Akron High School - Torpedo Yearbook (Akron, IA)

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' r f 1 - il' X X13 5 ZVAWW SQ -M - if .4 T R E D0 XNWNA8' Jesse Brown is not so slow As first appearance might go to show. He's been going to High School for so long, NYe're beginning to think to the faculty he must belong. Richard Klauer is slow but sure. For his bashfulness he needs a cure. He is athletic and makes his grade too, That's more than lots others can do. Genevieve Christenson is happy and gay But she always wants to have her own way. A school teacher she fain would be, How cross she is, we'll wait and see. Donald Cross the football star. ln basketball he's up to par. An example he'd be for one in despair To keep on trying il you want to get there. VV'hen it comes to basketball Dorothy Johnson beats them all. lf you see Carrie, Dorthy's sure to be near But if you don't see her, her voice you'll soon hear. Margaret Burke with golden hair .Had it bobbed so it would take less care. As a pianist she has become famous, Her other qualities make girls envious. lf length of time measures the merit of the job, Harold Clarke would be the smartest of the mob. As the knowledge of the Seniors is on the same plane, lle must have spent his time in raising cane. To see what Alcester lost in '22 At Edith Johnson take a view. In Civics class she takes the cake Cn the good recitations she can make. Mable Kjose who comes from the country to school, Has never been known to break a rule. She's always studying and is a good scholar, To know how she does it would be worth many a dollar.

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' vfilhi-3 ' 5 P3-.shin i avmytyi fa TORPEDO US Gerald Smith is the radio fan. lle does for his class whatever he can. lint when it comes to the Annual Staff VVhat little he does would make one laugh. Ruth llrown, the scholarly girl, Wlhen it comes to Physics, shels a whirl. ller daily dozen she never fails to take For her beauty and her health's sake. Norman Dahl is not a handsome man, lint if he can't date 'em, nobody can. lle's business like and smart, XVith him the class would surely hate to part. llesia W'allin with dimpled cheek lt isn't her way to be timid or meek. She's known as Honey for many a mile, She has everyone captured by her pleasant smile. liartly Ogden is handsome and keen, lf ia fives him the ack he finds his own tueen. is lle's secretary and treasurer of the class, Ile keeps our money and records our past. Bessie llennett of speaking fame llopes some day to have a great name. She's got good sense, she's smart and witty, Real modest and quite pretty. Quigley Fletcher is jolly and good, lle does his work well as evryone shouldg And on girls he doesn't dote They seem somehow to get his goat. lirma XVaterbury is soon to be teaching school, ller greatest aim is to keep strict rule. She's had her hair bobbed for quite a while, ln order to be in the latest style.

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with-3' AV X win Q2 ZVAWW - .- A If .4 T ORP E D0 XSWNA. l.ast but not least we've llilda to greet. ln the dance hall she's light on her feet. She was the president for '23 She made a good one, we all agree. Hut, before all this eoines to an end l,et others speak of the one that never pretends. Caryl, though of a reserved and quiet disposition ls always there when the elass needs a composition. -By Caryl lNlcCorkel1 ,4 ,sz ,-z VARIATIONS ON A THEME T11 ICM I-I No matter how fast a fish may swim, lle never perspiresf' I As Chaucer might have tampered with it, long ago: Xvhan that the fishe through the wattre cutte He goeth quik yette never do he sweatte. II As old Hill Shakespeare might have told it: .N fish that swiftly through the surf may speed, XVill never sweat, although right strange doth seem: ln such a way do cows oft. III .Xs R. L. Stevenson might have told it: The fish are swimming all around, They swim in every seag lf every one of them would sweat flow horrid it would be. IV As XYalt XYhitman might have put it: Uh, shad! Oh halibut! Uh, piekerel, mackerel, cod! Salmon, bass, and perch- Uh, whale! Uh, herring! Oh, paddock! Uh, baked fish, stewed fish, fried fish, poor fish! Uh, Shark and Iiel and Seal- llail ye all and to my story hark. No matter how fast a fish swims--I wish To tell you that he never perspires!