Central Washington University - Hyakem / Kooltuo Yearbook (Ellensburg, WA)

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The Classes Senior ijistnni Four wars ago five little wild flowers found themselves in the far corner of a large garden. When the gardener took these flowers, gathered here and there from among the hills and valleys, into the garden, they were wild. During their stay in the garden, however, the gardener pruned and trained them. They learned what bugs and worms to shun, and often they were taken away up in one corner where they learned what colors were lies! suited for harmony. As a result they said to themselves. “YVc will have the big¬ gest. nicest lied in the garden, we will even lie harmonious in crimson and gray, and crimson carnation shall be our patron saint. Then down they went again to learn to bend their bodies in graceful curves. These little flowers soon discovered that the Itcds receiving the most attention were those where the brightest and most lieautiful flowers grew. One gardener took her scissors and gently nipped the liad words from the erratic flow¬ ers. Another whom they called Miss Psychology, urged the flowers to observe carefully the little buds that grew down in the nursery. One man counted their buds, stems, leaves and thorns each day and strove vainly to instil in their minds the psychology of number.” Then two other gardeners taught them aliout the soil, the atmosphere, ami how the stars effected their environment. Slowly these flowers grew more perfect, that they might lie placed in new pots and sent far away to pre pare other little wild flowers for the garden. Another year and more flowers were added. This year the lied was lieautiful in¬ deed. outshining all the others in brilliancy. It was the next year that the flower lied was prepares! for the final two years of culture. 1 he beginning of the last year brought big improvement. New flowers were added and reclassified, for now the plants had left the wild state and were cultured hot house plants. There was the Chrysanthemum (Sadie) who once was a meek little daisy. You would hardly recognize in the splendid Jacqueminot (Lucile) the ( 33 )

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“We went duwn to get our pictures. They are frightful of me. I would not have one in the year book. “ When I came upstairs I made a list of what I had to do tonight. Isn ' t this just appalling? Item 1—copy notes for Miss Editor. Item 2—read 249 pages of • rganic Education in order to report on same at 8 ;30; copy mv design for art— you were all the evening doing yours, so that was discouraging. “ tf course Or. M. will give us a quiz in neurology, either that or a lecture, but I had to prepare for the worst. “Then tile Society at 3:15. I must see Miss S. and get some idea about operas None of us have any idea about grand opera, only three of us ever saw one. We can’t sing even in choruses and you are not supposed to act in operas. I suppose it will end in tableaux. How I dislike them. I ought to have finished that liasket tonight. “Just now while I was in Alice’s room, Irene came in and asked me for the start I promised the year book. I 1 legged to lie let off and she wouldn’t. Then I got real provoked and had just liegun to tell her my trials when 1 saw that placard Alice and (Iretchen have. ‘Smile, you smile.’ So. 1 did. I’m real cheerful now. ‘»ee’ but it is hard to have to teach school. Shall l turn out the light? (mod night.” Florence McFarland. ( 32 )

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Crimson Rambler, that had been creeping over the fence into the garden for many years. Then there was the Bachelor’s button (Newton). He looked sadly out of place among these maiden flowers, but his long association in such flowry plots made him appear overbearingly at home. The little Sweet-pea (Edna) once the useless wild pea. nodded and smiled, rain or shine. The Nasturtium (Grace Mor¬ gan) only brightened the bed half a year. She was sent away at the end of the first semester in a secondary pot to the wild country, there to impart her culture to fourteen little weeds. Awav in one corner was a modest Violet (Grace Coy) who Bob-cd and Bobbed and Bobbed” her head. A Marigold i Mary) and Petunia (I.uella) added charm and color to the bed. The Marigold tried her best to grew tall so she could look over the fence at the Bleeding Hearts. Then there was Bounc¬ ing Betty (Alice) and Black-eyed-Susan (Ruth) transplanted from the south but thriving well in the Northern clime; Pansy (Mellicent) that ' s for thoughts; and the Wild Irish Rose (Gertrude) who turned out an American Beauty. Sweet Jasmine (Clara) and Marguerite (Margaret) who were from a rival bed, received a hearty welcome from the other flowers. There was the Peppermint (Minta) who played such pranks with the cottonwood l alls and was altogether indispensible as an aftcidinner mint, and the Yakima Apple blossom (Florence) who longed for more color in her general surroundings. Just t efore the flowers were ready for the final pruning and labeling, a Water Lilly (Lillibelle) and a Geranium (Stella) slipped into the l cd. One day there was a shower of tears among the flowers, for they were soon to l e sent lurk to the wilds. So the choicest flowers of all the garden have been cultivated to the latest peda¬ gogic products and are ready for the market at $100.00 per month—special rates to County Superintendents. This class of 1909 has had many happy days together; the time that they crept to the . W. C. A. room at midnight with the bones of a human man, the night they had a jolly spread in the tower when the gardeners were asked too; tile “wild animals they had met” in the pursuit of art; the times they laughed themselves into stitches” watching Maria. Sir Toby and Sir Andrew: these all recalled such happy sensations that the lied almost forsook carnations as Patron Saint, in the worship of Forget-me-not. CLASS OF 1909 President ........ Newton Hknton Yice-presiden! ....... Alice Gvthrie Secretary and Treasurer ..... Florence McFarland Class Colors —Crimson and Gray Class Flower —Crimson Carnation