Great Falls High School - Roundup Yearbook (Great Falls, MT)

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1 « JK k 1 i w Jf r5S , m m ARTHUR WRIGHT Editor-in-Chief

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ROUNDUP 19 [f you ever had physics and imagine Finding an airship I boarded the car the least. nc started her out headed straight An airship I built with this metal f or a s t a r. . , , , , , ,, But the sound of her engine as it ] x lore ' ' S t0 s P uttered and cracked Into thTeast I glided with ease, Made the Mar § uards think their Til! as a bird that floats in the breeze world was attack ed- I was headed for Mars at a quite rap- M - v time was short an d the course id pace was lon 8 ' And soon came in view of that wonder- And I knew that my life would go ful place. for a song. Their glass covered mansions re- The run that we had that night fleeted the light Was sure some wonderful sight, And palaces and towers, oh, such a But weary at last they returned to sight! their kind But best of all was the airships that To tell their friends how I left them sailed behind. And dodged and darted and dipped The purr of my motor was all that and scaled, was heard Some drifting slow for pleasure and As I floated and dipped, a huge hu- glee, man bird. Others in a hurry on business you But I wasn ' t much grieved, ' tis see. strange to say But ere I got near my airship they The formula I used had been taken spied. away. And toward me a bunch of young- Now as I came into sight of this sters soon hied. earth My big awkward ship made them all My heart overflowing with joy and laugh with glee mirth. When they gathered close ' round to A sudden thing happened much to my investigate me. dread But soon the guard came and stopped A huge glowing comet flashed over the fun, my head. And put me in a cellar far away from I waited but a second, then jumped, the sun. For the ship and the comet were go- These men were giants full seven feet ing to bump. high, I knew it was dangerous to fall from To struggle was impossible and fool- so high ish to try. But ' twas my chance, so I drew a But realizing that 1 was in a terrible deep sigh scrape And tumbled and fell, oh, ever so fast I set out to think of a plan to escape. Knowing I would land upon some- That night in the dark, I crawled thing at last. through the bars, But the biggest surprise I ever did And again I was free to look at the take stars. Was when I found out I had struck So I stealthily climbed to the top of Gibson Lake. the tower I see my friends all laughing at me, In the dead silence of this unearthly That ' s why I ' ve not told this before, hour. you see. — F. L.. ' 12.

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EDITORIAL STAFF. Roundup on Sale at Postoffice News Stand. 224V4 Central Avenue Editor-in-Chief - - - - ARTHUR W. WRIGHT, ' 12 Associate Editors — Annie Luke, 12; Kittie Woodward, 12; Edith Johnson, ' 12; Marguerite Knudsen, 12; Ruth Noble, ' 13; Ethel Carpenter, ' 13; Agnes Bergeson, ' 13; Mabel Taylor, ' 13; Marion Duncan, 13; Anna Rector, 12; Frances Lambert, ' 12. Exchange Manager ---------- Marguerite Knudsen, ' 12 Business Managers — Donald Hoffman, ' 12; Taylor Lescher, ' 12; Donald Suhr, ' 13; Ben Lapeyre, ' 13 FIFTH YEAR JUNE, 1912 NUMBER THREE gay bunch we were when the opening of school in 1908 lund us in reality Freshmen. A happy crowd we have been on our four years ' journey through High school. But how much more jubilant we are now that the long sought for goal looms up before us. What a welcome sight it is to see that for which we have been so long struggling and persevering, at last before our eyes. The task that remains for us is to scale this one last obstacle, the final exams, and receive our reward, the coveted diploma. After eight years of grade work we were truly glad to enter High school, and though it meant more and harder work, at the same time it meant the acquisition of more knowledge. It meant, to us. the advancement on the plain of life that we have now acquired; and where is the person in any phase of life who does not feel gratified in an advancement? It makes his life seem more worth while, his duties more agreeable. He knows that his services have been faith- fully rendered, every order successfully obeyed and that all these have been of the greatest value to him. He endeavors in his higher position, to not only make himself worthy of it. but to qualify himself