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

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ROUNDUP 23 the ministry, others seek positions in the mechanical world, while many are found pursuing literature and art, but though all are seeking honor and power each one is on his or her own individual path and rises only by his or her own exertions and falls by his or her own blunders. Does it not behoove us to strengthen ourselves to surmount those larger obstacles? Our battles that are fought and won must be accomplished by ourselves. Many hands will try to drag us down but few will be those to uplift us. With the long sought for goal so near in sight why should we be other than jubilant? To see. what has for four years been merely a vision, now within our grasp. We now stand at the first of a series of goal posts. Before us stretch many different paths leading to the various goals. Some may chose their paths haphazard, and perchance find them easy and the goal quite accessible, while others will find them rough and perhaps reach a point where their strength will not enable them to surmount. The more cautious climb further up the mountain of knowledge, that they may, from their more lofty view, choose the right path which nature has alloted them. It is pleasing to note that along this later course, at least, fifty per cent of the class will travel. We regret the loss of those who have felt it their duty to leave us that they might help some friend or relative and we feel that they deserve much praise for their self-sacrifice. We wish them pleasure ami success on their life ' s journey. As editor-in-chief, we wish to thank those who have so loyally supported and worked for the welfare of the Great Falls High school ' s representative in all parts of the United States and abroad — viz.. the Roundup. The assistant editors deserve much praise and many thanks for the work done by them. The good financial standing the Roundup now has is due to the persistent efforts of the manager and his untirin g assistants. ' 1 hose who have contributed the pages of our paper deserve many thanks for their valuable contributions. Right here we wish to thank the Merchants ' Association for the supporl and patronage they have given to us. To those subscribers and read- ers of the Roundup we extend our thanks and hope they have found it amusing and profitable. With this issue our active connection with the Roundup ceases but we shall always have its welfare at heart. To the next editor-in- chief we extend our hand and may he find his duties agreeable. We hope that he may be more proficient and bring the Roundup to a much higher standard. And. as a farewell, the class of [912 wishes the Roundup a long and prosperous life.

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22 ROUNDUP for the still higher things which are certain to follow. We received our first advancement when we found ourselves dubbed by the upper classmen, Freshies. Yet we gloried in the name. Perhaps it was the thought that we were making our first steps to the higher position that these classmen now hold and we could some day look back and say Welcome, Freshie. On looking back over the road traveled, and thinking of the knocks and tumbles we have had, we cannot but feel glad that the end is so near at hand. The trail has at times seemed almost impos- sible but even these rough spots when passed over have made the less rough places where we seemed mired in lessons, with seemingly no avenue of escape. In these cases it has been only by grim determi- nation and hard work that we have been able to overcome the obsta- cles and feel the joy and satisfaction that comes to every conqueror. How grateful we feel toward those who so gladly aided us when we could no longer see the light ahead! What a pleasure it has been to give aid and assistance to a struggling classmate and what joy to see him, or her, advance once more by the little aid that has been gladly given. From this point onward we shall have instructors of a totally different sort. We shall no longer have those to guide and instruct us, who have during these years had our interests in view and have taken pleasure in seeing us grow strong in intellect and manly and womanly char- acter, but instead, instructors who are paid only to teach and the rest is left to the individual to work out as best he can. Towards those teachers, who have always been interested in our welfare, we have a feeling of deep appreciation and thankfulness, and we hope that we may make a mark for ourselves that will be a joy to them to know. Thev have worked for us. fought for us, and what have we ever done to repay them? Now our opportunity is at hand. All we can do at present is to thank them and wish them as many happy days as we expect to have. Right here, as in no other place in life, our methods and associates are more strictly democratic in principle. Our wishes, our work, our pleasures are all the same. Never again shall we be surrounded with associates who are so congenial and cordial as they have been in high school. In the higher institutions we find individuals all struggling for the same end, but along different paths. Some take the path that leads to political honor, others the path to medical fame, some the road to

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24 ROUNDUP A Few Words About Jensen Without a doubt the reason that the football team representing our High school this year was so successful was because of the spirit which was instilled into every member of the team by Walter Jensen, who helped coach the team. No man who played under such a man as Mr. Jensen could help but wish to do everything possible to win the championship for his school. Having graduated from the Great Falls High school in 1905 and from the Montana State School of Alines in 1910, and having played on the football teams of both schools, he was in all respects capable ( i rounding a team into championship material. Induced by no other reason except his true loyalty to his school and the burning desire to see the Great Falls High school represented by a football team that would be a credit to it. he spent two hours of his time every afternoon for three months, under all sorts of disagree- able weather and unfavorable conditions for training a team, out on the practice field. Never once during- all practice was he ever heard to complain about the poor training accommodations afforded, nor did he ever do what so many coaches are likely to do, teach some little trick that is illegal and is very difficult for a referee to detect. It can be truthfully said that no coach could ever have been better liked or more greatly admired and respected by his players than Walter Jensen was by the squad of players that represented the Great Falls High school last year. If every student in the G. F. H. S. would only display some of the same loyalty, same spirit, and same enthusiasm that was displayed by Mr. Jensen this year, the Great Falls High school would have a spirit in its student body that could not be surpassed by any school in the country. What ' s the matter with Jensen? He ' s all right. Who ' s all right? Jensen. Who says so? Great Falls High School!