Dover High School - Lest We Forget Yearbook (Dover, OK)

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Last vs Fosen -:au ' rncoxag l ! Q ! D O 9 ! U 9 s 1 4 9 Q Q 4 4 4 4 o 4 v n I I l 1 Dover High School know it must be just grand to be a great big lsfave sailor and have lots of adven'uv-et on the oceans with storms and whales and typhoons and other kinds of fish... But sailors get so hard hearted that l don't know whether or not l would marry one even if l were happy and single again.- Rufus told me about how his boat ran into a mon- soon one time and when l asked him if they killed it and did'n't it almost make him feel like giving up the sea to see such horrible accidents, he just laughed. Anyway Rufus told me he was about to be married to a Knaka in Honolulu.- l don't believe it. l think he just told me that to see how l would att. Roy Allen is in Florida in an Aviation Camp fl went to a Campfira Girls camp one time and had lots of fun. He needn't think that he is the on'y one who can go campingj. They call him Dare Devil Allen tllecause he is so brave and grand and heroic and d.oes s ch thr j,ling stunts in the air. Oh l should just love In see him. l might faint but l woultl like to see if l wou'd anyway. l falinted once when Russel killed a mouse but that was when l was courting him and of course l d'dn't have to fakint if l d'd not want to. Fir. and Mrs. Chambers are living in California and are o'aying togv.!her in mot'o1 pictures. They have just returned from ltaly. l coufd have played ,ii p'ctures if l had wanted to but l think it is so much more noble and elevating to bel d-ing a praqt'cal1 service for the noor little Philippine boys and g'lls like Russel and I are doing. Don't you? l suppose you have heard about Norma Ea'on and Ear' Eglcston. Nor- ma got rich when oil drillers found oil an her grandfather's farm and Earl went crazy when Norma married an oil magnate from New Ycsrk. Poor Earl, he was crazy for a long time, but finally recovered a part of his intelligence and is now penman- sltip instructor in a city school in Omah, Nebraska. Of course you know that Robert and Nola are happily married and run a small truck farm near St. Louis, Missouri. Nola drives back and forth to St. Louis where she has a position as Manager in a rolling pin factory. Loyd Wright has been unfortunate in all all his love affairs since Miss Murrow threw him over for a rural school teacher. Loyd has been married four times but is single now alld is working as an elevator boy in the Bank of Dover, Dover Oklahoma. Of course you will be interested in hearing the lhtest about the faculty mem- bers. Miss Smith is still wearing a diamond ring, but nobody Lseems to know who gave her this one. lt is a much nicer one than either of the three others she, has worn in the past five years and all her friends hope for iresults this time. Miss Brpedlovll has never married and claims she never will but you can't tell. l tell you l never did believe she was sincere when she pretended to not care anything about the boys. Per- sonally l think she wanted Mr. Madden but never got a chance to get a date with him. Poor Madden. You heard what happened to him didn't you? What was that tall good looking teachers name? The one in the grades? Well anyway one night when Mr. Madden was feeling kinda blue she proposed and Mr. Madden absent-mindedly said Yes . They say he has never been quite the same since. He is -always in a' good humorg never gets mad and looks quite happy Hut l think it is all out on. l don't believe he is hspoy and iI makes me so sad to think it. Oh don't you remember how crazy all of us girls were about him. Poor boyl Poor Hoy! Well that is about all l can think of right now egcept that Russell and l are supremely happy out here in the lone'y Philippines doing our duty to our country in, educating these poor heathen natives. Poor Russell w'orks so hard, sometimes, and is getting so thin fyou remember how fat he used to bel that l get awfully worried about him. Just think, what if something should happen to my pool Russelfk Oh. Mr. Streetrsr. l can't bear the thought of it and l must close for this time 5and cry a little while. lt just makes me so blue when l think about the old times five long years ago. l wish that l could see you, l could tell you just lots of things about the members of our rlass but then you know l am no hand to gossip and in writing my letters l am always very careful of what l say. Next May you may look for a fletterr of sixteen pang-s at the very least. g Your freind, Vesper. D:-initials vioioioioisrioiw

