Eau Claire High School - Kodak Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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MY DIARY

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SEPTEMBER The ninth: In order that we might show the incoming Freshies and Sophs the ways and means of our dear old Alma Mater, the Girl Reserves and the Hi-Y staged a Freshman Day three days before school started. The fun that we had, playing the roles of our superiors, the faculty, is too great to elaborate on. No one knows this but me, but I can't keep anything, so here goes. Lois johnson, a Girl Reserverv supposed to be helping the helpless Freshies, was fixing in front of 102 when one small Frosh dashes up saying, Gosh, I'm late! Lois in her grabby way takes his arm and says, So 'm I, and trotted meekly into 102 to take a seat. Cute, isn't it? The twelfth: Regular school began and it was about the same with scores of Freshmen swarm- ing all Nova. It seems like old times to be back again, and of course it's fne to be a Senior. Books are being issued from the Text Book Library this year. Excuse of the week: I couldn't get my lesson 'cause I haven,t got any books. Iwaited until five oiclock last night and then Miss Krell closed the libraryf' Uust ask Miss Krelt about thislj The nineteenth: To be or not to bei' seems to be an issue of the second week concerning the Booster Club. After much cogitation, it is to be. I was rather surprised to find out that Mr. Sher- vey wasn't returning to school this year. It's very doleful not to see his beaming face anymore. The twenty-fourth: just about everyone ambled down to the Teachers, College held to see Eau Claire take Stevens Point I2-0 in the frst football game of the season. The thirtieth: Things always begin to snap when Homecoming Festivities commence. This year Homecoming is early so that we might fight our traditional enemy, Chippewa Falls. The joint Pep Assembly by the Hi-Y and Girl Reserves was real good. The program featured Audrey Of- ferman and Harold Bahlke, A bunch of us kids snake-danced down Barstow and climbed up to Boyd Park to see the Freshies' Boxesn burn up. A new trophy was placed in the Trophy Case of the school as a result of Homecoming. Calm yourselves . . . it was only a large box on which the Freshies signed their names to commemorate the Great Day. OCTOBER The first: October started off with Eau Claire beating Chippewa Falls 7-0, a continuation of Homecoming, and a very successful scrap it was. To wind up the victory, a Hornecoming Dance was given in the gym with alumni and the students of both Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. All hostilities between us were then put aside until the eleventh of November when Eau Claire jour- neyed to Chippewa Falls. The fifth: I went to a very interesting meeting of the Girl Reserves in the Library after school. Miss Abby Shaw Mayheu spoke on China. Her personal relations with the Chinese and of world dignitaries were very unusual. The sixth: The first News was issued. The News Staff is trying to determine who shall be chos- en editor of three candidates-Bill Brady, Alice Hartwell, and Dolores Strum. For the next three issues each candidate will try his or her skill at putting out a good paper. The frst one was Bill's, and accounts of important events from the beginning of school up to date made his paper very good. The thirteenth and fourteenth: The Northwestern Teachers' Association met and we fstudentsj had one and one-half days vacation. It's kind of a gyp not to have two whole days of vacation, but the week-end lengthened it. Alice Hartwell's edition of the News was distributed to students and all visiting teachers. Very good. The fifteenth: Several journeyed to La Crosse where our team beat La Crosse Central High 9-6. It was a happy gang that trundled along the Mississippi on the Minnesota side coming home. The seventeenth: First period the Yale Chronicles of America were introduced and enjoyed by all history and science classes. The epic of America is to be presented in installments along with scientific projections. The twentieth: Down by 201 after school, peals of laughter rent the air. It was the Grey Domi- nos' initiation. Poor Roddy f I ather Q Smith went wading with his trousers pulled up to his knees. Nlnitiateesi' were ordered to conduct a circus. Can you imagine Vince Haggerty as a snake, Doris Davey, a tight-rope walker, Bugga Ager, an ostrich, Lawrence Potter, a lion, and Rose- mary Ferguson, the wild man from Borneo? The twenty-first: The Stump presented a novel Autumn Dance featuring a snappy floor-show and a brand new band, Ted Erickson and his Melodians. Tap dances were given by Hary Molin 1nd Mrs. Spencer-Anderson's Dancing Class. Pete Bezanson and Larrayne Bing danced a tango. Gerhardt Klawiter sang popular songs. The decorations were in orange and brown, and autumn leaves and pine boughs banked the orchestra stand.