El Reno High School - Boomer Yearbook (El Reno, OK)

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Our History The goal for which we have been striving many years will be reached May 2 th, and our work as members of El Reno High School completed. How short the years seem as we pass from school life into life’s school. i ooo A mass of freckle-faced, sun-burned specimens of humanity, forty- five strong, assembled early that memorable date in September. Well we remember the jeers and laughter of the upper class men the first week as we went stumbling around the halls trying to find our class rooms, but it did not take us long to get accustomed to the new order of things. The class was duly organized with Wanna Kintzley as president. Under the principalship of Mr. Robinson and the instruction of Misses Altman and Barbour and Mrs. Maddox the class made rapid progress. We learned our “ amo-amas-amat ” and found that x stood for an unknown quantity. The freshman Halloween party was held according to custom, and also the annual spring picnic. A ride on a hand-car was one of the novel features of the picnic always to be remembered. The months flew by so happily that we were really sorry when time for disbanding came. I JM 7 Although we enjoyed our vacation, we were glad to return to school and to resume our studies. Our number had noticeably decreased, there were now but twenty-two. Mr. Thuermer from Indiana, or America as he prefers to call it, succeeded Mr. Robinson, and Miss Overstreet was added to the faculty as teacher of English. We all studied hard and made so good an impression that our class was no longer laughed at, although the Seniors still thought it best to chaperon us at parties, to run away with our ice cream and cake, lest we should make ourselves sick by eating too much. Some of the class found time for indulging in “ Stolen Sweets ” in the basement while Uncle Joe Harris was busy elsewhere. It was on such occasion, having been locked in by other students, we were compelled to effect our escape by means of the coal chute just in time for class. 1 DOS This year we felt very dignified. For, behold we were Juniors. As a class we paid more attention to books. Rats, puffs and pompadours had taken the place of the former pigtails, although some of the girls still retain a fondness for “ bows.” The boys, too, had shown remarkable improvement in their appearance. They wore high collars, red neckties, their hair parted in the middle and slicked down in the front. We could scarcely believe that this was the timid Freshman class of only two years before. We felt that we need not study so hard for we already knew a great deal. We wanted to have a jolly good time, and we did, until the work of editing the Annual began. This took up all the leisure time but when the Annual turned out a great success we felt duly repaid. During this year Mrs. Mulloy and Miss Grimes succeeded Mrs. Maddox in the commercial department and Miss Hayner took Miss Alt- man’s place.

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VIII. SUSIE STONE. “'TIh better to have loafed and flunked than never to have loafed at all. In El Reno, Okla., on March 21. 1892, Susie first began being cute” and really her cleverness in that line increases wonderfully. Every thing to Susie is one vast joke and she always sees the point. IX. MARIAN BLAKE. The love she bore to learning was at fault.” She honored this old “ berg ” even before there were anv sidewalks laid or a High School fit for her presence. “ way back in the dim and well- nigh forgotten past,” to be exact March 30, 1892. But wise in her genera- tion she knew the High School would be built when she was ready. X. MIGNON CARTER. “She was dark-haired, dark-eyed. Mignon was born in Okla., in 1891. She was an exceedingly precocious child, being able to master the alphabet at the early age of 12 years. She fell in love once, we have reasons to believe, but not having sufficient grounds for accusation we forbear to expose her further and must refer the curious reader to the young lady herself. XI. ALTA BREUER. “ She with the blond voice.” Alta first contributed to the music of the spheres on Apr. 2, 1892. She found Mo. unappreciative so came to El Reno in May, 190 9 to see if she could gain an audience here. XII. CLARICE CLYMER. Tell all I know ? Why life’s too short for that.” Clarice entered the wicked world in 1892. She first chose 111. as her abode but in 1903 changed her mind and came to El Reno. Clarice is a straight-forward, outspoken girl especially in Geometry. XIII. HELEN EMPEY — Vice-President Jr. Class; Business Manager “ Voyage; ” Anoteron 1910; Vice-President 1910. Wearing all that weight of learning lightly as a flower. Helen developed her first case of spring fever, May 29, 1892 but recovered soon and since has never been troubled by the “ hook worm.” She solved Geometry as if by magic and Chemistry has no terrors for her. Her black hair covers weights of learning. XIV. LOUISE HATCHETT. The rude sea grew civil at her song. Lou began singing in Mo., in 1891 but El Reno engaged her services in 1892 when scarcely out of swaddling clothes. She says she sings because her friends like music, which is very kind of her friends. XV. WILLIE MOHR. “The soul of this man Is in his clothes. Willie made his first holler” in Kansas, Aug. 6. 1891, along with the katydids. Since then little has been heard from him. By constant applica- tion to books and none to girls has exceeded the speed limit in getting thro’ High School.

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IIHH) Only sixteen Seniors assembled September 13, 1909. Of this number Marian Blake, Mignon Carter, Lottie Gillilan, Bess Lowe, Susie Stone and Helen Empey were pioneer “ Fresh Women.” Clarice Clymer, Louise Hatchett, Imogene Golf and Will Mohr joined the class the middle of the Freshman year. Others who have joined the class during the last two years are Helen Dunlap from Caldwell High School, Alta Brewer from Nevada, Missouri High School, Vera Richards from Oklahoma City High School, Emerson Montgomery from Central High School, Philadelphia and Dallas Hardcastle from Bridgeport, Texas High School. We have had few social events but have thoroughly enjoyed our work, especially the afternoons in the laboratory where no serious accidents have occurred, but where several laughable incidents have occurred. One day we saw pieces of china flying about and found “ Our Star ” had put a burning match in a dish containing sodium and water. Another time we were startled by a loud report and discovered that one of our number had poured some sulphuric acid into a bottle of ammonium hydroxide. Many additional amusing incidents could be enumerated. But the time for parting has come. It is with many regrets that we leave our fellow students and the teachers. We assure the latter that we shall ever remember their faithful instruction and their kind and unselfish attention in season and out of season. —H. E.