year. Aren't we justified in feeling proud of our class? This result, this fitting climax, is the outcome of twelve years co- operation with good teachers. who have given their time, ability, and patience, that we might be taught the fundamentals of learning, which shguld prepare us to better face our Teachers in the greater School of Li e. .

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THE CHERADO--1924 A Letter The members of the Cheraw High School graduating class of 1924 stand in sublime connections with the past and future. One is irre- vocable and the other is unknown to you. You hold the former by historyg the latter you possess by anticipation and by hope. As you pause upon the dividing ground between two eras in your lives and look back over the varied experiences of your high school life, with its buoyancy and its pleasures, its rivalries and ambitions, its duties and generous friendships, you cannot avoid a feeling of sad- ness that comes with the thought of leaving your pleasant associations. There is, however, one thought which should be uppermost in your minds, dispelling the gloom of present sadness, and suffusing with a golden glow the morning sky of the future. The influence of your high school days has left a lasting impression upon your minds and hearts. It pervades the inmost recesses of your natures. It has become a guiding principle in your lives. It has helped to mould your characters. It will help to shape your destinies. Your life work lies before you. As you go from the halls of your school into the battle-tumult of the world, where your mission is to be achieved and your rank among men and women decided. we bid you take up the line of advance into the future, and press with earnest purpose to noblest aims. The opportunities for a liberal culture are now open to you. Your mental and moral possibilities are just bloom- ing and coming to first fruits. An earnest devotion to a fixed and lofty purpose will develop an intenser vitality, a broader sympathy and a richer grace and holiness. There is no effort of science or of art that may not be excelled, no depth of philosophy that cannot be deeper sounded, no flight of imagination that may not be passed. All nature is full of unknown things. What has hitherto given pros- perity and distinction has not been more open to others than to you. Your world invites you to come and claim her. There is no greater duties facing us today than the demands of our national life. Our country needs a new enthusiasm. She calls upon you to wake the deep slumber of careless opinions: to kindle aspirations, to set noble examples, to shame false ideals of life, and to make the aims of society more earnest. The life-giving power of education was intended to fit us for manly work. A liberal culture binds men together by intensifying each one with interest beyond himself. It incorporates the power and nobility of the individual into the strength and grandeur of that larger individual-society. The talents you possess are for the ser- vice of all, the truth you hold is for allg your activity and progress go into the general social conditiong your failure abstracts from the com- mon good. As men and women in the ranks of humanity you are un- der a law of duty that allows you no stopping place short of the ut- most capabilities and the best use of the opportunities that is given you. A vigorous purpose makes much out of little, breathes power into weakness, disarms difficulties and turns them into assailants. A true faith, looking up to something better, catching glimpses of something in the distant future perfection, will grow and increase. In the words of Disraeli, I bid you, Keep your standard of knowledge high, at- tempt great things, expect great things, and you will accomplish great things. R. R. BARTHOLOMEW, County Supt. of Schools,

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THE CHERADO-1924 MARSHALL PITNEY Class President '21, '23, '24 Basketball '22, '23, '24 Carnival '23, '24 Junior Play '24 Editor of Breeze '24 Subscription Manager '24 President Boys' Club '24 Junior Hi Basketball Coach '24 Faculty Play '24 MARGARET REEDER Class Sec. and Treas '22, '24 Trip around world '22 Carnival '23, '24 Junior Class Play '23 Basketball '23, '24 Class Reporter '24 OSCAR UNRUH Trip around world '22 Basketball '22 Treas. Athletic Association '22 Business Manager Breeze '23 .lunior Play '23 Carnival '23, '24 Asst. Class Reporter '24 Sec. and Treas. Boys' Club '24 Faculty Play '24 IVA WADE Carnival '23, '24 Public Speaking Plays '23 Annual Reporter '24 Basketball '23, '24 VERDA RILEY Trip around world '22 Basketball '23, '24 Carnival '23, '24 Annual Staff '24 RALPH CONDER Trip around the world '22 Baseball '23 Carnival '23, '24 Track '23 Basketball '24 Annual Reporter '24 LOIS SWITSER Trip around the world '22 Carnival '23, '24 Basketball '23, '24 Class Reporter '24 Athletic Reporter Annual '24