Chinook High School - Breeze Yearbook (Chinook, MT)

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THE CHINOOK BREEZE 19 May. 1930 PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION I, the president of the Senior Class, realizing that we have at last, after many long and difficult lessons and various conflicting experiences, arrived at the goal of our undertaking and completed the course of high school education, do hereby name this, the 13th day of May Anno Domini, nineteen hundred and thirty, as the greatest day of all our student lives. In recognition thereof, I do hereby proclaim t as a day to be set aside from all the rest for anniversal celebration in the making of speeches and lifting our voices in praise and jollification, and the pouring forth of various yells and songs of subtle and diverse significance that the air may abound with the echo of our tongues rejoicing. I do likewise decree that the teachers and principal of our school, to whom we. one and all. feel so deeply and eternally indebted, shall be well remembered in the pouring forth of our gratitude, and that none of our parents or friends shall be forgotten in the returning of thanks for the privileges they have for so long placed so fully at our youthful disposal; but that we shall with grateful and sincere heart remember what cause we have to be grateful to each and everyone for all these mercies, and shall, in all our rejoicing, give thanks for all that we have proven to be so gozrd. Therefore, as we look back over the past, with all its great and wonderful victories and achievements. and look forward to the future, with all its yet more wonderful promise of great and glorious things yet to come, and mighty and marvelous deeds awaiting our hands for the doing, we must enter into this abbration in the proper spirit of young men and women, fresh from the mint of their chosen high sch:ol, and detemining to put before the people, who may come to be our guests, the very best demonstrations of our ability to entertain them of which we are capable, not only as a proof of what we have r rmplished, but as a promise of the fulfillment of all the resolutions we have made for the life to como so s on. And to you. friends, who have made all this achievement so beautifully possibly for us. and who therefore have a right to expect of us the very noblest example of every efTort it is our pleasure and privilege to render, we are indeed proud to speak the words that carry with them from all the class a cordial and grateful welcome. —Joe Sackett CLASS DIAGNOSIS Ladies and Gentlemen:—The Class of 1930, rbout to go the way of all the world, and to pass out into the Great Beyond, salutes you. even in the face of approaching death. It is with the most profound regret that I find it necessary to bring before your attention this evening the serious—indeed. I may well say hopeless—condition of the Class of 1930. We have known for several years that the Class was in a somewhat critical state of health. There has been no chance for any doubt about that, for the combination of disorders, under which she has been suffering has been only too clearly manifest, and the symptoms of her disease unmistakable. Indeed, for the past four years, her head has been so rapidly swelling with her greedy accumulation of information in the Chinook high school, that it has now assumed such gigantic proportions in each of her thirty-f ur individual parts, as to cause r 11 who know her, or who have come into even occasional contact with any part of her. the most 8eri:us uneasiness lest it should burst with its treasures overflow cf learning, and scatter its treasures of knowledge broadcast upon an unappreciative public. She also has many dizzy spells, caused, it is believed, by the immense heights to which she has climbed in her search for wisdom—the blood rushes to her head and face in mighty floods of blush and bloom, whenever she is asked a question there is the least chance for any suspicion that she may not know the answer, be it of this and all other worlds, past, present, or to come—w'hile her heart, with all its thirty-four throbbing pulses, has become abnormally heavy with the thought of parting soon to come, and the anticipation of the last painful struggle. In addition to this, she still carries many stabs to her vanity, that seem greviously slow to heal, received from unexpected failures and mistakes; and various scars, which even her massive pride has not yet been able to thoroughly obliterate from her plastic understanding, as well as several painful bumps and bruises, the result of stumblings while attempting to run too fast and outstrip her competitors. or climb too far above the averages of the high school precedent, in a strange and unwholesome fever of desire to finish her race before the appointed term had been fulfilled. She is also exceedingly nervous, and hopes that you will bear patiently this evening with her frequent lapses of memory, for her overworked and overloaded brain has begun to wander,—even more than usual—and she has become subject to curiously unaccountable spells” and fits” which she hopes you will not think natural or usual in her behavior, for only the wise nurses in charge of her case have been found able to control these peculiar symptoms that approach the appearance of insanity. Year by year, too, she has grown smaller and smaller and smaller, shrinking under the weight of ponderous study laid upon her from her former mammoth constituency to the present insignificant few. Under such conditions, who could expect, or even wish her. to linger longer in this dreary vale of tears and partings? No. there is no longer any hope. The class of Nineteen Hundred and Thirty has become altogether too wise to linger longer among the struggling youths and aspiring maidens of Chinook High School. Last w’eek a council of wise and learned

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18 THE CHINOOK BREEZE May. 1930 MONROE TANBERG. “Napoleon.”— Self defense is a virtue, sale buLwart of all right.” Agriculture Course; F. B. ’2 , ’27, ’28. .29; Track ’29; Ag. Club; Student Council 29. ALICE OVERCAST, “Alice —“Such happiness ambition finds.” General Course; B. B. ’29; Home Nursing ’29. ELMER GESELL, “Gezzel’—“Liberty’s In every blow, lets do or die.” General and Agriculture Course; Dramatic Club ’27. ’28, ’29; Yell Leader; The Charm School; Pep Club; Annual Staff. AMERETTA EASBEY, “Amer”—“True as a needle to the pole or as the dial to the sun.” General Course; Dramatic Club 27. 28, ’29; B. B. ’27; Home Nursing 29; The Charm School . -

