Henrietta High School - Bearcat Yearbook (Henrietta, TX)

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Senior Poem e The end of the school year comes at last, The days of High School life have passed Awayg Tho' through the year We've had our fun, I dare say at the end that none Are gay. On the threshold of life we stand To feel our life ambitions fanned' To flameg Some ask for only home and health While others crave and seek for wealth And fame. As we set out on life's morn VVe know that burdens must be borne By someg For the troubles of our school life Are but mere symbols of the strife To come. As thus We go to fill our plans And leave our footsteps on the sands Of timeg We bid you all a sad adieu For those friendships Were, tho' few, Sublime. -Russell Ponder, '22

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Senior Class History It was late in the fall of the year of 1943 when Mr. W. C. Kelley came home to supper after a hard day's work at his department store on Fifth Ave. When supper was over W. C. Jr. was requested to go up to his room and study. At this W. C. Jr. kicked saying he was going to quit school. I'll bet you never were in High School and had to do all this work that We do, he objected. O, yes I did, said the proud father. I went all the way through High School and graduated. How did you ever do it? asked W. C. Jr. Listen, my son, and I'll tell you all about it. You see, it was back in the year 1918 when we first made our entrance into High lSchool. We were so scared we didn't know what to do, but, since one of the teachers was an old friend of ours, we got her to give us some pointers and after that everything went along fine. The next year, as Sophomores we naturally felt our importance. However, this was soon taken out of us, especially when we saw the work that was allotted to us. Then we felt very small and insignificant. Nevertheless under the faith- ful guidance of Miss Schmid we got by all right. Gee! remarked W. C. Jr. that's not very exciting. Didn't you ever want to quit? No, son, that's one thing that never entered my mind, anyhow things began to pick up the next year. You see, as Juniors, we naturally went out in high society, so our school work naturally didn't bother us so much. Then we had a Dress Up day along with the Seniors. This caused excitement, in fact, too much, for we thought we would never get through staying in for it. Then this year the school decided to put out an annual, so naturally we had our share of the work. We won the contest for the best looking girl in school fshe was, tooj and nearly won all the rest, but of course you couldn't expect one class to do all that. Then there was our Junior play, which was the first time any Junior class had suc- cessfully done this. Let me see, u-u-rn-m-in Moses or Mose, or something like that, was the name, and I may add that your father was one of the leading characters in it. After that there was little doing except for parties, picnics and various other forms of amusement. The next year, my son, we entered upon our last, but most interesting year of High School. This is one reason that I want you to finish your High School courseg namely, the joys of being a Senior. The greatest. of these joys is work. We started off with a flourish, having an enrollment of thirty students. This was the biggest fand brightestb Senior class the school had ever seen. It fell to our lot to put out the annual, which was by no means an easy one. This year, as the year before, by our wonderful class spirit we won the Beauty Contest again. There was a slight misunderstanding over this contest and we hardly received credit for our hard labor. Nevertheless, after a conference lasting several days the matter was finally decided in our favor. Then again this year we had our annual Dress Up Day, assisted by the Juniors. And then, as well as I can remember, I believe the next thing of importance was our Senior Stunt Nite in which We raised quite a lot of money and displayed our dramatic talent. After that there was a long period of work until time for our Senior play. And so we all graduated about the middle of May, 1922, and how proud I was when I received my diploma! Thus, my son, I have summed up to you the joys of a High School educa- tion. Now go upstairs and study While papa reads the Daily Independent. KONRAD KELLEY, '22.