Imbler High School - Golden Reveries Yearbook (Imbler, OR)

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CLASS HISTORY Some twelve or thirteen years ago the members of this graduating class tearfully left their mothers’ apron strings and trudged off to school with other boys and girls. Those were trying days for the teachers of kindergarten and first grade as well as for the boys and girls themselves, for the girls were always crying and the boys so bashful they could hardly tell their names. However, the newness soon wore olT and school days were happy days for mothers, teachers and the pupils themselves. It was quite a thrilling thing to l e able to say, “I’m in the first grade now,” and fond mothers proudly displayed the samples of handwork their children took home. First grade is often considered rather unimportant in the general school program but in this school the boys and girls learned many valuable lessons of daily living that will always be a part of their character. 1 believe we are safe in saying that some of the most important lessons of life are learned in the primary grade. In the first grades boys and girls must learn to take their place in a new phase of our social order. They become a part of the community instead of the center of attraction. They are one of a group, not the star performer, as is so often the case in the home. In the primary grades the boys and girls of this class had to learn how to get along with other children. True, there were some rough times on the play ground and on the way to and from school but these differences were only a part of the training necessary, or so the winners believed. In.the first grade the boys and girls learned the first rudiments of reading and writing. They learned how to sit still for brief periods of time, and how to do certain things that call for coordination of muscles, and how to apply themselves to certain tasks. They were getting bigger day by day, and older, too. Some of them even lost some of their teeth and talked with a peculiar accent. Second and third grade years passed rather uneventfully. Some of the pupils were absent from school for a considerable time because of an epidemic of measles in the spring. Some of the more adept pupils were promoted to higher grades; some moved away from the community and some new members were added from time to time. In the fourth grade the boys and girls began to take a peculiar dislike to each other. There was much‘‘name calling” and some competing for the honors of the class. The boys took delight in supplying the school with things of nature—such things as dead snakes, and sometimes live ones, white rats, baby mice, toads anti snails appeared in the queerest places and at the most inopportune times. The girl were growing taller than the boys and felt superior in every way. They could scarcely tolerate the boys long enough to sit next to them in class. The quarreling that went on was a sore trial to the patient teachers and parents as well. Conducting classes in this grade was not easy because the girls excelled in reading and language while the boys found mathematics and manual arts more to their liking. Still the year soon passed and the class moved on another grade. The fifth grade work was similar to that of the fourth grade. In fact, the routine and studies were practically the same and there was little change in the tempo of school life. In the fall when the class entered the school as sixth graders, many difficulties presented themselves. Uncertainty and rebellious attitudes tried the teachers almost to distraction. Sometimes both boys and girls seemed possessed of some sort of evil spirit. It was a happy day when this class was promoted into the seventh grade where the work was exacting enough to keep some of the pupils out of mischief. Grades seven and eight are often considered the most difficult of all. However, this class took these grades in their stride and most of the members passed with Hying colors. Perhaps this was because the school days were so filled with

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 LKWIS OMOHl’XDKO F. F. A. I. 2. 3 F. F. A. Reporter 2, 3 F. F. A. Judging Team 2 F. F. A. Parliamentary Procedure 2 Dramatics 3. -1 Class President 2 Class Vice President 3 Class Secretary Letterman’s Club 2, 3, 4 Letterman's Vice President 3 Letterman's Club Secretary 4 Baseball 2. 3. 4 Basketball 4 Band 2 Orchestra I Student Council 3 Paper Staff 4 dee Club I. 2 BKTTK WKSTKNSKOW Dramatics 1. 2. 4 Paper Staff 1. 2. 4 Orchestra 1 Volleyball 1. 2 Vice President 1. 2. 4 Girls League 1. 2. 4 Glee Club 1. 2 Girls’ League Delegate 2 Home Kc Club I. 2 DONALD FITZGERALD F. F. A. 1. 2. 3 Dramatics 4 Basketball ! F. F. A. Judging Team 2 Orchestra 1 Baseball 4 Letterman’s Club 4

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classes and studies there was little time to think of mischief. Then too, high school day’s loomed ahead and every member was anxious to get into high school where there was lots of fun going on at all times. Boy and girl friendships began to take the place of rivalry. Dates supplanted name calling and snubbing. Home work often formed an excellent excuse for getting together. As members of this class grew in stature, they also grew in wisdom. Then came high school and three years more of studies and exciting activities. Dates, not historical, became all important and little by little different courses were completed and new tasks begun. The work was often very difficult and the midnight lights burned brightly while sleepy boys and girls poured over geometry, physics and those various subjects included in the high school curriculum. Those days are over with this commencement season. The members of this graduating class have completed the prescribed course of study of this school and stand ready for new fields.