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: !HS FLOWER COLORS CECIL BRUNNER ROSE PINK AND GREEN MOTTO They succeed who dare to do CLASS RECOLLECTIONS Eleven mischievous, merry making, but frightened Freshmen we were when we took t he opportune time to enter high school on that balmy day in August 1916. It was indeed quite a novel experience. At first our superiors talked with such intellectual superiority that we were completely overwhelmed with humiliation at our ignorance. These first impressions, however, soon faded from our minds and
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ve startled the upper classmen by showing ourselves brave And daring. Unlike so many previous Freshmen classes, we were not pampered and humored babies but an eager willing group of boys and girls, endowed with an abundance of school spirit. The difference between our class and other classes causted us to be put hard at work. We helped in Securing the passage of the bonds for the new school house. Nothing fcould have pleased us better, for, bf course we delired above anything else to show ourselves useful as well as ornamental. Our members also displayed talent along other tines, for two of Our classmates, Marjorie Carrie and Edmond Donald, were chosen to speak on the joint declamation contests held by Clover ' dale, HoplAncl And Geyserville. Graduation seemed in the remote future and four years of hard study stared at us as a drudgery, but we all agreed that if we did not Accomplish those things which seemed impossible we could lay no claim to being Americans. Our first year of high school was finished in the pavilion but this .was delightful because we all were anxious Vo see the new school build¬ ing erected. Our Sophomore year proved more interesting than the preceding one. Perhaps it was our new surroundings,that inspired us with such seal for study. Caesar’s Gallic wars that had caused him so many trials were as a mere nothingness to. us, while Geometry just increased our eagerness to study and attain higher things. It was so pleasant to have a fine auditorium in which to give entertainments that we bent all our talents and untiring efforts to make the high school vaudeville a suc¬ cess. Little by little we were nearing the top of the ladder and we at last found ourselves Juniors. Here w.e were comforted with many new and grave responsibilities but we still bad time for some diversions. The boys and girls were mucli interested in athletics and therefore took a prominent part in all sports. The influenza epidemic caused school to close abruptly and the graduation class of 191.9 said farewell to us with little formality. A sudden realization came over ns that we, the class of 1920, were to take their vacant places. The idea was certainly interesting for nothing was more consol¬ ing, after being domineered over by the Seniors, than that we could sit least take out our vengeance on the lower classmen. We were now
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