Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

Text from Pages 1 - 102 of the 1913 volume:

t- aaaao n nhoI o 3HW OHW n OS L J32 TO JOHN N. GREER, UNDER WHOSE WATCHFUL, FARSIGHTED CARE AND PRACTICAL, STRENGTHENING ADMINISTRATION WE HAVE D W E L T I) U R I N G THESE FOUR YEARS OF HIGH SCHOOL LIFE; THE BENEFICIAL RESULTS OF WHICH WILL BE FELT THROUGHOUT OUR FUTURE DAYS; THIS SCHOOL RECORD IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED. 5 To the January and June Classes of 1913 Beloved Students: In extending to you a word of greeting and farewell, I want you to hold in remembrance the motto which is to be engraved in stone upon the new Central High. It is this: ‘‘The Commonwealth requires the education of the people as a safeguard to order and liberty.” The aim of the teachings of Old Central has ever been to have its students understand and appreciate the meaning of order and liberty and embody its meaning in their daily thoughts and acts. Unless order and liberty are correctly understood, there cannot be a republican form of government in which all shall have equal rights. Avarice and greed are threatening the very life of our nation by nullifying its laws and destroying its power. So your country needs you to help establish order and make secure its liberties. Wherever you may go or in whatever commonwealth you may live, stand staunchly for order, liberty and the education of all the people. Make the public school of your town as good if not better than the new Central High. As you go forth be worthy of old Central. Your graduation forms an epoch in its history. We will all look back to the last class of the old stone structure so full of fond recollections to thousands of students. With kindest and best wishes to each one. I remain, with loving regards. Your principal and friend. 1913 6 JOHN N. GREER. To the Classes of 1913: There are many things which make this an important time for young people going out into the world of action. Changes in the policies of communities, commonwealths and nations are much in evidence; civic and moral betterment are common topics of conversation; while social as well as political and economic conditions have been made subjects of investigation. The final results of all this discussion and agitation will not be felt until you are well along in years of activity and service. Just one warning as you go out to find your place in the achievements of the world. Never say, “Oh. well. Remember that the world has never been as good and as great as you can make it if you will. With sincerest wishes that you may prosper, UNCLE MAC. 1913 Annual Staff Editor-in-Chief................... Managing Editor . . . Business Managers . ... Bain Carey Andrew Cochran Myron Balch ] Gordon Young Organizations Athletics . Literary . Art . . Humor ASSOCIATE EDITORS ........................Brookes Deane ............... . . . Cecil Searle Agatha Tuttle Ruth Williams Irene Blanchard I Dorothy Brooksby j Mildred Mekeel I Hazel McCarthy Editorial THIS Annual has been edited under a new policy. Heretofore the June class has brought out the book; the January class leaving its record to be incorporated into four pages of it. This year, because of the large class graduating in January, and because the other policy was seen to be unjust to the January classes, the two classes have worked together and the date of publication has been changed to March first. This change has been a hindrance in one respect, namely, that while there is more material to be included in the book than formerly, thus increasing the expense, we were not allowed to change the size or the price of the book. Future classes should be allowed to issue a 150-page, seventy-five cent book. It has been the policy of the editing staff, therefore, to give articles pertaining to school life precedence over articles strictly literary. This makes the book more of a school catalogue than a literary production, and this change can not be looked upon as detrimental. While the book may not seem as bright or as clever for the present, it will be of increased value as the years pass, for .it will portray all those phases of school life that are so pleasant to remember. With all due respect to previous annuals, of this and other schools, it can be said without fear of contradiction that high school students are not able to write entertaining or natural short stories; and the essays are apt to be so ponderous and learned as to give the book an encyclopedic turn. As this is the first book under the new policy, there are many things which may be corrected and improved by the boards of future annuals. The June class hereafter will have to transact much of its business early in the first semester, so that they can leave their record in the book; and the two classes will have to work together even more than they have done this year. These foregoing suggestions must not be looked upon as being apologies for the succeeding pages, as the annual staff feel that this work is in need of no apology and that it approaches more nearly to the idea of a school record than any previous annual. 8 Class of January 1913 OFFICERS President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer James Barrett Jessie Smith Agatha Tuttle Webb Lasley Social and Entertainment: Jessie Smith. Chairman Genevieve Cook Webb Lasley Eleanor Olds Chester Ornes Music: Charles Wehmann Margaret Deane Lucile Fay COMMITTEES Memorial: Harold Armstrong Spencer Parker Picture: Harry Eddy Allen Baker Harriet Berry Announcements: Margaret Skinner Dorothy Hanson 1913 The Class of January 1913 WE have just completed an important moulding period in our lives, four years of preparatory training and character building. It certainly gives us a feeling of great gratitude when we think of what those competent, untiring hands have sacrificed and how greatly they have labored in making each mould perfect,—those of our ever thoughtful faculty and principal, who will always be remembered by us as being deeply interested in our success and as having inspired our good works. We realize that it has been their sole aim throughout our whole course to make us, by their example and unceasing efforts, thoroughly capable of meeting all problems which may confront us, and mastering them. Let us show our appreciation for all that they have done for us by our determination to carry out their good teachings. Actions have always spoken louder than words; whatever we do let us place our standards at the top. If it be a college, let us lead our classes; if it be a trade, let us make good: if it be business, let us establish new records: and in every event, let good deeds result from our good intentions. Then let it be known that we are from Central and let us glory in it. Let us put our unstinted force into all our future attempts. Just as we have shown what effort has done during our past four years of character discipline, so let us show what effort will accomplish in the future. Let us show that the painstaking care which has been expended upon us has not been expended in vain; let each and every one of us make our mark in the world; be a credit to Central and to the brilliant class we graduated with; make life a success: and in all our seeking let us keep, in a separate compartment of our memory, the fondest regards for those friends we had during the four years at Central,—for those kind, helpful teachers of all that is good and for “Old Central.” JAMES E. BARRETT, President. 10 ROGUES GALLERY JANUARY 1913 n ALICE B. ACKLEY. “Choicest things are done in smallest parcels. EDWARD H. ADAMS. Somewhat in oblivion. MARGUERITE ADAMS. “For she was jes' that quiet kind, whose nature never varies. GRETCHEN AICH. “When one is torn away, another succeeds. HAROLD ARMSTRONG. And when a lady’s in the case. You know, all other things give place. LILLIAN F. AYERS. Loquacious. Frivolous. Artistic. 1913 12 ALLEN BAKER. “We looked thru our casement window and discerned a young man. void of understanding.” MYRON C. BALCH. His long, thumping steps will echo in the Hall of Fame, someday (maybe). JAMES E. BARRETT. “Everything he does he does well, and he docs every thing. MARIE A. BARRETT. Assistant captain of the Football team. HARRIET BERRY. “Woman's smile and girlhood's beauty. Childhood’s lisping tone.” GLADYS O. BESTER. Gentle is she, and of good intent. 13 FLORENCE BROKER. “Worry and I have never met. DOROTHY BROOKSBY. I could ride and ride and ride. Over all the country wide. ESTHER E. BROWN. “And her modest answer and graceful air, Show her wise and good as- she is fair. EARL BUTTS. He played in the band.—and he still lives. BAIN CAREY. “My name is James Bain Carey, chief of chiefs: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. EDITH F. CLARK. Lost—Time. Sought—Flirtation. Found—Nothing. 14 MARY W. CLARK. “Such a whirlpoo} in her head Of fun and mischief.” VERA M. CLARK. We have not been much honored with her presence. ETHEL CLAUSEN. Art is power.” JOHN COMB. Long, lean and likable. GENEVIEVE COOK. To know her is to love her. To name her but to praise. JESSIE DAVIDSON. Work is my recreation.” 15 BROOKES DEANE. Of their own merits, the modest are dumb. MARGARET L. DEANE. “Jolly, yet serious.—fun-loving, yet sincere. ADDISON DOUGLAS. Full jolly knight he seemed. KATHLEEN L. DOWLING. I never thrust my nose in other men’s porridge. LORAINE ECTON Still bearing up thy lofty brow. In the steadfast strength of truth. HARRY F. EDDY. Happy. Frisky. Elongated. 1913 16 EDWIN R. EISLER. Let it be said that he spoke like a Webster.—when he did speak. HAROLD ELFES. Such a bear should be well caged. WARREN D. ELLIOTT. Plays the drum,—’nuff said. LUCILE FAY. Our class tourist. ETHEL FELT. “Thru her calm, abnormal quiet Flashed the soul of frolic riot. MILDRED FULTON. We hear that her thoughts are turned oftimes toward Canada. 1913 17 V CHARLES G. GERARD. His intellect is improperly exposed.’ EMMA E. GILCHRIST. Estimable. Earnest. Gentle. ANNA GOODSPEED. Quiet and dignified, proper and correct. GERTRUDE K. GRANT. There was a little, quiet little maid ' VIVIEN H. GROVES. We arc upon earth to learn what can he learnt upon earth DOROTHY D. HANSON. “She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her ' 18 FRED H. HANSON. “I would the gods had made thee poetical. BERNICE HARRIS. “How brilliant and mirthful the light of her eye. FLORENCE M. HOLTER. “Silence has many advantages. ETHEL L. HOSKINS. So neat and fair And on the square. EDNA L. HOSTED. “Happy am I. from care I’m free. Why aren't they all contented like me? BESSIE HUTCHINSON. “I climb the steep ascending path which leads to knowledge. 19 WALDEMAR HVOSLEF. A second “Uncle Mac”— The quality of thy voice is not strained. It droppeth as a thunderbolt from heaven. CECELIA G. IDZAL. “Depths of mind untold.” LEONA JENSEN. “Her armour is her honest thought.' HELEN D. JORDAN. She is a most quiet and diffident maiden,—at times. RUTH B. KALLBERG. “A smooth and steadfast mind.” MONA KAYE. “Next Mona for her wit. . And the graceful use of it.” 1913 HELEN M. KAYLOR. “Her ways are ways of pleasantness.” LEONARD KINSELL. In language plain, and plain in manner.’ WEBB E. LASLEY. A man of wit and brain; willing, earnest, lovable JOHN T. LEWIS. In truth lie was a strange and wayward wight. LUELLA LOY, Men call you fair, and you do credit it. ESSY LOVE. The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. 21 EDITH C. MacMILLAN. Talk is her business. KARL MALMQUIST. In the words of Miss Schirmer, He has the best thoughts when it is too late. LOIS M. MARTIN. ‘‘Thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine.” alice mcdonough. Charms strike the sight, hut merit wins the soul. MILDRED J. MEKEEL. The J” is tor Joy,—and she lives up to the name. MARGUERITE MILLER. “Good nature and good sense arc here joined.' 1913 22 CHARLES J. MORTON. He is a firm believer in the power of silence. FLORENCE MYRE. “A maid much famed for poesy and mirth. HENRIK NISSEN. “His manners were gentle, complying and bland. ELEANOR OLDS. “She is known by her smiles For miles and miles and miles. CHESTER ORNES. “Great wits are sure to madness near allied.” FRANCES ORTH. “Here is Wisdom. 1913 23 LILLIAN M. PARKER. “Thou living ray of intellectual fire. ’ SPENCER L. PARKER. His rosy checks arc the envy of all the girls of “A” Room. CHARLOTTE PARSONS. Like all Gaul, her time is divided into three parts. BESSIE M. PEARO. ' A maiden never hold.” MARTHA C. RAUGLAND. ‘‘Her mind at peace with all below.” MORRIS ROSENBERG. Rosy is a dealer in “hot air. 24 RUTH ROSENBERG. “Steadfast as the dawning of the pole star. LLOYD RUTH. “No mortal has a right to wag his tongue without saying something.” CHARLES M. SANDERS. Charley drives a Mary-on. MARGARET SAXTON. “Nearly everyone is a caricature of his own ambitions.” Margaret wants to be an actress, apparently. HAZEL M. SHANOR. “Silence is golden, but it has no charms for me DONALD B. SIMMONS. I am as sober as a judge (apparently). 1913 25 w MARGARET SKINNER. A veritable grandmother for giving advice. JOHN A. SLACK. “Full of fun. energetic and game.” JESSIE B. SMITH. “She was the first, where need required, to go. LOIS A. SMITH. Gentle thoughts and calm desires.” FLORENCE STEPHENS. The most consistent Hunker of them all. FRED STEVENS. Freddie is a religious young man. much affecting the society of Parsons. 26 AGATHA C. TUTTLE. I ever was among The choir of Wisdom's song.” ETHEL E. VANSTRUM. “Thy modesty’s a candle to thy merit. PAUL A. VANSTRUM. Let not his faults he remembered, he was a very great man.” CHARLES G. WEHMANN. He is intoxicated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.” WILLIAM H. WHITE. Weary Willie. PHILIP ZACKS. He would talk,—Lord, how he would talk. 27 Class History IN January, 1909, we entered “G” Room as High School students (we didn’t like to be called Freshmen). That first day, how disappointed we were to be dismissed at ten o’clock. Although we were scorned by the upper classmen, treated like hot-house plants by our teachers, and although we wore out many a coat carrying books to and from school, we did not mind, for we were rewarded each month with a card blooming with double-plusses. Fifteen minute periods were usually spent in thoughtful preparation for our next classes, once in a while relieved by the announcement of some dignified Senior or indifferent Junior. Sometimes we were so wicked as to whisper in a vacant period, but after a motherly talk from Mrs. Allard we never repeated the misdemeanor. Although we were not prominent in debate or athletics during this year, we were quietly preparing for the wonderful ability in these directions which was to be exhibited later. All responsibility that we were deprived of as Freshmen was heaped upon us when we became Sophomores. We made out our own programs, marked the attendance and learned our lessons well, so that it seemed that marking the cards was all that the teachers had to do, and we would gladly have done that for them. A music committee was appointed which supplied us with weekly entertainment at the fifteen minute period. Either gratitude or pity for the modest orators who came to make announcements led us to applaud their efforts, thus breaking the command of our room principal. Even his own oratorical attempts were drowned in wild expressions of appreciation. We seemed to recover our lost dignity as we passed down the stairs to “B” Room, for then we became Juniors. The Junior year more than any other brings out the capability of a class for organization and progression. In this direction our class showed marked ability. Towards the last of the year we elected class officers with little electioneering. The result was: Clifford Rugg, president; Helen Jordan, vice-president; Harriet Berry, secretary; James Barrett, treasurer. Some of the acceptance speeches will be remembered, especially our treasurer’s two-minute address. Our class meetings were interesting if you were lucky enough to have a front seat to hear the modest remarks of our president. Class pins next occupied our attention and the unique pin chosen seems to have set an example for the other classes. The ingenuity and talent of the class was demonstrated in the most interesting Christmas entertainment ever given by a single class. How can any one forget Mr. Richardson as Buster Brown? The last of the year was blighted by the departure of Mr. Richardson and as an expression of our respect for him he was presented with a remembrance to carry with him in the business world. We had always had hopes of attending the new High School during the Senior year, but they were not realized. When we returned to the old building in September, we found some improvements,—an enlarged campus and the “Central High Annex,” a most imposing structure. Not until our second term as Seniors did we reach “A” Room. Re-election came first, with much electioneering. James Barrett was promoted from treasurer to president, Jessie Smith was elected vice-president, Agatha Tuttle, secretary, and Webb Lasley, treasurer. Then came the football season, and the class certainly showed their athletic prowess by the number of their men on the team. Occasionally at the fifteen-minute periods, Mr. McWhorter would give his opinion as to the outcome of the season’s games, proving 1913 I 28 to be a very good prophet. The class decided to bestow upon Mr. Brush their worthy patronage, and he has turned out some very creditable pictures, considering the subjects with which he had to work. Graduation is now at hand and soon “Old Central’’ will be replaced by a new, modern structure. May the future students have as pleasant experiences in the new school as we have had in the old, and may there be in the “New Central” an “A” Room and an “Uncle Mac.” ETHEL HOSKINS. SB Secretary’s Report Ever since our organization in September, this January class has given evidence of marked capabilities. It was for this reason that Prof. Greer allowed our class (the first January class to receive the privilege) to have half of the Annual. Various committees have been appointed, and it is needless to say that they have performed their duties to the minutest details. After due deliberation, the class decided to give Mr. Brush the order for the class pictures. Then came the all-important question of “caps and gowns,” which was debated upon continuously for two days and finally decided in the negative. The class entertainment has been given and, like everything else that the class has done, with the greatest success: a success which the June class may justly share. We have yet to choose our memorial, and in a few more days we will “go forth into the world as have our predecessors.” AGATHA TUTTLE, Secretary. Treasurer’s Report Starting out with a very successful dance in our Junior year, which left a substantial sum in the treasury, the class has experienced great financial prosperity. The proceeds from the recent entertainment will be shared by the two classes and will be used for a memorial to be placed in the new school. WEBB LASLEY, Treasurer. 