Central High School - Booster Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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P--WI QQMW 2045 DnMn.r.n Dnxvs Houxwoon. Cunonmn MOnmNsswn 12733 october 11, 1955 Dear M ss Siepert: I am deeply sensible of the honor which your editors would pay in dedicating the next number of the school annual to me, and I am writing to thank you and them. I am also enclosing a couple of snap-shot photographs which may be of interest to them and'their readers. M first view of La Crosse was when, as a child of five or six I entered it with my father, who had lately returned from the Civil War. It was a wondrous place to me at the time, a place of awe and terror and I clung tight to my father's hand as we walked the streets. I recall the two stone lions which lay out in front of Mons Anderson's store, and I have a dim memory of the great river and the high bluffs round which it ran. Onalaska and West Salem, as you no doubt know, fill a large place in my SON OF THE MIDDLE BORDER, and as I look back upon my many visits to friends in La Crosse, I have only lovely memories of them and of the region. I wrote many stories and poems of that early time when the McClintocks, The Dudleys, and the Eastons were young and I was young with them. M home now is where the snow never falls and yet I am remembering with a singular and illogical pleasure the build- ing of snow forts and the sport of sliding down hill in Green's Coulee. M daughters and m wife also have joyous memories of La Crosse and the hills and valleys about it. They wish to be remembered by all their friends, young and old. No other city and no other friends can ever have just the same delight- ful associations which the word La Crosse calls up. f Very sincerely yours, fifefgsfzsr-'S

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4,f,f,f9fJZ gyda iff M ,Za Foreword N presenting this book to you, we are attempting to do as Hamlin Garland has done-write history. just as he has portrayed the lives of mid-western pioneers, we are striving to give an accurate, concise picture of Central High School today. Hamlin Harland's life is definitely linked with ours. He walked and rode where we walk and ride. Scenes that were familiar to him are familiar to us. To show how well he knew and appreciated the beauty of our region, we are quoting, in ourlopening pages, from three of his books that have immortalized our locality- A Son of the Middle Border, A Daughter of the Middle Border, and Trail- malcers of the Middle Border.

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Hamlin Garland and his daughter Con- stance, who illustrated the Trailmakers of the Middle Border, standing by the familiar West Salem home. HAMLIN GARLAND in his Hollywood study