Kimberly High School - Kimida Yearbook (Kimberly, ID)

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THE on this the sixteenthday of May, in the year of our liord, Une 'l'housand Nine Hundred and Eighteen. tSignedl CLASS UF 1918. SUBSt'RlBEll AND SWORN to before me, a Notary Public of the State of Idaho, Uounty of Twin Falls, on the 16th day of M E N A N Page Seventeen May in the year of our liord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighteen. My Commission expires on the 'llhirtieth day of December, Une Thousand Nine flun- dred and 'llweuty-seven. tSignedl XV. F. BRECKON. tflltllilltlliill SEA ll l VALEDHCTORY ANY are the joys of life-great are its privileges-manifold its pleasures- but all these joys, and pleasures, and privileges must 1918 prepare to give up. She has long realized that the end was grow- ing nearer and more sure, but resolutely she has put off all thoughts of her inevitable fate, and joined in all the sports Zllld pas- times with gusto and vigor. But, at last, the time is here when she must prepare to die. Listen then, patiently, to her last Words, for like all departing spirits she has much to say in her last fleeting moments. Dear Superintendent, we of 1918 thank you for all you have done for us during the four years we have spent in your care. We forgive you as well, for all you may have done to us in the same time, and we hope that you may keep our memory green for at least a Week or two after our departure. And to you, our faithful teachers, Who have been our patient nurses through all of the queer attacks to which Seniors are sus- ceptible, we can say that we are indebted more than we C5111 fully realize or ever hope to repay. You have taken a personal inter- est in each of us as individuals, and have done for poor old 1918, as a class, all that could be done to make her last hours easy and painless. You have kept your finger on her pulse through each day of her indisposi- tion, and we feel sure you have had a thor- ough understanding of the cause of each rise and fall of temperature. So she gives you each all her blessing as she prepares for her final departure. Members of the Junior class, who will be ealled to till our vat-ant chairs, we cannot pass away without a word of adviee to you. You will do well to follow in the eourse of 1918, whose career you have watehed with such admiration and envy. She has done grandlyl gloriously! and we say with no little pride that she has fought a good fight, she has finished the course, she has kept the faith. We leave such a reeord for you to follow, that we pass into the Great Bevond feeling that our brief career as a 4-lass has not been in vain, and though we must die, yet may we live forever in the memories and influence that we leave behind. Classmates, our life as 1918 is fast ebbing away, and only time for one more word re- mains. We have studied together, we have played together- Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, Our comforts and our cares. Together now, we pass out of existence and the class rooms and playgrounds will know us no more. But let us face the unknown future as bravely as we have faced every painful examination and severe mental op- eration, determiued to keep a stiff upper lip to the last, and to prove worthy of the colors so lavishly strewn over our remains. So as we look regretfully over the happy past and watch the lingering moments pass into eter- nity, we sadly whisper our last farewell, as 1918 dies. GLADYS M. WILLMABTH We Wx'-an suis: W y I ' LE ' K. .

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Page Sixteen T I-I E member all the battle fronts and prominent generals. It has been a hard strain on them for Seniors are said to be at all times and under all conditions, hard to manage but they have all done their duty and verily now they shall have their well earned reward. Item II. Again we bequeath to our beloved faculty all of the amazing knowledge and startling information we have furnished from time to time in our examination papers. We know that much which we have imparted to them has been entirely new to them as well as to all the teachers and students everywhere. If the faculty see fit they are hereby author- ized to give out such of this information to the world as they feel the world is ready to receive. We trust that they may also feel at perfect liberty to make use of all such bits of wisdom and enlightenment for the education of the classes to come. This of course is left entirely to their personal dis- cretion. Item III. We hereby bequeath to the Junior Class as a student body Ray Wagoner 's grades in Physics and also his brilliant remarks. tWe trust that the class will be able to survive it.j The following may seem trifling bequests but we hope that they may be accepted as a reminder of the Seniors' generosity. Part I. To our class room teacher. Miss Williams, the profound admiration and ever enduring friendship of the Class of 1918, in individual as well as collective manifesta- tion. Part II. To Burd Wall, the balance in our class treasury. It is stipulated, how- ever, that said balance shall be applied to the purchase of a pair of rubber shoes for detective work. tWe feel that she will be sure to need these in dealing with the classes of next year.j Part III. To the Basketball team of next year the ability of Jay Scott and Ernest Emerson. tWe couldn't induce Evera Mor- gan to surrender his abilityj Part IV. To the Freshman Class our un- equaled dignity. Part V. To the Sophomores our abund- ance of Pep. Part VI. To the Juniors our Annual work and Physics laboratory. Part VII. The following we bestow upon MENAN the conditions that it will be cared for, loved and cherished. Marie Turner tearfully gives up Cephus Jones to Alta King for next year only, after which she will claim the same. Part VIII. A few matrimonial articles are bestowed as follows: Marie Pettygrove to Mr. Jay L. Downing tafter the warl. Uvah Draper to Mr. William Summers fafter she has taught school a yearl. Part IX. Christine Stone's excessive love for the Boys to Margaret M1-Vey. Part X. Gladys Willmarth's editorial ability to Nellie Campbell, Part XI. Helen Albertsmeyer's position at the bank to anyone who applies. tCome early and avoid the rush.J Part XII. Jack Claiborn 's love for the fair sex to Ehrscl Frahm. Part XIII. Uvah Draper's whispering to Hollis Grove. Part XIV. Clara Belle Severance 's abil- ity to gain twenty-five pounds every winter to Mildred Gill. Part XV. Meral Lacourse's place as a guard on the Basketball team to Jean I-Iillis. Part XVI. Vera Jamison's surplus fat to Beulah Adams. Part XVII. Seniors' good memory to Proctor Spence. Part XVIII. To the School Board and Faculty twho kindly had us remain in a half hour at noon and both recesses for eight daysj we bequeath our forgiveness. As the following teachers will pass away with us we take this opportunity to dispose of some of their possessions. Miss Blynn's favorite remark Quseats please J to Miss Wall. Miss Williams' ability to keep perfect or- der to the one who takes charge of the Com- mercial room next year. Miss Smith 's musical talent to Miss Gour- ley. Mr. Downing 's office to the Superintend- ent next year on the condition, however, that it will be kept as well filled as he has had it during the past years. Besides these enforced gifts we leave not of necessity but of our own free will our blessings and the tender memories of our associations together and our regrets for anything we may not have appreciated in the past together, with a pledge of friendship from henceforth and forever. We, the Class of 1918, the testators, have unto this our will, affixed our official seal

