La Grande High School - Mimir Yearbook (La Grande, OR)

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(TIjp (Dmnmutua 29 Crouter pleading his case before a member of the faculty. He is trying to convince her that he is a perfect gentleman. His argument is that all gentlemen chew gum. He chews gum, therefore he is a gentleman. (—Q. E. D.). “I took this flash light one evening at 6:45 p. m., in the L. H. S. gym. The girl is Anna Top. After the game at 4 o’clock, all the basket ball girls, except Anna, had gone home. She still remained throwing baskets hour after hour, before an imaginary audience. The patient janitor fre- quently informed her of the lateness of the hour, but his words fell upon deaf ears. She still threw on and on. No one ever knew how late she stayed. “Opening the door of the laboratory one morning, I came unexpectedly upon the following scene. Having my camera with me, I made good use of it. The girl here is Zoe Bragg. She is making a leap year proposal to Avery Roberts. She insists that he shall promise to obey, which he willingly agrees to do, vowing upon his honor never to Bragg about “We have now come to the last picture of the Class of 1912 of the La Grande High School. It shows Lee ‘Ebenezer’ Reynolds making his famous speech at Elgin. He was a mere youth at the time and yet his eloquence startled the universe: In the banquet hall beside the hoard, Our colors to the breeze unfurled. Here once our football farmer stood And fired the speech heard ’round the world. “This closes the evening’s entertainment, ladies and gen- tlemen. I thank you.”

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28 GDimtannua hibition of speed in a talking contest. She is defending her title to the championship of the world. Her record, which is still unbroken, is 272 words per minute. “This is a little pastoral scene. Notice the wild looking cow that Kid Corpe is holding by the horns, while Jay Millering is pumping the lacteal fluid into his big black Stetson. After refreshing themselves, they sauntered off to the old swimming hole. “Here we have a picture of ‘Banty Pixton surrounded by a bevy of inconsolable freshman girls, who hover around him as the bees gather around the honeysuckle. ‘Banty’ is consoling them over the fact that he will not be with them next year. “This shows Hazel Young, Della Kindred and Rebecca Williamson arriving at the high school ‘Just as the Sun Went Down.’ Too late! After eating their lunch for supper, they turned and wearily wended their way homeward. “This scene was not an unusual one in my school days. It shows Myrtle Edwards, Edith and Ethel Wilson being implored by our own eloquent janitor to leave the high school building. But they are so engrossed with their studies, they refuse to go. But when, with tears in his eyes and a voice trembling with emotion, he tells them he is out of tobacco, they reluctantly consent and the big doors close behind them. “This is a picture of Helen Richardson, who was con- sidered the most promising of all the girls in the Domestic Science class. Not because she accomplished things, but be- cause she had unbounded faith that in the course of time, the fates being favorable, she might learn the art of washing dishes. For this she labored and waited, but all in vain. “The portrait I will now put upon the screen, is a very good likeness of Cecil Bolton, who, although a graduate of L. H. S., never in reality ceased to be a freshman. His creed seemed to be— A freshman born and a freshman bred And a freshman till I die; Four years I’ve spent in the freshman class, And I’ll eat all the freshman pie. “This picture, ladies and gentlemen, is not Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, but Runa Bacon of the high school. Their philosophy, however, was the same, ‘Mid the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.’ The picture shows Runa entering the Latin class full of joy at the prospect of a test. “Do not mistake this for a love scene. It shows Paul

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30 ahr (Omnamtus Class |JropI{ccu Zoe Bragg. On the Holland American line the Maritania was slowly plowing its way to New York harbor. The fresh sea breeze, which indicated that the fog was rising and land near, had drawn many passengers on deck, all expectant and eager to catch the first glimpse of land. In the crowd that was surg- ing to and fro one woman was particularly noticeable. She was of refined and interesting demeanor and wore an ex- pression that indicated the joy and pleasure one experiences upon his return to the home land after several years abroad. When the mast-head sounded the cry of “land,” she leaned forward from among the throng to scan the faces on the pier. At last she saw the wished for friend and waved re- peated salutations. At the call of “Ship Ahoy” from the captain the plank was dropped and she crowded her way through the seething mass to embrace the chum of her girl- hood days, whom I had already recognized as Mrs. Buna Bacon Pixton, the wife of a prominent Chicago attorney. After the usual interchange of greetings between Mrs. Pixton and her friends, whom she called Hilda, they were hurried away to the Waldorf, where that night they are to be entertained by another L. H. S. classmate, James Corbett, president of the Harriman system. Six o’clock found the three at dinner talking over olden times and friends in general and gathering from each other bits of school gossip. Hilda told of her experiences in study and travel in Europe, and among many interesting things she mentioned that while in Berlin a few months before she had had a very pleasant visit at the home of the former Helen Richardson. From Runa she learned that Anita Worth, United States Senator from Oregon, had, by means of her eloquence, so swayed congress as to secure the passage of a bill estab- lishing a National Forest Reserve in the Blue Mountains. After dinner they went to hear Anna Top and her grand opera company in “II Trovatore.” The next morning with a promise from James to meet them in the West in a few weeks, the girls left for La Grande, Hilda to visit at her home; Mrs. Pixton to visit old friends and attend the reunion of the 1912 alumni. When they left the train in La Grande, they were ac-