Appleton High School - Clarion Yearbook (Appleton, WI)

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S1I,t'I5lf .-lNNlVH11'S.etlfY For 19316 Wliere are the children that we used to be, Those golden children running down the wind, Laden with laughter, swift hair flying free? Wliere did youth die, and dreams escape the mind? Over the meadows, misted aquamarine, Over the hills we played, in sun-cool hours: Homeward at dusk, where river-rushes lean, And mill-lights strew the dark with yellow flowers. Here is the winding path where clover grew Brushing our knees with sweetness. Here our Fire Kindled a clark flame in the eyes of you- Here you leaned, grey-eyed, watching the fire. 5 Wliere have these golden children vanished then? Wliere are the dreams, the laughter swift and free? lVlust l believe these heavy-footed men, These weary women, are reality? We are not these at all-there is a place, A secret place of sun and shimmering air Beyond the dusk, further than Time or Space, And our enchanted hours are gathered there. We shall go back again with eager feet Along the mysterious path to yesterday, Dream the old dreams, feel the lost airs blow sweet Laugh the light laughter Time has swept away. We shall go hack, l know, for still l hear Faint laughter through the twilight echoing clear. WGLADYS BAGG TAB-LR

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SIl.l'lflf .lNNll'lf1fS.lfi'l' Our Chielfs lpast and Present It was late in the fall of l897 that I came to Apple- ton as principal of the Second School District, which included the Ryan High School. At that time there were three other schools doing high-school work: the first offered one yearg the fourth had two years: and the third ward had a four-year high school. The burning of the Ryan building seemed to be the event that was needed to start a movement for a union high school. Soon after the Appleton High School was organized, l was asked to take the principalship. To organize the work of the new high school, and especially to bring together the two rival schools with their various societies and activities, was a most interesting task. The teachers that were retained from the faculties of the two old schools worked hard to forestall all kinds of friction and misunderstandings: and this part of the work was a complete success. lVluch care was exercised to retain the names of societies and organizations in equal number. The Clarion was inherited from the old Ryan High School. But there seemed to be no way of combining the colors of the schools with any kind of artistic effect: hence they were abandoned and new colors, Orange and Blue, agreed upon. ln less than a year every vestige of the old feeling had disappeared. I have always looked back to my work and life in Appleton as a delightful period: and it is a pleasure to return, as we occasionally do, to see our friends. Q7f6tWa7.Z Twenty years ago it was my pleasure to begin my eleven years of service in Appleton High School. But, what is time! The memory of the youth of Appleton High during this period-their work, their play, their joy-their sorrows-these are the worth-while things. This period included the World War, in which many of our boys gave their all to their countryg and one hero, Wm. Heiss, stood out. He is the Known Soldier who is typical of what youth gave to the world then. In my treasure library l still have the many letters written to the school by the boys over there . Those of Wm. Heiss are especially preci- ous. It occurred to me that possibly Appleton High School would like to make up a memorial folder of some of these letters. If so, I would be pleased to send some of them. The joys of students, the happy labors of the faculty who made even hard sub- jects a pleasure, my own G.l.B. group, a splendid Board of Education at Appleton, all these give me a thrill and inspiration even now in my work, the work I dearly love. D Q91 jr Z, Page i'lg1l1I1'i'1z