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

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Iii- X, U U THE 2' ELK Vnffii'Q'. ,, , And last but by no means least on the record of fame is Herman Mix. He's seated gracefully astride his papa's Fordson on the auld home place mosta' the time. Having placed most of the youngest children from Elk Grove High School, I now retire. -Hay Seed Hicks. B. M. 'Z1. OUR HOBBY The graduating class of 1920 has the distin- guished honor of having as one of its members the first graduate grandchild of the old school. The mother of this chap graduated 1897. She was then Miss Frances M. Putney, now Mrs. C. C. Vfackiiiaii. If you do not know who this is, make a guess, Shank's horses were too slow for him then, as you see. Howard Wackman Seventy-I i it

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1 1 ua ll fl, 1 I 5 it A. 5 ?!'! !!'l!E!,'. 'm.n. ' Her with the stacks of black hair, Pearl Weideman? Well, now, she's a wonderful girl, ain't she? just to think that she'd be teachin' already! Gettin' a good salary, too, I hear. My! My! My! WellgA Ain't that just grand now? Wliere is the one 'twas called Marga- ret Mix? Left the country, 1 suppose, like most of these here youngsters. - O, yes. She's gone to that university down at Berkeley. An' the two rather small 'uns that said a scared Thanks when Mr. Gage handed them a commercial sheep-s-kinapiece last June, Bonita Evans and Grace Shaw, are at home. But don't you ever get the idea that they ain't doin' nothin'. Bonita's a sort of community bookkeeper and Grace has a big family to take care of 'tween times when she's somebody's StC11Og1'2l1Jl1C1'.H An' the nice, nice girl everybody liked, Helen McConnell, where's she ? ln Sacramento bein' a helper for her brother-in-law, Dr. Kennedy. Oh, they're all busy as bees, the young people now a' days! Here Mrs. Witt paused. VVan't there some boys in that class? I kinda thought- , Boys? Of course! Lct's see. The bovs-flong pausej. Boys will be boys and what can us poor old women folks do to keep track o' them? There's my Dora callin' me. See you i11 a few nights up at the Masonic Hall at the doingsf' - And Mrs. Xvitt hurried away. The boys? VVho knows about 'em? Certainly not the men who never gossip. Oh no! They're above that, as any male person can tell you. But here-ls a puzzle-what are they sayin' when they sit around the barber and butcher shops with tongues afioppin' and jaws awaggin' all day long? W'ell, I'll tell you. Elmer Sturges flips cash and general merchandise across the dry goods counter in jones store at the Slough House part of the time an' then he works at various jobs on the ranch. joseph Brugler is back at High taking a most valuable post-graduate course. Well, foe, we really can't see how you can stand the sight of that masrniiicent high school structure for live long years. and we wish you better luck next year. The bashtul timid boy with the subdued air that we called Squeaky but whose Christian name is Cecil, is with his daddy extracting the milky Huid from the mooing bovine. Squeaky's shy CPD ltttle friend, Willie Gage, is a rancher , that is, he helps wherever this great world has need of him. Comprenezvous? Do you remember last year's captain, Lester Baker? They say he's busy preparin' the nest for the wee red-headed birdie he expects to captivate next August or maybe sooner. Who knows? Ira, our darling,', pride, and joy, realized that now is the time for all great men to come to the aid of their country, and so he searches for the little, wiggelty bugs that sometimes grow in milk. OE course, they grow elsewhere, but that ain't his jobg see? g Fred Stohlgren is a sheet-metal apprentice worker in Sacramento, I hear. Stick to it, Fred, that's the only way you'll ever win out in this wide, wide world. Our operatic nightingale, Lowell Coons, carries billy-does, etc., on Elk Grovels mail route No. 2. Seventy-eight

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rf X, S, .uw .1 THE ,ffl ELK Q Q SD Q ,pxNfJ'1i HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA The I-Iigh School Orchestra was organized by Mr. Richards about three years ago, and at the present time consists of two horns, five violins, and a dilapidated drum. Although it is not large, still it is possessed of an aston- ishingly strong esprit de corps. As an organization it has been called upon to justify its existence on sev- eral occasions, and it has done so satisfactorily, figuring on various programs, for example in the junior and Senior plays last year, and in the junior Class Entertainment this year. It has played earlier in the year at a Mass Meeting which was held in Franklin to boost the High School bonds. Speaking of Franklin, it seems only fair to say here that the Franklin school under Mr. and Mrs. Kramer has done yeoman service in sending students to our High School who have already had a good start on some musical instrument. The Orchestra is really of sufficient importance in the life of the school to have a place in the regular class schedule. If this could be brought about, then those who are musically inclined need not sacrifice their lunch hour to keep it going. If it had not been for three students all of last year, Pearl Wilsoii, Myrtle VVilson, and Anna Lohse, who faithfully kept the orchestra lamp burn- ing, there would, in all probability, be no High School Orchestra today. The Orchestra has two other crying needs besides a place on the schedule. It needs a definite fund for buying new music, and it needs also some of the heavier-toned instruments such as a trombone, a bass horn or a 'cello to give it weight. This addition would be a great improvement. It is earnestly to be hoped that the coming of the next school year will see the Student Body in possession of a properly rounded-out orchestra. -Mabel Briscoe. Eighty