East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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1 QUILL STAFF

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'JTHE quit YANKS. O'Leary, from Chicago, and a fil'S'lL-CIZLSS fightin' man, Born in County Clare or Kerry, where the gentle art began, Sergeant Dennis P. O'Leary, from somewhere on Archie Road, Dodgin' shells -and smellin' powder while ithe battle ebbed and flowed. And the captain says: O'Leary, from your fightin' company Pick a dozen iightin' Yankees and come SkiI'l11iS1lil1, with meg Pick a dozen fightin' devils, and I know it's you who can. And O'Leary, he saluted like -a first-class fightin' man. O'Leary's eye was piercin' and O'Leary's voice was clearg Dimitri GC-JO1'g'0LlDOl11OS!', And Dimitri answered Here! Then Vladimir Slaminsky! Step three paces to the front, For we're wantin' you to join us in a little Heinie hunt! Garibaldi Raviolil' Garibaldi was to share, And Ole Axel Kettelson! and Thomas Scalpathe-Bear! Who was Choctaw by inheritance, bred in the blood and bones. But set down in army records by the name of Thomas Jones. Van Winkla Schuyler Stuyvesant! Van Winkle was a bud From the ancient tree of Stuyvesant and had it in his bloodg Don Miguel de Colombo! Don Miguel's next kin Were across the Rio Grande when Don Miguel went in. Ulysses Grant O'Sheridan! Ulysses' sire you see, Had been at Appomattox near the famous apple treeg And Patrick Michael Casey! Patrick Michael, you can tell, Was a iightin' man by nature with three fightin' names as well. Joe Wheeler Lee! And Joseph had a pair of fightin' eyesg And his granddad was a Johnny, as perhaps you might surmise 5 Then Robert Bruce MacPherson! ! And the Yankee squad was done With Isaac Able Cohen! once a lightweight champion. Then O'Lcary paced 'em forward and, says he: You Yanks, fall in! And he marched 'em to the captain. Let the skirinishin' begin. Says he, The Yanks are comin', and you beat 'em if you can! And saluted like a soldier and ia first-class fightiu' man! -James W. Foley, in the Saturday Evening Post

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ly -' H V . , V X -in 1 Published by the Student-s of East High School VOL. XV. Des Moines, Iowa C0l1l'l1lGI'lC6l116I1't, 1919. No. 6 STAFF. Editor-in-Chief .,................. Ransom Wright, '19 Associate Editor. . . Art ............. Literary ....... Wl1at's Doing. . . Organizations. .. Alumni ...... Jokes ..... Literary ...... What's Doing .... Snaps .......... Organizations. . . ......................Elizabeth Devin, '19 . . . . . . . . . .Stuart Ball, '21, Verner -Helden, '19 .....F1ossie Jackson, '19, Lynn Rumbaugh, '20 .....Elva McChesney, P. G., George Curran, '19 . . . . . . . .Floy Boyd, '21, Jeanette McCril1is, '22 ....TheI111a YVi11ian1S, '20 ......Lowe1l Kratz, '19 Senior Editors. .....Lena Carpenter, Dorothy Graves, Faith Kurtzweil, George Truman Gordon . .............. Kenneth Bishard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leland Hawk, Ruth Weisbrod Amos Hiatt Junior High. Editor-in-Chief .... ....................... B ernhardt Hammond, '22 Cartoonist ....... .......................... L owell Hawk, '22 Faculty Advisers. Q Miss Cumanings Miss Wood Miss Turner Miss Brody Miss Macy-Art Business Managers. Advertising Manager ............................ Howard Wicks, '20 Assistant Advertising Manager .... .... G raham Northrup, '20 Circulation Manager ............. ..... E dwarcl Briggs, '19 Junior High Business Manager ...................... Dave Miller, '22 Faculty Adviser ..................................... Mr. McColgan Single copy 150, except Colninencement numbers, Yearly, by mail, 75c. Entered as second class matter January 26, 1915, 'at the post oflice at Des Moines, Iowa, under Act of March 3, 1879.