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

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ROUNDUP ANNUAL, JUNE, 1917 IMIIII1IIII1III1IIMII The girls ' basket-ball team, composed of Edith Judson, Laura Pearson, Vivian Bruneau, Mary Buley, Edna Helmerich, Helen Hill, and Estelle Bradlev, distinguished itself a number of times. A number of our boys are athletes, and will long be remembered as champions of football and track. When we rose to the station of Juniors, there were 88 of us left. We felt our own importance, and showed it plainly. Miss Kocken had become the class teacher and we used many of her progressive ideas in our pro- ceedings. Ambrose Ryan succeeded Earl Conrad as president; Mary Buley was vice president; Laura Pearson became secretary, and Velma Lewis, treasurer. The year was full of social events. First came the class party, a sort of indoor track meet. It was held in the gymnasium of the school, on a Saturday night early in December. The class was well represented, there being more than 75 present. All of us enjoyed ourselves immensely. After that came the Junior Class play, Our Wives. Then began the preparations for the Junior-Senior affairs at the end oi the year. There were class meetings without number and committees, and committees, and committees. How the girls worked on flowers for decor- ating, and on banners! We all know how busy Miss Kocken was all this time Commencement week was filled with festivities. At the Senior class play, we Juniors sat together in the balcony. We gave vent to our enthusiasm in our class yells, which completely drowned every suggestion of a yell from the Freshmen and Sophomores. ( hi Commencement night, the Seniors held us in a state of awe. Very humbly our handsomest young men acted as ushers, while the rest of us saw visions of our youth and beauty as it would grace just such an occasion, but one short year hence. The next evening — which was Friday, June 9 — we proved our good will toward our recent rivals by giving a banquet in their honor at the Rainbow Motel. There were places for 221}. The Seniors and the members of the faculty were the guests of the evening. Just preceding the banquet, Howard Lease, who was toastmaster, introduced our president, Ambrose Ryan. Ambrose welcomed the class of 1916 and the faculty; Claire Marsh, presi- dent oi the Senior Class, responded in behalf of his classmates, and Mr. Rae replied lor the faculty. Mary W 1, one of the talented members of out- class, contributed two delightful solos. hollowing the banquet, was given the toast program, which centered about the subject Good Roads. John Marshall of the Senior class, in response to the toast Ancient Highways — a schoolboy ' s tale of the won- der of the hour — reminded us of much interesting ancient history. The subject By-ways had been given to .Mildred Chichester, ' 10. She showed that though the pleasant places aside from the main road were but by-paths, they afforded much enjoyment, as our toast programs gave evidence — A Page Sixteen

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ROUNDUP ANNUAL, JUNE, 1917 inn ' iiu rii ' i mill [lilt iimMiiiiUIMtill Minimi i r ■ (Elass Itsfnru On a certain morning in September of the year 1913, one hundred thirty-two Freshmen were seen wandering about the halls of the Great Falls High Schorl, frantically comparing the numbers on the doors oi the various rooms with the numbers on their cards. Somehow, they didn ' t match at all! The upper classmen looked on, much amused. We poor Freshies failed to appreciate the humor which the others were enjoying so much. When a bell rang, at last, we were almost distracted, because ws hadn ' t made the numbers come out right — that is, most of us hadn ' t. But we rushed into the nearest room, and sat down, trying to seem very calm, though our hearts were beating very rapidly, indeed. Alter we had settled down and looked around, we found that we appeared to be a little out ol place. When the teacher in charge had examined our cards, she very kindly and politely, yet firmly, told us that we were in the wrong room and pointe 1 out to us the one into which we should have made our way. After the first day, things seemed to go a little better, but it required a whole week to make us perfectly at ease. Our work for the year had just begun when we decided that we shoul 1 have a class meeting. An announcement to this effect appeared upon the bulletin board, and every Freshman felt very proud. The meeting look- place in the assembly hall. Miss Dryden, the history teacher, was our faculty adviser. She presided until we had elected our president, and then he took charge. The officers for the first two years were: Earl Conrad, president; Pauline Fryberg, vice president; Isabel Fairfield, secretary; and Fred Stimpert, treasurer. The colors chosen for class colors were blue and gray. We also picked out our class pins and ordered them. They were kite-shaped, and had the class colors in enamel. They also contained the letters G. F. II. S.. and ' 17. We didn ' t have many more class meetings after that, and those that we did have were of little importance. By the time the second semester had begun, we had ceased being en- tirely green. In fact, but for an occasional simple expression, no one would have guessed that we were merely Freshmen. Then came the Sophomore year. We were happy to find that now we might laugh at the l ' )14 Freshmen, who were as green as we had been. Studying seemed to lie much more difficult for us at this time than at the time we were Freshmen. There were continual consultations with Mr. Rae, during which we begged and even prayed to have our courses changed. The easiest subjects had many followers. As Freshmen we had taken what was given us to study, as a matter of necessity, and we had studied early and late on Algebra. History, Fnglish, Latin, and many other things. We now discovered that it was entirely unnecessary to injure our brains with such hard usage, and studied less and less. Our grades suffered in most cases, but we were not much concerned, and went serenely on our way. We experienced a distinct shock when we received the information that we had failed or were conditioned and must needs go to summer school. There were not many social affairs during our Sophomore year. Page Fifteen

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