Cloverdale Union High School - Spectator Yearbook (Cloverdale, CA)

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g ctttnr iiiistnry RUTH BELCHER ’13. O NLY seven of the pupils who graduated from the Gram¬ mar School in 1909 entered High School the following August, but these were so attractive that, inside of a week, six more from other localities had joined them and then there were thirteen. Since we are to graduate on Friday, June 13, we shall have the great honor of destroying forever the old super¬ stition of unlucky Friday and unlucky thirteen. This might be considered an undertaking too difficult for “just girls,” but we have already done so much in this direction that our ultimate success is practically assured. When we have ac¬ complished it we surely shall deserve to have a monument erected to our honor in the hall of fame. During the Freshman year the class showed such wonder¬ ful understanding of the attributes and appearance of the gods and goddesses in Classic Myths, that many of their doubles were recognized in the members of the class. Heald’s Hill became a veritable Mount Olympus Up-to-Date when we betook ourselves thither to hold our noonday sessions. In Algebra, we distinguished ourselves by solving the equation 17

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Ah Aatra Far in the wide illimitable space The stars shine ever, beckoning us to strive To some achievement high, a goal above The sordid ends of selfish gain or power, Firm fixed in God’s eternal purpose wise; For thou dear Blue and Gold hast taught to us The language of these flaming orbs of light Thou hast shown to us how mortals such as we May strive, aspire, and reach the lofty heights Where Love and Truth and Peace reign through unending day. Thou hast shown how humblest deed to fellow man Can be the stepping stone on which both rise To that high plane where hate and envy cease And each his brother as himself doth love; Where God communes with them and gives them joy. And we our gratitude to thee would prove, Our Alma Mater, by the lives we live. May purpose high and firm endeavor here Show how we learned to haste at duty’s call To do her bidding joyously and well. N. H. ’13.

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which shows how fast a man must walk in order to meet himself coming back. We promised, however, never to let the succeeding classes know the answer but to let them have the pleasure of working it out for themselves. As Sophomores we made a record for murdering Caesar. We sincerely hope that the dear old hero did not mind it much, for, with all his subjunctives, and periphrastics and gerunds and gerundives, we loved him still. In geometry, we were satisfied to yield the honors to the Harvard lad who was mastering the mystery of the fourth dimension at the age of ten. Though past fifteen, most of us would have been perfectly contented to let even the first and second dimen¬ sions remain mysteries. By the time we had reached Chemistry all the boys had gone out to earn a living. Our instructor, being a married man himself, was fully aware of the importance of the prin¬ ciples of this science in managing a household and, conse¬ quently , taught them to us so well that by only a little special training we shall be perfectly competent to master the difficult art of housekeeping and to determine just how much food and what kind will be needed to keep in good humor a brain worker who spends all his time in earning money to pay for the gasoline and who takes no recreation except to drive the automobile for our pleasure. As we entered into our Senior year we realized we had even greater things to accomplish. The five girls all came back, thus proving themselves to be “true blue.” We knew that with the help of our teachers all difficulties could easily be overcome. We took so much interest in Physics, proved ourselves such students and advanced so quickly, that we soon knocked in the head such theories as Newton’s Law of Gravitation, Boyle’s Law of Pressure, and Archimedes’ Prin¬ ciple. In French, we have read a remarkably long list of books. We even followed with the keenest sympathy the wanderings of Tyltyl and Mytyl in their search for the Blue Bird. Their innocent prattle in this musical language so charmed us that we decided to commit to memory the whole first act. Though we have enjoyed the sincerity and the 18