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

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Ki-nm-lh Tolly Minstrel Show (2, 4) Operetta 1, 2. 3, 4) Junior Rotary (4). Vanity, vanity, what a ourse thou art to humanity. Harvey Tup per Pres Boosters' Club 4) Junior Rotary 3. 4). Sweet sixteen and never been kissed Now girls, don’t crowd. Kathryn WellN Glee Club (1, 2. 3, 4) Operetta (3, 4) Clans Historian (4) Orchestra (1. 2, 3. 4) Spanish Club (3). Music hath charms to soothe the sava e breast. Margaret Whitney Glee Club (1, 4) Operetta (3, 4) D. a Club 4). Nay. if he loves me not I care not for him. Raymond Workman Orchestra (2. 3) Senior-Junior (4). Men of few words are the best workers. Lawrence Young Hoel-Ross (4) Junior Rotary (3, 4). If seeming wise would make one wise. How wondrous wise he’d be. himself a boor, if, in a social party, he showed that he had no knowledge of important current events and great issues of the hour. The citizen otf today must be familiar with the new scientific discoveries. He must also bb familiar with the great moral and social problems that society is trying to solve. The ignorant. like the fanatical, are a very great hindrance when it comes to working out a correct solution for the problems of human life. Sound knowledge helps us to answer the many perplexing questions that arise in the daily run of affairs. Newton’s laws of motion were accepted by most thinking people long ago because these laws apparently answer every question concerning motion which the expert physicist can ask. In like manner, the Copernican theory was accepted because it answers the questions of the astronomer; Mendel’s law w'as also accepted because it demonstrates hereditary influences, and the Evolutionary theory became the commonly accepted theory because it seems to answer every question that is asked by the geologist, the biologist and the anthropologist. For centuries men did not know who had shot the arrows that have killed most of the millions who have died. Not until a few' years ago was bacteriology able to point out the tiny enemies that prey upon human life so ruthlessly. Now, if our knowledge is sound, wfe know the results of indulgence in tobacco, alcohol and other poisonous drugs, and we can also fortify ourselves against the attacks of germs, parasites and microbes that have been firing their poisoned arrows into man’s body ever since men have iived in the world. All the world’s a stage, says Shakespeare, and all the men and women are merely players. A lot of them arc very poor players. Kin Hubbard-, the celebrated Indiana humorist, was once assigned to cover a performance of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’ He reported the play thus: Thf dogs was good, but they had poor support. True manliness helps a man to play his part well, at least so well that a comparison with dogfc would be unfavorable, i a:ways like the following vow: I am hut one, but I ain one. I c-acnot do everything, but I can do something, and what I can do and ought to do, by the help of God I will do. R. E. TOPE. Superintendent of Schools. A Vision I nHIS, 0 reader, is but a wild, romantic dream, the childish w-amderings of a much over-worked imagination, the most impossible fiction ever written, and the weirdest outpouring of a visionary mind yet recorded. So it is only fair to warn you. if you read further, that what is about to l e written will never be a reality, as you w-;il soon discover for yourself. Read it, then, for what it is and seek not for a moral, for there is none. Our story takes place about the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven. The scene is laid in Grand Junction, which is now a prosperous city of about twenty or more thousand. The tiTst chapter, if so we may call it. takes plate at thv old high school, where we yent, to s hool in nineteen hundred nd twenty-two. It is much the same in appearance. extept that a new wing has been added. A greater change than this,' however, has taken place. Here we find only the eighth and ninth grades. It is now known

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Kollln Slinnk Class Pres. (3) Football (3. 4) Basketball (2. 3. 4). Not Hercules could have knocked out his brains for he had none. Martha Staele G4ee Club (1. 2. 3. 4) Operetta (3. 4) D. S. Club (4). A little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men. Wendell Stephens Corning. Kan (1, 2. 3) Football (4) Baseball (4). What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. David Sanders Mt. Lincoln (1, 2) Baseball (3. 4). He has a liking: for jewels: very fond of rubies. ItcKinald F« Smith Harrisburg:. 111. (1, 2, 3) Class Play (4) Rhetorical Club ( 4) Junior Rotary (4) There are two great actors in the world, Shakespeare and I. Henry Stark S. L. Club. He that endures chemistry with patience is a conqueror. Vlrica Stont Class Play (4) Glee Club (1. 2. 4) Spanish Club (3, 4). Blessed with plain reason and sober sense. Ray Sutton Orchestra (4) Spanish Club (3. 4) Class Play Mt Senior-Junior (4). 