Grant City High School - Tiger Yearbook (Grant City, MO)

Page 33 text:

Q f x ffm, f , k W7 l f f ,iff Z W Scgu 'Q 'EBM gill! 1 ,X I 9 4 1T':, ,' ,9 I ,, 1, ' Q 'QR ' U f Vb X532 X .g' .,. ,, 4'- k .' 4 X ' 7' 'f I - 1. ' 1- X We 'jf gh - ,v- ! ' I fi U' 1 , -X 15' ' f I ka V '71 12 ' we 4 , J C I e X f - J fy , - if ' 5 ff f, D ' . , f E Vg., A S Z f ' ' Sf ' 'f ff 1 k f I V ' V f l fc M 1 i A . I X ' if Sf, f' ' 1 iff2 ' w g? F J ' QQ f 17 I ff K mfr f .M 4j,l 445 1 . 1 gif' 1 'K' ' 5 , 5 VI' ' Y ' 'Tri'- SX 1, A wr' ft - ' W ' gc ,I If

Page 32 text:

1919 OIJTO CRAINT 1919 SORROWS OI' THE SEN IORS Many people of thrs world of fads and fancres would rmagrne the path of a Senror to be a hrgh road to fame lrghted by the suns farrest rays and carpeted by the lenency and favorrtrsm of the faculty But let all Freshm n and other dry ers persons beware of such hallucenatrons and lrsten to thrs tale of woe F11 st upon our peaceful dream breaks the awesome vorce of the school board requrrerng before we reach that herght wherern we rnclrne on flowrv beds of EEE s that we should compose a manu scrrp settrng forth our learnrng and attarnments rn the Grant Crty Hrgh School If rt had not been proyrdentrally for other Sen rors and other School Boards we should perrsh at thrs our frrst great sorrow the Thesrs But ghost lrke and wrth the help of other Senrors our sorrows vanrsh only to return rn greater magnrtude Accordrng to the procedent of other Senrors rn order that other persons should recognrze our Alma Mater we are condemed to select of a small gold band or rnsrgna whrch perhaps has caused more sorrow and anger among the peaceful Senrors than any other devrse exer rnvented But happrlv the sorrow drsappears too on the wrngs of our last frve cent prece But even thrs does not end our trouble for we see rn the far drstance the mountarns of graduatron The frrst hrll of these barrrers merely throws us rnto oolrvron for who has not lrstened to the stard and solemn class oratron for ordarnrng th future The heart throb and knee qurverrngs of the graduates frrst appear ance should surely vsarn the optrmrst of the sorrou s of the Senrors But banrshrng all these sorrows and trrbulatrons the greatest arrses and proclarms rtself rn a vorce of the whole school and the facultv The Annual Th heart pulsrng electron selectron drrec tron and correctrons of thrs annual would wrthout doubt shake you more than a well known car The patrence of a trreles faculty the mrd nrght orl of June expended on the annual should seem to out wergh by far the good But perhar s rn the years to come rt may be comfortrng and amusrng to look back upon some of the factors that helped to counter act The Sorrow s of the Senrors V I ' . ., . q w u W ' ' ' 'Q T xv S ' 1 l .w '. O . V - . u N1 . . , . 1 Q I 7 l ' ' a ,w 1 - e . ,- . . V . - . w - .- 7 i . L , n . . v . . 1 1 - . - 4 . . i . 1 i . ., . . . . . 5 I I . . r . ,O . Lf u ' 5 I O If 7 7 ' - - . . Q L f K6 ax le - - - - . U ' r r 1 . . N . 23 , ,. - . I , x - J . . ' -' .- r

Page 34 text:

1919 Ol T 0 FR INT l I UNIOR CLASS HISTORY Slnce we are puttmg forth our efforts toward maklllg' the annual Out O Grant a success we are mmdful that 111 the last ed1t1on we appeared as Freshmen and were deslgnated a Freshles and you m1ght undel stand from that that we W 16 flesh undeveloped and not much was to be expected of us However we d1d our best to portl ay all the 1mpo1tant happel mgs of that most ex entful per 1od of our hues our enthus1ast1c entrance to the Hlgh School the slow process of gettlng acqualnt ed the slower one of accumulatmg knowledge our despalr 111 the early part of the year ou1 Joy 111 the latter when W we1e near1ng the end of the school yea1 In retrospect we fllld that vxe have d1ITl1lllSl'16d somewhat Ill number there were flfty SIX Ill the class when It was fn st fo1 med now there are twenty s ven of us We started our Junlor year off by electmg Off1C9lS as follovl s Mr Luther SWlft Pres1dent NIISS Ceorg1a Campbell Secr ta1y Mr Wheaton Dawson Treasurel Our new pres1dents f1rst ap pearance bemg characterlz d by the unsteadlness of h1s knees By thls tlme we have been plunged 1nto our new subjects and are begllllflg to reahze that hf 1n the Junlor year has 1tS t11als and hardsh1ps as well as the Freshman year we fmd that whereas 111 our f1rst year we had only about f1ve hours per day 111 school IH our th1rd year we average about s ven and we begm to wonder 1f the Sen1or year w1ll or can be much more crowded wlth wolk But our career has been much mterupted by the pre valance of Spamsh Influenza and w have m1ssed many Jovous days Ill school When school aga1n started a most amusmg event of the yea1 occured follow1ng a report rece1ved that one of our class noem bers had gotten ITIZIII d a group of students were d1scuss1ng how we should best lecognlze the event One of the boys by mlstake suggested that we send a l tter of re omrrendatmn lnstead of say1ng as he mtended that we should s nd a lettel of congratulatlon The athletlc season openlng up was such a br1ght and IJFOITIIS 1ng one that we were determmed to work hard that we mlght engov ourselves more IH the l lsure tlme we mlght have The honors won by our f1rst teams w1ll be shared by SIX members of our class a fact that we a1e justly proud of and we trust to see them wmn rs on the team next year Thls brmgs us up to the end of ou1 JUH101 year Next year ou1 fr1ends among the Senlors w1ll be gone and we shall have taken th 1r places , , 1 4 , , - 1.1 J 1 , . . cc a 1 as , ' ' , - - L k C 0 ' - s cr ' 77 ' . . , O. , U 5 I 7 , A Ll V ' 1 ' 1 I 1- . . Q . Y . .I Y . A , . , , . I . . , L - , , . . y 1 . . . lf, . 7 x -J . 'I , a . . . . . . . - V . . . 7 A 1 - '3 . . , . . 3 . . ' 1 9 I 9 'V 3 . . . ' Q . - . . T 0 , 0 C I . O . . . . . . . , 1. 'B sg . . . 0 l 0 , I 0 l O 7 r ' 0' V l Q 0 , 0 . - . . . 0 v . . . 'Nl l U 0 . . 1 . . . s 1 ' nailg ' ' 'V . 1 1 0 I . .D C 7 .1 I ' 7 J 9 0 . . , - .9 Y u V ' . . . . I, , 1.3 .V . . . fn ' 1 . D l 0 . . fx ., .