Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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HISTORY OF CLASS ' 11 Continued Foot ball started that year and the papers found out our existence. Referring back to the paper of Oct. 17, 1908, we find this editorial from the Tribune: “The football team of the Gary High School has shown its patriotism in its war cry. When the Rah-Rah boys and girls of the Gary High School indulge in their school yell this afternoon at East Chicago for the first time it will sound mighty nice. The yell runs like this: ‘1-2-3-4, 2-4-3-4 Who are we for? Gary!’ ” That war cry ought to be the motto of all residents of Gary. That is the kind of public spirit needed to build a great city and school here.” We were proud of it and I think the school yell has been lived up to by this class. After the football season was over the girls gave the football boys a large banquet. The feast was splendid as far as it went, but when the time came for the ice-cream to our dismay it had disappeared. We do not wish to recall unpleasant mem¬ ories,’ but three of the present Junior students did not show up the next day. We have always wondered why? After football came basket ball. We had no court as the school was without a gymnasium but where there is a will there is a way and so we made one in the auditorium. Many good games were played and enough victories to satisfy us. Our third year brought us over to the Emerson School. Our class was still increasing in number and we were now fourteen. The Emerson building had been our hope—to just get a chance there. It had such fine gymnasiums that athletics were taken up with much spirit. Football received special interest. We won nearly all of our games. Five or six of the eleven were Juniors. Basket ball took it’s place with both a girl’s and boy’s team. Just think, the girls had a gymnasium all to themselves and a chance to swim in the pool. The captains of both the teams were Juniors. The great event of the season, however, was the Northern Indiana Track Meet which took place at South Bend in May. We took a car load down with us and had a fine time watching the other schools win points. However, we won the pole vault. The Juniors held a prominent place on the Gary team and in the evening, our worthy president took third place in the Ora¬ torical Contest. That made us feel fine. The Junior Banquet in honor of the Seniors was a great success. Covers were set for forty-five in the sewing room. Speeches were made by members of both classes and the faculty and my! when Mr. Herrick whistled! We knew he could write, but we also found out he could whistle. At last we reached our Senior year, and as Mr. Sargent said at the banquet, “Came into our own.” We have tried to set a pace that would do us credit and make our successors, “sit up and take notice.” we have never abused the privilege of walking in our own fashion in the halls. We never have been noisy in the clock rooms or classrooms. Basket Ball was the only form of athletics entered into this year. The boys and girls both had a team. The fates were against the boys the first part of the year but later their luck turned and they made good. The girls suffered one defeat out of four games. We can scarcly realize that our twelve years of public school life is over. A glimpse at our baby pictures and then at the staid and dignified present group of Seniors shows a great growth that makes us both proud and sad. We might wish to be again children with their happy innocent smiles, just irresponsibly joyous but the future beckons us on and if it is true that past success is the earnest of future possibilities the historian of this class taking up the work where I have left it will, yea, must chronicle again the story of the success of the Class of 1911.

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