Keokuk High School - Comment Yearbook (Keokuk, IA)

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'I Ii CoMM1cN'1' ARTHUR ROBBINS The less weight a race horse Carries, the faster he runs and the same holds good for Artie's', tongue. He is the Wit of the class and Well liked by everyone in it. I'm a rczil witty' guy with thesc handy rctorts, I keep czxuued within me :issortetl otlcl S1lO1'l.h. You thiult tliz1t's :1 steam cli'ilI's louil contact with rock, llut huh uh it isu't4l'm winding my clock. RUTH BLAND A Very quiet member of the class and for that reason not Very Well known. She is always Well escorted to our class meetings. I wear sailor suits of :I rather ful hue Autl, as sc:11'let's my fz1v'1'ite, a rcrl rilwlion, too. I ordered, this spring, uincty-six invitations. I shall till up the housc with my closest relations. YVILLIAM MCKINLEY BROOKS ln one semester this youth has succeeded in establishing his ability in elocution as Well as loosening up some of his joints. Brooks is an industrious, well meaning lad. I'u1 11 rliguiticnl luoy of culchuahcrl aspect. I'm hettcx' in spczilsing than you would expect. My mcloclious voice and ziccotnpzmying gestures Are worthy of tlxesui' iu his long llowing vesturesf' -.-f gr I 3 i i 'wg

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IIE CoMxn2N'r 23 RIISSEL BITSS Rusty,' has played on the baseball team for four years and was manager of the team of 19123, He contributed much to the life of the class. In athletic events I show my school spirit. If we win any games I shout when I hear it. My gray matter rifles in the top of my hcail, 'But where is his hc:ul?' some lvrutc cruelly said. LESLIE VAUG HN Tim is our big star on the athletic Held of whom we are justly proud. He was cap- tain of the football team of 1913 until acci- dents put him out. He is popular with all and blessed with plain reason and common sense. Now wait just a minute and give your attention, I want your opinion of this new invention. I play in all progress a conservative part, But I um the rcal author of true 'culrist' art. ADA FIELD Ada has shown in the last half 'of this term that she really can work if she tries. She has a sunny disposition and lives and dreams for the lithe and nimble art of dancing. I ilo the Turkey trot, tango or waltz hesitation, I claucc every clancc that is known to creation. That green inackinaw that looked something like Roy's YVas the personal property of clear Hughie I3oy's. CLIFFORD AGNEW Cliff was the hero of the annual class fight. One of the most popular students in school. A member of the football team of 1911 and 1913. Also secretary of the Boys' Athletic Association, For thc Drexel pool room I'm a live walking ad. VYith my calm disposition I never get mad. -A professional gun in shaking the dice, I'm as slow as pure sorghum in the winter solstice. HELLEN KOLLMEYER-I No Picture? A graduate of last year who considered high school life so desirable that she tried another year of it. This year she will re- ceive a diploma for the nor1na1 course. She is a pleasant girl with a sunny disposition.

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l 4 'l'Hic ComiicN'r 25 IN FLIGHT BY liuz.-xBE'1'l1 NANCY WILSUN As young birds from their nests are attempting to Hy VVhen still weak and their wings they so hopefully try Their pinions, untested, will fail oft to bear Them upward and onward through thin pathless air. They flutter, thy struggle in efforts to rise,4 These venturesome messengers of the far skies- They sink, then they fall, but at last soar aloft, Now high, and now higher, amid cloudlets soft. Of failure they know not, they only achieve, Most fruitful their efforts when dull earth they lea Their earnest endeavors are crowned with the best, These fledgelings so eager to leave the home nest. Un pinions grown strong they are now borne along Till high in the heavens resounds their glad song, Ever singing of joy with a full-throated ease, The thrill of their rapturous hearts to appease. Thus we, like the birds, from these portals so wide, Henceforth on the bosom of life must now glide, Taught by them for highest in life to aspire, That the truest, the noblest, must be our desire. Uft fond backward glances welll cast to you here, To our own Alma Nlater, our mother most dear, VS You've guided and cherished our steps throughout youth, You've urged us from childhood to glean but the truth Still onward and onward, success be our lot, lNIay each hidden future be unstained by a blotg Nlay Fortune her mantle o'er each head extend, As a fostering mother her care to us lend. If life could unroll each one's future today, And foreshadow the highways in which each must stray This truth should blaze forth amid glorious beams Our aims are fulfilled in Hlleeds and not Dreams.