Braham High School - Echo Yearbook (Braham, MN)

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1-15111111111-1 :iq if goin 1 -1 vi- 101111021 1-vinioioio 101- 313:11 the most noted authorities on insects. He has now gone Darwin one better in giving us a theory in which he claims that mans origin is not from the monkey but from a large beetle which has just been discovered in the southern part of the Sahara Desert. He has also written several books which are considered of great importance in the last renaissance of literary art. And today he is considered the most successful of the Class of '25, -that is, in his own estimation. Thus, we can see how the world has improved and prospered through the efforts of these great people, and no one can question or doubt the tremendous contributions which the Class of 1925 has made to civilization. Clarence Skjod, '25, HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1925 It was sometime in September 1920 that we first gathered at the door of the old frame building, with which we are all familiar as yet. As Fresh- men there we were shy and timid and did not dare to raise any unusual disturbances. Having come through our initiation and exams all right, most of us again assembled in the same school, the next September as Sophomores. Our greatest worries during the second year were in Miss Lundie's Geometry Class. It is notable however, that about dinner time every day we threw many apprehensive glances at the clock and often suffered pangs of hunger. At the beginning of our Junior year, which was a sober one, we were allowed to enroll in the fine new building for which we were very grateful. As was stated, our Junior year was very sober and quite, our only great attainment being the Junior-Senior banquet which was a brilliant success. Seniors! With the last year of High School ahead of us, we neverthe- less did not feel discouraged or downhearted. This year of 1924-25 has certainly been a very busy one. We have had a year of so many wonderful events that it is hard to recall or relate them. However the greatest was our class play Clarence the Junior-Senior banquet and finally gradua- tion. In completing this brief history, we think it well to give a cheer for our class of '25, Say! What? That's what! What's what? 1-9-2-5 Seniors. -Leslie Schwarten ie in xnianiuianiuliniuioin 1--1:11 14 1 nioioinioic 11 11,1-nz-niuioinxinieni

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nioxmgc ! l i i l l ,14- vjrvieicvicuierjuvzfi vioiojoioiw oi: fianiarjenieriefiniefiarioinfiniuinfiunznljw Q nin- l i i I l l I actress. nursery and kitchen. ifllflifilililPl0i1liCl1fll4Dl4llll0l!lif7i0l'!l''if'i i01.'i0i i 'i l1'l1'i' ' l l determination. Cn looking over his past I found he had left Braham at the age of I twenty-four, determined to accumulate vast sums of gold. He had gone to New York City to enter the stock rrarkets and had becorre one of the wealthiest men of our I country. He might have been the most happy, had he taken his mother's advise and i become a bachelor, but evidently he had become addicted to the fairer sex and forced through two scandalous divorces. However he is now entirely a man of business except l for a dark eyed Jewess who has recently appeared on the scene. Q A slight turn of the adjustment screw brought before my eyes a very beautiful l ,lady sitting leisurely an-tng 1he Crshions of a large easy chair in an elaborate apart- ,ment in the ntost fashionable district of New York City. After a few seconds I I recognized our class salvtaiorfan, Esther Anderson. She was carefully reading over a I document which I recognized as a signed stage contract. I found out that she had I worked her way to the top in a very short time, but always with the aid of a dark l complexioned gentlenfan, who wore a red sweater on most occasions. It appeared from i gossip that some day the gentlen an was expected to win the heart of this successful i The next person to appear on the lens of the telescope was the old geometry shark, I but evidently he had left planes and solids alone to prove themselves, for I saw him I sitting at the desk of a large mill. trying to make endless columns of figures balance. I On some stationery lying on the desk I read the following, The South American Q Woolen Trust, Harvey Anderson, President. I then scanned friend Darby's past and C saw it as one of rare exception. Because of his idea, I can do just as good as that, - Harvey had risen from the wage earning boy of a small town mill to the head of the I world's largest woolen Corporation. Mr. Anderson had become to South America what I Henry Ford was to the United States. I After a lengthy and difficult adjustment I was able to find our former orator, Ray- Q mond Carlson. I located him on one of the Ryukyu Islands, a very changed charater l from the strdiors lox er of literary history. When I located him he was busy studying Q the cross section of a little brown pill, in a large laboratory. I found that after finish- ing high school, Ray had decided to become a medical missionary. He had spent thirteen I years in preparation, after which he had gone to the Orient to practice on the natures I of that part of the world. While working in the jungles of these islands, he had dis- I covered a very extraordinary herb which, if mixed with the proper chemicals and taken in the form of a pill, would in most cases heal, relieve or repair any illness from falling hair to a fractured toe nail. It appears that Dr. Carlson had by shrewd methods acquired sole monopoly on the manufacture and sale of pills in the most important Oriental countries. Thus I saw him a man of success, serving his fellow men and not I forgetting his duty to his pocketbook. - The next to appear before my eye was a very queer scene. Whether the country I brought to the lens had taken great strides either forward or backward in civilization I cannot say, as I am no judge of politics. It was a land where women had gained in full measure that which they had started when the nineteenth amendment of the Con- stitution of the United States was ratified. When I saw the ruler of this country, I was astounded for it could be none other than Doris Chelberg. It appeared that she had left school determined to make her fellow-women the superior sex. She had gone to Mexico and after several revolutions gained control of that government. An entirely new Constitution was drawn up wherein woman was always given the highest place and man was forced to give up his position and to take his place next to monkey. The l powers of President Chelberg can only be compared to those of Caesar and Nero. She has as far as Mexico goes accomplished her purpose in making man chief of the g Last but not least successful I saw Eric Gustafson sitting submerged in study and I deep thought over the habits of the Coleoptera and other bugs of a destructive nature. l Our old pal, Har Gusty has now become Professor of Entomology, D. S. His head- I quarters are the Sturtevant Biological Laboratories, New York City. Professor Gus- i tafson entered the field of science soon after leaving Braham and soon became one of i

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