Grand Junction High School - Tiger Yearbook (Grand Junction, CO)

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THOMAS RHONE Goggles. Yell leader A. If 1 once gel started I am pretty wild. P. Wise looking but perfectly harmless. Tommy Rhone of demerits has none He’s got lots of sense and a stack of fun In chemistry, he surely shines A discovery he ought to find. BERNADINE HAGAN The Pianist Hogan A. Life without laughing is a dreary blank. 1 She is not only witty herself but the cause of wit in others. Bernadine Hagan a gay young vamp Who likes to sing and play and dance You’ll agree with me, She’s no clown For she runs a Ford all over town. The Booster’s Club As we look back over Ibis year that is so near an end, we wonder just how we could have gotten along without the Booster’s Club. Aside from its financial aid, it furnished one of the best entertainments ever given a high school—the Piggleteria Program. Anyone taking the time to read the statement in last month’s Orange and Black will realize that without this club which bound together the interest and co-operation of the entire High School into one livewire organization we would be in the depths of gloom because of ‘‘financial embarrassments.” The unforeseen events which prevented athletics from paying this year would have been real calamities had it not been for the Booster’s Club. Although there has been some criticism, we believe it was because of mistaken facts and ignorance of true conditions rather than any real grievance. We believe that the High School is and ever will be indebted to those who instituted such a club in our school, and who saw it successfully through its first year. Next year and in the years to come it should be the center of school life around which the student may weave many happy memories. The 1919-1920 School Year Although we expect a still better school year next year we must by no means consider this past year as anything but a “hum-dinger.” We just couldn’t help the little touch of ego at the last, of this article when we scanned the following very instructive data: It (1919-1020) saw the inauguration and successful operation of the Booster’s Club. It saw the continuation of the Orange and Black, a better and bigger paper than ever. It saw another Western Slope Football Championship banner hung up by many others of its kind. It saw a very successful year for both boys’ and girls’ basketball teams. It saw the Piggleteria entertainment carried to a success which surpassed the most optimistic prediction. It saw one of the most successful stagings of an Operetta that the High School has experienced in years. And it will see the greatest of all classes—1920—successfully graduated from the greatest of all schools—G. J. H. S. Another Successful Year for Orange and Black This year has been a most prosperous and successful year for the Orange and Black for have we not seen it grow from an eight-page to a sixteen-page paper in the course of a year with a circulation that puts it in nearly every home represented in High School? With this last edition we hope that the idea of a school paper is so firmly imbedded in the minds of the students that they will make it a bigger and better paid of their school life from year to year. The idea of an annual is. we believe, forever abandoned by the more progressive schools for the monthly or weekly paper. We hope this is so, for we know that a school paper edited in the right way is much more beneficial to the student, the parent, the school and the advertiser than any other form of high school publication. As we ‘‘pass the buck on to the editors of next year we also pass on to them the fervent desire that they may do all in their power to make a better and better paper than ever—one that more truly represents the ideals and ethics of G. J. H. S. CLORINDA R1SLEY Linda Class Historian A. I wonder if two can live cheaper than one. P. She’s never sad but when she sleeps. (She never sleeps.) Clorinda Risley — Always on the spot When help’s wanted— she’s on the dot Nice looking, smart, with a level head. Her friend is Jim. that’s all that can be said. Frances McDowell Frank Basket-ball Captain A. My idea of an agreeable person is one who agrees with me. P. For her chief characteristic we’d say she was game. Frances McDowell—one of the kids Who sticks you with pins and knocks off your lids. She’s the life of that basket ball bunch As for her studies—she’s sure not a dunce.

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FRED WILLIAMSON Xap'deon Football Captain A. I find married life i ry satisfactory, I . The Caruso of his class Fred Williamson, a boy with a smile II seems to stretch about half a mile We can’t loll why we admire you, I'nless il is because you’re true blue. LOIS HOPKIRK Louie President Literary Society A. Each day I grow older and learn something new. P. Deep souled and of modest disposition. Lois Hopkirk, this advice take In I he Leap Year custom your future awaits She always has her lessons fine And still enjoys things in her line. school. By Ihe time the pupils get to the tenth grade, they begin to select lines of work which will fit them for certain objectives n life. The machinery which enables the school to give specific training and practice in Ihe basic occupations of the community in which we live is well established. The major occupations of the community are commercial and agricultural. In each of these lines, we give ;is complete and definite a system of training as can he secured anywhere. If a student in high school makes lip his mind to f II » v agriculture as an occupation or to follow commercial work or business as an occupation the high school offers him advantages that are thorough and complete In every detail. Pupils who do not select either of these vocations have Ihe opportunity of selecting studies that give them a training that will enable them to enter any institution in Ihe country where they may prepare f r any of the more technical professions: such as leaching, medicine, law. engineering. ele. Students who continue In school without making up the'r mi ds as lo any particular vocation or course in life that they desire to pursue, find a variety of subjects in the curriculum that can he taken that will give a general training that will he »f great ludn when they do finally make up the r minds as to tlie place in society in which they will endeavor to fit and adjust themselves. A Great Opportunity for Future Classes Ye note with great pleasure that Professor Hirons is to remd 1 with the High School at least another year and we sincerely h p«» that lie will not give up his school work for many years to come To one who will soon have to reflect on. rather than to look forward to. further and continued association with our broadminded and progressive friend and teacher, it seems that one could not w sh for a more opportune lime of attending G. J. II. S', than next year. The High School will still be run with the same broad-minded policy as it has been in the past: it will still he under Hie expert yet unassuming guidance of a friend as well as a teacher, and tne building ilself will be bigger and belter than ever. The Class of ’21 and those following are to he congratulated n their extreme good fortune. So let us all boost for the most prosperous school year in Ihe annals of Grand Junction High. Our Instructors A few days and we say good-bye to the associations that have bound us together for past years and it is with sadness and regret that we are obliged to bring to an end the days which, no doubt, will be the happiest of our lives. A few months will find us separated never to meet again as we are here assembled at the close of our high school career. Moving as we must, out into the world, some of us will enter at once a business career, others of us will take a college course knowing that il will help us to solve Ihe technical problems of a commercial life. However, we will remember with pleasure in after years the happy days spent from our earliest years to the present time, in tho Grand Junction schools. The trials our young imaginations brought to us are forgotten both by us and by the teachers, and now as we grow older, our more mature years brings us to realize the unbounded efforts, the never failing interest and the patience put forth in our behalf by our instructors and it fills us with gratitude and appreciation. We caw see the same teachers that gave us a helping hand and smoothed over Hie rough spots during our bare-foot days yes. and our later days still tirelessly working to the end that a foundation for honorable men and women will be established and in this is the sole hope of their reward. We are proud of our teachers and our professors and we will always remember our profitable associations with them. and. as we must of a necessity discontinue in a short time our relations with them, our greatest endeavors will be never to bring discredit to them or our dear old Junction High. HELEN BOWMAN The Typist Breezie A. I have a Steele body guard. I . Persuasions lips Ihe end of her longue when sin speaks Helen Bowman, a girl of charms. Win knows all. fr m the dance to a farm This fair young, lass has a heart of Steele Locked in hers and tightly sealed. SIDNEY HOEL Sid Football Manager A. There’s nothing in a name, look at me. P. His modesty is touching. Sidney Hoel, a reasonable and prudent man Doing good where e’er he can All we can say. he’s a fair looking lad Not very good, nor very bad.