'Tls charming to see him blush and smile. cal phases of life just as tho the whole business of life is to amuse others. With this introduction, I would like to write briefly concerning some of the essentials of manliness, which is a so intended to include womanliness. One of the essentials of manliness is an abundant vocabulary sufficient to express one's views clearly, concisely, c-leanly. convincingly. Our democracy demands of alt its citizens that they should be facile in public speaking. In the home, in school, in the church, in our social life, in common conversation, in business life, in community building and in ail affairs of staJte it is highly important that all who desire to contribute anything to the group to w'hich they belong or who desire to become citizens who are to be reckoned with in all civic and social questions must prepare themselves so that they can use the English language effectively. Tidiness in speech, precision in choice of words, and power in speaking are the qualities that cannot be learned in a day. To be able to speak our native language correctly, fluently and elegantly means that we must devote a good many years to earnest study and faithful practice of the art. Many evils -that harm young people are due to incapacity for interesting conversation and lack of taste for reading and music and worthy uses of leisure, which should be a special object of education at home and in school. Swearing and slang both indicate poverty of language. It is partly because of poverty of words that there is too much spooning and skipping feet and “cheek to cheek social fellowship. Lips that • an not talk do too much kissing: and holding hands becomes necessary when one cannot hold a friend by conversation. Men a.nd women go to brutal prize fights and the like because they have not learned the finer boxing and fern ing of repartee. Time is wasted at sentimental movies because folks do not know the art of good talking. There is nothing more delightful to real i eople than good talk, if they have intelligence and are capable of it. Another essential of maniness and womanliness is courteous independence. The manly man does not say “yes, yes to everything heard or proposed, like the me. too of Po-lonius. in Shakespeare, •who agreed with him that a ertaln cloud looked like a camel,” and then changed his mind when Polonius, on further examination, opined, It looks more like a weasel, Me Too said, “I think it looks like a weasel.” The manly boy or man does not follow the crowd, but oftener leads it: or, if not. dares walk alone, in wiiat be believes to be right. Captain Richmond P. Hobson laid the foundations of his military and moral leadership In the Naval Academy when he endured a boycott of his classmates because he stood for a clean life. Thayer's “Life of Roosevelt tells of the way in which Theodore Roosevelt met the peculiar temptations of university life. He went to college with the fruit of the quiet but firm teaching of his parents, “with a body of rational moral principles which he made no parade of, but obeyed instinctively.” The result was that he was never betrayed into folly. He was never fooled into mistaking novelty for truth or libertinism for manliness. Purity is essential to manly strength, as Tennyson hints in that line about the greatest of King Arthur’s knight. Sir Galahad: My strength is as the strength of ten Because my heart is pure.” A third essential of manliness is up-to-dateness in important knowledge. A man in the most up-to-date clothes would advertise

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as the Junior High. “Where,” we ask. “are the Sophs, the Juniors, the Seniors?” We ask, and—behold! Yonder, where once was only a vacant block known as the Presbyterian grounds, there, in the impressive majesty of its three stories, stands the new G. J. H. S. In chapter two we wander through wide hallways adorned by choice selections of art and trophies of athletic and intellectual skill, and where respectable likenesses of departed classes smile a formal welcome; we are justly surprised to find individual lockers where each student keeps his or her belongings under lock and key; study rooms and class rooms all busy with industrious students (every teacher’s vision). The wonderful Cooley Museum and Library occupy our attention for hours. The greatest surprise comes when we see the fine auditorium with enough opera chairs to seat two thousand or more. An orchestra of fifty pieces is practicing in the pit. The stage is large and fitted with the best of scenery and a curtain that certainly surpasses the one we were used to gaze upon. Several dressing rooms adjoin the stage. Then a trip through the manual training shops and the agriculture department, which have grown to astounding size and are as modern as possible; the print shop where the weekly Orange and Black is published, besides all the printing work of the high school. The Orange and Black and Boosters’ Club both have well furnished offices. We are greatly perplexed, however, not to find a gymnasium. Professor Hirons, to whom we explain our predicament of mind, smiles mysteriously and forthwith furnishes us with a guide. We follow this Senior, for such he happens to be, with a feeling of anticipation. Nor are we disappointed, for in the third chapter we