29 Prophecy of the Class of January 1913 MY children, listen to the words of the Mighty Mogul. I have returned from a journey to the underworld. I went down into that abyss of darkness and have returned, a mighty prophet. When once I looked upon the years, now I look upon the ages; when once I looked upon the hills, now I behold the vastness of the universe; when once I looked upon you, my companions, delighting in idle foolishness, now I look upon your destinies. Let me state to you my experiences. I dreamed that I was walking in a forest, when whom should I meet but my old friend Virgil, that grand old poet of antiquity! Do you know, I had always had it ‘‘doped out” what I’d do to that man if I ever caught him alone, for all the hours he made me toil over his blankety-blank blank verse. Well, I changed my mind; if I’d kicked him, with those dreamy, vague, Roman-style clothes on, I should have been held for murder. I spoke to him instead and he returned the compliment, speaking in Latin something that sounded like, “Carthage must be destroyed.” Finally he pointed in the other direction, and when I remembered that Virgil had taken Dante and somebody else down into the underworld, I came to the conclusion that I was being politely requested to “go to hell.” I asked him about getting back over the Styx, but I said wood-pile or lumber-yard; it was crude, but Virgil laughed and said, “I get you. Stephen.” I saw a lot of familiar faces down there, but we hurried along to the Elysian Fields. I asked Virgil if he had many friends down there. “Well,” he said, “strange as it may seem, I am not very well liked. I have only one friend in all this host; that is Saint MacWhorter. Do you know him?” What a foolish question to ask me! However, I said in a sort of blase way: “I have a faint recollection of the man.” Then I kicked myself, for I heard a deep gurgle, let us call it a gutteral roar: “Get to your fifth hour classes.” Did I jump? Wow! Yes, it was Uncle Mac. Finally we came to the river Lethe, where the souls of future heroes were soaking, in preparation for the life on earth. And the first shade I saw was that of Harold: probably because his name begins with “A. Harold was a dentist or a lawyer, Virgil said that it made no difference, as they both pull you for something. Then I saw what I would term a whole “gang” of shades. They were talking volubly, while playing on a tennis court, getting off some remarkable varieties of ping-pong. “Who is this rough bunch of suffragettes?” I asked Virgil. “These are some of your old classmates, he said. I groaned heavily. “They will play tennis till they are at least seventy. See yonder Ethel Hoskins, Vivian Groves, Dorothy Brooksby, Florence Broker and Marie Barrett. Then I saw three serious persons in earnest consultation. “Who are they?” Virgil answered, “That is the third triumvirate, Messrs. Deane, Ecton and Butts. They will all become rich some day, by cornering the walnut market.” This made me think of something and I asked, “Is not Webb Lasley to be a rich man? I never saw any of my money after he got it.” “Do you see that bald-headed man over there. and he pointed, “he is wearing a wig; that is Lasley. the salt king.” I heard quite a noise over to one side, and turning, saw Farmer Douglas at a baby grand piano, pounding out, The green grass grew all around.” Baker was assisting vocally and evidently trying to do the whole thing himself: and it was rare harmony. 1913 30 “I will tell you what some of your classmates will do, and he dug up a notebook from somewhere in his bathrobe. Alice Ackley, Bernice Harris, Edna Hoisted, Leona Jensen, Mildred Mekeel and Florence Myers are all to get married some day; that is quite enough to say for them. So is Gretchen Aich. The dickens.” I said, to whom? Well there are two or three names here, shall I read them? No,” I replied, that’s enough.” Edith Clark.” he continued, “will be a playwright. Dorothy Hanson will be a famous stage beauty. Then he paused, Did you know that Harold Elfes very well? That is rather off the line of the argument, isn’t it. I replied, What if I did know him; how would that affect his future career? Well, you remember that Mr. Elfes was always afflicted with an abundance of hair. He will in time become terribly bald; and about that time, the theory of Epipholitus, that lack of hair is a sign of marked intelligence, will obtain. Here is where Mr. Elfes will shine, literally as well as figuratively. The Parker family will tour in vaudeville as eccentric dancers. Paul Vanstrum will receive the Nobel Prize for electrical experiment in 1928. Mary Clark is to be a member of the “400 in New York, leaving footprints in the sands of time. I’ll bet they’ll be deep footprints,” I remarked to myself. Frances Orth is to be an elocutionist and Edwin Eisler is to be a second David Warfield. Lucile Fay will be a traveler and lecturer; she can get married if she will. You will be surprised to hear Grand Opera sung by Genevieve Cook. Warren Elliott will ever pound the drum; people will come miles to hear his drum concerts. Lois Martin will be a regular performer with the Symphony. There is a group of your friends that have become very prominent in Washington society; Cecelia Idzal, Phil Zacks, Edith McMillan, John Slack, Luella Loy, Lloyd Ruth. By the way, Ruth will be the chaplain of the Senate (?). Simmons is to be quite an athlete in college, if you don’t believe me, look over there. I looked, and sure enough there was Simmons in a track suit. Malmquist and Gerard,” he continued, will hold down some scientific positions for the government. Sanders will be a great mathematician and Rosenberg is to be a Latin professor. Agatha Tuttle will be some prominent woman, a second Ida Tarbell. I interrogated once again, How about Emma Gilchrist? He read, Gilchrist. Emma; marries wealth; divorced; marries wealth, wealth dies; marries more wealth: etc.” I saw the artists Ayers and Clausen occupying Gibson's and Christy’s places in the art world. And that is Hattie Berry over there counting money,” he said, she is manager for the prominent Russian dancer, Jordanivitchsky.” I groaned deeply and emitted the sound. Hanc, Hanc. Maybe that sounded like an automobile horn, but I was speaking in Latin. Her, Her.” Helen Jordan, of all living souls, to have become a professional dancer. But such is life, can you beat it? No, it can’t be done. Bain Carey, or rather his shade, was carving the insides of some helpless victim and dictating an editorial at the same time. Virgil read further from his notebook, Harry Eddy will be in the President’s cabinet some day.” 31 As I remember, the shade of Chester was all balled up. Chester was singing, dancing, selling hats and doing so many other things that I couldn’t make it all out. Virgil looked Ornes up; “He will be a big man,” he read. “Maybe that means tall ’ I thought. Then I saw a grin, just a grin. It was Eleanor. The two terms are synonymous. She hurried by and I was told that she was getting up a hockey team to play Tartarus. Then I saw Jessie Smith walking past, followed by the whole girls’ bean club, the social committee, a couple of teachers and a pile of men. Virgil took a long breath and began an oration on Jessie Smith. I stopped him. for I fancied that I knew some of Jessie's good qualities. Soon we came to a monument and on it the inscription. “This is to the future greatness of JAMES BARRETT, First in love; first in war; first in the hearts of his country (wo)men.” I said to myself, “He was some little shrimp, for all that. Virgil closed his notebook and I looked at him and said that I had seen all I had come to see. I had indeed seen much, and, being very tired, I was wafted through the gates of sleep out into this world again. I have here faithfully recorded all I saw and heard in that other world. MYRON C. BALCH. Mr. Eide: The molecules in the glass move about continually. If you put your finger on the window you will feel a pane. (Yes, he still teaches here.) Mr. Orsburn: I’ve been in this school eight years. Hazel: Honest? Mr. Orsburn: Try to be. Mr. Rodgers: What is the matter with this class today? Pupil: We had a downfall in the previous class. Mr. Rodgers: But you mustn’t let a downfall upset you. Demonstration—by a Pupil in Solid Geometry class. Given: A cone. To Prove: That it is an Abraham or an Isadore. 32 The Domestic Science Department ALTHO we have heard but little from the domestic science class this year, that class has advanced higher than any other department of the school. Without any ostentation or pretension, they have been able to give to humanity some of its greatest necessities. It is in this quiet manner that most of our greatest and most useful inventions have made their entrance into this world. Now if other great benefits were made known to the world without creating sensations, it follows that the discoveries of these classes are sensational, from the fact that their announcement was not the cause of any disturbance of the even tenor of the world’s life. These discoveries are doubly great because they were greeted with ridicule—and have not all great inventions been received with laughter? But the public must be educated to an appreciation of that which Nature gives to it in her sportive moods. For our greatest wonders were performed chiefly through the medium of chance. In the case of the marvelous synthetic rubber, we see Nature playing a practical joke. One of our dullest students, in concocting a gelatine pudding, left out some of the ingredients, hitherto thought necessary to make the pudding palatable. The pudding cooled and hardened and looked delicious as any well-behaved pudding should look. But when the amateur chef attempted to cut it, it proved refractory. It permitted the spoon to be thrust into it, but when the spoon was withdrawn, it sprang back to its original shape. It seemed almost like rubber. Finally, after many strenuous tests had been applied, it was pronounced a perfect substitute for rubber: possessing all of rubber’s natural resiliency. A few days later we found Nature to be guilty of a pun. The teacher had asked for work more consistent with the spirit of the class. Straightway the class set to work, and one of them evolved a loaf of bread that had all of the consistency of stone. “A noble monument,” the teacher called it. The mere fact that this person discovered the method was peculiar in itself, as she had been accounted the dullest in the class, but immediately after discovering this great substitute for building stone, she became the brightest. So it may be seen how slight is the barrier between extinction and distinction. So much was thought of this discovery that it was decided to incorporate it into the very fabric of the New Central. The gifted inventor was appointed a committee of one to cook up something new in the shape of a cornerstone. One eminent man wrote of this discovery, “As other bread is the staff of life, so is her bread destined to become the very foundation of the nation.” But modesty forbids me to say more, for I would not have you know how great things come out of Central High. CHESTER ORNES. 