Falls City High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Falls City, NE)

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THE RESUME 19)6 THE FACULTY. Miss Bernice l’rickctt, mathematics instructor, is a graduate of the Fairfield (Nebraska) High School and also of the State University. She taught two year, ■it Davenjiort, Nebraska, and one-half year at Sidney, Nebraska, before coining here. She has been with us two years, during which time she has added her share o the enthusiasm of school activities and often brought to mind Shakespeare s Muse not that 1 thus suddenly proceed; For what J will, 1 will, and there's an end. Miss Helen Hanes, instructor of domestic science, is a graduate of the University of Illinois. She has been with us only one year and lias already shown us what a fair sample of Illinois may lie like. She was sponsor for the Junior Class and manager of one of the most successful Junior-Senior banquets in the annals of the High School. The work in the domestic science department, as everywhere else, has met with success and appreciation from outsiders, and she has -jften made us think that to obtain perfection it is not necessary to do singular things, but to do common tilings singularly well. l’rof. L. L. Smith, manual training instructor, is a graduate of the High School at 1 loisingtoii, 'Kansas, and attended the State Agricultural College at Manhattan for three years and a half. He ha, been with us two and one-half years, and during that time acted as football coach and boys gymasium instructor, in addition to his regular work. Mr. Smith has worked unceasingly in supplying •pep” and giving everybody else a dose, generous and invigorating, loo much rredit cannot be given to the work accomplished in this department, for you now— . . One constant element in luck Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck. Mrs. DeWald is a supplementary teacher and has been working with us for the better part of two vears. She has attended High School at Lincoln and is a graduate of 1 lamilton College at Lexington, Kentucky. Besides the excellent Work accomplished in the classroom, Mrs. DeWald has given us the pleasure of hearing many readings of the best books and authors. No convocation period has lieen spent more enjoyable than in listening to Mrs. DeWald. “Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice. And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. Miss Ethel Rough, commercial teacher, is a graduate of Weeping Water Academy and Doane College. She has been in our school only one year, l he commercial department is new in the school and Miss Rough, though laboring under this difficulty, has set a standard in this department which cannot easily be surpassed. Many students feel they have laid one stone in the foundation of their business career which really counts and have truly learned from Miss Rough through “preaching and example” that “an intense hour will do more than dreamy years.” Miss Helen Mattison, teacher of music, is a graduate of Rockwell City High School in Iowa and of Thomas Normal 1 raining School in Illinois. She lias organized and drilled two very successful glee clubs—one boys’ and one girls’—and also the High School Orchestra. These three departments have appeared on various programs and too much cannot be said of Miss Mattison’s faithful and efficient work. It embodies the truth that— “Music resembles poetry; in each And which a master hand alone can reach.”

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THE RESUME 1916 THE FACULTY. Supt. Y. L. Crow, to whom this book is dedicated, is the superintendent of the Falls City schools, lie has been connected with the Falls City schools for tnree years; serving the first year in the capacity of principal of the High School and sponsor of the Class of 1914. and the last two years as superintendent of the Falls City schools, lie is a graduate of the University of Illinois and taught at Ulenarm, Illinois, and Humboldt, Nebraska, before coming here. His work here has been exceedingly successful, and it is with regret that the School Board, the citizens and the pupils see I rim leave. He has been of great moral benefit to the community and city at large, especially has it been most felt and appreciated by the High School pupils. Mr. Crow has given us a splendid illustration of real school honor and class spirit, and his willingness to serve in any and all capacities has been the means of more firmly uniting the individual classes into the one balls, City High School. It may well be said of Mr. Crow that be lives in thought, not years; he most lives who thinks the most, feels the noblest, acts the best. l’rof. ,C. A. Beaver, our present principal, came to us from Broken Bow, Nebraska, where he had taught two years. He graduated front the High School n Red Oak, Iowa, in 1909 and from the University of Nebraska in 1913. While mending the University he taught one and one-half years in the physics department of the Temple High School and one year in the zoology department of the University. He has completed a most successful year as our principal and teacher of physics and chemistry. The classes were enjoyable and at the same time instructive, owing to Mr. Beaver's ingenuity, which has greatly improved the Sophomores, whose class advisor he is. His endless supply of pep has often made us think that it's faith in something and enthusiasm in something that makes life worth looking at.” Miss Ruth lleaeock, stqiervisor of the English department, has been with us three successful short years. She was sponsor for the Class of '17 the first year and of '18 the second. Her interest in her work has always been at the highest pitch, and many interesting features have been brought out that we feel sure would have remained unnoticed had not Miss Heacock been there to bring them to light. She is a graduate of the Falls City High School of whom we may be justly proud and also of the University of Nebraska in 1911. It is with regret that we see her leave, but wish her success in whatever she undertakes. Her gen-,-ral doctrine of loafing on the job as we have heard it is: “Opportunity occasionally meets a man half-way, but she seldom comes after him in an automobile.” Miss Eva Fuller, supervisor of the language department, has also been with us three years. The work in her department has never had a better or a more thorough leader. During the three years of her work here site has been sponsor of the present Senior Class, which naturally influenced her destiny for the better, 'i he German and Latin departments have flourished wonderfully, and no quotation can express her kindly disposition better than “a heart that never hardens and a temper that never tires.” Miss Blanche Markland, our history teacher, is a graduate of the Oregon (Missouri) High School and also of Park College at Parksville, Missouri, in 1912. She taught two years at Castana, Iowa, before coming to us and has been here for two years. Her interest in the school has been a great factor in our success, especially along the line of athletics, as she has been the enthusiastic coach •f the girls’ basket ball team these two years, to which fact much of the credit for their success is due. Miss Markland’s theme supreme and most evident is possibly, “A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.”

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THE RESUME 1916 THE STAFF Editor-In-Chief Wilma Russ Assistant Editor Ruth Lichty Business Manager Thomas Hargrave Assistant Business Manager Elva Cox Subscription Manager Given Spragins Assistant Subscription Manager Wallace Abbey Senior Editor Esther Abbey Junior Editor Suzaine Brecht Sophomore Editor Fern Falloon Freshman Editor Halcyon Whitford Girl’s Athletic Editor Elizabeth Gist Boy’s Athletic Editor Lester Kister Joke Editor Dessie McCleary