Chico High School - Caduceus Yearbook (Chico, CA)

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Perhaps no other group in school felt the loss of the boys who left to serve their country, any more keenly than did the Caduceus Staff. We lost our Business Man- ager, Edgar Roberts, whose ability to manage this work was remarkable. He had accomplished one thing no other Caduceus manager had ever been able to accom- plish-that of getting a local bid for the same price as the bids given by out of town companies. In this w my he saved money which otherwise would have been spent for expressage. VVhen he left, March 31st, our manager had secured practically all the advertisements necessary to insure the publication of the book. Nevertheless, in order to have a safe margin, his assistant, Orville Can- field, and th.e Circulation Manager, Esther McNabb, took up the unfinished work and procured enough more adver- tisements to fill the space allotted to that section and arranged them, besides doing their own work. The work of the josh Editor and his assistant, Fred Taylor, was also unfinished when they.left to join the Supply Company. They had collected a great many jokes and had worked very hard, but still there were not enough. jokes to fill the joke department. It did not take long, however, for other members of the staff and of the school as a whole to meet the crisis, and to avert the calamity of a book without sufficient jokes. They set to work immediately. VVe are sure their work was worth while. Another Senior of Company A, Ray Pierce, though not on the Caduceus Staff, was helping to write the Class IG- '

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Seventeenth: To the school at large, our one-time classmate, Cussick Malloy, as a beacon light for many years to come. Eighteenth: To the pompous Juniors, one cubic millimeter of our love. Nineteenth: To I-Iallet Reed, our sympathies that being rid of one Senior class, she has a still worse one to contend vvith. Twentieth: Chevv's speller to Oblivion. Tvventy-icirstz To Elmer Troxel, Babe Baker's tape measure with an added extension. 'Ilvventy-second: .To Thelma Spencer we leave Inez Fetters' fame as a basketball shark. Twenty-third: To Pearl Power, some of the curl Val lost from her hair While Working on the Red and Gold. - Twenty-fourth: To the next Student Body tax- collector, Esther McNabb's ability to get the cash. Although we have not reached the limit of our posses- sions, feeling our hold on this life slipping from our grasp, we leave all of the remaining property to charity. IN WITNESS XMI-IEREQF, we have hereunto set our hand and seal this fifteenth day of June, A. D., Nineteen hundred and seventeen tl9l7j. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Senior Class. as and for their last willand testament, in the presence of us, who, at their request, in their pres- ence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as attesting witnesses to said in- strument. l. PILE QF EXCHANGES 2. MR. PIGEON 3. RED, XNHITE K BLUE PENCIL. K .....l.' s Gil iiigfif o Q htxk. M115 Q s iix Q 101, 0 o 1 . 5 J D -.ffrvuw sf X ttggiatll gb 'X ' I f' . ' 9 mm a Q TNIW ,, ' G X KL Xxx ff ox - c s ag 532 ...1 o M2 H 5.-Q o an aaa l 17 NX I f 0 if fr xi X! ! .' N f f s X g OT-,iw g 4, -25.-

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Prophecy and had worked faithfully to make it original. His work was willingly taken up by O. L. Johns, who proved himself a wit. Although we missed the boys, who left, for the good work they were doing, we find that their work has been done very well by their successors. There is, however, something else which we have missed since the boys left us, which no one except the boys themselves can bring back. VVe miss their presence at every turn. VVe miss them in our classes, in the halls, on the Campus and at our meetings. It is in these places that no one can fill the void left by the boys who have gone. ,...l Not long after the Caduceus staff was chosen for this year, there was some talk of changing the cover of our annual for a paper one. The staff, however, was very much opposed to the idea, some of them even going so far as to say they would rather not edit a book. Our cover is the pride of the Caduceus. VVe know of only one other book in the state that has a cover which can compare with it. VVe hope the sugges- tion to change it will never be made again, but if it should be, we hope that future staffs will oppose it as vigorously as did the staff of l9l7. A .....,. . 5 Edgar Roberts, Business Mgr. Ray Britton, Editor-in-Chief, This yearis Caduceus staff owes a great deal of thanks to the Red and Gold. The persons in charge of the different departments did not as heretofore have to keep notes on the affairs pertaining to their depart- ments. Instead, they had free access to the Red and Gold file and therefore got their information quickly and correctly. This helped the staff of the Red and Gold also, for it showed them the necessity of getting every bit of news and getting it clearly and accurately. L M2-