33 Girls’ Hockey • THE school was electrified one morning by beholding upon the several blackboards the chalked notice: “Girls’ Hockey Practice at Loring Park.” And there was no mistake about it. The girls had had a meeting and been addressed by Mr. Kavel, John Comb, and Henry Hill in low and abashed murmurs, which the chairman afterwards translated to the assembly as meaning that the male part of the athletic body would lend its support. And this support is not only moral, but, on the part of Johnny Comb at least, what may be called physical, as his duties as coach involve the task of assisting fair ones to regain their lost equilibrium. He has seemingly enjoyed this occupation, as he has been very faithful in attendance. Somehow the news was noised abroad, which brought down upon Loring Park a concourse of former Central High gallants, all bent upon teaching the girls how to keep their sticks from interfering with their skates. In fact, there is at times a sufficient number of these cavaliers to supply coaching for the individual needs of each member of the squad. The practice is marked by great originality in the interpretation of the rules and the use of the stick and puck. The usual mode of procedure is for one of the fair puck-chasers to obtain the puck and endeavor to carry it thru for a shot as tho all of the others were opposed to her and she herself constituted the team. This resulted in frequent periods of semi-stagnation, with one girl unconsciously standing on the puck and the others milling around and fishing for it among the melee of skates. The puck would suddenly shoot out from the confusion and hide itself in the snow along the boards; immediately causing the whole band to swarm upon it, for all the world like the fowls in a barnyard upon a poor, defenceless worm. When one would be so fortunate as to obtain it she would be the recipient of reproachful glances from her team-mates, and, if she were a polite maiden, she would say sweetly, “Pardon me,” and generously give it up. Such bumping, falling, sliding, thwacking, shrieking, and stumbling. But the girls are benefited by this sport, for, while it does not supply as much exercise nor require as much skill or muscular exertion as the “rag,” still it will undoubtedly enable the participants in the game to “bear” with greater abandon and vehemence. And is this not a most worthy aim? It is not known whom these zealous athletes are planning to defeat; perhaps they have designs upon the city championship; and they would most certainly defeat the male teams, if those teams would play according to the girls’ rules. 34 i j- r mmm wmaBBBBmi.. . . A ' 3 n Son nets TO A MUSTACHE O WOULD that I were now of proper years, A few stray hairs upon my lip to wear; With untold patience, ever thoughtful care, To nurture them despite the scornful sneers Of older men, who, as it now appears, Are jealous of these juveniles, who dare To wear a mustache while their lips are bare. Displaying them with all triumphant leers, O then I’d rise to kingly heights sublime. Those hairs would bring me occupation new. In day-time would I hide them from the sun Lest it should fade them. Heaven forfend the time! I’d curl them daily and I’d dye them blue, And every night I'd count them, one by one. CHESTER ORNES. TO THE “A” ROOM CLOCK ; I v HOU clock that hangest on the A room wall. We gaze upon your solemn, steadfast face And wonderment to greatest awe gives place, That thou doth never heed Time’s fleeting call. For many and many a weary month long past Thy ever cheerful voice in joyous chime, Hast ne’er been heard to mark the passing time. What hast thou into such a silence cast? Has dear old Central’s slowly crumbling domes Had aught to do with thy strange speechlessness? Or has some wee grey mouse contrived a home Within thy sombre, dim and dusty fastness? Or hath the sound of Uncle Mac’s loud thunder Made thee still and mute with silent wonder? FRANCES ORTH. 35 1913 36 The Senior Entertainment THE Senior Entertainment given in the West High Auditorium, January seventeenth, was a howling success. For a week before the event there was hardly a moment’s peace for the members of the upper classes. The pupils were assailed on all sides by eager ticket-sellers, each trying to outdo the others. The result of their work was most satisfactory; over two hundred tickets were taken in at the door. The program was made up of: Two readings, one by our old friend Willard Von Hagen, and the other by Miss Curran; several delightful vocal selections by Harold Van Duzee and the Male Quartet, which made a big hit with their short but tuneful pipings; and the Skit. This comedy skit called “The Triumph of Peggy,” was “the” event of the evening. The fact that there had been nothing in the way of a class play for several semesters, made this short but sweet comedy doubly acceptable. The participants, with the exception of two, were members of the June class; we did not realize before what remarkable ability our sister class possessed. The charming Peggy was certainly a sight to behold as she, with fear and trembling, pointed her glittering revolver at the supposed burglar. Peggy’s pretty, timid chum Bobby, was very amusing in her horror of the germs and dust particles which Peggy described. We were convinced of the young wife’s devotion to her scientific husband by the sacrifice of her best and only umbrella stand in which to collect dust germs for “Jack’s” birthday. The merry unbusinesslike Club Girls, one of whom sang the “Shadow Marks,” added much to the mirth of the playlet. The comedy would be incomplete without the fiery-headed Irish Bridget, and the lisping, dependable French maid, Celeste. The only two male members of the cast were the Professor Jibway, mistaken for the burglar; and Peggy’s husband. Jack. Altho their appearance on the stage was comparatively short, they made the best of the afforded opportunity and scored merited applause. The skit was directed by Miss Curran, to whom we feel very grateful for making this important event in our Senior year such a pleasant and entertaining one. The cast of “The Triumph of Peggy” was as follows: Peggy Winthrop Bobby, her chum . Jack, Peggy’s husband . Prof. Theophilus Jibway Celeste, the French maid Bridget, the Cook . Club Girls . Solo, “Shadow Marks” ........................Leone Berge • ........................Avis Durant ........................Eugene Curran ........................Edwin Eisler ......................... Marguerite Saxton ........................Martha Moorhead Cecelia Marienhoff, Ada Swan, Ada Reynolds Helen Decker, Gladys Fewell. ........................Gladys Fewell 37 HONOR STUDENTS 3S 39 The Central Hiy[h School Technical Club THE “Tech Club” was organized two years ago last spring by Mr. S. S. Simpson, then an instructor in drawing. The purpose of the club is to secure for its members an increased knowledge of the popular technical subjects and sciences. In order to give the fellows this knowledge, the club visits semi-monthly, after a short business meeting, prominent manufacturing companies of the Twin Cities. The membership of the Club is limited to seventy-five boys of the Science and Manual Training Courses, in the Junior and Senior years, who are interested in this line of study and who abide by the constitution of the club. The exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair was cancelled to enable the club to give all of its attention to the 1913 Electric Show, and present indications point to a splendid exhibit. This club will be successful as long as the club spirit remains. We stand for the best there is for Old Central. GEORGE D. MEKEEL, JR., President. OFFICERS President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer George Mekeel Waldemar Hvoslef Ernest Jensen Fred Washburn CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES Spencer Parker Paul Vanstrum William Manuel 40 The Central High School Club THE Central High School Club is an organization which has for its purpose the development of the social and moral conditions in the upper classes. In the winter of 1909-10 about twenty boys formed a discussion club, meeting weekly at the homes of the members. Today the strong High School Club meets weekly, with the clubs from the other schools, at the Y. M. C. A. for a “bean supper.’ An address is given on some vital topic by some influential man, which is afterwards discussed by each club. In addition to the weekly discussion, the club has on its program a monthly “stunt,” at which the members come to know and appreciate their high school comrades. HOLLIS A. CROSS, President. OFFICERS President Vice-President Secretary . Treasurer Leader H. A. Cross Charles Huntting C. A. Fletcher William Manuel C. W. Boardman “STUNTS” Leaman Cosier DeKindree Mekeel V. B. Cox COMMITTEES “MEMBERS” Peterson Domovsky Washburn Werdenhoff Johns “BOOSTERS” Sterling Solon McDuffee Mattson Nielson Debate 1913 DEBATE has occupied its usual prominent place this year, among school activities. The question for debate is, “Nationalization of Interstate Railroads.” Sixteen fellows came out early in the fall, and began training for trial debates. After several weeks spent in diligent search for material, work was started on the trial speeches. Getting the speeches into shape occupied two more busy weeks, but finally, on a Monday afternoon, with the assistance of several faculty members who unselfishly consented to remain after school hours to act as judges, the first try-out was held. Out of sixteen men who participated in this debate, eight were picked to compete in the final preliminary. Then followed more delving for material, more days of speech writing. A great deal of time and effort was consumed in preparing for this last try-out, for six men were to be chosen who would have the privilege and honor of debating for Old Central. Once more three faculty members sat in judgment upon our relative merits. The six successful candidates were then divided into two teams, one of which will uphold the affirmative and the other the negative in league debates. The affirmative team is composed of Green, Frisch and Schwarz; on the negative are Winthrop, Goldberg and Solon. Our first debate, in which Central had the negative against West, took place January 10. While the rest of the student body and the faculty were enjoying their Christmas vacations, Mr. Boardman and the team were hard at work in preparing for this debate, for West had won the championship the year previous