Lancaster High School - Vidette Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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vw! in st ex K X va f ff ls IV R W ' 5 J J z l I we A .dd-V Ln:-ta XHG oxzag Mmm 4-Imtnrg Smce we are about to lease forever these magmlicent halls where ue spent so many pleasant anad profitable days lt lS only proper that we should look back and see to ss hat advantage we have put our tlme nd sn hat manner of thmgs befell us When vse entered the Hlgh School ln 1916 we wer Voung and fresh and green typlcal freshmen Naturally we came m for our share of the r1d1cule JlbQS and pracucal jokes whlch a t1me honored Ll stom decrees shall be heaped upon the newest arrlvals at a hlgher ln s ltutlon of learnmg but we took If all ln good Splflf We Hnally got our schedules stralghtened out and then ln the werdancy of youth and h gh hopes vue started up the Royal Road of Learnmg The way has been rough and steep and fllled wlth many obstructlons but the fact Ilsat ours IS the largest class ever to graduate from the Boys Hugh School shows hon well we wlthstood the trlals ln our pursult of know ledge We early began to show slgns of remarkable athletic ablllty when v e organlzed a basketball team uhlch defeated the Sophs 1n the 1nter class league Wlthout show mg undue partlallty we can say wlth be commg modesty that vue deserved to be compltmented on our successful start The outstandmg feature of our Freshman year was the school sp1r1t and mxtlatne the abxlltw to do thmgs that characterlzed our class After two months of wacatlon we returned as Sophomores W lumedlately began to get tangled up m the strmgs and Compasses of Ueometry and some of us undertook to puzzle out a dlstort d con glomeratlon of mysterlous words written by one Caesar several thou sands of years ago A few of the latter found themselx es gomg under and began tc wxsh that the author had met an untlmely end ew en before he had come 1nto exrstence However wlth the asslstance of horses pomes and klndred lne stock. we managed to pull through, leavlng la 1 .V K 3.-b x2fj.j' :V .- g l '- 'r - N. V X - 'W ' , , s' ll .gf , if I Q We c a 1 '12 En t , i 'Z.' l'r,, S. - 3.-i' ei' X, if gif - -' ll ' l M 5 ' a Q11 -. ,' Y 5 1 , ff ' ws , yi ' 'iff f ' 4, l V .vf '.1 'l. -1-.f 4, l 't iuffffk ' le ' Q W ,L ' '. E7 I 4' A . gg . , Q 1 , mmf an -1 ft X Bl s N fi- ' M , 'Milf fs . N .' , M. - ul -ri , A f 5 --' a V, W W . ' . F ,Q . 94. W 'ge . 5 ,I gm ,fb ' M -V .xf gl M V S yt ' ,lm .M - -9 ' - it 1. .1 f Q Y' , fu sz 2 -4 -1 V f- ' fl' .Ie 4.,, I ,f ., j 2 3 ft X ,af yg ,xi - uf, 1 f - . X +f , Gy X, , -j -3 tg, N ': , - x lp f 4' Nl ' ' j M A 9' 51 .V v 'l J, ' S ,. A9 -X :ll ' 5 l E ' ' 4 +1 f fl l - U ' M ix ,, I , X ,We Q Q X' TY- 'T Q ' X-, MM L N , , H! ,frm F I I M iv Q ,L 1 Y V g V A H - , -1 . . V V . V Y . . .' , ' Y l A 0 i , ' ' . V. . . it v Y V V . . . . Y 7 I V l I I - ' ' ' . e ' ' I D - lb .' s o N

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LANCASTER HIGH SCHOOLS bthmd us a few unfortunates who had not sufflcrently mastered the art of horsemanshap We now were called upon to elect class officers and to choose our tennant and colors Here we had an opportunaty to show what br1l ltant examples of buddmg daplomacy were 1n evadence an our I-lagh School for an all our choaces we dlsplayed profound Judgment and ex ctptaonally good taste The officers of president secretary and treas urer haxe been Hlled by the same persons for three consecutlxe years 'hus demonstratmg the unusual efficlencv of our officers It was at thas young and tender age that xxe ventured out upon tht than ace of social llfe and herean lles a moral that succeedang classes would do well to heed We inaugurated our commg out mto society by holding a largely .attended and very successful moonllght walk E couraged by the success of our nrst effort we delxed deeper and ex ery thang went well untll we attempted to use the bulletm board to ad xertase our skatang partaes And then one memorable morn1ng we were unsuspectmglv assembled and lectured to upon the exlls of our w av and the amportance and necessaty of adhermg to the strarght and narrow path After we had recovered from the sermon we very xvlsely declded to employ other means of makmg known our soclal events How ex er we dad not neglect thas phase of our school lafe and we held sex eral haghly successful skating partles durlng the winter Our country was now at war and xxe can say wath no small degree of prlde that the Class of l9ZO solldly supported ex ery patrlotac ctlvlty that came up Sexeral of our members enlisted an the armed forces of the country to further Democracy s cause and they gaxe a good account of themselves In the sprung of the vear we broke all precedent by financing and provadang practically all the maternal for an assue of the Vzdett the officlal school magazlne Thls accomplishment was a brlllaant sutcess from exery standpotnt and at xx as unanimously agreed that the Issue was one of the best of the year Thas was the first tame any th ng of the kand had been atteml ted by low er classmen and at reflects great c.edat upon our class besldes emphaslzmg our mltaataxe and ab tx o put thmgs ox er We held two more soclal ex ents before the end of the Sophomor ttrm a doggv roast and a lass prcnvc Both of these were highly suc cessful and serx ed as a flttlng cllmax to a most prosperous year Our summer xacataon was longer than xxe had barga n d for I to an unexpected delay an the completlon of the new laualdvnn and to the mfluenza epldemxc that swept over the country It w as at thts tame mat our esteemed classmate Galbert Vatter xx as taken fom our m dst bv the hand of death Gilbert was a ftne clean ut fellow held .n h gh rtgard by both students and teachers and we all mourned has loss We xvere now elexated to the worthy posatron of Junaors and a fcw for whom Caesar had held no terrors xx ere caught ln the clutch s 16 . ,, V V 1 V - V V V r t ' V 4 ' 1. .V L . . V 1 V L . . V V V V V n- V ' - V - 4 I V V V t . V V V V V V V V . V 4 . - V V V t V t J . ' t , t . I t . V t V 0 V ,- . 1 . V , V J t , ' 1 N V V 1 V . , V ay V . t t t !n. I s V V Vu e. . 1 W r V V . . 4. c t . . - , V . V . . t . V - V A ,Vg . . . . . . t, it- V t ,V . , . 4 . t , . . , . c V . 4. A V -f' V I . V c V ' I , V v V V e V . V V 4,