Stadium High School - Tahoma Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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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!

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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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24 TI-IE. TAI-IOMA Class Prophecy HE stage-coach came to a sudden halt. XYhat is the meaning of this? I asked my driver as I poked my bonnet out of the window and vigor- ously grabbed for my hoop skirt. Just Waiting for that flying automobile to get by, he answered, in a voice which struck me as being peculiarly familiar. I sized him up a moment and then asked his name. 'Whoa there! My name, eh? O, my name's Burfordf' Burford! No wonder that voice was familiar. My hoops nearly suitered a collapse as I grasped for his hand. . VValdo Burford, don't you remember me?,' VVell, if it isn't youf' he thundered. This reversion of styles gets me all mixed up. I wish these fanatics would either stay one way or the other. I'm tired of having flying-machines bumping into stage-coaches, and hoop skirts into hobbles. There's likely to be civil war over this very thing? ' I see you still have your voice left, VValdo, I mildly observed. Yes, I guess it's getting worse, he sighed. 'Tm selling patent medicines when I'm not running stage-coaches and between them it's kind of hard on the lungs. . I thought it certainly must be. You wouldn't have thought when we graduated fifteen years ago, that Puyallup would have been as big as Seattle and that they would even have a fair there, would you? he went on. O, say, I was over to the High School the other day and what do you think! Earl Jones is principal. Don Stevens got fired because the girls made remarks about his dimples and he made eyes at them. Marie LaGasa has charge off the library with Grady Mahaffey as assistant. I tell you, there was a hubbub when I was there. Wfill VVright is teaching chemistry, too, and VX7ill Gaffney, U. S. Historyf' - - I The coach was now atpthe end of its journey audas the door flew open, imagine my amazement when I saw Trixie Camp in a sheath