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

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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.

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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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if '-X. THE ELK ffl ll' . . A . . Pleasures which he had Three. Times tried to leave. Wfe Elected. Him grand master And. Paul Voss is secretary And. He has forgotten that he was Ever. Elected. VVhenever we have A. Meeting there are twelve Voices. Tu enty-four hands and Feet. And a million ideas Present. But we all decided to Give. VVhy Smith Left Home as Our. Senior Play and three of The. Members of the Debate. Team are Seniors And. A Senior won the Honors. In the Native Sons' Oratorical. Contest and the Seniors. Talk more than all The. Rest of the school put Together. But we like the Seniors And. We hope you do, Too. Hugh has such a long Reach. That he grabbed the Basket Ball. Captaincy this year and He. Threw so many goals In. Basketball that the other Schools. All called for step Ladders. And now he is pitcher And. Captain of the baseball Team. And Howard VVackman ls. The first baseman and He. VVears four stripes and Maybe. He ll be a general some Day. If he doesn't go into the Movies. And Richard Hawley is First. Lieutenant of the cadets And. Harold Schulze is second Loot And the girls are the Suffragette. Leaders and some day All. Cf our class will do Some. Thing wonderful and you Will. Remember us and Say. I knew it but just Now. VVe are very sorry That. XVe are leaving high school. But we hope no one Else. W ill ever have to go to This. Antiquated edifice and now We. Must say goodbye for So. Has ended our fourth Year, I thank You. -james Lee Adams, '20, ty-oi