Arvada High School - Redskin Yearbook (Arvada, CO)

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The Junior year we organized as a '•lass with Byron Strickland as our President and Edith Champion as our Secretary and Treasurer, who proved to be very successful and faithful officers. This year seemed to be the happiest year of them all. The other two years were spent, it seemed to us in drudgery, while this was a year of joy rather than worry, but our studies were kept up which took up the time we would have used to get into mischief. We enjoyed the good times at the Flinch club which met each week at the home of the members. And most of all, the giving of our play in honor of the Seniors of 1912 which was indeed a very great success. It was in this year that Annabelle Smith joined us in our year of enjoyment who always looks on the bright side of everything. She had been attending North Denver High School but when she heard about the Arvada High School she immediately left there and came here to finish her high school course. It was also in this year that Bernice Bishop who had been attending Wolfe Hall joined our class. We often wonder why Bernice quit Wolfe Hall but the reason is very simple. At Wolfe Hall there was just one thing lacking for her enjoyment because that school is a school for girls and girls only. This made a total of nine students in the class but towards the latter part of this year one of our members dropped out leaving a number of eight. The end of the Junior year came to an end very quickly and it was then we thought of only one more year to attend the High School which of course made those who intend to go further than high school very glad. The last year or Senior year was also a year which was very much enjoyed by all. We progressed very nicely this year nearly all getting an average of ninety which of course excused us from our examinations. As Seniors we felt very proud of ourselves to think we were so near the end of high school. And the majority of the class which is seven intend to go on further than the high school. It was in the middle part of this year that one of our classmates finished the required work of the high school. And decided he would like a touch of college life which put him one half year ahead of those who intend to go to college. He has already attained quite a reputation as a writer, as was told by one of his classmates who read the article, wh’ch was in the Clarion, the Denver University paper and told hin. that if Webster should read that composition he would not recognize the English language. Two of our girl classmates have also attained a reputation as school teachers. Who after they have more training will become real school teachers. The trial will be a great help to them in the future. And now we are passing the week which for all of us will be the last at the high school and in future years we shall recall many pleasant happenings as we glance over ihe pages of The Annual published by the Senior class of 1913. Milton Nicholson.

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( laNM Prophecy I stood at the western window watching the sun sink slowly behind the high and mighty mountains. How beautiful and extraordinary were the colors that illuminated the sky. Almost unconsciously I was awakened out of my dreaming by the feeling that someone was in the room with me. Forced at last to turn I beheld the most humorous sight I ever expect to behold. The tiniest of human beings stood on a table besides me. He was not more than six inches tall, dressed in the oddest style imaginable and what seemed most ridiculous was carrying a box, which in reality was quite small but beside him looked immense. Then he spoke and it seemed his voice was like the evening wind outside. I did not see his lips move but heard as plain as anything the question he asked. “Did I not think the evening sky a glorious revelation of the future?” As I answered, Yes, he said that in the box he held, was the future of anyone I wished to know. My thotsthen went back to Arvada to my class mates of 1913. Expressing my desire in knowing the future of these friends he unlocked the box and drew forth a small bottle. Then he asked if I would open the the window. When the window was opened and the substance in the bottle poured out I heard again the voice like the evening wind and he told me of my class mates since they left Arvada high school and their futures as he saw them. Anna Redstrom after finishing her high school career was undecided as to what line to follow so after a year of careful deliberation she decided to study telegraphy and was now an operator in California. He said she became an expert at that work and by her presence of mind (which I had often seen her use at school) she saved the lives of scores of sea-faring people. He did not know the name of the man but Anna was not going to die an old maid. When Bernice Bishop left school she had fully decided upon becoming a school teacher. But after securing a teacher’s certificate she decided there was too much worry to school teaching so she studied music. He said she studied in America but being very docile she soon knew as much about music as the Americans did and still bent on furthering her education she went abroad where Counts and Lords became hypnoticed by her wonderful playing. She came back to America followed by one of the favored Counts, the result of which Bernice became a Countess. After finishing at Arvada Walter Olson went to the School of Mines where he became a mining engineer and was now making his way to South America on the money he made raising celery. He said Walter found his fortune down there digging “dusky diamonds ” But starting home with his fortune, the natives, with an eve for business, followed him. But Walter still undaunted, produced such an offensive vapor with some of the chemicals which Mr. Drake had taught him to mix, that the natives took him for some terrible God and left him alone. But he stopped too long in