St Josephs Academy - La Lumiere Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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 LA LUMIERE 1923 - - --------------- -------- Page Twenty-eight PETITION Time—May 15 Place—Under the gong! On bended knees, a guilty race, Before you we appear, Oh, look on us with smiling fare, Our sighs and prayer now hear! SOPHOMORITIS Mother, we are here today— There’s something that we’d like to say. The classes tell us that we are late, So may we have an early date On which to give a party gay? Say Friday eve, twenty-fifth of May. A Kiddie Dance—it would he cute! Our “Freshies” it is sure to suit. We’ll carry childish things quite far, Even to riding a Kiddie Kar. You know, our Seniors will soon l e leaving— And of course, we’ll all he grieving. We'd like to give them a nice farewell. (The rest of our plans in prose we ll tell.) So now we ask before we go. Will you please say “Yes” or “No”? —Mary Reedy BRIEF TO MOTHER— Proposition : I hat the Sophomores lie allowed to have a “Jitney” Dance, February 13th, for the purpose of raising funds. Body of Argument: A—Me should he allowed to do this because: (o) We need funds for final party. (b) We had no party First Semester. B—We are worthy of this privilege for: (a) We have not been sent to you Lately. (b) The majority of us are old boarders. (c) Our examinations were good. C—This is not an unusual request because: (a) Last year the Sophomores gave a luncheon for the same purpose.

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 LA LUMIERE 1923 •K3555 Page Twenty-seven Sophomore Class Officers President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Virginia Hunt Louise Davis Mary Reedy Mildred Settle “Boost and the school boosts with yen. Knock and you knock alone! The Sophomores of ’23 had in mind this motto when we began our High School work in '21. How we have practiced it our record tells. Though we have been dubbed the “Big Bosses” and occasionally some one changes the “Boost” to “Boast” on the face of our fair escutcheon, yet when it comes to love for school and teachers kind— Sophomore Twenty-three Spells “Loyalty!” In our Freshman year we featured in Athletics and Vera Asher won the medal for broad jumping. This year we have made a fine record in Debating— though the judges (owing to their conventional ideas) often cast the vote in favor of our opponents. Oar Carnival on St. Patrick’s Day was—like its originators—unique and un- paralleled. Probably the most interesting attraction was “A Trip to Heaven” (although we regret to say the Seniors aired their conviction that we are doubtful authorities on any subject above “terra firma”). Now that we have skillfully wended our way half through the intricate labyrinth of the S. J. A. High School curriculum, and, with well-crammed (though not swollen) heads, are about to take unto ourselves the name of “Mighty Juniors,” we consider it fitting and proper to mask our exuberant spirits with that subdued and harassed look which you, dear reader, have perhaps noticed is peculiar to Juniors! Although next September will see us back in dear old S. J. A.—happy, and, we trust, not too high-browed—it is with desolate hearts we submit to the “Passing of the Sophomores of ’23! Yell Biff! Boom! Bang! Whiff! Whoof! Whang! Sophomores What a gang! —Virginia Hunt, '25.

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LA LUMIERE 1923 --- KsS5 Page Twenty-nine D—Class Officers are all prominent girls: (a) President is the Governor's daughter. ( ) Treasurer hoarded here for ten years. (c) Basketball Captain hoarded here for six years. E—Effect of prvilege will be beneficial for: (a) We will work hard in school and try to better our grades. b) Others will improve from emulating our example. Awaiting your answer and hoping you will sign this petition we wish you a happy day! The Sophomores. (Sign here)......................................... A Geometrical Proposition If ten Sophies, having sufficient funds, wish to see the “Count of Monte Cristo Tuesday night chaperoned by Miss Shea, Miss O’Daniel, and Mademoiselle, Mother will say “Yes —or have the picture up here. V» r - Given the angle YES, three chaperones and sufficient funds. To prove that Mother will say “YES . Proof: Suppose Mother says “no funds and chaperones”—this cannot be as it violates the given conditions. Then— Draw the parallelogram “LENT”. The angle “YES is greater than the parallelogram “LENT” because year before last we had “Dinty” during Lent.—Post. I. . . . Mother will say “YES for, (If we are given privileges, we try to deserve Mother’s trust)—Hyp. We will have the picture here Escaping for, (Equals may be substituted for equals in quantities or equations) (I E. D. —Mary Reedy A RURAL ROMANCE He met her in the meadow As the sun was sinking low They walked along together In the twilight's after-glow; She waited until patiently He has lowered all the bars. Her soft eyes bent upon him As radiant as the stars; She didn't smile or thank him. In fact she knew not how. For he was but a farmer lad And she—a Jersey cow.