Keokuk High School - Comment Yearbook (Keokuk, IA)

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X 'S-f4,...z THE CQM WENT 19121 .,.4Q25g 5,5, -fmt Senior Class History Keokuk High wore green in the fall of l923, when We, one hundred i1qndHeighty eager and wondering Freshmen, stumbled up the steps of . . S. Being no less green than the usual Freshies, we too carried all of our books around so we would not be tardy to classes, and asked numerous dumb questions of the dignified upper classmen. In a few weeks we felt that we were typical High Schoolersf' We boldly adopted the customary green for our class color. During this year we wore off our verdant hue and in l924 we entered the new High School. Again our surroundings seemed strange to us. After we had became familiar with the building and the traffic regulations of the halls, a class meeting was called. Purple and gold were chosen for the colors and the following officers were elected: Elizabeth Winger, President. George Collisson, Vice-President. Myrtle Koch, Secretary and Treasurer. On December 13, we gave a Sophomore Erolic in the gym, and in the spring we enjoyed a Weiner roast at the du Pont Gun Club. In September, 1925, we returned as sophisticated Juniors. Purple and gold were retained as the class colors. The officers elected were: Tench Gammon, President. Elizabeth Winger, Vice-President. Doris Arnold, Secretary. Paul Smith, Treasurer. Our first move was in sponsoring a program presented by Tony Sarg's Marionettes. We did not see Ht to have our usual class party. In June we gave the Seniors a rousing send-off with a dance and bunco party at the Country Club. We did not realize how quickly high school days would pass, until we returned to school in the fall to find ourselves Seniors. Yes, actually Seniors like those notables at whom we had looked in awe only three short years before. Once more the class officers were elected: Paul Smith, President. Elizabeth Winger, Vice-President. Tench Gammon, Secretary. John ldle, Treasurer. Blue and gold were selected as the class colors, and the rose was chosen for our flower. Socially, the year was uneventful to us, as a class, but we were all active in various school organizations. lt is now with regret that we, ninety-six strong, leave friends and faculty, the familiar halls and classrooms of dear old K. H. S. ELIZABETH WINGER. TWENTY-THREE

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A jmufi AQQMMENT 1227, -C WENTY-TWO

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X S.fC,.,..l ': S WH fill lily O IHE. CQMMENT 1227: Class Prophecy ye E, A My Diary: lt has been ten years since l i-gq have even seen you, dear diary, ever since l ,,:.,.? was graduated from High School and put you '4 - -,,.i away with the rest of my old school books. There has been nothing slow or melan- '-., H cholic about the methods used by the members of the Class of '27 in seeking their fame and fortune. Each one, being of an ambitious -1fff5f5 f14:i1,h . , nature, has climbed to the top of the ladder in df ,AG their chosen line. 1 have been mid that Paul smith, the ' valiant and stalwart President of the class, has refused the Presidency of the United States, claiming there was no chance for advancement. Alice Schaefer is doing research work along the line of American History. She has proven to the world that the Chinese were in America before Columbus, by finding two clothespins and a flatiron in the Black Hills. Clifford lVlillspaugh's face is seen in every home. His profile is printed on each bottle of his new patent medicine, Essence of Dissolved Horse- shoe Nails, which is a sure cure for nervousness and softening of the brain. Catherine Ayres is a second Pollyanna Girl who even enjoys having a headache, as it shows there is something there to ache. By trying to invent a new color scheme for taxicabs, john Sigmund suffered a slight touch of insanity. But after a six months rest in Scotland, selling roulette wheels, he was pronounced cured. Naomi Roost, who runs a delicatessen shop on Water Street, is known as The Woman WVithout a Consciencef' She looks her customers straight in the eye and sells them both pork and veal chicken salad. Victor Brown has written a book on the utter worthlessness of tonsils after they are removed. This is said to be one of the best bed-time stories for night-watchmen on the market. Charles Holbrook is Keokuk's most popular boxer-he followed the family profession and is a flourishing undertaker. By tending a furnace in an ice factory, john Idle lives up to his name in a manner that is rated 100 per cent. William Carr and Loren Camp graduated recently from an aviation school and are now selling Hy-paper and balloon tires, respectively. Elizabeth Winger, one of lowals foremost Senators, is enforcing the Prohibition Amendment to the best of her ability. She suggests that the Government pass a law demanding that all frogs be killed in order that the supply of hops be exhausted. TWENTY-FOUR