Appleton High School - Clarion Yearbook (Appleton, WI)

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O6 37s AHS Tender twosome Lettered man ul? Nw w-tiff Hockey Hounds 1 1l1 If I - 1111 IH- l-!! :ml- , --rl 29sVson A P P Agaun LE TON' Thus cheer along wuth the school uf represents us celebratung thus year uts httueth annuversary Actually the cutys irst senuor class ten students ot a dustruct school graduated un T878 but not untul the burnung of an Hugh O4 dd cuy unue a schools unto A H S The students ot O4 recall wuth relush the contusuon whuch tollowed Classes had to be held all over the cuty wuth a whole delught tul quarter hour between them By the tall of 1905 the buuldung Know Morgan Schooll was completed and three hundred students roamed uts halls descrubed as sumply enormous The never endung cycle of sophomore to senuor contunued wuth each class leavung behund ut an addutuonal rung on the ladder of progress Apple ton Hugh s tuture athletuc prowess was unducated when un T926 the track team won the ttrst Fox Valley Conference champuonshup The band and orchestra took the spotlught un T931 by playung un a natuonal tournament and later at the World s all' By T936 however the enormous halls were unbearably overcrowded The cuty councul had I luv YOUU UNE APPLETON Curta'n C ll .?'?J Mostly for pleasure. Page TQ

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wut-e Especually Father Gladys Tabers most famous book us not her only claum to fame She has also made an excellent reputatuon as assustant edutor of ladues Home Journal playwrught and teacher of I dud not dustunguush myself un any way un Hugh School days and can only claum wrutung wuth a degree of success a serues of storues about college lufe whuch appeared un the I remember golden Autumn mornungs when I walked from Brokaw Place to Hugh School wearung my dark blue wool muddy suut laced wuth scarlet rubbon and carryung Twelve Centurues of Prose and Poetry un my book bag And a whole wonderful day ahead packed wuth excutement lt was a golden tume The old school was small enough so the faculty had plenty of tume to be fruendly we hung around after hours lust talkung thungs over Physucal Educa tuon was unformal we played basketball and learned the lrush Reel We wore dark serge bloomers black stockungs whute muddues stout shoes Workung on the Claruon was a terrufic uob Should we have a marbeluzed punk and green cover or a blue and yellow one? Could we ask what popular Englush teacher and what Hustory teacher got tupped out of a sleugh'? Probably nothung could ever compare wuth the delught of havung the lead un the Senuor play Makung my entrance down a flught of ruckety stage staurs I nearly fell on my face The hero forgot to come on stage un one act he was suckung a lemon behund the props somewhere The offstage nouses all came at the wrong tume and ut was a fine productuonl Rose Ellen McNevun was a tradutuon un those days any student who rehearsed or recuted the Fall of Tarquun under her guud ance was unspured to be a famous actor I was always sure we won the football games because my beau was left end In Assembly room durung study hour I could lay down my copy of Immensee and wander past the wundow and watch the team practusung un the bug sude yard Football rallues wuth a hugh fire leapung un the dark and the players makung memorable speeches such as Sure hope We wun tomorrow It all adds up to a wonderful school the teachung was superuor the spurut fine and my only complaunt as I got that rolled duploma was that ut ended so soon' Claruon All my growung years were spent un what us now the Phu Delta Theta House on the Lawrence Campus so had hrst nand knowledge I always leaned warmly to the Theatre but never got further than takung comedy parts A try at debatung was my only untellectual approach to hugher educatuon After eught years of study un college and professuonal schools the gurls at Mount Holyoke un South Hadley Mass achusetts had the great pleasure of my unstructuon Thus wuth a turn un the professuonal theatre brought me unto Gurl Scoutung My chuef Interest has always been wuth chuldren and I can safely say that my present organuzatuon has been a puoneer In what us now called creatuve dramatucs Although Oleda Schrottky claums that she dtd not dustunguush herself un hugh school she certaunly has obtauned a great deal of recognutuon sunce grad uatuon Muss Schrottky us now head of the dramatucs duvusuon of the Natuonal aw ,F I 4'Y' Gurl Scouts and us unfluentual un untroducung the theatre to her followers Page 'I1 . . . . . ,, - 1, . , . I I ' I I , . - H . ff - - H - . . . ,, , . I , ,. I 1 , ' I - I , ' ' , u 11 , , short story writing at Columbia University, - ' ' ' ' - H . U I . . . . . . . , , 1 I . . ,I - ff . - - I I ' 0 ' ' . . 'I .. I 1 I . . . A f ' 1 ' I - - - H - - u, , .

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V- I f:.Lmns:u.ai-mas.. 38 s reality long been aware of thrs problem and after con stdernng varuous sutes for nearly twenty five years finally decided on the present locatnon The bulld :ng completed ID l936 cost Sl O63 991 and could house l8OO students The public really did not begun to realize the lmmenslty of the structure unttl they read about Its 3700 lockers 2668 lught bulbs l9OO flxtures and S3 OOO collection of paintings Appleton citizens read that It took two gtrls two weeks lust to Index the keys for the school and wondered at the Increasing number of the ctty s youth Thelr youth took ut up from there ln l943 they organrzed the Student Counctl nn l949 one ot her representatlves to Badger Boys State was elected National Presndent Her athletuc teams orators and debaters have always ranked among the hrghest IH the state Indeed A HS students may look back on a halt century otl adershup scholarshup and sports manshlp and forward to at least another half century which wall excel even the excellent record of the past Letter man BARN! me W-Ska 54 and Future 'Kalb- Valentmo Era'9'9 Y' s. FOR 0 .X vlcronv ens 1 s 'ww' War Era 4 Ttpsy Twosomew Hakers Wtth sktrts cut short and har cut long P: ? l ir? ,, -41.- ,,, ' I f.:f, v 1 ....-f -1' , w.-'L..4 N , 'Y' ..t .--- 1-1 M- 1 1 - ' I All 8 x I 5 X I I . ' 1 . . ,I I I I I I ' 1 1 1 I I I 1 - 1 - 1 F ' 1 ' 'ha ' I - 1 ' , W 'I' , , Jw'V,, ', ,L - . ' I 1 , L 1 . 4 7, A, -L 1 QS: fT'wfgsT2,f 'a , -,,' 54 - 'M I I .1 ,tgge,r,nf:,kA k , ' 'ff 'te ' 1 1 . . . I ' .sighs 2, . A p Q - 4,2 ', . og. - I I rx .'-- .- . lm.. , . 44, E 1 V Q s V , v- - ' - , . I 1' 'f' 4' ! -. - .i utr - ' . , a 5'-, - , . .- . v t I ' ' ' ' A .1, .L 1 ....-uf - l p . U . Y --..,.. - 'I ' ' ' . ,,,',,. ,..- N Y A 1 - 4, J' . ,q ' - A M. b K n A . ' - l . Q 'l Qgff ' s eff- :ws .V awk ' ' l ,