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20 THE CHINOOK BREEZE May. 1930 specialists was called to sit in judgment upon the rapidly failing patient. By means of tests and other examinations, they took her temperature and mental standing, and performed a very essential operation upon her over-crowded brain. In her poor cranium they found such a jumbled mass of mathematics, science and literature that there was absolutely no chance for relief. There, in a huge, indigestible mass, were crowded together ten years of reading, writing, drawing, spelling, language, and arithmetic; eight years of geography and physiology, four years of history. Latin, algebra, bookkeeping, typing, shorthand and Ancient History;, with one year of Geometry and Chemistry, besides the most deadly kind of a medley of Burke’s “Conciliation with the American Colonies.” Webster’s Reply to Hayne,” Irving’s “Sketch Book.” Hawthorne’s “Twice-Told Tales.” George Eliot’s “Silas Marner,” Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” “Macbeth” and “Hamlet,” and many other bits too numerous to be completely diagnosed here and now'. Truly, there was no hope of recovery—none! When they saw the serious aspect of the case, with grave and troubled faces, these wise doctors pronounced 1930 to be in the last stages of excess of information on the brain, w'ith an average temperature of 93 per cent and declared in their professional wisdom that she could not possibly last longer than until the evening of May sixteenth. I assure you she cannot last many minutes longer, for her pulse is beating at a most alarming rate, her nerves are keyed to the highest pitch, and her temperature is one hundred and eighteen and three-fourths in the shade, and still increasing. Therefore, she asks, as a last request, that you will bear with her patiently during the time that she remains with you. and remember only the good she has done—if any—forgetting her faults as one should always overlook the failings of those who have passed on to other spheres, and thinking as charitably as possible of her many glaring mistakes, thus making her last moments as easy as such moments may be made. To this end. she invites you to be present on this solemn occasion, and to a participation in these last sad rites, extending to v:u her feeble but no less sincere welcome. SENIOR CLASS HISTORY In the fall of ’26 we were afflicted with the terrible disease of more knowledge needed.” We were at once sent to Dr. Julian and he turned us over to Miss Wagner, as head nurse, to take care of our pitiful case. A few. under her w’atchful and tender care, began to feel some better and have a little more pep; so we joined everything possible. Because much exercise was prescribed to be good for us. We were well started on our way to recovery this year. In ’27 after our pleasant summer vacation we decided to continue our treatments. Dr. Julian said we would not be entirely well for three years at least. This time he puts us under the care of Mr. Rebol. We thought that Nina Sackett was about the mcst fit, physically and mentally, to lead us in our trials and tribulations. Again we took all the exercises we possibly could to improve our critical case. In ’28 we w'ere assigned to w'ard No. 21 with Mr. Rebol in charge assisted by Billy Duke. Poor Mr. Rebol had a terrible time w’ith his patients. I’m afraid. Some of us were afflicted worse than others. He surely had his hands full doling out new medicine to us. Sad to say, this year we lost, as we were nearing the crisis cf our disastrous disease. Mabel Randal, Helen Moore. Gertrude Hall and Maud Farnsw’orth. Hollister Reser. Joe Sackett and Franklin Overcast began to show great improvement. Soon they began to exercise and achieve much publicity in basketball. We must net forget Lillian and Esther Burns and Margaret Lott, who w'ere improving as quickly as the boys. We gave vent to our feelings twice in the way of a play and operetta. Jo Sackett. Margaret Morrison. Eleanor McCaffrey. Isabel Griffin, Evelyn Westbrook. Elmer Gesell and Billy Duke felt well enough to participate in a play. While Evelyn Westbrook, Eleanor McCaffrey, Ruth Maeirt, Isabel Griffin and Joe Sackett also took part in the operetta. Again this year we seemed so much improved that we tried our strength against the high and mighty seniors in a fight. We would have won it. I truthfully believe it, if it had not rained. We had to guard cur health in our sad plight so the fight was declared a tie. with neither side receiving any more than a few bruises. At last we have reached the crisis in our critical disease. Nearly all of us have passed it none the worse for the wear. Mr. Rebol left us this year to the care of Miss Ellison. Miss Ellison, as long as she lasted tcok very good care of us, carrying us successfully through the tragic siege of the Senior play. She felt that we did not need her anymore so she married, and there we were, all by ourselves. We nearly had a relapse, from which we were saved by Mrs. Sias. Miss Brown a nerve specialist, prescribed by Dr. Burney, came to look into our case. She found that we were nearly well and would be released from our four years quarantine soon. In fact we feel so well she can hardly w’atch over the patients in her ward. Over, Hollister Reser. Joe Sackett. Scotty Crawford and Franklin Overcast, she had a very trying time to prevent anything serious happening to them. She lets them have all the exercise they desire and they certainly take it by being State Champions in Basketball. Although some of our “medicine has been bitter and some of our ‘nurses’ not what we all would want, we know now that every thing was for our own good. Now that we have passed the crisis we shall be allowed to return to the world again. After our four years of severe illness we will return as much better citizens. We are all very glad that we have survived. We have left many behind us who are very ill, but we can only hope that they recover as well as we have.