Kimberly High School - Kimida Yearbook (Kimberly, ID)

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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

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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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T H E M E N' A N Page Nineteen wise dot-tors pronouneeil i918 to he in the very last stages of exvess of information on the hi-aiu, with an average temperature of 93 per 4-ent, and dec-lared in their profes- sional wisdom that she eould not possibly last longer than until the evening of May lfth. I assure you she 1-annot last many min- utes now, for her pulse is heating at a most alarming rate, her nerves are keyed to the highest piteh, and her temperature nineteen hundred eighteen and five-twelfths in the shade, and still llll'l'l'ilSiI1g'. Therefore she asks, as a last request, that you will hear with her patiently during the time that she remains with you, anal rememhei' only the good she has mlone-it' any-forgetting her faults as one should always overlook the fail- ings of those who have passed on to other spheres, and thinking as charitably as pos- sihle of her many glaring' mistakes, thus lllilldllgj her last. minutes as easy as sueli mo- ments may he made. To this end, she invites you to he present on this solemn om-easion, and to a participa- tion in these last sad rites, extending to you her feehle hut no less sineere weleome. RAY VVAGONEH, 1918. CLASS VOTE OF 1918 MOST POPULAR BO Y MOST POPULAR GIRL' PRETTIEST GIRL .......... ...... IIANDSOMEST BOY , ..i,. .... . . WITT IEST .................. BRIGHTEST .... ........... MOST LITERARY ....... MOST LOVABLE ...... BEST ATHLETE ..... MUSICAL ................ LONGEST ...... SHORTEST ........... FACULTY PET .......... MOST CONCEITED ..... First Choice JACK CLAIBORN ...................... ........ CLARABELLE SEVERANCE ..... ...... . l7 VAH DRAPER ............. .l ACK CLAIBORN ,...,.r., GLADYS WILLMARTH GLADYS W1 LLMARTH GLADYS WILLMARTH MARIE TURNER ........... JAY SCOTT ........................ ........ MARIE PETT Y GROVE ER NEST EMERSON ........ ........ VERA JAMISON .,.,..,.,.. MARIE PETTYGROVE V HRA .IAM ISON .......... Second Choice HAY WAGONER MARIE PETTYGROVE MARIE PETTYGROVE RAY AND JAY lll+Il,I+1N ALBERTSMEYHR JACK CLAIBORN SCATTERING ICYIGRA MORGAN Sl'AT'I'l43RlNG St IATTER I NG SCATT MRI NG ll HELEN ALBERTSMEYER St'A'I'TlfIRING IGYERA SIZE OF CLASS OF 1918 TOTAL WEIGHT ............ 1796 POUNDS TOTAL HEIGHT .................... 77175 FEET TOTAL AGE ...............,.......... 250 YEARS AVERAGE WEIGHTJ38 1-3 POUNDS AVERAGE HEIGHT ............ 5 FT. 7 IN. AVERAGE AGE ........ EIGHTEEN YRS. CLASS DATES OF 1918 Baccalaureate Address ..... .... M ay 12 Class Day ...................... ..A. M ay 15 Commencement ..... May 17