and already had one victory to their credit. The team, cheered on by the hearty and vociferous support of Central rooters, succeeded in convincing a majority of the judges that their point of view was more desirable than that of the opposition. The schedule for the remaining debates is as follows: January 31, South, affirmative; February 21, North, negative; March 7, affirmative against East. The team is determined to win all of these debates and thus to bring the championship to Central. But whether we win or lose, we will fight hard at all times, spurred on by our first victory and by the knowledge that, whatever the outcome, the loyal rooters of Old Central are always behind the team. VILAS SOLON June 13 42 The Girls’ Club THE third of May, nineteen hundred and twelve, introduced a new organization into Central High School,—the G. E. S. Club; perhaps more commonly known as the Girls’ Club. This is the first organization of its kind that Central has had and the work it is accomplishing is a noble one. The name of the club signifies Growth, Education and Service, and these in turn are symbolic of the purpose, which is “to develop the highest standard of womanhood, to promote a spirit of co-operation and fellowship and to encourage education along the lines of social betterment and service. Weekly meetings are held at the Y. W. C. A., where some good speaker talks, giving suggestions that will aid the girls. The service committees are doing beneficial work among people who are worthy of aid. Mildred Mekeel supervises the factory work, aiding the Y. W. C. A. in their weekly programs at the several factories of the city. Provisions for entertainments at Unity House and Hopewell Hospital have been made by Esther Brown and Esther Chase. Miss Lucile Miller and Miss Bertha Harris of the Y. W. C. A., Miss Grace Williams and Miss Maude Miller of Central High are honorary members of our club; they have been very faithful and have done much to help us. Several parties were enjoyed by the girls, the largest one being a Christmas reception at which the Junior girls became members of the club. As th$ girls graduate and leave “Old Central,” may each one carry with her and exert the influence of this Club and attain the “highest standard of womanhood.” JESSIE SMITH. 43 The Tennis and Riding Club of Central High P to this year the girls have had little part in the athletics of the school, but early last spring a Tennis and Riding Club was suggested and the idea was received with much enthusiasm. An organization meeting was held at which Dorothy Brooksby was elected captain of the Tennis Club and plans were made for a Tournament. Much good exercise as well as pleasure was derived from the games played weekly, and as the training progressed it was discovered that we had many good players. The Tournament was a great success, Eleanor Olds carrying off the honors of champion in a close contest. At the last meeting of the Club, Ada Swan was elected captain for the next year. It is hoped that this club may become a permanent feature in the life of the school and that many will be interested in joining next spring. ADA SWAN. President. 1913 44 45 Football 1912 THE Central season opened with a surprise and closed with a surprise; it was a season full of surprises. First came the news of our new coach. Mr. Brook, to whom we are greatly indebted for Central’s showing. Next came the loss of Cowin; then the news of the loss of Scott, barred by the physical examination. Zacks, Barrett, Haugberg and Ellenstein made up the list of veterans. From the stock of new material, the task of picking the remaining seven men was begun, and the preliminary games with St. Thomas and Macalaster showed that Central would be a strong contender for the championship. A seven to six victory over a very strong alumni team was the result of that game, and before the season had fairly started a 0-0 tie was played with the heavier St. Paul Central team. Then came the first big game of the season, and in spite of Central’s losses, green men and light team, a very spirited resistance was put up against South, in whose lineup were nine men who had played on last year’s championship team. South was able to win by but one touchdown, the result of a misplaced penalty. Score, 7-0. Next came the game in which Central’s “Bad Luck Jinks” showed up the worst. During the entire game the ball was in Central’s territory but four minutes. An intercepted forward pass gave West their only six points. Score, West 6, Central 2. Defeat seemed to be another word for determination with Central, for when the invincible team from St. Cloud left the gridiron, it was with a score of six tagged on them. Score, Central 6, St. Cloud 0. Central next played havoc with East by running up six touchdowns just to avenge an old score or two. Score, Central 38, East 0. The last game was the game which threw joy into the hearts of the teams of Central for the past two years, for North’s champion team, eight pounds heavier to the man, was beaten in every stage of the game. Score, Central 10, North 0. Every game was played under ideal weather conditions and lovers of the game were given a splendid exhibition of football by Simms and Zacks, ends; Ellenstein and Haugberg, tackles; Raugland, Martin and Churchill, guards; Willets and Elfes, centers; and Curran, Petersen, Evans and Barrett in the backfield. CAPT. BARRETT. 47 Baseball 1912 ENTRAL has every reason to be proud of her 1912 baseball team. The first game with North was won, 8-2, the result of excellent fielding and bat-ting, coupled with the pitching of Curran, who allowed but three hits. East easily won the next game, 6-1. The team recovered from this defeat and trounced West 5-3. The next day we met South, three times champions, who had already defeated East. The game was played under rather adverse weather conditions, and won only after hard playing by Central, 6-5. The next week North was defeated for the second time, 7-2. Central, South and East were now tied for first place and the game between Central and South the following week would practically eliminate the loser from the race. Both teams were keyed up to the highest pitch and the fastest contest of the year resulted. Central went through the game without an error and made eight hits, while South made two errors and gathered only five hits. The result was Central 3, South 0. In the next game East took an early lead, which Central soon overcame, winning the game, 5-3. Brondson’s home run featured this game. The season ended on June 8th when Central met West in what proved to be the most ragged game of the year. Central won, however, 14-11, and the Baseball Championship for 1912 came to the dear old school of our great-grandfathers. MARK BOHEN, Captain 1912. 1913 48 Track 1912 THE 1912 track team was one of the most successful track teams that Central has had for several years. The season was begun with practically no “C” men and was finished with a very well balanced team of seventeen C” men. In the first meet, which was the “U” Indoor Meet, Central won: Central 11, West 8, St. Paul Central 7. The ten men that were sent to Faribault for a dualmeet with Shattuck did well considering the fact that Shattuck used her whole team. The Quadrangular Meet was held at the Armory, and while North won. Central was a good second; score. North 44, Central 33, St. Paul Central 25, Mechanic Arts 6. Central came out fourth in the Outdoor Meet at Shattuck against a field of ten schools. Shattuck 39J 2. St. Paul Central 20, West 20, Minneapolis Central 5l 2. The team made a fair showing at the Northwestern Interscholastic, held at the “U.,, as teams from all the large preparatory schools engaged in the meet. Shattuck easily won. In the dual meet with South, Central carried off the first honors with a score of 88-20. The season was closed by the capture of the Cup in the City Meet, with a score of 54. East was second with 29. The team started the New Year right by winning the cup presented by the Y. M. C. A. at their High School Meet New Year’s Day. LEON DeKINDREE, Captain 1912. 49 Hockey 1913 PROSPECTS for a successful hockey season are very bright. At the end of last season the outlook was gloomy, as five of last season’s men graduated. Berry, Comb, Cone, McFaul and Kennedy; two left school, Sylvester and Cowin, thus leaving only two men as a foundation for this year’s team. At the beginning of school in the fall, prospects commenced to brighten; Cowin returned, Willets changed schools, Phillips came down from a Canadian school, having played there four years. These, with the old men, Thompson and Hill, and the new recruits, Kerr, Slack, Keidal, Ewald, Pullen and others, began practice with every appearance of turning out a championship team. In the game with the Alumni, all former Central stars, the regulars were defeated, 2-1; Thompson getting the only goal for the youngsters. Two games have been played with St. Paul teams. The first with the Johnson High School was won by the score of 7-0. The second, that with St. Paul Central, was lost 5-2. Then the team proceeded to eliminate the other contenders for the city championship. On one day North was dropped out of the race by the score of 5-0. The next day East, conceded to be one of the strongest teams in the city, was trounced, 3-0. Now only West remains, and the team has every hope that very soon it too will have been added to the list of victories already recorded for Central. HENRY HILL. Captain. THERE arc meters iambic, and meters trochaic; There are meters in musical tone; But the meter That’s sweeter And neater. Completer, Is to meet ’er By the moonlight alone. —Ex. THERE was a young man from the city. Who saw what he thought was a kitty: He gave it a pat. And soon after that He buried his clothes—what a pity. —Ex. LITTLE drops in water— Little drops on land— Make the aviator Join the heavenly band. —Ex. I 1913 50 Tennis 1912 AN interest in Tennis was aroused by Prof. Greer at a meeting held early in the spring of 1912. As a result a manager was appointed and plans were . made for a tournament. About twenty-five fellows entered this tournament, paying an entrance fee of fifty cents. The four men reaching the semi-finals were chosen to represent the school, Robert Balch, Harold Vance, Kent Smith and David Marienhoff. These men met and defeated East, 5-1. After this match, a round robin was played to pick three men to represent Central in the Northwestern Interscholastic Tournament, which resulted in the selection of David Marienhoff, Robert Balch and Harold Vance. It was only after a hard and desperate struggle that Smith of St. Paul Central beat Balch for the championship, which won the tournament for St. Paul Central and placed the cup permanently in their hands. The strong and consistent playing of Balch was the feature of the tournament. We are hoping that, with three of last year’s men back, we can land the championship of the Northwest for the season of 1913. HOWARD A. COSLER. Manager 1912. 