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

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THE QUILL JANUARY, 1931 Vol. XXVII, No. 2 Associate Editor .,.,.,..... Literary ,... .,....,..,..,........f What 's Doing .,,,.. Organizations ,....., Jokes .,......, A Ilflefirs ,,.... Business Manager The Staff Editor-in-Chief Harold Shover ..MAHGAuE'l' PECK Alumni ...,.. . fJOSEPHINE WikLSIi 1 HELEN HANSON ESTHER SIPLING RUSSELL OLSON CLARIBEL SOMMHERVILLE HOWAICD PORTER ESTHER OSNESS J OSEPHINE SPERRY HAZEL WARD BERYL PEAVEY Faculty Advisers Art Erlitl Features.. ,,.. . Exchange ....,.... Art ..................L Chief Typist ...,., Assistant Typisls ...,.,, ....,....,HARRIET MACY Jrla Z.. F. K. STRATTON l Business .Staff JOHN ELLIOTT Ad1'ertis1'ng Manager Circulation Manager ....... h'IOLA BRICKER Staff .,.....,.. ..... Stenograplzer ...,.,.. .,.... MAROENE HAUGE- Sm? .--.--Y -ulhl . DOROTHY GRESDEL LAUREL SHA1-'EER UEMMA PRICE Faculty Adriser ...........,. . C O N T E N T S FRONTISPIECE-Jaqnolyn Webster ..,....,....,L..,,....,,.,..,L, LITERARY-Josephine Walsh and Helen Hanson ....., SEN IORS ....,..,.......Y...,. ! WHAT S DOING-Esther Sipllng anrl Russell Olson .A.,,,.,,.,...,....., ORGANIZATIONS-Clarvlbel Sonzmerrille and Howard Porter ..,.,,.. A THLETICS-Haeel Ward and Beryl Pea-reg ....,...,......,...,....,..L......, ALUMNI-Ernest Wogen ,.........,. .......,.......,...,...,. EXCHANGE-Halford Broekett .,.....,...,...,...,.....L....,,......,...,. ,...E1cNES'r TNOGEN IGERTRUDE LIBLES I JOHN ADLON .....,..HALFORD BROCKETT . ....,.. J AQUOLYN WEBSTEII ...,,...MARJOR1E OLSON ESTHER ROBISON HAZEL BLACK HEIAEN PLUMB RAY TOWNSEND FRANCIS O 'CONNELL DENHOLME LITTLEWOOD ' HUGH MISSILDINE LDOYLE TAYLOR LESLIE D. OLSEN PAGE . 4 . 5 15 so 47 51 55 57 59 FEATURES-John Arllon, G67'll llIl0 Libles, Esther Osness and Josephine Sperry ......., Published four times :1 year by the Students of East High School, Des Moines, Iowa. Subscription price, 31.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter January 28, 1915, at the Post Oilice, Des 'Moines, Iowa, under the Aet Of March 3 1879. J

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THE QUIIAL 5 L I T E R A R Y I-lelen Hanson Josephine Walsh Remodeled in Vain t By RIAXINE ArNEs OUNG Dr. Jim Rogers was rush- ing Edythe Simmons. In a small town like Harding, everyone knew it in a few days. Friends greeted him more jovially than usual, and with a re- mark about Edythe that usually made Jim get suspiciously red around his ears. Ile used to sit at his window for hours in the evenings Cwhen he was not at Edythe'sD and dream about her. A pie- ture of her was propped up beside him, and he adored it. It didn 't matter to him that it was originally a part of a group picture in the town newspaper, and though the other faces were cut away, two organdie-clad elbows prodded Edythe painfully from either side, and the face of a venerable old gent was visible over her left shoulder. But no valuable portrait with a master 's signa- ture could be more prized. But tonight, tonight he was going to call on Edythe. And did he not drive a spirited young horse. and a shiny blaek buggy, rented from the village stable? And look, beside him on the seat there reposed a huge three-pound box of candy. adorned with blue tulle ribbons and clad in snowy tissue paper. On the way out he reviewed and ana- lyzed the brilliant and witty speeches he would nonchalantly deliver at the right moments. Surely a gay and frivolous girl,like Edythe would desire a young man that was peppy, and full of zest. All right, if that was the type she pre- ferred,-then that was the type he 'd be. Naturally being reticent and thoughtful, he should be more joeose. and lawgh more. to hold her attention. Faint heart ne 'er won fair lady. That quotation had lately become one of his favorite mottoes, and at the party two weeks ago he had been able to talk a little more, laugh a little more than usualg and for the first. time, Edythe had noticed him. And with that little en- couragement he had, according to later testimonies, 'tshined right up to her. Now he was her f'steady. But was her interest not beginning to wane? Had he not fallen back into his old rut of listening instead of being listened to, of being a spectator instead of the one observed, of always being a looker on? Well, tonight was tonight. and he would make up for past dullness. And he did. At just the right moment he said the right thing, made just the right remark, gave just the right compli- ment- when presenting the candy, that made her turn and blush prettily. ln fact, he was quite loquaeious and gay and laughing. Possibly a little too much. And when he left, at 10:30, he knew that she had bee11 sorry to see him leave. even if her folks had not shared her sor- row quite so much. But all good things must have an end, or at least an intermission. The next day Jim received a telegram that his au11t was quite ill, and would he please come at once? But before he left, he met Edythe and explained his absence-to-be, and he promised: I'l1 write to you every single day. P And she promised faithfully to answer every letter. All the day on the train he kept think- ing of Edythe. How he loved and adored her! But it was a bit tiresome