Kimberly High School - Kimida Yearbook (Kimberly, ID)

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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

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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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nge Twenty THE MENAN XQMX M Q ii X X i S lb Q, X .X . X X ,fie- ,Zf ' T4 ff ,-,,ii 'l 'V 'Ali - A 1 ..i iii 1 XX Y . OFFICERS l'IH'lS ...,.,.,,,A,,,,..,,..,,, ,.,,,,,.,,,,,,,,A.,,,,,.,,,, l QHRSAL FKAHBI Ylillfl-PRES .,,,.......,,,,, ,,,,.,,,A B IIGLBA DALLE! SECY. and TRNAS .....,,vY..........,,.... MARGARET McVEY CLASS COLORS ,,,.... .......,, V IOLET AND CREAM CLASS FLOWER ,,.,,... ................................... L ILAC VLASS MOTTO .,,,... ............. B 2 I DUR WISH WVe'Ve been il lmppy, loyal baud, In times long since gone byg lVe've cheered you with our noisy pranks, And held our standard high. We want our school to hold its fame 'llhroughout the coming years, And we want 0:14:11 Junior 's heart to swell VVhen K. H. S. he hears. So hear us now, ye coming class VVho'll fill our places here: Hold high this standard which we And keep it always dear. For Truth will he our motto Through all succeeding years, And we'll cherish it and guard it With our old-time zest and cheer. MELBA DALIJEY, '19, bear,