Baton Rouge High School - Fricassee Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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The Fricassee Staff Editor-in-Chief...................................Rembert Stearns Assistant Editor-in-Chief..............................Charles McVea Business Manager........................................DORIS LlGON Assistant Business Manager.........................JANICE RuBENSTEIN Literary} Editor...........................................Charles Aby Literary) Editor....................................Ethel Dixon Sport Editor.................................................Redus Day Society} Editor.........................................Detta Lindsey Novelty Editor..........................................Lloyd Gill BUSINESS MANAGER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ASSISTANT BUS.MGR Fricassee Staff ASSISTANT EDITOR NOVELTIES SOCIETY ATHLETICS LITERARY LITERARY (31 )

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Baton Rouge High Wins the Rally school has ever made. The winners of the Literary Events from Baton Rouge High School arc: Girl’s Debating: Gertrude Comeaux (Second)...................................................3 Girl’s Declamation: Myrtle Lindsly (Third)................................................ 2 English Literature: Mae Donahue (Fourth).....................................................I Household Management: Inez Simmons (Fourth)................................................ I Reforestation and Conservation: Elizabeth Johnson (First) ...................................5 English Pronunciation: Harris Downey (First) 5 Physics: Williard Mitchell (First)...........................................................5 Chemistry: Charles MeVea (Fourth) ........................................................ I Dramatic Interpretation: John Conn iff, Virginia Morgan, Byron Kantrow (First)............5 Girl’s Quartet: Louise Hochendcl, Marie Louise Jackson, Mary Hays, Margaret Aby (First) 5 Boy’s Quartet: (Third).......................................................................2 Spelling: Pansy Quine (I ourtli) I Botany: Roy Haase (First) .................................................................. 3 Newspaper Contest: I he Buzzer” (Della Lindsly, Editor) (First).........................5 History: Emile Rolfs (First)................................................................ 5 Mixed Quartet: (Third)..................................................................... 2 53 The greatest of all contests of the year for the track team was the track and field meet of the Rally held on April 24 and the Bulldogs walked off with it with 40.1 points. In this meet the Bulldogs clearly showed the effect of Coach Ed Young’s splendid coaching and training. The Bulldogs won first place in six events, second in three, third in one and fourth in one. The track results were: 50-yard dash: Charles Aby (Second) 3 440-yard dash: Charles Aby (First) New record in 52.1)...................................... 3 Low hurdles: Sam Lambert (First) 5 High Hurdles: Redus Day (First) 3 Mile Relay: Redus Day, Joe Fellow, W. Li. 1 illinan, and Charles Aby (Second) 3 Pole Vault: Louis Harrell (Fourth)..........................................................1 High Jump: Gerald Wilson (Tied for Third) .6 Broad Jump: Joe I etlow ( l ied for Second)................................................2.5 Hop, step, and jump: John Daj (First) 3 Javelin throw: LaVern Day (First) New Record at 164.4 feet)..................................5 Shot Put: Bert Babers (First) ................... ...........................5 Total Number Points ..................................................40.1 Baton Rouge High is indeed proud of these students. They worked hard for their honors, and richly deserved the rewards which they received.

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What Kind of Graduate are You? Commencement is rightly named, for graduation is but the beginning of life’s achievements. By some of you this beginning has been made well, your foundations are strongly laid, you are prepared to go on, you have the backing necessary for progress. Whether you further your education by college or whether you begin work, you have the satisfaction of knowing that you can carry your share of life’s burdens, that you can hold up your end of the load. On the contrary, some of the graduates must feel that they have skimmed through high school by sheer luck, or chance; there may be some who are at the last rung of the high school ladder because of unfairness. Those students are not prepared for the new day which is to dawn on May 23rd. I heir foundations are so weak that it is doubtful that they can really live three months before the Hog Law strikes them for its own. Surely as business men and women they would find many doors closed to them after the first few failures. These students must regret at leisure the failures that they have laid up for themselves. The outlook for these two classes of graduates is first bright and gloomy. Still there must be some way to begin again, to see when one has failed and to rectify the old mistakes. If those of you feel that you have counted many moments that your best work has passed up, begin at once to forget the old carelessness, renew and enlarge your best efforts, make of yourself that which you should be. By redoubling efforts you can reach the level of your best classmates. To you, dear graduates of 1925, the wearers of the Green and Gold pledge faith. May you go forth to apply your wisdom in Service, in Service for others, for your school and for yourselves! Today is yesterday’s pupil. The ladder of life is full of splinters, but they always prick the hardest when we are sliding down. He jests at wounds who never felt a scar. Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position. Speech is the index of the mind. Manners—the final and perfect flower of a noble character.