Kalona High School - Centerika Yearbook (Kalona, IA)

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THE CENTERIKA Se sy . S : ee 2 — K DK Gladly would I speak at Geometry’s funeral for it was never a friend of mine; it was always unjust to me. Professors say we should be more ambitious, but Geometry is a horrible book. it has caused many students far to roam. When the poor students cry the professors yell, “You should be made of sterner stuff.” Oh! Yes, Geometry is a horrible book. You all have seen that on the front page I have written notes galore, yet it refuses to give me knowledge. I repeat it, friends, it is a horrible book. I speak not to disprove what the professors say, I speak to tell you what I know. You all did hate it once, not without cause for Geometry is a horrible book. I have lost all my “reasons” so I must pause till they come back to me. — Ne aS KE — — as = AES San Kwon, . @ . SoS Yes¥ I MEANT TO DO IT “What sweet, dear girls they are,” said Cousin Agnes looking after Dorry and Lorraine as they left the room together. “So full of sweet impulses, both of them. They heard me say that I would have trouble with my eyes until I got my glasses and they both begged to be allowed to do things for me. I was struggling to thread a needle and striking everything but the eye,” she added laughingly. An hour later, when she picked up her workbasket, it was to find a row of needles already threaded. “You darlings!” she exclaimed. “Tt was Lorraine,” said Dorry. “I meant to help, but it slipped my mind.” “Thank you so much, Lorraine,’ said Cousin Agnes warmly, “and you too, Dorry, for thinking of it.” “Well, well, who mended my gloves so beautifully?” asked their father the next morning. But his eyes turned naturally to Lorraine, who flushed with pleasure as she returned his kiss. “T love to do it,” said Lorraine. “T meant to do it,” said Dorrv quickly. “I thought I’d get right at them when you made that funny face over the holes when you took them off yesterday, but I just forgot.” “I want to thank you girls,” said Mrs. Andrews, their Sunday school teacher when she called in the afternoon, “for going to see Amy James and coaxing her back into the class. She’s such a shy little thing, and her feelings were hurt a week ago by one of the other children, and it only needed Lorraine and Dorry to follow it up and make things all smooth and nice again.” “It was Lorraine, who went to see her,” Dorry said truthfully. “I meant to go—I thought I surely would when you asked us, but somehow I forgot and Lor- raine went.” “Oh, how the little sick children will love those bright pictures!” Miss Drew exclaimed as she glanced over the neat muslin pages covered with pictures cut from old magazines. She had stopped for these gifts which had been prepared for the Children’s Hospital. “They’re lovely, Lorraine, and how many of them you have done!’ “IT meant to have some ready, too,” said Dorry. “My grandmother gave mea whole lot of old magazines to cut up for the hospital, but I just didn’t remember to get at it in time.” “Dorry always means to do things, but it’s Lorraine who does them,” mused Cousin Agnes, when their caller had gone. “There’s a great difference between the two girls. The girl that is dependable and really does things is the one who will be a success.” Vise 2a ODEO SEO SEO DEO eS THECENTERIKA = S,

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Pa ae OP fe ee a oy So oe Clifford H. Hess ’28 Jacob F. Swartzendruber ’28 Vernon B. Bontrager ’28 EDITORIAL The Alumni Association In the spring of 1928 a group of nine members comprising the graduating class of that year met and organized the Alumni Association of Center High School, tor the purpose of upholding the spirit and traditions of their prided Alma Mater. Two successive graduating classes have since swelled the ranks of the organization to 30. It has been made the custom to meet annually at a banquet attended by the Alumni and the graduating class whose members are formally initiated into membership at this time. Thus we note another purpose of the Alumni Association as important if not more important, than the one previously mentioned: namely, main- taining the friendships of high school days. Here, once a year old friends will gather to forget their cares and responsibilities for a few hours and converse as freely as in class room days. So here’s to the Center High School Alumni Association. Long may it live! A Gym for Center High School During the past year or two there has been considerable discussion as to the feasibility of building a gymnasium for use of the students of Center High School and the community. By state law each school is required to teach at least fifty min- utes of physical training each week. This work should be done not only to comply with the state law, but also to train the physical parts of the body as well as the mental. Physical training not only exercises the muscles but also trains the mind to work accurately and quickly. Think of the time it takes many people to reach a decision. Suppose a person playing base ball or basket ball used the same time before throwing! Not only must a player think quickly but also accurately. Surely, no one would think of hindering such work. The question should be: “How much can we help?” Any one who thinks seriously at all will see that a school building where 40 pupils are working with barely enovgh room for classwork does not have sufficient room for the required work in physical training. The main question is one of funds with which to work. Why not plan a building which can be used as an auditorium in which community meetings could be held, and which could be used as an auditorium in which to have plays, basket ball games, lectures, or many other features. Such a building could be so built that it will furnish shelter for the eight or twelve automobiles which usually are on the school grounds. The income from such a project would in a number of years pay for itself besides helping our school greatly. Center High School is no longer an experiment and must be provided with the proper equipment to do her work well. Let our motto be: “A gym for Center High School.” . ©, . Bote) Ser TO THE CLASS OF ’30 To you who have braved the dangers of traveling the path of a student and have overcome Physics, Algebra, Law, and all the other monsters along the wayside, we give you a welcome to join the ranks of your predecessors. All that remains now is for you to be initiated into full membership. Again, Welcome! = [4 —“ Hy By i So So on a es, Por, a 3 THECENTERIKA €03209203203203203428