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

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ORANGE AND BLACK 1924 WILFRED YOUNG “Arkansaw” My days are spent in argument, my nights in planning them. “Mrs. Bumpsteatl-Leigh.” WILBERT ZORN “Dutch” “We are going to mm this right, or we are not going to run it at all.” Football ’20, ’21, ’22, Capt. ’23; Basketball ’22, ’23, Capt. ’24; Track ’21, ’22; Glee Club ’22; Staff ’24. MISS NELLIE LEE HOLT, Sponsor She made us what we are today. We hope she’s satisfied. pagc Nineteen

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ORANGE AND BLACK 1924 TRULY WALTERS “Lady Jane” No remarks about altitude. Acc. Girls’ Glee Club ’24; Editor-in-Chief Orange and Black ’24. HARVEY WHITAKER “Hob” Why girls leave home. Glee Club ’23; Orchestra ’21, ’22 Football ’22, ’23; Pres. ’24; Band ’22 Baseball ’21; “Cherry Blossom” Senior Play. JOHN WHITAKER “Marcel” Greater men than I may have lived, but I have my doubts. Glee Club ’23, 24; Band ’22; Orchestra ’21, ’22; Vice Pres. ’22, ’24; Staff ’22; “Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh,” Cheer Leader ’24; “Cherry Blossom”; “Bells of Beaujolais”; Senior Play. GRANT WHITFORD “Jew” Liked by everyone—especially himself. Glee Club ’22, ’23, ’24; Basketball ’23, ’24; Track ’21, ’22; Staff ’21; Cheer Leader ’22, ’23; “Cherry Blossom”; “Bells of Beaujolais”; Senior Play. JOHN WILTSE “The Rural Sheik” am afraid to smile—’tivould break too many hearts. Glee Club ’23, ’24; Band ’23. JULIA WISSINGER “Juliet” Romeo! Romeo! Where are you, Romeo! Page Eighteen

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OR AX a E AXD BLACK 1924 SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Four years ago there come into the Falls City High School a new group of Freshmen, green and unaccustomed to the wisdoms and tribulations of High School life. In this respect they were similar to those that had preceded them—but in others they were different and were immediately given the name of being one of the best and most unusual classes in F. C. H. S. To prove this fact, you may need only to look further. After we had been duly initiated into the secrets of Freshmanhood, we elected our class officers for the year. They were Clarence Nutter, President; Georg? Reid, Vice-President, and Anna Margaret Brecht, Secretary and Treasurer. Miss Herrick was chosen Class Sponsor. Wilbert Zorn was our representative on the football squad. Our Freshman year passed rather uneventfully but successfully. In 1922 we began to gain more confidence in ourselves and took the revenge that had been smouldering in our hearts from the time of our Freshman initiation, upon the innocent Freshies of 1922. With the help of our class officers, Anna Margaret Brecht as President, John Whitaker as Vice President, and Rosalie Linsley as Secretary and Treasurer, with Miss Gregory as Sponsor, the party was made a success. Zorn again made the football team besides being our only representative in Boys’ Basketball. Esther Mettz and Sara Helen Simanton were the only Sophomores on the Girls’ Basketball Team. In 1923 we elected Grand Whitford President, Lucille Crawford, Vice President, and Robert Horrocks, Secretary and Treasurer. Miss Holt was chosen Class Sponsor. On the football team we had five men, Wilbert Zorn, Clarence Nutter, Harvey Whitaker, Grant Whitford, and Harold Lippold. We were represented by Wilbert Zorn, Orville Morris, Grant and Murray Whitford in Basketball. Four girls of the Junior Class, Lovelle Sconce, Margaret Forney, Sara Helen Simanton and Esther Mettz displayed their ability on the Basketball floor. The Girls’ Interclass Basketball Tournament was won by the Juniors. In our Junior year we also purchased our pins and rings which satisfied our most exclusive tastes. Thanks to Miss Holt’s unfailing interest in our class, her creative ideas, and untiring efforts, we were able to entertain the Seniors of 1923 at one of the prettiest and most delectable banquets in the history of F. C. H. S. Our social and mental activities developed rapidly in our Senior year of 1924. At the beginning of this year we elected Harvey Whitaker President, John Whitaker Vice President, and Robert Horrocks Secretary and Treasurer. By a unanimous vote of approval, Miss Holt was again chosen Class Sponsor. In footba 1 with Wilbert Zorn as Captain, seven men made their letters. They were Orville Morris, Clarence Nutter, Edgar Norton, De Forest Lewis, Murray and Grant Whitford. Both the boys’ and girls’ Basketball teams were largely composed of Seniors, Deckinger, Lewis, Zorn and Whitford playing on the boys’ team while E. Mettz, N. L. Brecht, S. H. Simanton, M. Forney, and L. Sconce were on the girls’ team. Both the boys and girls of our class won the Interclass Tournament this year. The play, “Mrs. Bumpstead Leigh” given by Falls City High, featured five Seniors, and four of the Class of ’24 were chosen to speak at the Rotary Club on the subject of “Roosevelt.” In the Glee Club Operetta, nine out of twelve principals, Douglas Cornell, Julia Eberhardt, John Whitaker, Nellie I ee Brecht, Anna Margaret Brecht, Frederic Burchard, Celia Jane Lawrence, Grant Whitford and Helen Ruth Reneker, with Truly Walters as accompanist, helped to make it a success. After a week of research, studying and writing, twenty-five per cent of all the essays sent to the American legion Contest were sent in by Seniors. From these we gleaned a fair per cent of the prizes and honorable mentions. John Whitaker received second prize, and Rosalie Linsley, third, while five out of seven honorable mentions were given to Stephen Coupe, Douglas Cornell, Ella Steinbrink, Harvey Whitaker and Nellie Lee Brecht. The Vice President of our class, John Whitaker, also earned the honors of first place in the District Oratorical Contest at Lincoln, given by the Kansas City Star and those of third place at the same contest covering fifty counties, which was given at Emporia, Kansas. The comedy drama entitled “Adam and Eva” was chosen by the Seniors as their Class Play and after much hard work was presented to the public on the night of May 23. Our class was represented on the Orange and Black Staff by Truly Walters, as Editor-in-Chief, Wilbert Zorn as Business Manager, Rosalie Linsley for Organizations, Anna Margaret Brecht for Snapshots, and Robert Horrocks as Senior Representative. The Class of 1924 takes this opportunity to thank the faculty of F. C. H. S. for the four successful years which mark the closing period of their career in public school life and activities. Page Twenty H. R. R.