Chaffee High School - Mogul Yearbook (Chaffee, MO)

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Senior Class History Four years ago, we, thirty-five trembling Frcshies, entered old Chaffee High and climbed the stairs (oh, my, no-not the Big Stairs, to our lowly corner in ie Stud I all Scowled upon by the Sophomores, ignored hv Juniors and laughed at by the Seniors, ours was not a bed of roses. Gallantly we struggled with Latin nouns and verbs and conquered Algebraic signs, for we Freshmen n ere the real stuff. By sticking together to keep from being trodden under- foot by the upperclassmen, and by a little condescension on the part of the Seniors, we at last grew bold and placed three men n the football squad. It can never be said of our class that we wasted time. Oh, no! Every spare moment in Study Hall was used in writing little epistles in violet ink Fresh- man foolishness? Well, time will tell! And then the big triumph of the year! How soul-satisfying to the once- despised Freshmen when the Juniors and Seniors humbly I egged for our sup port in the Queen Contest. Ccoly and deliberately we made our choice and finally pledged our best efforts to the Seniors, who, quite naturally, won. W ( enteied the Sophomore year with somewhat of a f eling of superiority over everyone in general, and Freshmen in particular. Certain rules were pre- pared for their especial benefit and an attempt was made to enforce these rules. But failure was inevitable because of the faculty's lack of sympathy with tin scheme. Battled and crushed in our first effort to accomplish something that year, we became indifferent and rather lazy. So lazy, in fact, that we “also ran” in the Queen Contest. Nothing of further importance developed except a hitter hatred for the Senior Class. Then came the Junior year with its continual round of battles. We started everything—were the first to get a hundred per cent membership in the Athletic Association: were well represented on the Mogul Staff; organized and estab- lished the “Bed Peppers” a pep squad; gave the Seniors a hard run for Mogul Queen: staged a (lass fight which made heroes of all Junior boys in the eyes of the girls; and then, laying all grudges aside, entertained the Seniors royally. And now the Senior ear! This, of course, has been the crowning glory of all preceding years. 1 here have been the usual battles and largely thro' the tactful efforts of our beloved sponsor, Mrs. Ballard, and our president, Rodney Preston, we have managed to win most of them. Page Sixteen

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ANNA MORROW—“Speedie” Glee Club, Commercial Club, Nannettes. Kodak Club, Track, Basketball. “Grace and good disposition ’tend your ladyship.” ELGIN STAUSING—“El” Billy Goats. Phi Beta Keys, Commercial Club. -repose of mind, a calm that knows no storm.” J. H. DAVENPORT—“Dick” Commercial Club, Billy Goats, Phi Beta Keys. “No man ever learned by imitation. So I rely on my own dictation.” NORMA DUGGAR—“Boots” Glee Club, Kodak Club, Nannettes, Commercial Club. “She has a mind of her own and she uses u »» ETHEL MAE ROBINSON—‘Skeet” Glee Club, Nannettes, Commercial Club, Dramatic Club. “Her smile is hope—her frown despair.” CHRISTINA KING— Teenie” Nannettes, Commercial Club. “In her face the sweetest look, In her mind the wisest book” IOLA WITT—“Bill” Commercial Club, Nannettes. “Her smile was like a rainbow flashing from a misty sky.” CHARLES BOLTON—“Chug” Billy Goats. Commercial Club, Phi Beta Keys, “I’m a sane man if too much learning leads to madness.” Page Fifteen

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Senior Class Poem if you can make an“EM when those about you Are making “FV’ and blaming it on you, If you can bluff your way without home study, But know your verbs and theorems too: If you can sleep, but not miss class by sleeping, And come in late all wreathed in pretty smiles, And answer, “I was working on the ‘Mogul And look as though you had been working all the while; If you can work hut make work your hobby, If you can play and dance ‘til break of day, If you can stand the teacher's scowling glances When she gets peeved and orders, you away; If you can hear to see another please her, And know your work is not what it should be, And yet can keep your footsteps firm and steady So all, your courage great, can know and see; If you can he a star in all athletics And make the final score that wins the game, And carry with you honors fine and lasting That later leads one on to wealth and fame; If you can swagger in with your importance, And meet eyes of Freshmen, Juniors, Sophs, And not waver from your stately hearing But smile at all their jeers, and scowls and scoffs; If you can wear a robe and learn a class song. And keep a tasseled cap firm on your head; If you can walk in to slow strains of music Though exams have left you almost cold and dead; If you can listen to a tiresome lecture, And take your sheepskin in a manner mild, You’ll have slain the dragons of your Hrgh School, And—BEST of all you'll he a SENIOR, child. Page Seventeen