Falls City High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Falls City, NE)

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iwi.i.s city men sc non i, At this time, we took into our class a new member, namely. Ralph Hammond from Lincoln High School. In February, the Board of Control of the Orange and Black was chosen. Our class is represented on this board by: Maude Reese. Bernice Misson. Halcyon Whitford. Wallace Abbey, and Ray Gantt. A number of our classmen are also on the staff. The Seniors gave good support to the basketball teams, in spite of the fact that the “flu” ban kept us from having many games. Class members on the boys' team were: John. Dewey. Tom and Ted. On the girls’ team were: Janice Bowers, Edith Heaston. Kosina Brecht and Ruth Ernst. We are indeed proud of these people. In April, after many postponements, we gave a cafeteria picnic for the school as a whole. It was not only a picnic, but a rally and a real “pep” meeting. At this time there is a great deal of mysterious talk of the ”S. S. S.” I suppose we will be allowed to tell that those letters stand for the “Silly Senior Sircus. which is to pitch its tents and give its performance in the P. C. H. S. in the early pari of May. May and June will be busy times for us with our Senior play, class day exercises, baccalaureate service, graduation and the many other functions. They will be happy days, but at the same time sad ones, for it is with deepest regret that each one of us leaves dear old F. ( H. S. We have tried to do the right thing by our school and we hope that, though gone, the ('lass of 1919 will not be forgotten. We want to thank the Faculty for the interest and patience they have manifested in our behalf, during our school career. It is also with regret that we leave them and our friends of the under-classes. This is the extent of ‘he history of the ('lass of 1919. but we feel that it is a record of which to be proud. Page Twenty-four

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Our Junior year started with lots of “pep” and class spirit altho our number was somewhat diminished. Our class-mate, Alvin Farlow, had enlisted in the navy and the others had left us for various reasons. Our 1917 sponsor, Mr. Beaver, whom we had hoped to have with us again, had enlisted in the army during vacation, so Miss Gui nea was chosen as our sponsor. Class officers selected for the year were: Halcyon Whitford. President; Wallace Abbey, Vice-President: Ray Gantt, Secretary and Tieasurer. Ray found it necessary to resign, and Wilbur Story was chosen to fill the office. We had two good weiner roasts with the Seniors during the fall, and a Christmas party with them in the Gymnasium. We soon grew to be at ease in their presence. and a number of friendships (?) blossomed forth. In November we chose our class pins and rings, and this proved a favorable investment. We have failed, so far, to find their equal. We will always look back upon our Junior year as one of our best, not only because of the good times we had, but because of its connection with the war and the ways in which we tried to do our bit. We purchased a Liberty Bond in the Third Loan Drive, donated ten dollars to the Y. M. ( A. and became members of the Junior and Senior Red Cross. We assisted Mr. Hoover at the time of our Junior-Senior affair, by giving the Seniors a reception instead of a banquet. On that eventful night, in May. we gave them a play as the first part of the evening’s entertainment. The title was: “Lost, a Chaperon!” We hope they enjoyed it. After the play, they were taken to the Gymnasium which was tastefully decorated, and there they were served LIGHT refreshments. During our Junior Year, we were well represented in athletics. Dewey Hoy. John Whetstine, Wallace Abbey, Tom Frehse, Ted Mosiman. and Glenn Hughes played on the football team and we feel sure that it was thru their efforts that many of the victories were won. John. Dewey, and Tom were also stars on the basketball team. Page Twenty-three OKA sat: D IfLACK. HUN-HUH The second day of September. 1918, we returned to the High School for our last year within its walls. We were then forty-three strong which is probably the largest Senior Class which ever attended F. C. H. S. and also the best.” A number of new members have joined us, Janice Bowers comes from the Verdon High School to finish the 12th year; George Sheehan from Salem High School, and Vera McKenney and Louise Roth from the High School of Shubert. At one of our first class meetings, class officers were chosen as follows : Ray Gantt, President ; Halcyon Whit-ford. Vice-President; Bernice Misson, Secretary and Treasurer; John Cameron, Sergeant-at-Arms. Miss Leyda was appointed our class sponsor, but she left us in October. Then Miss Koester was appointed our sponsor. We decided to keep the class colors we had held for the last two years, green and white.” One warm fall day we went on a jolly good picnic to old Hinton’s Park. This was a Junior-Senior affair, that is, we gave it for the Juniors as a “get acquainted good time. We enjoyed ourselves and we hope the Juniors did too. At a class meeting in October, after much discussion, we decided upon our graduation invitations. Early in October, school was closed on account of the “flu. We Seniors were disappointed in having our Senior year so badly broken up. but it was unavoidable, and we were very thankful that our classmates were so lucky in escaping the flu.” We returned to school December sixteenth, and it seemed so good to be back in old F. C. H. S. It took us a day or so to get our studies straightened out but everything was soon in running order again. We had many stars on the football team this year and they did splendid work. Seniors represented were: Wallace Abbey. Ted Mosiman, Glenn Hughes. Dewey Hoy (Captain). John Whetstine and Tom Frehse. The second semester opened February twenty-fourth.

