Glasgow High School - Hootman Yearbook (Glasgow, MT)

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;.!- ' ;:g|; i f HOOT MON STAFF Editor-in-chief Business Manager Assistant Manager Picture Editors Literary Editor Art Editor Class Editors Athletic Editors Joke Editors Calendar Editors Faculty Adviser Ruben Lewow Peggy Morton - Joe Martinkoski Mildred Johnson, Helen Harebo Roy De Haven Irene Hilden Callie Peterson, Byron Armstrong Dale Smith, Ronald Baker Charles Hoffman, Pat Stevens Marjorie Hurly, Erna Hansen Nellie M. Sayre •26 —

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s -■.• ' .•..•.;::•;•$ ' ' •. •;•:■ ■- ,- - ' ' . ' ■•;■ c - W -- ' ' ' - : : Top Row: Helen Harebo, Velma Spangler. Leanore Hall, Genevieve Olson, Edith Watson, Ingeborg Barstad, Claris Brown, Judith Eliason. Middle Row: Irene Simmons, Bertha Stensland, Esther Nielson, Bemice Mihm, Frances Simmons, Miss Mattison, Gertrude Vegge, Ida Disrud, Tena Nielsen, Elise Stensland. Bottom Row: Mary Pointer, Ethel Moore, Edna Chase. Esther Anderson, Lucille Bergos. THE NORMAL CLUB Helen Harebo Enid Jones Hazel Cornwell Edith Watson Miss Alice A. Mattison President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Faculty Adviser The Normal Club was organized early in the school year 1927-28 to pro- vide a Home Room for the members of the Normal Department, which in- cludes seniors, juniors and sophomores carrying the regular Normal v ork of the high school. From the first the club has met once a vi eek in the regular Normal Training room. The first year ' s activities were chiefly programs appropriate for rural schools and Round Robin letters to former graduates of the department. The past year, the club concentrated on story telling for children, games for class use and some letter writing for associate members — the alumnae. Club members have paid dues, fifty cents annually. Social events sponsored by the club include a social hour for the grade teachers and an annual party for members. On March 22 the club gave an assembly program consisting of the two-act play, Not a Man in the House, a pantomime, The Lamp Went Out, and music. It is hoped that the club will continue to function with greater interest and more value to members. — 25 —

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' Mmm Literary THE PASSING FRONTIER About 1830, Washington Irving, who was the famous author of classical legends as well as serious events, discussed the trip of Captain Bonneville in a book of the same name. He (Bonneville) represented one of the fur trading companies invading the western wilds for the sole purpose of obtaining furs for milady ' s and milord ' s garments, and Irving, describing the location of the mouth of the Yellowstone River, where it enters the Missouri near what is now the state line between Montana and North Dakota, made the following obser- vations and prophecy concerning the country in that vicinity, which of course applies to the section of the state in which we live: An immense belt of rocky mountains and volcanic plains, several hun- dred miles in width, must ever remain an irreclaimable wilderness intervening between the abodes of civilization, and affording a last refuge to the Indian. Here roving tribes of hunters, living in tents or lodges, and following the migrations of the game, may lead a life of savage independence where there is nothing to tempt the cupidity of the white man. The amalgamation of various tribes, and of white men of every nation, will in time produce hybrid races like the mountain Tartars of the Caucasus. Possessed as they are of immense droves of horses, should they continue their present predatory and war-like habits, they may in time become a scourge to the civilized frontiers on either side of the mountains, as they are at present a terror to the traveller and trader. For many years thereafter, it seems that his words were truly prophetic. A story told by the Indians living at Fort Union is to the effect that one of their number was sent to Washington by the fur traders to impress him with the strength of the Great Father. Desiring to inform his friends at home of the w onders he had seen, he made a notch on his w illowstick which he carried with him, to represent a white man ' s house. By the time he had reached St. Louis, he had used up several sticks and w as unable to make enough notches after arriving there to keep count. Upon his arrival at Fort Union, he was driven from camp and finally committed suicide because the Indians thought he was fibbing in his descriptions of the wonderful things he had seen. For many years there v as no development in the eastern portion of Mon- tana, real settlement being in the gold fields of the western part of the state. To reach the gold fields one had to go by boat or land up the Missouri River as far as Fort Benton, then called the head of navigation. Many Indian Wars occurred in which the Indians were not alv rays the aggressor. In the march of the white man to the west my own great grand- — 27 —