Humboldt High School - Nokomis Yearbook (Humboldt, IA)

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liDW'lN lf. SWANSON Sl1fu'riuli'mli'nt Birds On The Wing At six o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done. -Rllll-Yllftf Kipling All the young birds are shaking themselves, for it's time for school to start. There are many different kinds of birds who attend the Humboldt High School: the love birds, the cuckoos, the sap suckers, and the mag- pies, not to mention the night hawks, parrots, and mocking birds. But it takes all kinds of feathery friends to make a world. After reaching the building, the chatter and noise in the halls in- crease steadily until a small, round, little bird with a ruler under her wing appears in the door from room 9. It is strange how suddenly things become quiet, and how busy all the little birds are with their books or their lockers. But when she disappears again, the noise and twitter return. Finally the five-minute bell rings, and the gossip circles are broken up. The various love birds' billing and cooing cease and the birds disperse and flutter into their various class rooms. In room 6 is a physics class taught by a very pompous, little pelican whose tie is always crooked and from whose coat a button is gone. Here the birdies play around with batteries, wires, glass tubes, and similar mechanical devices. Very often one may see all of them scribbling in their thin, brown note books and drawing queer looking pictures in blank spaces. This activity is found most prevalent, however, during the eighth period on Friday. Another class is economics which is held in room 8. The master of this class is a blue jay, tall and thin, with a dark, crinkly crest on the top of his head. His classes are known for their aptness in picking an argument, so the story goes, and the teacher, also, is not exactly lacking in such qualities. Between 9:00 a. m. and 10:20 a. m. room 14 is filled with a group of very little birdlings. Here the innocents are taught peculiar chatter and they have even been seen on the assembly pro- gram before the whole school, dressed in sbeels. There is a rumor that they had a party in the cafeteria one dark night, and came draped in tablecloths, and actually Hl'l'l0ffI1l'di, to eat! There is a certain well-known English class fin fact S or 6 of themj taught in room 3 by a very learned English sparrow. In this class our little birdies study dangling participles and split infinitives and such nerve-wracking things. It's really quite impressive how they talk. And it is said of an afternoon, any time between 4:00 and 6:00 o'clock, if one happens to pass by the door of room 3 or of room S, one is likely to be startled by the amazing sounds radiating through the closed doors. If one anxiously inquires about the cause of these varying sounds, one's answer 8

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Birds On The Wing might be: Oh, that? That's just the mocking birds fdcclamersj. XVe get used to them. Between these two noisy nooks, hovers a red-crestegl flicker. Her haunt is frequented by chat- tering creatures, whose duty it is to learn the why and wherefore, of x, y, and 1, but whose chief desire it is to leave all things quite unknown. A very interesting class is taught in room 17. Here the birds sit at sewing machines, stitch- ing on brilliant materials. Some times one may see them in the kitchen vigorously stirring strange concoctions. Often the delicious odors, pouring forth from this particular room permeate the whole building, and all the birds envy those who stay to dinner in the cafeteria. Hungeritis is the most widespread disease and is most common during fourth period. Some claim it is even contagious. Across the hall from this alluring room is the farm shop. Here our feathered friends are taught how to sow corn, plant barley, rotate their crops, and lots of things birds should know about the great out-of-doors in which they live. There are a number of the members in this honorable school who go under the name of war- blers. Now secretly, we have doubted their worthiness to carry this title, judging from the sounds pouring forth from room 27 at rare occasions. But on March 26 and 27, we dutifully repented and changed our refractory minds when we witnessed the operetta put on by these said warblers. In room 12, a plump bird mothers her brood of incompetent little chicks. One never knows quite what they will do next, and, we assure you, neither do they. But they're a pretty fine little brood after all, and we've nothing to say against them. Room 10 and I1 are the headquarters of all the woodpeckers, big and little. At any time of the day you may see them pecking away industriously, if not furiously at queer, noisy, little machines. They are trying to get a perfect peck. And are they busy! XVell, just ask Iln'm.' just around the south corner from the Newsome resting room is the office of the king fisher. Now this fellow has great skillg he is the pilot of the machinery. He works the gadgets and pulls the levers. -just around the north corner is another office, more commonly known as room 9. Here is found the secret of what makes it work. Here is the heart of the whole business. In the corners of these pages we have placed the two most important characters who direct our flights. The pictures of all the other birds and birdlets in our f.iir school, and descriptions of the flights in school life. follow. -lillell 15111113 C ATI ll RlNli OSIA Prim lpill