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

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would have some very good cookies and sandwiches for lunch, if we hadn’t decided to eat them. We only felt sorry we delayed their party so long, as late hours are not good for Freshmen. October came and with it plans for a Hallowe’en party, entertaining the Freshmen. The Sophomores planned it with the help of the Juniors and Seniors; they showed the Freshmen a real good time. Each week brought something new, which interested each one of u,s. The week commencing Nov. 21st everyone was running to various rooms with cardboard and pictures. It was for pesters for that well remembered basket social. A contest was being held to see who could make the neatest and most attractive poster.. The result was two from the Sophomore class, namely Evelyn Amundson and Ethel Lindahl, won two of the three prizes given away for the posters. We thought we had done our share on posters as sixteen of the total of forty-six made were Sophomore productions. The feature that interested our class more than anything else we had done was the sale of Lecture Course tickets. Of coure everyone knew it was a race between the Freshmen and Sophomores, but the Sophomores had one year’s experience and won the four dollars. We sold $66 worth and the Freshmen, our nearest rival $49.50 worth. A short time later we gave the other classmen a little surprise when through a secret meeting, we planned for a popcorn sale. Nobody knew anything about it untill after school when they saw some running with poppers and others with popcorn. The results were good, however, so good that we had another in a short time The money made was put in a special fund with the $4.00 prize money. Out of the twelve Glee Club girls seven belong to our class. At Christmas time we sold our five dollars worth of Christmas Seals, the amount allotted to each class. In the Declamatory contest six of the eighteen contestants were members of our class. In the Oratorical contest two out of the five contestants belonged to our class. Two members of our class were on the Basket Ball teams, namely Clover Partlow and Richard Proper. The Sophomores finally decided to invest their $4 prize money and the results of their popcorn sales in a present for the school, which is mentioned elsewhere in this paper. Thus, our Sophomore year has passed. We had tried to do our duty to our school and to make a success of whatever we undertook. We feel we are one-half as ripe as we should be and are looking forward to the coming years. The year 1922 found eighteen Sophomores back to school. The second week we elected our class officers. They are as follows: Agnes Larson, president; Susie Boyer, vice president; Evelyn Amundson, secretary-treasurer. Our class has five girls in the Glee Club, two on the girls basket ball team, two on the boys basket ball team, three in the declamatory contest and .hree in the oratorical contest. Because it is our turn to entertain the Seniors with a Prom, we have been de-

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History of the Junior Class The September of 1920 found a number of what was termed by the upper class-men green, gawky Freshmen, gathered together at the Clear Lake High School. We were a class of twenty-seven at first, and being the largest class n school, we felt we had both quantity and quality. Initiation was something we will always remember. It really was as much fun for us as those poor Sophomores who wanted something to do so badly. We had our class meeting, and elected our officers, who were Richard Proper, president; Myrtle Black, vice president; Vida Martin, treasurer and Clifford Reed, secretary. After a great deal of debating, we decided on blue and gold as our class colors. All of the upper classmen were very much interested in our party, where it would be, and when. For at least three nights out of that first we'll remember. The Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors ran around the country in cars, trying to find the Freshmen's party to attend. At last we decided to have it at the home of Fern Davis. Some little bird must have been so kind as to tell where we were going to have it, because all the high school students invited themselves to that party. They did not r succeed, however, in stealing our eats as had been their intentions and we ail enjoyed ihe fun. A little later that fall the Sophomore class entertained us with a party at the high school. It was a party we will long remember, for the good time we all had. Thus fall changed to winter, and before we hardly realized it, Christmas vacation was gone and our first semester was over. Our class entertained the Sophomores with a picnic at Clear Lake. From all reports they had a fine time. Some said there was so much to Vat they were all sick. Of course we were very sorry, but that wasn’t our fault. Thus, our first year ended. Everyone was tired of work and was looking forward to vacation. September 1921 found twenty-five Sophomores back and ready for work. It was our turn for giving initiation. This was something we enjoyed immensely. We took pity on the Freshmen though, and gave them only one-half of what we had received the year previous. Oh! such fun to see those Freshmen wear those baby pacifiers dent; Clover Partlow, vice president; and Fern Davis, secretary-treasurer. We had our class meeting and elected our officers, who were Orville Davis, president; Clover Partlow, vice president;and Fern Davis, secretary-treasurer. It was really lots of fun attending the Freshmen party. We do know they

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vising many methods by which to make money. We have sold soup at noon time, also popcorn at the basket ball games. Not long ago we ordered two gross of pencils with Clear Lake High School engraved on the side. We are selling them to the students, and the people of the surrounding district. Our class has been the first to reach the fifty per cent mark in perfect attendance We hope that this will increase during thfe last half of this year. —Susie Boyer. Some people would say more, if they didn’t talk so much. Truth never dodges, no matter who shoots. How we admire the wisdom of those who take advice. Abraham Lincoln used to tell the story of a lawyer in a western town who was anxious to be nominated for county judge. He went to a livery-stable keeper, asking him for the fastest horse he had, in order to make the trip to the place where the convention was to be held, sixteen miles distant. The livery-man, however, belonged to the opposing party, and therefore gave our lawyer a horse that outwardly appeared perfect, but which broke down before he had made six miles, so that by the time our candidate arrived, his opponent had been elected. When, on the following day, the lawyeir returned the horse, he assumed a most non-chalant air and quietly said to the livery-man: “See here, Jones, I believe you are training this horse for the Chicago market. You doubtless intend to sell the animal to an undertaker at a good price. 1 could tell by his gait that you spent considerable time training him to pull a hearse. But let me tell you, you are wasting your time. He Will be a dead failure, for he is even tcto slow At a colored church baptismal ceremony, the weather was very cold, so that they had to cut away the ice in order to immerse the candidates. It happened that one V)f the female converts, because of the cold, squirmed about, and in a moment had slipped from the preacher’s hands and gone down stream under the ice. The preacher looked up at the crowd on the bank with perfect coolness and said: “Brethren, this sisfter hath departed—hand me down another.”