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

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President .Forrest McAbee Vice-President .Lolabelle Hulbert Secretary .Evelyn Cook ophomore!— What a peculiar name for such a class as ours. This word comes from the Greek. The Sophists were Greek philosophers who argued, sometimes for days, upon some very foolish point that had practically no importance, simply because the art of arguing was a very popular accomplishment among the great scholars of the day. The meaning of the Greek word is “wise fools,“ but to the people of Cloverdale and the surrounding country it has begun to mean just the opposite, and it is all due to the class of ' 25. It now implies honesty, skill, brilliance, wit, and humor. Have you heard the tuneful sounds escaping from the stage on Tuesday and Thursday mornings? They were produced by our orchestra. The majority of these artists belong to the Sophomore class. Perhaps some of the magical sweet¬ ness of the strains is due even to the drummer, who always stays away. The gentle flow of sweetly sounding sentences which gush from the lips of some of the members of our French class are so enticing that Miss Pierson cannot refrain from keeping them after school every night to listen the longer to them. This is undoubtedly a great help to her in giving her the needed courage to attack the Freshman English papers in the evening. Irnita McPhail is one of our most noted members, as is plainly seen by glancing at her report card, which shows a solid column of six I ' s. It is predicted that Miss McPhail will accept the presidency of the United States within the next twenty years. It is almost certain that Forrest McAbee, who has an extremely sentimental disposition and who writes poetry during the noon hour and any other time when he has a few spare moments, will be a rival of Service and Guest, perhaps even of Shakespeare and Browning. Pauline Domine will probably go into the movies as soon as she finishes school. If she does, Dorothy Gish will soon be forgotten. We are rivals of the Seniors in the matter of representation in the Honor Society. We have five scholars who come up to the standard and the Seniors have five. To be sure, our total enrollment is somewhat greater than theirs, but this is a point we do not emphasize so much when we are making the comparison. In athletics we have a no less glorious record. We furnish nearly one-half of the baseball team and can show almost as good a percentage on the basketball team. The manager of the track team belongs to us, also. [ 22 ]

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know a girl named Jane Abetty Who gets her lessons mighty steady. If they should be wrong, she just sings a song, This happy-go-lucky Betty. Isabelle is a girl athlete. In ball she can always compete. Her hair so brown is a lustrous croivn — This bright little athlete, Izzy. Ben Warren is a lad of the class of 24. Of plans he has a-plenty and then some more; To read many a story and do deeds of glory. This ambitious lad of 24. Nobles, Gibbins, Pearce, Rutherford, Warren Smith, Kleiser, Hurt, Yordi, Murray, Liest, Sink [ 21 ]

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Osmon, McCray, McChesney, Porterfield, Simonson, Hiatt, McAbee McPhail, Hiatt, Mazzini, Hulbert, Cook, Domine, McPherson We Are Here To Win— (With apologies to Lowell) Into their studies The Sophomores run. Thinking and working — No time for fun. Into their homework They plunge like mad, Digging and delving, Each lassie and lad. On to the honor roll All their names go. Making the others Their white feathers show. Ever a-working. Blithesome and cheery. Still climbing upward. Never a-weary. We work in all weather. Doing our best. None of us failing At the time of a test. Full of ambition Naught can discourage. Building a character None can disparage. Ceaseless aspiring. Ceaseless content. We work for the good Of the schooVs betterment. On to the Junior Class We go with delight. Keeping the honor roll Ever in sight. —Forrest McAbee ’25. [ 23 ]