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Page Eighteen THE MENAN SALUTATORY lfriends, Team-hers, Classmates: liend me your ears, NVe come to bury the class of 'l8, not to praise it. The evil we have done shall live after us, The good shall be inter1'ed with our bones: So let it be with us! The noble Faeulty llath said that we were ambitious: Sim-e it is so, 'tis a grievous fault, And grievousl y have we answered it! Here, HIIIIUI' sufferanre of you all, Come we to speak at our funeral. The Class of 1918, about to go the way of the world, and pass out into the great be- yond, salutes you, eve11 i11 the faee oi' ap- proaehing death. It is with the most pro- found regret that I find it neeessary to bring to your attention the serious, indeed I may well say the hopeless, condition of the Class of 1918. Three years and nine months ago, the team-hers brought llltli tl1is lligh Sehool a 119W class, inoculated with a new disease and infested with the same desires-that they all become great and ftl1l10llS. Now we are engaged in a great life struggle, testing whether this elass or any class so innocu- lated and so i11fested, eau long endure. Indeed, for the past four years, he1' head llilS been so rapidly swelling with l1er greedy accumulation of inrorination in the Kimber- ly High School, that it has now assumed SHCII gigantie lPl'0llUI'il0llN i11 eaeh of her fourteen individual parts, as to cause all who know her, or have eome into even oeeasional con- taet with any part of her, the lll0St serious uneasiness lest it should burst with its enor- mous overflow of learning, and seatter its treasures of knowledge broadcast upon an unappreeiative public. She has many dizzy spells, caused, it is believed, by the immense heights to which she has elimbed in her seareh for wisdom. ln addition to this, she still earries many wounds to l1er vanity, that seein grievously slow to heal, and which were received from unexpeeted failures and mistakes, also Va- rious sears, whieh even her massive pride has not yet been able to thoroughly obliter- ate from her plastie mind, as well as several painful bumps and bruises, tl1e result of her ambitions to elimb too far above the aver- ages of the high sehool preeedents, in a strange and unwholesome fever of desire to finish her 1'ill'l5 before tl1e appointed term had expired. She is also exceedingly nervous, and hopes that you will bear patiently this evening with her frequent lapses of nieniory, for her overworked and overloaded brain has begu11 to wander-even more than usual-and she has beeome subjeet to curiously unaccount- able spells and fits whieh sl1e hopes you will not think natural in her llCllilVl0I', for only tl1e wise Ill1l'N6S in eharge of her ease IIZIVQ been found able to eontrol these peeuliar syn1pto111s tllilt approach tl1e ap- pearanre of insanity. Year by year, too, she has grown s111aller and smaller illltl smaller, shrinking under the weight of ponderous study laid upon her from her former lllilllllllllfll eonstitueney to the present insignifieant few. Under such eonditions, who eould expect, or even wish her, to linger longer in this dreary vale of tears and partings? No, there is no longer any hope. The Class of Nineteen Hundred and Eighteen has beeome altogether too wise to linger longer among the struggling youths and as- piring maidens of the Kimberly High School. liast week a eouneil of wise and learned speeialists was called to sit in judgment IIIJOII the rapidly railing patient. By means of tests and other examinations, they took ll6l' temperature and mental standing, and performed a very essential operation upon her over-crowded brain. In her poor cranium they found such a julnbled up mass of maths eniatics, science and literature that there was absolutely no chance for relief. There in a huge, indigestible mass, were crowded to- gether twelve years of reading, writing, drawing, spelling, language and arithmetic, geography, physiology, history, Spanish, al- gebra, geometry. ehemistry, sophomore wa- ter i11itiatiol1s, Junior pennant fights, Sen- ior April Fool pienies and High School plays -besides the most deadly kind of a medley of Burke's Coneiliation with the American Colonies, Irving's tRip Van Winkle, Stevenson 's 'fTreasure Island, and George Eliotls Silas Marner, and many other bits too numerous to be eompletely diag- nosed here and 11ow. Truly, there was no hope of recovery- none! WllQ11 they saw the serious aspect of the ease, with grave and troubled tiiaees, these