Pottsville High School - Hi S Potts Yearbook (Pottsville, PA)

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Senior Class History On a bright incirniug in September, three years ago, there stood in front of the High School building a 'bunch of'greeu, which on closer examination was found to be the incoming' Juniors. tNow the dignitied Seniorsj. Of course all had arrived at twenty minutes to nine: texcept Bliss llflalberstadt. Mr. Losch, Mr. Schimpf and Mr. Mc- Quail. whose clocks were always sluwl and were patient- ly waiting' for the floors to be opened. Our cmning into the High Selioolu was altogether unlike that of other classes. XXX- did not stumble up the steps. nor walk with our faces to the grimiirlg but walked np the stairs, into the main rooin. as if we were Seniors instead of juniors. l'rof. Thurlow never had to call lu line, for we were always in line. Several times we had tu stroll around the rooiu for not walking quiet: but of course that happens twall classes. Klr. Xlillingtim tl'arkesl and Miss U'ljrieu usually showed us the way on this journey. If I were to tell you about all the love affairs in our class. you would tire of reading. XYhy Miss Richards' cases would fill a whole book. Mr. Xlills wrote so many notes to her that it was thought once we would have to hire a secretary to take care of them tbecause some of them went astrayj. Nr. Ryrm and Miss Deisherfthey didn't write many notes. No, l guess not: forelim usu- ally seeured a seat near Laura, and then they talked all they had to say. .lim and Laura then received front seats. l must not forget Kliss Rentz and Mr. Dussom. They are a u'Tl1llllJl'.H Kliddler and SL-uior case, for, unlike alliothers, they have not broken ol? yet. Nr. Schimpf and Miss llader. 'O6. must not be for- gotten. You could usually see them strolling' down or up Arch street. XYill some one give nie' the answer to this? Nr. Schimpf cut Nr. Palmer out and Bliss Saul 'eut Miss Rader out: who does Mr. Palmer go with? The tea parties held regularly in Miss Rhoads' room 19

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Number entered since june, 1904: Girls ..... Boys ..... Number Girls ..... Boys ..... Total r ,out of town students: Total . . . H ' r X U 1 N 18

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every Tuesday must not be left out of this history. They were one of the most enjoyable Nj happenings of the year. Mr. Ryon enjoyed them to such an extent, that one evening he forgot to go home till six o'clock, and as a consequence, he was given a gas bill for a Xmas gift. .Xt last our Junior year was completed and we were MlDDl,l2RS. Yes, we were truly Middlers, and one could tell that by our hauteur. How we did walk through the school. Our pride was often brought down, too: for when some of our members were showing their authority over the green Juniors, l'rof.,'l'lun'low would yell. Mr. Fox, Mr. Millington, sometimes Mr. Rhoads. llut altogether our Middler year was a year to be remembered by allg for it was the last year with our old teachers. Had we known then that we were going to lose them, many lit- tle kindnesses would we have rendered, which we thought- lesslyi overlooked. The most marked feature of this year was our botan- i7ing tours. l think our class was the favorite class in this respect: as we took more trips than any other class. On one of our trips Prof. Simonds introduced a new feature-a race for girls. Miss Richards won in this race, and as a reward found a new species of flower. Another very important and to be remembered event was our first literary. lt was held from two to two forty-five. when we were told in stern accents to return to our own side of the room- and get to work. lNe thought this would be our first and last literary: but a very excellent program was put upon the slate. and per- mission given to hold another meeting. On this meet- ing we were highly complimented. Two or three more meetings were held, which were repetitions of the second one Pj Mr. Fox came to school one day with a glad smile upon his face. Investigating, we found his heart had been stolen by a Junior maiden. Tele was seen to walk frequently up North Second street with a certain young lady. Miss McCaffrey was the innocent cause of it all. 20