John A Johnson High School - Maroon Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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SQHRHOIC Hllbililm EDNA OHr.ssoN: Oh! girls, isn't he a dear? KIEFFER VAUx: Don't condemn a man 'who has curly hair unless he likes it. Lucius LINDGREN: I am collecting class dues from you. URSULA SHExu.ocK: She's Anna's sister. THOMAS MORAN: Jilted twice. RAGNA WIKSTRAND: The rarest thing in the world is common sense. FLORENCE STONHOLM: She always carries the same books that Adella does. ALLEN HUNGERFORD! Trouble's own companion.

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t Senior Hllbimm MARIE HOGE: Oh, those pie plates! HAROLD voN LORENZ: What will the Sophomore girls do with- out him? ALICE MONTGOMERY: Short and--ahem, and happy. ILA SAUL: Malted milk made her andgwe chn prove it. MILTON Sci-IAEFFER: He took cooking. LEONARD HOLMGRENS Oh! that smile. EDNA ANDERSON! History and stenography Keep her busy as a bee.

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1 rf +V, Glass ilhlfstorn A I N the spring of 1911 the new John A. johnson High School was -IT: V completed and dedicated and Mr. J. M. Guise chosen for VW principal. The following September there were enrolled in this Q. 1 1 -b new school a hundred and some odd shy freshmen composing I-'-:if 'ii 5 the class of 1915. Pride forbids describing minutely our appear- Pf-'1' T- ance and behavior on this occasion. of , ' During that first semester we unintentionally came into contact with certain austere and haughty persons designated by one word, Seniors . These superior beings caused us great chagrin on various occasions by making such remarks as Look at the new crop of greens when speaking of us and by advising us to take the elevator to fourth Hoor when we had asked them the way to the library. For this treatment we took revenge by speaking only when a plus was badly needed, and on those rare occasions when addressed by a Senior. Whenever this occurred our hearts would jump into our throat and nearly strangle us so that we were only able to articulate Yeh when we had intended saying 'fYes, sir . There was little social life during the first year. Our talk was confined to Yeh and HI haven't studied that . We passed safely our first term examinations and became acquainted with Shakespeare, Wells, Julius Caesar, Mr. Haeberle, Mr. Guise, and others. Some few of us ventured to attend the games, were unhurt when it was over, and boasted of our courage for months. The boys began to pay more attention to their appearance, combing their hair, pressing their trousers, keeping the mud off their shoes, and discarding their grade school graduation pins. Easter vacation came and went. Then spring came and found us hauling ashes to make enough money to attend the baseball games. Here we lost enough of our shyness to be able to yell when Buck or Curly made a hit. We began to wish we were athletes, and when a heretofore haughty Senior approached a few members of our class and surprised us by asking us to try out for the football team in the fall we had visions of a place on the all-star team. Accordingly we started taking exercise so as to be able to show those Seniors they had made no mistake by asking us to try out. So we and the second team passed. Then came relief when our long-looked- forward-to vacation came. One hundred and twenty-two students were enrolled at Johnson High School in September as members of the Sophomore class. But what a change had taken place in the persons of the students. The boys were wearing neatly pressed long trousers, stiff collars and respectable appearing neckties. The girls were trying their best to look sophisticated in their long skirts, and to appear as if wearing their hair done up in the latest style was not unusual, although they did occasionally forget they had discarded hair ribbons, and their hands from habit would steal up to their head as if to straighten them out. Everybody was soon settling down again to the routine of school life, with as little trouble as possible. At the first call for candidates for the team the boys hunted up their old football togs and sprinted to Post Siding, where we tackled and were tackled, jumped on and were jumped on all afternoon, and we hobbled home minus half a jersey, a sock, half a liter of blood, a hundred square inches of skin, and an idea that we wanted to play football. The next few days we spent in discussing the merits of various liniments, crutches, nerve and vigor restorers, and the number of bones and muscles in our bodies, one boy exclaiming he had five hundred muscles at least, for he had felt every one of them ache. This First practice was the last for most of us,and we soon became interested in other things. October twenty-fourth a meeting of sophomores was held and the class of 1915 organized. At this meeting Lester Palmer was elected President, Kieffer Vaus vice-president, Marie Fischer secretary, and Mildred Lindahl treasurer. X