Brackenridge High School - La Retama Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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 — — ■'■ '• v • •■•■ ■ ■.. The overland stage from St. Joseph to Carson City. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the birth of America's beloved humorist .... Mark Twain ... Published by ... The Students of Brackenridge High School San Antonio, Texas La Retama for 1935 KfVv When the Civil War ended Mark Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, he went west where he became a miner, reporter. and lecturer.

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Mark Twain's birthplace in Florida, Missouri Anna Goering............Editor-in-Chief Dorothy Caruthers .... Associate Editor Walter Kalteyer........Circulation Mgr. Hazel Grimm.............Business Mgr. Jean Gabbart.....................Junior Editor Mary Frances Meadows .... Club Editor Alva Rheiner.....................Typist Mildred Bates............... Fred Arthur Brockway........ Mary Helen Montgomery .... David Payne................. Hutchcraft.................Photographer Artists The woods, hills, and river near Hannibal, Missouri, were Mark Twain's playground, his boyhood world of adventure. The river held permanent charm for him.

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The Quaker City” on which Mark Twain sailed for his first visit to Europe. FOREWORD Our reason for making this a Mark Twain Edition is two fold: first, to honor America's beloved humorist at this the hundredth anniversary of his birth; second, to give to the students of Erackenridge both now, and in later years, that same happy experience which Mark Twain hoped for the readers of Tom Sawyer , namely: to try to pleasantly remind adults of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in. At seventeen, as a printer, Mark Twain started out to see the k io travels continued to the last year of his life and embraced the globe.