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

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l M vol? it 13i1sFSiEH:Ef'1fiWI.KiiF.iRiTioQ F F F F N23 ,r Published four times yearly by the Students of East High School. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Cliief .... . . . . . Associate Editor .... Literary .......... Avhat 's Doing .... Organization .... Athletics ...... Jokes ..... . Alumni .... Exchange. .... . . Art .............. Faeulty Advisor .... ...............................Clarke Baridon .....................Dorothy DQ-'Bie . . . . .Kathleen Shrevesg Dorothy De Bie . . . .Miriam Griffithg Josephine Maeauley .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gladys Swanson ........................Eugene Gray . . . .Irene Densmoreg ltosvoe Heringlake .Grave Everlyg Edith Soppelanfl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dorothy Lozier ......t'laire Ibson .. . . .Carol Snyder SENIOR STAFF Elberta Parker Arthur Mitehell George Mason Ruth Frank Faye Odell BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ..... .... Subscription Manager. . . Advertising Manager .... Distributing Manager .... Stenographer .......... Bookkeeper .......... Faeulty Manager ..... ........C1'aig Mm-Kee . . . .Maudie Lukenbill . . .Cleotus Schesselmail . . . . .Gilbert Thomson . . . . .Irene Rosenquist . . . . .Verne Manchester .. . . . . . .M. A. Jencks Single Copy, 250, Except Commencement Numbers. Yearly, 51.00. Entered as second-class matter January 26, 1915, at the postoifice, Des Moines, Iowa, under act of March 3, 1879. Q05-lmRSC'f0l - Qmuuozn Musik man wus. 'Wfssnssounlol 2 8

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1 vt' -K , ,LL ' ' lzdlt nal THE OLD AND THE NEW How many of us do not think as graduation time rolls round and the long- familiar faees of the most prominent, members ot' the elass disappear from the eorridors, that the sehool will never be quite as good, not quite the same old East High we have grown to love? Surely the thought is not unfamiliar to the least of us. Yet again, how many of us do not look baek with pride at our develop- ment during the last twenty years, and perhaps even think with a eoneealed smile of some of the things that used to be done. Then, in the same moment, we again retieet that with eertain ones gone from the sehool it ean never be so great again, that its development has reaehed its height and is on the deeline. Oh how inconsistent we arel 'How well we need to remember that as eaeh talented student leaves the building with a diploma, two or three more equally talented students enter with a determination to exalt East High, its ideals and all it stands tor, to a summit of aehievement never before attained! Yes, how mueh it behooves us to remember that elassses may eome and elasses may go, but old East High goes on forever. RESPONSIBLE SENIOR Although the Senior is made the butt ot' many a joke about the sehool, I be- lieve most people recognize his added responsibility. His studies are usually eoneeded as being more diftieult, although perhaps they are not more so than the first year studies are to the l reshman, who has not had the t1'aining, and the eonsequent development of thinking power, and so is not eompetent' to delve into the hidden mysteries ot' trigonometry or eeonomies. Of eourse the Senior has many privileges about the sehool, whieh may look unjust o11 the surfaee of things. But these are merely the reward for the obvious effort put forth to at- tain the standing ot' Senior. 'I'hen, too, most ot' these privileges are those that will help him live up to his responsibilities and keep the high standard set for him. For he does have a high standard set for him by all the other partici- pants of the sehool. He is looked up to as an ideal by the younger students. He should, and I believe in most eases he does, realize this tai-t and does his best not to fall down on his job as a model in sehool life. SCHOOL LEADERSHIP Sehool life would indeed be a drab if it did not eontain among its activities the opportunity for sehool leadership. Daily we are preached the doetrine that there is plenty of room at the top in the game ot' lite. This inspiration would be hard to eateh it we were toreed to go through sehool with no oeeasion to make a praetieal applieation ot' its truth. ln view ot this t'aet provisions have been made for plaeing those aehieving distinetion in positions of honor and responsibility, for we are really living, not merely preparing for a future life. Leadership has a number ot' advantages but probably ehief among them is a very valuable training in the assumption of responsibility in organizing a group of individuals for the attainment ot' some definite end. Keeping this in mind it should be an inspiration to us to strive for these positions held out to us as a reward for eonseientious effort, unusual protieieney, and the ability to assume responsibility. 29