Ferndale Union High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Ferndale, CA)

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illrrnhalr Hninn i6igh Svrhnnl Svinrr 15114 The Ferndale High School was instituted August, 1904. Before this there had been a private school. It was suggested that if Ferndale could not sup- port a school, the adjoining districts might help. So SZSOOEWHS subscribed by the most interested and liberal citizens. Since the town was to have the benefit of the school located in its limits, the proposition was brought up before the voters of Ferndale and eight other school districts. The plan met with their approval, and it became the Ferndale Union High School. The old Coombe residence and lot was purchased as it was thought best not to build for a year. The newly elected trustees selected Prof. C. Dufour and Mrs. Adams as instructors. They began work with thirty pupils and with English, History, and Mathematics as the course of study. The Student Body was organized on the seventeenth of October, under the name of the Athena Literary and Debating Society. Kenneth Robarts was the first President, Mary V arley, Vice-President, and Emily Keohan, Secre- tary. Debates and literary programs were held in connection with their semi- monthly business meetings. The next semester the faculty was composed of Mr. Coddington, as prin- cipal, Mr. Van Horn and Miss Smith. The course of study now included German and chemistry, and the number of pupils had increased to about forty. In January, 1906, the Student Body was reorganized with Helen Burbank as President. The Athletic Association was organized October 5, in connec- tion with the Student Body. The success of these two years proved that they were worthy of a new building. The trustees proposed the bonding of the district for 310,000 to meet this expense. The work was completed and the building dedicated February 22, 1907. After moving into the new building Physics and classes of higher Mathe- matics were added there by enabling students to enroll in advance schools or universities, if they so desired. A piano was purchased and a wooden tennis court was built. The first commencement was held in 1908. The next semester the coarse of study was rearranged. Drawing was added and a more complete apparatus for chemistry and physics installedg also reference books for the library. Each year the num-ber of pupils increased. Agricultural work began in 1910. Much interest was taken in this new work. In 1912 the present senior class entered as freshmen, forty-five in num- ber. From the beginning, we made our presence known. A commercial coarse of bookkeeping and typewriting was added, also commercial arithmetic the next year. VV e have had Domestic Science during the two last years and advance work in Latin has been continued. Vocations was the last addition to the course. Previously the Tomahawk was published by the Senior Class, until last 28

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eastward. The two mallards bathed themselves in the clear water, preened their feathers, and then commenced their search for breakfast. They had just finished eating a bunch of celery-grass which the drake had found, when they heard the sound of footsteps and men's voices. The rxvo frightened birds hid side by side in the marsh-grass with heads and necks laid flat to the water. ' The two men passed by, but a small black dog, trotting along behind, scented them and scared them from their hiding-place. Pitifully the hen tried to fly, flopping her one wing bravely-but she could not rise from the water. A shot, and with a cry to her mate, who hovered over her, her pretty head drooped and she died. The poor drake, almost bereft of reason, voiced his grief in loud quacks and vaulted into the heavens, followed by several shots which missed their mark. Once more a lonely young drake flew sadly over the gleaming waves and flying foam to the southward. ARDEN RING, ,I7 N 1 I ,V I ' -J I Y W' smirk JZ Nllix G Y f 7, X K J i 7 f A Sums at Sunriur Early one September morning, we started for a walk across the fields. Stopping on top of a rather high knoll, we looked out at the scene before us. The fog which hung low over the hills began to drift slowly away, looking like a shimmering, shining, silvery sea. Far away on the horizon, the sun, a glowing red ball, was slowly rising over the hills. The sky--the gray of early morning-was beautifully tinted from the sun's glow, while the hills a bluish mass faintly outlined against the sky, were brightened by touches of red. A little way below, could be seen low hills covered with dry grass. Then a row of stunted green trees stood out to view. Atv the foot of the hills, a barn with farmhouse nearby, almost hidden by the surrounding orchard. The barren branches of the orchard trees looked gray and stiff. A thin spiral of blue smoke, rising high above the little chimney, melted into the pale sky. My eye now wandered to the left, where the tops of a corn-field could be seen, waving gently in the breezeg while straight out before me stretched broad fields of pasture land, in one corner of which a few calves brows- ing under an old alder tree-lay, lazy and inert-the picture of bucolic con- tentment. MARY RENNER, ,I7 27 -

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vear, when it was decided to choose the staff from the Student Body, thus securing the interest and co-operation of the whole school. Athletics have added much to our school life and the following is a calen- dar of our victories: Tfilbk-'07, '08, IZ and '15, Boys' B. Ball-'14, '15 and '16, Football-'08, '12, '13 and ,I5. Debate-'10 and '14, Girls' B. Ball-'13 and '15. Tennis-'07, '08, '09 and '10, Baseball--'08, '12, '13 and '14, ALETA McGLAUGHLIN, '16 when the Grain Gfnmw 3111 The train was hot and stuffy. The smoke from the tunnels hung in the air and everyone was dusty and dirty. I sat in my seat hunched up, with my head drooping, svveltering miserably. My window sill was so hot that I couldn't touch, it so I couldn't even hang out of the window. Across the aisle slept a huge, fat man. His loud snoring annoyed me greatly but I did not have enough energy to wake him. He was perspiring freely and every little while a big bead of sweat would form on his forehead and slowly trickle do-wn the side of his nose and off his face. At every jolt of the train the layers of his fat face would shake like jelly. Ahead of me were a number of silly, chattering school girls. They ate noisily and rapidly, yet found time to keep up an incessant chatter. VVhenever the trainboy came through they bought some more provisions. Behind me was a woman with two children. The brats were the most in- quisitive persons I had ever seen. They would come up to where I was, look ut me for a long time, then with many chortles of delight they would see my satchel, seize it, and start to drag it off. I would stamp my foot and they would run off howling dejectedly. Their mother would cast venomous glances at me which would have squelched me at once had I been less leth- agric. Both of the youngsters were sticky with candy and their aim in life seemed to be to get the back of my seat so sticky that my hair would catch on it. , Toot! Toot! it Another of those blooming little stations! Gradually the train slowed down, till it stopped with an abrupt jerk which awoke the fat man opposite me. He looked out sleepily at the station, grunted, and went to sleep again. The two brats rushed pellmell over me to Q-ree. Gad! I could have beaten them with pleasure. I looked out grumpily at the station. lt was a brownish, lowlying struc- ture with two men, the station master and the telegraph operator, standing in front of it. There had been fifty just like it before and there were probably fifty more to come. Turning to the station master the telegraph operator asked curiously, Say. what makes those fellows on the train so indifferent looking. A I dunno. For effect I guess. Now, what do you know about that? OLUF RING, '17 29