Alliance High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Alliance, NE)

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I he Spuh full our base ball team won about half the games played, and now the athletes of the school are practicing for a track meet. THE SENIOR CLASS I N the Senior Class, which will soon be classed with the alum-A ni, there are two boys on the basket ball team and four girls on the girls’ team. Two of the class won second places in the Declamatory contest, and one member was on the first Debating team. By the departure of this class, some of the best pupils in High school leave. A seven-course banquet was given them by the Juniors, May 11, in the gymnasium. The room was decorated in a mass of pink and white, and pink and white carnations were on the table Music was furnished by the orchestra during the banquet. An especially good toast was given by Miss Wirt but she is too modest to allow it to appear in print. The class will give the play, “Hicks at College,” Friday, May 17. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered at the opera house by Rev. A. L. Godfrey on May 19. The alumni banquet in honor of the new members will be Wednesday, May 22, and the commencement address, given by Gov. Aldrich, will'be on May 23. WE wish to thank the subscribers of our paper for their pat-? ” ronage and financial support given this year, also the business men who have aided us by their advertisements. ]Y j R. W. R. Pate has met with unbounded success since he has 1 A been superintendent of the Alliance Public Schools. Before commencing his teaching career in the schools of our state, Mr. Pate attended Lincoln Normal University, and the University of Nebraska. Since then he has been principal of the High school at Danbury, Nebraska, and he has been superintendent of schools in four progressive communities of our state, having been at Sidney five years and Alliance two. For eight summers he has been engaged in Junior Normal work at North Platte and Alliance, having held the principalship of the Alliance Junior Normal for three years. Mr. Pate has served as president of Western Nebraska and North Platte Valley Teachers’ associations. He is a member of the executive committee of the Nebraska State Teachers’ association, also of Nebraska School Masters’ club, and has just recently been elected president of the Nebraska State Declamatory Union 1912-1913. Mr. Pate is a superintendent of great influence among his students and co-workers and will always achieve a most praiseworthy record. 15

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