West High School - Westerner Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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' f Richard T. .fur r II ' :DI 2 ' ' ln' t Iune Epperson Don Solem till? LEADERS Here we are with the kids we've gone all through school with. These head boys and girls look good to me. To me, too, Ann. And what is still more, they were always good to me, not just merely looking so. Do you know I think that Billy Ieffs was the most modest head boy West ever had. There was never the slightest bit of conceit about him. I know that, also. He just went around among us doing everything a person could to make the school better and the children happier. Everybody loves him. He made National Honor Societyg therefore you see he has brains as well as popularity. Why look, Ann, every- one of the head students are in the N.H.S. That's the stuff that group is made of. But I wish that Billy hadn't been so shy of girls: he must have taken Herb McCarthy for his sample to follow. The girls may feel slighted, but we fellows like him all the more for his paying strictly to business. No one ever did more to improve the manners of us boys in the halls and lunch room than Ieffs. I tell you the school is better because of him. Margaret Richardson is very much like him and was liked by the girls just as much as your Bill was admired by the boys. She had a smile for everybody and was the kindest person in the world to the freshmen. l'll never forget the campaign for the head offices when Iune Epperson ran. The halls were actually covered with all kinds of advertising about candidates except Iune. There was just one for her that I saw, but it was so clever that it went into the hearts of all the students. Eighteen Remember it? 'lt's june in january' and it sure was. Did she ever write you any notes? IVle? She never even looked at me. Have I missed something? You decidedly have. She writes them in poetry. I have two she wrote me here in my purse. Let me read them. Roses are red, Violets are blue, The wind is unpredictable, 1 And so are you. n You are my friend, I hope. The Chinese peddlers smuggle dope, The cowboys throw and twist their rope, The astronomers look up thru their 'scope, His followers worship the,mighty Pope, The police have much with which to cope, The poor little love-sick maidens mope, The prisoners never give up hope: And personally, l wash my face with soap. So that's the way she gets 'em. Do you suppose it's too late for me to acquire a line or two. I'll buy her some candy and maybe she'll thank me sweetly. You can't buy Iune's affection, but she'll appreciate the candy. I might have a quiet confab with Don Solem, Ann, and see what he did to win the affection of all the freshmen girls. It was just about the time that all the freshmen began to find themselves that Don hove into sight as a basketball star and shiek, and how the little ladies felll

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SENICIQ OFFICERS Not just the freshmen, Frank. There are scads of Senior girls who would have given their eye-teeth for a date with him or just even a teentsy-weentsy smile from him. Hush, Ann, you must have had a crush, too. I don't care if I did. He's a keen looker, keen actor, and a keen dresser. l'll never forget how dandy he looked in that blue outfit he worel Well, let's go on and I'll forget my secret sorrow number one. Cast you teary eyes on the next page and sigh some more. There's dear old Cliff Tryon, our first president. Gee, but I liked him. He was forever and ever working for the school, always doing something .kind and bene- ficial. You're right, Ann. Cliff was and still is, for that mat- X. ' ter, the best all-round boy in school. We fellows think N' . he's true blue. 0 ' t Bob Hahn, Frank, is another of my secret sorrol sph Nuf ced He's too bright to live long. I was in ondxlof his classes-by mistake, I take it-and he always ade a hundred in recitations and tests. I wonder ho? he does it! - I ' , The bulletin said 'five per cent inspiration and the rest il perspiration.' He's hot stuff! ' I- . Which do you think is the better looking oflour two I vice-presidents? , I ' . v' yi . That depends, Ann, on which you prefer, blonds or ' 'X brunettes. I . ' I X- x L ' Can't say as to that, Frank. But I doxlchow that Don Trout is the biaaest tease in school, I was' trulytfglord when he was shut up most of the timehn the radio room to superintend the broadcasting. wel girlsthadxa , . little peace then. X' 1. J - If . 1 P - . Q Now I know. You prefer Ralph Ginn jlfst because yffl ' couldn't rate with him. He never bothered ygou for It l second. He's another who left well enough alone vid , t followed the narrow path of duty. I N , . A I think a little bit of love is a duty. You do. tool else we'd never have had all the fun of the last four years . . while we were in West, would we? Q .IP Xu ' x You can't be a first class lover like me, Ann, and a scholar as well. I think it must have been fate that made Margaret and Vivian the secretaries of our class. Those two never did one thing independently: one was the shadow of the other, but I can't say which was t e 0, solid matter and which the shadow part. Don't fool yourself: they're both made of the best so matter in the world. Vivian is an all A student: I've been in her classes and have felt like a nonentity every time she recited. Frank, when I look at these first two pages - of our classmates, I'm proud of the Class of 1937 be- cause it had gumption enough to elect such desirable ' year and good looking students to lead us through our last A ' GQ Our class is a good classy now let's turn the page and read what is said about the rest of this year's grad- uates. tl ' I - 5 l Clifford Tryon Robert Hahn Dcn 'Trout Ralph Ginn Vivian Raines Margaret Richardson Nineteen