Cherokee County Community High School - Checoukan (Columbus, KS)

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Q Our successes and our failures are the true records of our deeds, and rep- resent the real worth of any effort. With this end in view, we have endeavored to present a representative volume of school spirit and school life, and take this opportunity to thank all who have helped us to make this annual, Mlqhe Leap Yearbook a success. Especially do We Wish to thank Miss Val Tracewell and Mr. Richard Chase and the following to Whom the Staff saw fit to make awards for excellence in Various fields of literary and artistic effort. AWARDS. Name. .... .............. - -KATE KETCHUIVI. Story ....c , - L .LHOPE STANWAITY. Poem ,,,, ,..c , ,LAURA MOORE. jokes ...,... ,,.uue L -FRED TAYLOR. Limericks ..,. .......cc, O LIVER KEENER. Daffydills- - , .,.,, GERTRUDE CARROLL. Snap Shots., A, ,,.,.. LLOYD WHITESIDE. -A, . -. -.H -, WF l 4

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ANNA V. KLOCKOW Geflnan MARY. D. SCH MA LZREID English X . f X 1 Q gf- . , BESSE OLI PHANT Librarian

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SENIORS CLASS OFFICERS. President ,,,,,, , ,-,,,, ....., ...... L L OYD DOUGLAS Vice President .... ..., G RACE SIVIALLEY Secretary ,,,,,, ........ I N EZ ELDER Treasurer ,,,. ,....,,. - - - .... CLAIR CANFIELD Lad and Lassie were small children playing in the nursery on a cold rainy day. Nothing to do but look at books, and at last the pictures of dolls and toy trains failed to interest them. At last they came to a book of strange and won- derful pictures. The most magic picture was one of a boy and girl dressed in black cap and gown, who were waving goodby to their beloved school. Under the picture was the text, Nos sumus Seniores Denique. Of all pictures they loved this one the best and often they tried to figure out its meaning. Their first school days were as happy and free as the wind. Up, up the ladder of knowledge they climbed, and now they are beginning to dream of the Senior, the text and the Big High School, many times Lad and Lassie would wander away from their hard text books, yet always returning to the grind be- cause of the Senior dream. Lad and Lassie came to the Big High School as Freshmen, and under Lad's arm was the old nursery book. The first night after the first day of this strange new life, he called Lassie to him, and together they read the story of the Senior and feasted their eyes on the wonderful picture. When Lad and Lassie were Sophomores, their eyes began to open. The dream and vision seemed nearer, yet the dignity of the Senior was even harder to understand. Juniors were Lad and Lassie now, with all the knowledge and culture that went with that year, yet without that serious and reserved air of the Senior. At the close of the Senior year before taking leave of their Dream School, Lad called Lassie to him and carefully unwrapped the old nursery book. I-low sacred it seemed for at the close of their junior year, tomorrow, they were be- ginning a new life, a Senior. Lassie whispered very softly into Lad's ear, It's all coming out true Laddie, at last. In I9I2 the whole dream was made clear when Lad and Lassie became Seniors. The miracle came, also the DIGNITY. You and I are Lad and Lassie. In our first school days, when with sun- bonnet and straw-hat, we thought a Senior a mighty sage and the black cap and gown a mysterious garment, but Lad and Lassie have grown up to their dream and it is in C C. I'I. S. So many anticipated joys are disappointments, but realization this time is more nearly perfect than we could ever have hoped for. Our dream has un- folded into a perfect reality, with the dark and light threads mingled into a per- fect web. Graduates! Yes even that, is the dream. And Lassie in her gown of wis- dom and beauty whispers in Lad's ear, Laddie, we are in the text at last. Nos sumus seniores deniquef'---K. V. T.