Hemlock High School - Huskie Yearbook (Hemlock, MI)

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now numbered only thirteen. Noble Smith, one of our basketball players, left school to work in Flint; Walter Schmidt entered Ferris Institute, Big Rapids; Gladys Streeter entered training as a nurse in the Saginaw General Hospital; Ada Doyle left school but still resides in Hemlock. Soon school will close again for vacation; upon entering again we hope it will be as Seniors, and to the Sophomores we leave the laboratory and physics book and our name as Juniors, hoping that they will prove as worthy as we have tried to be. GRACE CUSICK. ? $ Miss Loynes (in American History class) : “I’m surprised at you not know- ing when Columbus discovered America. What did the heading in today’s lesson read?” Jimmie: “Columbus, 1492.” Miss Lo.vnes: “Well, isn’t that plain enough?” Jimmie: “I thot that was his telephone number.” ? ¥ ¥ Mr. Raymo (in History class) : “What is a philosopher?” Inez: “A typewriter.” $ ? If Dale married Mildred and someone was to “Seller” a washing machine, would he “Turner”? $ ? '? Miss Harris: “Give me a sentence containing ‘notwithstanding’.” Pupil: “The man was tired but not with standing.” ¥ ¥ ■¥ Edna: “What is your future profession going to be, Emma?” Emma: “Teaching ‘Art’.” ■¥ $ ¥ Caught in the Act A Sophomore, ’tis sad to tell, Once thot he loved a maiden well (Ask Tom) ; And as he his love would show, Was caught in the act by C. A. Raymo. ¥ $ ?’ Helen: “Why do so many of the fellows go to the big dances stag?” Madge: “On account of the scarcity of doe, perhaps.” $ $ $ First Student: “What is a sense of humor?” Second Student: “A sense of humor is that which makes you laugh at what happens to somebody else, which would make you angry if it happened to you.” ? ¥ ¥ Lives of Seniors all remind us We should do our level best; And departing leave behind us Note books that will help the rest.

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JUNIOR JOURNAL I will endeavor to tell all I can about our past three years in high school. We entered this institution three years ago as the first Freshman class of our new high school. Our total number was twenty-one, most of us coming from the country where we had spent the first eight years of our school life, toiling and striving onward toward this our goal. We were regarded by the higher classes as being green, and not sociable enough to attend any of the school en- tertainments. In this way we were often plagued and looked down upon. With Mr. Raymo as our teacher and principal we progressed rapidly. In June we attended the Sophomore “hop.” This was the first time we had a chance to attend any school gathering and by closely observing the refined actions of the Juniors and Seniors we were well aware of the fact of knowing how to act. When we left the school house the 11th of June, we were indeed a happy class, for every one had received a certificate of promotion to the tenth grade. Our two months’ vacation passed quickly and found us back again September the eighth, approaching the school house, our number having decreased from twenty-one to eighteen. Violet Emeott and Violet Tessin left to take up their studies in the Arthur Hill High School, Mae Hawley accepted a position in Chicago and Florence Wilt bid adieu to high school and entered a business course in Detroit. Mr. Raymo was again our superintendent and Miss Sampson our language teacher. This term some of the boys of our class made themselves famous in our town by playing on the high school basketball team. Walter Schmidt was our athletic star, Bill Raucholz made a good forward, while Francis Richards and Noble Smith made fine guards. There were no teams of the surrounding towns that could ever boast of beating Hemlock. Henry Wardin and Dale Turner played forwards in our second team, while Harry Beamish, another lad of our class, acted as secretary of the Ath- letic Association. Nothing very important happened until January, when we held our second annual Sophomore “hop.” By this being a howling success we proved to the Juniors and Seniors that the little “green Freshmen” were rapidly becoming society people. Soon June was at hand and our class again held the honor of pass- ing the exams, successfully. September found us busy again at work as Juniors, Mr. Raymo still our superintendent and Miss Austin as language teacher; we

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CHRONICLES September 5— Back to school again. General greetings. Teachers are all smiles. 6— Classes began. 11—Freshmen being shown around. 15—Seniors hold first class meeting and their usual “squabbles” began. 18—Everybody busy speaking, sometimes two on the floor. 28— Mr. Raymo reads us the “Riot Act” about speaking. 29— Francis Minto and Ellen Darby dropped out of the Senior class, then there were eight. October 2— The girls hold a very successful meeting and start plans for the box social and program to be given for the benefit of the rest room. 3— The play practice began. 4— County Fair; many absent. 5— More absent. 6— GO. HURRAH! VACATION TODAY. 9—Year book staff elected. 10—The boys begin football. 13—School closed on account of diphtheria. 15-20—Vacation. 25— New excuse to leave the room to work on “Mirror.” 26— Stapleton leaves for a sojourn at Midland. 27— First Literary Society meeting; Mr. Pierce, president. Football game be- tween C. Ostrander’s and McBratnie’s teams; Ben’s team victorious. 28— Box social given by girls; a program and dance also. It was a very success- ful event. 30—Miss Nelson gave health talk. “Now, boys, confess, who have smoked cigarettes?” November 3—Second football game played; Cliff’s team won. 6— Junior’s pins and rings arrive. 7— Mock election ; Hughes elected. 8— Arguments concerning election. 10—Many absent; concert night before. First basketball game of the season; Merrill vs. Hemlock, but Merrill won. Ed. Rowe new captain. 15—Senioi's rings and pins arrive; very welcome, because the Juniors received theirs first. 17-—Martin Bauer returns for a day. The basketball team journeys to M. H. S. only to be beaten again. 20—Sophomores busy prepaiing for “hop.” 24—Everyone said there was never a better “hop” given than did our little bunch of Sophs, give. 27— Sewing room a new source of amusement. 28— Deutscher Verein organized. 29— Mr. Raymo informs us we must come back Friday after Thanksgiving.