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OU.WUK I Mt HLM'K. IWS-WW The Last Will and Testament of the Class of 1919 Ladies and Gentlemen. Hoard of Education. Superintendent. Teachers and Friends: Upon behalf of my client, the class of 1919. of Falls City High School, of the City of Falls City, State of Nebraska. U. S. A.. I have called you together upon this solemn and serious occasion, to listen to her last will and testament, and to receive from her dying hand the few gifts she has to bestow in her last moments. Cutting so rapidly loose from life, and finding so many things of such gigantic proportions to be attended to before the end should come upon her, realizing at the same time that she had no longer any time left to spend in cultivation of her own virtues, she did collectively and individually, deem it best to distribute these virtues with her own hands to those friends to whose needs they seem best fitted. As a result of this announcement, a wild scene took place amidst most frantic pleading and scrambling among her friends for this or that so long coveted glory; but she has tried to be just, as well as generous and impartial, and distribute wisely unto those who will make the best use of such gifts as she has in her power to bestow, the talents that have served her so faithfully these four years. These are her decisions as at last definitely arrived at thru very deliberate consideration. Owing to the flighty condition of her brain, and the unusual disturbance in its gray matter, she begs me to state for her that she may quite possibly have been mistaken in her inventory; but such things as she thinks she has, she hereby gives into your possession, praying that you will accept them as a sacred trust from one who has gone before. Listen, then, one and all. while I read the document, as duly drawn up and sworn to:— We. the Class of 1919, in forty-four individual and distinct parts, being about to pass out of this sphere of education, of full possession of a crammed mind, well-trained memory, and almost super human understanding, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills or promises by us at any time heretofore made, or mayhap, carelessly spoken, one to the other, as the t hot less wish of an idle hour. And first, we do direct that our funeral services shall be conducted by our friends and well-wishers, our Superintendent and his Faculty, who have been our guardians. only asking as the last injunction of the dying, that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp that our worth, our merit, our attainments and our positions as Seniors of grave and reverend mien.” must certainly have deserved. As to such estate as it has pleased the fates and our own strong hands and brains to win for us. we do dispose of the same as follows: I. Item: We give and bequeath to Faculty, who have been our instructors in all the wdsdom of the ages, a sweet and unbroken succession of restful nights and peaceful dreams. No longer need they lie awake thru the long watch of the night to worry over the uncertainty of whether this one is doing his night work, or that one will have all his mathematics in the morning class, or the other one will remember every iron-clad rule of compositional technique in the preparation of his theme. It has been a hard strain on them, for Seniors are said to be at all times and under all conditions, difficult to manage. But they have done their duty, and verily, now' shall have their wrell-earned reward. Page Tw’enty-flve