51 1912 “C Men FOOTBALL James Barrett, Captain Herbert Churchill Percy Cowin Kenneth Evans Louis Ellenstein Elmer Haugberg, Capt.-elect. Otto Martin Arnold Raugland Sam Scott Percy Willets Eugene Curran Harold Elfes Clarence Peterson Wilmer Simms Philip Zacks Verner Berry Earl Butts William Kennedy John Comb Robert Ahern Mark Bohen Edward Decker Harold Krafts James Peterson Robert Balch BASEBALL Mark Bohen, Captain Dana Bennett Eugene Curran, Capt.-elect. Clifford Rugg Elmer Wightman HOCKEY Henry Hill, Captain Percy Cowin Leonard Sylvester Clifford Thompson TRACK Leon DeKindree, Captain Dana Bennett Clarence Chase Raymond Horn Norman Marshall George Thompson Gordon Young TENNIS David Marienhoff Kent Smith Harold Vance Lloyd Biggs Hollis Cross Laurence Howell Joe Miller, Capt.-elect. Maurice Warner Holt Bronsdon Wilfred Higgins Clifford Thompson ATHLETIC BOARD OF CONTROL President.....................................Percy Cowin Secretary.....................................James Peterson • REPRESENTATIVES Alumni........................................ Clifford Rugg . Bert Pickering Senior........................................Andrew Cochran Junior........................................James Peterson Sophomore.....................................Eugene Aich Freshman......................................Eugene Puffer fj. N. Greer Faculty.......................................]H. W. Kavel H. M. Brook 52 Class of June 1913 OFFICERS President...............................Vilas Solon Vice-President..........................Avis Durant Secretary...............................Ada Swan Treasurer...............................Aaron Domovsky COMMITTEES Program: Memorial: Announcement: Ethel Chilstrom Doris Edsten Frances Lahart Gladys Fewell Helen Jones Edyth Olson John Sprague Marcella Monasch Charles Huntting William McDuffee Elmer Wallfred . Clarence Peterson Helen Nichol Norman Marshall Cecelia Marienhoff Social: Color: Picture: Leona Berge Roberta Huntley Stella Donahue Carsten Jacobson Myrtle Weaver Edna Rooney Esther Chase Lillian Bjorhus Hazel Anderson Lawrence Sterling Ray Duffy Avis Durant Hollis Cross Rolf Aurness Helen Decker 53 The June Class of 1913 SENIORS: We are glad of this opportunity of greeting our friends and classmates, who have made the days we have spent together in Central High School happy ones. In a few short months we shall bid farewell to Old Central, and to each other. We shall close forever a chapter of our lives that has been full of profit and pleasure to us all. It will be with a deep feeling of happiness, not unmixed with regret, that we leave Central; happiness because in looking backward we are conscious of having done well; happiness, too, because our four long years of preparation are complete, and we are ready to claim a part in the serious affairs of life. Regret there will be when the doors of our High School close finally behind us; for upon us, the last class to graduate from the Old Central, devolves the duty of saying goodbye, not only for ourselves, but for the classes that have come and gone before us; for the men and women who have trodden these ancient halls and climbed these creaking stairways. Next fall, when Central students are called once more to their work. Old Central will be but a memory. In June, when the school gives us our diplomas, she sets her stamp of approval upon us. Let us live up to her expectations. Let us each strive, in years to come, to put the name of OUR Central on a higher plane than it even now occupies. Above all, let us remember that our school is judged by our actions and that her success is measured by the success of her alumni. W. VILAS SOLON. President. Miss McGregor: Wordsworth looked forward to his vacations with greater interest than to his examinations. John Slack: Thank the Lord there are others. Mr. Emerson: Is alcohol a reducing agent? Percy Cowin: I don’t know about alcohol; but whiskey is. • Mr. Allen (announcing the death of Vice-President Sherman): Mr. Sherman died this morning at nine o’clock officially. Mr. Emerson: Did you filter that substance? Pupil: No; I didn’t think it would stand the strain. 1913 54 55 JAKE ABRAMSON. “None but himself can be his parallel.” HARRY ANDERSON. “I do right and avoid no enemy. HAZEL ANDERSON. Her hats are all dreams; Her beaux come in streams. ANNA ANGST. She's quiet, studious and deep. At a flunk we believe she would weep. ROLF AURNESS. ‘‘I am not in the roll of common men. WINNIFRED BAILEY. “To wake the soul by tender strokes of art.” 1913 56 ROBERT BARTHOLEMEW. “His perseverance knows naught of despair.” LEONA BERGE. “For the things she can do Are much greater than few.” NORA BEVANS. “I have no time for play. LILLIAN BJORHUS. “Nothing like it has ever been heard: Such a name seems really absurd. ESTHER BJORKLUND. “Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.” IRENE BLANCHARD. “Too fair for-words. Too modest to believe it.” 57 CATHERINE BOOR. “The charms of this dainty ‘june fille’ Are her specs and her classic profile.” CECELIA BOWE. “She has no faults. For I no faults can spy.” HELEN BOWE. “Her name is Bowie), and she shoots her own arrow. JAMES BOWE. “A modest lad. but self-possessed.” ETHEL BOYER. “For Nature made her what she is. And never made another. ADELINE BRONSON. “If I don’t know. I just find out. 58 EMILY BROWN. “She has grown (a)long with us. EVELYN BUCK. “A girl with a smile Is a girl that's worth while.” ROBERT BULLOCK. “Oh he’s so smooth and slick and slim, It’s quite a treat to look at him.” RUSSELL BURFENNING. “I always WAS unlucky.” EDNA BURRIS. “She’s modest of mien, With a mind very keen.” MARION BUTLER. “Wherever she’ll meet you That smile will still greet you. 1913 59 MILES CANNON. “Quiet, but genial; he makes triends Wherever he goes.” GRACE CARLIN. She is a young lady demure. Of herself not always quite sure. CLARENCE CHASE. A fearless man among men. But among women the meekest of the meek.” ESTHER CHASE. “Her list of fair rivals not few is. And no one denies that, this true is. HELEN CHILSON. “Miss Chilson’s eyes are so bright. They remind us of stars in the night.” ETHEL CHILSTROM. “Her qualities are rare; • Her features arc fair. 1913 60 WARREN CHREIMAN. “Reserved, calm and quiet. ’ ARTHUR CLAUSEN. “Such men are dangerous.” ANDREW COCHRAN. “ Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. VIVIAN COOK. “Oh. there's nothing half so sweet As love’s young dream.” FRANK COURTNEY. His tongue is very apt to teach. HOWARD COSLER. “His speech at times is very blunt; Fussing’s his principal stunt.” 61 MARGARET COTTON. “If absent, no doubt would be missed. And her name lends grace to the list. HOLLIS CROSS. “In any old race He captures first place. PERCY COWIN. “One girl and only seven nights a week to fuss. HOWARD COX. “Sits in his study nook With his elbows on a book.” JEANETTE COOLEY. “She’s bright and she’s witty. She’s charmingly pretty.” EUGENE CURRAN. “He loves but one,—at a time.' HELEN DECKER. “Silence and modesty are the best ornaments of woman. RUTH DODSON. “Modest and simple and sweet; the very type of a Priscilla.” AARON DOMOVSKY. “Studying is my recreation. STELLA DONAHUE. Sentimental. Blandiloquous. Deferential. FRANCES DOUGLAS. “Not large nor small, nor short nor tall. But a mingling of them all.” RAY DUFFEY. “His heart is as far from study As heaven is from earth.” 1913 63 AVIS DURANT. “She led her admirers a dance. And never gave one half a chance. DORIS EDSTEN. “Fair was she to behold, This maiden of seventeen summers. LAWRENCE ELFES. “Not failure, but low aim, is crime. LOUIS ELLENSTEIN. “From study or fright His locks become white.” PAULINE FARGO. “Very petite. And modest and neat. GLADYS FEWELL. “A still, small voice.” CLARENCE FLETCHER. “He is small we know. But perhaps he may grow.1 LILIAN FRIEDLANDER. “Changeable as the wind.” ISADORE FRISCH. One continual grin. RUTH FULFORD. “The jollicst, most care-free in school.' BENJAMIN GERMAN. “German’s all right but Latin—O my!” BERTHA GLEMSTAD. “She has a trusting gaze.' 65 FRANCES GREGG. “She considers her studies a lark: And she’d die if she got a poor mark.” DOROTHY GRIST. “With fussers she’s never been seen. And her wits are most wondrous keen.” LOUIS GOLDBERG. “We tried to describe him. But he proved indescribable.” ELLEN GOODRICH. “A retiring young maiden is she, And modest, in fact, as you see. EDITH GORDON. “She has a smile on her face That you cannot replace.” LEROY GUNTNER. “There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one’s ability.” 66 KATIE HAACK. “Modesty in her is natural. BASIL HALL. “He gives his thots no tongue. ELIZABETH HAMILTON. Goes at things with a vim and a jerk. And at books she’s a shark, not a shirk. MILDRED HANSCOM. In any old class All her friends she’d surpass.’’ HENRY HILL. “He looks as if he were about to smile: Is it painful?’’ STELLA HILLGREN. “None can express thee. Yet all do approve of thee.’’ 1913 67 LAWRENCE HOWELL. “He has ended so brilliantly that some fear that he has fallen a victim to Bright’s disease.” FLORENCE HUBBARD. “Infinite riches in a little room.' PAUL HUBER. “Deliberate of speech and action. WINIFRED HULTCRANTZ. “Quality not quantity.” ROBERTA HUNTLEY. “A pink little lady is she; Thinks life a perpetual spree. CHARLES HUNTTING. “Bean suppers and study arc his specialties.” SENIOR FRANCES IRWIN. “Her nature: For a mark She's a regular shark.” CARSTEN JACOBSEN. Oh. we’re too polite It pains us to write. HELEN JACK. To her duty prompt at every call. ERNEST JENSEN. Sometimes I set an’ think. And sometimes I jes’ set.” ITELEN JONES. “Not too small to be recognized.” CHARLES NELSON JORDAN. “Study with him Is merely a whim.” 69 RUSSELL KERR. ‘When people arc tall They have farther to fall. FRANCES LAHART. “She acts so beguiling It starts her friends smiling. CHESTER LEAMAN. “He of honor is surely deserving.” HYMEN LIPPMAN. “We heard of this man; And good words went with his name. RUTH LYNCH. “She comes in on a run, All twinkling with laughter and fun.” DOUGLAS McBRIDE. “A straight mind that envies not.' 1913 70 WINSLOW McCALL. “With a penchant for chemistry blest. He’ll soon wear a faculty crest.” hazel McCarthy. “If you want her to do something, tell her not to. WILLIAM McDUFFEE. “He's bright-eyed and quick as the hawk; (By the size and the style of his talk).” VIRGINIA McELROY. Her ways are exceedingly jolly.” RUTH McGARVEY. “An artist of logic and reason. GERTRUDE McLEAN. “Her worth, I am told. Is measured in gold.” 71 VERNA McREAVY. “In rural haunts she spent her early days. CECELIA MARIENHOFF. “She’s smart and she shows it: She’s cute and she knows it. NORMAN MARSHALL. “ 'Mongst test-tubes and flasks He performs daily tasks. CLARICE MARTIN. “She’s won great renown ’Mongst folk in this town.” LEO MARTIN. “He ignores trouble and woe.' OTTO MARTIN. “Easily fussed, but it seldom turns his head. 72 WILBUR MARTIN. “Always good-natured and willing to accommodate.” GEORGE MEKEEL. “When I graduate, I'm going to get married.’’ MARJORIE MELVILLE. With prompt glance she spurns those beneath her.” BERNICE MILLER. “She's modest and hasn’t a vice; She's ’fraid of both men and mice. FRIEDA MINSKY. “Her size is compared to a penny.” FRANCES MIX. “Her laugh is like the sound of many waters. 1913 V 741 ■? %.W 73 WINSLOW MOES “What's an auto FOR anyhow?” MARCELLA MONASCH. “Friendship, virtue, every grace Pictured in this happy face. DOROTHY MOORE. “Love me.—love my dog.” MARTHA MOORHEAD. “Her face so serene, Where a frown is ne'er seen.' GLADYS MORIETTE. She smiles and she beams In a way to cause dreams.” CHARLES NELSON. “Little Charlie, full of tricks; Ain’t he cute, lie’s only six—(feet).” 74 LILLIAN NEUSTROM. Not only good, hut good for something. LAWRENCE NEWELL. ‘Tho’ able to speak. His tones are quite meek. HELEN NICOL. She's cute and vivacious; Not bold or audacious. MATTIE NYSTROM. “Here genius burns. (Let her flicker.) EDYTHE OLSON. “She’s not a flower, she’s not a pearl, But she’s a noble all-round girl.” ETHEL PEABODY. “Lescn Sie langsam! 1913 imm 75 EDNA PETERS. Steady and sure and true.' CLARENCE PETERSON. There was a young fellow named Pete, Who could with good cause have conceit. HELEN PETERSON. She was so remarkably keen She studied until she grew lean.” CARLETON RALPH. An explanation is better than an illustration.” ARNOLD RAUGLAND. Wise from the top of his head tip.' ADAH REYNOLDS. How pretty her blushing was, And how she blushed again. MYRON RINGSTAD. “Slow but sure. EDNA ROONEY. “A friend of all. both great and small.” RUTH ROSS. “She seemed a part of joyous Spring.” MYRTLE SANDERS. “For she is wise if we can judge of her.” CECIL SEARLE. “Too big a man to be so small.” OLIVE SEIBERT. “She a student in habits of mind. Is a shark of the superlative kind.’’ 1913 77 jeniq -L_r EUNICE SMITH. “Not often from hooks seen apart, For study lies next to her heart.” KENT SMITH. ‘‘In vain did Nature try to conceal the man by naming him Smith.” VILAS SOLON. “He likes to make speeches, And they are usually (s)peaches. JOHN SPRAGUE. “School dance? Never again!” NADA STEDMAN. Her talents are those that will shine.” LAWRENCE STERLING. No matter whether he has his lessons, His quiet reassuring voice does the rest.” t 1913 MARY STEVENSON. “A pleasant companion withal. And in height neither tiny nor tall. ADA SWAN. “She’s one of those rare flowers of earth. Of whom very few know the worth.” CLARENCE SWANSON. “When you see fair hair, be pitiful.” TERESA SWEETSER. “Music is my ambition.” WILLIAM THOMAS. “Solemn, stern and studious. GEORGE THOMPSON. “One of those quiet, yet talkative; dull yet brilliant, studious, yet lazy, fellows.” 1913 mmam 79 DOROTHY TUNNELL. “We find pleasant duty In praising her beauty.” MERIAM TYLER. “How sweet and fair she seems to be.” ELSA WALL. “Whatever she aspires, she’ll attain. AGNES WALLER. “She leads all her classes, This brightest of lasses.” ELMER WALLFRED. “He docs well his work: Was never known to shirk.” FREDERICK WASHBURN. “With a studious look, a pen and a book. Will too often a stranger deceive. 1913 80 RUTH WATERMAN. “Spoken for. but not taken. MYRTLE WEAVER. Miss Weaver has a wit Which she has polished up a bit.” JAMES WERDENHOFF. “Such a beautiful little fellow; And his picture is so cute. CATHERINE WESTERVELD. “In everything she gets the top mark. For she's never been seen on a lark.” RUTH WILLIAMS. Who chooseth me Shall get as much as he deserves. GEORGE WINSLOW. “His friends, tho they’re few. Are remarkably true. 1913 81 ESTHER WOOD. Good to look at, and modest at that.” GORDON YOUNG. “A busy little man. (About what?) DANIEL ZISKIN. Calm as the ocean on a windy day.” H. PARKER BRUCE. “All the girls are just crazy about him.” HAZEL SMITH. Gentle of speech. Beneficent of mind.” SAM SCOTT. Last but not least.” 82 Secretary’s Report 0 F the deeds of the class of thirteen, I am now all prepared to write: Indeed in a measure it is a great pleasure To tell of a class so bright. Our election was held in the fall of the year. As elections have previously been; Oh! my! how exciting! I hear at this writing The voting and room full of din. Then to Brush’s we went our portraits to secure. How we did have to scrimp and to save: For we’re none of us rich, and the expenses are “sich,” It would make e’en an Angel to rave. 1 must mention in passing the dance that we gave. Which all did pronounce a success: Of the recent class play, O what shall I say? That the talent was our’s you can guess. Of what we will do between now and next June No one but a wise man could say. But we’ll have some great fun in the months to come Before each pupil goes on his way. ADA SWAN. Secretary. Treasurer’s Report The class of June 1913 has not been affected by the high cost of living, but is, instead, enjoying financial health and prosperity. It is true that we were not very successful financially in our Junior year, but we have made up for it since then and now have a goodly balance to our credit. We hope to more than double this balance by the end of our Senior year. AARON DOMOVSKY, Treasurer. 83 History of the June Class of 1913 WHAT a long time it seems since our first day in Central, when, breathless after our long climb, we verdant Freshmen arrived at our room on the third floor. Mercifully the teachers made out our programs but even then it was quite a puzzle to find the right classroom at the right bell. We knew each other only as “the girl who sits in front of me” or as “the boy who sits behind me.” In about a week, however, we attached names to our classmates and settled down to the regular routine, broken now and then by a program at the fifteen-minute period, or—a still more exciting event—a fire drill. And thus peacefully passed our freshman days. The next fall we left the “Attic” for “E” room, where we remained a whole year under the careful supervision of Mr. Siehl. There we were allowed to make out our own programs—a great favor. This year was marked by our first mass meeting, for heretofore we were debarred from all such gatherings, being thought too young and innocent to mingle with the great and mighty Seniors. Football and Debating also claimed our attention, as we emerged from the crowd of Freshmen onlookers and took active part on the field. “Happy the country that has no annals.” Our Sophomore year must have passed serenely for it has left small impression on our minds,—perhaps we learned something. In September, 1911, we returned as full-fledged Juniors and proudly took possession of “C” Room. We gained great fame that fall in athletics, for our class boasted captains of two important teams. Not until midyears did we have our class elections, but the delay only increased our interest and the campaign was carried on with much enthusiasm. The officers, of whom we were duly proud, were William McDufFee, president; Helen Decker, vice-president; Leona Berge, secretary, and Andrew Cochran, treasurer. The various committees were appointed and they surely did good work as is proved by our pretty pins and our dance, highly successful both socially and financially, for did we not make fifty cents? We all remember that play in which our present illustrious president starred as Shylock. Finally in June we left the dear old school for the summer vacation. After a brief three months we all trooped back again and took our seats in “A” Room as the bright and brilliant Seniors of 1913. (We generously shared half of the room with the “A” Seniors.) It didn’t take long to become acquainted with Uncle Mac, whose gentle accents we had heard in previous years floating down from “A” Room. We told each other our summer experiences in confidential little chats, rudely interrupted now and then by remonstrances from the desk. Senior officers were the first excitement in the year and the elections were carried on with greater animation than ever before. They resulted in making Vilas Solon president; Avis Durant, vice-president; Ada Swan, secretary, and Aaron Domovsky, treasurer. We soon gave our first Senior Dance, which will probably be alluded to in the future as “one of those awful school dances in a public hall.” The next interest which caused more or less comment at the fifteen-minute period was the choice of a photographer for our class pictures. Finally we conferred the great privilege upon Mr. Brush. So we have passed our fall term and we all look forward to next June when we shall graduate, famous as the class which not only said it was the last, but really was last, to graduate from the Old Central. HELEN JONES. 