Appleton High School - Clarion Yearbook (Appleton, WI)

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SII. VER .l.V.X'lV1fIfS,t1fY if he ww c- a N g Y iillii' --s :fi , J ,,,,s'L'f'f 0 ri' 'Y' J ,ff 'pf X14 XXX , I nf lil W, V 'f v:',,h tivo IEREEMYEMBEEW t'lH'lr t '7 V-vw X , f 'rf , 5. J fa ll .XWWQ gills ll 4 ,L N so cess... X lk? me f -1lr:'15::Pfff?j The girls wore wire hats and hair-ribbons too big to see in the mirror, and the powder puff was a chamois skin? Some bright student put a sign on the bulletin board: Election Day-No Schoolu? And there wasn't! We had classes at seven o'clock in the morning? The faculty came to the football game in the police patrol because they were ac- cused of not supporting the team? We used to prance clown the middle of College Avenue every time we won a basketball game? 208 and 210 were boys' and girls' locker rooms? We had a recess? The students used to go to Bilter's bakery and get filled doughnuts at recess? Ruth Saecker took the part of the school teacher in the senior class play, and the paper reported next day: Do you remember that parting scene in the first act? More than one gulped about that time, each gulp a silent tribute to Miss Saecker's stage abilityu? Basketball games were held in the school gym and dances were held afterward? The boys had a mustache club and the one with the largest mustache at Christmas was to be presented with a razor? We had baccalaureate addresses the Sunday afternoon or evening before Com- mencement and the seniors marched in a body from school to the church? The junior-senior banquet was an all-day excursion to High Cliff-and on a school day too? lVlr. Bjorkland used to cut the tops off his shoes and make slippers when spring came? George Dame's debating vocabulary? Deci Salisbury was chairman of the social committee? The faculty went to their picnics in lVlike's truck? Miriam Peabody got caught on the trestle and had to hang onto the side while the train went past? 1'llfll' I-:willy-l':.'i1

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SILVER A NNI VERSA I? Y A Letter From Miss MeNervin DEAR MARGARET: To grant the request for a word of greeting, or a reminiscence in honor ol the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Appleton High School, is to turn my thoughts back into the yesterdays and recapture a thousand memories that brought at that time so much interest into our lives as we were associated and worked out the problems of Appleton High School together. In the autumn of '04, Appleton High School had headquarters and some class rooms in the City Hall building, but most of the class went on their merry-go-round way from the City Hall and Library class rooms to the Lincoln School, to the Appleton Theatre, to Lawrence Collce. Some of the science classes, and all of the expression classes were held in the basement of the City Hall. Strangers thought it was a wild animal zoo, or Bedlam, for there were always puzzled looking spectators lined up out- side the basement windows. Later in the spring when the warm weather came and windows were opened, curious children and grown-ups, and even the uncommon council, put their heads in through the windows to see what was going on. It was usually a class downing the Romans , it may have been the Charcoal Man calling his wares, or the ocean Rolling On , or it may have been Bert Lennon bringing to an untimely end The Man with the Iron Shroud . For our play that year, we undertook the presentation of a very pretentious one called Rosedale in which there were several acts, and numerous scenes in each act. I often wondered if because of that play and its complicated presentation at the Appleton Theatre, we were in any measure responsible for the stage manager of the theatre having lost his mind the following summer. The following year we were installed in the new building, and what a marvelous and happy change it was! Busy years followed, days and nights crowded with activities and programs. Eager boys and girls swarmed into school each year and surged out again,- always with faces glowing with hope, radiant with the joy of life, exuberant as only youth can be, curious and hungry to prepare themselves for their great venture in life. And what a blessed thing it is now to feel, reflected from that long procession, so many happy memories and the warmth and loyalty of so many priceless friendships. To the faculty, the alumni, the students of those memorable days, we extend our hearty greetings. In whatever remote corner of the earth you may be established, know one and all that our fond thoughts are with you, and we are sending best wishes for much success and joy and blessings. E f . l Lama , wa. M Page fwclrty-om'

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THE CLARION JJNA - , ,J goof- Y 2 LAL J QAmmfN- -- - 1 ff ff 177' XXX X0 Z -N X' y . ,,:?V gf :lf Z 'Xi' r V' .SJ Q l s'h ea MIK WH N l 5 l fi ED '-- Wg. Ji, ay fp,-I l- f rrdf kgs-iff Avril A5 9:j,T,-'ji7 T:,'r. , I sxrig i-'ill rn gL - i 95, Y ii? 42: 31,5-!.i,l.lIfv One-tenth credit was deducted for misdemeanors such as whispering in assembly and the list of those docked was posted on the bulletin board? The outer office was the teacher's room with a long table, a couch, and Miss Mor- gan's desk? lVlary Orbison was flag-raiser and stuck her tongue on the iron pole in the winter? When Rayburn, the revivalist, was here and the students gave up dancing? Some of the faculty even stopped smoking? When the barn dance was coming in? The students weren't allowed to dance it in school so they danced on the side walk outside while a chorus of onlookers furnished music? There were pig-tail days and Gerald Koch came with his hair in pig-tails tied with baby ribbon? There were desks instead of opera seats in the assembly? There was a course in knitting? Rose Ellen lVlcNevin wore green stockings on St. Patrick's Day? When the wall back of the assembly platform was innocent of Indians and Jesuits and decorated with class pennants and blankets of most gaudy hues? Coach Vincent kept a joke book and began every speech with a joke? The fashion was soon copied. Miss Reid took her biology classes to the lake early in the morning to see the birds? The children's 'Christmas parties? The school bank was open from l :IO to l 130 in the rear of the assembly? Mary Baker was Ma Baker to all the freshmen? When Roger Tuttrup and others tried to celebrate the first anniversary of Armistice Day by an unofficial holiday? Page fwculy-ih1'r'c