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

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THE ELK Now that the days of our high school career become fewer and fewer, our thoughts dwell more than ever upon Longfellow. Not the poet, but the statue, which has graced with majestic calm our assembly hall for these four years. VVe remember the first morning that we gazed upon his beatinc countenance. There were only two things to mar his perfect poise. His shirt front was unmistakably dirty and, besides, some irreverent person had smashed upon his head some fruit of the squashy variety, the juice of which had trickled down over his noble brow and was in imminent danger of drowning one eye. Per- haps we should not blame any one. much less a student, for such a sacrilegious deed, it could very easily have been the roof, as, in some prehistoric period, before the advent of the class of '20, it might have leaked above his august brow and caused that unseemly condition. Thro' all our four years, we have been hoping against hope, but the dust of ages still collects on his manly bosom and, sad to say, the color of his nose is not improving, as time goes on. I We have not yet come to a mathematically correct conclusion, but we judge from past experience, that in about eight years from now, the innocent Freshmen will not be able to tell whether the bust is in commemoration of Longfellow or the late Kaiser. -H. M., '2O. an as as as Various terms are applied to the enthusiasm aroused by inter-scholastic contests. jazz, Pep,', etc., are very apt descriptions, but no one has yet discovered a wholly satisfactory substitute for school spirit, particularly, for the broad, admirable meaning underlying the dictionary definition of the word. A few years ago a very sad incident occurred in the Elk Grove Union High School. The school spirit, sickened and died and not even enough interest could be awakened to provide for a decent burial. At intervals efforts have been made to resuscitate the corpse, and, at times, it has come back to haunt us, to laugh at us, and mock us for our neglect. It is astonishing to mark the inhuence which a mere ghost can wield, espe- cially at basket ball games. Its shape, hovering unseen and unheard before us, incites us to a frenzied rapture of excitement, appeal, and reproach. We have almost but not quite called our school spirit back to us. Let the sum- mons lbe a little louder and it will come post-haste. A renewed manifestation of zeal will grow with the Freshman class and with their successors. They will come to the fore at all school functions. This is not to be construed as casting blame upon the Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors, or Alumni, for they have been loyal defenders of the honor of the school, but it is the expression of a hope, a wish if you like, for increased atten- dance and enthusiasm at literary and dramatic functions and louder yelling at athletic games. -D. F. W., '2O. as as ae as - To the members of the faculty, student body, visiting patrons, a-nd friends I wish to express my most keenly-felt appreciation for the words of cheer, acts of kindness, and remembrances rendered me during my unexpected illness. -L. E. Richards. Sixty-eight

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THE YK Rf K . 'X U 1' bfffji, i H' ' 1' ' .iw LLIX iw mg. . f' :wg Q15 L7l'F.1 xi? i 7' film F- r 5 6 iefi. s :svfgmwae ff f I Wi BOYS' BASKET BALL Basket ball started off this year with a bang. Practice began very soon after school opened and owing to the efficient coaching of Mr. Dahleen, two boys' teams loomed up on our dirt courts in Al condition. One big asset to our boy's unlimited team was the return of Harold Schulze to High School. after being released from the U. S. Navy. New suits were purchased for the lst team, being designed from the school colors, blue and gold. This naturally caused more pep to thrive amongst the players, and pep is the word. Hugh Tickler and Blythe Richards were elected captains of the lst and 2nd teams respectively. Boys' lst Boys' 2nd Elk Grove ............................................ 18 .............................................. 14 San Juan .............................................. 13 .............................................. 9 Our first games of the season were with San Juan l-ligh School on our own grounds, October l7. Two teams were represented, the boys' lst and 2nd, These were very exciting games, from the standpoint of the playing itself and from the arguments attending thereto. Players on both teams put up a hard light for victory as shown by the scores, and after the hnal whistle blew we walked from the field as victors of the hrst contest of the term. Boys' lst Boys' 2nd Girls' Elk Grove .............................. 38 ........,................... 20 ............................ 6 Galt ..,..,.................................. 8 ......,..................... 5 ............................ ll Practically the whole Student Body journeyed to Galt to witness the triplc- header played with that school on Friday afternoon, November 7. School bc- gan that morning at eight o'clock so that arrangements could be made in order to do so: and. to the great astonishment of Professor Richards, there were less number of tardy slips written out that A. M. than ever before. We proved ourselves worthy of mention by taking two out of the three games. Both boys' teams got what they went after. The girls-though they put up a good fight, had the jinx with them for their first contest and met a cheerful defeat. The absence of one of the star forwards might have had something to do with the catastrophe. Seventy