84 Jessie Smith (making an announcement): Will all the girls please hand their five senses (cents) to the treasurer? Note: The treasurer didn’t get anything. Uncle Mac (to Virgil class) : Cursing should be expressed in the accusative only. Young Man (to girl wearing a sleeveless sweater): What do you call that? Girl: Hug me tight. (Later) Help!! Help!! First Pupil: My dog is so fond of me that he often follows me to school. Second Pupil: That’s nothing; I have a pony that stays in my room all the time. Fond Parent No. 1: Your son is pursuing his studies, is he? Ditto No. 2: I guess so. He’s always behind. I AST night I held a little hand. So dainty and so neat, Methought my heart would break with joy. So wildly did it beat. No other hand into my soul Could greater solace bring. For the little hand I held last night Was four aces and a king. —Ex. A SURPRISE. Hold me, Cassius, ere I sink. Chester bought a sandwich. Chester Ornes: Our Senior year is our Manly year. Mr. Allen (while describing an embankment): Now this pile of dirt which I have in mind— Agatha: There! I knew that there was something the matter with that man. 85 That Faculty Game ON the twenty-third day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve, those decrepit ones, our teachers, gathered at Nicollet Park in an assembly that looked like the august Roman Senate (we don’t think). The purpose of the gathering was to show the Juniors how to play football. The teachers said that they knew as much about football as they did about Latin, English, Mathematics and History, and if that is the case, their teachers’ licenses should be taken from them. There were some noble looking knowledge disseminators present, among whom our beloved Uncle Mac loomed up like Hercules of old. The idol of the ladies was Mr. Pehousek, the quarterback, who surely looked the part of a really truly, hope-to-die football player. In stentorian tones he would shout, “Tventy-six und five-eights, eighteen und vun-tird, ten und tree ist seven,—yump;” and the play was started; but soon stopped. This valiant warrior became exceedingly rough at times, even going so far as to push one of the Juniors in the face. Mr. Allen was there in all his glory and quite frequently showed brilliant qualities, owing undoubtedly to his diligent perusal of the Statistical Abstract. Mr. Winkelman also took good care that no impudent Junior be allowed to step on him. On one end was Mr. Johnson, looking like a misfit army; and on the other was Mr. Boardman, who covered himself with honor and glory and dirt by making a tackle in the open field. Mr. Numbers made the only touchdown for the ancient ones and the strain on both physical and mental faculties was so great that he was not able to appear at school on the following Monday. 1913 86 Mr. Warrick and likewise Coach Brook and Buster Kavel played stellar games. Brook got himself all worked up because they wouldn’t let him grab the ball and make a touchdown whenever he felt like it between quarters. Mr. Glasby succeeded in throwing off the mantle of old age and sure did dig in at center. Mr. Eide was at guard with that same winning smile which influenced so many girls to take Norwegian. Mr. Emerson and Mr. Heard didn’t play. Perhaps “Emmy” overheard that remark of a student that “if Emmy played, it would have to be a neck, or nothing.” We can readily see why Mr. Heard didn’t play; he certainly would fall an awful distance; besides his parents objected. We can but say that we are sorry. In the second half, two mysterious players made their appearance upon the gridiron. One was stout and the other one was not so stout. The stout one was apparently quiet and peaceful and seemed to be chiefly occupied in keeping his headguard on so as to cover a most villainous looking wig. The other one capered and cavorted around in such a manner as to lead people to strongly suspect that he bore some relation to a certain “Pick.” It was when the stout one collided with an innocent Junior who had foolishly neglected to get out of the way that he was recognized as Percy. No one but Cowin could run up against an unsuspecting young man and make him harbor the delusion that he had collided with a steam-roller of the Convention variety. We all pulled for the faculty (for diplomatic reasons), but our support didn’t seem to help much, as the game ended with the Juniors holding up the big end of a 12-7 score. CECIL SEARLE. This joke for the boys only: •Sunis 9J.no a ' ooi pjnoM noA Mau ’ isouna 1913 87 The Rooter Captain 88 cjENIQf Ever the Same OT a nicklc? Got a dime? That you’ll pay me for this rhyme? Money, O, I need it bad. And it’s nowhere to be had. What’s the reason? Why the plea? This you ask, but can't you see? Any day around the hall Listen, you will hear the call,— Get the Annual! Hear the news! Two-bits are your Tech Club dues! Where’s that carfare? Pay my bet! Buttons ready! Proofs in yet? Pins are waiting: pay your cash! Senior party! Nothing rash! Ever still there’s. Quick! Lunch checks! Books and pencils! Bean tickets! Tickets for the football game? Hockey, baseball,—all the same. Naught will stay the demons, till Graduation,—then they’re still. HOLLIS CROSS. A. C. (reading Virgil): Three times I cast my arms about her”—and that’s as far as I got. Uncle Mac: Well that’s plenty far enough. Pupil: Got any thumb tacks? Mr. Kavel: No; how will finger nails do? 89 Class of January 1913 TO stamp indelibly upon the minds of the students of Central High the name of the class of January 1914, we realized that we must accomplish something of real import; something extraordinary; and, imbued as we were with that progressive spirit of twentieth century life, we were enabled to satisfy that expectation. The class party was the first thing to claim our attention. With plans carefully made, far in advance of the other classes, our progressiveness was made manifest, and the party, in addition to being the first of the year, was a gratifying success, socially and financially. That the class of January 1914 possesses a membership of superior mental, literary and histrionic ability was attested by the fact that three of the eight chosen in the debate preliminaries are members of that class. In the field of athletics the class demonstrated its prowess by winning the indoor interclass track meet. We have two or more “C” men in every branch of athletics, a representation of which we may well be proud. With a most encouraging start and a harmonious membership, ever enthusiastic and alive to the interests of the class and the school, we believe that we have made a lasting impression upon the minds of the student body. With physical, mental and social development upon a solid foundation, we shall enter our Senior year with a program of achievement of great scope and value that will make us all worthy graduates of dear old Central High. MARK D. BOHEN, President. 1913 90 The Class of June 1914 THE class of June 1914 has been hindered in numerous ways from showing what it could accomplish. The class is one composed of students of unusual ability and talent, and the surroundings at the New Central High School will be better suited to their style. But the thought of leaving the familiar rooms and benches of Old Central is not an altogether joyful one. In the Junior year the students were assembled in one room for the first time during their high school careers. They immediately organized, great enthusiasm being shown over the election. The class pins, of a very neat design, were secured early in the year. A party was given that will long be remembered by all those who attended as displaying the originality of the class. This class has among its members athletes that compete in all of the sports known in the High School. And did not members of this class meet and very nearly defeat that band of faculty football stars who had been gathered from all over the country? This is indeed a fitting class to establish standards for the New School. For when it enters that new building and becomes acquainted with its surroundings, it will undoubtedly set standards higher than have been reached heretofore. LEON DeKINDREE, President. 91 The Rejuvenation of the Faculty THE faculty was spry and gay, And donned their football garb for fray. When all the stiffness of their bones Had been rubbed out, amid deep groans. They jumped and played with merry glee; With many antics bold and free. And much big talk of how they’d beat The Junior team, so strong and fleet. Much joy then did these students feel That they could make the teachers reel With pain and dizziness; and so To pay them back for marks too low. As center Glasby well did fight, With Eide and Allen to left and right. McWhorter, too, held down his place. With Brook to help, with perfect grace. And, Oh! the smiles and grins Provoked by Boardman’s slender shins. And Mr. Johnson shone in green And red, with most resplendent sheen. Pehousek was their quarterback Who, with a rapid, strong attack, And help of signals intricate, Did try to circumvent cruel Fate; Despite his fractions and the aid Of Kavel brave and Numbers staid. And Warrick bold, the Old Eleven Was defeated, twelve to seven. WILLIAM WHITE, June, ’14. Mr. Emerson: Why doesn’t Mr. Searle attend my Monday afternoon make- up class? Pupil: He can’t; he’s always at the Orpheum that afternoon. Mr. Allen: What is there about the question that troubles you? Pupil: It isn’t the question that bothers me; it’s the answer. Question (In Political Economy Class): If a man goes to town with a dozen eggs and brings back some calico for his wife, is he a buyer or a seller. Bright Pupil: He’s neither. He’s the medium of exchange between the hen and his wife. 92 The Passing of the Third Floor Back 93 Central High School Faculty JOHN N. GREER, Principal. MAUD MILLER, Assistant. ELLEN DAVIDSON, Clerk. ENGLISH: Grace A. Williams Ellen E. McGregor Paul C. Heard Edna Hilton Annette Brown Helen Hildrup Helen G. Allard Margaret W. Siddall Ida V. Probett May L. Durst Ethelbert Warrick Emma S. Crounse Florence Fish LATIN: L. N. McWhorter Zina D. Snyder William J. Johnson Estelle Conway Carl L. Willis Nellie E. Sumpter Clare T. 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