Appleton High School - Clarion Yearbook (Appleton, WI)

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APPLETON HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR OFFICERS RALPH MCGOWAN Presrdcnl MARGARET O LEARY l :cc President LAURA Slfix ERT Secretary CLASS HISTGRY The class of l920 entered these halls over one hundred and hfty strong Short trousers and harr rrbbons were abundant among us at that time Those were the days when several of our number were confmed rn the coal bln by the sophs Our hrst social event was the walk around The semors surely showed us a good time and for further detalls about this consult Harold ens poem rn the Clarron for September l9lf: Le Roy De Land was elected president of the class osephme Bradford and Olrve Reetz vrce president and secretary respec trvely We had several of our class on the football team They were Shapiro Sternes and Schultz Then we won the mterclass basketball tournament a thmg whxch no freshman team had ever accompllshed before Our class was repre sented on the school basketball team by Basmg who played guard and Stark who played center The class party was a success from every standpomt We played games had our fortunes told by senlor gurls and danced We were represented by several rn the mterclass track meet Then at last came exams and wrth our 4 4 credits we were ready for chapter two II With our numbrs somewhat drmmlshed but shll the banner class rn school ve started our second year Oh how we drd look down on the freshmen Myrtle Basmg was elected president of the class Rose Ryan was vlce president and Erwin Hagen secretary and treasurer Three members of our class were on the football team Thus year something new was trned This was mterclass football It didn t prove a very great success probably because our team came ' 21 -7 , .-1. - . . . . J ,l .

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THF CLARION ANNUAL out last We got econd place m the mterclass basketball tournament thus year About half of the members of the school basketball team were members of ou class We w ere represented on the debate team by Roger Tuttrup This year we just missed the school sprrxt cup by fue pomts Our gettlng It would have been an aw ful blow to the seniors though so maybe xt IS Just as well And our scholarship records were amazmg Ruth Fmk got seven nlnety faves one month Guess that IS some world s record Our class party proved a success too I track work Oscar 5CllmlCgC took several of the honors This was the year we were at war It IS safe to say I920 could never have done better m nts patrlotxc efforts So closes a successful year And now we come to the beglnnlng of the second half of our high school hfe Stull gomg strong mth our enrollment far surpassmg the one hundred mark we settled down for another years hard work Our class officers were Sarto Balhett presrdent Myra Buchman vlce presldent and Peggy OLeary sec c tary and treasurer Nineteen twenty contributed DeLand Basmg Blanchard and Woelaler to this year s football team Woehler won a place as tackl on the all state team Agam we had flrst place ln the mterclass basketball tourna ment Our party was as good and even better than our former ones We were represented on the basketball team by Ralph McGowan and ohn Showalter and 1n the debate team by Roger Tuttrup Henry Stevens Rose Ryan and W1lllS Wood In the mterclass track meet Schmlege was hrgh man We tool second place ln thus meet Then came class day when we took the spade lf y and other miscellaneous articles off the seniors hands and put them ln safe keep mg Then commencement and thus closed the thlrd epoch of our hugh school career We re supposed to set an example to the rest of the school thus year Do we do 1t5 Ask lVlr Wells about I0 40 period He can tell you Our enroll ment stlll numbers over a hundred Let s hope lt stays that way till we f:lIllSl1 The majorlty of athletes ln both football and basketball are members of our class thls year We w on the lnterclass basketball contest as usual Officers of class are Ralph McGowan president MCC-owan lately reslgned and was suc ceeded by Erwin Hagenl Peggy O Leary vxce president Laura Sxevert secre tary and treasurer Our hrst social duty was to entertaln the freshmen at the walk around Here s hopmg they had a good time I m sure we drcl 'Vlost of the members of the Press Club and Clarlon staff are semors The school spmt cup w as awarded to us Then came our class party Oh Boy' Drd anyone exer lm ne a better tnne In the old gym3 Thus just about closes the story of l92U We are the larget cla s th at has exer graduated we haxe mamtamed the hlghet choln hnp records exen known In Appleton High .School Mr lxeller us he 1 proud of u NVhat more could a cla s accompl1sh3 . s ' ' r f , ' ' V ' ' v ' r . . - . 7 . V .. . . . . V 4 Q , , . . . . . , . . . - !- . - v . . ' 7 I . . . 'x , , , , . . , . 1 . , .e . , IV. , . . , . . . . , , ' V , .- ' A 7 1 , , g - . , . t . . , . - , V . , R - . , . 1 r. 4 . . 'a . .. t . . t ' 2' t . . ' 4 V V . 1 i 9. . t . . . , 'V A . . ., ... . . K . , . . . . 1 I . P s rs ' ': 'A ' ' . . si s s. z 4 's ' .