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

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 WESTERN SLOPE TRACK CHAMPIONS 1921 Standing—Mr. F. J. Beattie (Coach), John Wallie, Harold Zimmerman, Chas. Major, Lyle Oates, Hugh Sherman. Fred Hinton. Sitting—Carrol Vannice, Ted Jones (Captain), ('lenient Friedman, Elmer Hampson, Earnest Addle- man. Roger Knight. The Montrose Contest Y Friday noon Montrose was fast filling up: every available hotel was overflowing and eating business houses were doing a whirlwind business. But before noon the news had been bumming over the wire that Wallace Mast of (». J. H. S. had captured first place in the oratorical declamation contest that morning and that Farrie Veatch had done fine work Thursday night in the argumentative but had failed to place. Everybody awaited the outcome of the afternoon original oration and were very disappointed when our entry, Harry Peabody, failed to place. That night Gladys Palmer took second in a hard fought battle in dramatic declamation. Our hopes were revived by Gladys’ victory and congratulations were showered upon her by everybody. And then—rain—cold—no sun—hail—snow— V ever’thing. The track meet looked like a thing of the past or of the indefinite future. But Saturday morning dawned clear and cold. Shivering, we went out to see the preliminaries; shivering, we watched the eliminations; and frozen we went home. Our team showed up great and placed men in all the events except the mile run, hurdles, discus and pole vault.. We trotted down to the Silver Grill; got thawed out and filled up, and went back to the fair grounds for the final meet—the big showdown. People everywhere, colors everywhere, and noise—well, you should have heard it. Every team went in to win, and of all close track meets this one wins the rubber crowbar. The first event was the hundred-yard dash. Gunnison put a man in ahead of Jones (the big bums!), with Montrose coming third. In the shot put, Sherman lost to Killian of Delta by one-tenth of an inch, with Gunnison third. Then in the 220-yard dash we showed ’em up—Ted Jones got first and Hampson third. In the 4 40-yard dash we had to content ourselves with second; but in the 880-yard run Addleman pulled in first and the Junction rooters went wild. In the javelin throw, Friedman won an easy first, with Major third. Friedman and Jones received second and third places in the high jump, much to the satisfaction of our gang. And then the relay, with three teams represented—Delta, Gunnison and G. J. H. S.,—was the deciding point of the meet. Our team was composed of Jones, Hampson, Hinton and Addleman. The starter’s pistol cracked, and a red-headed Gun-

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RED A WING Rebe Hoel-Ross Business Col. 4) Won't You Come Along? posite shore and the sound echoed far. as the two pals, their vision broadened, started slowly homeward through the twilight. —Alta Clarkson. its burning head over stream. One of the ripples, leaping, bathed the heated bloom and It smiled, refreshed. The river had brought health! “Still the stream flowed on. while grass, trees, flowers and birds found enjoyment beside it. A little child lay on the bank, looking down into its pure, transparent depths, while the laughing gurgle of the running water made music to his young ears. He turned to his mother with the shining eyes and asked, ‘What does it?’ ‘The ripples,’ she answered. “ ‘Then,’ he cried, gleefully, ‘let's call it Rippling River!’ and they did. It had brought happiness!” “Oh, I see now,” said Melvin- after a moment. I should give life by administering to those around me the service and spirit which will make real life out of mere existence. Then, by administering that same spirit and service to the sick at heart, I should imbue the broken spirit with health. Not content with that, I should scatter that same joyful spirit where anticipation awaits, and cause it to break forth into lasting happiness. In this way I can help the least and the best, tho I still go on in my narrow channel.” There was silence. An owl hooted on the op- i.i: om: wonlfort Voltaire Class Historian (2) Vanity Waltz.” Our Vocational Course in Agriculture Agricultural Notes MILTON SAGE. j vHE Aggies’ part of the Piggleteria proved to V J be a big success this year: the Country Fair and the Rialto Theatre together netted us a balance of over forty dollars. This was more than twice that of last year. The Agriculture class has had some fine trips during the past month that were very beneficial and enjoyable to the whole class. About the best trip we took was one to Ed Weckel’s poultry ranch the other side of Fruita. We went down about 12 o’clock in cars furnished by the different members of the class. After observing the method Mr. Weck-el uses in feeding his poultry, we went down into his incubator room, where there were nearly 2,000 baby chicks hatching. About 4 o’clock we motored back to town. This was, perhaps, the longest and best trip the class has had the pleasure of taking. On April 1st the Junior class in Agriculture began their work in farm accounting. This is a Senior subject; but, as we started the Agriculture course in our Sophomore year, we have to take two courses in one year. We find this course a very interesting subject and perhaps the most vital in agriculture work. In the Farm Machinery class we have had quite a lot of very practical work, studying tractors, engines and other branches of machinery. We have worked on the Sampson, Titan, Moline, Cletrac and the Fordson tractors; also the Beeman garden tractor at the Buick garage. We have also had the International and the Fairbanks-Morse stationary engines. All kinds of harvesting machinery have been studied and we are now at work on the machinery used in the spring, such as drills and planters. — On the 19th Mr. Davies of Ft. Collins was here inspecting our work and making his report for the government; he spoke very favorably of our work here. ------- Perhaps you have noticed that we have had quite a number of interesting lessons illustrated with slide pictures. These came from the government, and there have been a number of lessons illustrated in this way. We have had slides on Sheep, Hogs, Cows, Dairying, Horses, Poultry and Flies. You might ask any member of the class, including Mr. Leiper, where they were the day the airplane was here, when it rained so much. Someone also might ask Harold Burgess how he likes to drive the big Studebaker in the mud.. JNE, 1921, closes the second year of vocational training in Agriculture in our High School. Thus far the work has met with favor by the students, the school administration and the community at large. The registration of the course has been the heaviest in the state with 48 students for the year 1920-21. Our local board has been assured the sanction of a second instructor for this Smith-Hughes course. This will make it possible for our school to offer a full three years course in Agriculture. The second instructor will be a man specially trained in Horticulture and Entomology. With Mr. Leiper, who is a graduate in Animal Husbandry, and another instructor trained in Horticulture and Entomology, our school will need to offer no apologies for her Vocational Agriculture. One change has been made in the course: Be- ginning September, 1921, all beginning students registered for Vocational Agriculture must be Sophomores with a credit in Biology from the ninth grade. This arrangement of the course will make it possible for the beginning student to be prepared to take up the work with a far better understanding of its purpose and content. The following is an outline of the four years’ course in Vocational Agriculture: First year— English IX. General Mathematics. Biology. Economic Civics. Second year— Vocational (two credits). Animal production. Farm shop. Related pioject thruout year. Xon-Vocational (two cred.ts). English. One elective. Third year— Vocational (two credits). Crop production. Soils of the Grand Valley. Farm mechanics and machinery. Non-Voeational (two cred ts). English. One elective. Fourth year— Vocational (two credits). Farm economics—Farm accounting. Horticulture and vegetable gardening. Farm account project beginning January I of Junior year and ending January 1 of Senior year. Non-Vocational (two credits). One elective. One elective.

