St Edward High School - Beaver Yearbook (St Edward, NE)

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Leda, if she sacrifices, If she does not frizz nor frivol, Shall embrace the boon she covets— To appeal to J. M. Ellis. Numbers still shall bother Mel After he has left St. Edward, Both the number in mathematics And the number of his in-laws. Vera needs no seer to tell her That her fate smiles in her dimples. Walt shall be a plump policeman A friend to speeding comrades. Ruth shortly shall discover Paint that can’t be told from nature; When she puts it on the market. She can cloth herself in purple. Want shall be the lot of Dorothy Not of money—but of a husband. Roy by Mildred shall be jilted, Broken-hearted he shall wonder For two long and lonesome evenings Then in Anne he shall find solace. Doris in her school house red Will teach the small ones till she’s dead. Oscar is to plow and spring tooth, Sow and garner bumper harvest, Be an up-and-coming farmer. Donald shall mingle with the muses, Spouting anapests and dactyls. Varyl shall smirk across the counter. As he wraps up thread and buttons. George is doomed a photographer While Gordon’s great experiments Sha'l work wonders with Anna’s rheumatism. Mary Anne shall be head waitress In the home of Dick and Dornie. Myrtle sits in a gigantic Cathedral in Spain Playing a pipe-organ upon which she acquired fame. On the banks of Rio De Janeiro Grace will sell her wares of cookery. Vaughn shall be the Colliers’ artist Kathleen and Audrey will pose as models. For “Shin” whose nose was always in the air Makes a non-stop flight with his famous glider. His friend, Kenneth Matzen, learns the art of speaking And is now' an instructor in the college of Harvard. Some say that “Pat” New'ton who joined the ranks, Is captain of a team excelling the Yanks. Harold Miller received a patent on his “Golden Glint” And so all the ladies give their hair a lustrous tint. Albert decided that he needed a rest So boarded a train for the great Northwest.

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Ei Gordon Neal, president; Mildred Jenson, vice-president, Ruby Jensen, secretary-treasurer. We set our goal to win the scholastic contest which took in a wide territory. Our Senior class play, “The Thirteenth Chair,” was given at the High School Auditorium April 18 and 19, which proved very successful under Miss Wright’s sponsorship, with the help of various members of the faculty. We were a proud group when we received our class rings the latter part of March. Our last memorial event was Commencement May 16, starting forty-three afresh out into this world to shift for themselves. Class PrnphrBi; Would you, O, my Senior brothers, Catch a glimmer of the future, Like a firefly in the twilight That enshrouds the summer evening?— When the trail shall lie behind you, Who shall faint beneath its hardships, Who shall stumble on undaunted, Where the journey’s end shall find you, What shall be your new surroundings, Who shall be your new companion Which of your St. Edward comrades Shall be with you when your travels Are successfully concluded Harken, then, my Senior brothers, To the auguries of Chaska. Look! I see a trail before you, Verging into the horizon, In a far-off, clouded glory: Near at hand the way is rugged, Stony, steep, beset with prickles, Danger crouches in the thickets; Thus by turns, by others pleasant, Velvety beneath the footfall, Sunny skies and feasts of landscape, Now and then some friendly converse. Can I pierce the haze, obscuring All the questions you would have my Powerful medicine answer? Listen— John shall go across the ocean That the little Father told us Lies beyond the region lifeward— There to splash in diplomatics. Ellen is doomed to clatter dishes In a pan of foaming soapsuds, But her soul shall soar above them, Plotting our scenarios. Pearl shall seek the movie magnates And attain anon to stardom.

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 IH Frank Apgar is a lawyer In a city in the East. Clarisa goes to foreign lands And becomes a missionary to China and Japan. Vera W. works in fields of grain Shocking wheat and raising cain. Gertrude now, Gertrude ever------ Flaherty now, but not forever----?? Margaret has entered an American Business College But meets her Prince Charming and fails to return. The three Ruby’s go to college tut only two return For Ruby Cumming vamped her teacher Her hobby when in St. Ed. High. Anna shall sign her letters Mrs. Lester Eugene Kealy. Class Will While we lingered in St. Edward, In the sunny Land of Learning, We acquired some few possessions, We amassed some strings of knowledge For the soil is black and fertile— E’en the laziest must prosper, A.nd we Seniors are not lazy. On this eve of our departure Down the long, long trail to lifeward, In a pile we have collected All the choicest of our treasures To take with us on the journey; But we find they are too heavy— Slow, too slow would be our progress, If we carried half this burden; So, except for bits of knowledge We have gathered in St. Edward And the bulky pack of memories Of old days, old friends, old frolics, We must leave our wealth behind us, All our treasures and possessions. Lest there be unseemly discord O’er the spoils when we have vanished, Over who should have this keepsake And to whom should go that relic, Aided by the Little Father, We have made a will in writing, To divide our riches fairly. Listen while I read its clauses— You may find yourself remembered. We the Seniors of St. Edward, Being in our usual senses— Which, mayhaps, you think means nothing—