Eau Claire High School - Beaver Tales Yearbook (Eau Claire, MI)

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Edward Bnkcman Rulh LnPlnni Arvon Collins

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FRESHMEN CLASS HISTORY September 7. 1917. twenty-eight Freshmen entered Eau Claire High School. We were not the timid, bashful, little creat- ures that Freshmen are supposed to be. We entered into the spirit of things and got all the fun there was coming to us. In October we held our first meeting to oiganlze, and elect officers. The result showed Millie Young, president; John Birk- holm. vice-president, and Fred Holle, secretary and treasurer. For class colors we chose Old Rose and White. while oar class flower was the White Carnation. At the rally held in February, the Freshmen showed their ability by doing their part in the program, which consisted of class song, yells and a speech. There were more from our class who were exempted from all the examinations than from any other class. In basketball we were represented, as three of our members--Willis and Alexander Gale and Karl Tidey- played on the second ream. The Freshman class is not a slow bunch. We are always wide awake and doing. I believe we have succeeded in convinc- ing the other classes that we are not as green as we were thot to be. We are all trying to. and going to. do our best, and make our class respected and admired by everybody. ELMER HASTINGS. FRESHMEN ROLL John Birkholm Edna Cook Alexander Gale Grant Gale Willi» Gale Kenneth Green Elmer Hastings Frederick Holle Alice Layman Floyd Layman Kcucl Lnymun Esther Michael Edna Mitchell Genevieve Moore Virgil McClure Kenneth Merritt Oca Price Milton Preston Beatrice Snell Katie Tatman Marjorie Thomson Earl Tidey Marshall Urick Millie Young Ivan Zeller

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The Oratorical and Declamatory Contestants (Date of Conical. April 5. 1 18) Ruth M. LaPlant Arvon Collins Edward W. Bakeman D E C L A M A T O R Y Rulh M. LaPlant chose for her subject “The Message to Garcia. by Elbert Hubbard, which she gave very nice- ly and won first place by a narrow margin. Arvon Collins chose for hia subject The Call to Arms. by Patrick Henry, which he gave with great enthusiusm and appreciation. Miss LaPlant and Mr. Collins are both members of the Sophomore class. () R A TO R I C A L Edward W. Bakeman » oration on Americanism was especially fine and rendered with splendid interest and feel- ing and adaptation to subject. Mr Bakeman is one of the members of the Junior class. Miss LaPlant and Mr. Bakeman represented the High School in the sub-district contest at Berrien Springs Apr. 5 The energy and enthusiasm which characterize the meeting of the contestants promise well for that section of the world into which its members will go, for it has been demonstrated that when such young ladies and gentlemen are test- ed in scholarship, moral influence and all those qualities which go to make up an American citizen, they are not found wanting