Lewis and Clark High School - Tiger Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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THE Lewis AND CLARK JOURNAL THE LOVELINESS OF LIFE fClass Poem I Facrng the rrsmg sun the travelers pause On hard won helght behlnd them lles the pat Threaded by all ln sweet companlonshlp Thus height whereon they stand has wondrous power To draw the Future s curtaln and reveal Life s lovelmess to all who care to look And from this vantage pomt they see out spread The divers thoroughfares whlch call to work And Destiny ln the mommg s prrmal freshness o each his path seems rosy the aureole Of Hope enhanced by the golden pencllrngs Of Dawn athwart the eastern vault msplres Youth the prophet that one who more dis dams The Hood of years than drd Cumaean Slbyl Speaks age-old messages brddmg them strrve Wrth generous soul and eager hand wrth eyes Uptumed wrth buoyant step that knows halt But the sun mounts up the azure llverled s Wrth brave farewells the PllgfllT'S part but rs They note ln LlfCS broad panoramrc vlew What roads glve srgn of crossing what lh terlaclngs Greet thelr srght and offer meetmg place To talk ln remmlscent mood of bygone days Hrgh IS their uest and bolcl they are and strong That rrde thereon but blessed too for through Gardens richer than Edens the roadways ea Anon refreshing springs leap out from banks Fragrant spread wrth flowers and festal wreaths Which make for them perpetual holiday From doubt envy and narrowness of mmd So nde they forth over therr head the sun Golden appareled rn light majestlc At mght the even s calm breath the holy rest The soft radiance of Hesperus III the sky By day by mght enshrouded strll are they With Love and all redeemmg Sacrlfrce The treasures of Humanrty and wealth Of the lnflnrte Soul surge round and through thelr frame So rrde they on where duty calls the years Are speeded rn thelr fllght And not too as Do temporal chains enthrall and hlde t etemal So rrde they on trll Llfe become a perfect round Flawless rn Him who IS the lrfe of men Xvho crowneth all with Hrs own lovelmess Owen Krlgore LOVE I you know why the Seniors are anxlous to leave3 Why juniors are hurrymg through3 H Why tales come around that are hard to bel1eve3 Why some days seem terrrbly blue3 Do you know why your mmd wanders out of the room And dwells ln arr castles above And suddenly everything turns to gloom5 Do you know? Well Ill tell you xt love Do you know why a Freshman forgets all he knows3 Why has teacher falls off of the cha1r3 Do you know why Haeseler tums cr1mso.l and rose And rrses up yards ln the BIT3 Do you know vxhy another one catches the b ues And weeps o er a ribbon or glove3 Do you know why stlll others srnk into their shoes3 Do you know3 Well l ll tell you lt s ove Gertrude Kmppel I4 7 ll ' ' ' Q . l ' I . I d.. . T . : .1 . , 'l I I '. . ' D . . . f t 4 . ' - 1 ky. 4 u n . 1 . 1. H t. . A . . . . .fn . . . I , ' , ' 1 . I ' ' l 'W' 1 . ' ' -

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THE LEWIS AND CLARK JOURNAL THE CLASS PLAY Miss Dillon NT mumble your words' Law me' Drd words ever so 0 tantahzmgly run through my head3 la hrs was the common dw complamt after May 29th for on that night the Class of une I2 presented Sweet Genevieve well called one of the best plays staged by amateurs that Spokane audrences have ever seen lt rs now a thmg of the past but not soon to be forgotten The play ltself IS a corredy ln four acts full of humorous sxtuatlons mth just that straln of pathos running through rt that makes you feel lt IS worth w hlle and enough dra matlc actlon to keep you Interested every mlnute From the moment the Earl of Hawcastl gave the first hmt of the plot untll the cur tam went down leavmg Plke alone but happy the Interest newer lessened In the dlfhcult role of Plke a typical down east Yankee who comes over to Eng land to save hls ward Ethel from a mar rrage wxth a merely titled family who are desirous of securlng her money and who by hrs blunt ways and common frxend Doc greatly embarrasses her m this part ames Dougher was slmply splendid Vema Rogers as Ethel well deserved her place as leadrng lady To Walter Weller was entrusted the role of the brother Horace Granger Simpson he of the affected English mannerlsms who after finding out how SUPCTBCIHI his titled English friends really are suddenly returns to his natural American ways As the vlllran of the play we hardly ex pected to see Floyd McCroskey but such he was and as hrs able accessory we found Margaret Sanford the Countess de Cham PISUY Lo Almerlc ot Whetsel with hrs fopplsh Enghsh mannerrsms and Lady Creech Myrtle Levy wlth her severely haughty ways we owe much of the charac terrstlc humor of the play Of course we can not think of Pike without hrs very good frlend the Duke Carroll Starr and the latter s valet Merle Brown The play would by no means be com plete without Clarence Veasey as Mariano and Orln Wentworth as Michele while t Fabian Smith was given the traglc role of lvanoff the escaped Russian pnsoner The hrst meetmg of the cast was held on the eighth of Apnl and from that time on under the splendld drrectlon of Miss Dillon the members of the cast worked diligently puttm forth their best efforts that the play might be a success rn the broadest sense of the word And they dtd not work ln valn For wrth the one other essential a large and sympathetic audience Sweet Genevieve the hrst play given ln the Lewis and Clark auditorium was one of whlch the Class of une I2 and the school as a whole may well be proud 9 y r -. .u J ' 1 Q U U 1. ' ' ' ' c J. cc f, ' . ' . , Q 9 D . . . . . , 3 M 7 . . 3 Q L 1 - . I f P- I - 3 . . - l , H ' y . I . .l . 0 ' Q. V . ' - J ' ' I