Dawson County High School - Dawsonian Yearbook (Glendive, MT)

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- - DAWN ONIAN OUR FOREFATHERS Our brave and sturdy forefathers, With their wives and children too, Crossed the bare and lonely prairies ln the search of land anew. Some left their homes and families. And eame in Search of gold, For it was jusn in recent days This good news had been told. They came at-ross the continent ln long and auxbling trains Uf c'am'as-1-overed wagons, See them! c-ross the grassy plains. Watch them! as they ford the rivers, As the steep hills, they ascend, Day by day they travel onward, Will their journey ever end? They fought battles with the Indians, Who had gathered in a band, To try to keep possession Of their own beloved land. God bless these sturdy forefathers! Who so willingly did their part, To make the name America More dear to every heart. -Elizabeth Fetter -Q -. rake 99

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-- V DAWSONIAN . D. C. H. S. A schoole ther was, the D. C. H. S. by name, Full of Freshmen, very new and greene, And Sophomores, so very uppish stucke, And Juniors, given all the lucke, And Seniors, so sophisticated Upon whose nerves ye under-classmen grated. It had a very good foot-ball teame That made a dozen touchdowns every game. The faculty it was stern and gruffe But all the same it knew its stuffe. FACULTY RUBBER STAMPS Miss Emerson- -and so forth and such. Miss Ekberg- Long, that's me. Miss Bosworth- Now don't act like a child. Miss Myers- As 1 said before. Miss Reece- Now Gur-r-r-r-r-mls! Miss Farrell- Gosh. Miss Uswald- Oh, say ! Miss Elton- We all understand. don't we? Miss Hutchings- Oh, heck! Miss Williams- You c-an just report to the office. Mr. Olson- Let's have it quiet. Mr. Parrigo-- All right, see you up in the attic. Mr. Barrett- Well-a-let me see. Mr. Aitf'hiS0ll-'WVTIGII I was havk in Sleepy Eye- n THE EXAMINATION And onne a Fridays in Historeye Them that slepen in the class with open eye Came to wroten an examination, And eaeh of them felt domb as stone. Who was the student, but if his paper were So that he eoulde read and na need stare. Of mortalle hattales this was not the firste, And nathless will it prove to be the worste. Eek them that flunk will feele tough, I guesseg And looke worse, as they were leyd in presse. -Wilbur Kidder ii I X Page 98

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-- 45' natvnwmxn --r - .- '-. an .. - -,. .,, --4 L- 1 .1- - .- . ..., .p.. What Is The Matter With The Freshmen? This question is asked at every High School and College in our country, but since we are mostly interested in our High Schools, let us eliminate the question of Colleges. It seems queer that a student enters High School as a green-horn and usually graduates with all the earmarks of a lady or gentleman. We attribute this to the learning on the part of the student, that is, his ability to grasp higher ideals. An incoming Freshman seems queer to us because he is somewhat different. Yes, they're all human like the rest of us, but their intelligence seems to give little indication of any hope whatever. Yet everyone of us is. or has been. a Freshman at one time: and there is no question as to the fact that we once seemed as queer as some of the Freshmen now. With these facts in mind, remember that the Freshmen are divided into two groups. The Dumb and The Dumber. If ignorance is a blister. most of our Freshmen nmst have abscesses. Yet most of them realize their humble position among the student body. They deserve credit for that. Probably an autocratic system of government is not for the good of a country, but the only way to train these Freshies for the position of Sophomores is by an autocratic policy. For convenience sake let us call them Amoebas because they are the lowest form of High School life. I have often wondered what is the basic cause of the Amoebas ' ignorance. Pos- sibly this may be accounted for by the lack of sufficient elementary training. They also are lacking in initiative. A teacher and a class, to them, represents a Ford-several nuts with a crank at the head. This actually is the situation in a Freshman class. Students, merely Amoebas, are supposedly taught by n mature species of mankind. The answers of the class are few and come in short, stumbling replies. This is a severe test on the teacher and several times she is forced to be a crank. My advice to a Fresh- man ls to keep any idea that may come to him because it surely is in a strange place. At this point let me call to your attention an experience encountered by a country teacher. She was reviewing a poem before the class. One sentence read, And through the window came the sweet song of a canary. By some chance or other it happened that a cow began to moo at the same instant. Everyone heard it and when one of u -,,. - - .,- - - sf we' -efeiv f . -xvwfsfx-e '3'tf-.A Page 100