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WALKER REED Doc. A. Don't worry, watch me grow. p. His conduct varies inversely as the square of the distance from the teacher’s desk. Walker Reed—the Doctor’s son In this world’s knowledge well begun Although he is a smart young sprout By no fair means can be left out. DOROTHY LOVELAND “A-plus” A. Would that 1 were what I think I am. P. Oh tell me maiden are there any more in Boulder like you? Dorothy Loveland -wants a job Of bossing around an innocent mob If anyone doubts her talent rare Just take a look at her curly hair. Letter of Explanation Dear Senior: You have probably wondered what A, P and P stand for under your name. A stands for Autobiography, P stands for Pedagog-uegraphy and P stands for Poetastergraphy. Now get out your pocket Webster. Yours, the Staff. ............... . IMPORTANT—READ I-—-------—----- . The Triangle The parent, the child, the course of study—these constitute the triangle in the high school. The course of study offers to the student one list of subjects which are required for graduation and another list from which he may elect courses along lines in which lie is particularly interested or which may be the basis for the work in which he wishes to specialize. It is the privilege as well as the duty of the parent to inform himself about the electives and to assist the child in making his choice. Consider the changes in ideals of education which have been wrought by the great world war. Everything must be judged by the criterion. “Is it practical? Will it bring large returns in dollars and cents?” Certainly it behooves the man whose child is entering the high school to give wise counsel to this child so that he may direct his efforts aright. But what is a practical education? Does it count? Does it consist merely of training that results in the ability to acquire this world’s goods? This indeed is a very narrow conception of the subject. True education teaches a child not only how to make a living but also how to live. Dr. Chas. W. Eliott, former president of Harvard, says ir a child is to be taught what things to enjoy as well as the way in which he shall secure the means of gratifying his tastes, the judgment and reasoning power of this child must be systematically developed by thorough training in four things: “observing accurately: recording correctly; comparing, grouping, and inferring justly: and expressing cogently the results of these mental operations.” These facul'ies of the mind will be more highly developed in the boy who has been trained by a thorough course in Latin. This boy is one who will not find it necessary to remain at the foot of the ladder. There is a place waiting for him at the top where life offers to him some thing more than mere drudgery. The late Dr. William T. Harris says. “Of a hundred boys, fifty of whom have never studied Latin at all. the fifty with the smattering of Latin would possess some slight impulse toward analyzing ttie legal and political views of human life, and surpass the other fifty in this direction. Placed on a distant frontier with the task of building a new civilization, the fifty with the smattering of Latin would furnish law makers and political rulers, legislators, and builders of the state ” If Latin is considered from the purely practical point of view, it is not found wanting. On tin contrary Latin has made its way into the curriculum of that most intensly practical department of our high schools, the commercial department. Tests in spelling, use of words in sentences, definitions and parts of speech, meaning of words and excellency in vocabulary, have been given at Dorchester High School in Boston to Latin and non-Latin students which have shown a percentage of nearly 30 per cent in favor of the Latin students. Men. who have had years of experience in the business world, are now advocating the study of Latin in the high school. Mr. Joseph R. Pittman, a cotton broker of Galveston, Texas, says. “I prefer to talk over business matters with a man who has studied the classics. He understands my meaning quickly, and 1 understand his. and we get down to brass tacks—in medias res—with much greater dispatch than we probably should if I were conferring with the proverbial man named Smith, who wrote the following note to Mr. Jones. ‘Mr. Smith presents his compliments to Mr. Jones and finds he has a hat that isn’t mine, so if you have one that isn’t his. perhaps they are the ones.’ ” WILLIE LANKFORD Bill. A. Love while you’re near for tomorrow there maybe another. P. Was a woman ever she were she wouldn’t be a woman. Willie Lankford—I nearly forgot The favored one in all our lot The letter W. she patiently seeks And silently adores it, weeks and weeks. MURIEL MANNING June. A. I have woven a golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men. P. She has a kingdom of perpetual (k) night. Muriel Manning—sad is her plight Her heart’s been stolen by a Knight She has a keen brain and a good tongue An actress already, with life just begun.