Cascade High School - Ketochi Yearbook (Cascade, MT)

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ii.............................................................................................................. Class History In the fall of 1923 fourteen ignorant but happy freshmen entered the Cascade High School. Everything was strange, and every sophomore was ready and willing to direct us to the wrong class-room. The first week was one of confusion and disorder. At the end of this terrible week we were put through the initiation by the eager sophs. Somehow the initia- tion changed our class, and we settled down to work, avoiding the sophs as much as possible. Fourteen happy freshies left school December 20, eagerly awaiting Santa's visit. Vacation time flew by and we returned with our same number. It was not very long, however, for on March 18 we lost one of our beloved classmates, John Thomas. He was one of the many who are being chosen to enter the great school in the life beyond. Nothing unusual befell our class the remaining part of our Freshman year. We returned next fall with only ten of our old classmates, but we gathered in Marshall Perrine, John Flanagan, Ed Seaton, Floyd Smith, Sam Kelly and Mildred Peck, who joined us in putting the freshmen through the grinding wheels of initiation. During our sophomore year the girls were given the privilege of being waitresses at the junior-senior banquet. At the close of our sophomore year we were sorry to learn that we wrere losing our professor, Mr. Scherf, who had been at the Cascade High School for five years, and who is now professor at the Lewistown High School. Our junior year was one of success, bringing with it our new profes- sor, Mr. Bergan, and two more classmates. Two more classmates left us that year, Ed Seaton and Marshall Perrine, and Edward, by some superior intellect, regained his old class again, and Marshall was married. During our junior year the High School held an inter-class basketball tourna- ment, and our junior boys were awarded the trophy cup. On May fourth we gave a Prom in honor of the Seniors. A week later we bade farewell to that class with a banquet given at the High School Auditorium. In the fall of 1926 our High School dream came true. We reached the goal of our ambition—Seniors! Isabelle Bruneau was elected president; Mary Wilson, vice-president; Mabel Smith, secretary-treasurer; Vernon Dennis, president of the Associated Student Body. Ada Brandon had left for Chinook, leaving only twelve of us from the number who had so blithely set out three years before. Then we lost another classmate by matrimony—Mildred Peck. Eleven left! And now the end of our jour- ney is in sight. We can look ahead and see Class Night, the Prom and the Commencement, the goals of our endeavors. We can look back over the four years of work, of pleasure, of good fellowship and fair play, and of everything that makes life wTorth living. We have in one sense started the climb, but in a wider sense we have but reached the foot of the heights. In after life we shall pause and look back on our climb toward success. May our motto be ever in the hearts of this class: “Not on the heights, but climbing.” iiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMHiiiiitiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii iiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiniiiiiiiMiiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiimiiiiniiiiiii; C 0 M E T 13

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COMET MiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiMiiiiMiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii “Not on the Heights, but Climbing” When we chose “Not on the heights, but climbing” for our motto, we considered only what those words meant to us. We chose it because to us it summed up our ambitions and hopes for the future. It expressed what is in our minds and our hearts as we look forward to the time when we will graduate, wThen some of us will begin our career in life, and others will go on to school to climb to the heights by a different course. So far in our lives we have been climbing. Through the grades we have been climbing; step by step we climbed and as each year passed,.we put another difficulty behind us as overcome. We looked forward to the coming year. Through high school we climbed until now we face the thought of leaving behind us those loved tasks that we fought with and conquered, and as we looked forward in the grades to high school, we now look forward to life and to climbing higher upon the mountain of life. It is our one ambition to reach the heights of this mountain. Knowledge and success are ours to conquer. Some day we will prove to you that we have overcome the obstacles of life and that we have reached the heights, but as yet we are just climbing. That is why we chose these wonderful words, “Not on the heights, but climbing,” for our motto. Advice to Seniors Mary Dignan—Join an opera. Alverna Hale—Publish your reducing formula. James Haley—Be an orator. Mary Wilson—Be a ranch hand boss. John Flanagan—Be an evangelist. Ruby Cosman—Stop growing. Isabelle Bruneau—Be an ideal house wife. Vernon Dennis—Take a vacation. Mabel Smith—Be a “Clay” moulder. Earl Munroe—Sponsor a stock judging class. Ariss Shanklin—Be a sales woman. (She has the gift of gab.) iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu 12

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COMET iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiimiMiiiHiiiimimitiiiimiiimiiimiiiimiiiiiMiiiiiiimiiiMiiMiiimiiiiiiiMiuiiii Class Will The class of 1927 does hereby bequeath, on this twentieth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven A. D., our popularity and superior in- tellects, to the Cascade High School as a whole. To the Student Body we leave the school and the teachers, also our constant companions, namely, the books. We hope they will enjoy them as much as we did. To the Juniors we leave our corner in the Assembly and the power to preserve peace and quiet in the class room. To the Sophomores we leave our prominence in the school and our love for the Freshmen. To the Freshies we leave our talent of creating excitement and mischief in all forms. To the individual members of the school we leave the following: Alverna Hale generously yields her ability to sing to Maxine Paulson. Ruby Cosman leaves her good nature to Erma Woolsey. John Flanagan heroically transmits his efficiency as yell leader to Kenneth Mortag. Mabel Smith leaves to Eleanor Foxall her soft brown eyes and the ability to flirt with them. Isabel Bruneau leaves her reputation as a coquette to Donald Creveling. Earl Munroe leaves to Harlan Mattson his popularity as a dancehall sheik. Ariss Shanklin bequeaths her shy ways and demure loveliness to Doro- thy Berger. Mary Dignan leaves Mayme Tibke a package of gum and her aston- ishing reputation of always talking. Jim Haley leaves Arthur Flanagan his short stature and his dignity. Mary Wilson leaves to any little girl, her ability to agree with the boys (especially class meetings). Vernon Dennis leaves his business ability to the manager of next year’s “Comet.” We as a class bequeath to Miss Stone next year’s Seniors, to enjoy .........................iiiiimimimiiiiiiiimiiimim.i.imii'.UMMimmmiiimmtmimuiiiim.miiiiiiiiiim.mtiimmimimr........... 14