Clear Lake High School - Echo Yearbook (Clear Lake, WI)

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Illillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillll .. G. L. li. S. ECHO IHIIIItlllHIIIllHIIIIII SENIOR CLASS HISTORY. We began our career as high school students in the old school building. There were twelve of us in the Freshman class, namely: Marie Holmes, Herman Anderson, Arthur Benson, Royce Brodt, Myrtle Clark, Arthur Johnson, Mabel Johnson, Charlie Lowry, Nora Letson, Elmer Peterson, Bhoeby Sandberg and Oscar Felland. As Freshmen, we were looked upon as a class of green country urchins, and especially so by the Sophomores, whose paternal care for us awoke within us a very strong desire to reveal to them, and to the rest of tne world our ability to fall and rise, do and dare. Near the end of the first quarter we were transferred to the new building Where we also shortly after experienced that important event in High School life called initiation. We labored earnestly with our studies and fought successfully with the Seniors. We also had class meetings and elected our class officers. The first year was soon over, vacation came and went, and when we came back the next fall we found ourselves to be no longer the green Freshmen, but the advanced Sophomores. We were no longer the school’s laughing material but were among those who could advise the poor Freshmen whenever it became necessary. One of our number has now withdrawn so we are just eleven strong. Being a little braver now than we were the first year, we did not devote our entire time to study as we might better have done, but spent some of our time reading novels, which is often such a contagious habit among the gay Sophomores. This year our boys played an important part in athletics, such as football and baseball. At the beginning of our Junior year our number decreased to eight as Nora Letson, Myrtle Clark and F'noeby Sandberg left our ranks. Nora left for New Richmond High School, Myrtle for Ironwood, Michigan, where she graduates from High School this year, and Phoeby, becoming more domestic than the rest of our lassies, and being a daughter whose help was indispensable to her mother, sacrificed her gay life in high school for the more serious duties of the household. Our number was increased to nine, however, as Bennie Felland, being of a progressive kind, very wisely joined us. This year we were invited by one of our classmates to have a class party at her home. This invitation was very readily accepted, and one very bright night in November found most of us at her home. A very enjoyable time was had by ail who were present. During our Junior year the school organized a Literary Society and an Athletic Association, our class taking leading parts in both. Basketball was played during t'be winter months by both the boys and girls of the school. The success of the basketball team depended almost wholly upon the Juniors as four of the five men on the boys’ team were Juniors. Our girls also played on the girls’ first team. In the spring our boys gave their extra time to baseball and were well represented on the school team. For the third time vacation came, but this time it seemed to pass by more quickly than ever, and three short months brought us again to the dear old school house where we spent one more happy year together. As Seniors we labored earnestly and thoughtfully with our studies, striving to reach the zenith of high school knowledge. As before our boys and girls plaved important parts in athletics. We are also advising and helping the Juniors. The time for fun and frolic has passed and we have become sober workers. Our high school life is now near its completion and we are ready for our greater duties. Here’s hoping that our vocation, whatever it is. may be as exemplary and as aspiring to all that is worthy as our life in the dear old C. L. H. S. has been, and whose memorv will be to our followers, the honored Seniors of 1917. We trust that as they journey up the same hill of knowledge they will endeavor to uphold the honor given to the school by its teachers and first graduating class. SENIORS OF 1916. ..........- — ..T—-.................................... 9023232348532348485353230248535348535323480053535353000102485323484848532348534853534848535348482348532353482323485348234848532302232353232323015323020048022353485353534848482348530200022348534823

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C. L. H. S. ECHO llllllllllllllllllllllllllll......I............Illllllllllllllllllllll......Illlllllll..... ill .......................... Ili':l!' ill :l|!' IH' III!...........is MABLE E. JOHNSON. (May). President of Class 3 and 4, Member Girls Basket Ball Team 3 and 4, Senior Class Play. “A very thoughtful girl, but where are her thoughts?” CHARLEY L LOWRY. (Chub). Secretary of Class 3 and 4. Basket Ball Team 3 and 4, Baseball Team 1, 2, 3 and 4, “The Echo” Staff, Class Prophet, Senior Class Play. “Noisy, don’t say much, but he delivers the goods.” L. ELMER PETERSON. (Pete). ('lass Historian, Baseball 1, 2, 3 and 4, Captain Basket Ball Team 3 and 4, Senior Class Play. “Adjustable to all situations, works when he has to, has fun when he wants to.” 53485323482348482353234823485353532348232353532323

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