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i0Q0i4lQllQIbQOLllQOC0.0QOQ1QOD0i0Q1VQOI13Q'l2lUDO:lPDOQ1 M N Dover High School Senior Class Prophecy 'ggi Jamboango, lsland of Zulu, Philippine Archipelago, May 16, l929. Mr. A. C. Streeter, Kuku, Africa. Dear Mr. Streeter:- To be faithful to my promise, l'l'li write to you again this year.., How well I promised to write to you each year on May 16 and tell' you what l knew of each mem- ber of the Class of '24.- l have had a hard time finding them all and a much harder time finding out where you are... The next time you decide to leave the States, droli me a card and let me know w'here you are going.- This time, l wrote to 'Leslie .and Christine and they just happened to remember that the last time they heard of you, you were in Kuku, Africa fwhat a heathenish name, anyway. Whaxt does it mean ?j on a Missionary trip... Please tell me all about it and the dear iittle dark-skinned child- ren CI know l could just love them, when you answer my letter. Well l hawdly know where to lzjgin, but guess l'll begin with our Class Presi- dent Ted Payne.- You will remember that ifn my letter last year. l told you that he would graduate from the Chicago Medical School.- He graduated alright and this year he is taking a vacation for his health????. -This is the secret of it.- He 'ils dlown in Pamlma Canal Zone where Edelweiss is working as a Spanish lnterpreterg the sup- position is that they are to be married soon. v Gladys Martin went to Hollywood and played the leading part in Pamela some two years ago.- A New York Millionaire fell in love with her and they were married in Paris last Spring.- They are now traveling abroad. Warren Payixte, Ted's Bud, you remember how stubborn he was ?- He is tam- ed nowg perfectly tame.- Heq married a widow woman with eight orphan children.- l have heard that Warren is badly hen-peeked. Vena and Mis-tha have turned out to be two of the dearest ofd maids you ever saw. You know Veina was in love, oh! desperately in love with some body up in Nelkaska, l think.- l d.on't know what the trouble was but they just quit wt-Qting to each other. l have tried awfully hard to find out why but you know how sensitive some women are. Vena really seemed angry when l asked her the last time. The spiteful little calt l, and she knew all the time how l just love and adore Love Trage- dies. She and Martha live, in Sioux City lows.- You remember what a man hater, M-artha always was... Weil she has the clitest little Gent's. Furnishing Stowe in Sioux City and they say sheis making bushels of money. l don't believe it do you? l think every woman should be havpily married like Russell and l.- Well anyway, they have a parrot for company and they have taughli it to say By Jack just like Burton Towne. l undersftand they named it Streeter in memory of you.., Now aren't ypu propmrly flattered. Well, l must tell you about Rufus Barney. You remember how smart we a,'l thought he was and how we thought some day he would be President? Poor bony' what a sad end he has come to.- He is onfy a common sailor on a big trans-Pacific Steanzier. He certainly was a good locking young man when l saw him in Manila a few weeks aqo and he has got lots of mone y. He told me he had. But then, l'm married to Russell and l suppose l must put up with him as best as l can. But l' ini.-1 -Q 1501014114 11:01 -14-14-1 14.1 .11-14-1010101014-3--1 -:email-101.

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C' Dover High School Senior Class History ln September 19201, a class of twenty-four Freshmen entered Dover High School. They had the honor of Being the largest Freshmgen class wh-ich had ever en- tered Dover High School and also the first to begin their High School Days in tha new school building. Miss Andrews was thqir Class Sponsor, Christine Sherwood, Class President and' Vesper Haight, Secretary - Treasurer. Although they were somewhat abused by the upper classmen, they had their good times and at the close of the year felt themselves much impuoved mentally and had' the satisfaction of knowing they would no longer be Freshmen. At the beginning of their Sophomore Year, the roll had decreased somewhat but most of them were there ready for the year's work. The same class officers were elfted. They, as all good sophomores before them, haidi the satisfactio-n of seeing' the Freshmen get a good initiation. On Halow'een night of this year, they had a kid party which was a ubawling success . There were many parties, weiner roasts, secret societies, such as the T. A. R., the R. H. M. C. and W. A. P. to 'the extent that Superintendent Russell was almost insane. However, by the close of the year, they had dropped some of their foolish ideas and habits and Mr. Russell was reposted as much improved. How important they felt as Juniors! For the Seniors numbered but three. We were the largest class in High School and were often accused Cunlawfully, mali- ciously, feloniously, illegally and with delibc-rate intent, of coursej of trying to run things over the other classes. The class officers, were Mrs. Russeil, fsponsorjg Chris- tfne Sherwood, President, Edelweiss Northupp, Sec'y - Treasurer. At the first of the year, the D. D. Club was organized among the girls, only to cause a terrible disagreement, but next camef the Shakespeare Club which was a great and glorious success. The latter part of the year, the Juniors invited the Sevniors to an all day picnic on the Cimarron east of Dover which was erljoyeld by Juniors iand Seniors together. As the year drew to a c.ose their minds were somewhat sobered by the realization that next year they must part with the Old High School forever. The Last year, the roll numbered sixteen, fourteen of which had spent the en- tire four years togethlr. This year the class officers were:-Ted Payne, Class Presi- dent, Martha Toot, Secretary - Treasurer and Mr. Streoter, Class Sponsor. Although saddened -by the fact that .he end of the four happiest years of their lives was cl :awing nigh and that they must part to fo'low their various paths of life, the year passed as a short pace in their history. At the ciose of the year they had the joy, of knowing that they had reached the goal for which they had been striving, that they had passed a m'ilestone in the pathway of life. Will they stop now, that one mile- stone has been passed? No! for they realize that their education has only begun. On and on they shall press forward, individually and collectively planting the Senior Colors on eachtround of the ladder of Success as upward they travel. 101412011 1411 Dsvmoim-1414-1 imoiomomf-mom .mu-I m4-mumu-14-momniume-1--1--mum