Central High School - Optimist Yearbook (Crookston, MN)

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'lf I Class History FIT oNE. , , And' in the beginning there were ninety-three of us. Nine-three bashful but'blooming young- sters. 'Where we all came from we do not know, but, like the ilowersthalt bloom in the spring, it has nothing. to-do with the case. ,The fact remains we were there, all there, primed with direful tales of woe befalling the newest arrivals on the scene of scholastic action. We found! it as we feared. Boys and girls were- torn apart, and 'thrust into separate rooms under the baleful eye of a-pedagogixe. ' Then came a trying time, during which we endeavored to distinguish our respective class rooms and the various members of the faculty from each other. This we accomplished with unusiialigpidiiy, due to our superior intelligence. Likewise we got wise to the follies and foibles of upper classnien and the ins-and-outs of school life for Freshmen. In due course of time we discovered, to our surprise, that there were others besides ourselves new to the ways of the Crookston High School. Five new teachers, not new in the sense of green as applied to ourselves and vegetables, but recent acquisitions in the way of brains, came, like us, from parts unknown to instill knowledge in our youthful brains. They were Miss Holkesvig, Miss Shuttleworth, Miss Sherling, Mr. Miles and Mr. Armstrongg later re-enforced by Mr. Hellburg who was to assist Supt. Mclntire in squelching us, and by Miss Marshall who took the place of Miss Goodrich. At length it dawned upon us there were among the upper classes certain superior beings known as class officers. Not wishing to be thought backward, we held a class meeting of our own, and raised to prominence four of our membersg Culver Page, Pres.g Dorothy johnson, Vice Pres., Jeannette Page, Sec'y, and Hugh Rosaaen, Treas., with Mr. 'Miles hovering near in the capacity of class guardian. These feeble-minded and able-bodied spirits piloted us through the mazes of our Freshmen year, headed our sports, played go-between for us and the ruling potentate, and put us henceforth and forever on the list of prominentcitizens. Fir Two. Three months passed, and we were again darkening the doors of the old High School, this time di- minished by nearly half ogpfnumber and wondering what the new year 'had'inh store for usa 'Again we had to acciustom ourselveiito many changes. Headed by our new general, Supt. Hess, and hisrable lieu- tenant, Mr. Smith, we learned to find our seats by a new plan, thus indelibly- fixing in our memories the heretofore imperfectly learned alphabet, and from the numerous courses offered to choose one suitable to our various and sundry temperaments. Some decided to become cooks, some to push the machine. some to bottle gas, some to conjugate amo, and others to saw wood. Of these various alluring fields of folly, typewriting seemed to appeal most strongly because of its newness and the fascination which machines and red ink have upon the youthful mind. Some, perhaps, thought typewriters related to auto- mobiles or pianos, and'expe'c1ted,ilike Hugh Rosaaen, to achieve fame in the motor world, or'like :Arline Price to do great things in dramatic aht. The promoter and conductor of this practical course of study was the Honorable Mr. Clark. To him we owe grateful thanks for thus providing certain of dur class with a chancerto fulfill their ambitious desires. A ' ' f ' . 'Y An opportunity also for exercising their lungs was tendered by Mrs. -'Gray toisomeienthusiastic girls by the organization of a class in Public Speaking. Our debating team proved the worth of this new- ly instituted course by winning the State Championship in debate, and brought the championship cup to Crookston for that year. This year we elected motor-mad Hugh Rosaaen president, Howard Lytle's understudy, Ed. Syl- vestre, vice president, Duchess Weigh-a-Ton, commonly called Irene Dow, as secretary, and Helen Siv- ertson, our one Scottish lassie, as treasurer. With this mighty quartette .we weathered the storms aris- ing over tritles like class colors, motto and flower. ' I