are confronted by a handsome gate upon the arch of which is inscribed the words: “Addleman Memorial Field. Upon enquiry of our guide we learn that the field stands where formerly was that large tract of land adjoining Lincoln Park on the south. Here we find the most modern equipped gymnasium that any athlete could desire. The athletic field proper is found in the big concrete “bowl” or circular “grandstand surrounding the football and baseball field and the quarter-mile track. This, as you were warned, is but a fantastic vision, the product of a disordered mind, placed here merely for the purpose of filling space; so waste no serious thought upon it. Yet, if dreams were only to come true, what a wonderful reality this one would be. A Course in Agriculture ' T T has come to the time when a man engaged in 1 the farming industry has to compete with more of the educated class of people and with men who have made a go of it in the past. To do this it is necessary that he should know how to get the most out of a crop or of live stock, which meet the requirements of the market; that he should know when to plant a crop or fit his live stock so he can get the very most out of it. If a disease should break out, he should know just what to do and how to do it, or what to do to his seeds or live stock to keep them from getting the disease. Smith-Hughes have worked out a course to their utmost ability so the students taking this course could get the necessary work in order to cover the points needed and still have It completed. We have in our high school one of the finest and best equipped courses on the Western Sloi e. This is a great help in the laboratory work, making it possible for the students to make the necessary tests and analysis accurately. The work in this high school is growing more complete every year and the teachers are learning the points which make it easier for the students. Cartoons by Giff The drawings from which the “cut” on the cover and the Senior pin were made are the work of Gifford Fyor-myer, a former student of G. J. H. S. Required. Education HE schools of America have one very important duty to perform aside from educating the students in the use of their brains. That duty is the training of the students into good American citizens. Without including the moral principle, a fair definition of such a citizen would be: A citizen who has a clear conception at least of the fundamentals, and a proper respect for the laws of his or her municipality, county, state and of the United States. The American people, as a whole, are seemingly indifferent to the law excepting when they feel its hand, and seem to care little about breaking the minor laws until they are affected by them in some way. Every citizen of erica, man and woman, should know and understand, as thoroughly as possible, the laws of the municipality, county, state and the nation in which be or she lives. Every school should offer a complete course in citizenship—a course that would not only acquaint the students with the fundamentals, processes and scope of law, but teach them a proper respect for it. Practically all high schools, including ours, carry in their curriculum various required sciences, mathematics and languages, and which cover a period of several years’ work, while civics or civil government is usually offered or required for one year. Now, how much good and just how effective will that one-year course be? It would be far better to place a science, mathematic or language on the elective list and substitute a required courso in civil government, and a four-year course, more advanced each year, would not he in any way out of place. Business Men Give Honors For Rhetoricals OUE to the great activity in rhetoricals and as a further incentive, several prominent business men of Grand Junction established annual medals for the several events and one presented a large silver loving cup to the championship team. The annual medals established were the C. E. Adams medal for Original Oration, the A. C. Parsons medal for Learned Oration, the Biggs-Kurtz medal for Argument, the A. M. Schmidt medal for Dramatic Reading and the Robert Rhone medal for Humorous Reading. The cup was presented by Mr. Roy Chapman. Seniors Win Pepometer Contest ITH a total number of 6913 points, the Seniors won first place in the Pepometer, or school spirit, contest instituted last September by the Boosters’ Club. Their nearest rivals, the Juniors, amassed 5379 points, while the Freshmen gained third place with a small majority of about 800 points over the Sophomores. The official results: 12 11 10 9 8 Scholarship - . 5262 3786 2432 3755 657 Athletics . 440 480 255 150 2S Assemblys . 385 160 225 50 10 Contests . 826 753 340 157 169 Class Rush 0 200 100 0 0 6913 5379 3352 4112 864 This does not include the points made at the Western Slope Rhetorical and Track meet. These, however, will not make any great material difference in the results as they are given above. PUBLIC SPEAKING RECITAL. On the evening of May 26 the Public, Speaking class held their annual recital. Colloquial readings and a play, “Neighbors. by Zona Gale, were given by the various members of the class.