Central High School - Wakitan Yearbook (St Joseph, MO)

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CLASS OF NINETY-NINE. would have reached the longed-for rank of Seniors and the year which we anticipated finding the most delightful of the four. To relate the many happy events of this last year has been assigned the pleasant duty of another member of the class. ' m just four yeargn entered the High Will, but it was rat knowledge opened conquer. Finally, from the Junior int of such deep lmowl attained: but YX'he be wise. Yet I I heart beat with a rr

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' sf 5.1.4-1- lf IQ uiake as good H all branches-we will- 3 found there had been rice the last Year' We iers, and had new on6S duty. of course. WEIS TO and acquaint ourselves 11 ugte took place until :rnied some societies to ts. The class WHS Hbll' i carried off one or two iedals did not come to t V- oably due to some ded 3-65, XYe were satisfied. honor. Always fearing we looked forward to the ne to town. for we relied gggkiiig favorably 119011 ays sure to make HS time for the parade. ,oning a few Peculiar' CLASS OF NINETY NINE '-'- fl ities of one of our teachers. Dr. Radford had a special objection to the use o-f slang, for instance, he never could tolerate hearing anyone say Rats, The Doctor also had a way of losing his composure at the sight of young ladies fainting. An occurrence of this kind in his room one dayput a stop to his favorite punishment, Stand up until you are told to sit downf, VVe finished our second year's work with a very creditable showing, and -separated for the summer. Wfhen we returned to school the next year, we were sorry to find tha.t a great many of our number had chosen some other course in life. Again we saw some pleasant new faces among the corps of teachers, and on better acquaintance' found them to be as aamiable as their faces had indicated. After a very few lessons had been assigned us, we realized that to be a Junior meantito work. This did not frighten us, and we set- tleidf down to work with untiring energy. CAny one 'doubting this fact is referred to the teachers' record books for ,98.j It was this year that a very well conducted tele- phone sy-stem was established in the school between the two divisions of the class, but strange as it may seem the teachers did not appreciate the genius we sho-wed in this new enterprise. The messages were generally ont the order of Read lo-ud or you will be put backxin the text book, or NVas the test hard ? When the troops were being called to take part in the war with Spain some of the members of our class felt that they were ca.lled upon to- defenfd their coun- try, so they heroically enlisted. lt is true, none of them were sent, but they showed their bravery in of- fering to go. There was a great spirit of patriotism all through the school, which manifested itself the day Professor Miller let us go- to the Un-ion Station to cheer and encourage some soldiers who were pas-sing through St. Joseph on their way to the desolate scene of war. They doubtless resumed their journey with i

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-4 g . A.vv.-..p..... wg rank of Seniors ted finding the 11105t ,ite the many happy' assigned the DlC353llt .LlSS. It CLASS or NINETY-NINE 21 OUR SENIOR YEAR just four years. ago a new class of boys and girls entered the High School-say High' School if you will, but it was rather a newiworld. A new path of knowledge opened up to us, showing us new fields to conquer. Finally, after three yearsof toil, we passed from the Junior into- the Senior clafss, anid with an air of such deep knowledge as we fear, few of us haveiyet attainedg but VVhen ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be be wisef' Yet I think that each one of us felt his heart beat with a mingled feeling of pride and rever- ence on. becoming enrolled as a member of that class which had, for a. long time, been regarded by us as the highest pinnacle of glory. Our Senior year has been a very jo-yful and helpful friend, indeed, and the trialsa and difficulties which she has prescribed have been more than compensated for by the pleasure and wisdom we have received from her discipline. Her trials have been prescribed inthe form of extremely l-ong lessons, when the grass was green and the sky was blue, On such occasions. we