Cedar Falls High School - Tiger Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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SENIOR AFFAIRS PROGRESS '36-'39 Immigration A trying time for every- one involved is the begin- ning of the school year, Doubly was this true at Cedar Falls High School in the fall of 1936. Stu- dents, particularly Soph- omores, and faculty alike surveyed each other with bewilderment. To the long-suffering faculty, immigrants present the great enigma. Like- wise, to the students, the administration is a problem too diilicult to solve. Sophomores who had deserted junior high for high school at first doubted the wisdom of their decision. Each day CF's unpretentious first timers were confronted with lengthy assignments, rapid-fire orders. foreign as China to the junior high curriculum. Une diminutive sophomore girl, weary- ing of the unaccustomed strain, craved var- iety. It happened in English Ill class, Ed- ward Lambert presiding. 1-larriet Brown found herself rapidly becoming annoyed with being obliged to answer 1 don't know to the questions flung at her. Finally in des- peration she played her trump card. Again having been the unwilling recipient ofa brain- bruising barrage. she replied, Not know- ing, it would be impossible for me to state with that degree of accur- acy necessary to impart the desired information. Armed with such inci- dents as this, the immi- grants gradually assimi- lated themselves with the inhabitants of the school. Immigrants no longer. they were armed with the new steel breastplate of full-fledged citizenship. Publicity Hounds Time is not all that marches on. Seniors of 1939 have tramped stead- ily onward since that September morn in 1936 when they made tenth- graders' usual inauspici- ous debut in CF halls. Although lacking num- bers, they have made an enviable record as a re- sult of individual achievement. But contrary to average individualistic regimes, the class has not been torn with dissention. Faculty admiration has been aroused by its willing- ness to cooperate, its initiative and ability in various school activities. ln its sophomore year, the class had seven members active in the Press Club, one in debate, one in the junior play, five in the orchestra, four as instrumental soloists, four warbling in the glee clubs, one on the foot- ball squad, one on the reserve basketball squad, one on the tennis team. All points considered, such a record is worthy of recognition in any school. Asujuniors, the group magnanimously offered' 11 members to the Press Club, two the original oratorical three winners graduate as '39ers. ln the same year, three became to debate, eight to contest in which all charter Mummers, two - were interpretative read- ers, four tramped the stage during high school plays, four also were Hi- Y ofhcers, four were let- termen, nine blew val- iantly in the orchestra, five were instrumental contestants, 13 vocalized in the girls' glee club, two harmonized in the 11