Clarion High School - Lasso Yearbook (Clarion, IA)

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ELSIE M. SHEPLEE Miss Elsie Sheplee began her career as a humorous speaker at the literary programs given by our school during her Freshman and Sophomore years. Her first contest work was by representing our school at the Boone Valley Declama- tory association held at Eagle Grove, May 11, 1900. She recited Bill Smith and in such a manner that she received first place. A After Winning first place in the humorous class and over all the contestants at the home contest held January 30th, 1007, she was chosen as our representative to the Northeastern Iowa association. She again fulfilled our fond hopes and arrived home Wearing a. medal which told the good news that she was the best speaker in the humorous class in Northeastern Iowa. After winning these honors it was necessary for her to defend her honors at Centerville, March 15, 1907. This was the first time in our school's history that we ever had a repre- sentative at the state contest. Miss Sheplee went to the state contest well prepared for any emergency and again distinguished herself, the senior

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R TORY Parody on Hamletls Soliloquy To speak, or not to speak, that is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slurs and jeers of braver schoolmates, Or to enter the contest against a siege of stage fright, And by speaking conquer all? To speak, to speak, at last, and by that speech to say we know The heartbeats and the thousand natural shocks ' That flesh is heir to, , Is it a consummation devoutly to be wished? To try: to speak-to try: perchance 'tis but to fail: aye thereis the rub, For in that contest failure may to some one come E'en tho' we've almost shuffled off this mortal coil By work and drill: . There's the mere chance that makes decisions of this kind hard For who would bear the work and Hight of time- The fear of failure--the weight of hope deferred- The pangs of lost reward-the long delay-the Weariness of study- The distress that comes from practice long and tedious- Wlien he himself might his quietus make with a mere decline. Who would wish to bear and drill and toil the weary weeksg But for this thought-perchance in after years The good we now may reap will help us bear The burdens in the higher walks of life, And thus enable us to share the ills And joys that human hearts must ever meet. Thus conscience does make workers of us all- Aud thus the native hue of resolution And enterprises of great pith and moment Are brightened o'er with new and earnest thought. LOLA VVORTH, '10.

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class and in fact our whole town by .winning for Miss Elsie and Aunt Elnora's Herof' - L A Her record in four contests is four iirsts, a record which anyone has reason to feel proud of, and Miss Sheplee is indeed worthy of the honor and esteem in which she is held by both students and faculty of our school. 1 L CLIFFWQRD Oaowa, '07. -...i1-1 CLARION HIGH SCHOOL DECLAMATORY CONTEST Wednesday evening, 8 o'clock January 30th, 1907. At the Clarion Opera House. A H Vocal solo, Love Me if I Live, Bertha Porter. T ORATORICAL CLASS. ' 1 H -f 1. Clifford Crowe, Toussant L'Ouverture. 2. June Young, The Martyrdom of Joan of Arc. 31 Samuel Russell, Sparticus to the Gladiators. Vocal solo, Can I Forget, Miss Margaret Bowes. O DRAMATIC CLASS. 1. Gladys Ladd, Cutting from Ivanhoef, E 2. Lulu Monty, To the Lions. 3. ,Earl Pardnn, A Voice From Afarf' 4. . ,,Haidee Mechem, The Polish Boyf' 5. Stella McManus, The Confessional. 1 Vocal solo, Life's Lullaby, Gail Hickcox. 'S' HUMoRoUs CLASS. 1. Elsie Sheplee, 'iAunt Elnorafs Hero. 2. June Birdsall, My Wife's Baby. 3. Vera Peterson, The New Lochinvarf' 4. Hattie Eldridge, Pigsis Pigs. Boys' quartette, Carry Me Back to Old Virginnyf' Crirlsf Glee Club, Bock-a-bye. y