Humboldt County High School - Winnada Yearbook (Winnemucca, NV)

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« W I N N A D A 13 On our return we were somewhat dismayed to learn that longer lessons were going to be assigned in order to make up for the lost time. However, as it was useless to oppose fate, we grinned and bore it. The weeks and months rolled by, vacation came and went, and in the autumn of 1919 we returned a bunch of care-free Juniors. We could now sit in the Senior and Junior assembly hall, occupy seats once used by Seniors and be almost equal to them in exalted Station without possessing their burdens. During our first two years some of our class mates dropped out but others came to take their place. In our third year Ellen Thacker, Eleanor Westervelt, and George Hoskins joined us. Now George was a sophomore when we were honored with the title of Freshies and when asked why he had taken a vacation for a year he said, “So I could graduate with this brilliant class.” His ex- planation was accepted by some but others think his reason was so that he could graduate with a brilliant one of the class of ’21. In the latter part of the second semester we Juniors gave the departing Seniors a party which proved a success. We eagerly watched the preparations for graduation of the class of ’20 and profusely admired the neat diplomas which they received and all this not without reason; was it not our turn next? The sixth of September! All the students came trooping back to take up their work and among them, we the Seniors. The envied goal was reached but all was not as easy as we expected, for Sen- ior troubles and cares came with the honored name. First was the initiation of the Freshies; the boys were forced to wear dunce caps while the girls appeared with their hair in braids. Naturally other ceremonies were gone through, but they were of a secret nature. Second, came the Annual, although this Annual was to be a school rather than a Senior book; nevertheless, the burden of com- position and publication of it fell on Seniors shoulders. Ellen Thacker was elected editor, and George Becker associate editor, and various other duties were distributed among us. First, watch for a magnificent ball to be given about the middle of May. Watch also, for some really excellent entertain- ments to be given at the American Theatre, and then when we fin- ally appear on the platform for the last time, to receive the last little books H. C. H. S. hands out to us, see if we don’t make a better showing than any other class which has ever graduated from dear old H. C. H. S. ■mm MABIE LAMB ’21

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 ’ ‘ - 12 W I N N A D A SENIOR CLASS HISTORY j jTT ISTORY repeats itself” but keeps on improving. We, the J the Seniors of the class of 1921, of the Humboldt County High School, feel that we have made considerable im- provement over our predecessors, but like them, we desire to leave a record of the joys and sorrows which we have experienced thru four long years of high school. In order that this ‘ ‘ editorial we ’ ’ may not confuse any of my readers, I will explain first of all, that “we” are the following: Louise Ruckteschler Eleanor Westervelt Viola Defenbaugh Mabel La Pointe Ellen Thacker Grace Sheehan Mabel Riel Marie Lamb Three years ago the greater part of the Graduation class of this year entered the Humboldt County High School. We were like and unlike most incoming classes. Of course we were desig- nated as Freshies and condescendingly looked down upon by the sophisticated upper classmen. However, we did not hold our breath and look frightened when the Seniors deigned to speak to us; nor did we get the class rooms mixed up “after we once got them straightened out.” We even escaped the terror of all poor Freshies, the initiation! We never knew the reason for this, but it is safe to say that we did not mourn the omission. The novelty of our position having worn off in a few weeks, we settled down to hard work, and distracted Freshies could be found moaning over Algebra or rushing through the hall demand- ing where the Latin teacher might be found. It was with smiles of joy that the books were handed in, in June, and Freshies rushed out to return as Sophomores who could lord it over the New Class. After our long summer vacation of three months we returned to school with fresh energy and renewed interest. Just when school affairs had gotten well started and athletics looked most promising, the “flue” broke out and gave a few fortunate ones who did not have the disease themselves, a vacation. Christine Garteiz George Hoskins Philip Roberts Vera Haviland Violet Nelson George Becker Greta Wells Donald Rose

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14 W I N N A D A CLASS PROPHESY IT IS five years today since I graduated from H. C. H. S. and for the last few days I have been thinking of all my old classmates, wondering where they are living and what they are doing. This afternoon’s mail brought me a copy of the 1926 annual of H. C. H. S. which contained accounts of the former students who had graduated in ’21. Don Rose is a famous teacher of aesthetic dancing in New York. Marie Lamb is a librarian in the Carnegie library of Chicago. Maryd Bell is playing in the great New York Symphony Or- chestra which is now touring Europe. Yera Haviland is teaching history in the University of Illi- nois. » Viola Defenbaugh and Violet Nelson are both married and are now spending the summer with their children at their cottages on the shore of Lake Tahoe. Mabel Reil is captain of the Y. W. C. A. basket ball team of Oakland, which is making a record for itself in the Eastern States. George Becker is renowned throughout the U. S. as an inven- tor of wireless instruments. George Hoskins is a prominent lawyer of San Francisco. Mabel La-Pointe is married to a prominent lawyer of San Francisco. Christina Grateiz is married to a wealthy farmer of Oregon. Greta Wells is a nurse in the Children’s Hospital of Denver. Ellen Thacker is the secretary of Miss Morgan, the leading suffragette of Nevada, and during the last election, canvassed the state in behalf of Miss Morgan’s candidacy as U. S. Senator. Eleanor Westervelt is married to the principal of the grammar school of Salt Lake City. Philip Roberts is postmaster of the Oakland postoffice. Louis Ruckteschler and Grace Sheehan are proprietors of an exclusive millinery shop on Geary Street, San Francisco. GRACE SHEEHAN ’21