East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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. 'l'Mn I L ,A:WMiim,. . l 5 7 Why. By GEORGE PILKINGTON Why must we study simple facts, That seem to bore us so? What's it to us if this man lived A thousand years ago? Why must we know the weight in grams Of a certain piece of lead? Why must we know The Bells by heart, Or just what Shakespeare said? Why should we know that 'Ich bin dein' Really means 'l'm yours'? Why must we know the year Caesar Reached 'England's chalky shores'? We're really 'fed up' with these facts. That teachers hold so dear. But I suppose we'll study them At least another year. . Of Pink Slips By DoRo1'1-nr GARRETT QESSAY A LA BACONJ Pink slips serve for delight and reproach. Their chief use for delight is in going to one's locker when one forgets one's books: for orna- ment is in fluttering them between the fingers while wandering about the halls during class time: for reproach is for conversing with one's neighbor on forgetting the assignment. Expert pupils can wheedle pink slips from the teacher one by one, but dull pupils collect them with not a word. They perfect memory and are perfected by the printer. Witty pupils delight in them: dull pupils condemn them, and crafty pupils use them. Use pink slips not to escape a test, nor for paper wads to shoot from rubber bands, but to pass monitors in the hall. Some pink slips are to be avoided: some are to be accepted nonchalantly: and some are to be sought. Pink slips make confident stu- dents, nervous students, and indifferent stu- dents.

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Twfphw Em. 5 i By RALPH Wmss For the Service of Humanity, the East High motto, that interlaces with the traditional school spirit of loyalty and pride, is the solid foundation upon which many a brilliant career has been built. Many have traveled far alon the road to success since leaving East High school, some reaching heights almost beyond their dreams, but who can find one who does not cherish the memories of Days at Dear East High ? A few picked at random from the alumni is truly a panorama of successful men and women that the school might well be proud to call its own. Foremost amon them is Miss May Good- rell, a graduate 0? East High school sixty years a o, who returned later to act as princi- pal of gre school. Through the years she has carried high the torch that lighted the devious beginningls of the road to success and with a guiding and started hundreds of young men andl women climbing toward their respective oa s. 9 The late Frank O. Green of the class of 1880 founded the Green Foundary and Fur- nace Works and other enterprises. Anna Stohlgren is a principal in the Des Moines school system. Iver Newlen, undertaker, was a graduate of East forty years ago. Eskel Carlson, attorney. has been city solicitor and judge and holds an executive office with the Y. M. C. A. Miss Alma Hammer is a graduate of the school she now serves as clerk and registrar, and many of East's teachers were once students in the school. Ed Lytton is business manager of Drake University and Lillian Hethershaw is an in- structor of general science and education there. Martin Roe is assistant secretary of the Banker's Life company and his brother, Charles Roe, is a successful lawyer at Carson, Iowa. Harold Gordon is proprietor of the Gordon Grocery Stores in this city. Forrest Geneva is advertising manager at the Register and Tribune. Iack Brophy, an East High football star of 1913, is Chief of Detectives in Des Moines. Iack Lazarus, another player who helped make East's football history, is business man- ager of the Iowa State Policemen's association. Hu h Redhead of the class of '14 heads the CCC units in the Re-Forestation program in Wisconsin. Adelaide Ewing is a well known music teacher in this city. Carl Heggen is president of the Heggen Shoe company. Cleatie Devine is chief probation officer for the Polk County Iuvenile Court. Art Holman is proprietor of the Hiland Potato Chip Company. Helen Redhead is bacteriologist at the Flynn Dairy company. Ro Peel, who is professor of government at the Ilfniversity of New York, has recently re- turned from the Scandinavian countries where he spent twolyears in research work for the Rockefeller Foundation. Warren Bassett, class of '16, is an editor and ublisher in New York City. Bruce Gould is editor of the Ladies Home Iournal. Darrell Iohns is supervisor of a well known insurance company with offices in New York Cit . yKenneth Henkle is president of an invest- ment company in Des Moines. Dr. Fred Peel, who taught chemistry in a college in Minneapolis, Minn., is now practicing dentistry in this city. Carl Christopherson, who has traveled from coast to coast, from Alaska to the Phili - ines and from China to Australia for the flnited States Department of Commerce and Geodetic Department, is now living in Shanghai. He is the United States Trade Commission to China. Fred Mathis is a successful real estate man in Des Moines. Carl William D er is manager at Ames for the Northwesternvgell Telephone company. Iean Carroll heads a market analysis com- pany with offices in New York City. Carrie Christopherson is manager of the Media Department of the Coolidge Advertising company of this city. David Bolen is credit manager at Younker Brothers. Iohnny Iohnson, another of East's famous football stars, is athletic supervisor for the Des Moines Public School System. Clifford Iulstrom is music instructor and di- rector of the orchestra and band at Western Illinois State Teachers College. Herbert Nelson holds an engineering position with the Goodrich Rubber company of Akron, Ohio. Is this record of achievement a criterion of the future fortunes of graduates of 1937 and those to follow?

