Appleton High School - Clarion Yearbook (Appleton, WI)

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SiI.YE1f .-tN.'VIV1i1fS.'t1f Y tl 29' SXT -- - 'E:S. xfz,-.-'E-':':,' fb? ' fi ,' T' 'J 1' ' ' D. JI. S., To teachers and students of A. H. S. Three significant letters are-UD. S. They call to mind a woman, strong, Who long has guided the student throng. ln the days of McGovern, ninety-four She began her work, with little more Than a dream for the future with high ideal Of a commercial department she hoped to make real. The department was started in old Ryan High. The beginning was small, the goal was the sky! No two years alike, always planning things new, Her enterprise flourished and steadily grew. When Ryan High burned, and a new school was planned, 'Twas this same D. S. who worked hand-in-hand With principal, architect, citizens, board, To make needs, high ideals, and building, accord. Then on through the years, to June, twentyseight She worked for the school, both early and late. Always progressive, never at rest, She developed a department that ranks with the best. No mere words of tribute could ever express All it meant to her to achieve this success. But summed up in one indisputable truth: SHE HAS GIVEN HER LIFE TO APPL.ETON'S YOUTH! --MAY E. WEBSTER. IH'

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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

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THE CLARION A Letter tew the Cleuiryon Deer Editur: Thare iz sevrul kwestyuns l wud like tew ask befoar yew go tew press with thet annyversry edishun. l bin attemptin tew revoo the type an kwality uv the perdukshun uv Appultun hi skewl dewrin the lest 25 yeers an awl I lak iz data er datta az sum uv them A1 Smith folks wuz pernouncin things lest fall. l-low kin we git up sum statistiks withowt sum liggers tew figger with? Fust, how menny uv them latin stewdunts hez giv up huntin latin derry vashuns in the dikshunary an gone in fer Espyranto an parlor triks or iz huntin amung the roons uv ainshunt rome tew find owt whut Nlussoleenies intenshuns iz? Sekund, whut perporshun uv the graduaites hez giv up poker an gone in fer rain inshurance sense thet L C Hi set em thinkin by puttin thet rain gage on the roof an kollektin I thowsand dollars frum mister Percy Konky bak thare in the erly 20s? Thurd, whut perporshun uv them graduaites thet wuz soshulists and misshunaries tew the heathun hez gone tew sellin sum bonds an more stocks? an whut perporshun uv them thet wuz suspektin a shell gaime iz now lookin after the IOO neediest cases? Foarth, ef there haint bin no more immygrashun an ef the Malthoosian law hez,bin workin rite an ef they haint took that thare geometrikkul progreshun owt uv thet lVlat- thematiks coarse, iz thare more cats er more mice in that storeroom in the basement whare Cap Harrus planted that detektiv cat sum yeers ago. Fifth-Whut is the diffrunce in longitewd, circumfrunce, an lattitewd between the gown lVlis Morgan gut at Nice pernouncd Niece in Franse in 1908 er sum uther reepublikan yeer an thet thet she gut the last trip ovur? an duz she wear them ekally wel in a flashlite fotygraf? Yewrs Birdofredum P. S. l hev a littul propputy I wud like tew sell tew the bd uv Edycashun fer a new hi skewl site. It iz the onli site l kno uv on wich all parties kin unite an konsekwentli iz jest the: thing. It iz rite in line with the times. Ef yew wil kinda put a bug in the eer uv sum memburs uv thet bd uv educashun, I wl maike it rite with yew. My lot iz a small lot but it is rite in the centur uv the city. Save the childruns steps iz my mottoe an the taxpayurs wll be willin tew pay fer elevaturs. Page Iizurzzfy-fiw