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WESTERN SLOPE BASKET BALL CHAMPIONS 1921 Front Row—Glen McFall, Harold House, Ted Jones, Clias. Major, Rollin Shanks. Second Row—W. T. Anderson (Coach), Floyd Clark. Richard Fuite (Captain), Intrant McClain, F. J. Beattie (Coach). Top—Gordon Lane (Manager). I I ? i nison individual, saved for the relay, forged to the head. Jones ran like a deer and finished up with the Delta bird; but Gunnison had a rod lead on us. Hampson started on the second lap, reduced that rod by one-half; then, in the third lap, Hinton lowered the distance still more. Addleman started the finish with a leap. He and the Gunnison man ran neck to neck for a while, with the Delta man trailing back in the distance somewhere. But, luck of all lucks—Gunnison finished a little bit before Addleman, and we received second, which won us the track meet by four points. Junction has won!—Delta has the three-year cup no more—Gunnison and Montrose feel unnecessary —Olathe. Paonia and Telluride feel quite a bit worse. We tore down the quiet boulevards of Montrose, raising the dickens—G. J. H. S. had won the Western Slope Championship in track and would get a chance to try for the state title. That night the climax of the speaking contests had arrived with the humorous declamation. Our entry (and we were betting on her) was Beth Der-ryberry. She did fine and took third place for Junction, giving us fourth place in the declamatory contests. After the contests a big dance was given for the members of the track teams. This was only a small part of the hospitality Montrose showed us. They were just as cordial as it was possible for a town to be. After humming around Montrose, Olathe and Delta during Saturday night and Sunday morning, we came home happy, victorious and dead—for sleep. G. J. H. S. was deefated by Fruita H. S. by a score of 10 to 5 in a baseball game played at the fair grounds on Wednesday, May llth, in a hard fought battle for supremacy. We get one more chance at Fruita and, believe me! we are going to take it. Junction vs. Olathe OCR first baseball game of this season was pulled off at the fair grounds on Friday afternoon, April 30th. The results were not quite as satisfactory as we had hoped for, because Olathe won, but only by the narrow score of 10 to 8. This was not bad at all, considering that our team had only had one practice together and that Olathe had been at it for quite a while. The team is going to win the next game. The line-ups were as follows: Olathe—Metcalf, c; Neal, p; Manniel, lb; Hyatt, 2b; Adams, ss; McLaughlin, 3b; Picker, rf; Coffman, cf; Harrel, If. Grand Junction-—Major, c; Smith. McFall, McBride, p; Hockett, lb; McClain, 2b; (Mark, ss; Draper, 3b; Sanders, rf; McKinnon, Ulmer, cf; McBride, McFall, If. One of the largest crowds C . J. H. S. ever turned out to see a baseball game witnessed the first run of the season made by Skank McClain. The game from start to finish was exciting, the teams often running even. Major, Hockett, McBride, Sanders, (Mark and McClain were the heavy hitters for us in this game. At the end of the first inning the score stood 3 to 1 in Olathe’s favor; the second ended 3 to 2, and in the third inning our team tied the score, 3 to 3. From then on until the seventh inning the score ran very close. At the