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

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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.

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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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Sleepless Nights By BETTY NELSON Five hundred ninety seven. five hundred ninety eight, five hundred ninety nine, six hundred--won't I ever get to sleep tonight? I wonder if we'll have a test in English tomorrow. She didn't mention one, but may- be I should have studied that play better. Oh, well, what's the use? I wouldn't have remem- bered anything about it by tomorrow's class, anyway. Perhaps I'1l have time to o over it again during home room. How I wisli I would go to sleep. Six hundred one, six hundred two if I ever do get to sleep, I'll probably dream about sheep. I wonder where that new girl came from? She must have come from the South because she drawls when she talks. Oh! What was that noise? I wonder if Dad locked the back door before he went to bed. It sounded very much like a door slamming. Oh, dear, I wonder what time it is. Maybe if those people turned their radio down a little I could sleep. I hope it doesn't rain all day Saturday as it did last Saturday. Dear me, I forgot to see that teacher after school to talk to her about the club. I hope she forgot about it, too. I'll have to talk to her in the mornin before school if I have time. Ho hum! lgthink I'm getting a little sleepy. Maybe if I counted a few more sheep, I'll drift off. Let's see, where did I leave off counting? Six hundred three, six hundred four, six hundred and five-. Gridiron Pick-Ups By IEAN DAv1s Object: Pigskin scramble. Place: Open-air stadium built to seat 5,000 attendance-attendance l0,000. Time: Fine, balmy, fall evening-tempen ature 50 degrees below normal. Theme Song: You've got to be a foot- ball hero -- I on't you?j -- This is station W. C. N., bringing to you throu h the court- esy of Huxley's Body Builder, the food that gives you Wim, wi ar, witality, a note by note description of tlfiis great gridiron classic, T. C. U.-fTrample, Cripple, Undulatej vs. K. B. U.--fKick um, Bite um, U-eat uml. They're lining up for the kick-off-The ball is on T. C. U.'s own 30 yard line. Now for a hard line drive-but oh! ! The un was just shot off by the referee, and the lgrst half is over-fMy, how time flies--J. What a game! What a game! Oh, Boy! What a game! ! It just keeps you breathless, doesn't it? or does it? With the second half just be- O un, the mighty warriors of K. C. U. are gghting hard for the honor and name of dear old Alma Mater , but they will have to put more light into it if they expect to trample out that scrap y eleven of T. C. U.--But listen to this- l?lit um Hard Kelly, battlin Oquar- terback, of T. C. U., has just run 208 yards for a touchdown- es, 200 yards. He ran to one goal zone, found it to be the wrong one--so-o-o-o-o, he ran back a ain! ! There's the gun! The game is over, and T. C. U. wins 0 to 0! ! ! This is station W. C. N. Iwho's crazy nowj signing off---. Man's Worst Enemy By MYRNA SMITHSON On the shelf sits a harmless looking object. This household article has for its function the awakening of the helpless sleeper on the morn- ings when he wishes to sleep late. Picture yourself as any innocent person on a winter morning, the temperature twenty de- grees below zero. The room temperature is about thirty-two degrees: you are lying weighed down by six blankets. The time is 7:00 a. m. As your aerial thou hts are concentrated on a june ni ht, with bafmy breezes, and beautiful music flloating about your ears, a harsh heart- rending noise forces its way into your throb- bing head. This cruel force drills into your poor brain painful recollections of ungrepared lessons and unbearably hard tests. W en your feet touch the cold floor, cold shivers ascend and descend your spine. As the curtain falls on this drama, you ma? recompence yourself slightly by flinging the o - fender violently into a corner, but this action will probably only start him off anew, screeching at you in jeering tones. Dear friend, I would have Hyou beware of this wolf in sheep's clothing. e is an evil of this modern a e and will give you nothing but heartaches and headaches. Help For Late -Comers By IACK Risrvaor FoREwoRD: In being late there are four iron- clad rules of procedure in explaining-ryour late- ness to the unsympathetic teacher. he author has set forth these rules, with explanatory re- marks following each. --The Author. Lateness can be excused at times, providing one has a good excuse for his lateness. Fol- lowing are the Four Famous Rules as found in a survey of 78,496 high school student excuses. First:-BE PLAUSIBLE. Be sure that the excuse that you use can have happened to