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

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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.

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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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CLARENCE YOI NO SUm A. He s armed without that's innocent within p. He's not as innocent as his manner would indicate. Clarence Young—a politician A Congressman is his ambition Don't you ever think he’ll stop Till he gets t Washington and comes out on top. LOtS SHIPPEE Nap A. When mv dreams come true,— S has a desire to find the truth about everything Lois Snipper— h here this year Is , daivdv l and that leary. A prominent member of the American Association of Engineers says that, in his judgment, engineers should have the same broad classical training as a preparation for their work which is still thought good for men in other professions. An association of professional men in the West caused it to be put on record that in their judgment the young men corning into their ranks without the classical training are not big enough to uphold the prestige of their profession; that their training fits them neither to grapple with the new problems that arise in their work nor to hold the position they should, among men. The business man, too often discovers that his stenographer, a high school graduate among other qualifications, can’t spell or punctuate or establish the agreement between verbs and nouns. In fact “We smaller from the Kindergarten to the Crematory.’ Comparatively Latin is a difficult study hut this only adds to its value as a school study. The trouble with our present day education is its weakness, its flabbiness, its love of easy and comfortable methods. Some one has said that shallowness and superficiality are our great failings in this country. The fundamental reason for the study of Latin is that it is a subject pre-eminently filled to further the great end ot all education: the development of the power f exact thinking: therefore is it not of vital importance that the parent consult with the teacher about the course the boy or girl is to pursue when entering high school? A STORY OF THE CLASS f OF 1920 | It was shortly past ten-thirty, the hour for all lights out in the girl s dormitory, but a small student’s lamp still hurnc 1 . n th' table in Phyllis’ r.M m. On the couch comfortably propped up with pillows sat thr • girls. Maud. Alice and Phyllis, all Juniors in the university. isoo f«»r tin disregard »f the time ho “ten-thirty” rule, was a large b« ok bound in Orange and Black. It was the recent annual from their old school. Grand Junction High, and the things they found therein brought forth a stream of pleasant reminiscence. ■ I wonder if all Fire nfiinni classes aro as conceited satisfied as wi wage when we Hist assembled in that oiJ Fr.v building?” isked Maud, after a dreamy silence. Well. I know one thing.” interposed Alice. “I reov.rober U took just about two weeks HOT OUT dt-, r Faculty to BbOW OS first how much we didn’t know, and how much they expected ns to know before they were through with us.” “Remember? My dear Alice, I’ll never forget that Latin room with Miss Gl - ear poor noses to the grind stone. I’m afraid it all went off in sparks though.” “Oh. I don’t know about that but I guess we were looking so pale and weary they took pity on us and let us have a day off to inspect Book Cliff Mines. The weather man didn’t seem to be in sympathy with us in the least. Remember how it p-ured?” Do I!” ejaculated Alice. “I carried home enough Book Cliff mud «n my f- ■ • :• p] ,••• .-ur n- t garden. But it was worth it. we had a day long to be remembered.” tinned after a long ; 9 ‘every Deemed determined to take every bit of pride or conceit out af s. a 3 and Seniors hand. I thought that was a rather oound trouncing. they gave our boys just for trying to place a specimen «.f their artistic ability in a prominent place, namely the front walk. “It was rather beneath our dignity to scrub side walks.” inter- - V x K ' -»• ! W f K to m i wake up an : - , .f stuff we were mad rse we didn’t shine very bright at first because every one looks to the Senior natur - isD t given the crecbt of knowing much, but our day was camft and we r aiiv - - w--d th -m before we wore ' ir -uch thai it wasn’t all excess energy , in the meantime we had sa much of this energy we didn't know iu { what tkx “Yes. added Alice wit! li a smile, “and dually picked our study period ■ »e of it. 1 think ISss fTOmck and gdte a few others can testify t o that.” TTiere w■•■•r tfir— - ; ; r---—d TvTl . •■•ach r - -d:--d s-. me particular in cident. “Mr. Hiror.s. was a per ■feet dear, thong a »s like a fond puwt with a small child • ‘ : ,, .. f :i ij f {-p it '' ' niply bubbled over the edges.” HELEN McHUGH Helen Blazes A. Things don’t turn up in this world unless 1 turn them up. P. Nearly killed once by a train of thought passing through her mind. Helen McHugh — always heard and always seen Of talking lots. he’s sure the queen ti -’s bright and capable hut lazy Of what she’ll do her idea is hazy Ll'QLE TRAIN Gboo Choo A. No wedding bells for me. P. She’s pretty to walk with and witty to talk with and pleasant to think about, eh, Harry ? Lncile Train—behold b'T fair hand Exempt she fr .,o becoming tanned Of an the Class, she leads for looks. F «r beaux, for dates, but not for books.