Chinook High School - Breeze Yearbook (Chinook, MT)

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16 THE CHINOOK BREEZE May, 1926 JUNIORS Lower—Orvil Watkins, Walter Gibbs, Mildred Utter. Anna Cline. Zola Goold. Evelyn Campbell, Anna Maney. Greta Sands. Doris Brinkman. Middle—William Nesslar, Harold Peterson, Louise Hiebert, Angeline Cole, Metta West. Elsie Maeirt, Irene McClelland. Angeline Lawson. Letha Runyan. Louise Ronne. Upper—Wallace Sharpies. John Cronk. Lynn Butcher, Albert Hollenberger. Clarence Achen. Leonard Harlen. Donald Blackstone, Henry Lehfeldt. Warren Phelan. CLASS HISTORY OF C ’27 On the morning of September the second, 1923. a loud rushing noise as of a high wind could be heard outside the Chinook school building. Dick, the school’s far-famed janitor, hurried down to close the open doors, but he was too late, for in rushed thirty-five frisky freshmen, the future class of ’27. Our first few months were rather heart breaking, for we were just learning what discipline was. under the masterful leadership of our home room teacher. Miss Clark. During the year we lost one of our star students, Gyda Ronne. who left us to live in Portland. Oregon. The rest of the year was happily (?) spent in partaking of the fruits of knowledge, until we were warned by the low rumble of approaching examination storms. Some of our class, however, failed to hear the rumble and were left behind. Then came vacation. Three months were over all too soon and sorrowfully we went to room 21 to begin another year. Soon again, we became happy with Lapriel Williams. Mary Fast and Harold Peterson enlisting in our ranks. Our roll call teacher. Mr. Vernon Sanders, delighted us daily with his jokes, practical and otherwise. We Sophomores were well represented that year in girls’ basketball. by Greta Sands. Florence Campbell and Anna Maney. and in extemporaneous speaking by Leonard Harlen, Donald Blackstone and Elsie Maeirt. The class’s wonderful dramatic abilities were also brought out by the talent of Evelyn Campbell. Warren Phelan. Greta Sands and Anna Maney. After Christmas we held our semi-annual party. Our Sophomore year, with its periods of peace and of storm, ended with fifteen rahs for C ’27 and soon we were on the placid sea of vacation. After a three months’ journey, we again arrived at the old red school house. Juniors now, we started the year off with a bang, electing Letha Runyan as our president, and under her leadership we have surmounted all difficulties. This year we have been very well represented in school activities: In extemporaneous speaking by Leonard Harlen. Greta Sands and Donald Blackstone; in dramatics by Zola Goold, Greta Sands and Donald Blackstone; football, basketball, and track by Harold Peterson. Henry Lehfeldt. Clarence Achen. Albert Hollenberger, and also by Anna Maney, Greta Sands and Zola Go ;ld in girls’ basketball. Our class sent members to the agriculture meets at Bozeman and Portland in the person of John Cronk, Walter Gibbs and Harold Peterson. At the opening of the school year we all enjoyed our Junior-Senior party, and especially did we enjoy the “mixer” where we carried off all prize cups. In regard to the Junior Prom—it was the best prom ever. If you don’t think so. ask the Seniors. All during its three years in high school the class of ’27 has helped the school, and next year, when we are Seniors. Chinook High School will see its biggest, brightest and best class graduate! No longer will we be just a noise, as of a wind.

