Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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HENRY HEIDRICK Normal Training Senior Play Chorus ’18-’19 “There is a world of kindliness about an all around Rood fellow.” RUTH BURKHEAD Commercial Chorus T5-’16-’17 HAZEL HUFFMAN Normal Training Chorus Innocence abroad. “Never too busy to help a friend.”

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AGNES ENGLEBERT Normal Training Chorus ’For she was jes’ the quiet kind Whose natures never vary Like streams that keep a summer wind Snow-hid in Jenooary. GUY HARLOW Normal Training Senior Play Annual Staff Chorus T8-’19 “True wit never made us laugh. HUGH WILLIAMS Normal Training “I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I woke and found that life was duty.”

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CLASS HISTORY THE great wheel of life moves slowly on, turning and changing the tide of man. In the midst of the Solomon valley, a tiny part of this world of ours, we have felt the turning of the wheel and another Senior class of the B. H. S. is ready to pass forth. Though four years have passed, it seems but yesterday, when we a group of Freshmen, eighty-seven strong, entered Beloit High school. Four years filled to the brim with joys and sorrows, success and failures. On that first eventful day the faculty told us if we worked hard we could easily make our mark Being young and innocent we believed, but found to our sorrow that not we, but ou' beloved teachers had the duty in charge. In time we became accustomed to High school life and following precedent; we organized our class, electing Ruth Baird, president; Orwan Simpson, vice president; Forrest McMann, secretary, and Fern Broadnent, treasurer. In the fall of 1910 we returned as Sophomores. Our officers for the year were: Orwan Simpson, president; Gladys Baird, vice president; Harvey Mayo, treasurer; and Lawrence Rouen, secretary. This year we enter into school life with more enthusiasm, taking much interest in our athletic and social affairs. The fall of 1917 saw us again on the “job” and we had now assumed some of the qualities of successful High school students. Our officers for the year were: Forrest McMann, president; Dan Conroy, vice president; Louise Knaup, secretary; and Eula La Frost Bozell, treasurer. This year passed rapidly, everyone felt the patriotic spirit that was manifest and that he could not be idle. The spare moments of the girls were snent in doing surgical dressing for the Red Cross, and the boys in making Red Cross boxes. Several of our classmates: Lawrence Rouen, De’mar Randall, Carleton Kendall, Orwan Simpson, and Evan Parks, feeling the call to the colors stronger than class duties, joined the army of Uncle Sam. At last we enter the home stretch of our High school course, and begin to look forward to our graduation. We organized our class early in the term, keeping the officers of the past year, but adding to our force the able assistance of Miss Clark and Miss Hutchinson, as class sponsors. Early in the term we were unfortunate in losing Miss Clark, who resigned because of failure of health. Many trials were given us to be surmounted before our school life was finished. The first of these came, when one morning we were awakened by the shrill sound of the fire whistle announcing a fire at the High school building. With sorrowing hearts we stood and watched the building which had grown to mean so much to us go up in flames. The churches offered the use of their buildings and in a few days we were reorganized and at work again, and all were resolved that we would “stick” and prove that we could succeed even under adverse circumstances. Trails never come one by one, but come in groups. Having no words of our own to express our feelings on the subject, one of them can best be told bv quoting the Dailv Call: “Owing to the prevalence of the influenza the Beloit City schools will be closed until further notice.”—W. O. Steen. After a few months of close imprisonment we returned to our work, but fearing that the strain of night life which we had been leading might in time prove fatal, the following notice appeared in the Call to check our frolics: “All teachers and pupils are forbidden to attend any public amusements or picture shows.”—H. Baer. This was the death warrant of Beloit, and it was with tear-dimmed eyes that we gathered to witness the last rites of our beloved little city. That sad and auspicious occasion will never he forgotten by any who attended. But better days were yet in store for us and after the resurrection of Beloit things began to boom again and sore trials were forgotten. All too scon our pride suffered another powerful blow, when after two weeks of weary toil on a ministrel, “The Dark Town Singing Society,” composed of members of the Senior class, was forbidden to appear in chapel. But our trials of the past year are now forgotten and with a feeling of happiness in us, as we see the time drawing nigh, when with a few more recitations, a few more examinations and the assistance of our ever willing faculty, the class of '19 will move On! on and over On to the top and over. —M. C., I). B.