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 One of our number has now withdrawn so we are just eleven strong.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 .........iiiiiiiii........................... JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY. The dignity of juniorhood brings with it the difficult task of producing a class history which will reveal us as one of the greatest classes that will leave the theoretical paths of school for the practical highways of life, or for some higher institution of learning. To understand why there is so little history connected with the class of 1917, one must be told that we con sist of odd specimens of humankind We represent different nationalities. Each member aims to be a leader in something. One would reform the world, another would be a professor in history, a third be a leader of some political party and a fourth a teacher of music. Thus to do justice to the class it would be necessarv to write four individual histories instead of a general one. Should the historian write these ever so briefly the annual of this year could never realize enough monev to pay for its printing, in every stage of our progress we have been an ambitious and dutiful class. In attendance at recitations we have been punctual, nor have we been wanting in attention to our brothers and sisters of the other classes. May the rest of our school days be a blessing to us and to those whom our school life may influence. OSCAR CLARK. Junior Class Roll. HERMAN ANDERSON, Presi.’em— “He needs a peg to hang his thoughts upon.” OSCAR CLARK, Treasurer—“And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could hold al! he knew.” LOUISE KNIGHT, Secretary— I have an idea but I cannot express it.” LETTIE HANNON, Vice Presiaem— “Earnest, honest and industrious.’’ WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF— Charley couldn’t make faces? Bertha looked sad? Freda and Abbie should behave? Benedict couldn’t whisper? Wiley forgot his gum? Mabel lost her box of stationery? Virginia should flunk in algebra? Clint couldn’t have a girl? Olga S. didn’t believe everything? Royce didn’t play B. B.? Art. J. couldn’t talk to Marie? I.enore couldn’t have her nap? Agnes should make eyes at the boys? Bennie looked at a girl? INSEPARABLES. The Seniors and their wisdom. Royce and his pompadour. Oscar C. and Lettie’s pencil. Charlie and his laugh. Abbie ard her mischief. Harvey and-----------? Norman and his size. Clint and his girls. Wiley and his gum. Mabel and her candy. Lenore and her books. (Story.) Edna and her good behavior. Reuben and his nickname. Elmer and his good looks. The High School and their colors. Elva and her dates. (Fruit, of course.) Marie and -------—? Mr. Gardner and his jokes. Arthur B. and his teasing. Freda and Algebra. Benedict and whispering. The stairs and netse. The laboratory door and its slam. The halls and the students. Bertha and her smile. Signe and her blushes. Sophomores and their red ink. The Juniors and their sighs. (Size.) The Freshmen and the drinking fountain. Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll