Denfield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Duluth, MN)

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Qlumui The Robert E. Denfeld Alumni Association was organized june, l9l9. Our first year was a very successful one. May we all boost for a greater year this year. The Alumni gave a number of successful parties during the past year, and our association has profited greatly by these social gatherings. As a result of these social meetings we have been linked together more closely. May the spirit of friendship and co-operation, which is the result of our getting together, continue to exist among our Denfeld graduates. It is on the account of our friendly and spirited meetings that the former students and graduates of Denfeld are impelled to cast aside all engagements and journey to our Dear Denfeldn where they may meet the new graduates, renew old associations, and greet old friends. Our Alumni gatherings are not for social reasons, alone. We, the graduates and former students, owe a duty to Denfeld. We aim to extend to the school our heartiest support and co-operation. We, the Alumni of Denfeld, must be true to our Alma Mater. ' Another year has rolled by and a new class is to be graduated from the Denfeld I-ligh School. These students are starting out, as we did, full of cherished dreams, high hopes and the inspiration of the faculty who do their best to prepare us to play the game and play it right. What do the four years which we spend in High School really mean to us if we are not prepared? They really mean four years idly spent, they mean four valuable years of our life gone by without one effort on our part to prepare us for the work which we must do. The first year after leaving high school is, perhaps, the hardest. We start out with the idea that things are to come easy to us because we happen to be a graduate of Dear Old Denfeld. Of course, we expect the world to meet us with open arms and to be glad to have us with them. Our dreams will materialize just as we have planned and our future will be as successful as our high school days. Then comes the readjustment. We must not lose our dreams but we must fit them in their proper sphere. We must learn the lesson that even though our dreams have been big that it is worth the while to do the little things right. Our ambitions do not always map out as we had hoped but we are bigger and better for having had those ambi- tions., When we play the game we may not always come out the winner,-'but let it be ai cleaner game for our having been one of the players. in ' Our ideals that have been set before us in our high school life should ever be before us to inspire us when our dreams have not quite materialized, when our hopes are not quite so bright and we stop, saying What's the use? The use is this-don't be afraid, after having prepared yourself, to face things squarely. Meet things with the glad, optimistic smile that characterizes the winner. Hold up your ideals that made life so worth the while in high school and always play the game just as true as you did in high school crediting our Dear Old Denfeld.

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A Qlumni fwffiters RUTH LITTLE Recording Secretary ANNA MARIE EXTROM Publicity Manager MILDRED M. ANDERSON Oracle Editor At the annual meeting of the Robert E. Denfeld Alumni Association which was held February I5, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Edward Hosted: vice president, Earl Sherman: cor- responding secretary, William Johnson: record- ing secretary, Ruth Little: treasurer, Lucile Armstrong: publicity manager, Anna Marie Extrom: Advisor, F. Taylor. Mildred M. Anderson was elected to represent the Alumni Association on the Oracle board.

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TO THE CLASS OF 1920 Welcome! The Alumni Association of the Robert E. Denfeld High School ex- tends to you all a cordial welcome. We are glad to have you join our ranks of rooters and supporters for Denfeld. If we all work diligently for Denfeld's welfare and success we will see greatlresults. Class of I920, fall in line anl help boost for our organiza tion and Denfeld. ' h TO THE CLASS OF l92I We are looking forward eagerly to the day when the I92l class will affiliate themselves with our peppy organization. We, the Alumni, are proud of you and your work and are looking for and count- ing upon your co-operation and support. May you all find a place in our ranks and help pull for Dear Old Denfeld. The I92I class has been watched with keen interest by the Alumni. We are proud of your work and have rejoiced in your wonderful success while students at Den- feld. You have helped to make this a banner year for Denfeld High School. We have admired your loyalty and pluck. Good luck to the class of l92I! The Alumni wishes to thank the retiring ofhcers for their wonderful leadership and untiring efforts. We appreciate your work and give you the credit for our success this year. The first social gathering of l92I was held January the eighth. The I920 class was initiated into our organization and we bade them all a hearty welcome. Dancing followed the initiation ceremonies and later in the evening a lunch was served. OUR MARRIED FOLKS Members of our Alumni who have succumbed to Cupid's Darts during the past year are: Hugh Myles, Harriet Brown, Margaret Armstrong and Leo Deutsch. Congratulations folks! We're wishing that your lives may be as care-free and happy as the rhys we spent as Classmates of yours at Dear Old Denfeld. CAN YOU BEAT IT! What? Why don'l you know! The record that some of our Fellow-Alumni are making? Didn'l you hear: That Ralph Nichols 'l8 was appointed by Congressman Larson as his Private Secretary and is making good in Washington? That Ida Gratton 'I6 has been promoted to the Teachers' College in Detroit? That Stewart Shaw and Lester Ensign 'I8 are going to compete against fagainstj the best Dentists in our fair city when they finish their Courses at the U and re- turn to old Duluth? I That Carolyn Horman 'I 7 will be a sweet girl graduate of the University of Minnesota this year? That Herman Berghult 'I6 is making good in the real estate game? That Marguerite Downey 'I 7 is pursuing her studies in Sunny California at the University there? That Werl Smith 'I8 is going to do Social Service work under Jane Adams? That Alton Gander 'I8 and james Warner were players on the Goodfellowship Team of Morgan Park that made such a good record in basketball?