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May, 1926 THE CHINOOK BREEZE 15 Henry H.: “I recently expressed my views on the subject in a speech before the citizens of Butte. I declared that the movies were an obnoxious factor and that------” Montgomery: “Hold on. Hank, you can't pull any wool over my eyes. As if I didn’t know' of that three months you spent in Hollywood before you were elected governor. You may condemn the movies, but you don’t condemn the actresses. (General laugh, during which Vera Murphy enters with eyes upraised piously). Red: “Well, well, well. If here isn’t my old girl. Now--------” Vera (raising hand for silence): “Please. William. I beg of you. remind me not of the days I wasted in worldly enjoyments.” Easbey (aside to Montgomery): “Who is that?” Montgomery: “Why, that Vera Murphy. She w'as disappointed in love and became a religious fanatic.” (Vera piously seats herself, piously drinks tea and nibbles wafer). Mabel M.: “Anna, you don’t look like you were disappointed in love.” Anna H.: “Oh! Looks are sometimes deceiving, my dear.” (Sighs and wipes tear from eye). Alice: “Lest you labor under a delusion, my friends, I may as well tell you that Anna is a grass widow twice over, but she has a large alimony. Now, Mabel, tell us about yourself.” Mabel: “You may have all noticed that I have ‘picked up’ since you last saw me. (All agree upon looking at her enormous size). I used to be so thin I wouldn’t drink pink lemonade for fear someone would take me for a thermometer. Well, I own a large beet and hay farm, and the life agrees with me wonderfully. Why, I even load my own cattle into the box-cars.” Easbey: “By the way. Montgomery, as you are Chief of Police in Chinook. I find it my duty to w'arn you of a certain member of our party. He follows a shady occupation.” Montgomery (excited): “A shady occupation? Who could that be?” Easbey: “Fred Wallner. He works in the Forest Reserve.” (S meone enters with telegram and gives it to Frances Boyle, who reads it. emits one long screech, and sinks into a dead faint. Easbey grabs her, rams bottle into her mouth. She takes a couple of swallows and revives with a start). Easbey: “There, by George, that proves the value of my medicine.” Frances B. (gasping): “Oh! My cat! My cat! What will I do?” Everyone: “What the matter? What’s the matter?” Frances B. (weeping): “King Tut, my world’s champion Maltese cat. is at the point of death. What shall I do?” (Relaxes, sobbing). Easbey: “Calm yourself, dear friend. Poor girl, you see she’s the owner of a cat and canary conservatory. and her whole heart is so wrapped up in her work that the illness of this cat was a terrible shock. (Holding bottle on high). “But with a portion of this liquid which so recently revived you. my dear friend, I’m sure that your cat w'ill recover his health. And if you are wise, you will purchase a supply to ward off such emergencies, for this powerful cure is valuable not only to humans but to animals.” (Frances regains hope, but is still weak. Revives slowly). Nettie: Say, thinking about old times, that class day program we had was a lot of fun. What say we see if we can go through it again just as we did then? Easbey, can you remember the order?” Easbey: “Sure. Let’s see, there was the will—” BRIGHT SAYINGS OF SENIORS Leo: “Let me rise to remark that the greatest of all horticultural feats is not yet accomplished—the grafting of Weed chains on banana skins.” Alice G.: “Can a leopard change his spots?” Francis B.: “Of course, silly—when he gets tired of one he moves to another.” Red: Waiter, are you sure this bun was cured?” Walter: “Yes, sir.” Red: “Then it’s had a relapse.” Frances B.: “You brute! Where did you kick that cat?” Peggie: “Ah. thereby hangs the tail.” Percy: “Fine car you have here, Leo. What’s the most you’ve got out of it?” Leo: “Nine times in a block.” Vera: What’s an usher?” Peggie: The guy who takes a leading part at the theatre.” Earl M.: “What’s a pessimist?” Percy: “A man who won’t milk a cow because he is afraid the milk is already sour.” Donald M. (in physics): “Jesse, what did Archimedes say when he got into the tub?” Jesse: “Eureka.” Don.: No—‘No soap!’ ” Loretta K.: I used to think— Kate: What made you stop?” Loretta K. (English 12 class): “Milton was so fond of his wife that after she left him he wrote ‘Paradise Lost.’ ” Miss Ingersoll (in Eng. Lit.): “What did Wordsworth write?” Loretta: “Imitations of Immorality.” Miss Ingersoll: “Sir Walter Scott was a cripple, w’as he not, Jessie?” Jessie M.: “He was lame.”

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May. 1926 THE CHINOOK BREEZE 17 SOPHOMORES Lower—Loretta Maney, Dorothy Kenyon. Frances Ram berg. Phyllis Sheppard, Lillian Lawson. Imogene Overcast. Orpha Gesell, Laura Phares. Thelma Overcast. Bessie Nesslar. Middle John Hyde. James Staff. Fremont Easbey, Paul Davis. Harold Groven. Conrad Kuhr, Sylvia Bioomer, Lula Savage, Lucille Phares, Mildred Gibbs. Upper John Rebol (sponsor). Ernest Wallner. John Richmond. Carl Noyes. Eldon Crawford. Harold Barber, Bruce Seymour. Orin Wolary. Ida Renda, Esther Thompson. Hazel Gates. Harriet Thompson. SOPHOMORE CLASS HISTORY In the autumn of 1922 a group of pioneers started on a journey across the land of Knowledge. They ex pected to reach the Settlement of Graduation by the spring of 1928. To reach this settlement it was necessary to cross six huge mountains. These pioneers chose Miss Gcodrie as their guide to direct their progress under various new leaders. Though the first mountain was very difficult to climb, by spring the pioneers had crossed it and decided to tarry awhile in the Valley of Vacation. The next fall with Mrs. Williams as new guide, and Mildred Williams as leader, the pioneers with renewed c urage and strength started over the second mountain. A few of the number had not sufficiently recovered from the journey of the year before, and did not accompany them, but remained in the valley. The second mountain was less troublesome than the first, as the travellers had gained much useful knowledge from other pioneers. On the whole, the second part of the journey was successful. With a few new members in addition to the original group, the group halted by a spring to rest, before starting on the third lap of the journey. Although each successive mountain was larger than the preceding one. the pioneers seemed more capable of overcoming difficulties, and started over the third mountain with no other idea than that of succeeding. They met many barriers and obstacles, and they suffered much humiliation at the hands of more experienced pioneers, but they toiled steadily onward, sometimes finding a brighter outlook. They chose as guide Miss Soule, who proved herself very competent and helpful at all times. Harold Barber as the new leader was emphatic in his defense of the pioneers’ rights. They soon completed the journey over the third mountain, and were eager to reach the fourth one. With Mr. Rebol as guide and Carl Noyes as new leader, the sturdy group, filled with enthusiasm, began the ascension of the fourth mountain. When they had journeyed a short disance, one of the loyal pioneers decided to remain in the ancient and time-honored city of Matrimony. A short time later, another of the members fell by the wayside, leaving one more vacant place. There were many contests in which some of the pioneers tock part. They found that by hard work it was possible to overcome all difficulties. This group of pioneers still have two more mountains to cross before reaching their destination. They are eagerly awaiting the time when they come to the great Settlement of Graduation, and they hope that no more of the pioneers will leave them.