Elk Grove High School - Elk Yearbook (Elk Grove, CA)

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if I .N I X2 'l ffl '. it - gary, lv.- V li T 'l Q Class History Wlith apologies to K, C. B. In September, Nineteen Sixteen. Entered we as Freshmen Of. The E. G. U. H. S., and of Us. There were twenty and two Waitiiig. Fearfully to be registered. How. Proud we were of our large Class. But by ones and twos Our. Comrades began to leave us. During. The first year six promising Children. Left our ranks. Elmer Lewis Was. President the nrst Semester and He. Delivered a fiery oration at The. Freshman reception, at Wliicli. VVe had a very good Time. Jessie Cumpston was our First. Secretary, but we have Never. Kept the minutes of our Meetings. So a valuable document Has. Been lost to the X'Vorld of Art. ln February we gave a Program. Cn Lincoln's Birthday And. So Endeth the first Year. ,il.l...,..ii- VVhen we came back ln. The fall of 1917 we VVept. Because two of our boys Had. Deserted us. Later Montelle. Howard went to Sacramento. And a little while Afterwards. He went to France and Brought. Home a helmet and an lron. Cross and he almost got the Kaiser. And then Elmer Lewis Smiled. And he went away to Work. ln the station and by and By. He will be a railroad President. School was too much for Leslie Baumga And now he is Having. A better time working ln. Sacramento. But Fortune Favored. Us by presenting The. Class of '20 with a new lXfl'ember. Paul Voss, A bright particular Star ! The biggest event of our Sophomore. Year was an April Fools' Party. Vtfhere everyone ate Chocolate. Coated potatoes and Soap. Our president was the Latin. Shark, Ora Barney, And. Ethel Everson ofhciated as Secretary. rtel. Ninctc en

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THE l l w w lfighteen ELK James Adams His. a youth of labor. and an age of ease. Jessie Cumpston Patience and perseverance conquer all thmgs. Richard Hawley Much study is a weariness to the Hesh. Derril F. Wildanger Conjuge, dixit. , I Nil opus est, Atlanta, t1b1. Fuge conjugis usumfl

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fp X, Y Lf-,Q THE ELK And thus endeth the second Year. The third year but Eleven. Pupils enrolled in the junior Class. But good goods come in Small. Packages. Everett Nesche Departed. For Berkeley, and little Ora. Learned to tap the keys and Ethel. Everson joined the ranks of The. Sacramento High. But we Greeted. One new member in the Person. Of Hugh Tickler and he Was. The Professor in the Junior. Play, A Case of Suspension. And he has kept growing Taller. Ever since, and our Play. VVas a big success at Least. Financiallyg but we are Successful. In everything we Undertake. For Hugh romped off With. All the Basketball Honors. And helped Howard to Maintain. Our reputation in Baseball. During the year we Heard. That VVanda Barnhardt Had. Changed her name to White. And she was the first One. From our class to be So. Foolish, but next Year. Jessie is going to be A. Baker. Now ever since We. Started to school we Have. Had two prima donnas In. Our class and if You. Don't tell who they are I'll. Let you in on the secret But. They are so quiet About. It that you'cl never Guess. That Myrtle Hewitt and Helen. Mitchell could sing, would You? The high monkey-monks For. This year were Howard Wackman. Presiding officer and Myrtle. Hewitt, secretary, and, say I. Thus endeth the third year. Joyfully did we receive In. Our midst one new member. VVhen we came back For. Our fourth and last Year. Harold Schulze flashed A. Sailor suit for he Couldn't. Wait for a discharge, he Was. So anxious to return to The.