New Hampton High School - Shadow Yearbook (New Hampton, IA)

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Senior Class History U11 During the year 1917-1918 sixty anticipant Freshmen were added to the roll of N. H. H. S. That flrst day will never be forgotteng how we hurried from place to place amid the bustle and excitement looking for the class-rooms in which we belonged! .Shortly after school started we elected officers. Mr. Boone was assigned the duty of supervising the Freshman class. After numbers of social activities we firmly established the reputation of being the peppiest class that ever entered N. H. H. S. One of the most important functions of the Freshman year was a reception to the mid-year class which had just entered. As the close of the year drew nigh, we began to realize that this year was to be a year long cherished in our memories. The following fall fifty-five of our group became Sophomores. It was amusing and gratifying to see the Freshmen going through the same blundering trials we had once experienced. Earnestly striving to hold our acquired reputation, we put our whole heart and soul into the school activities purposing to make this year a success and a credit to our class. We were represented in every form of athletics and school activities: the football team, the girls' and boys' basket-ball teams, and the debate team including members from our ranks. Miss Plulmley, our High School Principal, became our class supervisor. Our social events during this year were not as many in number as those of the Freshman year, but were worthy of praise for the varied forms of amusement showed that the class was full of talented students. Now the Juniors and Seniors began to look up to us and many sought the advice of this brilliant Sophomore Class. As we became Juniors, high school life began to look more serious and we all settled down to study still striving for the standard we had set out to attain. In the United War Work drive our class as usual came out in the lead. No other class equalled ours in loyalty and generosity. Again many of the class participat- ed in athletics and all forms of school life: the debate team still included two from our group, the girls' basket'-ball team, five: the boys' basket-ball team, fourg the foot- ball team, fiveg and hhe baseball team, three. Elveryone of these put up a real fight for the honor of N. H. H. S. Miss Kasischke was chosen as our class sponsor and under hcr competent leadership we participated in many clever social activities during the year. Prob- ably the one, that will be most remembered, is the elegant banquet which the Juniors gave the Seniors who were graduating in June. It was a delightful success, due to the suggestions and talents of our sponsor and the Junior class. Now comes our Senior year, a year which we, a class of fifty, have made glorious by our accomplishments. We, as a class, possess those outstanding qualities of Seniors: dignity, loyalty, and good sportsmanship, which make us tlhe class to he looked up to and honored. Our Senior organization has two soldiers who before the war were not members of our class but who sacrificed their education to defend America. We are proud to be classmates of these boys. We are represented equally well in athletics.. The majority of the .members of the boys' and girls' basket-ball teams, the football team, and the base-ball team, Page Twenty Four

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Seniors President .... Vice-President . Secretary .... Treasurer . . lil ....Orie Knight .. Edward Sheakley .. Virgil Ladwig ....... .. Bessie Konzen DQ! CLASS COLORS Maroon and Old Gold ll! CLASS FLOWER Sweet Pea Fil CLASS MOTTO ll W' ' h 1'1n1s ed Yet Beginning DLI CLASS YELL Ki-yig ki-yig ki-yi-yung M-C-M-X-X and Ig Seniors--Seniors Nineteen-Twenty-one. IL4 Class Song QTune: Auld Lang Syne J A class of fifty strong are we, The leading class in school: Our duty do we e'er fulfill, And follow every rule. fChorusj The class of Nineteen Twenty-one, The biggest ever yet. Much honor always have we won, They ne'er will us forget. We're full of pep, we're full of vim, Hooray! We'll make things go! In wisdom we the prize will win, We'll surely not be slow. fChorusj Debaters, singers, strong athletes Comprise this class of fame: Young men and maids of high morale Its honor will maintain. fChorusJ You'll find us loyal through and through To Old New Hampton High: We've worked for her and fought for her And will love her till we die. QChorusj Page Twenty Three

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are from the Senior class. All three members of the debate team belong to us. And even though this is the year upon which our future rests there is still time for ath- letics, and what we do, we do well. In reaching our goal, the Seniors have been helped by Prof. P. C. Lapham, our class sponsor. The culminating event of our class is this edition of the Shadow which lays before you the history of four years of High School life, especially the year 1921. With untiring energy we have striven to make this edition of the annual a success and we sincerely hope that its pages containing recollections of by-gone days will bring much joy and amusement to our readers. 'Dhe class ohose for its flower, the Sweet Pea, and for its motto Finished Yet Beginning , which is indeed a. symbol of the character of our class. Our history will not be finished with this volume not even when we leave school. It will have just begun. These twelve years of school life are only the foundation upon which we hope to build a super-structure of successful attainments. We, the members of the class of 1921, with our talents and our education are soon to leave the protecting arms of N. H. H. S. to throw ourselves upon the mercies ot' the world. We are not prophets, though we can tell what has happened, it is beyond our power to even imagine what the world has reserved for us. But with determination and a clear aim we leave her, bound to put our names on the roll of the world as successes,.not failures. And now in parting as we the class of 1921 go out of dear old N. H. H. S., we hope that through the years which come and go, she may become better and stronger, and that every succeeding class will be as loyal and as true to her as we have been and will help to build her up to stand among the highest. N. B.--'21. Class Will We, the members of the Senior Class of the New Hampton High School being fully awake and in our usual state of idiocy, and realizing that we must soon depart from this institution of learning, do now solemnly and sorrowfully swear this to be our last will and testament bequeathing our possessions as follows: Section 1. To the Juniors, we bequeath our big headedness to be added to their present supply. Section 2. I, James McGinn, do bequeath my interest in the Queen of Finance to Virgil Leach. I, Virgil Ladwig, do bequeath my Safety First Slogan to Vern Clary. I, Hannah Amble, do bequeath my excess length to Leo Streit. I, Walter Phelps, do bequeath my excess baggage to Charles Kenyon. I, Fred Schoenfeld, do bequeath my popularity as a ladies' man to Francis Greten. I, Raymond McAloon, do bequeath my studious nature to Etta Attleson. We, Karl Geiser, Orie Knight, and Leola Rose do bequeath our controlling interest in the school to anybody with nerve enough to take lt. I, Edward Sheakley, do bequeath my ability to play the part of school comedian to LeRoy Decker. I, Normadine Banks, do bequeath my congeniality with the boys to Nellie White. I, George Drewelow, do bequeath my punctuality at school to Huber Rouse. I, Raymond Hutchinson, do bequeath my ability to act as critic on all sub- Jects to Edward Clemens. I, Cleo Gorman, do bequeath my brilliant knowledge of Physics to Bug Seeley. I, Hazel Roarty, do bequeath my overfiowing pep to Lydia Waltz. We, Marian Strike, Dorothy Schuetz, and Emily Malloy, do bequeath our little book on How to Be Happy Though Married to coming benedicts. I, Josephine Roch- Page Twenty Five