Central High School - Optimist Yearbook (Crookston, MN)

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The staff of the 1938 Optimist presents for your approval this book of picture and story, concerning our school at work and at play. On page five of the TABLE OF CONTENTS is a Prologue to a Dream. We ask you to travel in imagination with us to a time of long ago, when the Northwest was a new and undeveloped country, and back again to the modern Northwest. Then, if you will turn to SCENE ONE THE DEPARTURE FOR THE OHIO ...The beginning of a journey for the Northwest Settlers and also for our pioneer friends ---- 6 THE ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY ...Presenting the superiors and supervisors 'behind thc desks ---------- 8 THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL...Big news from little people ------- 14 THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH GRADES ...Advance news from prospective seniors - 20 SCENE TWO THE CAMP AT SUMRILL'S FERRY...The caravan is well on the journey when. this long stOp is made. Our students, too, are carried in a caravan of dreams to complete participation in school life 24 IN CASE YOU FORGET...Eeing a hasty distortion of the events of 1937-38 - - - 26 THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INI- TIATES...New members at an impressive cere- mony - - ------- - - 28 STUDENT GOVERNMENT... Student Coun- cils provide an outlet for student expression - 29 FROM EIGHT TO TWELVE AND ONE TO FIVE...Merrily we go to school - - 30 THE OPTIMIST AND THE PEPSTER. journalism in facts and faces ---- THE SHOW GOES ON .... A n appraisal of speech and dramatics ------ 38 A PREVIEW OF NEW FIRES...Casting an PROM .... A Dutchman's holiday - - 44 A BIT OF MAGIC...A flying visit to school parties ---------- 45 THE ATHLETIC STAFF.. . Close-ups of the coaches ---------- 48 RECORDS OF THE YEAR...A summariza- tion of athletic scores ------ 49 GRIDIRON GOSSIP...A game by game de- scription of the football season ---- 50 A PIRATE'S DIARY...Intimate glimpses in- to the life of the basketball team - - - 52 RAH, RAH, PIRATES! . . . A panorama of ath- letic activities and of the leaders of school spirit 54 GIVE A GIRL A BALL...A report on the ac- tivities of the Girls' Athletic Association - - 56 PHYSICAL EDUCATION ON PARADE... Exhibiting muscles, coordination, and rhythm - 58 ONE, TWO, THREE...Around the year in music with the band, the pep band, the orchestra, the drum corps, the choir, the junior glee club, the dance band, the junior ensemble, as well as several smaller ensembles-all under the regulation of the Music Council ------- - 60 SCENE THREE THE ARRIVAL AT MARIETTA. . . The pion- eers reach their goal: the dream is over - - 68 THE SENIORS OF 1938.. . Rechristened for local color with Indian names - - - - 70 CROOKSTON BUSINESS FIRMS .... A word from our most faithful supporters - - - 80 THE HALL OF FAME...Famous faces of eye through the keyhole to watch a senior class play 1938 ........... 86 liclwarsal 40 THE EPILOGUE Facts and fancies about THE JUNIORS .PRESENT A , COMEDY: the meaning of it all. By Margaret Stevens - 95 TWEEDLES . . . ln which we have the Junior actors in order of appearance ------ 42 - FINIS BARBARA MILLER. Editor MAURICE McFARI.IN MARY SPRING RALPH EICKHOF Business Manager Assistant Editor Assistant Business Manager ROBERT McCALL MARGARET ANNE CLARK GIFFORD MILLER Advertising Features Subscriptions MARGARET FOX CONSTANCE KIEL BETTE RAINES MARGARET STEVENS Organizations Assistants Activities Art and Features , I 3 I

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It's school days, school days, dear old golden rule days. Up a mu F and half Way PPQZQCQ UQ to cz Dream down again the little school house perches in its grove of oaks-a rude one-story log build- ing, its red paint scuffed and worn from hard use, its brass bell gleaming in the diminutive steeple. 0 It is still early in the morning, hardly seven o'clockg but, at the clanging of the bell, children of all ages come scurrying along the footpaths towards the school. Some carry a book or two, frayed volumes with the words Speller or Primer printed in faded letters upon their covers. f The bell has summoned the children inside. Let us look through the glassless window, from which floats a steady drone of voices. There are the rough wooden benches, the water pail and dipper beside the door, the squat stove in the corner looking like a sulky Buddha. The students are in their places, the little ones close to the fire, the older children farther back, where a strong draft blows in from the cracks around the door. The teacher himself, a lanky, ill-fed, none too well-educated man, sits elbow deep in work. ' The daily routine stumbles on. The voice of the pedagogue drones on monotonously. Feet shuffle along the gritty Hoor, the smaller pupils squirm about on the hard dren discontinue their mon- reading, writing, and arith- Jeremiah and Prudence, pore over their geography, intellects of seventeen year golden leaf Boats in on the girls hair ribbons and Latin verbs and maps of brains of our four pupils - 1 E :Q '5- seats. ' Finally, the chil- otonous recitations. Spelling metic are over for the day. about thirteen years of age, while Latin verbs numb the old Faith and John. A the same breeze which stirs ruffles the boys' cowlicks. Europe whirl dizzily in the 'Iheir heads nod. 0 They doze...and dream. Shall we follow and see where their dreams lead them?