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

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THE Lawns AND CLARK JOURNAL JUNE I9lZ CLASS IN l922 The strarns of Sweet Genevreve were wafted out over the strll waters of New York harbor The clear barrtone vorce of ames Dougher and the banjo accompanrment mmgled strangely wrth the muffled lap of the water agamst the srde of the yacht A merry group of young people was seated on the upper deck and as ames hnlshed he came towards them smllmg as ever Doesnt that brmg back memories of the Class of une I2 and the evenrng of May 29th'-I Indeed rt does Frances answered and do you know I was just thmkrng of our class It was only ten years ago that we graduated but oh' how many changes have taken place and how scattered we are Why theres Ruth Floyd a mrssronary rn Chrna Merle Brown farmrng rt rn South Amerrca and Fay Dunseth marrred to a Sergeant ln the Phrlrpprnes and Florence ones the last trme I heard was a socrety belle rn New York Crty Yes Interrupted Floyd McCroskey and I read rn the New York Herald that Walter Croar rs strll asprrrng to the Presr dency The Presidency' Of what' In hrs surprrse ames almost dropped hrs banjo Why the Presidency of Mexico Floyd answered drsgustedly a d rts a wonder to me you wouldnt asprre to some thrng Irke that Instead of bemg merely a New York broker who spends most of hrs trme takrng hrs frrends on pleasure trrps Ilke rs Well' I thrnk rts mrghty nrce sal Clara Streyffeler but that remmds m I heard Charles Rogers say that he a just recerved a letter from Mac Whrte e mg about some of our old class mates there ln Spokane Let s call hrm and ask hlm to read rt to us Now Clara you might as well leave hrm alone Margaret replied he IS study mg those old books on archrtecture and a thousand horses couldnt drag htm away Before another word could be spoken James had grven the order to Irft anchor A gentle breeze filled the sarls and those on deck watched the lrghts on shore grow drmmer and dimmer as the yacht drrfted out into the moonllt sea Oh' Are we really gomg3 called Mabel Smrth from a secluded place on the opposite srde of the deck where she and Carrol Starr were tryrng to make out some constellatrons Yes we re really gomg answered Carrol Lets jom the rest of the crowd for ther s Charles now readmg Mac s letter to them Youll have to hurry Carrol called Floyd I was just gomg to read thrs letter and Im sure you all wrll be rnterested con trnued Charles In speakrng of Owen Kilgore Mac wrrtes I 'n sure that you wrll be surprrsed to know that I recerved an mvrtatron to the wedding of Dorothy Dutton and Owen Kilgore To say that I was surprrsed rs puttmg rt mrldly They wall Irve rn I-Irllyard where he rs engaged rn clerrcal work In speaking of himself Mac wrrtes Although I am strII makrng a Irv mg sellmg tickets at the Casino Isnt as excrtrng as rt mrght be and I wrsh rt were You wrll of course vrsrt London and rf so be sure to see the Musrcal Comedy Frolrcs of I920 rn whrch Frreda Haynes Wrllram Thomas Edrth I-Iockrng and Walter Lawson wrth Elmer Englehorn and Isabel Holman rn the Ieadmg roles are mak rng the hut of the season It must be ex plarned that Elmer developed great vocal abrlrty smce he graduated Of Brrggs Srmprch all that I can say IS that he rs makrng a great success sellmg patent remedres rncludrng hs famous mustard wax and com cure Of courst you remember Mrs Srmprch fnee Dorothy Nebergallj who travels wrth htm Fabran Smrth has taken the posrtron of dancrng master rn Newland Academy of New Orleans and rn hrs last letter he wrrtes of seemg Wrllre Clark who just left there to contrnue hrs trrp around the world Wrth hrm rs Duck Brosrnskr now Mrs Clark Dick had been teachrng fencrng rn thc Unrverslty of Vrrgrnra but a trrp around the - .. - .. - ' - J .. . .. j .. . . ,. . . . , . , .. , - - . . ' ' ' . .. , . . I ., , . . ,I , . .. , .. s n u -. n , v v v ,. . . . .. . . . , . . ,. 1 . - ' ' . I . , s 1 al ' I s . . , . . . , ' 1 1 . 1 . . . . , . V 0 7 . 1 1 . v 1 . v . . . f . .I v v . , ' . . - . ,. U ' . , . , . . .. .. . , U v l I . , ' . . . . , . i so I could have joined you on your trip. ll , I! ' I U I . . . - K Q . J . . . V as - - n H ' ' ' 9 Y ' ' ' ll ' I I I I . , n D ! v - ' - . 1 1 . s ' I ' ' th' .H ' .. . - . - . .. .d .. . - . . q . . . v eu h d . 1 . . . t ll' . . . .. X . , . - . ' . . . , ' ,, . . . I . u l ' ' ' ! I S , ,, . .. . . . . I 1 T , . ,, . . . I . . u 1 I 1 ' Q 1 l . .. . .. . . . - - -

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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

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