Stadium High School - Tahoma Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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22 Ti-IE TAI-IOMA debaters and Win a cup of wrought silver and added much glory Lo the illustrious 'name of 1911, And in the last term of their sojourn in the High School they gathered themselves together and said, It is time for us to choose a new leader,', and they chose VValdo Burford to be their leader for the last part of their sojourn. - And it came time for the scribes of the class of 1911 to take charge of the Tahoma and a great meeting of all the tribes of the school was called and ye Chief Scribe and ye Business and Advertising Managers fflirl make speeches and great numbers of subscriptions were procured and the Tahoma Hourished a11d grew larger and better than ever before. Now it came to pass that all the men of the tribes of the High School did form themselves into Track teams and did strive against each other. Now the men of the tribe of 1911 were strong and mighty and on the day on which the teams of the various tribes did strive against each other, they Waxed stronger than ever before and so it came to pass that they defeated the men of all the other tribes. And it came to pass that from among all the people of the tribes of Tacoma High School, one was chosen of the tribe of 1911 whose name was lfVallace MacPherson, to meet all the chosen men from the schools of the State of Wfashington in a test of oratory. And in Seattle on the eleventh day of the fifth month of the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, it so happened that X!X73113.CS MacPherson did win over all the other men and stood first among the orators of the schools of the State of Wfashington. b And on the self-same night in the city of Tacoma another meet- ing was held to decide who, among all the people ot the various tribes of Tacoma I-1ighSchool were the best in writing and speaking essays of the war of Independence. And two members of the tribe of 1911 did win first and second prize and much was the rejoicing in the tribe of 1911 forasmuch as three of their people wo11 victories on the self-same night. i And in the last days of their sojourn a great Track meet was held in the Stadium and all the people of the land of Wfashington did send men to it and the tribe of 1911 did work valiantly to sell tickets for it and it came to pass that they sold more tickets than any other tribe, yea, verily, one of their number sold fifty-two. U And it'came to pass that the tribe of 1911, after the custom of other tribes, did give a Class Play on the second and third days of

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Tl-IE TAI-IOMA 21 this they did and from this time forth, the feasts of this tribe were numerous. . And in the second half of the third year of their sojourn, under the leadership of Claude Hiberly they did petition the head of all the tribes, King Collicott, to have Room 219 for their abode and great was the'rejoicing when their petition was granted and the scattered tribe was come together and lived peacefully and happily, under the kindly guidance of Miss Liddell in Room 219 and Miss Alcott in Room 221. And in the last days of the third year of their sojourn in Tacoma 'High School, the Stadium, for which they worked so valiantly, was dedicated and there was great rejoicing thereat, for the Stadium had taken much time to be built. And many of the tribe of 1911 took part in the Stadium dedication which continued for two days. Now, when the tribe of 1911 returned to the House of VVisdom after the summer vacation of the year one thousand nine hundred and ten, they found a new king reigning in King Collicott's stead and his name was King Knouff, for King Collicott had been called to a posi- tion of higher trust. Now, soon after they returned to Tacoma High School for the fourth and last year of their sojourn there, they gathered themselves together and said, Let us choose ourselves a motto and let 'us make for ourselves class pins of pure gold, 'for our old pins'are no longer worthy of our tribe. So they made for themselves class pins of pure gold cunningly wrought and the letters were of beaten gold upon them and there was much rejoicing thereat, for these pins were worthy of the tribe of 1911. And they did choose a motto which read, He conquers who conquers himself. And mightily did the tribe strive to live up to it. And all the tribes of Tacoma High School did meet and decide that a new gymnasium-was needed and they said, Let us have a football game and raise money for the gymnasium and let each tribe strive to sell more tickets than the other. And the tribe of 1911 sold more tickets than any other tribe and their fame grew and was magnified day by day among the tribes of Tacoma High School. Yea, and all the tribes of the school did gather, each tribe among itself, and did form Debating Teams and the teams from each tribe did stand up before the teams of the other tribes. And it came to pass that the debaters of the tribe of 1911 did defeat all the other

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THE TAI-IOMA 23 the sixth month of the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven. And the name of it was Phoebe,s Romance or 'iQua1ity Street, and great was the applause that it Won and thereby did the class of 1911 win more glory. And it came to pass that on the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the year nineteen hundred and eleven, the tribe of 1911 graduated from the House of Wfisdomg and the tribe of 1911 was represented by VValdo Burford. And the two people of the class who did work hardest and earn the greatest rewards were Ruth Birks and Jacob Hoffman, and they were also on the program, and the Faculty were represented by Elma Leonard. With much speaking and great cere- mony were the tribe of 1911 ushered forth into life. Thus closes the history of tribe of 1911 during their sojourn in the House of VVisdom. Henceforth shall their deeds be recorded in the great Book of Life. -Quinn Trott '11 9 13 at .3 W 1,21 f fgff WZfWW?f ' W7 ffzfff' 4ff?ffZ f' ff XJ v I ff, . .A . X X l X .3 I, 1 X fd, jf fcaf 153, -Nj, ,f I f Z W fd! 1 1' if f fad i'i't X -- ' 'fd HWME awww .X fit- M ' if 4 mhlflmewltlmh N W 1 . . h , .1 pg . g,4f,,,lilf , I'm Lonesome, Oh, So Lonesome!