Coquille High School - Laurel Yearbook (Coquille, OR)

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CLASS OF ’19 This school year finds the class of nineteen at the height of its scholastic activities. The class is composed almost entirely of painstaking and efficient pupils. Frivolity has been dispensed with. Even the parties have been in accordance with Mr. Hoover. Many of last year’s Sophomores are Seniors this year and this has greatly diminished the size of our class. At the beginning of this year there were fourteen, but two have dropped out. Victor Pettengill joined the aviation corps, making the second member to enter the service, Earl Isensee having gone last year. Irene Kime has been forced to give up her school work on account of sickness. The versatility of the class has been displayed to advantage by the exceptional amount of interest taken in all student body activities. This class has done much to promote and foster athletics. The captains of both the track and basketball have been elected from our class. The Junior basketball girls are acknowledged to be the best in the High School. The class has also done its part in Dramatics this year. The precedent of giving a Junior play was established by the class of 1919 and it is a custom the future classes would do well to emulate. Our play given “Just for Fun” developed a number of star actors. Elmer’s drawl appeared so natural we know he will have no trouble in feeling at home among his English brethren. Genevieve, who played as Mrs. Fitzgerald Mandeville de Smythe, had all the characteristic airs of a would-be society leader. Alice Curry and Elizabeth Church represented the two chums, Edith Morton and Mabel West, the first a rich heiress, the other, a country girl who loved society and wanted to marry a lord, Carol Rahskopf was a characteristic maid with her Irish brogue and awkward ways. The prize for the best stunt at the annual Hallowe’en party was won by the Juniors. Each one took part in repre-