East High School - Sunrise Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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J------------------------------------------------------------------- Stout, William Klund, Alice Madsen, Harry February Class History When the 1928 mid-year class entered East High for the first time, it was a brisk, sparkling day. This was considered a good omen. The halls were quiet with a sense of awful bigness. Mr. Ray greeted us kindly, as is his fashion and in the auditorium, gave us our first instructions as to behavior. We were quiet and subdued for a time, but our natural instincts got the better of us and we have had a great time ever since! What member of the class doesn’t remember playing ball in the alley and going on those delightful Maywalks? However, with the upper-class work piling up, such things are bound to be neglected. As is the history of all classes, ours pegged along year by year quietly, and as happy as the teachers permitted! Some of us dropped by the wayside and fate removed others from the group, but the majority remained to finish their schooling at East. At the close of the Junior year we awakened to the fact for the first time, that ours was an individual class,—a unit. A February graduation was quietly mentioned; the idea took root,—frail, it is true. Soon it began to be talked of enthusiastically and plans were made for organization. Wouldn’t it be great to be the first February graduates? Yes indeed, but quite an impossibility. We requested the privilege of organization which was given to us without much discussion. So our work began! It was necessary to convince Mr. Ray that we were capable of standing by our work and backing up the necessary undertakings. We also had to persuade various students that February was an ideal graduation time. After some difficulty and splendid co-operation on the part of Mr. Ray, we were finally able to plan definitely for the various events. 16

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Madsen, Harry Josselyn, Miss Nan Levick, Ethel Siple, Miss Carrol Much gratitude is due to the June class for the times they have helped us in undertakings requiring greater backing than that of which we were capable. The mid-year Prom was also much appreciated. Class day held the greatest of terrors for us, and it was with trembling that we took charge of the auditorium. Dress-up day being one of traditional fun, was not to be omitted. The boys having a slight bashful complex did not respond wholeheartedly, but we enjoyed it nevertheless. We were greatly pleased that the privilege of giving a class play was granted, and members of the cast worked industriously on “Peg 0’ My Heart.” Its success was a great encouragement in more ways than one. Time flew fast and our good times, including a splendid banquet, quickly passed into history. As a reminder to the school of our lasting affection and loyalty, we left a sum of money to be used for the purchase of much-needed musical instruments. Graduation day dawned at length and who would not feel a trifle tremulous to say good-bye to high school and all it had meant in the years gone by? All obstacles surmounted and our work well done, we sailed away in the splendid snow-white ship, “Graduation,” carrying a precious freight of dreams and forward-looking thoughts. 17 —ALICE KLUND