Dubuque High School - Echo Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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IECHD Y J . . , . Qzigwa . , , VVOrld , they must push on and so they came to an island of rather uncertain temperature and climate, Junior Place . Speedily they disembarked and again organized, choosing for President, FRANK DELANEY: Vice-President LoL'1sE ROEDELLQ Secretary, SYLVIA URBACH, and Treasurer, IQUTII VVoDR1c11. By this time several strong men who took part i11 all athletic events had been discovered. Standing high among those were the HBARTELSU, Doc and ROY, BONSON. EILLIOTT, FLUCKIGER, GOODMAN, NESI.ER, ROBERTS, ROSECRANS. TIIIM- MESCH. and ZIMMERMAN. It was not long before a Beauty Contest' was announced, its purpose being to determine the most beautiful girl in all the High School XYorld , and not strange to say, the very girl who won first place in that con- test, FRANCES HAYDEN, was found on the island, junior Place . And too, the girl who won third place, ISDITII HAY. also lived on the Isle. That puffed up the Juniors consider- ably. A Prom. was given by the juniors as a farewell courtesy to the Senior Class, inhabitants of a neighboring isle. Another event of their stay on this island was the Junior Fair, a most note-worthy social affair. In the Spring of 1919, through the efforts of several citizens of junior Place a Tennis Club was organized and the membership was open to anyone in the HD. H. S. IVorld',. In the Fall of IQZO the remaining members of that little band that had first met together on Green Island sailed into that Hlaven of their Dreams, Home of the Seniors . Here they conferred upon STANFORD IJUFFY the office of Presidentg upon SYDNEY GOODMAN the vice-presidency: upon IXIARY IXIAT- THEWS, the office of Secretary, and upon IZVELYN BYRNE, the office of Senior Treasurer. As Seniors they took a more active interest in all affairs of their 'KSchool XYorld than they ever had before. Consequently, they sponsored the D. H. S. Car- nival and Bazaar, boosted ahtletics and all other organizations. In the capacity of Seniors, these voyagers could now look back across the rough and stormy waters that they had traveled and think with compassion and pity of those groups gathering as Freshmen on Green Island , struggling up Green Rivern. living for a while in Sophomore Land , then, passing those most dangerous of all straits, approaching 'flunior Place , landing finally there, and then embarking for, and landing on that Place of Places. Seniors' Home . But Seniors' Home is not the end of their l.ife's Jour' ney. for they must travel many and different roads leading away from the XVorld of D. H. S. Nevertheless, their hearts are ever with that XVorld in which four of the brightest and happiest years of their lives were spent. 3l

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ECHO S- 3? at s Senior Class Histor By BIAXINE PLL'MM1zR, '2l. In September of the year 1917 a sturdy little baud of about two hundred and titty adventurers assembled on an island, where everything was so green that the moment anyone arrived there the reflection of that green shone on his lace. They were a happy, trudging little colony though, and despite their greenness, soon organized under the advisorship of Kiiss Greenhow who was already an inhabitant of the ilslaud. They chose as their leaders, Fmco BEl.l,, ju., 'for l'residieut 3 ll.xmuia'r TIILTON, Vice President, and TSVIELYN lJoNNlcR, Secretary and Treasurer. Gradually, they came to amount to something on their island and so, on Memorial Day, they dedicated to their XVorld', tDubuque High Schoolj a service tlag of nearly two luindired stars. This 'act seemed to put Green lsland on the miap of this HHigh School XVorld and it was not long be- fore HThose Freshmien! came to be recognized as lllilithyf equals of their fellow-men. However, true to their progressive natures, they decided to migrate a bit. Consequently, they set sail up Green Kit ern and soon landed at a place where ivory predoniinated. 'lt proved to be. K'Land of the Sophomoresf' During the journey up river some of the members of this little troupe had drifted 'away from the original band, This discouraged them some- what, but the cheery welcome of a new found friend. Xliss STOLTEBEN, who greeted them there. brightened their spirits and gave them new courage. They reeorganized. this time Svnxev GOODMAN was elected President: llt'1:ici:'r lEi.i.io'r. Vice President: FRANK 1-DEI..-XNEY, Secretary, and Rtrru XYoo- RICH, Treasurer. These new citizens of Sophomore Land now began to get busy in their new country, giving, quite soon after their arrival, a Sophomore Party. In their new home these worthy subjects found their neighbors to be a bit more sociable and so, wishing to return all courtesies extended, they gave a Penny Fair' and invited all the people, high and low. of the whole High School XVorld . This proved to be a great success and so strengthened the Sophomores' belief in the good fellowship of mankind. A summer of vacationing came as a welcome diversion after mouths of Geometry, Fnglish, l.atiu, and various other sources of work, but, true to D. H. the large majority of these people decided in the Fall that to obtain a place in the 30 HDL lllllll -X IlllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllll A l K!lmBmm, X

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ECHU ---- A-iv l ' -'14 . 5 Class Poem 1921 M ARY NELSON Should you ask me for a story Of a worthy deed completed, Of a task begun and finished. Of a goodly work accomplished, l should tell to you the story Of the Class of One and Twenty. Ye whose unremitting efforts Have made possible this storyg Ye who in one round of seasons VV'ill stand where this Class is standingg Ye whose course is half completed, Who have two more years before youg Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, VVho within the year have joined us: Listen to the song, I pray you, Of the Class of One and Twenty. From the towns and from the hamlets, From the prairies, hills and valleys, From the highways and the by-ways, From the countryside surrounding, Came unto the seat of learning Multitudes of little Freshiesg Gazed in wonder at the structure :Xwe-inspiring in its beauty: And they felt their strength forsake them At the thot of the enrollment: But they summoned up their courage, Uared to enter thru its portals, Strangers they in stranger country,- Feared the great and mighty Seniors Even as they feared the Teachers Veared the Sophomores and Juniors. But they grew in courage also liven as they grew in learning, Even as they grew in stature. Slowly rolled the school year onward And the young and wond'ring lfreshies Crew to know the mighty Seniors Wise above all other Classes Tdolized by little Freshies For their kindly toleration: , Crew to know the haughty Juniors VVhose blase sophistication Chilled the small and timid Freshies As they wondered at their knowledge. Then the Soph'mores. the great boasters, They the marvelous story-tellers. They the travelers and talkers mrew respect from little lfreshies, Then there came a day of wonder YVben thev were no longer Freshies lull they felt their hearts swell proudly fTbey were Soobomores, rememberl Nod they felt that there was nothing Vothing that they were afraid of: Not the pride of upoer elassmen, Nor the discipline of Teachers. Ns the days and weeks passed onward Thcv discovered to their sorrow Wven Sopbomores are subject To the rules and regulations. Thus they passed thru each semester Gaining every year in wisdom, Gaining every year in courage,