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

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All Interloper One year I planned a garden To satisfy 1ny dream, VVhere birds with joyous colors Over flowers would flash and gleam. Witll care I planned my list of guests- But in one unguardecl hour I invited in the larkspurg She seemed a friendly flower. The larlcspur liked 1ny gardeng She settled there to stay. She summoned all her kinsmeng They refuse to go away. They step upon the pansies, They hide the violet, They disregard all borders And crowd the migonette. Ch, once I owned a garden But it is mine no more, The larkspur has possessiong On me she's closed the door. -ESTELLE Woon. This poem, An lnterloperf' was written by Miss VVood, probably as an incidental piece of work, written just for the fun in it. Miss Tolosa Cooke of Greenwood School, who taught with Miss Wood during the summer of 1928 at the State University of New Jersey, sent a copy of this poem to some East High friends. Those who knew Miss VV ood will enjoy the amused dismay of the gardener, who loved beauty and orclerliness, when she found herself confronted by a flagrant disregard of hospitality on the part of the larkspur. All of her friends also knew what a great joy her garden was to her.

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In Uhfemorzam WENTY years of happy living Miss ' lfstelle Wood devoted to East High 1 School. Her spirit of helpfulness, her will- ! ingness to expend herself to the limit of her physical endurance, her absolute trust- worthiness, her cheerfulness of spirit, her true courtesy on all occasions, her innate sense of I'Clll1ClI1CIlI, and her rare good judgment made her service in and for this high school of incalculable value. For five years Miss Wood was the literary adviser and instructor of the Quill staff. i Under- her tutelage the news material con- , cerning our school has reached the press in an interesting, 11 dignified, and a forceful lIl111'IHC!'. Miss Wood was much more than a teacher, she was truly a conscientious citizen. She built and kept up her own home for many years because she loved it, she was devoted to her garden and shared its returns lavishly, she entertained her friends, she took her place in the community, quietly but efliciently, in church and Sunday school, in the East Des Moines Club, in the Association of University Women, and in clubs related to her pro- fession. She was a woman of culture-culture attained through the wide and constant reading, through travel both at home and abroad, through a diversity of interests not narrowed to her profession alone. She was in- terested in life, she knew birds, she knew flowers, she was at student of affairs of the day, she understood people. By her daily living she won the love and confidence of her fellow teachers, and she profoundly influenced and inspired scores of boys and girls throughout her years here. East High is truly grateful for her years of devotion. Daily now her pupil and teacher friends miss her sincere words of kindly greeting. Her spirit of beautiful womanhood will live long in the influence it exerts.

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