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

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Enwm Bono Great Scotth-whafs the use of studying anyhow. Gu-.NN L. STITZELL What care I tho' deafh be 'night I live for love or die. Student Council '23g Football '23, J OH N WILSON Not to know me argues yourself un- known. L 1 TREE PATTERNS l like the sky! When winter winds Blow cold and high, The soft gray clouds Go Hoating by. I like the trees, Which, bended by Each tiny breeze, Stand brown and bare Without their leaves. And when with grace The lovely trees, Lie like fine lace, And with their boughs The sky embrace, I like to look Where tree and sky, From my small nook Drift nearg like lace On frozen brook. 23 M. L. M., '24

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I: xl, Q T,-0'-:il . X X v, 4 QQ, 4 X ' 'il ,V X-.4f. 1 5 N f J it-Jia? OUR ALBTTBI OI DIEBIURIES Our Introduction to Social Life . A coming-in party, more or less formal, was given for all the debutantes and debutantors entering the gay, social life of liast High in 1921. Some of the girls dressed up in their graduation dresses, but all of the boys, being much more vain than the girls, acquired a high polish to their hair and shoes alike, and put on their best polka-dot ties. We presented our invitation, engraved in very best taste on the opposite side of pink slips, to a Senior standing at the door, and, to make a good impression, knocked our heads three times on the floor to show our complete submission to the wishes of the upper classmen. A senior boy gave us our welcome in a low, dignilied, awe-inspiring manner, and a freshman girl returned the compliment in a high, trembling voice. Next, we played games and got acquainted with Seniors, and teachers who did not know us. Never will we forget the thrill received when asked if we were seniors or freshmen, and each of us was secretly glad he thought he didn't look as green as our other classmates. As all good children get rewards, we each received a stick of candy and an apple. l think that apple and candy furnished us with an incentive to be good for four years. Cliristnizts Carols Every year just before the Christmas holidays the students pause to listen to Christmas carols which are sung in the corridors by the Girls' Glee Club. These melodies, sweet and clear, suggest more than words can tell. Year after year the carolers go up and down the corridors singing the old hymns. The low, sweet strains of Holy Nightl' come floating into the classrooms. At once studies are forgotten and a solemn stillness falls over the classes. As the words of the old familiar song reaches our ears a beautiful picture rises before our eyes. We can see the Christ-child lying in the manger, the Virgin lylary watching over him, and the WVise lylen kneeling, offering their gifts of frankincense and myrrh. The music grows gradually softer and softer until finally it dies away in the dis- tance, leaving us with deep and solemn thoughts and a realization of what Christmas reallv is. The First Senior Meeting There will be a senior meeting in the assembly room the seventh period. For almost four years we had heard such announcements read, but each time they referred to another class, a higher, more distinguished group than ours. This time as the announcement was read, we slowly realized that it applied to us, and to us only- we were the elite of the school. We walked rather daxedly into the assembly room. There we saw faces as radiant as ours, each bearing that same perplexed look of ,ioy utoo good to be truef' ,-Xs the principal rose to speak, a thrill passed through each of us. We were Seniors at last, and this, the first senior meeting, was material proof that we had arrived. 25