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The Biography of Harry High School Or The Last Three Years In Retrospect By Barr:-: IANE GRAHAM Chapter I-Class Work In 10-B, Harry High School wheen called upon in class to recite sat slouched in his seat very timidly sulking. His answer amounted to uhuhs and unuhs. However, Harry pushed himself forward with leaps and bounds and soon found himself as a junior eagerly looking forward to being a senior. By this time he was into the swing of things and began to understand that a bad answer is better than none. Now, at last Harry is one of the dignified seniors with gray matter which easily equals Einstein's. But now he is well informed in the technique of answers. He has found that a true-blooded bluff shows the art of study. Chapter II--Report Cards lt is grading time and Harry has his finger-nails bitten to the quick. Why--for days Harry has been acting strangely. I be- lieve he is worried. Can it be his grade? Well, I guess Harry lived through the shock of grades, because here I find him still looking forward to report cards. However he has figured that he will surel get a assing mark in all of his classes. lgerhaps file is a little doubtful about one period. But what does he care, he's a junior and has acquired a little of the upper hand at home. That's really all that counts, you know. Humph, Harry olny received two failures. But what of it, he's a senior and they don't dare fail him because I imagine they are kind of tired of seeing his face. I don't doubt he imagines that someone will inform him or mark Harry's words to the worst. Chapter III--Football When Harry first came to high school he attended the 10-B assembl and was ur ed very ardently to come out for football. lN?ow Harry wasn't very large but he really was a wow at football in the gang at home. So Harry finds himself stuck with the second team reserve. But Harry works like a trooper and at the end of his junior year of football we see him giillantly struggling onward. e ate his spinach all summer and has grown all of two inches. For this piece of ability and grim determination the coach puts him on the first team reserve. Harry's last year of school is really the tops , He has found that it is quite an ad- vantage to be a senior and to be able to bully the kids of second team reserve. My how Harry does achieve things, and in such a short time too. Chapter IV-Clubs When Harry first was ushered into his sophomore year, he was very little concerned about the activities of the clubs. However as he advanced nearer and nearer to his junior year he made up his mind fvery determinedlyj to join a club. Now Harry was still a little timid, and so he very industriously attempted to make friends and to put himself out to be nice to the fellows wjho held his fate in the palm of their hands. Ah--what a relief. Harry, after his very hard trying. has been initiated into the L. B. club. I guess L. B. stands for Lame Brain. Well, the L. B. club continued. Very soon Harry found himself in his senior year with a very prospective outlook to the oncoming ear. But sadly fear that Harry is not the boy that he used to was . He seems to be slipping in attendance. Do you suppose that the very ideals of the L. B. c ub have failed in tying Harry to the chain of activities? I be- lieve so, because you see his excuses are in- creasing in number, but slipping badly in sense-. Chapter V-Matinee Dances It is Thursday, and Harry High School is attending his first matinee dance. It is e?ecially for the 10-B's. He watches everyone ancing. If only he could get up nerve enouglh to ask Harrietta to dance. He watches er glide smoothly over the floor with his most bitter rival, Sam Slick-up. His face burns and he is mad all over his 5 ft. 6 inches. So finally at the last dance he finds his nerve and asks Harrietta could I-a-m-please-a have th-this dance? Well we left ourselves rather in a quandery as to what happened to Har at his first dance. But nowf he is again at alfI'hursday Matinee dance which is being held on Wednesday be- cause it has been postponed from Tuesday to Friday. Remember now, Harry High School is a junior now so he walks over and with nary a falter, he says Let's dance! I'll let you in on the secret! He got his dance with Harrietta. But you see now Harry is a football hero and a senior: so he doesnt need his unfaltering speech to acquire a dance with Harrietta. All he has to say is Can I borrow your frame for this struggle? -And just like that she is on her feet just dying to begin. Perhaps if you look back into your school days which have passed so rapidly, you will find a similar resemblance of such appenings. just mark my word, if ou will take heed of the familiar quotation 'Took before you leap such obstacles perhaps will not stand in your way.